SUMMER 2024
JUNE 2024: Re-Searching and Re-Membering. June includes preparation for Randall's research trip to Pittsburgh at month's end, where he'll spend deep research time with the William Ball Collection at the Carnegie Mellon University Archives. Long wished-for, and now a properly real thing, this opportunity will bend time and re-animate the Backstage Left project which gazes back at the American Conservatory Theatre in the mid 1970's.
SPRING 2024
MAY 2024: A Medieval Tale of War & Peace. The month was full-to-the-brim with office set-up, hours of scanning, handshakes with colleagues, work on both the Backstage Left and The Resplendent West projects. Add to those the preparation for an August presentation in Oregon of Randall's new piece SQUIRE - A Chronicle. Use the menu bars above or in footer below to learn more about SQUIRE. This unusual manuscript found its rhythm and meaning this month, and now joins the list of active projects for UTB.
APRIL 2024: A Happy Welcome to our New Assistants. Roy Pace and Alison Barnwell join our efforts. Roy tutors students in calculus and is a graduate student at NYU working on his PhD in Physics. Alison Barnwell, our noble charioteer, is zip-zapping us around NYC behind the wheel. And so, let the Capricorn and Virgo inspired organization begin! We're working on our archives, and preparing for a "soft launch" on April 29th for the Backstage Left project. This month will be full of the finest needlepoint and cross-stitching as we set up the office, systems, and patterns - and so, yes, April will indeed be the crewel-est month, Mr. Eliot.
MARCH 2024: A Relocation to Inwood in Manhattan. We are following our internal "marching" instructions, and making a strategic move to a place we love deeply: the Inwood neighborhood at the tip-top of Manhattan Island. We'll be happily nestled between the Hudson and Harlem rivers. This position gives us a great view of The Cloisters, is the ultimate stop of the A Train, and is marvelously close to our historical research in both Westchester & Rockland counties. With many thanks to the friends & volunteers who believe in our enterprise, and have helped to relocate us.
WINTER 2024
February 29, 2024: We Avidly Support Leap Day. One can't help but give a tip-of-the-hat to Leap Day. Thank you Leap Day for your ongoing patience, and dedicated understanding of introversion. In our book? = you are unique and forever 29.
FEBRUARY 2024: Well, here it is, the all-new website. Welcome, we wanted to be certain that you could easily navigate, so don't forget the glyph at the upper left (three little lines) which drops-down the Menu on all of the pages. This site does quite well on a mobile app, although most pages feature a slide-show of images, and that might be best enjoyed on a larger screen. Meanwhile, Randall is busy researching/writing on the two present projects: The Westward Account (an ancestral epic) and Backstage Left (a theatrical recollection).We trust people will be inspired to donate to Upon These Boards. 2024 is the year to re-launch all of our efforts with a dedicated vim & verve...and to properly vim we must acquire monetary verve.