European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 2, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12 the stars and stripes tuesday. February 2,19bb races a p acc Cowboy poems Swap songs lore from press dispatcher cowboys from across uie country swapped Home spun verse and Sang simple ballads Al Elko nor Over Llic weekend to thousands of fans. Some of 111 pm genuine cattlemen Lut Many oth unjust would be cowpokes we Din i ask to become the super bowl Ofsow boy poetry but we be been the nil into that role so id s see what we con do with it said Hal Cannon who directed the Cowboy poetry gathering. Since us Start in 1984, it has grown from a modest convention of cowboys to an International event. Organizers estimated this year s three Day meeting which ended sunday attracted 7,500 people from is Stales and Canada. The Elko convention Center was a sea of Cowboy hats saturday night As Cowboy poets and musicians paid tribute to Gill Gardner a 95-year-old Prachit Ariz Cowboy poet. An ailing Gardner addressed the gathering via videotape. "1 have no claim to tame except i wrote some Cowboy poem Doggerel verse and some of pm was set to music said the while haired Cowboy with a Patch Over one Eye. The guest of Honor also Sang his Best known bal lad the Sirry petes which Cannon called prob ably till most widely recited Cowboy poem the 1917 classic begins away up High in the Sierra petes where the yeller Pines grow tall of Sandy Bob an busier Jig had a Rosecr Camp last the Ballad which is More commonly known As twin knots in the Devil s Tail goes on to Tell the Story of two hard drinking cowboys who meet the Devil and gel the Best of him lying him 1o a Iree. Cowboy poets and musicians swapped verses and lunch during informal sessions late at night Al local casinos. Asso cd guitarists fiddlers and mandolin players formed a dozen or More clusters. Musicians and listeners moved from group to group As the playing continued sometimes All night. A major goal of the gatherings is to overcome false impressions about cowboys Cannon said. The stereotyped notion that All cowboys arc White Anglo salons is one of the first false ideas we want to break Down he said. Cannon said he took a step in that direction this year by inviting a group of hawaiian cowboys who brought an exhibition of Island Folk Art and played their distinctive Island Cowboy music. Pop stars join Celebration Paul Simon and Udy Smith Black Mam Bazo a South african group that collaborated with him on his Graceland album helped a Linden non Church Mart Slack history month celebrations. Sunday s gospel concert at morning Star Church marked the first time the All male. 10-Mcmbcr Zulu choral group had been to a Church in the United Stiles said band member Joseph Thibault. This is wonderful because at Home i do this All the time singing at a spiritual Church an emotional Church said Sha Balala. Danyliw pm in the new York area la come Here a the approximately 200-Peoplc in the pentecostal Church s auditorium Sang along with Simon and the group As they performed. After the concert Simon said see you next year then made his Way out of the Church stopping to kiss babies and sign autographs. Hemingway Kin returns Margaux hem infamy Back in new York after treatment for alcoholism at the Betty Ford Center says "1 feel like i be just been for a time 1 was living the life of Ernest Heming Way the late novelist s 32-year-old granddaughter says in this week s people Magazine " think alcohol drove my Grandfather to suicide but i m still alive because i did something about it. Hemingway an epileptic said she decided to Check into the medical Center in Rancho Mirage Calif after she suffered a bad seizure and nearly bit off her Tongue last october she also said she had grown apart from her younger sister Martl partly because of the Lalier s Success As an actress. Since my stay at belly Ford Maricl and i have had Long talks Aboul our relationship. And we re much closer now i think Stic has More respect for me cop drops top gun top gun Star Tom cruise has been shot Down Ai the nation s top movie to office draw by Beverly kills cop Eddie Murphy according to a Survey of motion picture exhibitors. Murphy notched hits last year with Beverly Hills cop in and Eddie Murphy raw moving up from second place on the Quigley publications list to no. According to the list released sunday in new York Murphy was followed in the lop. 10 by much a Dousta Michael j. Fox Arnold Schwarzenegger Paul Houn cruise Glenn close Sylvester Stallone Cher and Mel Gibson. The Survey asked movie theater executives lose Lect 10 people whose names on the marquee draw the most customers. 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All aboard take a journey with us on the Orient express a marvelous interview with Jim Hanson the Man behind the puppets. Plus an inside look at Kermit the Frog a sneak preview of some exciting new shows coming to of nov on the cafes Europe first run movie circuit broadcast news tonight at 8
