Gary Forrester

Gary Forrester

Forrester in New Zealand, 2008
Born 3 July 1946 (1946-07-03) (age 65)
Decatur, Illinois, United States
Occupation Musician, writer, public servant, academic, lawyer, organic farmer
Nationality New Zealand, Australia, USA
Genres Novels, poetry, memoirs, bluegrass
Literary movement Post modern, deconstruction
Children Sam Harding Forrester, Joseph Harding Forrester, Lucy Jeshel McCallum, Georgette Brown (step-daughter), Charlotte Rose Forrester, Haz Forrester

Gary Forrester (born 3 July 1946 in the United States) is a New Zealand-Australian musician,[1] composer,[1] novelist,[2][3][4] poet,[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] and memoirist.[13] He was profiled by Random House Australia (Australian Country Music, 1991) as one of the major figures in the Australian music scene during the 1980s and 1990s.[1] Also a law lecturer[14] and professor,[15] [16] he represented Indian tribes in securing restoration legislation through the United States Congress;[17][18] authored a text on American Indian law;[19] and wrote numerous articles on the rights of indigenous peoples, the environment, and other legal topics.[20] Strangers To Us All: Lawyers and Poetry (featuring biographies and works of poets and writers who have a legal background) declared that "Gary Forrester is a hard man to pigeon-hole. He has practiced law, taught law, and spent time away from the legal profession. He is a singer, musician, poet, and writer."[21]

==Bluegrass music==

Forrester's musical compositions were recorded (under his "nom de guitar" Eddie Rambeaux) on the albums Dust on the Bible (RCA Records, 1987), Uluru (Larrikin Records, 1988) and Kamara (Troubadour Records, 1990).[22][23][24][25][26]

In 1988, his single "Uluru" (the Aboriginal name for Australia's central Ayers Rock) was featured on two national commemorative albums by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (the ABC), as "the cream of a very rich mix" of Australian country music.[27][28][29] The ABC observed: "Like our landscape, the history of Australia is best told by our poets, and this recording offers a unique slice... of our bushland, our people, our dreams, and our extraordinary sense of humour."[27][30]

Forrester's music also appeared on the Larrikin Records 1996 composite album, Give Me a Home Among the Gum Trees, along with Australian country-folk icons Eric Bogle, Judy Small, The Bushwackers, and others.[31]

Random House Australia's 1991 profile declared that "the most striking aspect of the albums, apart from their frequency, is the exceptionally high standard of songwriting."[1][32] Australian Country Music observed that the bluegrass band fronted by Forrester (as lead singer and guitarist), the Rank Strangers,[33][34][35] "have a musical immediacy that typifies the best of bluegrass and recalls such players as The Stanley Brothers and Bill Monroe."[1]

According to Country Beat, Australia's country music journal, Dust on the Bible was "one of the best bluegrass-country albums released in Australia" in 1987, and Forrester was "one of the best songwriters living in Australia."[33][34][35]

In 1988, the Rank Strangers swept the Australian Gospel Music Awards in Tamworth, New South Wales, winning Best Group, Best Male Vocalist, and Best Composition.[1][22] In 1989 and 1990, Dust on the Bible and Uluru were finalists (top five) in the overall Australian Country Music Awards (ACMA).[1] The Rank Strangers were edged out in 1989 in ACMA's "best new talent" category by future country star James Blundell, and in 1990 in ACMA's "song of the year" category by country legend Smoky Dawson. In 1990, the Rank Strangers finished second in the world (to a Czech band) in an international competition sponsored by the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA), Nashville, Tennessee.[1][32]

Forrester led the Rank Strangers on tours of Australia and America,[1][23][22][29][36] sharing billings with bluegrass legends Bill Monroe, Alison Krauss,[37] Ralph Stanley, Emmylou Harris, Tony Rice, and many others.[22] The American tour included "successful appearances at the Station Inn in Nashville[22] [with country-folk icon Townes Van Zandt] and the IBMA Fan Fest in Owensboro, Kentucky,"[23][22][38] as well as headlining at the Louisville Bluegrass and American MusicFest in Kentucky, then "the largest [acoustic] music festival in the USA."[39]

