These are photos which I found for the possible poster background
Larissa
Tuesday, 6 January 2009
Wednesday, 3 December 2008
Running Order
Hello everyone
Here is the running order - there are still some loose ends and maybe scenes at the bottom. I have made some suggestions about how I think the maybes might work. Please spend Friday running this as much as possible and discussing the maybes. We will run the show on Tuesday and I will come in for a work-in-progress on Friday 12 December.
Thanks
Michael
Preset - Chairs are upturned onstage
Scene 1 - Chairs stood up / drawn around / removed / standing in squares / Danielle's choreography [Audio: Pilote]
Scene 2 - 5 movements [Audio: Scenes from childhood]
Scene 3 - Amish scarves [Audio: These people are a disgrace]
Scene 4 - Adam routine forwards / backwards [Audio: Raindrop prelude]
Scene 5 - Adam ties scarves round wrists and lines up victims [Audio: Your father your family / woman praying in the street from YouTube]
Scene 6 - The Ordnung [Audio: French Canadian]
Scene 7 - Phone Call [Audio: Olbermann voiceover]
Scene 8 - Hostage scene [Audio: Ave Maria / You Tube Amish Grace audio]
Scene 9 - Family Snapshots [Audio: John Cale]
Scene 10 - Lord's Prayer [Audio: Fur Elise] - Adam writing list
Scene 10.5 - Amish School House description
Scene 11 - Monday Monday [Audio: Monday Monday] - Adam packing bag
Scene 12 - Timeline [Audio: Clock]
Scene 13 - List [Audio: 4 minute Warning] - Adam turning
Scene 13.5 - Olbermann
Scene 14 - Letter [Audio - Paradise] - Adam writing letter
Scene 14.5 - Second phone call
Scene 15 - Media Questions and Answers [Audio: Horn - Nick Drake / interview in street]
Scene 16 - Video montage
Maybes TBC:
Amish makeover
Olbermann
Second Phone Call
Blue Sky Thinking
Amish School House Description
Media questions and answers
Here is the running order - there are still some loose ends and maybe scenes at the bottom. I have made some suggestions about how I think the maybes might work. Please spend Friday running this as much as possible and discussing the maybes. We will run the show on Tuesday and I will come in for a work-in-progress on Friday 12 December.
Thanks
Michael
Preset - Chairs are upturned onstage
Scene 1 - Chairs stood up / drawn around / removed / standing in squares / Danielle's choreography [Audio: Pilote]
Scene 2 - 5 movements [Audio: Scenes from childhood]
Scene 3 - Amish scarves [Audio: These people are a disgrace]
Scene 4 - Adam routine forwards / backwards [Audio: Raindrop prelude]
Scene 5 - Adam ties scarves round wrists and lines up victims [Audio: Your father your family / woman praying in the street from YouTube]
Scene 6 - The Ordnung [Audio: French Canadian]
Scene 7 - Phone Call [Audio: Olbermann voiceover]
Scene 8 - Hostage scene [Audio: Ave Maria / You Tube Amish Grace audio]
Scene 9 - Family Snapshots [Audio: John Cale]
Scene 10 - Lord's Prayer [Audio: Fur Elise] - Adam writing list
Scene 10.5 - Amish School House description
Scene 11 - Monday Monday [Audio: Monday Monday] - Adam packing bag
Scene 12 - Timeline [Audio: Clock]
Scene 13 - List [Audio: 4 minute Warning] - Adam turning
Scene 13.5 - Olbermann
Scene 14 - Letter [Audio - Paradise] - Adam writing letter
Scene 14.5 - Second phone call
Scene 15 - Media Questions and Answers [Audio: Horn - Nick Drake / interview in street]
Scene 16 - Video montage
Maybes TBC:
Amish makeover
Olbermann
Second Phone Call
Blue Sky Thinking
Amish School House Description
Media questions and answers
Wednesday, 26 November 2008
Tragedy in Amish Country
These Photos are the last letter wrote to his wife and his list of objects.
Below is a rough timeline that police have been able to piece together of events leading up to the attack, after interviewing Charles Roberts' wife. Details of the girls' injuries are spotty, since the families asked the hospitals not to report on their medical conditions and the hospitals agreed to respect their privacy.
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Monday, Oct. 2, 2006
3 a.m. — Roberts is home from work after finishing his milk run, picking up milk between Amish farms.
7:30 a.m.- 7:45 a.m. — Roberts and his wife, Marie, are up with their children getting them ready for school.
8:45 a.m. — Roberts walks his children to the bus stop.
9 a.m. — Marie Roberts leaves the house before her husband. She heads to a prayer group at the Presbyterian Church, picking up a friend along the way. Charles Roberts was to leave for a random drug test as required by his employer for his license to drive a truck in Pennsylvania.
9:15 a.m. — Marie arrives at the Presbyterian Church.
10:30 a.m . — Marie leaves the church with her friend.
10:45 a.m. — Marie drops off her friend.
10:45 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. — Roberts' wife tries to call him from their home phone. He has taken her cell phone.
10:48 a.m. — The Lancaster County emergency communications web site shows 20 incident calls listed to the normally quiet Bart Township.
10:50 a.m. — Charles Roberts calls his wife and will not tell her where he is but says he is not coming home and that the police have arrived. He then tells his wife the location of his suicide notes. She finds some of the suicide notes and calls her mother and 911.
