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Gary Jeshel Forrester

January 01, 1970

Gary (Jeshel) Forrester (born 3 July 1946) is a musician,[1][2][3] composer,[1][2][3] novelist,[2][4][5][6][3] poet,[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][3] short-story writer,[15][16] biographer,[17] memoirist,[18] academic,[19] and historian[20] based in Rotoiti Forest, New Zealand.[21][22] He was profiled by Random House Australia (Australian Country Music, 1991) as one of the major figures in the Australian music scene during the 1980s and 1990s,[1] and in New Zealand by FishHead: Wellington's Magazine as a "modern Renaissance man."[2] In a 2018 interview with New Zealand's leading newspaper, Forrester was described by the Sunday Star-Times as "a Native American descendant, on his mother's side ... who settled in New Zealand in 2006. [He is] a published author and poet and has released three solo albums in the past three years."[3]

Gary (Jeshel) Forrester
Forrester in Morrisonville, Illinois 2016
Born (1946-07-03) 3 July 1946 (age 77)
Decatur, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation
  • Musician
  • writer
  • public servant
  • academic
  • lawyer
  • organic farmer
GenreNovels, poetry, short stories, memoirs, bluegrass
Literary movementMetamodernism
ChildrenSam Harding Forrester, Joseph Harding Forrester, Lucy Jeshel McCallum, Georgette Brown (step-daughter), Charlotte Rose Forrester, Haz Forrester

According to Fishhead, in addition to his teaching fellowship lecturing in legal ethics at the Victoria University of Wellington Law School from 2008 to 2016, Forrester had published "three novels and a book of poems, [was] a successful bluegrass composer and musician, an advocate for indigenous rights, and a father of six children."[2] He taught at the University of Melbourne from 1976 to 1980, at the Northwestern School of Law in Oregon from 1983 to 1985, at Deakin University from 1991 to 1992, at the University of Illinois from 2000 to 2003,[23] and (as noted) at Victoria University of Wellington from 2008 to 2016.

Beginning in the 1980s, he represented Indian tribes in securing restoration legislation through the United States Congress;[24][25] authored a text on American Indian law;[26][3] and wrote numerous articles on the rights of indigenous peoples, the environment, civil procedure, and other legal topics.[27]

Strangers To Us All: Lawyers and Poetry (featuring biographies and works of poets and writers who have a legal background) declared that "Forrester is a hard man to pigeon-hole. He has practiced law, taught law, and spent time away from the legal profession. He is a singer, musician, poet, and writer."[28]

Bluegrass, Folk, and Americana music edit

Forrester's bluegrass compositions were recorded (under his "nom de guitar" Eddie Rambeaux) on the albums Dust on the Bible (RCA Records, 1987), Uluru (Larrikin Records, 1988) and Kamara (Troubadour Records, 1990).[29][30][31][32][33] Between 2015 and 2018, Forrester issued his first three solo albums, Alma Rose, Jeshel, and The Old Churchyard (Te Ahumairangi Records), featuring 30 new compositions.[3][22][34]

In 1988, Forrester's single "Uluru" was featured on two national commemorative albums by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (the ABC), as "the cream of a very rich mix" of Australian country music.[35][36][37] The ABC observed: "Like our landscape, the history of Australia is best told by our poets, and this recording offers a unique slice... of our bushland, our people, our dreams, and our extraordinary sense of humour."[35][38]

Forrester's music also appeared on the Larrikin Records 1996 composite album, Give Me a Home Among the Gum Trees, along with Australian country-folk icons Eric Bogle, Judy Small, The Bushwackers, and others.[39]

Random House Australia's 1991 profile declared that "the most striking aspect of the albums, apart from their frequency, is the exceptionally high standard of songwriting."[1][40] Australian Country Music observed that the bluegrass band fronted by Forrester (as lead singer and guitarist), the Rank Strangers,[41][42][43] "have a musical immediacy that typifies the best of bluegrass and recalls such players as The Stanley Brothers and Bill Monroe."[1]

According to Country Beat, Australia's country music journal, Dust on the Bible was "one of the best bluegrass-country albums released in Australia" in 1987, and Forrester was "one of the best songwriters living in Australia."[41][42][43] In December 1988, Mike Jackson of The Canberra Times wrote that the Rank Strangers' second album, Uluru (the Aboriginal name for Australia's central Ayers Rock), "featured some delightful lead breaks on mandolin (Andrew Hook), banjo (Peter Somerville) and fiddle (Gerry Hale), and some rock-solid accompaniment from guitarist (Forrester) and bass player (Philomena Carroll)." Jackson said that the album was "worth buying for the fiddle playing alone. Hale shows great technique and a flair for appropriate harmony lines while matching the punch of the mandolin and banjo well."[44]

In 1988, the Rank Strangers swept the Australian Gospel Music Awards in Tamworth, New South Wales, winning Best Group, Best Male Vocalist, and Best Composition.[1][2][29] In 1989 and 1990, Dust on the Bible and Uluru were finalists (top five) in the overall Australian Country Music Awards (ACMA).[1] The Rank Strangers were edged out in 1989 in ACMA's "best new talent" category by future country star James Blundell, and in 1990 in ACMA's "song of the year" category by country legend Smoky Dawson. In 1990, the Rank Strangers finished second in the world (to a Czech band) in an international competition sponsored by the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA), Nashville, Tennessee.[1][2][40]

 
The Rank Strangers at the IBMA Bluegrass Fan Fest in Kentucky, 1990. Filling in on bass is Alison Krauss's bass player and songwriter Jon Pennell.

Forrester led the Rank Strangers on tours of Australia and America,[1][29][30][37][45] sharing billings with bluegrass legends Bill Monroe, Alison Krauss,[46] Ralph Stanley, Emmylou Harris, Tony Rice, Peter Rowan, and many others.[29] The American tour included "successful appearances at the Station Inn in Nashville[29] [with country-folk icon Townes Van Zandt] and the IBMA Fan Fest in Owensboro, Kentucky,"[29][30][47] as well as headlining at the Louisville Bluegrass and American MusicFest in Kentucky, then "the largest [acoustic] music festival in the USA."[48]

Bluegrass Unlimited, the oldest and most influential journal of bluegrass music[49] (based in Warrenton, Virginia), declared that "the Rank Strangers have a unique angle on bluegrass music, and ought to be proud of making their own brand of music come out on top in the Land Down Under."[32] BU described Uluru as "one of the most intellectually stimulating bluegrass works of recent years, and it cannot be restricted to mere national boundaries."[31] The Rank Strangers were the subject of a feature article in the December 1988 issue of Bluegrass Unlimited.[33] In a 2011 retrospective, BU featured the career of the Rank Strangers' banjo guru Peter Somerville, and recalled Forrester as "an excellent songwriter" of "challenging original material."[29]

Britain's country music newspaper, International Country Music News, noting the band's successes at Australia's National Country Music Festival in Tamworth, New South Wales, found the compositions contained "archetypal elements of nostalgia, humour and religion", as well as themes that were "contemporary and Australian in influence."[50] International music critic Eberhard Finke, writing in the German magazine Bluegrass-Bühne, identified the source of some of the compositions: "In 1987 when his grandfather died in Illinois, he put his grief into writing songs. Not that they are sad songs – there are swinging happy ones, with plenty of religious overtones that brought him closer to his grandfather's legacy. He tuned his guitar to double drop-D, DADGBD, making the G-run more difficult, but better suiting his words and melodies."[51]

Music critic Jeff Harford, writing in the Otago Daily Times, reviewed Forrester's 2015–2017 solo material as follows: "For every nugget of truth in a great song, a corresponding seam of life experience is commonly found in its writer", and "Forrester brings a hatful of both to this Americana-folk release. The composer, novelist, poet, academic, and legal advocate for indigenous peoples takes a sideways step from his bluegrass past with the Rank Strangers to deliver a no-frills set that is, for the most part, nothing more than the man, his guitar and harmonica. That his ... originals sit comfortably alongside covers of Bob Dylan, Nanci Griffith and Gillian Welch songs says much about their strength."[52]

Music critic Colin Morris, writing in Wellington's The Dominion Post, wrote that "Forrester is a damn fine guitar picker .. with an innate sense of rhythm coupled with fine lyrics and a story to tell. His Rosa Sharon is redolent of Johnny Cash singing Hurt. Seek it out."[53]

In a 5-star (out of 5) review of Forrester's 2017 double CD, Jeshel, Mike Alexander of The Sunday Star-Times (New Zealand's largest Sunday newspaper) wrote: "There's something almost serendipitous about 'Jeshel' Forrester posting his latest album with little or no fanfare. He's one of those people you might meet only to find that beyond the lack of self-important promotion, his life's work, influence and achievements are those of someone who has already left a footprint (as an activist, academic, novelist, poet and musician). As a reference point only, Forrester evokes the ghosts of preelectric Dylan, whose Girl of The North Country he covers, early Johnny Cash and the melodic sensibilities of Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson. There are simple narratives on Jeshel, which includes songs from his previous album Alma Rose, such as The Ballad Of Polly Kincaid and Koori Man, where the story is left to leave its own impression, more personal songs such as Rest For The Weary and the almost confessional Black Top Road and a few covers by Dylan, Gillian Welch, Nancy Griffith and Buddy and Julie Anne Miller. Forrester's music is simple and down-to-earth, just straightforward honesty. What surprises is that there are no swines among these 25 pearls."[54]

James Belfield, the music critic for New Zealand's weekly current affairs magazine, the New Zealand Listener, described Jeshel as a "stunning double album of country folk", evoking "relentless storytelling skills" – the "easy acoustic strum and fingerpicking drift behind a clear, authoritative voice that tells outlaw country tales the equal of those by Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash."[55] Belfield wrote that "dates stand out like beacons – the 1866 cavalry massacre in the Battle of the Hundred in the Hand in the Crazy Horse history lesson Hoka Hey, the 1961 tension between the Bible and the indigenous sun dances in Hannah Cried, the 1945 return from war of the doomed Blue Eyed Boy – but it's the realism and vitality of the characters that loom largest."[55]

NZ Musician, New Zealand's only magazine devoted to the national music scene, described the 2017 album Jeshel as "packed with well-written and performed songs", and noted that "Forrester has had an intriguing career in and out of the music industry, recording country albums in Australia in the mid-1980s, both as a solo artist and as part of the award-winning Rank Strangers."[56] The "stand out" songs included "Hoka Hey, which tells the story of Crazy Horse, and Bob Dylan's Girl of the North Country."[56]

NZ Musician described Forrester's solo compositions as "lovely" and "surprisingly complex": "With a steely yet gentle voice that at times reminds me of Johnny Cash or Leonard Cohen, Forrester's neatly constructed songs and dulcet tones will lull you along his album's entirety. His lyrics have an aged air, the word choices interesting without being corny or melodramatic. Stories range over a lot of topics and he uses nice rhyme schemes that don't follow his finger patterns. His rhyme and rhythm provide plenty to listen to in an uncomplicated way, the choice of chords, and the mixture of major and minor shapes come together beautifully without being something heard before – despite this being folk music. Choruses build nicely and verses flow down like rivers. A lovely, surprisingly complex album."[57]

An article in the Sunday Star-Times[22] praised the "sparseness and emotional directness of the storytelling on the exquisite Jeshel", and stated that the songs "mesmerisingly weave their own stories."[22] The article referred to the Native American and Aboriginal themes in many of the songs, and quoted Forrester as follows: "When I went to law school, I was motivated by Martin Luther King and how the law could be used as a tool for social justice. Working with the Lakota tribe in America was a natural extension of that original thinking ... to do things for people who need the law to be on their side to make any progress."[22]

In 2018, Forrester released his third solo album, The Old Churchyard. The Sunday Star-Times rated The Old Churchyard as a 4.5-star album (out of 5), stating that "Forrester is a throwback, in the most respectful way, to a time when songwriters had something to say and were armed with just an acoustic guitar and a suitcase full of songs. Think early Bob Dylan or Johnny Cash and a smattering of Glen Campbell or Jim Croce. The likes of them are still around but harder to find in the body electric of contemporary music. What makes Forrester so compelling is, aside from some beautifully accomplished guitar work, that he possess a voice that is melodic, warm and fragile."[34] Noting Forrester's background as "academic, poet, lawyer, nomad, activist, author and troubadour," the review found that he "seamlessly weaves his life experiences" into his songs with words that are "timely and universal, touching on themes such as domestic abuse, unrequited love, and personal anguish."[34]

NZ Musician magazine declared that The Old Churchyard was "in the same vein as late-career Johnny Cash – bare bones recordings of a bared heart."[58] NZ Musician noted that Forrester's Martin D-28S guitar "sounds almost like a Carter Family autoharp on [the title track], lending the song a back-porch authenticity. The original songs really tell a story, a la Cohen, Dylan, or Skyscraper Stan. The key to this collection is the premise of a stroll through a rural graveyard populated by the spirits of friends, family and imagined persons of influence. The songs are a deliberate throwback in time, with the freedom to pen a fresh, mostly American mid-west history to the names found on those gravestones. Overall, the tone is downbeat, often just flat-out sad and weary. But there’s also a little dark humour. For example, in the song "Leo & Sam," Forrester conjures old cautionary epics such as Frankie and Johnny. Given the sparseness of his musical arrangements, it's a testimony to the allegorical lyrics and appeal of Forrester's voice that listener interest is easily maintained throughout."[58]

David Thorpe, writing in the McLeod Newsletter, agreed: "Accompanying himself on a Martin D-28S guitar, impeccably picked and sounding effortless, Jeshel's voice is wizened and smooth, the songs varied but of a consistent quality, from gentle love songs to ballads and traditional songs.[59]

In 2018, Forrester joined with Talei Shirley to form The Dunning-Kruger Effect, an acoustic duo, which recorded the album, "... and with no craven." (The Dunning-Kruger Effect, in psychology, is a cognitive bias in which people of low ability have delusions of superiority, and mistakenly assess their abilities as greater than they are.) The album features historical songs from ancient England, Ireland, Scotland, and Scandinavia, as well as idiosyncratic versions of more recent folk songs. Mike Byrne of the McLeod Newsletter described "... and with no craven" as "melancholic and elegaic ... The delivery of these songs is near perfect. Talei has a gentle and cadenced voice, and the guitar accompaniment is intimate and knowing."[60]

On 26 April 2020, while in isolation during New Zealand's COVID-19 lockdown, Forrester put together a new solo acoustic album of 11 original songs and 2 covers, for non-commercial release on the Bandcamp online music streaming website.[61] During the lockdown, the only available recording device at his lakeside cabin was a cell phone, so the new collection of songs was titled "The Covid Phone Album."

