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ARTS

Riffe Gallery presents The Urban

Landscape: A Tale of Grandeur and
Abandonment

COVER STORY

GOOD
TIMES

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Cover photo: Courtesy of Paintball Country

A daughter celebrates the Lone Rangers centenary

BY NICK THOMAS

As TVs Lone Ranger in the 1950s, Clayton Moore was a

hero both on and off the screen. With September being the centenary of his birth, Dawn Moore has been sharing the life and
legacy of her father who passed away in 1999.
I still get letters from policemen, firemen, and teachers who
say they chose a career in service because of him, said Dawn
from Los Angeles. He not only acted out the Lone Rangers
Creed on TV, but lived it.
The Creed, written by Fran Striker in 1933 for the original
Lone Ranger radio show, was an ethical guide that emphasized
friendship, respect, truth, God, country and, remarkably for the
period, stewardship for the planet.
Dawn recalled stories about her father at this years Lone
Pine Film Festival, Calif., held Oct. 10-12 (see www.lonepinefilmfestival.org).
The following week, one of her fathers famous Lone Ranger
black masks was sold through the Profiles in History auction
house.
People ask how I could sell it, noted Dawn. The spirit of
my father doesnt lie in the props he used for his job. Far more
important to me are his fishing tackle and the old Coleman lamp
we took on family camping trips.
As a child, Dawn didnt even know her father had been the
Lone Ranger until one day the pair went shopping for a television and the salesperson recognized his voice.
See RANGER, page 3

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Clayton Moore as the Lone Ranger

Arts

Riffe Gallery presents The Urban Landscape:

A Tale of Grandeur and Abandonment
BY MALIKA BRYANT
Ohio Arts Council

COLUMBUS The Ohio

Arts Councils Riffe Gallery
will present The Urban
Landscape: A Tale of Grandeur
and Abandonment from Nov. 6
through Jan. 11, 2015.
The Urban Landscape,
curated by Christine Fowler
Shearer, explores a variety of
artistic perspectives by 16 Ohio
artists through original works.
The 63 pieces reflect the fundamental nature of city life,
focusing primarily on Ohio.
Artists in the show include:
Kelley Booze (Springfield),

Gary Pettigrew, Bye Bye Blackburn, 2010, Oil on canvas, 20 x 26 inches. (Submitted photo)

Christopher Burk (Columbus),

Cole

Carothers

Ranger

(Continued from page 2)

I was 8 or 9, and wondered how this

stranger knew my father, she recalled.
The show ended in 1957 so I never saw
it growing up. And when we went out, no
one recognized him because his character
had always been masked.
In addition to the one being sold,
Moore had two other masks. One is in
a private collection and Dawn donated
the other to the Smithsonian after her
father died, in accordance with his
wishes.
The original masks used on the show
impaired dads peripheral vision and he
couldnt see where to land after a fall.
So the costumer made a mold of his face
and created three felt masks which were
covered with resin on the inside. But they
were hot to wear.
Moores clothes were also uncomfortable.
They filmed the Lone Ranger at the
Iverson Ranch, near Los Angeles, where
summer temperatures were over 100
degrees, explained Dawn. Dads costume was made out of heavy wool and
was skintight. And Jay Silverheels who
played Tonto wore an outfit of heavy
suede. So these guys worked their tails off
making the show!
A favorite story from her fathers Lone
Ranger days occurred on one such hot
afternoon with the director filming Moore

Dawn and Clayton Moore

riding around a rock and rearing up on

Silver, his famous white horse.
They had done it hundreds of times
before, but the director kept asking dad to
re-shoot it, recalled Dawn. The problem
turned out to be basic stallion anatomy.
Because of the camera angle, Silvers
testicles were clearly visible in every shot
hardly a sight for prime time viewers
in the 50s. The directors solution was
to use whitewash paint to cover them up.
But no one was going under the horse
and start painting there! said Dawn, with
a chuckle. It was late afternoon and very
hot. Everyone was cranky and wanted to