The Aftermath
Seven girls are airlifted and one is transported via ground ambulance to various hospitals.
Marian Fisher, 13 is deceased at the scene; however, she is transported by ground ambulance to Lancaster General Hospital, where she is officially pronounced dead. She reportedly requested that Charles Roberts shoot her and let the other ones go. Barbie, her 11-year-old sister, s aid, "And shoot me second."
Anna Mae Stoltzfus, 12 is pronounced deceased at the scene.
Naomi Rose Ebersol, 7 is carried outside by Pennsylvania State Troopers. She dies outside the school, shortly after they arrive .
Barbie Fisher, 11 is sent to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. The extent of her injuries is unknown at the time.
Rachel Ann Stoltzfus, 8, sustains a shattered jaw and wounds in her shoulder and side.
Esther King, 13, sustains injuries, the extent of which are unknown.
Sarah Ann Stoltzfus, 8, is sent to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. The extent of her injuries are also unknown.
tlc.discovery.com/convergence/amish/timeline/timeline.html
Alison
Morning the Amish Tragedy.
Milk Truck-Driver Executed Children in Pennsylvania Amish Schoolhouse
Charles Carl Roberts IV, a 32-year-old milk-truck driver carrying three guns and a childhood grudge, stormed into a one-room Amish schoolhouse on Monday, sent the boys and adults outside, barricaded the doors with two-by-fours and then opened fire on a dozen girls. Roberts killed some of the girls and critically injured others, before turning a gun upon himself and committing suicide. The latest reports state that six of the girls have died and the death toll might rise. Most of the children were shot execution-style at point-blank range after being lined up along the chalkboard inside the schoolhouse, their feet bound with wire and plastic ties. The shooting occurred around 10:45 a.m. on Monday in Nickel Mines, which is located in the heart of Pennsylvania Amish country.
On the evening of the shooting, Amish neighbors from the Nickel Mines community gathered to talk about their feelings of grief with each other and mental health counselors. According to reports by counselors who attended the grief session, the Amish family members grappled with a number of questions: Do we send our kids to school tomorrow? What if they want to sleep in our beds tonight, is that okay? But one question they asked might surprise outsiders. What, they wondered, can we do to help the family of the shooter? Plans were already underway for a horse-and-buggy caravan to visit Charles Carl Roberts’ family with offers of food and condolences. The Amish don’t automatically translate their grieving into revenge. Rather, they believe in redemption.
The Funeral Services
Funeral services for many of the children are being held on Thursday. In the aftermath of Monday’s violence, the Amish are looking inward, relying on themselves and their faith, just as they have for centuries. They hold themselves apart from the modern world, and have as little to do with civil authorities as possible. Amish mourners have been going from home to home for two days to attend viewings for the five victims, all little girls laid out in white dresses made by their families. Such viewings occur almost immediately after the bodies arrive at the parents’ homes.
Typically, they are so crowded, ”if you start crying, you’ve got to figure out whose shoulder to cry on,” said a Mennonite midwife who delivered two of the five girls slain in the attack. At some Amish viewings, upwards of 1,000 to 1,500 people might visit a family’s home to pay respects. Such visits are important, given the lack of e-mail and phone communication.
Update: In Thursday’s Amish funeral ceremonies, made even more touching and heartbreaking by centuries-old simplicity, four of the little girls were buried as the Amish of Pennsylvania turned the other cheek. With television and newspaper cameras kept at a distance, and police helicopters enforcing a no-fly zone overhead, one of the few non-Amish guests invited to the funeral of seven-year-old Naomi Rose Ebersole, the first little girl to be buried, was Marie Roberts, the killer’s wife.
With tears in her eyes, Mrs. Roberts sat in the back of one of the 34 black horse-drawn carriages that were part of the funeral cortege behind Naomi’s horse-drawn hearse. On the way from the church to the hilltop cemetary, the procession passed Mrs Roberts’ home where her husband, Charles, loaded up his guns before heading for the little village school on Monday.
On Saturday, Amish mourners joined family and friends for the funeral of the Pennsylvania truck driver who killed five Amish girls before taking his own life. Charles Carl Roberts IV was laid to rest in the graveyard of the Georgetown United Methodist Church, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. The cemetery is not far from the school where the shootings took place and the Amish graveyard where his victims are buried. The Amish who came to the burial gave condolences to Roberts’ wife and three children.
Also on Saturday, local Amish leaders met to discuss the future of the West Nickel Mines School. Mike Hart, one of two non-Amish members of a board set up to handle donations following the killings, said the plan is to build a new school in a different location.
As part of their traditional manner during times of crisis, the deeply-religious villagers of Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, turned inwards for support yesterday with prayers before, during and after each of the three ceremonies. As a Quaker, I have an empathic sense for the devout, private and quiet commitment to passivism and peace shared by members of The Old Order Amish. My kindest thoughts are with the Amish people as they embark upon the mutually reciprocal journey of healing themselves.
Here is the link from where I got this infomation from.
disembedded.wordpress.com
Alison
Charles Carl Roberts IV, a 32-year-old milk-truck driver carrying three guns and a childhood grudge, stormed into a one-room Amish schoolhouse on Monday, sent the boys and adults outside, barricaded the doors with two-by-fours and then opened fire on a dozen girls. Roberts killed some of the girls and critically injured others, before turning a gun upon himself and committing suicide. The latest reports state that six of the girls have died and the death toll might rise. Most of the children were shot execution-style at point-blank range after being lined up along the chalkboard inside the schoolhouse, their feet bound with wire and plastic ties. The shooting occurred around 10:45 a.m. on Monday in Nickel Mines, which is located in the heart of Pennsylvania Amish country.