Bluegrass Unlimited, the oldest and arguably most influential journal of bluegrass music[40] (based in Warrenton, Virginia), declared that "the Rank Strangers have a unique angle on bluegrass music, and ought to be proud of making their own brand of music come out on top in the Land Down Under."[25] BU described Uluru as "one of the most intellectually stimulating bluegrass works of recent years, and it cannot be restricted to mere national boundaries."[24] The Rank Strangers were the subject of a feature article in the December 1988 issue of Bluegrass Unlimited.[26] In a 2011 retrospective, BU featured the career of the Rank Strangers' banjo guru Peter Somerville, and recalled Forrester as "an excellent songwriter" of "challenging original material."[22]

Britain's country music newspaper, International Country Music News, noting the band's successes at Australia's National Country Music Festival in Tamworth, New South Wales, found the compositions contained "archetypal elements of nostalgia, humour and religion", as well as themes that were "contemporary and Australian in influence."[41] International music critic Eberhard Finke, writing in the German magazine Bluegrass-Bühne, identified the source of some of the compositions: "In 1987 when his grandfather died in Illinois, he put his grief into writing songs. Not that they are sad songs - there are swinging happy ones, with plenty of religious overtones that brought him closer to his grandfather's legacy. He tuned his guitar to double drop-D, DADGBD, making the G-run more difficult, but better suiting his words and melodies."[42]

==Novels, poetry, memoir, stories, and screenplay==

Following the demise of the Rank Strangers in the 1990s, Forrester turned to writing novels and poetry, with a focus on music and family. Houseboating in the Ozarks[2] (Dufour Editions, 2006), which includes fictional accounts of a bluegrass band, is the story of a circular journey through the American Midwest, with reflective detours to Australia, South America, Japan, and Italy. Houseboating in the Ozarks meanders through tribal and Western spiritual traditions, including those of Aboriginal Australia and Lakota sundances in Green Grass, South Dakota, led by Yuwipi medicine man Frank Fools Crow. A 2006 review in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch found Houseboating in the Ozarks idiosyncratic but engaging: an autobiographical "extended meditation on the difficulty of preserving familial and social memory, and sustaining and transmitting values and culture in our mobile, throwaway society."[43] Lawyers and Poetry described Houseboating in the Ozarks as "autobiographical in the sense that Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is about the life of Robert Pirsig."[21]

Begotten, Not Made, his second novel, recounts the travels of a wandering musician and his deaf sidekick, shuffling along on a doomed walking marathon from New York to San Francisco in the 1920s. A lengthy extract from Begotten, Not Made was published in 2007 by the University of Nebraska Press, in Scoring from Second,[44] an anthology featuring the works of "thirty accomplished writers"[45][46] from North America, including Michael Chabon, Andre Dubus, and others. Begotten, Not Made is written "entirely in free verse in the voice of a demented Brer Rabbit."[21]

Poems from Forrester's 2009 New Zealand book of verse, The Beautiful Daughters of Men: A Novella in Short Verse from Tinakori Hill, have appeared in prominent journals including the South Dakota Review,[5] Poetry New Zealand,[6] JAAM (Just Another Art Movement),[8][9] the Earl of Seacliffe Art Workshop,[7] and Voyagers: A New Zealand Science Fiction Poetry Anthology.[10][11] The complete poems were published in January 2009, in The Legal Studies Forum, a journal established by the American Legal Studies Association to promote humanistic, critical, trans-disciplinary legal studies, and featuring works of poetry, essays, memoirs, stories, and criticism.[47] The Beautiful Daughters is the tale of two migrants to New Zealand, a woman from Chechnya and a dying man.

Forrester's 2010 story, "A Kilgore Trout Moment,"[48] which also appears in The Legal Studies Forum, is the whimsical tale of an oddball poet who contributes to a baseball writing conference in Tennessee, suffering near-death experiences and failures to communicate, only to find redemption, at last, at "home."