Novels, poetry, biography, memoir, and stories edit

 
Forrester at the tomb of French novelist Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Cimetière du Père-Lachaise, Paris, 2012

Following the demise of the Rank Strangers in the 1990s, Forrester turned to writing novels and poetry, with a focus on music and family. Houseboating in the Ozarks[4] (Dufour Editions, 2006), which includes fictional accounts of a bluegrass band, is the story of a circular journey through the American Midwest, with reflective detours to Australia, South America, Japan, and Italy. Houseboating in the Ozarks meanders through tribal and Western spiritual traditions, including those of Aboriginal Australia and Lakota sundances in Green Grass, South Dakota, led by Yuwipi medicine man Frank Fools Crow. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch found Houseboating in the Ozarks idiosyncratic but engaging: an autobiographical "extended meditation on the difficulty of preserving familial and social memory, and sustaining and transmitting values and culture in our mobile, throwaway society."[62]

A 2012 review of Houseboating said that "one of the many wonders of the book is that [the main character's] two kids become real people capable of influencing the outcome of the trip. They grab him by the heart and throw him around. They are bright, funny, and embody their own kind of irony that meshes with Dad's . . . a wonderful, smart, sad book."[63] Lawyers and Poetry described Houseboating in the Ozarks as "autobiographical in the sense that Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is about the life of Robert Pirsig."[28]

His second novel, The Connoisseur of Love,[6] was published in New Zealand in 2012. This novel contains 12 meditations – a dozen episodes from the endgame of Peter Becker, Wellington's self-styled "connoisseur of love." Peter is not quite at home in his adopted city of Wellington, but there is no place on earth he would rather be. He is a creature of routine, an eccentric public servant, estranged from his only child Katrin and his ex-wife Sylvia. Alone, he stalks Wellington's second-hand shops and cafés, bicycles through its streets and lanes, battles on its tennis courts, and performs his music – never quite connecting with anyone or anything.

FishHead: Wellington's Magazine described The Connoisseur of Love as a "comprehensive love song" to New Zealand's capital city, which "exudes Wellington."[2] According to FishHead, "it's not just a novel about Wellington, it's a novel for Wellington."[2] A review in the Emerging Writers Network declared Connoisseur to be "smartly written in Forrester's straightforward clear sentences which have always had the echo of Vonnegut", and that the novel created "a unique point of view that is so broad it is at once a Gordian knot of irony, a psychological landscape, and a state of mind."[63]

In a feature article in Wellington's Dominion Post newspaper, Forrester was described as "a lawyer, public servant, bluegrass musician, and author of a novel set in Wellington. But on paper it's being a writer that counts."[64] The Dominion Post article captured Peter Becker's sense of alienation, observing that Forrester "made Peter Becker up and planted him as an outsider in Wellington, stumbling through familiar places and unsatisfactory relationships – Peter Becker is an alien in Wellington. He doesn't pretend to be a Wellingtonian. He has his nose pressed against the glass."[64]

The Germans have a word for Peter Becker's underlying sense that all is not well: Torschlusspanik – literally, "gate-closing panic" – or in Peter's case, the quiet angst of aging as life's options narrow. Not that long ago, he seemed to have all the time in the world; now his world is shrinking, and grace has not arrived.

Begotten, Not Made, Forrester's third novel, recounts the travels of a wandering musician and his deaf sidekick, shuffling along on a doomed walking marathon from New York to San Francisco in the 1920s. A lengthy extract from Begotten, Not Made was published in 2007 by the University of Nebraska Press, in Scoring from Second,[65] an anthology featuring the works of "thirty accomplished writers"[66][67] from North America, including Michael Chabon, Andre Dubus, and others. Begotten, Not Made is written "entirely in free verse in the voice of a demented Brer Rabbit."[28]

Forrester's fourth novel, More Deaths than One, was published in 2014 in a special edition of The Legal Studies Forum, a journal established by the American Legal Studies Association to promote humanistic, critical, trans-disciplinary legal studies, and featuring works of poetry, essays, memoirs, stories, and criticism.[68] More Deaths than One is a picaresque journey from New Zealand to America, in search of the Central Illinois roots of the late novelist David Foster Wallace, the 21st century cultural paradigm known as Metamodernism, and the meaning of life. According to the New Zealand writer and poet Jillian Sullivan, More Deaths than One "is amazing; so beautifully cadenced and such clear, intelligent writing. It reads like a classic. It is one man's honest and vulnerable take on life (and an intelligent, educated, thoughtful take)."

Poems from Forrester's 2009 New Zealand book of verse, The Beautiful Daughters of Men: A Novella in Short Verse from Tinakori Hill, have appeared in prominent journals including the South Dakota Review,[7] Poetry New Zealand,[8] JAAM (Just Another Art Movement),[10][11] the Earl of Seacliffe Art Workshop,[9] and Voyagers: A New Zealand Science Fiction Poetry Anthology.[12][13] The complete poems were published in January 2009, in The Legal Studies Forum.[69] The Beautiful Daughters is the tale of two migrants to New Zealand, a woman from Chechnya and a dying man.

In 2011, Forrester's initial memoir, Blaw, Hunter, Blaw Thy Horn, was published in America.[18] In a review, the Quincy Herald-Whig described the book as "a memoir and historical commentary on the lives of his parents, Harry and Rose, and what impacted the family during their stays in various parts of west-central, central, and southern Illinois."[70] The Herald-Whig's review observed that Harry Forrester, coach of the men's basketball team at Quincy College (now Quincy University) from 1954 to 1957, "eventually earned as much respect for his decision to play five black players as he did for leading the Hawks to their first national tournament appearance." The Herald-Whig's review noted that "Harry Forrester did not spend much time in Quincy, but it's safe to say his impact will be remembered forever", recalling that his landmark coaching decision "came at the height of racial insensitivity in the mid-to-late 1950s and was a full decade before Texas Western (now UTEP) started five black players in what is now the NCAA Division I national championship game. A movie was made about that Texas Western team, but outside of Quincy, only a handful of people to this day realize history was first made [by Forrester and his players] in West-Central Illinois."

A review of Blaw, Hunter in the Effingham Daily News observed that most of the memoir takes place in the first half of the twentieth century "in the small slice of Illinois centered in Montgomery and Christian counties – in towns like Raymond, Harvel, and Morrisonville", but that Forrester's memoir also "reaches back to the 16th century and his Melungeon ancestors."[71]

Forrester's story "A Kilgore Trout Moment"[72] appeared in The Legal Studies Forum in 2010. The story is the whimsical tale of an oddball poet who contributes to a baseball writing conference in Tennessee, suffering near-death experiences and failures to communicate along the way, only to find redemption, at last, at "home." In 2012, Forrester's story "Tulips" was also featured in The Legal Studies Forum.[73]

In 2018, an abridged version of Forrester's biography of the late writer Philip F. Deaver, "One Dog Barked, the Other Howled," was published in a special edition of The Legal Studies Forum.[17]

In 2019, Forrester's book "Dave Thorp as Metaphor," a light-hearted history of Rotorua's iconic McLeods bookstore, was published by McLeods Booksellers Ltd for distribution nationally throughout New Zealand.[20]

In 2023, Forrester's biography of the late writer Philip F. Deaver was published in full, in book form, by Hardie Grant Books.[74]

Representation of US Indian tribes edit

Forrester, a descendant (on his mother's side) of Cherokee tribal members[3][75] and Appalachian Melungeons,[76] learned bluegrass music in the early 1980s from two members of the Lakota tribe, Cheeto Mestes (1928-2018)[77] and Mervin Frazier (1935-2012),[2][24][33][40] while defending Indian tribal rights[24] in South Dakota. During these years, while living on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation in Eagle Butte, South Dakota, he also advised members of the American Indian Movement, including activist Kenny Kane[78] and others, and assisted Lakota clients, including Kane, Russell Means,[79] Madonna Thunder Hawk, and spiritual leader Sidney Uses Knife Keith,[80] prepare for interviews and participation in Peter Matthiessen's landmark 1983 book, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse.[81]

 
Lakota bluegrass legend Mervin Frazier on guitar, Iowa, 1990

As Director of the Native American Program for Oregon Legal Services (NAPOLS) in the mid-1980s, he represented several American Indian tribes, notably as tribal attorney assisting the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon and the Klamath Tribes before the United States Congress in securing federal legislation restoring treaty rights following generations of "termination."[25][82][3] In advocating before Congress for the restoration of these tribal governments, he worked with activist (and later Congresswoman) Elizabeth Furse, tribal leaders Kathryn Harrison (Grand Ronde) and Charles Kimball (Klamath), Congressman Les AuCoin, and Senators Mark Hatfield and Ted Kennedy.

Forrester represented Indian clients in a number of litigated cases, including State v. Charles[83] (custody of Indian child under the Indian Child Welfare Act); Medberry v. Hegstrom[84] (Klamath Tribe's rights under Indian Claims Commission); Red Bird v. Meierhenry[85] (unemployment statutes must be strictly construed in favor of Indian claimant); and Quiver v. Deputy Assistant Secretary, Indian Affairs[86] (collection and distribution of Klamath lease payments under Indian trust allotments). He also argued successfully before Judges Richard Posner, Diane Wood, and Daniel Anthony Manion in the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Cavalieri v. Shepard,[87] establishing that where the police were "deliberately indifferent" to a prisoner's health and safety, they had violated his constitutional rights (where the former prisoner was now in a permanent vegetative state following a suicide attempt behind bars). The Seventh Circuit in Cavalieri further held that the police were not entitled to "qualified immunity", as the law regarding "deliberate indifference" had been established before the attempted suicide, so the police were on notice that their conduct was unconstitutional. Following the Seventh Circuit's decision, Forrester successfully opposed the writ of certiorari filed on behalf of the police in the U.S. Supreme Court.

His 1990 text Digest of American Indian Law: Cases and Chronology[26] (republished in 2012 by William S. Hein & Co. as part of its online American Indian Library[88]) derived from his Oregon lectures at the Northwestern School of Law in Portland. He also taught law at the University of Melbourne,[23][89][90] the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana,[23][24] Deakin University, and Victoria University of Wellington, and wrote extensively on indigenous rights and other matters.[27]

Forrester was given the honorary Lakota name "Jeshel" (meaning both "meadowlark" and "messenger") following an unusual incident at a sundance in Green Grass, South Dakota, in the summer of 1981.[22][3] During piercing day, which was guided by Yuwipi medicine man Frank Fools Crow, a meadowlark glided down to Forrester's shoulder from the tall cottonwood Sun Pole at the center of the sundance circle. Fools Crow paused at the cauldron, and quietly bestowed the name "Jeshel." The sundance continued.[22][4][3]

Life edit

 
The Rank Strangers Bluegrass Band, Australia 1990

Forrester was born in Decatur, Illinois, "the soy-bean capital of the world."[91] He grew up in Effingham, Quincy, and Tuscola in central Illinois,[92] but spent most of his adult life overseas.

His father Harry Forrester (1922–2008), an Irish-American basketball and baseball coach, was inducted into the Quincy University Hall of Fame and the Illinois Basketball Coaches Hall of Fame for his ground-breaking work on behalf of African-American athletes in the racially segregated 1950s.[93][94][95][96][97][98] His mother Alma Rose Grundy (1922–2009), a primary school teacher and piano player of European, American Indian,[99] and Melungeon[100] descent, came from a line of musicians on her mother's side that included the German-American fiddler Otto Funk, who gained an entry as "the Walking Fiddler" in the Guinness Book of World Records for playing his Hopf violin every step of the way from New York to San Francisco in 1929, a marathon of 4,165 miles.[33][101][102][103][104][105][106] (The "Walking Fiddler's" journey was chronicled in Forrester's second novel, Begotten, Not Made.) On her father's side, Alma Rose Grundy's ancestors included the abolitionist crusader Miner Steele Gowin, a Melungeon who operated an Underground Railroad safe house in Jersey County, Illinois, for escaping slaves; his wife Nancy Beeman, descended from Cherokee Indians from Georgia,[107] also helped to operate the Jersey County safe house.[108]

After graduating from Tuscola High School in 1964, Forrester worked his way through university by farming, life-guarding, and stacking bottles at a Kraft Food plant. He became a conscientious objector and anti-war activist[109] during the Vietnam War, and performed alternative service in the Peace Corps teaching mathematics in Guyana, South America.[110]

Following a BSc degree in Mathematics, Forrester was awarded a Master of Arts degree in English Literature with a thesis on Applications of the Halle-Keyser Theories of Metrical Stress to Beowulf and Chaucer.[111] He then obtained a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law, where he served as an editor on the law review. He worked for Judge Henry Seiler Wise as a law clerk in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Illinois, before emigrating to Australia where he taught at the University of Melbourne[24] and befriended Aboriginal leader Brian Kamara Willis[112][113] in Alice Springs. Through Kamara Willis, Forrester became interested in the rights of indigenous peoples, and left Australia in 1980 to work on Indian reservations[24] in the states of South Dakota and Oregon in the USA. (The album Kamara is dedicated to the memory of Kamara Willis.) In 1984 he joined Oregon native Mindy Leek in supporting the final presidential campaign of South Dakota's Senator George McGovern.

Upon the successful restoration of Oregon's Grand Ronde and Klamath tribes,[25][82] Forrester wrote his book on Indian law[26] and returned to Australia to form the Rank Strangers and represent Aboriginal clients[114] and others. He was also politically active, advising Australian Democrats leaders Senator Don Chipp and Senator Janine Haines in regard to the Aboriginal Affairs portfolio and the Democrats' successful campaign to save the Franklin River in Tasmania.[115]

Throughout the 1990s, with the assistance of international WWOOFERS ("Willing Workers on Organic Farms"),[116] Forrester (a vegetarian) and his family (including six children) operated a communal 80-acre (320,000 m2) organic farm in an Australian eucalypt forest in the Shire of Hepburn, Victoria, based on principles developed by permaculture designer and fellow Shire of Hepburn resident David Holmgren.[2][117] During this time, he also worked with Father Bob Maguire on behalf of homeless children in Melbourne, studied theology under Veronica Lawson RSM at the Australian Catholic University,[118] lectured in law at Deakin University (1991–92), and wrote weekly newspaper columns in Central Victoria.[119]

In 2000, Forrester accepted a professorship at the Law School of the University of Illinois.[23] In 2006, following the completion of his first two novels and several years of anti-war protests against the USA's invasion of Iraq,[2][120] he and his family left America to live on Tinakori Hill[121] in Wellington, New Zealand, where he wrote the poems collected in The Beautiful Daughters of Men, his memoir Blaw, Hunter, Blaw Thy Horn, and his Wellington novels, The Connoisseur of Love[6] and More Deaths than One.[122]

From 2007 to 2016, he served as a Teaching Fellow at Victoria University of Wellington, lecturing in ethics, contract law, and writing. He also provided legal advice and representation to the Wellington Community Law Centre and various public service organisations.

