Rachelle Rogers Writer/Poet

Summer 2006 at Wildacres Writers Workshop

friends

gong show

friends

human and canine

Mike House, resident manager extraordinaire of Wildacres Retreat,
who swears we writers are his favorite group

Judi Hill, miracle worker and director of Wildacres Writers Workshop

Tom Clay, caretaker extraordinaire of Wildacres retreat

Jerry, who will do just about anything for pie

Kristin, Donna and Shellie looking very happy

David and Bruce looking very happy

Luke, Elizabeth and Freddie making music on the porch

Ronnie, Mike, Shellie, Will and Kristin on luau night

Jack, Bill, Carolyn, Jerry and Debbie celebrate many things

Zoe Clay takes a break from the hula

Shellie and Carolyn bedecked by flowers

Phebe and Bobby

Janice and one of the Blumenthal family pups

Keva, resident of Wildacres

the only thing more prevalent on the magic mountain than words are hugs

Donna and Shellie

Ronnie and Amy

Charlotte and Linda

Audrey and Linda

GONG SHOW 2006
irreverent satire on things literary and Achers wild

Jerry ready to strike the opening gong

This summer's faculty in: I Write The Line

Thorpe and Ann

Janice as Elvis, Gail as...nobody can figure it out

The Wildacres Choir sings as the Church Lady vociferously
admonishes the faculty for their many many
naughty naughty sins

Uhura, Spock, Chekov and Captain Kirk go
where no writer has gone before

Chekov draws his dying breath after the log book
has been crtiqued to death

Jack, Debbie, Carolyn, Rachelle
and Amy dance Brigadoon out of the mist

The Blumenthal family's other canine finds his way to Brigadoon

Gene (Kelly) tells Van (Johnson) I'm staying... Sometimes
illusions you believe in become more real than all the things you can explain...

You take the park road and I'll take the gravel road
and I'll get to Wildacres afore ya...

Thorpe, Jack, Genny, Bruce and Donna prepare to investigate
a killer Patio Shark

Brokebutt Mountain starring Rex Manly, Tex Manly, Harriet Holstein
and Greta Gurnsey, directed by Angst Lee

Western novel writers, Tex and Rex
reveal their secret lives as bi-genre poets

...among other things

Heartbroken Tex leaves with his "cow" girl

Mae West advises: Boys, it's not how fast
you make the ink flow, it's how creatively you manipulate your pen

Wildie and the Achers
Happy poets, we write happy poem...

Gary as Titania, queen of the faeries in Midsummer Night's Dream

A vision any way we see her

All's well that ends well... Or is that another play

Donna, Carolyn and Debbie up to no good
in Wildacres Junction

Fantasy Mountain stars Ricardo Montalban and
Hervé Villechaize are interviewed on Entertainment Tonight

Even a luna moth makes an appearance