In 2011, Forrester's initial memoir, Blaw, Hunter, Blaw Thy Horn, was published in America.[13] Blaw, Hunter is a recollection of the years 1946-57 in central Illinois. The author's screenplay, Confiteor, is based on the memoir.

Also in 2011, his third novel, The Connoisseur of Love,[4] was published in New Zealand. This novel contains 12 meditations – a dozen episodes from the endgame of Peter Becker, Wellington’s self-styled "connoisseur of love." Peter is not quite at home in his adopted city of Wellington, but there is no place on earth he would rather be. He is a creature of routine, an eccentric public servant, estranged from his only child Katrin and his ex-wife Sylvia. Alone, he stalks Wellington’s second-hand shops and cafés, bicycles through its streets and lanes, battles on its tennis courts, and performs his music – never quite connecting with anyone or anything.

The Germans have a word for Peter Becker’s underlying sense that all is not well: Torschlusspanik – literally, "gate-closing panic" – or in Peter’s case, the quiet angst of aging as life’s options narrow. Not that long ago, he seemed to have all the time in the world; now his world is shrinking, and grace has not arrived.

In 2012, Forrester's story "Tulips" was featured in The Legal Studies Forum.[49]

==Representation of US Indian tribes==

Forrester, a descendant (on his mother's side) of Cherokee tribal members,[50] learned bluegrass music in the early 1980s from two members of the Lakota tribe, Cheeto Mestes and Mervin Frazier,[17][26][32] while defending Indian tribal rights[17] in South Dakota. During these years, while living on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation in Eagle Butte, South Dakota, he also advised members of the American Indian Movement, including activist Kenny Kane[51] and others, and helped Lakota clients, including Kane, Madonna Thunder Hawk, and spiritual leader Sidney Uses Knife Keith, prepare for interviews and participation in Peter Matthiessen's landmark 1983 book, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse.[52]

As Director of the Native American Program for Oregon Legal Services (NAPOLS) in the mid-1980s, he represented several American Indian tribes, notably as tribal attorney assisting the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon and the Klamath Tribes before the United States Congress in securing federal legislation restoring treaty rights following generations of "termination."[18][53] In advocating before Congress for the restoration of these tribal governments, he worked with activist (and later Congresswoman) Elizabeth Furse, tribal leaders Kathryn Harrison (Grand Ronde) and Charles Kimball (Klamath), Congressman Les AuCoin, and Senators Mark Hatfield and Ted Kennedy.

Forrester represented Indian clients in a number of litigated cases, including State v. Charles[54] (custody of Indian child under the Indian Child Welfare Act); Medberry v. Hegstrom[55] (Klamath Tribe's rights under Indian Claims Commission); Red Bird v. Meierhenry[56] (unemployment statutes must be strictly construed in favor of Indian claimant); and Quiver v. Deputy Assistant Secretary, Indian Affairs[57] (collection and distribution of Klamath lease payments under Indian trust allotments). He also argued successfully before Judges Richard Posner, Diane Wood, and Daniel Anthony Manion in the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Cavalieri v. Shepard,[58] establishing that where the police were "deliberately indifferent" to a prisoner's health and safety, they had violated his constitutional rights (where the former prisoner was now in a permanent vegetative state following an unsuccessful suicide attempt behind bars). The Seventh Circuit in Cavalieri further held that the police were not entitled to "qualified immunity," as the law regarding "deliberate indifference" had been established before the attempted suicide, so the police were on notice that their conduct was unconstitutional. Following the Seventh Circuit's decision, Forrester successfully opposed the writ of certiorari filed on behalf of the police in the U.S. Supreme Court.