Australia's longest-running defamation suit edit

In 1990, Forrester led a group of eleven public service colleagues in mounting legal and political challenges to improprieties and mismanagement within the State of Victoria's accident compensation scheme, known at the time as "WorkCare."[123] Approximately 25 court cases were lodged, based on allegations of racism,[124][125] workplace espionage by WorkCare's fraud investigations unit,[126][127] and other improprieties.[128][129][130] Following airing of these grievances in the Victorian parliament on 29 March 1990,[131] and a nationally screened report by ABC television on 31 July 1990,[132] the management of Victoria's Accident Compensation Commission (ACC) mounted Australia's longest-running defamation case, against the ABC, in Victoria's Supreme Court.[133][134]

Victoria's State Ombudsman found that an ACC general manager had ordered one of his fraud investigators, Gary Mutimer, to spy on the ACC's chairman Professor Ronald Sackville.[135] Spy operations were also carried out against John Halfpenny, secretary of the Victorian Trades Hall Council, an ex-offico member of the ACC board.[126]

Following repeated urgings by Supreme Court Justice David Byrne,[136] the ACC/ABC defamation case eventually settled on 28 March 1992, when the ABC issued an "apology" to the ACC's former managing director and two other managers.[137] However, the ABC declined to pay any financial compensation to the three, and the ABC's chairman, David Hill, told the Australian Senate that the apology was simply a "commercial decision."[138] The case had cost the taxpayers of Victoria over two million dollars in legal costs.[139][140]

In separate litigation in the Federal Court of Australia, Forrester was awarded a six-figure settlement by the ACC in November 1992.[141] In a case before the Equal Opportunity Board, Forrester's colleague, African-born lawyer Dr. Nii Wallace-Bruce, received $33,000 in costs in July 1991, in the course of settling his claims of racism and other improprieties.[142] Gary Mutimer was awarded compensation for stress caused by being required to carry out improper surveillance operations on Professor Sackville.[143] The ACC general manager who had ordered the spying operations submitted his resignation from ACC in March 1990.[144] On 25 July 1991, the ACC's managing director was removed from office by Victoria's State Government.[145]

Literary treatment edit

Forrester's life has been fictionalized, as the character "Skidmore", in the works of Philip F. Deaver (1946–2018). Deaver's stories were collected in his book Silent Retreats,[2][146] which won the 1986 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. See . Individual stories from Silent Retreats, featuring Deaver's Skidmore character, were also recognized in the 1988 Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards and in 1995's Best American Short Stories.

Selected bibliography edit

  • One Dog Barked, the Other Howled: A Meditation on Several Lives of a Minor American Writer. Hardie Grant Books. 2023. ISBN 9781761450525.
  • The Connoisseur of Love. Steele Roberts. 2012. ISBN 978-1-877577-72-7.
  • Houseboating in the Ozarks. Dufour Editions. 2006. ISBN 978-0-8023-1341-6.
  • Blaw, Hunter, Blaw Thy Horn. Mayhaven Publishing, Inc. 2011. ISBN 978-1-932278-68-2.
  • Dave Thorp as Metaphor. McLeods Booksellers Ltd. 2019. ISBN 978-0-473491-00-0.
  • Digest of American Indian Law: Cases and Chronology. Fred B. Rothman & Co. 1990. ISBN 0-8377-0684-X. (with H. Barry Holt); republished in 2012 by William S. Hein & Co. as part of its online American Indian Library (https://www.wshein.com/; https://www.wshein.com/blog/).
  • More Deaths than One (novel). The Legal Studies Forum, Volume XXXVIII, No. 2, West Virginia University (2014) (special edition).
  • "Begotten, Not Made" (excerpt from novel), in: Philip F. Deaver, ed. (2007). Scoring from Second: Writers on Baseball. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-5991-1.
  • "The Beautiful Daughters of Men: A Novella in Short Verse from Tinakori Hill." The Legal Studies Forum, Volume XXXIII, Supplement No. 2, West Virginia University (2009), ISSN 0894-5993 (a journal established by the American Legal Studies Association to promote humanistic, critical, trans-disciplinary writing, and featuring works of poetry, essays, memoirs, stories, and criticism).
  • "A Kilgore Trout Moment" (story). The Legal Studies Forum, Volume XXXIV, No. 2, West Virginia University (2010), ISSN 0894-5993.
  • "Tulips" (story). The Legal Studies Forum, Volume XXXV, West Virginia University (2012), ISSN 0894-5993.
  • "One Dog Barked, the Other Howled: A Meditation on Several Lives of Philip Deaver" (biography). The Legal Studies Forum, Volume XLII, Supp. 1, West Virginia University (2018) (special edition, abridged version of book that was published in 2023).

Selected discography edit

 
Forrester with Bill Monroe, Owensboro, Kentucky, 1990
 
Forrester with Ralph Stanley on the banks of the Ohio River, Owensboro, Kentucky, 1990

Albums

  • Dust on the Bible. RCA (Nicholls and Dimes) (1988) (finalist, Australian Country Music Awards).
Back in Illinois
Jesus Is a Travelling Man (best vocalist, Australian Gospel Music Awards)
Hannah Cried
Dust on the Bible
A Hundred Miles an Hour to the Throne
Singing in the Family Circle
Matthew Chapter Three (best song, Australian Gospel Music Awards)
Elva
Greater Country 3UZ
Seventh Heaven (final five, "Best New Talent", Australia Country Music Awards)
  • Uluru. Larrikin Records (Australia) (1989) (finalist, Australian Country Music Awards).
Uluru (final five for song of the year, Australian Country Music Awards – based on the trial of Lindy and Michael Chamberlain)
TV Preacher
Grampa Grundy
JFK
Two Dollar Bill (a/k/a "Long Journey Home")
Alma Rose
Mekong
King O'Malley
Take Me Home
Ice in Her Veins
Rain and Snow (written by Dock Boggs)
Talking in Tongues
  • Kamara. Troubadour Records (Australia) (1990).
Love Please Come Home (written by Bill Monroe)
Kamara (based on the life of Aboriginal leader Brian Kamara Willis)
White Freight Liner (written by Townes Van Zandt)
East Virginia Blues (trad.)
Walking at Midnight
You've Got a Lover (written by Ricky Skaggs)
Come Home Angeline
Nella Dan (based on the story of the great Australian explorer ship)
Catfish John (written by Bob McDill and Alan Reynolds)
Ross River Fever
Rose Anne's Getting Married Today
Glendale Train (written by John Dawson)
Memories of Mother and Dad (written by Bill Monroe)
Black Top Road
Rosa Sharon
Love at the Five & Dime (written by Nanci Griffith)
Careless
Koori Man
Anathea (traditional with new lyrics)
Lay Me Down
Eyes of Stone
Oliver Eastman
Weathergirl
Seeing Double
Girl of the North Country (written by Bob Dylan)
Scarlet Town (written by Gillian Welch)
Kamara
Alma Rose
Rest for the Weary
Hoka Hey
Hannah Cried
Wide River to Cross (written by Buddy Miller and Julie Anne Miller)
Maurita Cortez
Selma's Waltz
The House Carpenter (traditional)
The Ballad of Polly Kincaid
Annabelle (written by Gillian Welch)
Blue Eyed Boy
Raylene
Sally Corn
Joseph
Lester
Amy Winehouse
Maude Gonne (words by W. B. Yeats, re-arranged)
Sam and Leo
Danny (words by R. Kipling)
The Old Churchyard (Traditional)
Bonnie George Campbell (16th century Scottish ballad)
Can You Hear Me? (written by Justin Walshe)
Stand By Me (written by Ben E. King)
Little Bird (written by Lisa Hannigan)
The Death of Queen Jane (16th century English ballad)
Donal Og (8th century Irish ballad)
I Will Follow You into the Dark (written by Ben Gibbard)
Earl Brand (15th century Scandinavian ballad)
Boots of Spanish Leather (written by Bob Dylan)
Death of My Father
Answered Prayer
Reverie
Reckoning
The Ballad of Dylan Thomas and Liz Reitell
The Town of Kilcullen
Wayfaring Stranger (Traditional)
Daughter
Thelma
Woke
The Natural Kind
Cheeto Mestes
After the Gold Rush (written by Neil Young)

Composite Albums

  • That's Australia. Larrikin Records (Australia) (1988) (composite album produced by ABC Television).
  • Music Deli. Larrikin Records (Australia), Larrikin LRF 227 (1988) (composite album of music "borrowing from different traditions and creating new forms").
  • Give Me a Home Among the Gum Trees. Larrikin Records, 1996.