(Milford),

Laurence Channing (Cleveland

Heights), Bonnie Dolin (Aurora),
Frederick Fochtman (Columbus),
Ruth Gless (Columbus), Don
Harvey (Cleveland Heights),
Ron
Kroutel
(Athens),
Michelle Muldrow (Cleveland),
Michael Nevin (Akron), Ryan
Orewiler (Columbus), Gary
Pettigrew (Athens), Will Reader
(Portsmouth), Thomas Roese
(Cleveland) and John Troxell
(Cleveland).
Related Events:
Join the Riffe Gallery for the
opening of The Urban Landscape
from 5-7 p.m. Nov. 6.
See URBAN, page 6

go home. So my father grabbed the paint

brush, dipped it in the whitewash, wiped
off the excess paint, and disappeared
underneath Silver!
That story, says Dawn, illustrates her
fathers work ethic. He had no class distinction and would do what had to be done
for the show. It demonstrates how he led
by example all his life.
For trivia fans wondering why a bucket
of whitewash was on the set, Dawn says it
was for the horses coat.
He was white, but needed a touch up
now and then, she said. Silver had a
make-up man too!
And then theres the masked mans
famous cry, Hi-Ho Silver, Away!
Many people get that wrong, she
notes. Its actually Hi-Yo Silver!
Dawn says she had no interest working
in entertainment, preferring a business
career in luxury retail (see www.mooreabout.com). But she learned a lot about
the show and her dad when helping him
prepare his 1998 autobiography, I Was
That Masked Man.
I had a father who made a difference
in the lives of others, she said. Many of
his fans have told me they grew up not
wanting to be the Lone Ranger, but to be
Clayton Moore.
(Nick Thomas teaches at Auburn
University at Montgomery, Ala., with features, columns, and interviews in over 450
magazines and newspapers.)

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Cover Story

Photos courtesy of Paintball Country

Family farm turns into paintball paradise

BY ERIN COX
Good Times Staff Writer
ecox@delphosherald.com
LIBERTY TOWNSHIP, Ohio Once home to the 210-acre
Niedermans family farm, 40 acres of the re-purposed farm is
now home to the largest paintball facility in the Tri-State
Paintball Country.
The Niederman family started their farm in 1948 and as
years passed, financial hardships led the family to look into new
money-making opportunities. Portions of the family farm were
dedicated to farm tours, a corn maze, pumpkin patch, hayrides,
boat storage and a paintball field.
One day were sitting around the supper table racking our
brains for ideas to save the farm and the next were knee deep in
paintball requests, Bethann Niederman said in a press release.
The farm, nestled between Cincinnati and Dayton, began
attracting more than just the locals and the family decided to
continue to add to the paintball venue. Now the facility has 10
fields and is open year round.
Brian Garver, farm manager, said that paintball is an activity
anyone can enjoy.
The people who play like the thrill of playing, being outdoors and its a team-building opportunity for kids and groups,
Garver said. Its also a great form of exercise where you have
a good time doing it.
Many corporate groups, after school clubs and student groups

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from nearby Cincinnati use the paintball facility throughout the

week to learn about teamwork and have fun while doing it.
The weekends are open to anyone who wants to play (11
a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and 1-5 p.m. Sunday) and Garver said they
are busiest during the spring and fall.
On a regular basis we see people come from about a 60- to
70-mile radius, Garver said. Tournaments are usually when we
see people from really far, like West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
The 10 fields are all different and vary between speedball
and woodsball fields. Speedball fields are flat fields that have
man-made bunkers and barriers. Woodsball fields use natural
surroundings as the barriers.
It depends on peoples personality if they like speedball or
wood fields better, Garver said. But there are some people who
like the woods and only play the wood fields and others who are
die-hard speedball who stay at the speedball fields. It all depends
on your personality.
New players can get a taste of both throughout the day at
Paintball Country.
Usually I see new players start at a speedball field and then
go try the woods so they see which they like better, he said.
Most of the fields stay the same but they do change them up
every now and then. One field contains inflatable barriers that
are put up and taken down weekly.
Based on the different paintball events we are hosting that
week, we will have a new design for that each week, Garver
said.

Cover Story

American Spirits: The Rise

and Fall of Prohibition open
at the Indiana State Museum
Information submitted

Speedball field

Woodsball field

The sport itself allows variety and Paintball Country allows

groups to customize their play based on what they are looking
to play.
Paintball can be played in a capture the flag game, protect an
item or person or open play with one team against another team.
We have new players every week, Garver said. We try to
pair players based on experience so new players will play against
other new players and experienced players can play against
experienced players.
Paintball Country usually has eight or nine games going on
at the same time and all fields have areas to watch the ongoing
games. The woodsball games tend to last 30 to 40 minutes while
the speedball games are shorter at 10 to 20 minutes.
Each field has referees to ensure safety by checking that all
players follow the rules.
Everyone who plays at Paintball Country must fill out a
waiver before play. Players must be 10 years or older.
A large majority of the people who come to Paintball Country
do not have their own equipment and Garver said players can
get everything they need in their pro-shop for $35 or they can
upgrade. The pro-shop also offers dedicated players the opportunity to buy their own equipment and Garver said to watch for
good deals on Black Friday.
Visit paintballcountryohio.com for more information.