His text Digest of American Indian Law: Cases and Chronology[19] derived from his Oregon lectures at the Northwestern School of Law in Portland. He also taught law at the University of Melbourne,[16][59][60] the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana,[16][17] and Victoria University of Wellington, and wrote extensively on indigenous rights and other matters.[20]

Forrester was given the honorary Lakota name "Jeshel" (meaning both "meadowlark" and "messenger") following an unusual incident at a sundance in Green Grass, South Dakota, in the summer of 1981. During piercing day, which was guided by Yuwipi medicine man Frank Fools Crow, a meadowlark glided down to Forrester's shoulder from the tall cottonwood Sun Pole at the center of the sundance circle. Fools Crow paused at the cauldron, and quietly bestowed the name Jeshel. The sundance continued.[2]

==Life==

Gary Forrester (aka Jeshel Forrester) was born in Decatur, Illinois, "the soy-bean capital of the world."[61] He grew up in Effingham, Quincy, and Tuscola in central Illinois,[62] but spent most of his adult life overseas.

His father Harry Forrester (1922–2008), an Irish-American basketball and baseball coach, was inducted into the Quincy University Hall of Fame and the Illinois Basketball Coaches Hall of Fame for his ground-breaking work on behalf of African-American athletes in the racially-segregated 1950s.[63][64][65][66][67] His mother Alma Rose Grundy (1922–2009), a primary school teacher and piano player of European, American Indian,[68] and Melungeon[69] descent, came from a line of musicians on her mother's side that included the German-American violinist Otto Funk, who gained an entry in the 1977 edition of the Guinness Book of Records for playing the fiddle from New York to San Francisco.[26][70][71][72][73][74] (The "Walking Fiddler's" journey was chronicled in Forrester's second novel, Begotten, Not Made.) On her father's side, Alma Rose Grundy's ancestors included the abolitionist crusader Miner Steele Gowin, a Melungeon who operated an Underground Railroad safe house in Jersey County, Illinois, for escaping slaves; his wife Nancy Beeman, descended from Cherokee Indians from Georgia,[75] also helped to operate the Jersey County safe house.[76]

After graduating from Tuscola High School in 1964, Forrester worked his way through university by farming, life-guarding, and stacking bottles at a Kraft Food plant. He became a conscientious objector and anti-war activist during the Vietnam War, and performed alternative service in the Peace Corps teaching mathematics in Guyana, South America.[77]

Following an M.A. in English and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Illinois College of Law, where he served as an editor on the law review, Forrester clerked for U.S. Federal Judge Henry Seiler Wise before emigrating to Australia. There, he taught at the University of Melbourne[17] and befriended Aboriginal leader Brian Kamara Willis[78] in Alice Springs. Through Kamara Willis, Forrester became interested in the rights of indigenous peoples, and left Australia in 1980 to work on Indian reservations[17] in the states of South Dakota and Oregon in the USA. (The album Kamara is dedicated to the memory of Kamara Willis.)

Upon the successful restoration of the Grand Ronde and Klamath tribes,[18][53] Forrester wrote his book on Indian law[19] and returned to Australia to form the Rank Strangers and represent Aboriginal clients[79] and others. He was also politically active, advising Australian Democrats leaders Senator Don Chipp and Senator Janine Haines in regard to the Aboriginal Affairs portfolio and the Democrats' successful campaign to save the Franklin River in Tasmania.[80]

Throughout the 1990s, with the assistance of international WWOOFERS ("Willing Workers on Organic Farms"),[81] Forrester (a vegetarian) and his family (including six children) operated an 80-acre (320,000 m2) organic farm in an Australian eucalypt forest in the Shire of Hepburn, Victoria, based on principles developed by permaculture designer and fellow Shire of Hepburn resident David Holmgren.[82] During this time, he also worked with Father Bob Maguire on behalf of homeless children in Melbourne, studied theology under Veronica Lawson RSM at the Australian Catholic University,[83] and wrote weekly newspaper columns in Central Victoria.[84]

In 2000, Forrester accepted a professorship at the Law School of the University of Illinois.[16] In 2006, following the completion of his first two novels and several years of anti-war protests against the USA's invasion of Iraq,[85] he and his family left America to live on Tinakori Hill[86] in Wellington, New Zealand, where he wrote the poems collected in The Beautiful Daughters of Men, his memoir Blaw, Hunter, Blaw Thy Horn, and his third novel, The Connoisseur of Love.[4]

From 2007 to 2012, he worked as a lawyer for Te Komihana O Ngā Tari Kāwanatanga, and as a Teaching Fellow at Victoria University of Wellington, lecturing in ethics, contract law, and writing.