On the evening of the shooting, Amish neighbors from the Nickel Mines community gathered to talk about their feelings of grief with each other and mental health counselors. According to reports by counselors who attended the grief session, the Amish family members grappled with a number of questions: Do we send our kids to school tomorrow? What if they want to sleep in our beds tonight, is that okay? But one question they asked might surprise outsiders. What, they wondered, can we do to help the family of the shooter? Plans were already underway for a horse-and-buggy caravan to visit Charles Carl Roberts’ family with offers of food and condolences. The Amish don’t automatically translate their grieving into revenge. Rather, they believe in redemption.
The Funeral Services
Funeral services for many of the children are being held on Thursday. In the aftermath of Monday’s violence, the Amish are looking inward, relying on themselves and their faith, just as they have for centuries. They hold themselves apart from the modern world, and have as little to do with civil authorities as possible. Amish mourners have been going from home to home for two days to attend viewings for the five victims, all little girls laid out in white dresses made by their families. Such viewings occur almost immediately after the bodies arrive at the parents’ homes.
Typically, they are so crowded, ”if you start crying, you’ve got to figure out whose shoulder to cry on,” said a Mennonite midwife who delivered two of the five girls slain in the attack. At some Amish viewings, upwards of 1,000 to 1,500 people might visit a family’s home to pay respects. Such visits are important, given the lack of e-mail and phone communication.
Update: In Thursday’s Amish funeral ceremonies, made even more touching and heartbreaking by centuries-old simplicity, four of the little girls were buried as the Amish of Pennsylvania turned the other cheek. With television and newspaper cameras kept at a distance, and police helicopters enforcing a no-fly zone overhead, one of the few non-Amish guests invited to the funeral of seven-year-old Naomi Rose Ebersole, the first little girl to be buried, was Marie Roberts, the killer’s wife.
With tears in her eyes, Mrs. Roberts sat in the back of one of the 34 black horse-drawn carriages that were part of the funeral cortege behind Naomi’s horse-drawn hearse. On the way from the church to the hilltop cemetary, the procession passed Mrs Roberts’ home where her husband, Charles, loaded up his guns before heading for the little village school on Monday.
On Saturday, Amish mourners joined family and friends for the funeral of the Pennsylvania truck driver who killed five Amish girls before taking his own life. Charles Carl Roberts IV was laid to rest in the graveyard of the Georgetown United Methodist Church, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. The cemetery is not far from the school where the shootings took place and the Amish graveyard where his victims are buried. The Amish who came to the burial gave condolences to Roberts’ wife and three children.
Also on Saturday, local Amish leaders met to discuss the future of the West Nickel Mines School. Mike Hart, one of two non-Amish members of a board set up to handle donations following the killings, said the plan is to build a new school in a different location.
As part of their traditional manner during times of crisis, the deeply-religious villagers of Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, turned inwards for support yesterday with prayers before, during and after each of the three ceremonies. As a Quaker, I have an empathic sense for the devout, private and quiet commitment to passivism and peace shared by members of The Old Order Amish. My kindest thoughts are with the Amish people as they embark upon the mutually reciprocal journey of healing themselves.
Here is the link from where I got this infomation from.
disembedded.wordpress.com
Alison
Amish Forgiveness is Christ Like
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qjJt3wKXdRc
This is another News footage from the last one i posted about Amish Forgiveness is christ like.
Alison
This is another News footage from the last one i posted about Amish Forgiveness is christ like.
Alison
Amish Forgiveness
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=drLx40tKZpg
Here is another link to another bit of footage about Amish Forgiveness.
Alison
Here is another link to another bit of footage about Amish Forgiveness.
Alison
Amish School Shooting Photo Essay
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=WgJ5uLRfMmk
This is an idea of what I could do to edit for footage.
Alison
This is an idea of what I could do to edit for footage.
Alison
Amish Tragedy
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=tkNeRzCnne4
Here is some interesting footage, it wasnt what I thought but yet again its more Amish.
Alison
Here is some interesting footage, it wasnt what I thought but yet again its more Amish.
Alison
Amish Interviews
Interview news footage Link to some Amish having an Interview.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hoCWIQCw6eM"
Alison
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hoCWIQCw6eM"
Alison
Explaining the Amish Way of Life
Here is a link Explaing the Amish Way of Life, again the footage will not load up.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=PAgSCTdnrhk
Alison
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=PAgSCTdnrhk
Alison
Tuesday, 25 November 2008
The Ordnung
The list of rules Amish members must follow is called the 'Ordnung':
* They may not own or operate any sort of motor vehicle
* Airplane travel is forbidden
* · Horse and buggy transportation is used
* · There is a dress code that must be followed
* · Boys and men wear hats outside of the house, suspenders and distinctive pants and shirts usually home made by a woman of the family.