Notes edit

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Latta, David, Australian Country Music (Random House Australia, 1991) ISBN 0-09- 182581-4.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "Capital love letter: Renaissance man Gary Forrester turns back to the novel", FishHead: Wellington's Magazine, Issue 14, New Zealand, June 2012.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "The Questionnaire: Jeshel Forrester", The Sunday Star-Times, 1 July 2018.
  4. ^ a b c Houseboating in the Ozarks, Dufour Editions, 2006 ISBN 978-0802313416 (hardcover) ISBN 0802313418 (paperback).
  5. ^ Begotten, Not Made, University of Nebraska Press (2007) (extended extract appears in Scoring from Second, pp. 129–46 ISBN 0803259913).
  6. ^ a b c The Connoisseur of Love, Steele Roberts, 2012 ISBN 9781877577727.
  7. ^ a b See, e.g., "Sitting Bull Hegira", South Dakota Review, The University of South Dakota, Fall 2007, p. 8.
  8. ^ a b See, e.g., "Unrequited", Poetry New Zealand, Vol. 36, February 2008.
  9. ^ a b See, e.g., "Mockingbird", Poetrywall, Earl of Seacliffe Art Workshop, September 2007 ISBN 1-86942-095-0.
  10. ^ a b See, e.g., "Fleamarket", JAAM ("Just Another Art Movement") September 2008.
  11. ^ a b See, e.g., "Homo Sapiens Neandertalis", JAAM ("Just Another Art Movement") September 2008.
  12. ^ a b See, e.g., "The Thirst That Can Never Be Slaked", Voyagers: A New Zealand Science Fiction Poetry Anthology 2009.
  13. ^ a b See, e.g., "Anna Searches for Her Son", Voyagers: A New Zealand Science Fiction Poetry Anthology 2009.
  14. ^ All from The Beautiful Daughters of Men: A Novella in Short Verse from Tinakori Hill, The Legal Studies Forum, Volume XXXIII, Supplement No. 2, West Virginia University (2009), ISSN 0894-5993 (a journal established by the American Legal Studies Association to promote humanistic, critical, trans-disciplinary writing, and featuring works of poetry, essays, memoirs, stories, and criticism).
  15. ^ A Kilgore Trout Moment, The Legal Studies Forum, Volume XXXIV, No. 2, West Virginia University (2009), ISSN 0894-5993.
  16. ^ Tulips, The Legal Studies Forum, Volume XXXVI, No. 1, West Virginia University (2012), ISSN 0894-5993.
  17. ^ a b One Dog Barked, the Other Howled: A Meditation on Several Lives of a Minor American Writer, Hardie Grant Books (Melbourne) 2023 ISBN 9781761450525; The Legal Studies Forum, Volume XLII, Supp. 1, West Virginia University (2018).
  18. ^ a b Blaw, Hunter, Blaw Thy Horn, Mayhaven Publishing, Inc., 2011 ISBN 978-1-932278-68-2.
  19. ^ As cited in the text of this article, Forrester lectured at the University of Melbourne from 1976–80, at the Northwestern School of Law from 1983–85, at the University of Illinois from 2000–03, and at Victoria University of Wellington from 2007–2013.
  20. ^ a b Dave Thorp as Metaphor, McLeods Booksellers Ltd., 2019 ISBN 978-0-473491-00-0.
  21. ^ "Telling stories in music", Rotorua Weekender, 2 December 2016, p. 13.
  22. ^ a b c d e f g "Jeshel Forrester finds his meadowlark", The Sunday Star-Times, 25 February 2017.
  23. ^ a b c d Anderson, Stephen, "Gary Forrester's novel follows odyssey of profane lawyer", ISBA Bar News, Vol. 46, No. 10, April 2006. ([1] 19 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine).
  24. ^ a b c d e f "Lawyering down under leads to bluegrass tunes, Rank Strangers", Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, 22 September 1989, p. 2.
  25. ^ a b c "Grand Ronde Reservation Plan" (Gary Forrester, Tribal Attorney), November 1985 (prepared under a grant from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior, pursuant to Public Law 98-165, 22 November 1983, Grand Ronde Restoration Act).
  26. ^ a b c Forrester, Gary and H. Barry Holt, Digest of American Indian Law: Cases and Chronology, Fred B. Rothman & Co. (1990), ISBN 083770684-X.
  27. ^ a b See, e.g., "Aboriginal Land Rights," Melbourne University Law Review, 1986; "U.S. Indian Legal Services," Australian Legal Services Bulletin, 1982; "The Himalaya," Melbourne University Law Review, 1978; "Judicial Approval of Ritual Spearing," Melbourne University Summons, 1976; "Illinois' Capital Punishment Statute," University of Illinois Law Forum, 1975; "Recovery for Economic Loss," Melbourne University Summons, 1977; "The Credit Contract & Consumer Finance Act," New Zealand Lawyer, Issue 50, October 2006; "Know Your Rights," New Zealand Law Society Law Talk, Issue 671, July 2006; "Illinois' Respondents' in Discovery Statute – Federal Implications," The Trial Journal of the Illinois Trial Lawyers' Association, Summer 2005; "Respondents in Discovery and the Statute of Limitations," The Trial Journal of the Illinois Trial Lawyers' Association, Winter 2001; "Conflicting Statutes of Limitation and Municipal Liability in Illinois," The Trial Journal of the Illinois Trial Lawyers' Association, Spring 2001; "The Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Practices Act," Illinois Causes of Action – Elements, Forms and Winning Tips: Estate, Business & Non-Personal Injury Actions, Chapter 1, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 2002–2020; "Causes of Action – Consumer Actions," Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 2002-2024; "Causes of Action – Common Considerations," Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 2002-2024; "Removal and Remand from Federal Court," Illinois Causes of Action – Elements, Forms and Winning Tips: Estate, Business & Non-Personal Injury Actions, Chapter 55, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 2008–2020; "Decisions Interpreting Chapter 735 of the Illinois Compiled Statutes, 5/2-801 through 5/2-806," American Bar Association Class Action Survey, 2002–06 editions; "American Nightmare" (regarding the visionary architect Buckminster Fuller), Pacific Ecologist, 2009, Issue 19.
  28. ^ a b c Elkins, James, Strangers To Us All: Lawyers and Poetry, http://myweb.wvnet.edu/~jelkins/lp-2001/intro/contemp_pt1.html 28 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine.
  29. ^ a b c d e f g Bluegrass Unlimited, October 2011, p.40.
  30. ^ a b c Bluegrass Unlimited, June 1990, p. 67.
  31. ^ a b Bluegrass Unlimited, May 1989, p.69.
  32. ^ a b Bluegrass Unlimited, April 1989, p. 59.
  33. ^ a b c d "Melbourne Australia's Rank Strangers Play It Straight", Bluegrass Unlimited, December 1988, pp. 54–57 (feature article).
  34. ^ a b c "Listening Post: Jeshel Forrester, The Old Churchyard", The Sunday Star-Times, 10 June 2018.
  35. ^ a b That's Australia, Larrikin Records, 1988 (produced by ABC television).
  36. ^ Music Deli, Larrikin Records, Larrikin LRF 227, 1988 (noting that "the Rank Strangers from Melbourne play their own style of contemporary bluegrass").
  37. ^ a b "Strangers' band with a bluegrass mission", The Sun-Herald (Australia), 4 December 1988, p. 140.
  38. ^ The song Uluru tells the story of the Azaria Chamberlain disappearance, one of Australia's most notorious murder mysteries. Forrester based his song on the 1985 book by lawyer colleague John Bryson, Evil Angels (ISBN 0-670-80993-4). See Death of Azaria Chamberlain and Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton. Bryson's book became the basis for a major film, A Cry in the Dark, starring Meryl Streep and New Zealander Sam Neill, directed by Australian Fred Schepisi. See Bluegrass Unlimited, October 2011, p. 40.
  39. ^ Give Me a Home Among the Gum Trees, Larrikin Records, 1996.
  40. ^ a b c "Bluegrass artist from Tuscola gains fame down under", Champaign-Urbana (IL) News-Gazette, 24 January 1992 ("etc./Music" section).
  41. ^ a b "Good story, good songs", Country Beat (Australia), 2 December 1987.
  42. ^ a b "Riding high on gospel-country boom", The Daily Telegraph (Sydney), 8 October 1987, p. 25.
  43. ^ a b "Strangers rank with the best", Weekly Times (Australia), 4 November 1987, p. 55.
  44. ^ "Magazine: Folk: Bluegrass at Its Best Performed with Spirit". The Canberra Times. Vol. 63, no. 19, 417. 4 December 1988. p. 22. Retrieved 24 April 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  45. ^ "Joining the front ranks", Champaign-Urbana (IL) News-Gazette Weekend, 8 September 1989, p. 14.
  46. ^ Krauss, like Forrester a native of Champaign, Illinois, loaned her bass player John Pennell (a Tolono, Illinois, native and a successful Nashville songwriter) to the Rank Strangers for their appearance at the International Bluegrass Music Festival in Owensboro, Kentucky, and elsewhere. See Bluegrass Unlimited, October 2011, p. 24.
  47. ^ "Die-hard fans call for more as bluegrass festival ends", Owensboro (KY) Messenger-Inquirer, 25 September 1989 (incl. photo).
  48. ^ "Louisville Bluegrass and American MusicFest", Louisville (KY) Courier-Journal, MusicFest advertising section, 31 August 1989, p. 2.
  49. ^ Neil V. Rosenberg, in Bluegrass: A History, University of Illinois Press (1985) (ISBN 0-252-00265-2), sets out the history of Bluegrass Unlimited (continuously published since its inception in 1966) at pp. 224–227, and thereafter notes (at 263, 278, 280, 285, 299, 315, 329, 334, 344, 354, 362 and 367) its prominence and influence as the oldest of the nationally-distributed bluegrass magazines. As Bill C. Malone observed in Country Music USA, University of Texas Press (2002) (ISBN 0292752628), at p. 542, Bluegrass Unlimited magazine was established by highly-regarded musicians Peter Kuykendall and Richard Spottswood. It is almost exclusively devoted to bluegrass music in the United States and abroad, with occasional reference to old time country music. It is a treasure trove of information on every phase of bluegrass music – biographical articles, discographies, record and book reviews, concert and festival dates, interviews, classified ads, and songs.
  50. ^ "Blue Skies: Roots & Branches", International Country Music News (England), January 1989, p. 10.
  51. ^ "The Rank Strangers", Bluegrass-Buhne: Old Time & Bluegrass Magazine, 8 Jahrgang, Nr. 46, August–September 1988, pp. 34–35.
  52. ^ "Album Reviews: Gary Forrester", Otago Daily Times, 4 May 2015.
  53. ^ "Wellington Renaissance man Gary Forrester hits the mark with new album", The Dominion Post, 11 August 2015.
  54. ^ "Music Review: Jeshel", The Sunday Star-Times, 29 January 2017.
  55. ^ a b "Jeshel Forrester has created a stunning double album of country folk", New Zealand Listener, 11 February 2017.
  56. ^ a b "Jeshel", NZ Musician, Vol. 20, No. 2, February/March 2017, p. 31.
  57. ^ "Gary Forrester: Alma Rose", NZ Musician, Vol. 19, No. 1, June/July 2015, p. 35.
  58. ^ a b Turkby, Bing, Jeshel Forrester's The Old Churchyard https://nzmusician.co.nz/music/jeshel-forrester-the-old-churchyard/
  59. ^ Thorpe, David, The Old Churchyard by Jeshel Forrester, https://www.mcleodsbooks.co.nz/pages/513-Newsletter
  60. ^ Byrne, Michael, And With No Craven by The Dunning Kruger Effect, https://www.mcleodsbooks.co.nz/pages/513-Newsletter
  61. ^ jeshelforrester.bandcamp.com
  62. ^ Northway, Martin (28 May 2008). "Novel's engaging style outweighs its idiosyncratic form". St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
  63. ^ a b "Guest Essay", Emerging Writers Network, 6 June 2012, http://emergingwriters.typepad.com/emerging_writers_network/2012/06/national-short-story-month-guest-post-by-philip-f-deaver.html
  64. ^ a b "The Outsiders: An American public servant living in Wellington has written a novel about a European public servant living in Wellington – It is definitely not biographical", Wellington (NZ) The Dominion Post, 19 May 2012 ("Weekend Magazine").
  65. ^ Scoring from Second: Writers on Baseball. ed. Philip F. Deaver, University of Nebraska Press (2007), pp. 129–46, ISBN 0803259913.
  66. ^ "Book Review: Scoring from Second", Mattoon–Charleston (IL) Journal Gazette Times-Courier, 17 October 2007 <http://onsportz.blogspot.com/2007/10/scoring-from-second-reveals-how.html>.
  67. ^ "The writing is polished, and the sentiments will touch a chord", Library Journal, 15 May 2007 ([2] 2 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine. The selected authors for Scoring from Second included Rick Bass, David Carkeet, Ron Carlson, Michael Chabon, Andre Dubus, Leslie Epstein, William Least Heat-Moon, Lee Martin, Michael Martone, Cris Mazza, and Floyd Skloot.
  68. ^ The Legal Studies Forum, Volume XXXVIII, No. 2, West Virginia University (2014).
  69. ^ The Beautiful Daughters of Men: A Novella in Short Verse from Tinakori Hill, The Legal Studies Forum, Volume XXXIII, Supplement No. 2, West Virginia University (2009), ISSN 0894-5993.
  70. ^ Eighinger, Steve, "Book helps keep memories alive for son", Quincy Herald-Whig, 29 September 2012.
  71. ^ Grimes, Bill, "Former St A coach's son pens memoirs: short time in Effingham creates lasting memories", Effingham Daily News, 24 July 2012. Bill Grimes's article noted that "Melungeons are a mixed race group living primarily in southern Appalachia. A hybrid of white, black, and Native American, Melungeons carried a number of recessive traits that often led to some sort of health problems."
  72. ^ A Kilgore Trout Moment, The Legal Studies Forum, Volume XXXIV, No. 2, West Virginia University (2010), ISSN 0894-5993.
  73. ^ The Legal Studies Forum, Volume XXXVI, No. 1, West Virginia University (2012), ISSN 0894-5993.
  74. ^ One Dog Barked, The Other Howled: A Meditation on Several Lives of a Minor American Writer, Hardie Grant Books (Melbourne), 2023 ISBN 9781761450525.
  75. ^ His ancestors include Elisabeth Naticha Beatty Batheen Self (1778–1856) and Talitha White (1799–1876) of the Cherokee Nation. See Blaw, Hunter, Blaw Thy Horn, Mayhaven Publishing, Inc., 2011, ISBN 978-1-932278-68-2.
  76. ^ See Blaw, Hunter, Blaw Thy Horn, Mayhaven Publishing, Inc., 2011, ISBN 978-1-932278-68-2. Melungeons are tri-racial peoples (European, African, and American Indian) from the Appalachian region of Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee. Alma Rose Grundy's ancestors included Miner Steele Gowin, the Illinois abolitionist who was descended from Virginia Melungeons. See http://bz.llano.net/gowen/dud/manuscript/Gowenms157.htm 16 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine; see also http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/d/u/n/Paul-W-Dunham/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0453.html.
  77. ^ West River Eagle (Eagle Butte, South Dakota, 20 December 2018). Vernon "Cheeto" Mestes attended the Cheyenne River Boarding School at the old Cheyenne Agency. He was valedictorian of his high school class and captain of the boxing team. His Lakota name was Sung Waste (Good Horse). He always described himself as an "Ikjeya Wicasa/Common Man." He grew up in the era of great Lakota bronc riders, riding barebacks, bulls, and saddle broncs at rodeos throughout the West. However, he was best known as a musician and could play the guitar, violin, mandolin, piano, accordion, trumpet, steel guitar, and bass. In the late 1940s, he toured with the Roy Acuff band out of Nashville, on the road through Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas. He played music throughout his life, and in the 1980s started a band with his friend Mervin Frazier and the Gunderson Brothers, playing at weddings, parties, and funerals on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation. He served 3 terms in the 1990s as a tribal councilman and vice-chairman. In the 1990s, he hosted ex-President Jimmy Carter and his wife Roslyn when they came to the reservation.
  78. ^ See Matthiessen, Peter, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse (The Viking Press 1983), pp. 543, 546, 594, ISBN 0-670-39702-4.
  79. ^ See Matthiessen, Peter, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse (The Viking Press 1983), pp. 38–39, 51ff., 55, 62, 63, 66, 108ff., 121ff., 129-30, 132, 139, 147–48, 199, 218, 220, 256, 304, 330, 371, 423, 445, 446–51, 474, 525, 532, 607, 610, ISBN 0-670-39702-4.
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  82. ^ a b "Return to heritage celebrated", The Oregonian, 22 September 1986, p. 1 (re: Klamath tribal restoration under Public Law 99-398).
  83. ^ 688 P.2d 1354 (Or. App. 1984).
  84. ^ No. 83-1465FR (D. Or., 9 April 1984).
  85. ^ 314 N.W.2d 95 (S.D. 1983).
  86. ^ 13 IBIA 344 (27 December 1985).
  87. ^ 321 F.3d 616 (7th Cir. 2003), cert. denied, Shepard v. Cavalieri, 540 U.S. 1003, 124 S.Ct. 531, 157 L.Ed.2d 408 (2003).
  88. ^ https://www.wshein.com/; https://www.wshein.com/blog/).
  89. ^ "Exporting bluegrass music down under", Champaign-Urbana (IL) News-Gazette, 27 September 1988, C-7.
  90. ^ ISBA Bar News, Vol. 46, No. 10, April 2006 ([3] 19 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine).
  91. ^ "Decatur Journal: City Winces in the Glare of the Spotlight on Tires", The New York Times, 25 September 2000.
  92. ^ "Talent of Tuscola returns with books", Tuscola, Illinois Review, 28 May 2006, pp. 1, B-6.
  93. ^ "He did more than coach", Champaign-Urbana (IL) News-Gazette, 6 October 2005, pp. 1 & C-1.
  94. ^ Eighinger, Steven, Quincy, Illinois Herald-Whig, 17 April 2005, p. C-1.
  95. ^ O'Brien, Don, Quincy, Illinois Herald-Whig, 18 July 2008, http://www.whig.com/printerfriendly/7-18-08-Forrester[permanent dead link].