==Australia's longest-running defamation suit==

In 1990, Forrester led a group of eleven public service colleagues in mounting legal and political challenges to improprieties and mismanagement within the State of Victoria's accident compensation scheme, known at the time as "WorkCare."[87] Approximately 25 court cases were lodged, based on allegations of racism,[88][89] workplace espionage by WorkCare's fraud investigations unit,[90][91] and other improprieties.[92][93][94] Following airing of these grievances in the Victorian parliament on 29 March 1990,[95] and a nationally-screened report by ABC television on 31 July 1990,[96] the management of Victoria's Accident Compensation Commission (ACC) mounted Australia's longest-running defamation case, against the ABC, in Victoria's Supreme Court.[97][98]

Victoria's State Ombudsman found that an ACC general manager had ordered one of his fraud investigators, Gary Mutimer, to spy on the ACC's chairman Professor Ronald Sackville.[99] Spy operations were also carried out against Mr. John Halfpenny, secretary of the Victorian Trades Hall Council, an ex-offico member of the ACC board.[90]

Following repeated urgings by Supreme Court Justice David Byrne,[100] the ACC/ABC defamation case eventually settled on 28 March 1992, when the ABC issued an "apology" to the ACC's former managing director and two other managers.[101] However, the ABC declined to pay any financial compensation to the three, and the ABC's chairman, David Hill, told the Australian Senate that the apology was simply a "commercial decision."[102] The case had cost the taxpayers of Victoria over two million dollars in legal costs.[103][104]

In separate litigation in the Federal Court of Australia, Forrester was awarded a six-figure settlement by the ACC in November 1992.[105] In a case before the Equal Opportunity Board, Forrester's colleague, African-born lawyer Dr. Nii Wallace-Bruce, received $33,000 in costs in July 1991, in the course of settling his claims of racism and other improprieties.[106] Gary Mutimer was awarded compensation for stress caused by being required to carry out improper surveillance operations on Professor Sackville.[107] The ACC general manager who had ordered the spying operations submitted his resignation from ACC in March 1990.[108] On 25 July 1991, the ACC's managing director was removed from office by Victoria's State Government.[109]

==Literary treatment==

Forrester's life has been fictionalized, as the character "Skidmore", in the works of Philip F. Deaver. Deaver's stories were collected in his book Silent Retreats,[110] which won the 1986 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. See [5]. Individual stories from Silent Retreats, featuring Deaver's Skidmore character, were also recognized in the 1988 Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards and in 1995's Best American Short Stories.

==Selected bibliography==

==Selected discography==

Albums

Back in Illinois
Jesus Is a Travelling Man (best vocalist, Australian Gospel Music Awards)
Hannah Cried
Dust on the Bible
A Hundred Miles an Hour to the Throne
Singing in the Family Circle
Matthew Chapter Three (best song, Australian Gospel Music Awards)
Elva
Greater Country 3UZ
Seventh Heaven (final five, "Best New Talent", Australia Country Music Awards)
Uluru (final five for song of the year, Australian Country Music Awards - based on the trial of Lindy and Michael Chamberlain)
TV Preacher
Grampa Grundy
JFK
Two Dollar Bill (a/k/a "Long Journey Home")
Alma Rose
Mekong
King O'Malley
Take Me Home
Ice in Her Veins
Rain and Snow (written by Dock Boggs)
Talking in Tongues
Love Please Come Home (written by Bill Monroe)
Kamara (based on the life of Aboriginal leader Brian Kamara Willis)
White Freight Liner (written by Townes Van Zandt)
East Virginia Blues (trad.)
Walking at Midnight
You've Got a Lover (written by Ricky Skaggs)
Come Home Angeline
Nella Dan (based on the story of the great Australian explorer ship)
Catfish John (written by Bob McDill and Alan Reynolds)
Ross River Fever
Rose Anne's Getting Married Today
Glendale Train (written by John Dawson)
Memories of Mother and Dad (written by Bill Monroe)