* · Men grow a beard and keep their upper lip shaven once they are married
* · Girls and women must keep their head covered with bonnet or prayer cap, dress and apron rules vary from community to community
* · Reject the use of electricity from the public grid in the country
* · Amish must marry other Amish
* · The rules of Meidung or shunning must be followed
* · The Amish do not pay into or collect social security or any other kind of insurance
* · The Amish children only need to attend school through the 8th grade. Once they have completed school they boys will begin working either for their father or their father will help them line a job up to start making money for the family. The girls will begin to stay at home and help out more with laundry, dishes, house cleaning etc.
* · An Amish child may not keep his/her own money until they are married or until they turn 21. The parents limit any spending money that the children might have and all of the money they earn is to go towards the family to help out financially.
http://www.parker.org/DivisionIII/Class%20Pages/Senior%20Project/Tim%20Roper/Rules.htm
* They may not own or operate any sort of motor vehicle
* Airplane travel is forbidden
* · Horse and buggy transportation is used
* · There is a dress code that must be followed
* · Boys and men wear hats outside of the house, suspenders and distinctive pants and shirts usually home made by a woman of the family.
* · Men grow a beard and keep their upper lip shaven once they are married
* · Girls and women must keep their head covered with bonnet or prayer cap, dress and apron rules vary from community to community
* · Reject the use of electricity from the public grid in the country
* · Amish must marry other Amish
* · The rules of Meidung or shunning must be followed
* · The Amish do not pay into or collect social security or any other kind of insurance
* · The Amish children only need to attend school through the 8th grade. Once they have completed school they boys will begin working either for their father or their father will help them line a job up to start making money for the family. The girls will begin to stay at home and help out more with laundry, dishes, house cleaning etc.
* · An Amish child may not keep his/her own money until they are married or until they turn 21. The parents limit any spending money that the children might have and all of the money they earn is to go towards the family to help out financially.
http://www.parker.org/DivisionIII/Class%20Pages/Senior%20Project/Tim%20Roper/Rules.htm
Transcript
Transcript of Charles Carl Roberts' 911 Call
The following is a series of 911 transcripts from the morning of the Amish school shooting. The callers identified in this 911 transcript are Amos Smoker, who first reported the incident at the schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pa, gunman Charles Carl Roberts; and Roberts' wife, Marie.
10:35:29
911 Dispatcher: Lancaster County 911, do you need police, fire or ambulance?
Mr. Smoker: Yes, this is Amos Smoker.
911 Dispatcher: OK.
Mr. Smoker: There's a, there's a guy in the school with a gun.
911 Dispatcher: OK, what, what, what school, where at?
Mr. Smoker: White Oak Road.
911 Dispatcher: What city, township or borough is that in?
Mr. Smoker: How's that?
911 Dispatcher: What city, township or borough is that in?
Mr. Smoker: Bart Township.
911 Dispatcher: OK, stay on the line, it's state police.
Mr. Smoker: OK.
(Call being transferred to State Police)
State Police PCO: State Police Dispatch Center.
Mr. Smoker: Yes, this is Amos Smoker. (Line goes dead)
---
10:41:35
911 Dispatcher: Lancaster County 911.
Caller: Did someone call in for police at a school?
911 Dispatcher: What school, what school was it?
Caller: West Nickel Mines School.
911 Dispatcher: Nickel Mines School, somebody with a gun?
Caller: Yes.
911 Dispatcher: Hold on one second, did you call before? We transferred to State Police.
Caller: OK, someone's coming out.
911 Dispatcher: Well, I don't know, I'm going to transfer you, OK, I don't dispatch them here, hold on, does anybody need an ambulance do you know?
Caller: I don't know.
911 Dispatcher: OK, hold on, is he in the school?
Caller: I don't know nothing, I don't know.
911 Dispatcher: Alright, hold on.
(Call being transferred to State Police)
911 Dispatcher: Is this Amish school?
Caller: Yes it is.
911 Dispatcher: In Bart Township?
Caller: Yes.
Pennsylvania State Police PCO: Pennsylvania State Police, PCO Campbell, hello..
911 Dispatcher: Go ahead sir.
PCO Campbell: Sir, go ahead, State Police. (Line goes dead)
---
10:55:38
911 Dispatcher: Lancaster County 911, do you need police, fire or ambulance? Hello.. Your cell phone is cutting in and out. Do you have an emergency?
Mr. Roberts : Yes.
911 Dispatcher: OK, what's the address of the emergency?
Mr. Roberts : It's on White Oak Road. I just took, uh, ten girls hostage and I want everybody off the property or, or else.
911 Dispatcher: OK, alright.
Mr. Roberts: Now.
911 Dispatcher: Hold on a second.
911 Dispatcher: Hello.
Mr. Roberts : Yeah.
911 Dispatcher: OK, what's the problem there?
Mr. Roberts: Don't try to talk me out of it, get em all off the property now.
911 Dispatcher: Sir, I want you to stay on the phone with me, OK? I'm going to let the State Police down there, I need to let you talk to them, OK, can I transfer you to them.
Mr. Roberts: No, you tell them and that's it. Right now or they're dead, in two seconds.
911 Dispatcher: (To unidentified person at County-Wide Communications): He won't let me transfer.
(To Mr. Roberts): Hang on a minute, we're trying to tell them, OK.
Mr. Roberts: Two seconds that's it.
911 Dispatcher: Sir, listen to me. Listen... (Line goes dead)
---
10:58:39
911 Dispatcher: Lancaster County 911.
Ms. Roberts: Yes, my name is Marie Roberts, my husband just called me on his cell phone and told me that he wasn't going to be coming home and that the police were there and not to worry about it. And I have no idea what he is talking about, but I am really scared. And I wondered if, how I find out what's going on?