INDIANAPOLIS - On Jan.
17, 1920, Americans could
no longer manufacture, sell
or transport alcohol. The 18th
Amendment (Prohibition)
became a part of the
Constitution, holding the same
status as freedom of speech,
freedom of religion and the
abolition of slavery. Explore
this complex and colorful
time in Americas history with
the new exhibit American
Spirits: The Rise and Fall of
Prohibition on view at the
Indiana State Museum through
Feb. 15, 2015.
Created by the National
Constitution
Center,
American Spirits spans
the dawn of the temperance
movement in the early 1800s,
through the Roaring 20s, to
the unprecedented repeal of
a constitutional amendment
during the Great Depression.
It includes stories of flappers and suffragists, bootleggers and temperance lobbyists
and real-life legends like Al
Capone and Carry Nation.
Indianas stories of the
temperance
movement,
Prohibition and the cultural
ferment of the 1920s are just
as colorful helping to shape
the national attitude toward
Prohibition. Stories like Billy
Sundays, who moved his family to Indiana in 1911, evolving from a popular professional baseball player to an evangelical Christian. His strong
support of Prohibition played
a significant role in the adoption of the 18th Amendment.
Other Hoosier stories include
legends May Wright Sewall,
a leader in Indianas woman
suffrage movement, who dedicated her life to peace, and
Grace Julian Clark, an influential writer for the Indianapolis
Star, to name a few.

The
5,000-square-foot
exhibition, curated by Daniel
Okrent, Pulitzer Prize finalist
and author of Last Call: The
Rise and Fall of Prohibition,
features more than 100 rare
artifacts; recreated environments (from a church where
visitors can hear and deliver temperance speeches to
a speakeasy where they can
learn the Charleston and the
slang of the time to a lawenforcement office where visitors can explore efforts to stop
bootlegging) and several multimedia experiences.
In addition, the exhibition
includes interactives such as
Wayne Wheelers Amazing
Amendment Machine, which
is a carnival-inspired installation that traces the complex
political and legal maneuvering behind the passage of the
18th Amendment.
American Spirits: The
Rise and Fall of Prohibition is
organized and circulated by the
National Constitution Center
in Philadelphia. It is made possible in part by a major grant
from the National Endowment
for the Humanities: Exploring
the human endeavor.
The Indiana showing of
American Spirits is funded
in part by 21st Amendment,
Republic National Distributing
Company, Barnes & Thornburg
with public and educator programming support from the
Arthur Jordan Foundation.
The Indiana State Museum
is located at 650 W. Washington
St. in Indianapolis. Exhibit
gallery hours are 10 a.m.-5
p.m. Monday-Saturday and 11
a.m.-5 p.m. on Sunday. The
first Tuesday of each month
(Community Tuesdays) admission is half price. Auxiliary
aids and services are available
with advance notice. For more
information, call the museum
at 317-232-1637.

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Under Review

Gone Girl
Gone Girl is a smart,
thrilling mystery that, despite
announcing the answer to the
mystery about halfway through
the movie, still keeps viewers
interested with its twists and
turns as they get crazier and crazier and yes,
even crazier.
N i c k
Dunne (Ben
Affleck)
comes home
to find his
wife missing on their
fifth anniversary. He calls
police after
finding the living room table overturned and
the front door left opened.
As police investigate, viewers must decide if they believe
Nick that he had no part in his
wifes disappearance as details
of their not-so-perfect marriage start to emerge in the
public eye.
The film starts from Nicks
perspective then it switches
back and forth throughout
the film to his wife, Amys
(Rosamund Pike), diary entries
telling the story of how the two
writers met in New York, got
engaged and how their happy
marriage started. Through this
perspective, the audience also
learns of the financial problems, the toll that unemployment and how other unexpected life events led the couple to
move to Nicks hometown in
Missouri where happily ever
after seemed to fade.