Composite Albums

==Notes==

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Latta, David, Australian Country Music (Random House Australia, 1991) [ISBN 0 09 182581 4].
  2. ^ a b c Houseboating in the Ozarks, Dufour Editions, 2006 [ISBN 978-0802313416] (hardcover) [ISBN 0802313418] (paperback).
  3. ^ Begotten, Not Made, University of Nebraska Press (2007) (extended extract appears in Scoring from Second, pp. 129-46 [ISBN 0803259913]).
  4. ^ a b c The Connoisseur of Love, Steele Roberts, 2011 [ISBN 9781877577727].
  5. ^ a b See, e.g., "Sitting Bull Hegira", South Dakota Review, The University of South Dakota, Fall 2007, p. 8.
  6. ^ a b See, e.g., "Unrequited", Poetry New Zealand, Vol. 36, February 2008.
  7. ^ a b See, e.g., "Mockingbird", Poetrywall, Earl of Seacliffe Art Workshop, September 2007 [ISBN 1-86942-095-0].
  8. ^ a b See, e.g., "Fleamarket", JAAM ("Just Another Art Movement") September 2008.
  9. ^ a b See, e.g., "Homo Sapiens Neandertalis", JAAM ("Just Another Art Movement") September 2008.
  10. ^ a b See, e.g., "The Thirst That Can Never Be Slaked", Voyagers: A New Zealand Science Fiction Poetry Anthology 2009.
  11. ^ a b See, e.g., "Anna Searches for Her Son", Voyagers: A New Zealand Science Fiction Poetry Anthology 2009.
  12. ^ All from The Beautiful Daughters of Men: A Novella in Short Verse from Tinakori Hill, The Legal Studies Forum, Volume XXXIII, Supplement No. 2, West Virginia University (2009), ISSN: 08945993 (a journal established by the American Legal Studies Association to promote humanistic, critical, trans-disciplinary writing, and featuring works of poetry, essays, memoirs, stories, and criticism).
  13. ^ a b Blaw, Hunter, Blaw Thy Horn, Mayhaven Publishing, Inc., 2011 [ISBN 9781932278682].
  14. ^ University of Melbourne, 1976-80; Victoria University of Wellington, 2008-12.
  15. ^ Northwestern School of Law (Portland, Oregon), 1983-85; University of Illinois, 2000-03.
  16. ^ a b c d Anderson, Stephen, "Gary Forrester's novel follows odyssey of profane lawyer", ISBA Bar News, Vol. 46, No. 10, April 2006. ([1]).
  17. ^ a b c d e f "Lawyering down under leads to bluegrass tunes, Rank Strangers", Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, 22 September 1989, p. 2.
  18. ^ a b c "Grand Ronde Reservation Plan" (Gary Forrester, Tribal Attorney), November 1985 (prepared under a grant from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior, pursuant to Public Law 98-165, 22 November 1983, Grand Ronde Restoration Act).
  19. ^ a b c Forrester, Gary and H. Barry Holt, Digest of American Indian Law: Cases and Chronology, Fred B. Rothman & Co. (1990), [ISBN 083770684-x].
  20. ^ a b See, e.g., "Aboriginal Land Rights", Melbourne University Law Review, 1986; "U.S. Indian Legal Services", Australian Legal Services Bulletin, 1982; "The Himalaya", Melbourne University Law Review, 1978; "Judicial Approval of Ritual Spearing", Melbourne University Summons, 1976; "Illinois' Capital Punishment Statute", University of Illinois Law Forum, 1975; "Recovery for Economic Loss", Melbourne University Summons, 1977; "The Credit Contract & Consumer Finance Act", New Zealand Lawyer, Issue 50, October 2006; "Know Your Rights", New Zealand Law Society Law Talk, Issue 671, July 2006; "Illinois' Respondents' in Discovery Statute – Federal Implications", The Trial Journal of the Illinois Trial Lawyers' Association, Summer 2005; "Respondents in Discovery and the Statute of Limitations", The Trial Journal