  96. ^ Lange, Millie, Effingham, Illinois Daily News, 25 July 2008, http://www.effinghamdailynews.com/sports/local_story_207064108.html.
  97. ^ McNamara, J. Thomas, "Reflections on Coach Harry Forrester's life, career", Decatur (Illinois) Tribune, 23 July 2008, p. 12.
  98. ^ Grimes, Bill, "Former St A coach's son pens memoirs: short time in Effingham creates lasting memories", Effingham Daily News, 24 July 2012.
  99. ^ Her ancestors included Elisabeth Naticha Beatty Batheen Self (1778–1856) and Talitha White (1799–1876) of the Cherokee Nation. See Blaw, Hunter, Blaw Thy Horn, Mayhaven Publishing, Inc., 2011, ISBN 978-1-932278-68-2.
  100. ^ See Blaw, Hunter, Blaw Thy Horn, Mayhaven Publishing, Inc., 2011, ISBN 978-1-932278-68-2. Melungeons are tri-racial peoples (European, African, and American Indian) from the Appalachian region of Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee. See also Grimes, Bill, "Former St A coach's son pens memoirs: short time in Effingham creates lasting memories", Effingham Daily News, 24 July 2012. Bill Grimes's article noted that "Melungeons are a mixed race group living primarily in southern Appalachia. A hybrid of white, black, and Native American, Melungeons carried a number of recessive traits that often led to some sort of health problems." Alma Rose Grundy's ancestors included Miner Steele Gowin, the Illinois abolitionist who was descended from Virginia Melungeons. See http://bz.llano.net/gowen/dud/manuscript/Gowenms157.htm 16 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine; http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/d/u/n/Paul-W-Dunham/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0453.html.
  101. ^ See, e.g., Guinness Book of World Records, McWhirter, N. and McWhirter, R., revised and enlarged new Bantam edition, Stirling Publishing Company (New York, March 1977).
  102. ^ "Son Gains Fame Down Under", The Morrisonville Times (Illinois), 19 February 1992, p. 1.
  103. ^ "Prof. Otto Funk, Troubadour of the World: He Walked, Fiddling All the Way from New York to California", The Montgomery County News (Hillsboro, Illinois), 24 July 2004, p. 1.
  104. ^ "Out West With the Walking Fiddler: From Amarillo to San Francisco, Prof. Funk's Final 1689 Miles", The Montgomery County News (Hillsboro, Illinois), 31 July 2004, p. 1.
  105. ^ "The Walking Fiddler", Modern Woodman magazine, Vol. LXXVI, No. 5, October 1959, p. 10.
  106. ^ "Otto Funk Admits He's as Good as the Best Fiddler and Better than Most of Them", St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 29 April 1928 (magazine section).
  107. ^ Elisabeth Naticha Beatty Batheen Self (1778–1856) and Talitha White (1799–1876). See Blaw, Hunter, Blaw Thy Horn, Mayhaven Publishing, Inc., 2011, ISBN 978-1-932278-68-2.
  108. ^ See the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 1916, article by Miner Steele Gowin. See also http://bz.llano.net/gowen/dud/manuscript/Gowenms157.htm 16 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, for a history of the Gowin and Beeman families.
  109. ^ See The Warbler, Volume 55 (1973), Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois, pp. 40, 42 (includes photos).
  110. ^ Peace Corps Online: 1969: Gary Forrester served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Guyana in New Amsterdam beginning in 1969
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gary, jeshel, forrester, gary, jeshel, forrester, born, july, 1946, musician, composer, novelist, poet, short, story, writer, biographer, memoirist, academic, historian, based, rotoiti, forest, zealand, profiled, random, house, australia, australian, country, . Gary Jeshel Forrester born 3 July 1946 is a musician 1 2 3 composer 1 2 3 novelist 2 4 5 6 3 poet 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 3 short story writer 15 16 biographer 17 memoirist 18 academic 19 and historian 20 based in Rotoiti Forest New Zealand 21 22 He was profiled by Random House Australia Australian Country Music 1991 as one of the major figures in the Australian music scene during the 1980s and 1990s 1 and in New Zealand by FishHead Wellington s Magazine as a modern Renaissance man 2 In a 2018 interview with New Zealand s leading newspaper Forrester was described by the Sunday Star Times as a Native American descendant on his mother s side who settled in New Zealand in 2006 He is a published author and poet and has released three solo albums in the past three years 3 Gary Jeshel ForresterForrester in Morrisonville Illinois 2016Born 1946 07 03 3 July 1946 age 77 Decatur Illinois U S OccupationMusician writer public servant academic lawyer organic farmerGenreNovels poetry short stories memoirs bluegrassLiterary movementMetamodernismChildrenSam Harding Forrester Joseph Harding Forrester Lucy Jeshel McCallum Georgette Brown step daughter Charlotte Rose Forrester Haz Forrester According to Fishhead in addition to his teaching fellowship lecturing in legal ethics at the Victoria University of Wellington Law School from 2008 to 2016 Forrester had published three novels and a book of poems was a successful bluegrass composer and musician an advocate for indigenous rights and a father of six children 2 He taught at the University of Melbourne from 1976 to 1980 at the Northwestern School of Law in Oregon from 1983 to 1985 at Deakin University from 1991 to 1992 at the University of Illinois from 2000 to 2003 23 and as noted at Victoria University of Wellington from 2008 to 2016 Beginning in the 1980s he represented Indian tribes in securing restoration legislation through the United States Congress 24 25 authored a text on American Indian law 26 3 and wrote numerous articles on the rights of indigenous peoples the environment civil procedure and other legal topics 27 Strangers To Us All Lawyers and Poetry featuring biographies and works of poets and writers who have a legal background declared that Forrester is a hard man to pigeon hole He has practiced law taught law and spent time away from the legal profession He is a singer musician poet and writer 28 Contents 1 Bluegrass Folk and Americana music 2 Novels poetry biography memoir and stories 3 Representation of US Indian tribes 4 Life 5 Australia s longest running defamation suit 6 Literary treatment 7 Selected bibliography 8 Selected discography 9 Notes 10 External linksBluegrass Folk and Americana music editForrester s bluegrass compositions were recorded under his nom de guitar Eddie Rambeaux on the albums Dust on the Bible RCA Records 1987 Uluru Larrikin Records 1988 and Kamara Troubadour Records 1990 29 30 31 32 33 Between 2015 and 2018 Forrester issued his first three solo albums Alma Rose Jeshel and The Old Churchyard Te Ahumairangi Records featuring 30 new compositions 3 22 34 In 1988 Forrester s single Uluru was featured on two national commemorative albums by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation the ABC as the cream of a very rich mix of Australian country music 35 36 37 The ABC observed Like our landscape the history of Australia is best told by our poets and this recording offers a unique slice of our bushland our people our dreams and our extraordinary sense of humour 35 38 Forrester s music also appeared on the Larrikin Records 1996 composite album Give Me a Home Among the Gum Trees along with Australian country folk icons Eric Bogle Judy Small The Bushwackers and others 39 Random House Australia s 1991 profile declared that the most striking aspect of the albums apart from their frequency is the exceptionally high standard of songwriting 1 40 Australian Country Music observed that the bluegrass band fronted by Forrester as lead singer and guitarist the Rank Strangers 41 42 43 have a musical immediacy that typifies the best of bluegrass and recalls such players as The Stanley Brothers and Bill Monroe 1 According to Country Beat Australia s country music journal Dust on the Bible was one of the best bluegrass country albums released in Australia in 1987 and Forrester was one of the best songwriters living in Australia 41 42 43 In December 1988 Mike Jackson of The Canberra Times wrote that the Rank Strangers second album Uluru the Aboriginal name for Australia s central Ayers Rock featured some delightful lead breaks on mandolin Andrew Hook banjo Peter Somerville and fiddle Gerry Hale and some rock solid accompaniment from guitarist Forrester and bass player Philomena Carroll Jackson said that the album was worth buying for the fiddle playing alone Hale shows great technique and a flair for appropriate harmony lines while matching the punch of the mandolin and banjo well 44 In 1988 the Rank Strangers swept the Australian Gospel Music Awards in Tamworth New South Wales winning Best Group Best Male Vocalist and Best Composition 1 2 29 In 1989 and 1990 Dust on the Bible and Uluru were finalists top five in the overall Australian Country Music Awards ACMA 1 The Rank Strangers were edged out in 1989 in ACMA s best new talent category by future country star James Blundell and in 1990 in ACMA s song of the year category by country legend Smoky Dawson In 1990 the Rank Strangers finished second in the world to a Czech band in an international competition sponsored by the International Bluegrass Music Association IBMA Nashville Tennessee 1 2 40 nbsp The Rank Strangers at the IBMA Bluegrass Fan Fest in Kentucky 1990 Filling in on bass is Alison Krauss s bass player and songwriter Jon Pennell Forrester led the Rank Strangers on tours of Australia and America 1 29 30 37 45 sharing billings with bluegrass legends Bill Monroe Alison Krauss 46 Ralph Stanley Emmylou Harris Tony Rice Peter Rowan and many others 29 The American tour included successful appearances at the Station Inn in Nashville 29 with country folk icon Townes Van Zandt and the IBMA Fan Fest in Owensboro Kentucky 29 30 47 as well as headlining at the Louisville Bluegrass and American MusicFest in Kentucky then the largest acoustic music festival in the USA 48 Bluegrass Unlimited the oldest and most influential journal of bluegrass music 49 based in Warrenton Virginia declared that the Rank Strangers have a unique angle on bluegrass music and ought to be proud of making their own brand of music come out on top in the Land Down Under 32 BU described Uluru as one of the most intellectually stimulating bluegrass works of recent years and it cannot be restricted to mere national boundaries 31 The Rank Strangers were the subject of a feature article in the December 1988 issue of Bluegrass Unlimited 33 In a 2011 retrospective BU featured the career of the Rank Strangers banjo guru Peter Somerville and recalled Forrester as an excellent songwriter of challenging original material 29 Britain s country music newspaper International Country Music News noting the band s successes at Australia s National Country Music Festival in Tamworth New South Wales found the compositions contained archetypal elements of nostalgia humour and religion as well as themes that were contemporary and Australian in influence 50 International music critic Eberhard Finke writing in the German magazine Bluegrass Buhne identified the source of some of the compositions In 1987 when his grandfather died in Illinois he put his grief into writing songs Not that they are sad songs there are swinging happy ones with plenty of religious overtones that brought him closer to his grandfather s legacy He tuned his guitar to double drop D DADGBD making the G run more difficult but better suiting his words and melodies 51 Music critic Jeff Harford writing in the Otago Daily Times reviewed Forrester s 2015 2017 solo material as follows For every nugget of truth in a great song a corresponding seam of life experience is commonly found in its writer and Forrester brings a hatful of both to this Americana folk release The composer novelist poet academic and legal advocate for indigenous peoples takes a sideways step from his bluegrass past with the Rank Strangers to deliver a no frills set that is for the most part nothing more than the man his guitar and harmonica That his originals sit comfortably alongside covers of Bob Dylan Nanci Griffith and Gillian Welch songs says much about their strength 52 Music critic Colin Morris writing in Wellington s The Dominion Post wrote that Forrester is a damn fine guitar picker with an innate sense of rhythm coupled with fine lyrics and a story to tell His Rosa Sharon is redolent of Johnny Cash singing Hurt Seek it out 53 In a 5 star out of 5 review of Forrester s 2017 double CD Jeshel Mike Alexander of The Sunday Star Times New Zealand s largest Sunday newspaper wrote There s something almost serendipitous about Jeshel Forrester posting his latest album with little or no fanfare He s one of those people you might meet only to find that beyond the lack of self important promotion his life s work influence and achievements are those of someone who has already left a footprint as an activist academic novelist poet and musician As a reference point only Forrester evokes the ghosts of preelectric Dylan whose Girl of The North Country he covers early Johnny Cash and the melodic sensibilities of Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson There are simple narratives on Jeshel which includes songs from his previous album Alma Rose such as The Ballad Of Polly Kincaid and Koori Man where the story is left to leave its own impression more personal songs such as Rest For The Weary and the almost confessional Black Top Road and a few covers by Dylan Gillian Welch Nancy Griffith and Buddy and Julie Anne Miller Forrester s music is simple and down to earth just straightforward honesty What surprises is that there are no swines among these 25 pearls 54 James Belfield the music critic for New Zealand s weekly current affairs magazine the New Zealand Listener described Jeshel as a stunning double album of country folk evoking relentless storytelling skills the easy acoustic strum and fingerpicking drift behind a clear authoritative voice that tells outlaw country tales the equal of those by Waylon Jennings Kris Kristofferson Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash 55 Belfield wrote that dates stand out like beacons the 1866 cavalry massacre in the Battle of the Hundred in the Hand in the Crazy Horse history lesson Hoka Hey the 1961 tension between the Bible and the indigenous sun dances in Hannah Cried the 1945 return from war of the doomed Blue Eyed Boy but it s the realism and vitality of the characters that loom largest 55 NZ Musician New Zealand s only magazine devoted to the national music scene described the 2017 album Jeshel as packed with well written and performed songs and noted that Forrester has had an intriguing career in and out of the music industry recording country albums in Australia in the mid 1980s both as a solo artist and as part of the award winning Rank Strangers 56 The stand out songs included Hoka Hey which tells the story of Crazy Horse and Bob Dylan s Girl of the North Country 56 NZ Musician described Forrester s solo compositions as lovely and surprisingly complex With a steely yet gentle voice that at times reminds me of Johnny Cash or Leonard Cohen Forrester s neatly constructed songs and dulcet tones will lull you along his album s entirety His lyrics have an aged air the word choices interesting without being corny or melodramatic Stories range over a lot of topics and he uses nice rhyme schemes that don t follow his finger patterns His rhyme and rhythm provide plenty to listen to in an uncomplicated way the choice of chords and the mixture of major and minor shapes come together beautifully without being something heard before despite this being folk music Choruses build nicely and verses flow down like rivers A lovely surprisingly complex album 57 An article in the Sunday Star Times 22 praised the sparseness and emotional directness of the storytelling on the exquisite Jeshel and stated that the songs mesmerisingly weave their own stories 22 The article referred to the Native American and Aboriginal themes in many of the songs and quoted Forrester as follows When I went to law school I was motivated by Martin Luther King and how the law could be used as a tool for social justice Working with the Lakota tribe in America was a natural extension of that original thinking to do things for people who need the law to be on their side to make any progress 22 In 2018 Forrester released his third solo album The Old Churchyard The Sunday Star Times rated The Old Churchyard as a 4 5 star album out of 5 stating that Forrester is a throwback in the most respectful way to a time when songwriters had something to say and were armed with just an acoustic guitar and a suitcase full of songs Think early Bob Dylan or Johnny Cash and a smattering of Glen Campbell or Jim Croce The likes of them are still around but harder to find in the body electric of contemporary music What makes Forrester so compelling is aside from some beautifully accomplished guitar work that he possess a voice that is melodic warm and fragile 34 Noting Forrester s background as academic poet lawyer nomad