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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1976
Page 5
By JOE SCAMARDO
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Once upon a time, there were
any peaceable kingdoms, at least
JUairy tales, but there is a modern
(JrnjPcaceable Kingdom (PK) in
"'ashington County three miles
nth of Washington-on-the-Brazos.
It is not inhabited by knights,
tinsels nor even a friendly dragon,
|ut by nine persons who live and
ork cooperatively.
PK is a nonprofit, educational in-
itution dedicated to . the preser-
ition and innovation of arts, crafts
d related disciplines.”
vantagfl The 152-acre farm is located two
|nd one half miles north of
/ashington, Texas, down an un-
aved county road. As you cross the
race 111 ellowcattle guard at the entrance to
on ^ ‘K, there is an old, leaning building
n the left. The building was the
neeting hall of the Israelites of the
enevolence before the group dis-
anded.
A little further down the rutted,
lirtroad there is a remodeled house
mthe left where two of the PK resi-
lents, Charles and Jande McElroy,
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Kind on the right. Past the dam, the
oad curves left up a low hill before
urvingright up a larger hill. As the
oad continues up the hill, it runs
larallel to the prizewinning PK barn
in the left.
At the top of the hill is the rambl-
ng farmhouse where the remaining
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NEW YORK — Author Saul Bel
ow has won the 1976 Pulitzer prize
brfiction with “Humboldt’s Gift,” a
level whose characters speak of the
evered award with utter disdain.
Gene Miller of the Miami Herald
a Pulitzer for news reporting,
ind author Paul Horgan was hon
ored in the history category — the
lecond time each won prizes.
The Anchorage Daily News won
lie gold medal for public service for
ts investigation into the Teamsters
nion’s growing impact on Alaska’s
conomy and politics.
1 it The prize for special local report-
nOWping went to the staff of the Chicago
ribune.
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two hoi h>rk Times won the international
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great risk” of the Communist
akeover of Cambodia and the up-
thePd tooting of its people.
The prize for national reporting
went to Des Moines Register repor
ter James Risser,
At age 72, Horgan won the history
prize for “Lamy of Santa Fe,” the
story of the first Roman Catholic ar
chbishop in the Southwest.
A graduate of the underground
weekly field, Tony Auth, 33, won the
1976 prize for editorial cartooning as
a staff member of the Philadelphia
Inquirer.
Stanley Forman, 30, of the Boston
Herald American, won the spot
news photography award.
The feature photography award
went to the 17-member photo staff of
the Louisville Courier-Journal and
Times for coverage of court-ordered
busing with its attendant violence.
Alan M. Kriegsman, 48-year-old
dance critic of the Washington Post,
won the prize for criticism.
Prof. R. W. B. Lewis won the
biography prize for “Edith Whar
ton: A Biography.”
The poetry prize went to Brooklyn
College teacher John Lawrence
Ashbery, 48, for his “Self Portrait in
a Convex Mirror. ”
Framed by the tail section
of an abandoned plane, this
bam is used as a workshop
and classroom by the
residents of Peaceable
Kingdom.
seven residents live. A large white
star is painted on the farmhouse’s
roof.
In the front yard rest the time-
ravaged head and tail of an airplane.
The plane’s remains were deposited
one dark night by friends of the PK
residents as a gift.
Further color is added to Peace
able Kingdom by the trapdoors, bal
conies and stained glass windows
which decorate the buildings.
The PK harn was built because the
expanding operations on the farm
required a larger storage and work
space. Danny Samuels, of Architects
Incahoots & Asssociates and Artie
Kahn, a resident of PK, designed the
barn and built it with the help of 100
students in a class entitled, “how to
build a barn. ”
The barn was built using materials
salvaged from the stage of the 1972
Watkins Glen rock concert.
The barn contains a woodworking
studio, an auto repair shop, and liv
ing quarters for Kahn.
Not just any country barn, it
caught the attention of the Texas
Society of Architects. They judged
the barn one of the nine best de
signed buildings of 1975 in Texas.
After the barn was completed a
year and a half ago, a contest was
begun which solicited designs for
painting the structure.
The judges announced Monday
that the design of Pat Johnson Lister
had been chosen to decorate the
barn.
The barn painting was held Satur
day as the main event of a May Day
celebration.
Although PK is a working farm, its
main function is that of a crafts
school. It is a place where the resi
dents can improve their own
craftsmanship and teach those arts to
students.
Classes are taught by the residents
in subjects ranging from bee
keeping to yoga . Besides teaching at
PK, the residents have taught and
demonstrated their crafts at such
places as the Texas A&M University
Crafts Center, the University of
Houston Sundry School and the
Alabama-Coushatta Indian Reserva
tion.
Besides the classes taught by PK
members, visiting craftsmen and in
structors also teach classes in sub-
LAKEVIEW CLUB
3 Miles N. on Tabor Road
Saturday Night: Johnny Lyons, Janet Lynn and
The Country Nu-Notes
From 9-1 p.m.
Ladies $1.00 STAMPEDE Every Thursday Nile Men $2.00
(ALL BRANDS BEER 40 cents)
Every Tuesday Nile
LADIES $1.00
MEN $2.00
All Brands Beer 40c
8-12
Dance every Tuesday and Thursday
jects ranging from blacksmithing to
identification and use of the plants of
Texas.
Because the people of Peaceable
Kingdom live and work so closely, all
major decisions are made collec
tively. Every resident has an equal
vote in all decisions and does an
equal share of the work. Chris
McCarthy, one of the members, said
that PK operates on the principle
that responsible persons will take
care of what has to be done on their
own initiative.
The residents are careful, how
ever, not to let the “all work and no
play” habits creep in. During long
periods of drought, they put semi-
broken toasters in the front yard as a
sacrifice to the “Rain God. ”
After the day’s work is completed
and the residents are gathered in the
farmhouse, such subjects are discus
sed as the PK theory of armadillo
reproduction. The theory says that
the armadilloes incorporate au
tomobiles into their reproductive
cycle. It states that armadilloes re
produce by spores, like a mushroom,
and that they have to be struck by an
automobile to release the spores.
PK will grow into a larger crafts
center and become more stabilized,
said McCarthy, but it will not be
come “big business ’ oriented. The
Peaceable Kingdom philosophy is
that “if the school were to cease to
change, it would cease to contribute
both to the individuals and to the
communities we serve.”
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