Brenda Hutchinson's Bell Project

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The Bell Project "Home Movie" Night!listen to Jessica Feldman's interview with Brenda about the event

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DAY 36 The Bell arrives at the ExploratoriumThe current bell housed at the museum is a much smaller bell that was cast in China. The sound quality is thin and high pitched. It is pretty loud but it’s not a particularly rich or interesting sound. A poor replacement and stand-in bell for the once beautiful tones made by the old bell belonging to the Oppenheimers. People wanted to compare the 2

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Day 36. The last piece of RoadI rang the bell all the way from my house to the museum. Non-stop. I was so sad to be parting from the bell. But once I got the Exploratorium and people were so glad to see the bell, I felt better. It’s like when you need to give the kittens away. When you realize that the kitten will be in a good home, you can let go.So, off we went. Liz and Jeanne Marie had

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Day35 The Final StretchFinal Stop. Ann's HouseCommunity College of San MateoWilliams Elementary School. San Jose

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Day34.Driving to Salinas and the National Steinbeck Center

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I will drive the bell through San Francisco during rush hour from 4:30- 6:00PM, ringing it as I go. Whenever the car is stopped, passersby will be encouraged to ring the bell. If you have a bell, bring it out and ring it! Or honk. Or yell. Whatever you do, make some noise!

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Day33. Los AngelesWhen I woke up, Nancy dangled my keys as she said good morning. She had called the AAA guys and they had already come and retrieved my keys. So I went out to the car to get all my stuff and realized as I was about to go into the house that I had a little gift in the car for Nancy. So I returned to the car, opened the back hatch and dug out the little “dream box” from my bag of

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Day32.LongDriveWe started out the day at the Waffle House. I love those pecan waffles- (the ones with the small squares). It was so hot again, I wasn’t looking forward to the long drive to Los Angeles, but too bad. After breakfast we went to the car and someone drove up to us and asked about the bell. I invited him to ring it and he said “Sure, why not” we had to untie the bell and put the

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Day31.Tucson, AZWe drove from Lordsburg, NM to Tucson, AZ and it was too hot. My car is a San Francisco car i.e. air conditioner not necessary. However, it would have come in “mighty handy down here, bub”. * We decided to record the Bell in the desert in the evening after it cooled off. * Nick’s reply in reference to money from “It’s a Wonderful Life”. The scene is Nick’s Bar after Jimmy Stewart

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Day31. Lordsburg, NMOn the way to Tucson we stopped at a truck stop outside of Lordsburg, and as we were leaving, a man pulled up next to the car and asked us, “What is the Bell Project”. I told him we had already driven over 6000 miles and were finishing up in San Francisco and that we were inviting people along the way to ring the bell. He was really happy and jumped out of his car. Because we

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Day30. In Search of Quiet Places to Record the Bell. New Mexico We found several really beautiful places along scenic highway 27 where we stopped to record. It’s not very often that one can find a quiet place, and except for the occasional car and constant wind, we were pretty excited. We stopped by a solid waste transfer station in a little valley that was not at all busy on a Saturday afternoon

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Day30.New Mexico. Morning.Las Cruces. First thing today we went to a coffee place Krys read about in one of the hotel publications she found in our room. It was a great place, called Milagros- the best coffee yet. As we were leaving Krys decided to pass out postcards and informed the other patrons that we would be available for ringing if anyone was interested. We had two takers from the coffee

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Day29.Ciudad Juarez.Listenone bell, one honkWe sailed over the bridge into Juarez as we look across the road at the bumper-to-bumper traffic headed towards the US and thought about how we’d have to deal with that later. In the meantime, Krys had brought her audio recorder and binaural mics and we were excited. We drove all over the place, ringing the bell as we drove the congested streets, adding

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Day29.El PasoKrys is here!El Paso.After taking Jessica to the airport, I had some time to kill before getting Krys so I started towards the oil-changing place. On the way, I thought I’d stop and make a few phone calls. Of course, I sat there with the lights on and so when I was ready to go, the car wouldn’t start- again. A homeless man stopped and tried to help me push start the car but even

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Day28. Riding through west Texas

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Day28. Marfa and points west, TexasBy JessicaIn the morning we headed to the Chianti Foundation in Marfa, built on a former army base, where Donald Judd set up his museum and100 mill aluminum boxes on the grounds. Brenda rang the bell in the parking lot, tolling against the sound of wind and the highway.On our way out of Marfa, we stopped at a gas station to use the phone, where two guys jumped

