Good Times November 2014

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Contents

Gone Girl, The 6th Extinction

COVER STORYFamily farm turns into paintball

paradise4

3ARTSRiffe Gallery presents The Urban

Landscape: A Tale of Grandeur andAbandonment

6 UNDER REVIEWCover photo: Courtesy of Paintball Country

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A daughter celebrates the Lone Rangers centenaryBY NICK THOMAS

As TVs Lone Ranger in the 1950s, Clayton Moore was ahero both on and off the screen. With September being the cen-

tenary of his birth, Dawn Moore has been sharing the life andlegacy of her father who passed away in 1999.I still get letters from policemen, firemen, and teachers who

say they chose a career in service because of him, said Dawnfrom Los Angeles. He not only acted out the Lone RangersCreed on TV, but lived it.

The Creed, written by Fran Striker in 1933 for the originalLone Ranger radio show, was an ethical guide that emphasizedfriendship, respect, truth, God, country and, remarkably for theperiod, stewardship for the planet.

Dawn recalled stories about her father at this years LonePine Film Festival, Calif., held Oct. 10-12 (see www.lonepine-filmfestival.org).

The following week, one of her fathers famous Lone Rangerblack masks was sold through the Profiles in History auctionhouse.

People ask how I could sell it, noted Dawn. The spirit ofmy father doesnt lie in the props he used for his job. Far moreimportant to me are his fishing tackle and the old Coleman lampwe took on family camping trips.

As a child, Dawn didnt even know her father had been theLone Ranger until one day the pair went shopping for a televi-sion and the salesperson recognized his voice.

Clayton Moore as the Lone Ranger See RANGER, page 3


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I was 8 or 9, and wondered how thisstranger knew my father, she recalled.The show ended in 1957 so I never sawit growing up. And when we went out, noone recognized him because his characterhad always been masked.

In addition to the one being sold,Moore had two other masks. One is ina private collection and Dawn donatedthe other to the Smithsonian after herfather died, in accordance with hiswishes.

The original masks used on the showimpaired dads peripheral vision and hecouldnt see where to land after a fall.So the costumer made a mold of his faceand created three felt masks which werecovered with resin on the inside. But theywere hot to wear.

Moores clothes were also uncomfort-able.

They filmed the Lone Ranger at theIverson Ranch, near Los Angeles, wheresummer temperatures were over 100degrees, explained Dawn. Dads cos-tume was made out of heavy wool andwas skintight. And Jay Silverheels whoplayed Tonto wore an outfit of heavysuede. So these guys worked their tails offmaking the show!

A favorite story from her fathers LoneRanger days occurred on one such hotafternoon with the director filming Moore

riding around a rock and rearing up onSilver, his famous white horse.

They had done it hundreds of timesbefore, but the director kept asking dad tore-shoot it, recalled Dawn. The problemturned out to be basic stallion anatomy.Because of the camera angle, Silverstesticles were clearly visible in every shot

hardly a sight for prime time viewersin the 50s. The directors solution wasto use whitewash paint to cover them up.

But no one was going under the horseand start painting there! said Dawn, witha chuckle. It was late afternoon and veryhot. Everyone was cranky and wanted to

go home. So my father grabbed the paintbrush, dipped it in the whitewash, wipedoff the excess paint, and disappearedunderneath Silver!

That story, says Dawn, illustrates herfathers work ethic. He had no class dis-tinction and would do what had to be donefor the show. It demonstrates how he ledby example all his life.

For trivia fans wondering why a bucketof whitewash was on the set, Dawn says itwas for the horses coat.

He was white, but needed a touch upnow and then, she said. Silver had amake-up man too!

And then theres the masked mansfamous cry, Hi-Ho Silver, Away!

Many people get that wrong, shenotes. Its actually Hi-Yo Silver!

Dawn says she had no interest workingin entertainment, preferring a businesscareer in luxury retail (see www.moore-about.com). But she learned a lot aboutthe show and her dad when helping himprepare his 1998 autobiography, I WasThat Masked Man.

I had a father who made a differencein the lives of others, she said. Many ofhis fans have told me they grew up notwanting to be the Lone Ranger, but to beClayton Moore.

(Nick Thomas teaches at AuburnUniversity at Montgomery, Ala., with fea-tures, columns, and interviews in over 450magazines and newspapers.)