of the Illinois Trial Lawyers' Association, Winter 2001; "Conflicting Statutes of Limitation and Municipal Liability in Illinois", The Trial Journal of the Illinois Trial Lawyers' Association, Spring 2001; "The Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Practices Act", Illinois Causes of Action – Elements, Forms and Winning Tips: Estate, Business & Non-Personal Injury Actions, Chapter 2, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 2002-11; "Removal and Remand from Federal Court", Illinois Causes of Action - Elements, Forms and Winning Tips: Estate, Business & Non-Personal Injury Actions, Chapter 55, Illinois Institute for Continuing Education, 2008; "Decisions Interpreting Chapter 735 of the Illinois Compiled Statutes, 5/2-801 through 5/2-806", American Bar Association Class Action Survey, 2002-06 editions; "American Nightmare" (regarding the visionary architect Buckminster Fuller), Pacific Ecologist, 2009, Issue 19.
  21. ^ a b c Elkins, James, Strangers To Us All: Lawyers and Poetry, http://myweb.wvnet.edu/~jelkins/lp-2001/intro/contemp_pt1.html.
  22. ^ a b c d e f g Bluegrass Unlimited, October 2011, p.40.
  23. ^ a b c Bluegrass Unlimited, June 1990, p. 67.
  24. ^ a b Bluegrass Unlimited, May 1989, p.69.
  25. ^ a b Bluegrass Unlimited, April 1989, p. 59.
  26. ^ a b c d "Melbourne Australia's Rank Strangers Play It Straight", Bluegrass Unlimited, December 1988, pp. 54-57 (feature article).
  27. ^ a b That's Australia, Larrikin Records, 1988 (produced by ABC television).
  28. ^ Music Deli, Larrikin Records, Larrikin LRF 227, 1988 (noting that "the Rank Strangers from Melbourne play their own style of contemporary bluegrass").
  29. ^ a b "Strangers' band with a bluegrass mission", The Sun-Herald (Australia), 4 December 1988, p. 140.
  30. ^ The song Uluru tells the story of the Azaria Chamberlain disappearance, one of Australia's most notorious murder mysteries. Forrester based his song on the 1985 book by lawyer colleague John Bryson, Evil Angels (ISBN 0-670-80993-4). Bryson's book became the basis for a major film, A Cry in the Dark, starring Meryl Streep and New Zealander Sam Neill, directed by Australian Fred Schepisi. See Bluegrass Unlimited, October 2011, p. 40.
  31. ^ Give Me a Home Among the Gum Trees, Larrikin Records, 1996.
  32. ^ a b c "Bluegrass artist from Tuscola gains fame down under", Champaign-Urbana (IL) News-Gazette, 24 January 1992 ("etc./Music" section).
  33. ^ a b "Good story, good songs", Country Beat (Australia), 2 December 1987.
  34. ^ a b "Riding high on gospel-country boom", Daily Telegraph (Australia), 8 October 1987, p. 25.
  35. ^ a b "Strangers rank with the best", Weekly Times (Australia), 4 November 1987, p. 55.
  36. ^ "Joining the front ranks", Champaign-Urbana (IL) News-Gazette Weekend, 8 September 1989, p. 14.
  37. ^ Krauss, like Forrester a native of Champaign, Illinois, loaned her bass player John Pennell (a Tolono, Illinois, native and a successful Nashville songwriter) to the Rank Strangers for their appearance at the International Bluegrass Music Festival in Owensboro, Kentucky, and elsewhere. See Bluegrass Unlimited, October 2011, p. 24.
  38. ^ "Die-hard fans call for more as bluegrass festival ends", Owensboro (KY) Messenger-Inquirer, 25 September 1989 (incl. photo).
  39. ^ "Louisville Bluegrass and American MusicFest", Louisville (KY) Courier-Journal, MusicFest advertising section, 31 August 1989, p. 2.