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Almost to Marfa(Check out the video below)

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Day27PM.Marfa, TXBy JessicaThe Marfa Mystery Lights. This was one of the wildest things I've ever seen. There are all sorts of theories explaining this phenomenon: scientific, metaphysic, science fiction. My favorite is that these are the ghosts of Conquistadors, still searching for gold. As the sun set over Marfa, people gathered at the viewing sight outside of Alpine, Texas, all waiting for the

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Day27. Ciudad Acuna, Mexicoby JessicaIn the afternoon we headed into Mexico, to the border town of Ciudad Acuna. It's a very brief ride along the bridge that connects Del Rio to Acuna-- about as long, it seemed, as going about a ten or twenty block distance in Manhattan-- but once there, you know you're somewhere else. The feeling is immediate.The signs and buildings have different colors,

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Day26PM and 27. Del Rio, TXBy Jessica

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Crazy Doppler.We drove through the main street of Mart, ringing the bell as we went. The sound of the bell bouncing off the walls of the buildings is amazing. Zingy doppler shifts. This is pretty special- It's not very often that you get to hear the sound of a 250 lb bell traveling at 40 mph down the road ringing and echoing as it goes.

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Day26. Stopped in the streets.While we were waiting for an ice cream vendor to pass,someone stopped and asked if he could ring the bell for family members who had died.

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Day26.San Antonio, TXWe visited the Alamo in the late afternoon. I don’t know if it was the heat or just fatigue, but I finally stopped trying so hard to get people to ring the bell. If they didn’t want to do it, I would just think, “Well. OK. Too bad”. It’s a more relaxed approach and it made it easier to have conversations with people. So, I’ll try that for a while.

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DAY26.Rosedale School. Austin, TXWe visited this remarkable school for children with multiple severe and profound disabilities. About a dozen of the children were led outside to encounter the bell, each in their own way. Because the children expressed themselves in ways that were sometimes unfamiliar to me, it was not always easy for me to tell if a child was enjoying the bell or not. However,

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Day26. Rosedale School. Austin, TX. These special children came out to ring the bell. They were the most unusual and attentive group of bell ringers so far.

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Day25.Changing of the GuardGoodbye Liz! Hello Jessica! Liz and I went to arrivals at the Houston airport and picked up Jessica. Then we all went upstairs to departures and said goodbye to Liz. This past week seems like a month, and we still have 4 more days in Texas which also seems like a long time. Jessica has since informed me that she does not want her image to appear on the blog.

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Day 25.Huntsville.This was the last town where Liz and I stayed. It is infamous for executions. Jessica has been here before and will write this blog entry.By Jessica-Huntsville. This city looms large in Texas history. The former home of the great Texas hero Sam Houston, both his grave and the museum celebrating his life are here. The 66 foot tall statue of Houston is the world's largest of a

2006-09-30T01:37:00.000-07:00

Bell in the Car WashThe car was really dirty and the bell was right behind it. I loved sitting inside the car while the car washing machine moved all over the place, and I didn't know which way to look. The bell ended up getting much cleaner than the car.

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Day24. Waco, TX. Branch HeadquartersOn April 19, 1993 the FBI and the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms destroyed the compound of the Branch Davidians burning 85 people to death. 4 FBI agents were also killed. We went to the property to see for ourselves what was left there. It was easy to find. The gate to the driveway was open, and we just drove in. There were no people that we could

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Day24.WacoMassacreSite

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Thank you everyone at Camp Casey

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Day24. Camp CaseyThe site is hard to describe not so much for its appearance, but for the feeling upon encountering it. It’s overwhelming. The landscape is pretty typical of this part of Texas- scrubby, flat, some small trees and the beginnings of a fence. In an open sunny space in front of a few tents at the back of the property is a small field of crosses. And a plaque. Seeing this site in the

2006-09-28T09:15:00.000-07:00

Cindy Sheehan's Peace House. Crawford, TXWe found Cindy Sheehan’s peace house in Crawford and stopped there even though we knew the place was closed for the month. There was a welcome sign on the porch and we walked around the grounds as invited. While there, Jamie stopped by to get a shovel and some Gatorade. She lives at Camp Casey, and after ringing the bell she invited us to follow her over

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Day24.Peace House. Crawford, TX

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Day24. Search for Prairie Chapel Ranch. Crawford, TXAfter several hand drawn maps and discussions about the best way to find Bush’s Prairie Chapel Ranch, we set off to find it. For the next hour or so, we drove through the Crawford countryside, passing ranch after ranch, side road after side road. There was no evidence of anything special at any of the places we passed. We had been told not to

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This is our new mascot. Liz's friend Moe gave her to us as we were leaving Lafayette

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Day23. Carol- Groesbeck, TXWe cut over to a small road on our way to Waco and kept an eye out for a possible place to stop with the bell. At the convenience store in Groesbeck, we met Carol who worked inside. She was eager to run out and ring the bell for someone special and then ran back in to attend to some arriving customers. She was fast.