911 Dispatcher: OK, where are you calling me from?
Ms. Roberts: I'm calling from my home.
911 Dispatcher: And what's that address?
Ms. Roberts: 1084 Georgetown Road.
911 Dispatcher: What township, city or borough is that?
Ms. Roberts: Bart Township.
911 Dispatcher: OK, and your husband didn't tell you where he was?
Ms. Roberts: No, he didn't.
911 Dispatcher: He called you on his cell phone?
Ms. Roberts: Yes he did.
911 Dispatcher: OK, and, and all he said to you was that...
Ms. Roberts: I'm not coming home, um, he was upset about something that had happened twenty years ago, and he said he was getting revenge for it, I don't think he was getting revenge on another person, I'm worried that maybe he was trying to commit suicide.
911 Dispatcher: OK, hang on the line, I'm going to transfer you to the State Police, OK?
Ms. Roberts: Thank you.
911 Dispatcher: Hang on a second..
(Call being transferred to State Police)
PCO Bowerman: State Police Dispatch PCO Bowerman
Ms. Roberts: My name is Marie Roberts, my husband just called me and said that he wasn't coming home and that the police were there and that he left notes for myself and my children and I'm worried that he tried to commit suicide somewhere. And...
PCO Bowerman : What's his name?
Ms. Roberts: Charlie Roberts.
PCO Bowerman: OK, what's, let me ask you a question, hold on for one second please.
Ms. Roberts: Yeah.
PCO Bowerman: You said your name again was?
Ms. Roberts: Marie Roberts.
PCO Bowerman: Marie Roberts, thank you.
PCO Bowerman: Ma'am, let me ask you a question, what kind of vehicle does your husband drive?
Ms. Roberts: He was using my grandpa's pick-up, it's a GMC.
PCO Bowerman: Color.
Ms. Roberts: Blue.
PCO Bowerman: Blue GMC.
Ms. Roberts: Yeah.
PCO Bowerman: One second. OK. ma'am, what's your husbands name?
Ms. Roberts: Charlie Roberts.
PCO Bowerman: Charlie Roberts. And what does he look like?
Ms. Roberts: He is six foot two, short brown, you know like buzzed brown hair, um, he is thirty-two years old, wears glasses, I guess he's like maybe 195 pounds.
PCO Bowerman: OK, you say he left notes?
Ms. Roberts: Yes.
PCO Bowerman: What did the notes say?
Ms. Roberts: Like, the thought of not my children, not seeing them grow up, like, let's see, uh, I'm not even sure, here it is, my daughter Abigail I want you to know that I love you and I'm sorry I couldn't be here to watch you grow up, that's how the notes start.
PCO Bowerman: OK, hold on one moment. (Line goes dead)
The following is a series of 911 transcripts from the morning of the Amish school shooting. The callers identified in this 911 transcript are Amos Smoker, who first reported the incident at the schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pa, gunman Charles Carl Roberts; and Roberts' wife, Marie.
10:35:29
911 Dispatcher: Lancaster County 911, do you need police, fire or ambulance?
Mr. Smoker: Yes, this is Amos Smoker.
911 Dispatcher: OK.
Mr. Smoker: There's a, there's a guy in the school with a gun.
911 Dispatcher: OK, what, what, what school, where at?
Mr. Smoker: White Oak Road.
911 Dispatcher: What city, township or borough is that in?
Mr. Smoker: How's that?
911 Dispatcher: What city, township or borough is that in?
Mr. Smoker: Bart Township.
911 Dispatcher: OK, stay on the line, it's state police.
Mr. Smoker: OK.
(Call being transferred to State Police)
State Police PCO: State Police Dispatch Center.
Mr. Smoker: Yes, this is Amos Smoker. (Line goes dead)
---
10:41:35
911 Dispatcher: Lancaster County 911.
Caller: Did someone call in for police at a school?
911 Dispatcher: What school, what school was it?
Caller: West Nickel Mines School.
911 Dispatcher: Nickel Mines School, somebody with a gun?
Caller: Yes.
911 Dispatcher: Hold on one second, did you call before? We transferred to State Police.
Caller: OK, someone's coming out.
911 Dispatcher: Well, I don't know, I'm going to transfer you, OK, I don't dispatch them here, hold on, does anybody need an ambulance do you know?
Caller: I don't know.
911 Dispatcher: OK, hold on, is he in the school?
Caller: I don't know nothing, I don't know.
911 Dispatcher: Alright, hold on.
(Call being transferred to State Police)
911 Dispatcher: Is this Amish school?
Caller: Yes it is.
911 Dispatcher: In Bart Township?
Caller: Yes.
Pennsylvania State Police PCO: Pennsylvania State Police, PCO Campbell, hello..
911 Dispatcher: Go ahead sir.
PCO Campbell: Sir, go ahead, State Police. (Line goes dead)
---
10:55:38
911 Dispatcher: Lancaster County 911, do you need police, fire or ambulance? Hello.. Your cell phone is cutting in and out. Do you have an emergency?
Mr. Roberts : Yes.
911 Dispatcher: OK, what's the address of the emergency?
Mr. Roberts : It's on White Oak Road. I just took, uh, ten girls hostage and I want everybody off the property or, or else.
911 Dispatcher: OK, alright.
Mr. Roberts: Now.
