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Subject: (Interview). Subtitle: Stephen G. Miller. Timecode In: 00:01:20. Timecode out: 01:14:51. Notes: Nemean Games. Equipment Notes: Split Track and Decoded MS Stereo. Show: Greece - Olympics Log of DAT #: 4 Engineer: Josh Rogosin Date: June 14, 2004 SM = Stephen Miller CJ = Chris Joyce JG = Jessica Goldstein DAT 4: 1:00 Description of Dat tape this is, MS stereo. 1:20 SM and the other side of the hill was a town, a good size town that was in ancient times called (Greek word) but in the mid evil period called St. George, or Ius yorgus (sp) (Greek word) and it was a prosperous town it produced wine, the local wine that make it, the grapes is called I erore get to go (sp Greek word) or the St. George grape because of the mid evil name of that town. But in the 1880¿s, just about the same time this valley was going to be drained the railroad came through and the mayor of Ius Vorgus, (Sp) of St, George said that name sucks. I want a really good name that is going to get a lot of attention. What do we know around here, well here was Nemean, here were the ancient games. I¿m going to re-christen my town Nemean, so that became Nemean. This little village came into existence and they couldn¿t call themselves Neamean, because the name was already taken. So they called themselves Herculean (sp) after Hercules¿Then in the 1950¿s the mayor of this town said ¿Hey the stole our name,¿ so he sued the mayor of the other town called Nemean trying to get his name back. The compromise was reached in courts that that town would officially be called Neanamea and this town would be called Archaenemaea, except for it still hasn¿t taken and it¿ll be another generation before this town is really known locally as Archaeanemea, I mean everyone else knows it as that way. But when you come into the area and you ask, I want to go to Nemean (ambi frogs and crickets?) people direct you to the other town. Not to here, and this has led to great frustrations for tourists who go to the other town and look around ¿I don¿t see a temple, I don¿t see a stadium, what¿s going on here? Where am I?¿ So we¿ve had to be very careful and get signs up, that specify this is ancient Nemean and that¿s Neanemea. They are politically now a unit. There was a consolidation a few years ago that all the little villages in the area are called Nemean, ancient Nemean of Nemean. As opposed to, for example, another town called Kuzamatae (sp) of Nemean, or Gimnotse (sp) of Nemean. 4:00 Chatter between Josh and others about levels and recording. 4:15 CJ so, we¿re standing in the stadium, at the starting block and there¿s this device that was invented to start the runners. Can you tell me a bit about how it works? 4:26 SM Well it¿s based on the principle of the catapult, and indeed once we understood that fact, that the catapult technology was involved with the invention of the starting mechanism then it was relatively easy to put it together because we have the cuttings in the stone base, which reflect the wooden elements, which originally went in them. And the wooden elements themselves form the frame of the catapult, within which are ropes, which are twisted, and antiquity we¿re told the hair of women of a certain village in Western Asia Minor was the preferred material, but we use hemp modern, hemp ropes and our reconstruction. They are twisted around to provide tension, to provide energy, which is going to drive downward, the arm, where as in a catapult you throw you arm upward to hurl the missile or whatever it is you¿re throwing. Here you want to throw the arm down to the ground and the barrier cords that are tied to the arms, that keep the runners from starting will go down onto the ground as well, but thrown down fast so that when the starter calls the signal and rips the release cable (CLAP) BAM it goes down, And you¿ll hear that ... (Notes truncated)
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