Dawn and Clayton Moore

Ranger

Riffe Gallery presents The Urban Landscape:A Tale of Grandeur and Abandonment

BY MALIKA BRYANTOhio Arts Council

COLUMBUS The OhioArts Councils Riffe Gallerywill present The UrbanLandscape: A Tale of Grandeurand Abandonment from Nov. 6through Jan. 11, 2015.

The Urban Landscape,curated by Christine FowlerShearer, explores a variety ofartistic perspectives by 16 Ohioartists through original works.The 63 pieces reflect the fun-damental nature of city life,focusing primarily on Ohio.

Artists in the show include:Kelley Booze (Springfield), Christopher Burk (Columbus), Cole Carothers (Milford),

Laurence Channing (ClevelandHeights), Bonnie Dolin (Aurora),Frederick Fochtman (Columbus),Ruth Gless (Columbus), DonHarvey (Cleveland Heights),Ron Kroutel (Athens),Michelle Muldrow (Cleveland),Michael Nevin (Akron), RyanOrewiler (Columbus), GaryPettigrew (Athens), Will Reader(Portsmouth), Thomas Roese(Cleveland) and John Troxell(Cleveland).

Related Events:Join the Riffe Gallery for the

opening of The Urban Landscapefrom 5-7 p.m. Nov. 6.Gary Pettigrew, Bye Bye Blackburn, 2010, Oil on canvas, 20 x 26 inches. (Submitted photo)

See URBAN, page 6


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BY ERIN COXGood Times Staff [email protected]

LIBERTY TOWNSHIP, Ohio Once home to the 210-acreNiedermans family farm, 40 acres of the re-purposed farm isnow home to the largest paintball facility in the Tri-State Paintball Country.

The Niederman family started their farm in 1948 and asyears passed, financial hardships led the family to look into newmoney-making opportunities. Portions of the family farm werededicated to farm tours, a corn maze, pumpkin patch, hayrides,boat storage and a paintball field.

One day were sitting around the supper table racking ourbrains for ideas to save the farm and the next were knee deep inpaintball requests, Bethann Niederman said in a press release.

The farm, nestled between Cincinnati and Dayton, beganattracting more than just the locals and the family decided tocontinue to add to the paintball venue. Now the facility has 10fields and is open year round.

Brian Garver, farm manager, said that paintball is an activityanyone can enjoy.

The people who play like the thrill of playing, being out-doors and its a team-building opportunity for kids and groups,Garver said. Its also a great form of exercise where you havea good time doing it.

Many corporate groups, after school clubs and student groups

from nearby Cincinnati use the paintball facility throughout theweek to learn about teamwork and have fun while doing it.

The weekends are open to anyone who wants to play (11a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and 1-5 p.m. Sunday) and Garver said theyare busiest during the spring and fall.

On a regular basis we see people come from about a 60- to70-mile radius, Garver said. Tournaments are usually when wesee people from really far, like West Virginia and Pennsylvania.

The 10 fields are all different and vary between speedballand woodsball fields. Speedball fields are flat fields that haveman-made bunkers and barriers. Woodsball fields use naturalsurroundings as the barriers.

It depends on peoples personality if they like speedball orwood fields better, Garver said. But there are some people wholike the woods and only play the wood fields and others who aredie-hard speedball who stay at the speedball fields. It all dependson your personality.

New players can get a taste of both throughout the day atPaintball Country.

Usually I see new players start at a speedball field and thengo try the woods so they see which they like better, he said.

Most of the fields stay the same but they do change them upevery now and then. One field contains inflatable barriers thatare put up and taken down weekly.

Based on the different paintball events we are hosting thatweek, we will have a new design for that each week, Garversaid.

Family farm turns into paintball paradisePhotos courtesy of Paintball Country


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The sport itself allows variety and Paintball Country allowsgroups to customize their play based on what they are lookingto play.

Paintball can be played in a capture the flag game, protect anitem or person or open play with one team against another team.

We have new players every week, Garver said. We try topair players based on experience so new players will play againstother new players and experienced players can play againstexperienced players.

Paintball Country usually has eight or nine games going onat the same time and all fields have areas to watch the ongoinggames. The woodsball games tend to last 30 to 40 minutes whilethe speedball games are shorter at 10 to 20 minutes.

Each field has referees to ensure safety by checking that allplayers follow the rules.

Everyone who plays at Paintball Country must fill out awaiver before play. Players must be 10 years or older.