activist author and troubadour the review found that he seamlessly weaves his life experiences into his songs with words that are timely and universal touching on themes such as domestic abuse unrequited love and personal anguish 34 NZ Musician magazine declared that The Old Churchyard was in the same vein as late career Johnny Cash bare bones recordings of a bared heart 58 NZ Musician noted that Forrester s Martin D 28S guitar sounds almost like a Carter Family autoharp on the title track lending the song a back porch authenticity The original songs really tell a story a la Cohen Dylan or Skyscraper Stan The key to this collection is the premise of a stroll through a rural graveyard populated by the spirits of friends family and imagined persons of influence The songs are a deliberate throwback in time with the freedom to pen a fresh mostly American mid west history to the names found on those gravestones Overall the tone is downbeat often just flat out sad and weary But there s also a little dark humour For example in the song Leo amp Sam Forrester conjures old cautionary epics such as Frankie and Johnny Given the sparseness of his musical arrangements it s a testimony to the allegorical lyrics and appeal of Forrester s voice that listener interest is easily maintained throughout 58 David Thorpe writing in the McLeod Newsletter agreed Accompanying himself on a Martin D 28S guitar impeccably picked and sounding effortless Jeshel s voice is wizened and smooth the songs varied but of a consistent quality from gentle love songs to ballads and traditional songs 59 In 2018 Forrester joined with Talei Shirley to form The Dunning Kruger Effect an acoustic duo which recorded the album and with no craven The Dunning Kruger Effect in psychology is a cognitive bias in which people of low ability have delusions of superiority and mistakenly assess their abilities as greater than they are The album features historical songs from ancient England Ireland Scotland and Scandinavia as well as idiosyncratic versions of more recent folk songs Mike Byrne of the McLeod Newsletter described and with no craven as melancholic and elegaic The delivery of these songs is near perfect Talei has a gentle and cadenced voice and the guitar accompaniment is intimate and knowing 60 On 26 April 2020 while in isolation during New Zealand s COVID 19 lockdown Forrester put together a new solo acoustic album of 11 original songs and 2 covers for non commercial release on the Bandcamp online music streaming website 61 During the lockdown the only available recording device at his lakeside cabin was a cell phone so the new collection of songs was titled The Covid Phone Album Novels poetry biography memoir and stories edit nbsp Forrester at the tomb of French novelist Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Cimetiere du Pere Lachaise Paris 2012 Following the demise of the Rank Strangers in the 1990s Forrester turned to writing novels and poetry with a focus on music and family Houseboating in the Ozarks 4 Dufour Editions 2006 which includes fictional accounts of a bluegrass band is the story of a circular journey through the American Midwest with reflective detours to Australia South America Japan and Italy Houseboating in the Ozarks meanders through tribal and Western spiritual traditions including those of Aboriginal Australia and Lakota sundances in Green Grass South Dakota led by Yuwipi medicine man Frank Fools Crow The St Louis Post Dispatch found Houseboating in the Ozarks idiosyncratic but engaging an autobiographical extended meditation on the difficulty of preserving familial and social memory and sustaining and transmitting values and culture in our mobile throwaway society 62 A 2012 review of Houseboating said that one of the many wonders of the book is that the main character s two kids become real people capable of influencing the outcome of the trip They grab him by the heart and throw him around They are bright funny and embody their own kind of irony that meshes with Dad s a wonderful smart sad book 63 Lawyers and Poetry described Houseboating in the Ozarks as autobiographical in the sense that Robert Pirsig s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is about the life of Robert Pirsig 28 His second novel The Connoisseur of Love 6 was published in New Zealand in 2012 This novel contains 12 meditations a dozen episodes from the endgame of Peter Becker Wellington s self styled connoisseur of love Peter is not quite at home in his adopted city of Wellington but there is no place on earth he would rather be He is a creature of routine an eccentric public servant estranged from his only child Katrin and his ex wife Sylvia Alone he stalks Wellington s second hand shops and cafes bicycles through its streets and lanes battles on its tennis courts and performs his music never quite connecting with anyone or anything FishHead Wellington s Magazine described The Connoisseur of Love as a comprehensive love song to New Zealand s capital city which exudes Wellington 2 According to FishHead it s not just a novel about Wellington it s a novel for Wellington 2 A review in the Emerging Writers Network declared Connoisseur to be smartly written in Forrester s straightforward clear sentences which have always had the echo of Vonnegut and that the novel created a unique point of view that is so broad it is at once a Gordian knot of irony a psychological landscape and a state of mind 63 In a feature article in Wellington s Dominion Post newspaper Forrester was described as a lawyer public servant bluegrass musician and author of a novel set in Wellington But on paper it s being a writer that counts 64 The Dominion Post article captured Peter Becker s sense of alienation observing that Forrester made Peter Becker up and planted him as an outsider in Wellington stumbling through familiar places and unsatisfactory relationships Peter Becker is an alien in Wellington He doesn t pretend to be a Wellingtonian He has his nose pressed against the glass 64 The Germans have a word for Peter Becker s underlying sense that all is not well Torschlusspanik literally gate closing panic or in Peter s case the quiet angst of aging as life s options narrow Not that long ago he seemed to have all the time in the world now his world is shrinking and grace has not arrived Begotten Not Made Forrester s third novel recounts the travels of a wandering musician and his deaf sidekick shuffling along on a doomed walking marathon from New York to San Francisco in the 1920s A lengthy extract from Begotten Not Made was published in 2007 by the University of Nebraska Press in Scoring from Second 65 an anthology featuring the works of thirty accomplished writers 66 67 from North America including Michael Chabon Andre Dubus and others Begotten Not Made is written entirely in free verse in the voice of a demented Brer Rabbit 28 Forrester s fourth novel More Deaths than One was published in 2014 in a special edition of The Legal Studies Forum a journal established by the American Legal Studies Association to promote humanistic critical trans disciplinary legal studies and featuring works of poetry essays memoirs stories and criticism 68 More Deaths than One is a picaresque journey from New Zealand to America in search of the Central Illinois roots of the late novelist David Foster Wallace the 21st century cultural paradigm known as Metamodernism and the meaning of life According to the New Zealand writer and poet Jillian Sullivan More Deaths than One is amazing so beautifully cadenced and such clear intelligent writing It reads like a classic It is one man s honest and vulnerable take on life and an intelligent educated thoughtful take Poems from Forrester s 2009 New Zealand book of verse The Beautiful Daughters of Men A Novella in Short Verse from Tinakori Hill have appeared in prominent journals including the South Dakota Review 7 Poetry New Zealand 8 JAAM Just Another Art Movement 10 11 the Earl of Seacliffe Art Workshop 9 and Voyagers A New Zealand Science Fiction Poetry Anthology 12 13 The complete poems were published in January 2009 in The Legal Studies Forum 69 The Beautiful Daughters is the tale of two migrants to New Zealand a woman from Chechnya and a dying man In 2011 Forrester s initial memoir Blaw Hunter Blaw Thy Horn was published in America 18 In a review the Quincy Herald Whig described the book as a memoir and historical commentary on the lives of his parents Harry and Rose and what impacted the family during their stays in various parts of west central central and southern Illinois 70 The Herald Whig s review observed that Harry Forrester coach of the men s basketball team at Quincy College now Quincy University from 1954 to 1957 eventually earned as much respect for his decision to play five black players as he did for leading the Hawks to their first national tournament appearance The Herald Whig s review noted that Harry Forrester did not spend much time in Quincy but it s safe to say his impact will be remembered forever recalling that his landmark coaching decision came at the height of racial insensitivity in the mid to late 1950s and was a full decade before Texas Western now UTEP started five black players in what is now the NCAA Division I national championship game A movie was made about that Texas Western team but outside of Quincy only a handful of people to this day realize history was first made by Forrester and his players in West Central Illinois A review of Blaw Hunter in the Effingham Daily News observed that most of the memoir takes place in the first half of the twentieth century in the small slice of Illinois centered in Montgomery and Christian counties in towns like Raymond Harvel and Morrisonville but that Forrester s memoir also reaches back to the 16th century and his Melungeon ancestors 71 Forrester s story A Kilgore Trout Moment 72 appeared in The Legal Studies Forum in 2010 The story is the whimsical tale of an oddball poet who contributes to a baseball writing conference in Tennessee suffering near death experiences and failures to communicate along the way only to find redemption at last at home In 2012 Forrester s story Tulips was also featured in The Legal Studies Forum 73 In 2018 an abridged version of Forrester s biography of the late writer Philip F Deaver One Dog Barked the Other Howled was published in a special edition of The Legal Studies Forum 17 In 2019 Forrester s book Dave Thorp as Metaphor a light hearted history of Rotorua s iconic McLeods bookstore was published by McLeods Booksellers Ltd for distribution nationally throughout New Zealand 20 In 2023 Forrester s biography of the late writer Philip F Deaver was published in full in book form by Hardie Grant Books 74 Representation of US Indian tribes editForrester a descendant on his mother s side of Cherokee tribal members 3 75 and Appalachian Melungeons 76 learned bluegrass music in the early 1980s from two members of the Lakota tribe Cheeto Mestes 1928 2018 77 and Mervin Frazier 1935 2012 2 24 33 40 while defending Indian tribal rights 24 in South Dakota During these years while living on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation in Eagle Butte South Dakota he also advised members of the American Indian Movement including activist Kenny Kane 78 and others and assisted Lakota clients including Kane Russell Means 79 Madonna Thunder Hawk and spiritual leader Sidney Uses Knife Keith 80 prepare for interviews and participation in Peter Matthiessen s landmark 1983 book In the Spirit of Crazy Horse 81 nbsp Lakota bluegrass legend Mervin Frazier on guitar Iowa 1990 As Director of the Native American Program for Oregon Legal Services NAPOLS in the mid 1980s he represented several American Indian tribes notably as tribal attorney assisting the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon and the Klamath Tribes before the United States Congress in securing federal legislation restoring treaty rights following generations of termination 25 82 3 In advocating before Congress for the restoration of these tribal governments he worked with activist and later Congresswoman Elizabeth Furse tribal leaders Kathryn Harrison Grand Ronde and Charles Kimball Klamath Congressman Les AuCoin and Senators Mark Hatfield and Ted Kennedy Forrester represented Indian clients in a number of litigated cases including State v Charles 83 custody of Indian child under the Indian Child Welfare Act Medberry v Hegstrom 84 Klamath Tribe s rights under Indian Claims Commission Red Bird v Meierhenry 85 unemployment statutes must be strictly construed in favor of Indian claimant and Quiver v Deputy Assistant Secretary Indian Affairs 86 collection and distribution of Klamath lease payments under Indian trust allotments He also argued successfully before Judges Richard Posner Diane Wood and Daniel Anthony Manion in the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Cavalieri v Shepard 87 establishing that where the police were deliberately indifferent to a prisoner s health and safety they had violated his constitutional rights where the former prisoner was now in a permanent vegetative state following a suicide attempt behind bars The Seventh Circuit in Cavalieri further held that the police were not entitled to qualified immunity as the law regarding deliberate indifference had been established before the attempted suicide so the police were on notice that their conduct was unconstitutional Following the Seventh Circuit s decision Forrester successfully opposed the writ of certiorari filed on behalf of the police in the U S Supreme Court His 1990 text Digest of American Indian Law Cases and Chronology 26 republished in 2012 by William S Hein amp Co as part of its online American Indian Library 88 derived from his Oregon lectures at the Northwestern School of Law in Portland He also taught law at the University of Melbourne 23 89 90 the University of Illinois in Champaign Urbana 23 24 Deakin University and Victoria University of Wellington and wrote extensively on indigenous rights and other matters 27 Forrester was given the honorary Lakota name Jeshel meaning both meadowlark and messenger following an unusual incident at a sundance in Green Grass South Dakota in the summer of 1981 22 3 During piercing day which was guided by Yuwipi medicine man Frank Fools Crow a meadowlark glided down to Forrester s shoulder from the tall cottonwood Sun Pole at the center of the sundance circle Fools Crow paused at the cauldron and quietly bestowed the name Jeshel The sundance continued 22 4 3 Life edit nbsp The Rank Strangers Bluegrass Band Australia 1990 Forrester was born in Decatur Illinois the soy bean capital of the world 91 He grew up in Effingham Quincy and Tuscola in central Illinois 92 but spent most of his adult life overseas His father Harry Forrester 1922 2008 an Irish American basketball and baseball coach was inducted into the Quincy University Hall of Fame and the Illinois Basketball Coaches Hall of Fame for his ground breaking work on behalf of African American athletes in the racially segregated 1950s 93 94 95 96 97 98 His mother Alma Rose Grundy 1922 2009 a primary school teacher and piano player of European American Indian 99 and Melungeon 100 descent came from a line of musicians on her mother s side that included the German American fiddler Otto Funk who gained an entry as the Walking Fiddler in the Guinness Book of World Records for playing his Hopf violin every step of the way from New York to San Francisco in 1929 a marathon of 4 165 miles 33 101 102 103 104 105 106 The Walking Fiddler s journey was chronicled in Forrester s second novel Begotten Not Made On her father s side Alma Rose Grundy s ancestors included the abolitionist crusader Miner Steele Gowin a Melungeon who operated an Underground Railroad safe house in Jersey County Illinois for escaping slaves his wife Nancy Beeman descended from Cherokee Indians from Georgia 107 also helped to operate the Jersey County safe house 108 After graduating from Tuscola High School in 1964 Forrester worked his way through university by farming life guarding and stacking bottles at a Kraft Food plant He became a conscientious objector and anti war activist 109 during the Vietnam War and performed alternative service in the Peace Corps teaching mathematics in Guyana South America 110 Following a BSc degree in Mathematics Forrester was awarded a Master of Arts degree in English Literature with a thesis on Applications of the Halle Keyser Theories of Metrical Stress to Beowulf and Chaucer 111 He then obtained a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law where he served as an editor on the law review He worked for Judge Henry Seiler Wise as a law clerk in the U S District Court for the Eastern District of Illinois before emigrating to Australia where he taught at the University of Melbourne 24 and befriended Aboriginal leader Brian Kamara Willis 112 113 in Alice Springs Through Kamara Willis Forrester became interested in the rights of indigenous peoples and left Australia in 1980 to work on Indian reservations 24 in the states of South Dakota and Oregon in the USA The album Kamara is dedicated