(continuing my gratuitous ON-TOPIC topic)...
Jan dropped me a very helpful line about Larry Beck. He died in 1990
(this would
be the Larry Beck who did Robert Service type performances in Alaska,
and in
the Lower 48, not the sculptor by the same name who lived in SE and
did
magnificent works).
Here's a picture of him on a record label:
http://i12.ebayimg.com/03/i/000/de/72/afc5_1.JPG
Here is the URL to Larry's Burial site...rather impressive, too
(scroll down):
http://www.angelusmemorial.org/honored.cfm
Many thanks, Jan!!
I'd still like to know anything you Old Timers can recall about any
family
he might have had. My wife thinks he was married, perhaps to the gal
I mentioned in the other post, the Miss Alaska. If so, there'd be some
kind
of estate, I'd think.
I wrote:
There is, though, a billboard that says he is still doing shows at
the
Egan Center (http://www.familytravelguides.com/articles/alaska/
anchorag.html
at the bottom of the ad).
Obviously it pays to update one's web site. I'd guess this Egan Center
thing
is about 18 years out of date mas o menos....
As I said, I've been trying to find out whether there was any
kind of estate, any family, or any copyright still in force for his
poetry. His recordings and books were always entitled "produced
by Larry Beck and Associates." So, who were his associates,
and where are they now?
I have posted his "Glacier-Gruff" poem, the one my students
insisted I be named after clear back in '88...if you are interested:
http://geocities.com/g_gruff/Glacier-Gruff.wav
I'd like to post others of his poems (I have something like 40 or 50)
on the web, and, maybe Service's own recitations of his greater
poems (I have an hour or more)....if it isn't already on You-Tube or
some such...
ffurgy_|_gruffy, from behind the looking glass (on the good side, not
the inverse)
Gruffy: JPFO, Semper Fi to the Bill of Rights (RIP) Molon Labe! Let's
dance!
Alaska Historical Society, Hope and Sunrise Historical Society
Read about the 200 MPG engine design done in Alaska
[Major revision/News 5/21/06]:
http://www.geocities.com/g_gruff/200mpg.html
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