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A Distant Memory as seen in The Sun Chronicle News

A Distant Memory, News, Projects
Jul 142010
Sun Chronicle A Distant Memory

Sun Chronicle article: A Distant Memory

Jennifer Field and her one Woman Show a Distant Memory were featured in the Sun Chronicle.  Here is the Sun Chronicle News Article reprint of “A Distant Memory“ (in pdf format).

This is a reprint of the Sun Chronicle article about A Distant Memory featuring J Field Foundation founder Jennifer Field, from October 10, 2007.  The original article can be seen online here.

Click here to see the  A Distant Memory Show Schedule at the JField Foundation website, or click here to contact the J Field Foundation to schedule A Distant Memory Show at your venue.

Text of The Sun Chronicle article:

 

‘A Distant Memory’

BY MICHAEL GELBWASSER SUN CHRONICLE STAFF
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
 
 
When Jennifer Field attended Wheaton College, she needed extra help and time on her tests.
 
And Evelyn Staudinger Lane was more than happy to provide it.
 
A near-fatal car crash at age 17 put Field in a coma – “not like the Hollywood version,” she says – for two months, and left her brain damaged. She spent the next decade, including her college years, rehabilitating. The injury continues to affect her.
 
Lane, an associate professor of art history, says she can relate. Her husband suffered a serious head injury in a car accident of his own. On Thursday at 7:30 p.m., Field will perform an autobiographical one-woman show, “A Distant Memory,” at Wheaton, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in art history in 2000. She graduated magna cum laude. The show, which opened in October 2005, follows Field from her 11 years as a champion equestrian, to her Nov. 17, 1992, accident, in which her car slid on an icy New Hampshire road and crashed into a tractor-trailer, to learning to walk, talk and use her right arm again, to traveling the globe trying therapies.
 
While at Wheaton, Field hopes to reunite with one of her inspirations, Lane, her former art history professor and adviser.
 
The two still keep in touch.
 
“She has really been an incredible role model to me,” Field said. “She gave me a lot of extra help, unlimited time on examinations. We just bonded.”
 
“I can’t wait to see Professor Lane.”

Two of Lane’s classes will be in the audience, partly because the admiration is mutual. “She says I’m a role model. She’s really a role model for me,” Lane said. 

 
Lane says Field was among 15 Wheaton students who helped organize and write a 140-page senior seminar catalog of 75 Wheaton artworks.  The college now has a collection of three catalogs, Lane said.“She was an inspiration when she was here,” Lane said. “To have her come back and meet with a new group of students …”

Field says she is still affected by the injury to this day.

“I have trouble with words sometimes. Writing is difficult. If something is hard for you, it would be 10 times as hard for me,” she said. “My whole purpose for this show is to help people, to be an inspiration.”

Now a poet, painter and an acting student in California, Field said she got the idea for her show after seeing the one-man show, “Time Flies When You’re Alive” with Paul Linke.

Writing helped her with her emotional recovery from her crash.

“I needed to have a purpose,” Field said. “What I really was subconsciously trying to find was the feeling I had being on a horse.

“Instead of training my horse, I now was training myself.”

Thursday’s show is a new version of her first one.

“It’s like putting my whole life out there,” Field said. “A lot of people would be scared to do that. I don’t know why.”

For more information, visit www.jfieldfoundation.org.

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Apr 202010

Featured Video News:  JField Foundation Founder Jennifer Field interviewed by Growing Bolder

 

In 2010, the J Field Foundation is expanding its project scope as well as has undertaken several interesting projects. Subscribe for updates on these exciting events.  Here JField Foundation founder Jennifer Field is interviewed by Growing Bolder, watch the full video below.

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Video Courtesy of Growing Bolder, Published 4/1/10

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