ML163438

影音備註

Subject 1: (Interview). Subtitle: Elsa Steger, Peter Breslow. Timecode In: 00:00:54. Timecode out: 00:10:19. Notes: Personal history discussion. Subject 2: (Interview). Subtitle: Will Steger, Peter Breslow. Timecode In: 00:22:48. Timecode out: 01:21:03. Subject 3: (Interview). Subtitle: Will Steger, Peter Breslow. Timecode In: 01:23:12. Timecode out: 01:52:26. Notes: Random conversations around the cabin. NPR/NGS RADIO EXPEDITIONS WILL STEGER AND PETER BRESLOW ELY, MN APRIL 1, 1997 LOG OF DAT 4 Flawn -this is the second tape with the omni's pair, we will pick up right after lunch 00:55 Elsa Steger -married jan of 1995, in the Phillipines ....Will was there in '93 ....he is very calm (she describes how they met, she was a civil engineer there, biggest shock for her was snow -in Phillipines the weather is always like summer -will says it is hot or too hot, she describes arriving for the first time in MN ...will showed her pictures ... i'm a city girl, asked herself what she is doing here -but she finds it peaceful ...but here it is only will and me, the birds, dogs, not even a car passes by) 6:47 PB -so have you been here while will has been away on an expedition? Elsa -not really PB -and what do you anticipate? Elsa -umm, i try not to think about it -if i worry, it sends off negative ...will says he feels it kinda of like that, so i try not to think about it. PB -so he will be gone, what, a couple of months? Elsa -yeah, 50 days. 7:19 PB -so, do you have an actual role in this expedition from this end? Elsa -I don't know, I think I just the way i support him ....no really in the education and technology -i just buut in some things that i know that can be of some help and that's it. PB -how about in the preparation? have you been involved at all? Elsa -no. i don't know anything about it, and will knows everything about it. i just help in packing, and things like that -but not in the big stuff .... 7:58 PB -well at least he will be gone in the summertime .... Elsa -he has plenty of assignments of he wants me to do .... (laughter) PB -what about eating? Elsa -(she talks about eating a lot of friend and fatty foods ¬not caring what is on the labels -very different eating habits than will) ...but i like it -i like the way it is PB -so do you go back to the phillipines? Elsa -yeah, i go back as often as i can -i was there last january...will was away, and i don't like to be alone here in the winter for a month 10:34 -LOOSE DOUBLE OMNI GOING DOWN TO LIGHT THE SAUNA ¬walking through wet snow, windy 10:58 -walking on harder ground 13:16 -hitting something? cutting wood? dripping in bg ¬walking around in snow, throwing logs, **G AMBI/FX 15:07-19:55 roar of fire starts, soft in bg, gets stronger, clanging, wind, fire crackling, 18:16 -filling something with water? walking up satirs into sauna? 18:51 getting into sauna 19:06 filling something with water, (Will sighs) 19:56-21:24 ambi inside sauna (quiet, occasional soft bang of a tin? some dripping, 21:25 -inside sauna, people come inside, footsteps insie, walking outside of sauna 21:57-22:08 ambi -outside of sauna MAIN INTERVIEW WITH WILL -OUTSIDE 22:45 PB -what was your main -you talked a little about how your parents sorta let you do what you wanted as a kid -but actual real expedition stuff, how did that come about and when? 23:03 WS -when i was in 4th grade the first book i read as a kid was THE ADVENTURES OF HUCK FINN, and i was really inspired by the book and those stories down the river, and since we lived by the mississippi river in minneapolis i was aware of the river and i was aware that it flowed south all the way to new orleans and that always captivated my curiousity. so when i was 12 i got a wooden outboard motor boat and i fixed it up with an old motor, and i fixed it up to a point where i could trade it in, an... (Notes truncated)