| Show if I i i 6v Top of Utah Saturday December 2 2000 Standard-Examin- n! (s' Oi SETHNS A MOOD: With both photos and poetry Gerry Spence reads from his latest book Thursday at the Davis County Library South Branch in Bountiful Renowned as a lawyer author and legal commentator he also i J j i spoke about his views on current events i- JERRY SWOPE staff Standard-Examin- Spence: ‘Hard times and good times’ Renowned lawyer author makes stop to talk about newest book By RUTH MALAN Standard-Examin- correspondent BOUNTIFUL - Gerr Spence is not just a lawyer author poet and photographer - he's an entertainer Spence entertained and informed his audience which packed the auditorium at the Davis County Library South Branch Thursday evening making people laugh and feel comfortable with this nationally known defense attorney Dressed in his trademark fringed leather jacket he talked about how his parents influenced his life and about his newest book “Gerry Spence's Wyoming” Spence was part of the library sponsored author program that writers to brings -- well-know- n speak to audiences Spence is recognized nationwide for his powerful courtroom victories including the estate of Karen Silkwood against Kerr-McG- and the defenses of former Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos and white separatist Randy Weaver He is the author of several books About 20 years ago Spence gave up painting and took up photography His newest book which he said has to do with “being a human being” is filled with black and white photos and depicts what he sees in his home state “There are so many things about us that are so wonderful and different than anyone else who has walked the face of the earth or ever breathed Think of your thumbprint There isn’t another soul in the world like yours you must be the most valuable thing in the world” Spence said His photographs are a sound example of where he was born and how he grew up in Wyoming and about his adult life "No one sees your state quite like you do" Spence said “What is the soul of the state? I think it's the people who trekked here whose dreams were never fulfilled” he said He spoke of the pioneers who gave their lives and lost children coming to settle the lands in Wyoming and Utah “We built this life of ours on those remnants of that Wyoming of that Utah Those who walk through are not cognizant of people who were there” he said “I try to look at some of the history of Wyoming and its wide open spaces" His poetry talks about banking institutions taking farms away from families who could not make their payments About men’s bulging dreams and sunken stomachs About grasshoppers eating the crops “There are no grasshopper clauses in mort- gages” “The Wyoming I knew was of hard times and good times” he said The photos illustrate Spence’s poetry One is a picture of horses in a snow storm Other photos are of things such as an old shoe discovered on floor boards of an old home a buffalo glazed with frost and a picture of Main Street in Freedom Wyoming a town where one side of Freedom’s Main Street is in Wyoming the other in Idaho DOWNTOWN During a question and answer time a Floridian asked Spence how he felt about the presidential confusion in the country His answer: “I am surprised we new slaves in this country should allow this to happen to us” He explained it as Bush and Gore being two small children in a comer fighting over a toy neither of them own Using his hands to illustrate he said the Republicans were like his right hand with people talking and attached to the heart which is corporate America which owns the media and has indentured the people as slaves The other hand is the Democrats also talking and attached to the heart or the same corporate America They are both owned by big money he said “Corporations have no heart soul or body and cannot be seen but they control the country The myth is we are free and the myth is we make a difference” Spence said When asked how he got where he is he said it was through a combination of gifts - his genes and his parents “What made me were gifts given to me What made me was a matter of luck” he said At the age of 40 he went to his father and described himself as having no friends no social manners he was an egotist and braggart He told his father he should have kicked it out of him His father replied “Gerry it’s awful easy to kick it out of the pup but you can’t ever put it back again” “The energy confidence and exuberance of my life is a gift to me I am richly 'endowed” '&“ Spence said A DOWNTOWN SATURDAY NIGHT DECEMBER 2nd 2000 G) OGDEN CONCERT BAND with Choral Edition ua HOLIDAY CONCERT 7:30 PM at U X- Peery’s Egyptian Theater A n FREE CONCERT - Limited Seating - Generously Sponsored by Centennial Bank Doors open for Admission at 6:30 pm U ALSO ENJOY CHRISTMAS VILLAGE and Downtown Ogden Inc O on Historic 25th Street "HOLIDAY FUN IN DOWNTOWN OGDEN" CM to dash to shop And to vih some cash You ought To look December lst-17- th For every $ 00 you spend at a Newgate Mall store we're going to give you something extra something more 1 A Scratch n' Win Card that just might yield $500 - now that's a great deal don't win it's not over yet cards are still a good bet There's a Million Dollars to win December twenty-on- e So hurry in today before the game's done But if you Non-winnin- g Sunkist A&W Canada Dry Red Dew Mt Hawaiian Punch Big Sunny Delight All Pepsi7UP Products Including ' Prices Effective j 36 th Street & Wall Avenue Ogden Phone 801 62M 161 www mollibo com T'XCOA - oo W- - for thoie n uary Customer ktoon S mrK Cnm & v Sunday f : VISA ChSmAS" No Friday Saturday Dec 1 2 and 3 Offer good only at Ogden Layton t & Brigham City locations ! i |