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Day22. Convention CenterWe stopped at the George R. Brown Convention Center on the way to our hotel in downtown Houston one year after Katrina.

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Ringing the bell with the acceleratorDriving down the road in East Texas while ringing a 250lb bell by pulling it behind my Honda on a little trailer. I got the bell ringing by timing my foot on the gas pedal to accelerate and coast with the motion of the swinging bell. This ride goes from 0-60mph. It's hard to maintain a constant speed while ringing the bell.

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Day21. Opelousas, LouisianaAfter leaving New Orleans we headed for Lafayette where Liz’s good friend Moe took us to visit Jim and Christie in Opelousas, the birthplace of Zydeco. Jim transformed an old train depot into a dance hall where he and Christie regularly host Thursday night film screenings often with good food and wine. We watched Kurosawa’s haunting “Dersu Uzala” slowly unfold.

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Day21 New Orleans, LAWhen we first got off I-10, we realized we had gotten off too soon and were driving around, lost in a neighborhood with small damaged houses. Windows were broken or boarded up and it was very dark. It took a moment to realize that this wasn’t the all too common, impoverished urban landscape we encounter in some city neighborhoods. This dark place was abandoned. We eventually

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DAY21.NinthWard. New OrleansDriving through the Ninth Ward in New Orleans, one year after Katrina. We stopped at one of many abandoned strip malls to ring the bell and met with some of the workers in the area.

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Day21 Canal Street, New OrleansBefore starting out for the Ninth Ward, we decided to untether the Bell so it could ring freely as we drove. While pulled over to the side of the road, several workers from the Ritz Carleton Hotel came over to see what was going on. They were interested in the bell and each man took a turn at ringing it. A few blocks later, a man on a bike stopped us at a traffic

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We passd this in Pass Christian, Mississippi on the way to New Orleans and couldn't resist taking a photo.

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Emile's Freedom BellDay20 Gulfport, MississippiWe took a wrong turn and found ourselves following some trucks to the end of the road. The trucks continued through a gate into a huge parking lot, and next to the opening in the fence was a little gatehouse. Once we decided that we could go no further, we parked the car so that we could ring the bell next to the deserted waterfront. It was the first

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Day20.Gulfport, MissThis is the 20th day of our travels with the Bell. Here we encounter Emile who talks about the aftermath of Katrina.

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We have some photos from Mobile, Alabama that we can't dowload from the camera. Hopefully we will figure this out. In the meantime, we have moved on.

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DAY19.Pensacola Parking Lot at midnightHere’s Liz! She is joining the journey here in Florida and staying with us (the Bell and I) until Texas. She came in from San Francisco where she works at the Exploratorium. Liz is the Media Arts Program director there and my very good friend.

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DAY19.In Concert with the Aural LandscapeThis is Liz's first film for the Bell Project.

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DAY18. Homosassa Elementary SchoolFirst thing in the day I had to drive Norman to the airport in Tampa which was an hour and a half away, then turn right back around and come back in time for the kindergarten kids’ recess. No time for error, so of course, as I’m getting off of the highway I see a message blinking on the cell phone. It’s Norman at the airport saying he can’t find his keys, and he

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Day17 Homosassa, FLMy brother trying to ring the bell really fast.

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We stayed with my brother and his family in Homosassa. They really liked having the bell in their yard.

