As we’ve been posting a lot of exit interviews lately, I though that we’d mix things up a bit and post an interview with someone who, like me, consciously chose to return to Ypsilanti. Here’s my immigration interview with poet, writer and performer Jeff “Shappy” Seasholtz. MARK: I first saw you, if I’m not mistaken, […]
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Staying home sick from school as a kid, back in the days before cable and VCRs, would not have been nearly as pleasant if not for the work of television producer Sherwood Schwartz, who passed away yesterday at the age of 94. My thoughts are with his friends and family this evening. Here, in his […]