911 Dispatcher: Hold on a second.
911 Dispatcher: Hello.
Mr. Roberts : Yeah.
911 Dispatcher: OK, what's the problem there?
Mr. Roberts: Don't try to talk me out of it, get em all off the property now.
911 Dispatcher: Sir, I want you to stay on the phone with me, OK? I'm going to let the State Police down there, I need to let you talk to them, OK, can I transfer you to them.
Mr. Roberts: No, you tell them and that's it. Right now or they're dead, in two seconds.
911 Dispatcher: (To unidentified person at County-Wide Communications): He won't let me transfer.
(To Mr. Roberts): Hang on a minute, we're trying to tell them, OK.
Mr. Roberts: Two seconds that's it.
911 Dispatcher: Sir, listen to me. Listen... (Line goes dead)
---
10:58:39
911 Dispatcher: Lancaster County 911.
Ms. Roberts: Yes, my name is Marie Roberts, my husband just called me on his cell phone and told me that he wasn't going to be coming home and that the police were there and not to worry about it. And I have no idea what he is talking about, but I am really scared. And I wondered if, how I find out what's going on?
911 Dispatcher: OK, where are you calling me from?
Ms. Roberts: I'm calling from my home.
911 Dispatcher: And what's that address?
Ms. Roberts: 1084 Georgetown Road.
911 Dispatcher: What township, city or borough is that?
Ms. Roberts: Bart Township.
911 Dispatcher: OK, and your husband didn't tell you where he was?
Ms. Roberts: No, he didn't.
911 Dispatcher: He called you on his cell phone?
Ms. Roberts: Yes he did.
911 Dispatcher: OK, and, and all he said to you was that...
Ms. Roberts: I'm not coming home, um, he was upset about something that had happened twenty years ago, and he said he was getting revenge for it, I don't think he was getting revenge on another person, I'm worried that maybe he was trying to commit suicide.
911 Dispatcher: OK, hang on the line, I'm going to transfer you to the State Police, OK?
Ms. Roberts: Thank you.
911 Dispatcher: Hang on a second..
(Call being transferred to State Police)
PCO Bowerman: State Police Dispatch PCO Bowerman
Ms. Roberts: My name is Marie Roberts, my husband just called me and said that he wasn't coming home and that the police were there and that he left notes for myself and my children and I'm worried that he tried to commit suicide somewhere. And...
PCO Bowerman : What's his name?
Ms. Roberts: Charlie Roberts.
PCO Bowerman: OK, what's, let me ask you a question, hold on for one second please.
Ms. Roberts: Yeah.
PCO Bowerman: You said your name again was?
Ms. Roberts: Marie Roberts.
PCO Bowerman: Marie Roberts, thank you.
PCO Bowerman: Ma'am, let me ask you a question, what kind of vehicle does your husband drive?
Ms. Roberts: He was using my grandpa's pick-up, it's a GMC.
PCO Bowerman: Color.
Ms. Roberts: Blue.
PCO Bowerman: Blue GMC.
Ms. Roberts: Yeah.
PCO Bowerman: One second. OK. ma'am, what's your husbands name?
Ms. Roberts: Charlie Roberts.
PCO Bowerman: Charlie Roberts. And what does he look like?
Ms. Roberts: He is six foot two, short brown, you know like buzzed brown hair, um, he is thirty-two years old, wears glasses, I guess he's like maybe 195 pounds.
PCO Bowerman: OK, you say he left notes?
Ms. Roberts: Yes.
PCO Bowerman: What did the notes say?
Ms. Roberts: Like, the thought of not my children, not seeing them grow up, like, let's see, uh, I'm not even sure, here it is, my daughter Abigail I want you to know that I love you and I'm sorry I couldn't be here to watch you grow up, that's how the notes start.
PCO Bowerman: OK, hold on one moment. (Line goes dead)
Sunday, 23 November 2008
Amish Clothing
Clothing
Amish girls in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
The common theme amongst all Amish clothing is plainness; clothing should not call attention to the wearer by cut, color, or any other feature. Rather than using "fancy" buttons, zippers, or velcro, hook-and-eye closures or straight pins are used as fasteners on dress clothing. Snaps are used on everyday clothes, and plain buttons for work shirts and trousers. The historic restriction on buttons is attributed to tradition and their potential for ostentation.[50] In all things, the aesthetic value is plainness. Some groups tend to limit color to black (trousers, dresses) and white (shirts), while others allow muted colors. Dark blue denim work clothing is common within some groups as well. Amish typically sew their own clothing, and work clothing can become quite worn and patched with use.
Women wear calf-length plain-cut dresses in a solid color, such as dark blue or black. Aprons are often worn at home, usually in white or black, and are always worn when attending church. A cape, which consists of a triangular piece of cloth, is usually worn, beginning around the teenage years, and pinned into the apron. In the colder months, a long woolen cloak is worn. Heavy bonnets are worn over the prayer coverings when Amish women are out and about in cold weather, with the exception of the Nebraska Amish, who do not wear bonnets. Girls wear colored bonnets until age nine; older girls and women wear black bonnets.[51] Girls begin wearing a cape for church and dress up occasions at about age eight. Single women wear a white cape to church until about the age of thirty. Everyday capes are colored, matching the dress, until about age forty when only black is used.[52]
Men typically wear dark-colored trousers and a dark vest or coat, suspenders, broad-rimmed straw hats in the warmer months, and black felt hats in the colder months. Married men and those over forty grow a beard. Moustaches are forbidden, because they are associated with European military officers and militarism in general.[53] A beard serves the same symbolic function as a wedding ring and marks the passage into manhood.