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Day16-Bell and marathon. History Center. Orlando, FLWe drove around lots of construction trying to find the museum and ended up parking on a blocked-off street next to some really loud music and amplified voices. It turned out that it we were parked next to the finish line for the Marathon and it was just over. So people received their awards and walked right by the bell on their way home. I rang

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9/15 Heading south. I 95 FloridaNorman is practicing to get the “Welcome to Florida” sign as we approach the border. We’ve only managed to photograph 1/2 of those “welcome” signs so far. It’s tricky.Later on, I left the lights on in the car while we ate dinner and the battery was dead so we were delayed in resuming our journey. It may have been a stroke of good luck for us that we weren’t in the

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Day15-Hostel in the ForestSome chickens and bells in the forest. The stick sounds much better than the clapper

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9/15/06 Hostel in the Forest. Brunswick, GA.Rather than describe the whole place, I recommend that anyone reading this go to this website and check it out. Read the list of rules. Look at the pictures. Then come back. www.foresthostel.comWe arrived last night in the dark and had to walk from the car through the woods to get to the hostel. It was scary and very dark- I heard a noise in the trees

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Day14.Honda Dreamin'I95 Southbound near the Honda factory where they wouldn't let us in past the gates

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9/14 Noon. Pedros South of the Border.Pretty deserted. We drove around once and parked along the road near the end of the strip. A guy on a ride mower, several golf carts carry assorted maintenance people passed by. At times a steady stream of trucks and cars, then nothing. There was no foot traffic so I just rang the bell for almost an hour, sometimes waving to people driving by, sometimes not.

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Day13PM-Pedros South of the Border9/13 PM Pedros South of the Border. Dillon, SC.Over the years, Norman (and many other people who drove up and down I 95) have stopped at Pedros South of the Border. There are billboards announcing the number of miles to go before you get there. Nowadays, these billboards only start to appear about 50 miles or so before hand. Apparently they used to start showing

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Day13-So who's listening anyway?Panning around in the rain to see if anybody notices the bell

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9/13 Carrboro, NC. Across the street from Weaver’s Market.A former Explainer from the Exploratorium (www.exploratorium.edu) came by with her young daughter. Caitlyn was a teenager when she worked at the Exploratorium as an Explainer. This had to be at least a dozen years ago, and although she no longer has bright red hair and multiple piercings, she still looks like a kid. She and her future

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9/12 UMBC Anna Rubin’s Electronic Music classSince I was nearby, Anna invited me to bring the bell over to the University of Maryland in Baltimore so her class could ring it and we could talk about the project. One student recorded the bell as part of a class assignment and another shot this video. It was a fun visit. We tried out the major hearing protection.

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Day12-Easier on the ears?Two solutions- hearing protection and a sock

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Linda is my friend from High School, and we stayed with her and her family for 2 days. whew. And many, many thanks.

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We really lucked out on the parking- right at the corner of the lot across from the water. It was perfect location for hanging out with the bell and an enviable parking spot in a crowded lot. I was there with my good friend from High School that I rarely see and we took turns coming up with different strategies for encouraging people to stop and ring the bell. Just asking people to ring it is

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9/10 3:45 Dock. Annaapolis, MD. Time to leave.When it was time to leave, I couldn’t work the buckle on the strap that wraps around the wheel. It was stuck, stuck, stuck. And there was an audience waiting for the parking space. (Very patiently, I might add). After a few minutes, it was clear to me that I wasn’t going to be able to figure it out anytime soon, so I went up to the driver’s window and

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9/11 12:50-1:40 Arlington National Cemetery. Visitors’ upper level parking lot.I rocked the bell steadily from side to side for 50 minutes, ringing it nearly 2000 times. It was deserted in the parking lot, quiet and grey. In the background was the soft stream of traffic punctuated on two occasions by the muffled boom of cannons firing in the distance.

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Day9LambertvilleI was afraid he'd hurt his ears so I cut him off after a minute or so. It's ear plugs time for extended ringers

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9/9 Noon. Lambertville Elementary School, NJThis was the end of Main Street in a quiet town on a Saturday. Kids don’t generally come near a school on the weekends and adults rarely do at anytime. So there wasn’t much activity- One man came over because he and his daughters were eating and heard the bell and wondered what was going on. So the man actually got up from his meal and walked down the

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DAY8 NYCThis bell is Way Too LOUD!

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9/8/06. 5:00 PM. 6 and B Community Garden. Lower East Side, NYSome of my favorite encounters:A man with a large portable radio playing something he obviously enjoyed because he kept it playing while reading the postcards. He then accompanied the radio with some choice bell ringing.A young girl who said she didn’t want to ring the bell because she had a headache only to show up 20 minutes later

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9/7/06. 12:30 PM John Doe Books, Records and Clothes Flea Market. Hudson, NY.Dan’s daughter had a book of photographs of thousands of antiques arranged by category- several pages of watches or plates or clocks or little statues. She looked at this book for hours and was mostly interested in the appraised value of each item. Her explanation for the incredibly expensive price tags was that these

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DAY6-AroundFirst day of school. bell spinning contest

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9/6/06. Nancy and Jackson’s house. Jefferson, NYThank you for the wonderful meal, good company and hospitality.

