The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 16, April 17, 2005, Article 18

JOE BOLING INTERVIEWED

By the way, the News Tribune of Tacoma, WA published
a nice article about Joe Boling recently, focusing on his
involvement with local theater. The ANA's Chief Judge
is a fixture at every convention, as well as an E-Sylum
subscriber and frequent contributor.

"I#39;m a collector,” he said. “In theater, I#39;m collecting
performances. In other areas, I collect tangibles.”

Both Boling and his collections exist mainly in the sallowly lit
basement-turned-office – his central command – of a 1960s
home in an Auburn suburb.

There he writes reviews of each show, and has posted around
2,000 of them on the Web site of the service organization,
Theatre Puget Sound, which provided its blessing for his own
TPS business card, marked “Theater Chronicler.”

Nearly every stretch of wall and countertop in his home
doubles as a filing cabinet for plaques for his foreign-currency
collections, trophies he won in shooting competitions, medals
he received on his way to becoming a full colonel (now retired),
books on anthropology and military history, laser disks, DVDs
– and then there are the actual filing cabinets, several of which
contain the most comprehensive accounting anywhere of Puget
Sound performance art since 1998, including dance, opera
and some orchestral music."

To read the full article, see: Full Story

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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