{"id":27,"date":"2023-11-21T01:45:06","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T01:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barkinglegsarchive.org\/home\/?p=27"},"modified":"2023-11-28T19:13:44","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T19:13:44","slug":"why-i-live-at-the-p-o-09-20-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barkinglegsarchive.org\/home\/1994\/why-i-live-at-the-p-o-09-20-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Live at the P.O. &#8211; 09\/20\/1994"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Neva Howell, then a local actress and director, performed <strong>Eudora Welty\u2019s<\/strong> hilarious short story, <strong><em>Why I Live at the P.O.<\/em><\/strong> in a creatively adapted one-woman show at Barking Legs on Saturday, April 16, <strong>1994<\/strong>, to a full house. This kind of versatility in presenting performances at BLT has continued proudly, as originality and inspiration have been showcased for <strong>30 <\/strong>years.<br><br>Neva worked for three years on the idea. A seed was planted after she heard Ms. Welty narrate the story in her soft, southern cadences on a tape from the public library. Neva practically rolled in the floor with laughter! She wrote to Eudora, a legendary southern writer, and patiently waited for a response.<br><br>After two years, Ms. Welty responded through her literary agents, granting permission to adapt the story only in a one-act form. <strong><em>Sorghum flows slowly but surely toward the melted butter on hot biscuits or pancakes!<\/em><\/strong> Neva pitched it to Ann Law, who obtained a small performance grant from Allied Arts, the forerunner of today\u2019s ArtsBuild. <strong><em>Bravo!<\/em><\/strong><br><br>Ann\u2019s enthusiastic allegiance is always to the performers whose hearts, souls, and life experiences bring ideas and stories to life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neva Howell, then a local actress and director, performed Eudora Welty\u2019s hilarious short story, Why I Live at the P.O. in a creatively adapted one-woman show at Barking Legs on Saturday, April 16, 1994, to a full house. This kind of versatility in presenting performances at BLT has continued proudly, as originality and inspiration have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[19,18],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","tag-eudora-welty","tag-why-i-live-at-the-p-o"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barkinglegsarchive.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barkinglegsarchive.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barkinglegsarchive.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barkinglegsarchive.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barkinglegsarchive.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/barkinglegsarchive.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"https:\/\/barkinglegsarchive.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barkinglegsarchive.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barkinglegsarchive.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barkinglegsarchive.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}