Photo by Steve Hutchinson
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Photo by Steve Hutchinson
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A WORLD JUGGLING DAY STORY:
The Couch of the 2001 Flatland Festival
At 9 AM Saturday morning, we arrived at the UNL Nebraska Union to open up the room for the second day of the Flatland Juggling Festival. The festival was held at the Ballroom in the Union, it was a huge room graced by the long curtains of the Ballroom stage. After the doors were open some University of Nebraska Students looked in. They were all working at the Union today. One said that next week he was to be in a play where he was supposed to juggle, but he actually didn't know how and needed to learn. So, here I was on World Juggling Day appropriately teaching a new friend how to juggle. He learned quickly and commented on the banner that was hanging on one wall. It was the "I Think it Rolled Under the Couch" 'Couch Banner' (huge drawing of a couch). I tried to explain its meaning and went on to state our regrets that the one thing we hadn't acquired for the festival was a couch for the juggling space. Most Flatland Festivals have a couch sitting around somewhere. The Student's eye's lit up. He exclaimed that they were moving a couch around and couldn't find a place for it, so they had to put it out in a hallway, where it was still in the way. So together we went and retrieved the couch to its new Saturday home, the center of the Ballroom. The Student had to get back to work, we thanked each other several times, and then said good-bye. In mere minutes the couch was a permanent festival fixture, offering a leisure location for the occasional juggler, and secretively offering concealment for any escaping juggling prop.
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Photo by Harlan
Heald
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Quoting the 'Under' Statement, "I Think It
Rolled Under The Couch."
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Note Alan Gray's Huge Spin Top, two empty Twizzler containers, A rare Spintastics rachet axle diabolo (yellow and orange).
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Photo by Harlan
Heald
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Photo by Harlan
Heald
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Searching for the lost prop
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Still searching for the lost prop
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