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A Table, A Typewriter, A Way of Life
From WITF | 03:52
Name a price. Pick a subject. Get a poem.
Abi Mott's business model is simple. Abi is from Lancaster, PA originally but now lives in Denver, CO. After high school she met a man in San Francisco who typed poems for people on the street, and then she took up the craft herself. She's traveled across the country and set up a small table, a typewriter and a sign with her simple business model printed in big letters.
While writing poetry in Portland she caught the attention of independent filmmaker Barrett Rudich who subsequently followed Abi around with a film crew and produced the film A Place of Truth.
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The Outhouse Races
From WITF | 07:13
The small mountain town of Dushore, PA has pretty typical fare of food and activities during its Founder's Day celebration every August. But when the sun starts to set, things really go down the toilet.
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Dushore is a quiet little town located in Sullivan County, about 90 minutes west of Scranton. Every August it holds its Founders Day celebration which features kids’ activities, fried foods, a pet parade and arts crafts. But as the sun sinks behind the hills surrounding the borough and the Founders Day celebrations are starting to wrap up, that’s when things really start to go down the toilet.
“You don't have to go to New York City,” says a man holding a beer. “You don't have to go to Washington DC. You come to Dushore when the sh**house races are coming. I'm sorry, outhouse races are coming. You’ll see everything you ever wanted to see."
“Well one day I found a site for outhouses being raced on skies on a frozen lake,” says Spencer Davis, a member of the Dushore Lions club, the group that hosts the Founder’s Day celebration.
“And I thought that, ‘Wow, that’s a great idea.’ So I was thinking that we could do it right in Dushore. But not on snow skis, that we could do it on wheels.”
“They were told that they were able to decorate the outhouse, you know, in good taste,” Spencer Davis says, “and it has really evolved into a show.”
From The Poolice, a paddy wagon-style outhouse to The Perfect Dump and The Sexy Super Septic Suckers whose safari-themed outhouse doesn't even go very fast, the Outhouse Races are a demonstration of athleticism, potty humor and one's ability to hold their alcohol.