Urban

Directed by David Fincher

Nick has opened a bar with

his sister, Margo (Carrie Coon),
and Amy has become a stay-athome wife. When details of
a possible pregnancy start to
unfold, Nick becomes suspect
number one and the audience
is led to wonder
if he did possibly kill his
Keeping
wife.
it Reel
The mystery is solved
h a l f w a y
BY ERIN
through the
COX
almost two and
a half hour long
movie, but the
craziness does
not stop there.
With appearances from
Neil Patrick Harris and Tyler
Perry, the film gets more interesting and shocking as it continues without the mystery.
The only time I gasped and
probably the majority of the
crowd watching it with me
was during the second half of
the movie.
The movie is based on the
novel of the same name by
Gillian Flynn. As my colleague
on the next page, Kirk Dougal,
wrote in his book review of
Gone Girl in Mays edition
of Good Times, I also gave the
movie four out of five stars.
His main complaint was
that there was no protagonist
to root for in the novel as each
character was easy to hate. I,
however, did find myself rooting for Nick and wonder if the
movie made him a little more
likable than the book.

(Continued from page 3)

From noon-1 p.m. Nov. 7, enjoy a free

guided tour of the exhibition led by exhibition curator Christine Fowler Shearer.
Join us in the Riffe Gallery for a reading by northeast Ohio poet, author and
performer Ray McNiece, followed by an
Open Mic session from 5:30-7 p.m. Nov.
20. Please register for the Open Mic online
Nov. 6-18. For more information about

One of the main components of how this film works

is the fact that neither Nick nor
Amy is the seed of morality.
This is a real-life marriage that
has its issues and problems
stemming from both sides.
Some unanswered questions I had of Amys past,
however, made me want to
know more about her character and led me to believe she
was the true villain.
On the other hand, Nick
was definitely not a hero in the
story line but his interactions
with Margo were just so funny
I couldnt help but to like his
character.
Margo was easily the most
likable character in the film with
her unfiltered view of what was
going on around her and since
she liked Nick, I did, too.
Gone Girl doesnt make
you leave the theater in a happy
mood and instead made me
wonder if it was painting a
picture of society and marriage
probably too close to reality.
The movie seemed to run a
bit long after the mystery was
solved and I started wondering
when it would end rather than
what was going to happen next.
Ive heard many people
complain about the ending but
I thought it fit perfectly with
the theme of the film and really couldnt see it ending any
other way.
Gone Girl is definitely a
welcome introduction to the
more drama-filled movie season and deserves a trip to the
theater to watch it.

McNiece, visit his website.

Enjoy a positive experience exploring
negative space in a free family workshop
with Athens-based artist Ron Kroutel
from 2-4 p.m. Dec. 7. Kroutel will lead
children ages 6-17 and their adult companions in the art of subtractive drawing
using photos, memory and objects around
us. All children must be accompanied by a
registered adult. Space is limited; register
online Nov. 6-Dec. 4. For more informa-

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Past ratings:
Divergent 2.5 stars
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 2.5 stars
Maleficent 2 stars
The Fault in Our Stars 5 stars
Transcendence 1 star
Lets Be Cops 3.5 stars
The Shining 5 stars

Movies Coming
Out Soon on DVD:
Nov. 4

Maleficent
Hercules
A Most Wanted Man

Nov. 11

How to Train Your Dragon 2

Tammy
Lets Be Cops

Nov. 18

22 Jump Street
If I Stay
Into the Storm

Nov. 25

A Madea Christmas
The Giver
The Expendables 3

tion about Kroutel, visit his website.

The Urban Landscape is presented by
the Ohio Arts Councils Riffe Gallery with
media support from CD102.5, CityScene,
Ohio Channel, WOSU, Ohio Magazine
and WCBE 90.5 FM.
(About the Riffe Gallery: The Riffe
Gallery is located in the Vern Riffe Center
for the Government and the Arts, across
from the Statehouse on High Street in
Downtown Columbus.)

