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Here are some of the Special Surprises that made our trip so great: 1.
The Prize for
Chromatically
Appropriate Attire
2. The Man Who Saved Pasaquan 3. The Man Who Wrote the Book 4. The Director of Impromptu Entertainment 5. The Architect, Preservationist & Historian 6. The Restored Theatre and the Church 7. The Work of Art Bonus: The Levitation Suit The Fourth Special Surprise 4. Phyllis Horne is an extraordinary vocalist and trouble-maker who was appointed "Director of Impromptu Entertainment" for our Journey to Pasaquan. She is a former Nashville recording artist, and her music now trends toward jazz-pop. Also a talented song writer, Phyllis has had her music recorded by such notables as Willie Nelson. We have no idea what she was going to do on this trip!  The following modest
biographical sketch reveals only a few hints of how dangerous this
woman really is:Phyllis Horne. No middle name. Born in this incarnation as the first of six children to Charles Horne and Dessie McCoy on Aug 23, 1955. Graduated high school in 1973 with 23 other students from Ogden High School, in the community of Liddieville, Louisiana. Community and school named after Ms. Liddie Ogden. No more is known about Ms. Ogden than this. After a stunningly unsuccessful 8 years in Nashville, due to the fact that the female protagonists in her songs were far too independent for the patriarchal music industry to allow their female artists to record, and that she simply could not continue singing the same 500 - 600 songs night after night in bars, and that the Willie Nelson cover of her Cold November Wind on his Island in the Sea CD didn’t sell NEARLY as well as Always on my Mind, and the lackluster performance of her first album, (Phyllis Horne) she gratefully began working as a freelance writer and producer of film and video. After moving to Washington, DC in 1990, she was forced to purchase her first business suit and worked for 3 years for Pracon, a pharmaceutical marketing company. In 1993, now owning 3 business suits, she opened her own company, which has managed to grow into a reasonably successful business, mostly thanks to the Indian Health Service. Horne, with her small town wit, says, “Who knew there was a government agency called the Indian Health Service and that they would need marketing, advertising and training? It just goes to show that no matter how bad you think things are, you should keep going because you never know what’s around the corner.” She has continued to write and sing and in 1994 released Nouveau Torch, a collection of original jazz-pop style songs featuring lyrics that (if paid attention to) should offset the damage done by listening to traditional jazz pop standards, which are lovely, but have excruciatingly masochistic lyrics. This second release was critically acclaimed (“….another kettle of fish…”), played on 150 jazz radio stations but did not sell enough to reduce the significant debt incurred during production and promotion. Therefore, she has quietly slunk off the music scene, and when not working at the company she runs, quietly writes and performs a capella on her deck of her Reston, VA home, for area residents who pass by there while walking their dogs.  
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