The Big Picture Talkers are named after a quote from Zora Neale Hurston’s, Their Eyes Were Watching God. “The sun was gone, but he left his footprints in the sky. It was the time for sitting on porches beside the road. It was the time to hear things and talk. These sitters had been tongueless, earless, eyeless conveniences all day long. Mules and other brute had occupied their skins. But now, the sun and the bossman were gone, so the skins felt powerful and human. They became lords of sounds and lesser things. They passed nations through their mouths. They sat in judgment.” These were the Big Picture Talkers.
Who are the Big Picture Talkers?
These individuals and organizations have volunteered their time and effort to bring this course to Wilmington and are known as the ‘Big Picture Talkers’:
Max Allen, UNCW - www.uncw.edu/index.html
Stephanie Avery, YWCA of the Lower Cape Fear - www.ywca-lowercapefear.org
Dan Brawley, Cucalorus Film Festival - www.cucalorus.org
Carl Byrd, Saint Mark's Episcopal Church
Robert Campbell, New Beginnings Church
Sterling Cheatham, City of Wilmington - www.wilmingtonnc.gov
Travis Corpening, Individual
Lucy Crockett, Wilmington Police Department - www.wilmingtonnc.gov/departments/policedepartment.aspx
Doug Darrell, S Solutions, Inc./StreetSafe - www.streetsafeus.com/about.asp
Ben David, New Hanover and Pender County District Attorney - www.nccourts.org/county/newhanover/staff/da/default.asp
Steve Demski, UNCW
Susan Greer, New Hanover County Courts - www.nccourts.org/county/newhanover/default.asp
John Haley, Individual
June Highfill, Pearsall Memorial Presbyterian Church - www.churchonmarket.org
Anna Lee, Southeastern Alliance for Community Change - www.meetup.com/seacc-ilm
Travis Matthews, New Hanover County Schools - www.nhcs.net
Nancy McCoy-Fennell, YWCA of the Lower Cape Fear - www.ywca-lowercapefear.org
Kimberly McLaughlin Smith, UNCW/Pearls Girls Academy - www.pearlgirlsacademy.org
Betsy Randall-David, Center for Creative Education/Duke Partners in Caring - www.dukehealth.org/Services/partners_in_caring
Nick Rhodes, NHCS Board of Education
Frankie Roberts, Leading Into New Communities - www.lincnc.orh
Lillian Salcines-Bright, New Hanover County Courts
Lois Cook Steele, Individual
Suesan Sullivan, YWCA of the Lower Cape Fear
Tufauna Thomas, New Hanover County Blue Ribbon Commission - www.cfauw.org
Ernie Thompson, First Presbyterian Church - www.firstonthird.org
Tim Tyson, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University - www.duke.edu
Catherine Welch, WHQR - www.whqr.org
Mary D. Williams, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
