Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 12:18:18 -0500
From: Steve Abrams <sapuppets-AT-gmail.com>
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Inheritance


Hi Nancy and All
A few thoughts
Make it easy for your executor or family and friends
Catalog your own stuff, especially the books
If you find it a daunting task to go through everything- so will those who
inherit your stuff.

When you do an inventory it leaves a clear message that this stuff has some
value to you.
If you dont do all your  books- do some of them- the important ones.
What you choose to inventory gives some idea what is important to you
-not just books
if you inventory some of  your puppets, but not those 2 or 6 or 8 boxes of
puppets that are unfinished or just didnt work out- that provides a clue as
to what is important, at least to you.
Photos of puppets are helpful  and with digital photos and computer storage
that can be done with almost no cost

Record your shows.
Many people, even puppeteers, can read a script and not understand or
visualize how it will actually play. A finally-crafted highly-polished
foolproof phrase in your show, might fall completely flat when someone else
attempts it. A video/DVD will preserve your work for those who care about
it, and it can serve as a guide for those attempting to use a script.

Have somebody interview you

Now you might ask- Have I done all this for myself?
No, of course not

Libraries
There are lending libraries and study libraries
Most serious theatre collections have material that must be used on premises
and does not circulate.
The Center for Puppetry Arts has a very comprehensive collection of books
magazines and programs but it is not a circulating collection. The Ballard/U
Conn and Lincoln Center have excellent study collections of material



On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 7:32 PM, <puppetmaster-AT-puppetswithpizazz.com> wrote:

> I thought of leaving my large collection of books to the library but just
> recently I went to check on the status of puppetry books as they moved to
> the new facility and found that they had culled Fetig's wonderful "Hand and
> Rod Puppets" from their collection because the computer registered that it
> wasn't checked out often enough. I knew I should have stolen it... However
> there is a grand collection of books on puppetry in the Cleveland Main
> Public Library, donated by Helen Haimen Joseph. Also, John White, a wealthy
> Clevelander and traveling bibliophile, donated some exquisite books on
> puppetry from the far parts of the world. One is a Sicilian Rod Puppet book
> of scripts, hand illustrated in pastels. Maybe I'll steal that one instead.
> Nancy
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Ann Legunn" <vtpuppet-AT-gmail.com>
>
> Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 17:09:57
> To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Inheritance
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> Is this Nancy on the raspberry or not? Anyway, there were so many question
> marks in your email, I didn't know if the donation of books was a good
> thing
> or a burden???
>
> I have planned to leave all my puppetry book to my undergraduate school
> library which doesn't have any puppetry books. Rather than concentrating
> all
> our books in one place...how about spreading the information and those
> books
> in community college and local libraries? Actually on a visit to a woman's
> correctional facility, I was stunned at the library collection being so
> poor. Imagine someone with a lot of time on their hands finding a puppet
> book!
>
> As for writing your senator, that is none of my business but $50 million is
> not $750 BILLION. I would love a puppet bailout...and I promise not to give
> myself or anyone a bonus just a job or a gig!
>
> Now I need to figure out who is going to get the puppet festival
> T-shirts???
>
> Ann Legunn
>
>
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> On Behalf Of gazpuppets-AT-aol.com
> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 4:17 PM
> To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Inheritance
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>  The P of A has an AV lending library which is managed by our theater here
> in Phoenix.? We are in the process of establishing our own research library
> with the bulk of our collection coming from Fran Preimsberg, a Phoenix
> Guild
> member who died at age 99 and left all her books to us.? We would be
> interested in including more books and scripts in our library.? Items won't
> be checked out, but will be available on-site.? This is not a P of A
> venture, it is a Great Arizona Puppet Theater project.? We are a non-profit
> (in so many ways) and donations are tax deductible.
>
> Nancy Smith, Director
> Great Arizona Puppet Theater
> ?
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: puppetmaster-AT-puppetswithpizazz.com
> To: Puptcrit <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
> Sent: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 10:38 am
> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Inheritance
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> Where is the library located? Nancy
> ------Original Message------
> From: Steve Millward
> Sender: puptcrit-bounces-AT-puptcrit.org
> To: Puptcrit
> ReplyTo: Puptcrit
> Sent: Feb 4, 2009 11:18 AM
> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Inheritance
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> Hi Nancy,     How about giving them to the POA Library (or at least giving
> copies) ?
>
> Steve Millward
>
> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 7:07 AM, <puppetmaster-AT-puppetswithpizazz.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Here's a new thread: now that I am getting older and have been passionate
> > about puppets for thirty-five years, I have accumulated a lot of stuff
> that
> > I, as a once young puppeteer would have died to own. I don't worry about
> my
> > antique puppets, my own puppets or my 400 puppet books. But what about my
> > scripts? I have been performing solo shows, tweaking them with each
> > performance until (I am self indulgent here) I have honed scripts to be
> > nearly fail proof. What a treasure to someone who is just starting out!
> How
> > can I keep my life's experience from being swept into the garbage? What
> have
> > you done about the future of your stuff? Nancy
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