You won't see this in any polls, but high gas prices are effecting one of the most successful community art projects in history: Swamp Gravy in south Georgia. Playwright Jules Corriere, posting "Ticket Drought" in CPI's guest blog on CAN (see the CAN front page), says high gas prices may kill the 15-year-old community performance project, created anew by CPI and the whole community of Miller County every summer. Swamp Gravy has famously elevated the economy of the county, especially that of SG's home town, Colquitt. The little community is thriving, with lots of new businesses in the square that survive on the tourist trade -- thousands who flock to performances every summer from all over the country. Colquitt is, says Corriere, "a hundred miles from the nearest anything," and for the first time in its history, Swamp Gravy ticket sales are down. If the gas crisis and the ticket drought continue all summer, it could crush not only Swamp Gravy, but the local economy. Talk about social change.

   

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