  40. ^ Neil V. Rosenberg, in Bluegrass: A History, University of Illinois Press (1985) (ISBN 0-252-00265-2), sets out the history of Bluegrass Unlimited (continuously published since its inception in 1966) at pp. 224-227, and thereafter notes (at 263, 278, 280, 285, 299, 315, 329, 334, 344, 354, 362 and 367) its prominence and influence as the oldest of the nationally-distributed bluegrass magazines. As Bill C. Malone observed in Country Music USA, University of Texas Press (2002) (ISBN 0292752628), at p. 542, Bluegrass Unlimited magazine was established by highly-regarded musicians Peter Kuykendall and Richard Spottswood. It is almost exclusively devoted to bluegrass music in the USA and abroad, with occasional reference to old time country music. It is a treasure trove of information on every phase of bluegrass music - biographical articles, discographies, record and book reviews, concert and festival dates, interviews, classified ads, and songs.
  41. ^ "Blue Skies: Roots & Branches", International Country Music News (England), January 1989, p. 10.
  42. ^ "The Rank Strangers", Bluegrass-Buhne: Old Time & Bluegrass Magazine, 8 Jahrgang, Nr. 46, August–September 1988, pp. 34-35 (translation by Vera Christmann).
  43. ^ Northway, Martin (2008-05-28). "Novel's engaging style outweighs its idiosyncratic form". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 
  44. ^ Scoring from Second: Writers on Baseball. ed. Philip F. Deaver, University of Nebraska Press (2007), pp. 129-46, [ISBN 0803259913].
  45. ^ "Book Review: Scoring from Second", Mattoon-Charleston (IL) Journal Gazette Times-Courier, 17 October 2007 <http://onsportz.blogspot.com/2007/10/scoring-from-second-reveals-how.html>.
  46. ^ "The writing is polished, and the sentiments will touch a chord", Library Journal, 15 May 2007 ([2]. The selected authors for Scoring from Second included Rick Bass, David Carkeet, Ron Carlson, Michael Chabon, Andre Dubus, Leslie Epstein, William Least Heat-Moon, Lee Martin, Michael Martone, Cris Mazza, and Floyd Skloot.
  47. ^ The Beautiful Daughters of Men: A Novella in Short Verse from Tinakori Hill, The Legal Studies Forum, Volume XXXIII, Supplement No. 2, West Virginia University (2009), ISSN: 0894-5993.
  48. ^ A Kilgore Trout Moment, The Legal Studies Forum, Volume XXXIV, No. 2, West Virginia University (2010), ISSN: 0894-5993.
  49. ^ The Legal Studies Forum, Volume XXXV, West Virginia University (2012).
  50. ^ His ancestors include Elisabeth Naticha Beatty Batheen Self (1778-1856) and Talitha White (1799-1876) of the Cherokee Nation. See Blaw, Hunter, Blaw Thy Horn, Mayhaven Publishing, Inc., 2011, ISBN 9781932278682.
  51. ^ See Matthiessen, Peter, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse (The Viking Press 1983), pp. 543, 546, 594, ISBN 0-670-39702-4.
  52. ^ Matthiessen, Peter, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse (The Viking Press 1983), ISBN 0-670-39702-4.
  53. ^ a b "Return to heritage celebrated", The Oregonian, 22 September 1986, p. 1 (re: Klamath tribal restoration under Public Law 99-398).
  54. ^ 688 P.2d 1354 (Or. App. 1984).
  55. ^ No. 83-1465FR (D. Or., 9 April 1984).
  56. ^ 314 N.W.2d 95 (S.D. 1983).
  57. ^ 13 IBIA 344 (27 Dec. 1985).
  58. ^ 321 F.3d 616 (7th Cir. 2003), cert. denied, Shepard v. Cavalieri, 540 U.S. 1003, 124 S.Ct. 531, 157 L.Ed.2d 408 (2003).
  59. ^ "Exporting bluegrass music down under", Champaign-Urbana (IL) News-Gazette, 27 September 1988, C-7.
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