to the memory of Kamara Willis In 1984 he joined Oregon native Mindy Leek in supporting the final presidential campaign of South Dakota s Senator George McGovern Upon the successful restoration of Oregon s Grand Ronde and Klamath tribes 25 82 Forrester wrote his book on Indian law 26 and returned to Australia to form the Rank Strangers and represent Aboriginal clients 114 and others He was also politically active advising Australian Democrats leaders Senator Don Chipp and Senator Janine Haines in regard to the Aboriginal Affairs portfolio and the Democrats successful campaign to save the Franklin River in Tasmania 115 Throughout the 1990s with the assistance of international WWOOFERS Willing Workers on Organic Farms 116 Forrester a vegetarian and his family including six children operated a communal 80 acre 320 000 m2 organic farm in an Australian eucalypt forest in the Shire of Hepburn Victoria based on principles developed by permaculture designer and fellow Shire of Hepburn resident David Holmgren 2 117 During this time he also worked with Father Bob Maguire on behalf of homeless children in Melbourne studied theology under Veronica Lawson RSM at the Australian Catholic University 118 lectured in law at Deakin University 1991 92 and wrote weekly newspaper columns in Central Victoria 119 In 2000 Forrester accepted a professorship at the Law School of the University of Illinois 23 In 2006 following the completion of his first two novels and several years of anti war protests against the USA s invasion of Iraq 2 120 he and his family left America to live on Tinakori Hill 121 in Wellington New Zealand where he wrote the poems collected in The Beautiful Daughters of Men his memoir Blaw Hunter Blaw Thy Horn and his Wellington novels The Connoisseur of Love 6 and More Deaths than One 122 From 2007 to 2016 he served as a Teaching Fellow at Victoria University of Wellington lecturing in ethics contract law and writing He also provided legal advice and representation to the Wellington Community Law Centre and various public service organisations Australia s longest running defamation suit editIn 1990 Forrester led a group of eleven public service colleagues in mounting legal and political challenges to improprieties and mismanagement within the State of Victoria s accident compensation scheme known at the time as WorkCare 123 Approximately 25 court cases were lodged based on allegations of racism 124 125 workplace espionage by WorkCare s fraud investigations unit 126 127 and other improprieties 128 129 130 Following airing of these grievances in the Victorian parliament on 29 March 1990 131 and a nationally screened report by ABC television on 31 July 1990 132 the management of Victoria s Accident Compensation Commission ACC mounted Australia s longest running defamation case against the ABC in Victoria s Supreme Court 133 134 Victoria s State Ombudsman found that an ACC general manager had ordered one of his fraud investigators Gary Mutimer to spy on the ACC s chairman Professor Ronald Sackville 135 Spy operations were also carried out against John Halfpenny secretary of the Victorian Trades Hall Council an ex offico member of the ACC board 126 Following repeated urgings by Supreme Court Justice David Byrne 136 the ACC ABC defamation case eventually settled on 28 March 1992 when the ABC issued an apology to the ACC s former managing director and two other managers 137 However the ABC declined to pay any financial compensation to the three and the ABC s chairman David Hill told the Australian Senate that the apology was simply a commercial decision 138 The case had cost the taxpayers of Victoria over two million dollars in legal costs 139 140 In separate litigation in the Federal Court of Australia Forrester was awarded a six figure settlement by the ACC in November 1992 141 In a case before the Equal Opportunity Board Forrester s colleague African born lawyer Dr Nii Wallace Bruce received 33 000 in costs in July 1991 in the course of settling his claims of racism and other improprieties 142 Gary Mutimer was awarded compensation for stress caused by being required to carry out improper surveillance operations on Professor Sackville 143 The ACC general manager who had ordered the spying operations submitted his resignation from ACC in March 1990 144 On 25 July 1991 the ACC s managing director was removed from office by Victoria s State Government 145 Literary treatment editForrester s life has been fictionalized as the character Skidmore in the works of Philip F Deaver 1946 2018 Deaver s stories were collected in his book Silent Retreats 2 146 which won the 1986 Flannery O Connor Award for Short Fiction See 5 Individual stories from Silent Retreats featuring Deaver s Skidmore character were also recognized in the 1988 Prize Stories The O Henry Awards and in 1995 s Best American Short Stories Selected bibliography editOne Dog Barked the Other Howled A Meditation on Several Lives of a Minor American Writer Hardie Grant Books 2023 ISBN 9781761450525 The Connoisseur of Love Steele Roberts 2012 ISBN 978 1 877577 72 7 Houseboating in the Ozarks Dufour Editions 2006 ISBN 978 0 8023 1341 6 Blaw Hunter Blaw Thy Horn Mayhaven Publishing Inc 2011 ISBN 978 1 932278 68 2 Dave Thorp as Metaphor McLeods Booksellers Ltd 2019 ISBN 978 0 473491 00 0 Digest of American Indian Law Cases and Chronology Fred B Rothman amp Co 1990 ISBN 0 8377 0684 X with H Barry Holt republished in 2012 by William S Hein amp Co as part of its online American Indian Library https www wshein com https www wshein com blog More Deaths than One novel The Legal Studies Forum Volume XXXVIII No 2 West Virginia University 2014 special edition Begotten Not Made excerpt from novel in Philip F Deaver ed 2007 Scoring from Second Writers on Baseball University of Nebraska Press ISBN 978 0 8032 5991 1 The Beautiful Daughters of Men A Novella in Short Verse from Tinakori Hill The Legal Studies Forum Volume XXXIII Supplement No 2 West Virginia University 2009 ISSN 0894 5993 a journal established by the American Legal Studies Association to promote humanistic critical trans disciplinary writing and featuring works of poetry essays memoirs stories and criticism A Kilgore Trout Moment story The Legal Studies Forum Volume XXXIV No 2 West Virginia University 2010 ISSN 0894 5993 Tulips story The Legal Studies Forum Volume XXXV West Virginia University 2012 ISSN 0894 5993 One Dog Barked the Other Howled A Meditation on Several Lives of Philip Deaver biography The Legal Studies Forum Volume XLII Supp 1 West Virginia University 2018 special edition abridged version of book that was published in 2023 Selected discography edit nbsp Forrester with Bill Monroe Owensboro Kentucky 1990 nbsp Forrester with Ralph Stanley on the banks of the Ohio River Owensboro Kentucky 1990 Albums Dust on the Bible RCA Nicholls and Dimes 1988 finalist Australian Country Music Awards Back in Illinois Jesus Is a Travelling Man best vocalist Australian Gospel Music Awards Hannah Cried Dust on the Bible A Hundred Miles an Hour to the Throne Singing in the Family Circle Matthew Chapter Three best song Australian Gospel Music Awards Elva Greater Country 3UZ Seventh Heaven final five Best New Talent Australia Country Music Awards Uluru Larrikin Records Australia 1989 finalist Australian Country Music Awards Uluru final five for song of the year Australian Country Music Awards based on the trial of Lindy and Michael Chamberlain TV Preacher Grampa Grundy JFK Two Dollar Bill a k a Long Journey Home Alma Rose Mekong King O Malley Take Me Home Ice in Her Veins Rain and Snow written by Dock Boggs Talking in Tongues Kamara Troubadour Records Australia 1990 Love Please Come Home written by Bill Monroe Kamara based on the life of Aboriginal leader Brian Kamara Willis White Freight Liner written by Townes Van Zandt East Virginia Blues trad Walking at Midnight You ve Got a Lover written by Ricky Skaggs Come Home Angeline Nella Dan based on the story of the great Australian explorer ship Catfish John written by Bob McDill and Alan Reynolds Ross River Fever Rose Anne s Getting Married Today Glendale Train written by John Dawson Memories of Mother and Dad written by Bill Monroe Alma Rose Te Ahumairangi Studios New Zealand 2015 https garyforrestermusic bandcamp com album alma rose Archived 20 May 2015 at the Wayback Machine Black Top Road Rosa Sharon Love at the Five amp Dime written by Nanci Griffith Careless Koori Man Anathea traditional with new lyrics Lay Me Down Eyes of Stone Oliver Eastman Weathergirl Seeing Double Girl of the North Country written by Bob Dylan Scarlet Town written by Gillian Welch Kamara Alma Rose Jeshel Te Ahumairangi Studios New Zealand 2016 6 permanent dead link Rest for the Weary Hoka Hey Hannah Cried Wide River to Cross written by Buddy Miller and Julie Anne Miller Maurita Cortez Selma s Waltz The House Carpenter traditional The Ballad of Polly Kincaid Annabelle written by Gillian Welch Blue Eyed Boy The Old Churchyard Sonorous Circle Studio New Zealand 2018 7 permanent dead link Raylene Sally Corn Joseph Lester Amy Winehouse Maude Gonne words by W B Yeats re arranged Sam and Leo Danny words by R Kipling The Old Churchyard Traditional and with no craven by The Dunning Kruger Effect Talei Shirley and Jeshel Forrester Sonorous Circle Studio New Zealand 2018 https thedunning krugereffect bandcamp com releases Bonnie George Campbell 16th century Scottish ballad Can You Hear Me written by Justin Walshe Stand By Me written by Ben E King Little Bird written by Lisa Hannigan The Death of Queen Jane 16th century English ballad Donal Og 8th century Irish ballad I Will Follow You into the Dark written by Ben Gibbard Earl Brand 15th century Scandinavian ballad Boots of Spanish Leather written by Bob Dylan The Covid Phone Album Sonorous Circle Studio New Zealand 2020 https jeshelforrester bandcamp com Death of My Father Answered Prayer Reverie Reckoning The Ballad of Dylan Thomas and Liz Reitell The Town of Kilcullen Wayfaring Stranger Traditional Daughter Thelma Woke The Natural Kind Cheeto Mestes After the Gold Rush written by Neil Young Composite Albums That s Australia Larrikin Records Australia 1988 composite album produced by ABC Television Music Deli Larrikin Records Australia Larrikin LRF 227 1988 composite album of music borrowing from different traditions and creating new forms Give Me a Home Among the Gum Trees Larrikin Records 1996 Notes edit a b c d e f g h i Latta David Australian Country Music Random House Australia 1991 ISBN 0 09 182581 4 a b c d e f g h i j k l m Capital love letter Renaissance man Gary Forrester turns back to the novel FishHead Wellington s Magazine Issue 14 New Zealand June 2012 a b c d e f g h i j k The Questionnaire Jeshel Forrester The Sunday Star Times 1 July 2018 a b c Houseboating in the Ozarks Dufour Editions 2006 ISBN 978 0802313416 hardcover ISBN 0802313418 paperback Begotten Not Made University of Nebraska Press 2007 extended extract appears in Scoring from Second pp 129 46 ISBN 0803259913 a b c The Connoisseur of Love Steele Roberts 2012 ISBN 9781877577727 a b See e g Sitting Bull Hegira South Dakota Review The University of South Dakota Fall 2007 p 8 a b See e g Unrequited Poetry New Zealand Vol 36 February 2008 a b See e g Mockingbird Poetrywall Earl of Seacliffe Art Workshop September 2007 ISBN 1 86942 095 0 a b See e g Fleamarket JAAM Just Another Art Movement September 2008 a b See e g Homo Sapiens Neandertalis JAAM Just Another Art Movement September 2008 a b See e g The Thirst That Can Never Be Slaked Voyagers A New Zealand Science Fiction Poetry Anthology 2009 a b See e g Anna Searches for Her Son Voyagers A New Zealand Science Fiction Poetry Anthology 2009 All from The Beautiful Daughters of Men A Novella in Short Verse from Tinakori Hill The Legal Studies Forum Volume XXXIII Supplement No 2 West Virginia University 2009 ISSN 0894 5993 a journal established by the American Legal Studies Association to promote humanistic critical trans disciplinary writing and featuring works of poetry essays memoirs stories and criticism A Kilgore Trout Moment The Legal Studies Forum Volume XXXIV No 2 West Virginia University 2009 ISSN 0894 5993 Tulips The Legal Studies Forum Volume XXXVI No 1 West Virginia University 2012 ISSN 0894 5993 a b One Dog Barked the Other Howled A Meditation on Several Lives of a Minor American Writer Hardie Grant Books Melbourne 2023 ISBN 9781761450525 The Legal Studies Forum Volume XLII Supp 1 West Virginia University 2018 a b Blaw Hunter Blaw Thy Horn Mayhaven Publishing Inc 2011 ISBN 978 1 932278 68 2 As cited in the text of this article Forrester lectured at the University of Melbourne from 1976 80 at the Northwestern School of Law from 1983 85 at the University of Illinois from 2000 03 and at Victoria University of Wellington from 2007 2013 a b Dave Thorp as Metaphor McLeods Booksellers Ltd 2019 ISBN 978 0 473491 00 0 Telling stories in music Rotorua Weekender 2 December 2016 p 13 a b c d e f g Jeshel Forrester finds his meadowlark The Sunday Star Times 25 February 2017 a b c d Anderson Stephen Gary Forrester s novel follows odyssey of profane lawyer ISBA Bar News Vol 46 No 10 April 2006 1 Archived 19 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine a b c d e f Lawyering down under leads to bluegrass tunes Rank Strangers Chicago Daily Law Bulletin 22 September 1989 p 2 a b c Grand Ronde Reservation Plan Gary Forrester Tribal Attorney November 1985 prepared under a grant from the Bureau of Indian Affairs U S Department of the Interior pursuant to Public Law 98 165 22 November 1983 Grand Ronde Restoration Act a b c Forrester Gary and H Barry Holt Digest of American Indian Law Cases and Chronology Fred B Rothman amp Co 1990 ISBN 083770684 X a b See e g Aboriginal Land Rights Melbourne University Law Review 1986 U S Indian Legal Services Australian Legal Services Bulletin 1982 The Himalaya Melbourne University Law Review 1978 Judicial Approval of Ritual Spearing Melbourne University Summons 1976 Illinois Capital Punishment Statute University of Illinois Law Forum 1975 Recovery for Economic Loss Melbourne University Summons 1977 The Credit Contract amp Consumer Finance Act New Zealand Lawyer Issue 50 October 2006 Know Your Rights New Zealand Law Society Law Talk Issue 671 July 2006 Illinois Respondents in Discovery Statute Federal Implications The Trial Journal of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association Summer 2005 Respondents in Discovery and the Statute of Limitations The Trial Journal of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association Winter 2001 Conflicting Statutes of Limitation and Municipal Liability in Illinois The Trial Journal of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association Spring 2001 The Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Practices Act Illinois Causes of Action Elements Forms and Winning Tips Estate Business amp Non Personal Injury Actions Chapter 1 Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education 2002 2020 Causes of Action Consumer Actions Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education 2002 2024 Causes of Action Common Considerations Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education 2002 2024 Removal and Remand from Federal Court Illinois Causes of Action Elements Forms and Winning Tips Estate Business amp Non Personal Injury Actions Chapter 55 Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education 2008 2020 Decisions Interpreting Chapter 735 of the Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 2 801 through 5 2 806 American Bar Association Class Action Survey 2002 06 editions American Nightmare regarding the visionary architect Buckminster Fuller Pacific Ecologist 2009 Issue 19 a b c Elkins James Strangers To Us All Lawyers and Poetry http myweb wvnet edu jelkins lp 2001 intro contemp pt1 html Archived 28 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine a b c d e f g Bluegrass Unlimited October 2011 p 40 a b c Bluegrass Unlimited June 1990 p 67 a b Bluegrass Unlimited May 1989 p 69 a b Bluegrass Unlimited April 1989 p 59 a b c d Melbourne Australia s Rank Strangers Play It Straight Bluegrass Unlimited December 1988 pp 54 57 feature article a b c Listening Post Jeshel Forrester The Old Churchyard The Sunday Star Times 10 June 2018 a b That s Australia Larrikin Records 1988 produced by ABC television Music Deli Larrikin Records Larrikin LRF 227 1988 noting that the Rank Strangers from Melbourne play their own style of contemporary bluegrass a b Strangers band with a bluegrass mission The Sun Herald Australia 4 December 1988 p 140 The song Uluru tells the story of the Azaria Chamberlain disappearance one of Australia s most notorious murder mysteries Forrester based his song on the 1985 book by lawyer colleague John Bryson Evil Angels ISBN 0 670 80993 4 See Death of Azaria Chamberlain and Lindy Chamberlain Creighton Bryson s book became the basis for a major film A Cry in the Dark starring Meryl Streep and New Zealander Sam Neill directed by Australian Fred Schepisi See Bluegrass Unlimited October 2011 p 40 Give Me a Home Among the Gum Trees Larrikin Records 1996 a b c Bluegrass