A large majority of the people who come to Paintball Countrydo not have their own equipment and Garver said players canget everything they need in their pro-shop for $35 or they canupgrade. The pro-shop also offers dedicated players the oppor-tunity to buy their own equipment and Garver said to watch forgood deals on Black Friday.

Visit paintballcountryohio.com for more information.

American Spirits: The Riseand Fall of Prohibition openat the Indiana State Museum

Information submitted

INDIANAPOLIS - On Jan.17, 1920, Americans couldno longer manufacture, sellor transport alcohol. The 18thAmendment (Prohibition)became a part of theConstitution, holding the samestatus as freedom of speech,freedom of religion and theabolition of slavery. Explorethis complex and colorfultime in Americas history withthe new exhibit AmericanSpirits: The Rise and Fall ofProhibition on view at theIndiana State Museum throughFeb. 15, 2015.

Created by the NationalConstitution Center,American Spirits spansthe dawn of the temperancemovement in the early 1800s,through the Roaring 20s, tothe unprecedented repeal ofa constitutional amendmentduring the Great Depression.It includes stories of flap-pers and suffragists, bootleg-gers and temperance lobbyistsand real-life legends like AlCapone and Carry Nation.

Indianas stories of thetemperance movement,Prohibition and the culturalferment of the 1920s are justas colorful helping to shapethe national attitude towardProhibition. Stories like BillySundays, who moved his fam-ily to Indiana in 1911, evolv-ing from a popular profession-al baseball player to an evan-gelical Christian. His strongsupport of Prohibition played

a significant role in the adop-tion of the 18th Amendment.Other Hoosier stories includelegends May Wright Sewall,a leader in Indianas womansuffrage movement, who dedi-cated her life to peace, andGrace Julian Clark, an influen-tial writer for the IndianapolisStar, to name a few.

The 5,000-square-footexhibition, curated by DanielOkrent, Pulitzer Prize finalistand author of Last Call: TheRise and Fall of Prohibition,features more than 100 rareartifacts; recreated environ-ments (from a church wherevisitors can hear and deliv-er temperance speeches toa speakeasy where they canlearn the Charleston and theslang of the time to a law-enforcement office where visi-tors can explore efforts to stopbootlegging) and several mul-timedia experiences.

In addition, the exhibitionincludes interactives such asWayne Wheelers AmazingAmendment Machine, whichis a carnival-inspired instal-lation that traces the complexpolitical and legal maneuver-ing behind the passage of the18th Amendment.

American Spirits: TheRise and Fall of Prohibition isorganized and circulated by theNational Constitution Centerin Philadelphia. It is made pos-sible in part by a major grantfrom the National Endowmentfor the Humanities: Exploringthe human endeavor.

The Indiana showing ofAmerican Spirits is fundedin part by 21st Amendment,Republic National DistributingCompany, Barnes & Thornburgwith public and educator pro-gramming support from theArthur Jordan Foundation.

The Indiana State Museumis located at 650 W. WashingtonSt. in Indianapolis. Exhibit

gallery hours are 10 a.m.-5p.m. Monday-Saturday and 11a.m.-5 p.m. on Sunday. Thefirst Tuesday of each month(Community Tuesdays) admis-sion is half price. Auxiliaryaids and services are availablewith advance notice. For moreinformation, call the museumat 317-232-1637.


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Gone Girl Directed by David Fincher

Keepingit Reel

BY ERINCOX

Past ratings:

Movies ComingOut Soon on DVD:

Divergent 2.5 starsThe Amazing Spider-Man 2 2.5 starsMalefcent 2 stars

The Fault in Our Stars 5 starsTranscendence 1 star Lets Be Cops 3.5 starsThe Shining 5 stars

Gone Girl is a smart,thrilling mystery that, despiteannouncing the answer to themystery about halfway throughthe movie, still keeps viewersinterested with its twists andturns as they get crazier and cra-zier and yes,even crazier.

N i c kDunne (BenA f f l e c k )comes hometo find hiswife miss-ing on theirfifth anniver-sary. He callspolice afterfinding the liv-ing room table overturned andthe front door left opened.

As police investigate, view-ers must decide if they believeNick that he had no part in hiswifes disappearance as detailsof their not-so-perfect mar-riage start to emerge in thepublic eye.

