Letters From Longmont

Posted on May 24th, 2008 by Playwright.
Categories: Asides.

Hi everyone!

Yes, I’m alive, despite the tornado invasion that landed in the county next door. Weld County had an amazing seven tornadoes touch down, including the one that hit Windsor and made national news.

So when you’re a reporter and there’s dangerous weather in your area, what do you do? You chase after it, of course! (more…)

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Letters from Longmont

Posted on May 12th, 2008 by Playwright.
Categories: Asides.

Editors note:

Mid Summer Fair, Community Theatre of Emporia’s annual summer theatre event in Peter Pan Park will be a bit different this year. Scott Rochat, who has been single handedly responsible for penning the adaptations of Shakespeare plays as well as some other classics done by our children’s group, has returned to his roots in Longmont, Colorado.

We miss his wit and skill with words, now more than ever.

With that said, here is a post that he wrote for us shortly after his departure in October of 2007.

Jerry Garcia had it right — what a long, strange trip it’s been ….
For those of you who missed it, I am no longer an Emporian or even a Kansan. About a week and a half ago, I moved to my old hometown of Longmont, Colo. to take a job at the newspaper there. Dan Boyce, the CTE’s fearless leader, asked me to send periodic dispatches from the CTE’s Rocky Mountain Bureau,so here we are. He may even live to regret the request.

Mark Twain had it right: “Two moves equal one fire.” Moving was, as expected, a royal pain in the patookas. We spent all of Saturday (Sept. 22) and part of Sunday (Sept. 23) loading the truck, aided by family and at (more…)

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