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9/6/06. 11:30 AM South Kortright School. S. Kortright, NYToday was the first day at this K- 12 school in rural S. Kortright, NY and all the kids came out at recess to ring the bell. The High School students were way too cool to ring it. They hung around and pretended to ignore it. One boy finally came over to ring it, and it rang once and another boy came over and grabbed the wheel and stopped

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9/5/06. Pauline Oliveros’ and Ione’s house. Kingston, NYPauline and Ione invited us to a much needed meal and rest at their home. They had planned a BBQ but it was still raining- so we ate indoors. Good food and fun company. Later we rang the bell accompanied by some small sleigh bells in a lovely improvisation instigated byVonn New.

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9/5/06. Bard College. Annandale-on-Hudson, NYThis was the first day of school. Raining again. I am so surprised at how many people don’t want to ring the bell. “Too busy”, “I really don’t want to”. So here I am like the Carnie Barker, yelling to people passing by. Finally I got a taker, and I am SO happy. She on the other hand is stunned. Earplugs.

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Day4-MoreBellProject9/4/06. Old Zion Reformed Church. Allentown, PA

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9/4 4:05 PM Old Zion Reformed Church. Allentown, PA We arrived at the Church and found a parking space right across the street from the Church- one that we could later pull out of without backing up. Three people came from the Church to welcome us and brought us into the Church for a look at the Liberty Bell Shrine. Very red, while and blue and there in the corner was a very large bell with a

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9/4 Noon. Ben Tuck Stables.This morning we were on a horse farm in Lebanon, PA. It was the Ben Tuck Stables, It’s what’s left of Norman’s father’s and mother’s farm. Everybody there wanted me to unhitch the bell from the car and put it in front of the flag so they could take pictures- so I did. There were horses in the background. The reporter from the Lebanon Daily News came with her 7-year-old

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Day4-BellProject9/4/06 BenTuck Stables. Lebanon, PA

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DAY3Heading East9/3/06 Public Square. Cleveland, OH

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12:30 PM Public Square. Cleveland, OHRainy. It’s surprising the number of people who walk by with barely a glance. Even when invited, most people say no. I am really surprised. The few people who did stop and ring the bell were enthusiastic about it. I was parked next to a hot dog vendor who was in the street immediately in front of a coffee shop. When I first arrived, a woman was selling the hot

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DAY2FirstRingingThis is the first day of ringing. We are in the parking lot at Cranbrook in MIchigan.

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Day 2 9/2/0610AM Cranbrook parking lot , Bloomfield Hills, MI. Norman and I met Amy Snyder’s parents in the parking lot just before the arrival of several of their friends. This group of women walks around the Cranbrook grounds every Saturday. They came to the parking lot at the end of their walk and rang the bell with us. We hung out for a while and then went for breakfast.One of the women

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DAY1GettingTheBell

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This is my rearview for the next 5 weeks and 5000 miles5 weeks, 5000 miles to go

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Ready to roll

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First Encounter. Getting the bell from Brosamer's Bells in Michigan. We offloaded the little trailer - bell and all- and attached it to the back of my car.

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The Bell ProjectAugust 30 - October 6, 2006We're not that far yet, but we are on the way. Please come back to find out when and where the bell will ring. I will post a blog entry after I visit the city on the interactive map.

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NoEyesTest Video for Blog

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PROJECT DESCRIPTION:The Bell Project will begin in Brooklyn, Michigan in early September when I go there to pick up the bell at Brosamer's Bells. I will then drive to New York city and leave from there on September 8th and will finish at the Exploratorium in San Francisco on the weekend of October 6th. For one month, I will tow a large bell behind my little car through the southern United States

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POSTCARDS:If you come to ring the bell, you may select one of these postcards as a souvenir.

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Here is the bell..It was cast it Ohio, It was last used on a blueberry farm in NH. They used it for years to scare the birds away. I will attach this bell to an open trailer and pull it behind my Honda.

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This is Robert Brosamer telling me about the bell.

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This is not a bell. (It's a test). I am singing into a 9 1/2 foot tubeListen