The film starts from Nicksperspective then it switchesback and forth throughoutthe film to his wife, Amys(Rosamund Pike), diary entriestelling the story of how the twowriters met in New York, gotengaged and how their happymarriage started. Through thisperspective, the audience alsolearns of the financial prob-lems, the toll that unemploy-ment and how other unexpect-ed life events led the couple tomove to Nicks hometown inMissouri where happily everafter seemed to fade.

Nick has opened a bar withhis sister, Margo (Carrie Coon),and Amy has become a stay-at-home wife. When details ofa possible pregnancy start tounfold, Nick becomes suspectnumber one and the audience

is led to wonderif he did pos-sibly kill hiswife.

The mys-tery is solvedh a l f w a ythrough thealmost two anda half hour longmovie, but thecraziness doesnot stop there.

With appearances fromNeil Patrick Harris and TylerPerry, the film gets more inter-esting and shocking as it con-tinues without the mystery.The only time I gasped andprobably the majority of thecrowd watching it with me was during the second half ofthe movie.

The movie is based on thenovel of the same name byGillian Flynn. As my colleagueon the next page, Kirk Dougal,wrote in his book review ofGone Girl in Mays editionof Good Times, I also gave themovie four out of five stars.

His main complaint wasthat there was no protagonistto root for in the novel as eachcharacter was easy to hate. I,however, did find myself root-ing for Nick and wonder if themovie made him a little morelikable than the book.

One of the main compo-nents of how this film worksis the fact that neither Nick norAmy is the seed of morality.This is a real-life marriage thathas its issues and problemsstemming from both sides.

Some unanswered ques-tions I had of Amys past,however, made me want toknow more about her charac-ter and led me to believe shewas the true villain.

On the other hand, Nickwas definitely not a hero in thestory line but his interactionswith Margo were just so funnyI couldnt help but to like hischaracter.

Margo was easily the mostlikable character in the film withher unfiltered view of what wasgoing on around her and sinceshe liked Nick, I did, too.

Gone Girl doesnt makeyou leave the theater in a happymood and instead made mewonder if it was painting apicture of society and marriageprobably too close to reality.

The movie seemed to run abit long after the mystery wassolved and I started wonderingwhen it would end rather thanwhat was going to happen next.

Ive heard many peoplecomplain about the ending butI thought it fit perfectly withthe theme of the film and real-ly couldnt see it ending anyother way.

Gone Girl is definitely awelcome introduction to themore drama-filled movie sea-son and deserves a trip to thetheater to watch it.

(Continued from page 3)From noon-1 p.m. Nov. 7, enjoy a free

guided tour of the exhibition led by exhi-bition curator Christine Fowler Shearer.

Join us in the Riffe Gallery for a read-ing by northeast Ohio poet, author andperformer Ray McNiece, followed by anOpen Mic session from 5:30-7 p.m. Nov.20. Please register for the Open Mic onlineNov. 6-18. For more information about

McNiece, visit his website.Enjoy a positive experience exploringnegative space in a free family workshopwith Athens-based artist Ron Kroutelfrom 2-4 p.m. Dec. 7. Kroutel will leadchildren ages 6-17 and their adult com-panions in the art of subtractive drawingusing photos, memory and objects aroundus. All children must be accompanied by aregistered adult. Space is limited; registeronline Nov. 6-Dec. 4. For more informa-

tion about Kroutel, visit his website.The Urban Landscape is presented bythe Ohio Arts Councils Riffe Gallery withmedia support from CD102.5, CityScene,Ohio Channel, WOSU, Ohio Magazineand WCBE 90.5 FM.

(About the Riffe Gallery: The RiffeGallery is located in the Vern Riffe Center

for the Government and the Arts, across from the Statehouse on High Street in Downtown Columbus.)

Urban

Nov. 4 Male centHerculesA Most Wanted Man

Nov. 11 How to Train Your Dragon 2

TammyLets Be Cops

Nov. 18 22 Jump StreetIf I StayInto the Storm

Nov. 25 A Madea ChristmasThe Giver The Expendables 3


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The 6th Extinction

Turningthe Pages

BY KIRKDOUGAL

Written by James Rollins

Past ratings:

Books Coming Soon:

The Martian (Andy Weir) - 3.5 StarsGone Girl (Gillian Flynn) - 4 Stars

White Fire (Preston & Childs) - 3 StarsRedshirts (John Scalzi) - 3 StarsThe Goldfnch (Donna Tartt) - 2 StarsThe Silkworm (Robert Galbraith) - 4 StarsFrankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus(Mary Shelley) - 5 stars

Earth has suffered through five massextinctions in the past. The dinosaurs,mammals, ocean life - at some point intime over millions of years, outside forceshave threatened, or succeeded, in killingoff entire sections of life. Now the world ison the brink of the sixth extinction event.

