From: Andrea
Mayo Humsthroughyou@aol.com
My friends Evan and
Dave have been living on the Mississippi for a few years now, on a boat
that they built themselves. They left their careers as train hoppers
to build a raft which sank the first hour out on the river, taking everything
they owned down with it. They built another one that worked and made
their way south, the raft evolving into a full blown house boat. Evan
and Dave are a bit of a folk legend around the country. Ask any freaky
looking kid from Columbia, Missouri to New Orleans if they know a couple
of funny haired punk rock kids who live on the river and they'll know
em. I've been wrangling them for a while-- they don't stay still--
and am slated to start shooting them next month. I am filmmaker and
a student currently based in Rockport, Maine. As a project for my professional
certificate degree here at the college I am perusing a documentary about
these wily two and their lives on the river. Also, their community on
the river, the barter and trade that goes on along the way, the way
they live without much money and with a very supportive community--
many of whom are young makers of things-- artists, musicians, builders,
farmers. I'm forwarding your shout out to Evan, thinking he'd be the
one to know about any big events. Also, there is a film that was done
about 5 years ago about a group of twenty-somethings floating some kind
of ceremonial raft over a damn? Ring any bells? It was at the Ann Arbor
Film Festival a while back... I'll see if I can come up with a name.
It sounds like a fantastic project and I'd love to help in any way I
can.