We'll just have to see how it all turns out.
As you may be aware, I'm in the midst of putting together another documentary for the Marquette Regional History Center, this one taking the place of the usual Kaufman Auditorium show Jack Deo & I do every January. Entitled “Skis, Skates, and Slapshots”, it'll talk about the history of winter sports in the area. This one's Jack's baby, but we're drawing on the experience I had in putting together “Third Street: Day & Night” to make this a multimedia extravaganza.
With, of course, silly stories. You can't have a Jim & Jack show without silly stories.
One of the things we'll be replicating from “Third Street” in this production will be interviews with people who actually made local history on skis and skates. This time around, though, we'll be facing a few difficulties I didn't face this past summer. There's the Covid surge, the resultant “pause” (now extended through the 20th ) in Michigan, and the fact that the people to whom we're speaking are all elderly and therefore fall into the high risk category for the disease.
That, however, (hopefully) won't stop us.
I don't know how people would've been able to conduct remote video interviews in the olden-days (you know, like 2015) but Zoom is a wonderful thing. Instead of asking these high-risk individuals to come into the History Center we'll just do the interviews remotely. Assuming, of course, they either can figure out how to Zoom or have someone around who can help them out. Sure, it'll make the documentary look a little different, but if someone stumbles upon it in 2035 or 2040 they can take one look at the production and say--
“That's SO 2020”. Because it will be.
8-)
We'll see how it all turns out. The world will also get a chance to check it out on January 21st, 2021, the date on which we would've done the show live. And who knows—maybe this is the way in which we'll have to do ALL of our shows for now.
Time, of course, will tell.
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