Back in year 2001 or so, and after having been an HTM fanatic since 1982, I found a couple of Web sites online featuring stuff about Happy The Man. One of the sites had e-addresses for Stan Whitaker and Frank Wyatt.
I wrote to both, and within a couple of days had a contract with Launch magazine (now owned by Yahoo), to pen a meaty piece on Happy The Man--who were reforming after nearly 20 years formal separation.
The deadline was impossible (like, 4 days...), and Launch's editor was a bitch/control-freak. Also, due to the deadline crunch (and other factors, which I won't go into), a couple of HTM's members either didn't dig certain quotes attributed to them, or couldn't quite get their minds around the fact that a 4-day deadline and a 40hr/week teaching job are a hard thing to juggle.
Regardless: I LIKE IT. And apparently so do a few prominent HTM members.
Here it be, again:
www.fargonebooks.com/happytheman.html
I wrote to both, and within a couple of days had a contract with Launch magazine (now owned by Yahoo), to pen a meaty piece on Happy The Man--who were reforming after nearly 20 years formal separation.
The deadline was impossible (like, 4 days...), and Launch's editor was a bitch/control-freak. Also, due to the deadline crunch (and other factors, which I won't go into), a couple of HTM's members either didn't dig certain quotes attributed to them, or couldn't quite get their minds around the fact that a 4-day deadline and a 40hr/week teaching job are a hard thing to juggle.
Regardless: I LIKE IT. And apparently so do a few prominent HTM members.
Here it be, again:
www.fargonebooks.com/happytheman.html
