we walked among giants then

[Michael Eisenstadt]

when I first came to Austin a number
of people filled me in on the local 
scene the first week it seemed: read
The Gay Place for example.

i was soon told of Travis Rivers who
had left a wife and was the father of
a child of a young woman who had
attended St Stephen's, the 
Episcopalian prep school west of
town. and soon met him which was even
better. he was working at the used
bookstore on 11th street right next
to the television station. he was 
playing chess with Lance Fletcher
(no, i'm not making that name up)

later on the husband of the woman
who taught horsepersonship at
St Stephen's was my pee aitch dee 
advisor

around the same time i started 
hanging out with Mike Hershey 
who had also attended St Stephens.

but in all these years i had never
BEEN to St Stephens - in the 
physical sense

Sunday my roommate & I drove 
out there for an Indian dance/music
recital.

i cant imagine how anybody ever
got there before Loop 360 was
built

but Austin topography is weird.
Hershey once took me on his 
sickle up to where Hancock 
Drive deadends. i was amazed!

Connie surely Hershey took you
to that vantage point at some time
or other, no?