During the summer months, the majority of Amish children go barefoot, including to school. The prevalence of the practice is attested in the Pennsylvania Deitsch saying, "Deel Leit laafe baarfiessich rum un die annre hen ken Schuh." ("Some people walk around barefooted, and the rest have no shoes.") The amount of time spent barefoot varies, but most children and adults go barefoot whenever possible.
Amish girls in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
The common theme amongst all Amish clothing is plainness; clothing should not call attention to the wearer by cut, color, or any other feature. Rather than using "fancy" buttons, zippers, or velcro, hook-and-eye closures or straight pins are used as fasteners on dress clothing. Snaps are used on everyday clothes, and plain buttons for work shirts and trousers. The historic restriction on buttons is attributed to tradition and their potential for ostentation.[50] In all things, the aesthetic value is plainness. Some groups tend to limit color to black (trousers, dresses) and white (shirts), while others allow muted colors. Dark blue denim work clothing is common within some groups as well. Amish typically sew their own clothing, and work clothing can become quite worn and patched with use.
Women wear calf-length plain-cut dresses in a solid color, such as dark blue or black. Aprons are often worn at home, usually in white or black, and are always worn when attending church. A cape, which consists of a triangular piece of cloth, is usually worn, beginning around the teenage years, and pinned into the apron. In the colder months, a long woolen cloak is worn. Heavy bonnets are worn over the prayer coverings when Amish women are out and about in cold weather, with the exception of the Nebraska Amish, who do not wear bonnets. Girls wear colored bonnets until age nine; older girls and women wear black bonnets.[51] Girls begin wearing a cape for church and dress up occasions at about age eight. Single women wear a white cape to church until about the age of thirty. Everyday capes are colored, matching the dress, until about age forty when only black is used.[52]
Men typically wear dark-colored trousers and a dark vest or coat, suspenders, broad-rimmed straw hats in the warmer months, and black felt hats in the colder months. Married men and those over forty grow a beard. Moustaches are forbidden, because they are associated with European military officers and militarism in general.[53] A beard serves the same symbolic function as a wedding ring and marks the passage into manhood.
During the summer months, the majority of Amish children go barefoot, including to school. The prevalence of the practice is attested in the Pennsylvania Deitsch saying, "Deel Leit laafe baarfiessich rum un die annre hen ken Schuh." ("Some people walk around barefooted, and the rest have no shoes.") The amount of time spent barefoot varies, but most children and adults go barefoot whenever possible.
Saturday, 22 November 2008
Blue Sky
Looking over the houses there's a burst of sunshine
(Marie) wide
Bringing the afternoon sun towards my eyes
(Marie) endless
For some reason the sun is drawing the clouds towards light
(Marie) swallowing
Creating shapes like a river streaming towards the mouth of the sea
(Marie) take off
One cloud looks like abird with it's beak opened dropping food down
(Marie) birds and the formations they make
Across the sky brings a shade of blue creating a very pale blue through to a dark
blue
(Marie) they move in circles and bends
Rising my head up the clouds slowly moves around me creating new shapes with every movement
(Marie) feel guilty?
At one point there's nothing in the sky apart from one cloud that looks like fluffy cream bed
(Marie) sometimes
Two birds circle around me flying off into the distance
(Marie) it says go out and live your life
Behind my right shoulder there's a plane flying past me climbing at a higher altitude disappearing over the houses
(Marie) now
Bird's speed over in a pack of 5 creating a dimond
(Marie) maybe I feel like hiding that day
Looking across me before I see I hear an RAF plane speeding across the sky with authority
(Marie) I have no excuse
Emptyness fills the sky
(Marie) Why is the sky blue?
I can't see the sun
(Marie) Why seems the sky blue?
I only see it's rays spread across the sky
(Marie) Why is it bluer somedays than on other days?
This is the first time there's emptyness nothing but blue sky
(Marie) Sitting in my room at night
As I face towards the direction of the sun
(Marie) I realise I can´t write about the blue sky
I no longer see blue but only white a strong colour which over powers the blue
My blue sky is calm, soothing, mixing it's blueness with it's sunshine.
(Marie) I want to see it.
Here's mine and Marie's blue sky, Marie if you could add your bits then it will be complete
Thanks Larissa
(Marie) wide
Bringing the afternoon sun towards my eyes
(Marie) endless
For some reason the sun is drawing the clouds towards light
(Marie) swallowing
Creating shapes like a river streaming towards the mouth of the sea
(Marie) take off
One cloud looks like abird with it's beak opened dropping food down
(Marie) birds and the formations they make
Across the sky brings a shade of blue creating a very pale blue through to a dark
blue
(Marie) they move in circles and bends
Rising my head up the clouds slowly moves around me creating new shapes with every movement
(Marie) feel guilty?
At one point there's nothing in the sky apart from one cloud that looks like fluffy cream bed
(Marie) sometimes
Two birds circle around me flying off into the distance
(Marie) it says go out and live your life
Behind my right shoulder there's a plane flying past me climbing at a higher altitude disappearing over the houses
(Marie) now
Bird's speed over in a pack of 5 creating a dimond
(Marie) maybe I feel like hiding that day
Looking across me before I see I hear an RAF plane speeding across the sky with authority
(Marie) I have no excuse
Emptyness fills the sky
(Marie) Why is the sky blue?
