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Words of wisdom and
culture in visiting poet
BY LILLIAN
SCARPINITO
“Intelligence is
preexistent. You spend
your life seeking knowl
edge, and yet all you
have to do is remember.”
-MariJo Moore
Rattlesnake Singing
According to her
words, a profound
wisdom stems from
powerful spirituality and
open mindedness. After
reading her beautiful
poetry and intriguing
adages, she is certainly
an enlightened woman.
MariJo Moore teaches her
readers to recognize the small
miracles we take for granted and
often overlook in everyday life. Her
literature forces one to contemplate
all the spiritual richness we possess
within our own lives.
On Thursday April 6, in
Scott Commons of the Porter
Center, Moore visited our campus
for a poetry reading, followed by a
book signing and reception. This
was her second visit in five years.
During this visit, she also spoke to
the students of Dr. Margaret Brown,
associate professor of history.
Moore has a long list of
accomplishments. She owns her
own publishing company, called
rENEGADE pLANETS
PUBLISHING. Under this company,
she has published many books of
poetry, quotes and short stories. Her
works include Returning to the
Homeland-Cherokee Poetry and
Short Stories, Crow Quotes, Desert
Quotes, Stars are Birds and Other
Writings and Spirit Voices of Bones.
Moore is of Eastern Cherokee,
Irish and Dutch heritage. She was
recognized by the literary world
when she was awarded North
Carolina’s “Distinguished Woman
of the Year in the Arts” award in
Photo by Lindi Lagman.
Tina McBride with visiting poet MariJo Moore.
1998. She was also nominated as
“Writer of the Year in Poetry” by
the Woodcraft Circle of Native
American Writers and Storytellers
in 1997. She resides in the moun
tains of Western North Carolina and
writes weekly editorials on Ameri
can Indian issues for the Asheville
Citizen-Times.
The poetry reading was a
success. Many people including
Students and faculty came to hear
Moore speak. Leader of the campus
organization, “Poets and Writers at
Brevard,”
Tina McBride, instructor of
English and director of the Writing
Center, organized the event.
“We invite a variety of writers
to the campus each year. In addition
to taking a group of 13 students to
Furman University to hear Maya
Angelou speak in February, the
English faculty are proud to have
had MariJo Moore visit,” said
McBride.
Moore was happy to say that,
so far everybody has been very
open and very receptive to what I
have to share. What I have to share
is writing from an American Indian
prospective.”
The books of MariJo Moore
ai;’e available at Highland Books.
Banff Festival brings
adventures to life
On a weekend that was shap
ing up to be like any other at
Brevard College something very
special rolled through town, and the
few lucky ones who stuck around
campus got the chance to attend the
second annual Banff film festival.
The Banff film festival, an interna
tional event featuring adventure
films of all sorts was put on Satur
day, April 1 and Sunday, April 2 by
the Brevard College Outing Club.
Students had a variety of things to
enjoy and try their hand at during
this two-day event.
Starting early Saturday
morning from noon to six, students
and the local community had the
opportunity to enjoy Adventure-
vest. This six hour event leading
up to Saturday’s Banff film showing
gave the community the chance to
shop around and enjoy local
venders who had
brought dis
plays to the
campus.
Stu
dents
could
climb on a
portable climbing
wall, paddle kayaks,
or chat with Steve
Longnecker, the first person to
climb Looking Glass rock.
“It was fun” said Rachel
Mikael sen after trying her hand on
the portable-climbing wall.
This event was widely at
tended and enjoyed for most of the
day by students and the incoming
freshman who were on campus for
the weekend. While this was a
great way to kick off the weekend,
it was nothing compared to what
the night was shaping up to be.
BY JESSE
JANICULA
At 7 p.m., the Banff film
fesfival got into full swing. This
festival took place in Dunham
auditorium, which had been deco
rated like an REI store. The first
film to hit the screen was a promo-
fional short film of mixed adventure
clips from Banff.
The audience was practically
screaming “OUCH” as the people
on the screen went over waterfalls
in their kayaks or fell off their
mountain bikes thirty feet in the air.
After the
short film had
ceased the
audience was
kept on the
edge of their
seat as Billy
Zinc to the sound of applause
rappelled from the roof of the
auditorium to introduce the festival.
During the following hours the
audience definitely got their five
bucks worth as films were shown of
extreme kayaking, mountain
biking, climbing, hang-
gliding, parachuting and
skiing.
Door
prizes
were
even
given
away to a
few lucky
people ranging from
life jackets to a rafting trip.
When all was said and
done the second Banff film festival
had gone off great. The Outing
Club who put on this wonderful
event sold out Saturday’s showing
making the event worth their while,
and plan to put it on again next
year.
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