Whit Deschner

Life as a Shaker:
An Insider's Look at Parkingsons"

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

At Fishtrap’s Coffin House
400 East Grant St., Enterprise

Tickets, $10 available at Fishtrap, the Bookloft in Enterprise, Second Harvest Books in Joseph, and Wallowa City Library

Whit Deschner recommends a simple prescription for Parkinson's disease: laughter, and in the highest dose, as many times a day as possible. Parkinson's disease, says Deschner, who was diagnosed in 2000, "is like another lifestyle. You have to laugh at it. I mean, what's your choice? It can be taken seriously and not seriously at same time. I guess I've always kind of thought a little bit out of the box anyway. I've always had an offbeat look at things."

PLUS - A special program with Whit in Wallowa
November 8, 7:30 p.m. The Cougars’ Den, Wallowa
admission by donation

Sparta, that ancient Greek city that spawned so much history.... This isn't that Sparta. This is the one in northeast Oregon that could've been a ghost town but even the ghost fled too... It's the place where I live…
Forty tickets for this special program are available at the Wallowa City Library at NO COST. Admission to the show at the Cougars’ Den on Thursday night, November 8, at 7:30 p.m. will be by ticket AND a donation in any amount at the door.

In April we will have a follow up to Marleen Ramsey's lecture by Brian Mitchell, a white former policeman from South Africa. Date TBD.

Past Lectures:

Marleen Ramsey - “South Africa: Apartheid and After”
Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Marleen is a one-time resident of Wallowa County who left the area in 1984 and relocated in Walla Walla, WA. Since 1987 she has been on faculty as a psychology instructor at Walla Walla Community College. In 2002 she took a sabbatical to Cape Town, South Africa where she worked in collaboration with the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation researching individual experiences with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Marleen interviewed political perpetrators of human rights abuses, investigating their experience of receiving amnesty through the TRC and forgiveness from family members of their victims.