I can't see the sun
(Marie) Why seems the sky blue?
I only see it's rays spread across the sky
(Marie) Why is it bluer somedays than on other days?
This is the first time there's emptyness nothing but blue sky
(Marie) Sitting in my room at night
As I face towards the direction of the sun
(Marie) I realise I can´t write about the blue sky
I no longer see blue but only white a strong colour which over powers the blue
My blue sky is calm, soothing, mixing it's blueness with it's sunshine.
(Marie) I want to see it.
Here's mine and Marie's blue sky, Marie if you could add your bits then it will be complete
Thanks Larissa
Tuesday, 18 November 2008
Running Order
Scene 1:Chalk drawing
Our interpretation of Paradise (AV video footage)
Barn raising (Child building barn)
Scene 2: Suicide notes (Milk) (AV)
Scene 3: Arrange school chairs (Movement piece)
Scene 4: Descriptions of school house
Scene 5: News reports (AV and video footage and live footage)
Scene 6: Blue skies (AV)
Scene 7: Gesture piece (Ave Maria)
Scene 8: Lords prayer (Classroom-English and German)
Scene 9: Freeze Frames (Meeting his wife, photos being taken but showing images of the aftermath)
Scene 10: Monday, Monday (Dance)
Scene 11: Timeline
Scene 12: 5 Point journey of Carl Roberts
Scene 13: Carl Roberts’s shopping list
Scene 14: Scarf piece
Scene 15: Holding each other (Lords prayer in the background)
Chalk rubbing off (Someone from the other group)
Here is the working running order of the show
Larissa
Our interpretation of Paradise (AV video footage)
Barn raising (Child building barn)
Scene 2: Suicide notes (Milk) (AV)
Scene 3: Arrange school chairs (Movement piece)
Scene 4: Descriptions of school house
Scene 5: News reports (AV and video footage and live footage)
Scene 6: Blue skies (AV)
Scene 7: Gesture piece (Ave Maria)
Scene 8: Lords prayer (Classroom-English and German)
Scene 9: Freeze Frames (Meeting his wife, photos being taken but showing images of the aftermath)
Scene 10: Monday, Monday (Dance)
Scene 11: Timeline
Scene 12: 5 Point journey of Carl Roberts
Scene 13: Carl Roberts’s shopping list
Scene 14: Scarf piece
Scene 15: Holding each other (Lords prayer in the background)
Chalk rubbing off (Someone from the other group)
Here is the working running order of the show
Larissa
There is a web site you should all take a look at, it is the aftermath of the Armish Shooting, reporters are interviewing residents in Nickelmine about their thoughts of the shooting.
The footage for some reason will not load up....
There are there parts to the footage free hand filmed, and in one there is a women praching to God, cameras up on her....
It is interesting to watch, I will try to upload video footage but in the mean time if you type in the address below it should take you too it.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=dFgYVNui3U8
The Title if this web page does not load up is The Armish Shooting Part one
Alison.
The footage for some reason will not load up....
There are there parts to the footage free hand filmed, and in one there is a women praching to God, cameras up on her....
It is interesting to watch, I will try to upload video footage but in the mean time if you type in the address below it should take you too it.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=dFgYVNui3U8
The Title if this web page does not load up is The Armish Shooting Part one
Alison.
Monday, 17 November 2008
hey guys
was just thinking again about this recurring theme of forgiveness, came across a youtube vid of someone giving an interview on behalf of the amish community who do not give interviews... this guy says how they believe that god is present in life and death...if he is this all powerful 'existence' how could he not intervene on this tragic day...it beats me
was just thinking again about this recurring theme of forgiveness, came across a youtube vid of someone giving an interview on behalf of the amish community who do not give interviews... this guy says how they believe that god is present in life and death...if he is this all powerful 'existence' how could he not intervene on this tragic day...it beats me
Saturday, 15 November 2008
Questions for Janice
Did you write this message?
What can I possibly ask you?
How are you now?
How did you cope with the events in the aftermath?
Did the process of writing help?
How do you seperate your emotions from the work you do?
In the future, do you think you will be able to work in the medical profession after such a traumatic event?
What did you think about the Amish forgiveness?
Would you be willing to provide us with any (free) information or facts that you deem appropriate enough to help with our devising?
How did you feel about the media attention?
Do you do anything to remember the event by?
Do you do anything to forget the event?
How does it make you feel that a group of performance students is creating work based on the events in Nickelmines?
What can I possibly ask you?
How are you now?
How did you cope with the events in the aftermath?
Did the process of writing help?
How do you seperate your emotions from the work you do?
In the future, do you think you will be able to work in the medical profession after such a traumatic event?
What did you think about the Amish forgiveness?
Would you be willing to provide us with any (free) information or facts that you deem appropriate enough to help with our devising?
How did you feel about the media attention?
Do you do anything to remember the event by?
Do you do anything to forget the event?
How does it make you feel that a group of performance students is creating work based on the events in Nickelmines?
Columbine
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7730502.stm
YouTube has removed a number of videos glorifying the Columbine school killers after an investigation by the BBC. The BBC's Interactive Reporter Siobhan Courtney reports.
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