Only this time it will be brought on bymankind.

That thought is the theme for the newtechno-thriller from bestselling authorJames Rollins, The 6th Extinction. Thisnovel represents the 10thbook in the SIGMA Forceseries created by Rollins.

Extinction begins in theSierra Nevada Mountainsin Northern California byfollowing Park RangerJenna Beck as she reactsto a distress call from anearby military testingfacility. She arrives at thefront gate in time to see alab-coated man flown awayin a helicopter and the facility explode.Even more frightening than the explosion,however, is the cloud pouring out of thehole where the facility once stood, a blackfog that kills everything it touches.

While Beck runs for her life, dodgingthe noxious fumes and the return of the

helicopter and its gun-toting commandos,Commander Gray Pierce receives the callto find out what has just happened at thetesting facility. Pierce is the director ofSIGMA Force, the ultra-secret divisionof the U.S. Defense Advanced ResearchProjects Agency (DARPA) that uses per-sonnel highly trained in military skillsand unique scientific knowledge. They areresponsible for securing sensitive infor-mation that could be a threat to the U.S.through a combination of counter-terror-ism, research, and covert operations andthey will use all of their talents to containthe spread of the deadly virus that has been

unleashed.Pierce discovers immediately how hardcontainment will be when he discoversnot even the Washington, D.C., directorin charge of the facility knows exactlywhat the scientists have created. It is alsoreadily apparent someone else does know- someone who would like nothing morethan to usher in the sixth mass extinctionon the earth. Within a few sparse opening

pages, Beck and SIGMA personnel areflung to different corners of the world,dodging bullets from commandos, strangegenetically enhanced creatures, and a wildwing of eco-terrorists who believe the onlyway to save the earth from humans is tobring humans down to a lower level.

To call the pacing of this novel break-neck speed is an understatement. From themoment Pierce and Beck are thrust intoaction, the story never slows. Charactersbattle the danger from California to

Washington D.C., fromBrazil to Antarctica.

But the book is not mind-less action. Rollins bringsin historic facts - CharlesDarwins voyage on the HMSBeagle and Admiral ByrdsAntarctic explorations - andcombines them with up-to-date scientific knowledge inthe fields of DNA research,gene splicing, and a host ofother disciplines. A former

veterinarian before turning to writing fulltime, Rollins also is a certified diver andavid cave explorer and he relates all ofthose skills in this novel. He even goes tolengths at the end of the book to documenthis research and point interested readersin non-fiction directions for their own

discoveries.The 6th Extinction is a tremendousthrill ride for the reader. The science isan integral part of the plot, so much soI caught myself putting down the bookon more than one occasion to familiar-ize myself with a machine or scientificdiscovery he mentions. The jargon is notoverwhelming, however, and the obvi-ous research performed by Rollins onlyadds depth to the story lines. While itis not absolutely necessary to have readthe first nine SIGMA Force books beforetackling this one, that background cer-tainly would add even more richness to

the tale. Allusions to past event s, mentionsof people not in this book, even the backstories on the main protagoni sts - all of theclues hint of a deep, intr iguing history thatpromises so much more.

If you are a fan of other techno-thrillerauthors like Michael Crichton, Tom Clancy,John le Carre, Frederick Forsyth, Dan Brown,and Clive Cussler, then The 6th Extinctionis certainly a book you will love.

Nov. 3 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul Jeff KinneyThe Burning Room MichaelConnellyThe Retribution of Mara Dyer Michelle Hodkin

Nov. 10 Blue Labyrinth Preston and ChildRevival Stephen King41: A Portrait of My Father GeorgeW. BushFlesh and Blood Patricia Cornwell

Nov. 17 Captivated by You Sylvia DayThe Mistletoe Promise Richard PaulEvansThe Escape David BaldacciThe Cinderella Murder Mary Higgins

ClarkAfter We Collided Anna Todd

Nov. 24 Hope to Die James PattersonWhatever After #6: Cold As Ice Sarah MlynowskiThe Lincoln Myth Steve Berry


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