artist from Tuscola gains fame down under Champaign Urbana IL News Gazette 24 January 1992 etc Music section a b Good story good songs Country Beat Australia 2 December 1987 a b Riding high on gospel country boom The Daily Telegraph Sydney 8 October 1987 p 25 a b Strangers rank with the best Weekly Times Australia 4 November 1987 p 55 Magazine Folk Bluegrass at Its Best Performed with Spirit The Canberra Times Vol 63 no 19 417 4 December 1988 p 22 Retrieved 24 April 2017 via National Library of Australia Joining the front ranks Champaign Urbana IL News Gazette Weekend 8 September 1989 p 14 Krauss like Forrester a native of Champaign Illinois loaned her bass player John Pennell a Tolono Illinois native and a successful Nashville songwriter to the Rank Strangers for their appearance at the International Bluegrass Music Festival in Owensboro Kentucky and elsewhere See Bluegrass Unlimited October 2011 p 24 Die hard fans call for more as bluegrass festival ends Owensboro KY Messenger Inquirer 25 September 1989 incl photo Louisville Bluegrass and American MusicFest Louisville KY Courier Journal MusicFest advertising section 31 August 1989 p 2 Neil V Rosenberg in Bluegrass A History University of Illinois Press 1985 ISBN 0 252 00265 2 sets out the history of Bluegrass Unlimited continuously published since its inception in 1966 at pp 224 227 and thereafter notes at 263 278 280 285 299 315 329 334 344 354 362 and 367 its prominence and influence as the oldest of the nationally distributed bluegrass magazines As Bill C Malone observed in Country Music USA University of Texas Press 2002 ISBN 0292752628 at p 542 Bluegrass Unlimited magazine was established by highly regarded musicians Peter Kuykendall and Richard Spottswood It is almost exclusively devoted to bluegrass music in the United States and abroad with occasional reference to old time country music It is a treasure trove of information on every phase of bluegrass music biographical articles discographies record and book reviews concert and festival dates interviews classified ads and songs Blue Skies Roots amp Branches International Country Music News England January 1989 p 10 The Rank Strangers Bluegrass Buhne Old Time amp Bluegrass Magazine 8 Jahrgang Nr 46 August September 1988 pp 34 35 Album Reviews Gary Forrester Otago Daily Times 4 May 2015 Wellington Renaissance man Gary Forrester hits the mark with new album The Dominion Post 11 August 2015 Music Review Jeshel The Sunday Star Times 29 January 2017 a b Jeshel Forrester has created a stunning double album of country folk New Zealand Listener 11 February 2017 a b Jeshel NZ Musician Vol 20 No 2 February March 2017 p 31 Gary Forrester Alma Rose NZ Musician Vol 19 No 1 June July 2015 p 35 a b Turkby Bing Jeshel Forrester s The Old Churchyard https nzmusician co nz music jeshel forrester the old churchyard Thorpe David The Old Churchyard by Jeshel Forrester https www mcleodsbooks co nz pages 513 Newsletter Byrne Michael And With No Craven by The Dunning Kruger Effect https www mcleodsbooks co nz pages 513 Newsletter jeshelforrester bandcamp com Northway Martin 28 May 2008 Novel s engaging style outweighs its idiosyncratic form St Louis Post Dispatch a b Guest Essay Emerging Writers Network 6 June 2012 http emergingwriters typepad com emerging writers network 2012 06 national short story month guest post by philip f deaver html a b The Outsiders An American public servant living in Wellington has written a novel about a European public servant living in Wellington It is definitely not biographical Wellington NZ The Dominion Post 19 May 2012 Weekend Magazine Scoring from Second Writers on Baseball ed Philip F Deaver University of Nebraska Press 2007 pp 129 46 ISBN 0803259913 Book Review Scoring from Second Mattoon Charleston IL Journal Gazette Times Courier 17 October 2007 lt http onsportz blogspot com 2007 10 scoring from second reveals how html gt The writing is polished and the sentiments will touch a chord Library Journal 15 May 2007 2 Archived 2 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine The selected authors for Scoring from Second included Rick Bass David Carkeet Ron Carlson Michael Chabon Andre Dubus Leslie Epstein William Least Heat Moon Lee Martin Michael Martone Cris Mazza and Floyd Skloot The Legal Studies Forum Volume XXXVIII No 2 West Virginia University 2014 The Beautiful Daughters of Men A Novella in Short Verse from Tinakori Hill The Legal Studies Forum Volume XXXIII Supplement No 2 West Virginia University 2009 ISSN 0894 5993 Eighinger Steve Book helps keep memories alive for son Quincy Herald Whig 29 September 2012 Grimes Bill Former St A coach s son pens memoirs short time in Effingham creates lasting memories Effingham Daily News 24 July 2012 Bill Grimes s article noted that Melungeons are a mixed race group living primarily in southern Appalachia A hybrid of white black and Native American Melungeons carried a number of recessive traits that often led to some sort of health problems A Kilgore Trout Moment The Legal Studies Forum Volume XXXIV No 2 West Virginia University 2010 ISSN 0894 5993 The Legal Studies Forum Volume XXXVI No 1 West Virginia University 2012 ISSN 0894 5993 One Dog Barked The Other Howled A Meditation on Several Lives of a Minor American Writer Hardie Grant Books Melbourne 2023 ISBN 9781761450525 His ancestors include Elisabeth Naticha Beatty Batheen Self 1778 1856 and Talitha White 1799 1876 of the Cherokee Nation See Blaw Hunter Blaw Thy Horn Mayhaven Publishing Inc 2011 ISBN 978 1 932278 68 2 See Blaw Hunter Blaw Thy Horn Mayhaven Publishing Inc 2011 ISBN 978 1 932278 68 2 Melungeons are tri racial peoples European African and American Indian from the Appalachian region of Virginia Kentucky and Tennessee Alma Rose Grundy s ancestors included Miner Steele Gowin the Illinois abolitionist who was descended from Virginia Melungeons See http bz llano net gowen dud manuscript Gowenms157 htm Archived 16 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine see also http familytreemaker genealogy com users d u n Paul W Dunham WEBSITE 0001 UHP 0453 html West River Eagle Eagle Butte South Dakota 20 December 2018 Vernon Cheeto Mestes attended the Cheyenne River Boarding School at the old Cheyenne Agency He was valedictorian of his high school class and captain of the boxing team His Lakota name was Sung Waste Good Horse He always described himself as an Ikjeya Wicasa Common Man He grew up in the era of great Lakota bronc riders riding barebacks bulls and saddle broncs at rodeos throughout the West However he was best known as a musician and could play the guitar violin mandolin piano accordion trumpet steel guitar and bass In the late 1940s he toured with the Roy Acuff band out of Nashville on the road through Colorado New Mexico Arizona and Texas He played music throughout his life and in the 1980s started a band with his friend Mervin Frazier and the Gunderson Brothers playing at weddings parties and funerals on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation He served 3 terms in the 1990s as a tribal councilman and vice chairman In the 1990s he hosted ex President Jimmy Carter and his wife Roslyn when they came to the reservation See Matthiessen Peter In the Spirit of Crazy Horse The Viking Press 1983 pp 543 546 594 ISBN 0 670 39702 4 See Matthiessen Peter In the Spirit of Crazy Horse The Viking Press 1983 pp 38 39 51ff 55 62 63 66 108ff 121ff 129 30 132 139 147 48 199 218 220 256 304 330 371 423 445 446 51 474 525 532 607 610 ISBN 0 670 39702 4 See Matthiessen Peter In the Spirit of Crazy Horse The Viking Press 1983 pp xxxiii xxxiv 430 ISBN 0 670 39702 4 Matthiessen Peter In the Spirit of Crazy Horse The Viking Press 1983 ISBN 0 670 39702 4 a b Return to heritage celebrated The Oregonian 22 September 1986 p 1 re Klamath tribal restoration under Public Law 99 398 688 P 2d 1354 Or App 1984 No 83 1465FR D Or 9 April 1984 314 N W 2d 95 S D 1983 13 IBIA 344 27 December 1985 321 F 3d 616 7th Cir 2003 cert denied Shepard v Cavalieri 540 U S 1003 124 S Ct 531 157 L Ed 2d 408 2003 https www wshein com https www wshein com blog Exporting bluegrass music down under Champaign Urbana IL News Gazette 27 September 1988 C 7 ISBA Bar News Vol 46 No 10 April 2006 3 Archived 19 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine Decatur Journal City Winces in the Glare of the Spotlight on Tires The New York Times 25 September 2000 Talent of Tuscola returns with books Tuscola Illinois Review 28 May 2006 pp 1 B 6 He did more than coach Champaign Urbana IL News Gazette 6 October 2005 pp 1 amp C 1 Eighinger Steven Quincy Illinois Herald Whig 17 April 2005 p C 1 O Brien Don Quincy Illinois Herald Whig 18 July 2008 http www whig com printerfriendly 7 18 08 Forrester permanent dead link Lange Millie Effingham Illinois Daily News 25 July 2008 http www effinghamdailynews com sports local story 207064108 html McNamara J Thomas Reflections on Coach Harry Forrester s life career Decatur Illinois Tribune 23 July 2008 p 12 Grimes Bill Former St A coach s son pens memoirs short time in Effingham creates lasting memories Effingham Daily News 24 July 2012 Her ancestors included Elisabeth Naticha Beatty Batheen Self 1778 1856 and Talitha White 1799 1876 of the Cherokee Nation See Blaw Hunter Blaw Thy Horn Mayhaven Publishing Inc 2011 ISBN 978 1 932278 68 2 See Blaw Hunter Blaw Thy Horn Mayhaven Publishing Inc 2011 ISBN 978 1 932278 68 2 Melungeons are tri racial peoples European African and American Indian from the Appalachian region of Virginia Kentucky and Tennessee See also Grimes Bill Former St A coach s son pens memoirs short time in Effingham creates lasting memories Effingham Daily News 24 July 2012 Bill Grimes s article noted that Melungeons are a mixed race group living primarily in southern Appalachia A hybrid of white black and Native American Melungeons carried a number of recessive traits that often led to some sort of health problems Alma Rose Grundy s ancestors included Miner Steele Gowin the Illinois abolitionist who was descended from Virginia Melungeons See http bz llano net gowen dud manuscript Gowenms157 htm Archived 16 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine http familytreemaker genealogy com users d u n Paul W Dunham WEBSITE 0001 UHP 0453 html See e g Guinness Book of World Records McWhirter N and McWhirter R revised and enlarged new Bantam edition Stirling Publishing Company New York March 1977 Son Gains Fame Down Under The Morrisonville Times Illinois 19 February 1992 p 1 Prof Otto Funk Troubadour of the World He Walked Fiddling All the Way from New York to California The Montgomery County News Hillsboro Illinois 24 July 2004 p 1 Out West With the Walking Fiddler From Amarillo to San Francisco Prof Funk s Final 1689 Miles The Montgomery County News Hillsboro Illinois 31 July 2004 p 1 The Walking Fiddler Modern Woodman magazine Vol LXXVI No 5 October 1959 p 10 Otto Funk Admits He s as Good as the Best Fiddler and Better than Most of Them St Louis Globe Democrat 29 April 1928 magazine section Elisabeth Naticha Beatty Batheen Self 1778 1856 and Talitha White 1799 1876 See Blaw Hunter Blaw Thy Horn Mayhaven Publishing Inc 2011 ISBN 978 1 932278 68 2 See the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 1916 article by Miner Steele Gowin See also http bz llano net gowen dud manuscript Gowenms157 htm Archived 16 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine for a history of the Gowin and Beeman families See The Warbler Volume 55 1973 Eastern Illinois University Charleston Illinois pp 40 42 includes photos Peace Corps Online 1969 Gary Forrester served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Guyana in New Amsterdam beginning in 1969 See OCLC World Cat 16926973 http www worldcat org title applications of the halle keyser theories of metrical stress oclc 16926973 See Evans G Reconciliation in the Asia Pacific http www gevans org speeches speech323 html Scott Keith 1999 Gareth Evans Allen amp Unwin ISBN 9781864487145 See e g Mier Scandal Cover Up The Herald Sun Melbourne Australia 28 July 1992 p 7 dealing with the successful sexual harassment claim brought by Forrester on behalf of his client the Aboriginal activist Trish Jones against the State of Victoria s Minister for Aboriginal Affairs Brian Mier who was forced to resign his position According to the article A secret 70 000 payout was made to former Aboriginal Affairs adviser Trish Jones after claims of racism and sexism against Mr Mier the former Aboriginal Affairs Minister See e g Gee H and Fenton J eds 1978 The South West Book A Tasmanian Wilderness Melbourne Australian Conservation Foundation ISBN 0 85802 054 8 Griffiths Peter and Baxter Bruce 1997 The Ever Varying Flood A Guide to the Franklin River Richmond Vic Prowling Tiger Press ISBN 0958664714 See http www wwoof org americas asp Archived 8 February 2010 at the Wayback Machine See David Holmgren Permaculture in the Bush Hepburn Design Services 1985 2nd ed 1993 Hepburn Victoria Australia See e g 4 Archived 12 November 2007 at the Wayback Machine Daylesford Advocate newspaper later Hepburn Shire Advocate 1993 2000 weekly column of Australian politics humour and advice sub nom The Beagle Speaks See e g U S warns arms inspectors to leave Iraq Champaign Urbana IL News Gazette 17 March 2003 p 1 incl photo In 2010 Tinakori Hill was officially renamed as Te Ahumairangi loosely translated into English as like a whirlwind Hill as a result of the Port Nicholson Block Taranaki Whanui ki Te Upoko o te Ika Claims Settlement Act 2009 See Te Ahumairangi Hill Lookout Archived 18 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine The Legal Studies Forum Volume XXXVIII No 2 West Virginia University 2014 Abjorensen Norman 20 February 1990 WorkCare staff assigned immoral tasks The Age Masanauskas John 19 May 1990 Lawyer alleges ungrateful nigger remarks at work The Age referring to 27 page complaint lodged with Equal Opportunity Board by African born lawyer Dr Nii Wallace Bruce Masanauskas John 26 May 1990 WorkCare manager made racist comments lawyer The Age referring to Wallace Bruce s allegations against his manager a b Abjorensen Norman 13 January 1991 I tailed WorkCare boss investigator The Sunday Herald Daly Martin 25 March 1990 Commission denies spying on its chief The Sunday Herald Robinson Paul and Paul Daly 28 July 1991 WorkCare s case of the crystal ball The Sunday Age p 1 Robinson Paul and Paul Daley 28 July 1991 Is it WorkCare or mystic care The Sunday Age p 1 Alcorn Gay 3 December 1990 Bar freedom under threat barrister The Sunday Age Parliamentary Debates Hansard Parliament of Victoria 29 March 1990 pp 36 38 Report on Strange Management Practices Within the Investigation Unit of the Accident Compensation Commission ABC television 7 30 Report 31 July 1990 transcript by Rehame Australia Pty Ltd Kelly Hugo 30 November 1991 Foes unite as strange defamation case unfolds The Age Ross Norrie 22 February 1992 Judge in plea to end case Herald Sun p 9 Daley Paul 14 July 1991 The Workcare file boss patrols The Sunday Age p 7 See e g Judge ticks off ABC chief 29 January 1992 Herald Sun p 7 Hannan Ewin 29 March 1992 ABC says sorry to end nation s longest libel case The Australian ABC didn t want to apologise says Hill 29 April 1992 The Age ABC chairman David Hill told the Australian Senate We had a court case that already was the longest case in history We had costs for both sides that were totally out of control You ve got taxpayers funding both sides and a judge urging us to settle it The ABC negotiated the settlement as best we could to stop the case going all year in the judge s estimate The ABC didn t want to make the apology but it was a necessary minimum condition for the resolution of the dispute ABC journalists held a stopwork meeting to express outrage that the settlement prevented the content of the story at the centre of the case to be judged by the court Innes Prue 27 January 1992 Lawyers are the real winners in libel case The Age p 3 Kelly Hugo 19 November 1991 Commission will indemnify Roux defamation case The Age p 5 noting that Victoria s solicitor general Hartog Berkeley QC had expressed grave doubts about spending public money to launch a defamation action on behalf of three employees Hannan Ewin 17 November 1992 WorkCare influence The Australian Daley Paul 14 July 1991 A 33 000 payout The Sunday Age p 7 Alcorn Gay 2 December 1990 PS spy wins compo claim The Sunday Age p 1 Easdown Geoff 8 February 1992 Weeping boss tells of blood and rats Herald Sun p 9 Button James and Alex Messina 26 July 1991 WorkCare s chief axed by minister The Age p 1 University of Georgia Press 1988 ISBN 0 8203 0981 8 External links edithttp www dufoureditions com A Crockhead Abroad 24 November 2006 entry http myweb wvnet edu jelkins lp 2001 intro contemp pt1 html Archived 28 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine http peacecorpsonline org messages messages 467 2208463 html http forresterfamily org index php Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Gary Jeshel Forrester amp oldid 1218438313, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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