The 6th Extinction

Under Review

Written by James Rollins

Earth has suffered through five mass pages, Beck and SIGMA personnel are
extinctions in the past. The dinosaurs, flung to different corners of the world,
mammals, ocean life - at some point in dodging bullets from commandos, strange
time over millions of years, outside forces genetically enhanced creatures, and a wild
have threatened, or succeeded, in killing wing of eco-terrorists who believe the only
off entire sections of life. Now the world is way to save the earth from humans is to
on the brink of the sixth extinction event. bring humans down to a lower level.
Only this time it will be brought on by
To call the pacing of this novel breakmankind.
neck speed is an understatement. From the
That thought is the theme for the new moment Pierce and Beck are thrust into
techno-thriller from bestselling author action, the story never slows. Characters
James Rollins, The 6th Extinction. This battle the danger from California to
novel represents the 10th
Washington D.C., from
book in the SIGMA Force
Brazil to Antarctica.
series created by Rollins.
But the book is not mindTurning
Extinction begins in the
less action. Rollins brings
the Pages in historic facts - Charles
Sierra Nevada Mountains
in Northern California by
Darwins voyage on the HMS
following Park Ranger
Beagle and Admiral Byrds
BY KIRK
Jenna Beck as she reacts
Antarctic explorations - and
DOUGAL
to a distress call from a
combines them with up-tonearby military testing
date scientific knowledge in
facility. She arrives at the
the fields of DNA research,
front gate in time to see a
gene splicing, and a host of
lab-coated man flown away
other disciplines. A former
in a helicopter and the facility explode. veterinarian before turning to writing full
Even more frightening than the explosion, time, Rollins also is a certified diver and
however, is the cloud pouring out of the avid cave explorer and he relates all of
hole where the facility once stood, a black those skills in this novel. He even goes to
fog that kills everything it touches.
lengths at the end of the book to document
While Beck runs for her life, dodging his research and point interested readers
the noxious fumes and the return of the in non-fiction directions for their own
helicopter and its gun-toting commandos, discoveries.
Commander Gray Pierce receives the call
The 6th Extinction is a tremendous
to find out what has just happened at the thrill ride for the reader. The science is
testing facility. Pierce is the director of an integral part of the plot, so much so
SIGMA Force, the ultra-secret division I caught myself putting down the book
of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research on more than one occasion to familiarProjects Agency (DARPA) that uses per- ize myself with a machine or scientific
sonnel highly trained in military skills discovery he mentions. The jargon is not
and unique scientific knowledge. They are overwhelming, however, and the obviresponsible for securing sensitive infor- ous research performed by Rollins only
mation that could be a threat to the U.S. adds depth to the story lines. While it
through a combination of counter-terror- is not absolutely necessary to have read
ism, research, and covert operations and the first nine SIGMA Force books before
they will use all of their talents to contain tackling this one, that background certhe spread of the deadly virus that has been tainly would add even more richness to
unleashed.
the tale. Allusions to past events, mentions
Pierce discovers immediately how hard of people not in this book, even the back
containment will be when he discovers stories on the main protagonists - all of the
not even the Washington, D.C., director clues hint of a deep, intriguing history that
in charge of the facility knows exactly promises so much more.
what the scientists have created. It is also
If you are a fan of other techno-thriller
readily apparent someone else does know authors like Michael Crichton, Tom Clancy,
- someone who would like nothing more John le Carre, Frederick Forsyth, Dan Brown,
than to usher in the sixth mass extinction and Clive Cussler, then The 6th Extinction
on the earth. Within a few sparse opening is certainly a book you will love.

Past ratings:
The Martian (Andy Weir) - 3.5 Stars
Gone Girl (Gillian Flynn) - 4 Stars
White Fire (Preston & Childs) - 3 Stars
Redshirts (John Scalzi) - 3 Stars
The Goldfinch (Donna Tartt) - 2 Stars
The Silkworm (Robert Galbraith) - 4 Stars
Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus
(Mary Shelley) - 5 stars

Books Coming Soon:

Nov. 3

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul

Jeff Kinney
The Burning Room Michael
Connelly
The Retribution of Mara Dyer
Michelle Hodkin

Nov. 10

Blue Labyrinth Preston and Child

Revival Stephen King
41: A Portrait of My Father George
W. Bush
Flesh and Blood Patricia Cornwell

Nov. 17

Captivated by You Sylvia Day

The Mistletoe Promise Richard Paul
Evans
The Escape David Baldacci
The Cinderella Murder Mary Higgins
Clark
After We Collided Anna Todd

Nov. 24

Hope to Die James Patterson

Whatever After #6: Cold As Ice
Sarah Mlynowski
The Lincoln Myth Steve Berry

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