Super Friends

  WELCOME TO SUPER FRIENDS    This is still my son Whit's blog. His contributions to it ceased when he took his own life at USP Terre Haute. At 21 he had been sentenced to a 6 1/2 year sen...

https://whit-superfriends.blogspot.com/2023/05/welcome-to-super-friends-this-is-still.html

   Whoever you are from Kilwinning (or near), I hope you visit again! Scotland is close to our hearts, so much so that I placed a memorial plaque on a wee plot I purchased in his memory in Glen...

https://whit-superfriends.blogspot.com/2021/04/whoever-you-are-from-kilwinning-i-hope.html

It was 10 years ago today that Whit left us. We've all experienced grief, or will, and it's different for us all. None of us does it perfectly; what an implausible concept that is. One of my o...

https://whit-superfriends.blogspot.com/2019/04/remembering.html

If you're interested in seeing the play based on this, Whit's blog (see below), I had one of the performances video recorded and have DVDs available at no charge. Let me know and I'll send you on...

https://whit-superfriends.blogspot.com/2015/01/blogging-behind-bars.html

Saturday night was the final performance of Blogging Behind Bars, the play about Whit's last months at USP Terre Haute. It had been accepted for the 2014 Cincinnati Fringe Festival and the pre-fe...

https://whit-superfriends.blogspot.com/2014/06/blogging-behind-bars.html

This week the book I created based on Whit's blog was published. In addition to the complete blog in chronological order, it includes letters Whit and I (his dad) wrote to each other and a couple...

https://whit-superfriends.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-book-has-been-published-too.html

Blogging Behind Bars is the title of the play written, directed and produced by Jon Kovach, founder of Unity Productions. Jon is a local (Cincinnati) actor and artist with whom I collaborated to ...

https://whit-superfriends.blogspot.com/2014/04/blogging-behind-bars.html

Today Whit would have turned 30. Since so much of Whit's public legacy comes from his writing, I thought it appropriate to post a school writing piece he did at age 12.  I don't remember exact...

https://whit-superfriends.blogspot.com/2014/04/april-10-1984.html

Available very soon.

https://whit-superfriends.blogspot.com/2014/04/available-very-soon.html

I'm going to go only slightly out on a limb here and declare that there WILL be a stage version of Whit's life and death at USP Terre Haute this summer. I have connected with a production company...

https://whit-superfriends.blogspot.com/2013/10/finally.html

It's been a couple of years of fits and starts, hopes and disappointments, but I'm happy to report that there is positive movement. A fine, relatively new, socially conscious production company i...

https://whit-superfriends.blogspot.com/2013/06/progress-i-think.html

This is for Whit. He and I had promised to go to Scotland together when he came home. Last year I finally managed to go, without him.

https://whit-superfriends.blogspot.com/2013/04/four-years-ago-today.html

Do you have any theater contacts? Or know someone who knows someone? Repertory companies, college/university drama departments, community theater, anything, anywhere, in or out of the country. Le...

https://whit-superfriends.blogspot.com/2013/03/do-you-have-any-theater-contacts-or.html

This intro is unnecessary for those closest to me, but those others of you who have read Whit's blog may remember "Tiny," his only true friend at Terre Haute. His name is Gerald Duggan, and he w...

https://whit-superfriends.blogspot.com/2013/02/gerry-has-officially-made-it.html

There will be no workshop in January. Given how well (that's an understatement) the reading was received last April, I had really hoped that it would be a straight line to the workshop, but I'm a...

https://whit-superfriends.blogspot.com/2013/01/no-workshop.html

The workshop for Zina Camblin's play about Whit's life and death has been moved back from December to January. I will keep everyone posted as the actual date is scheduled. Jeff

https://whit-superfriends.blogspot.com/2012/10/workshop.html

A rehearsed workshop (including lighting and sound) for Whit's play is scheduled for December at the Ensemble Theater of Cincinnati . The exact date is not yet available, but I will post it as so...

https://whit-superfriends.blogspot.com/2012/09/workshop.html

If anyone would like a PDF of Whit's blog, please let me know. It's just Whit's actual posts and words spoken at his memorial, so it doesn't include my additions or the photos I put up, but it's ...

https://whit-superfriends.blogspot.com/2012/05/pdf-version.html

If you got here from the thread at PTO, thank you for reading Whit's blog. Unfortunately I (and others) was recently permanently banned from PTO because I/we also joined another site devoted to p...

https://whit-superfriends.blogspot.com/2012/04/prison-talk.html

Happy Birthday, dear Whit. 4/10/84-4/4/09

https://whit-superfriends.blogspot.com/2012/04/28.html

A reading (by the actors) of Zina Camblin 's play about Whit's life will take place on the evening of April 10 - his birthday. Venue is Know Theater, who are producing the play next fall. If you...

https://whit-superfriends.blogspot.com/2012/03/reading-of-whits-play.html

Gerry Duggan, Whit's closest friend, protector and confidante at Terre Haute, has also become a close friend of mine. If you've read the blog, you know him as "Tiny," but even those references do...

https://whit-superfriends.blogspot.com/2012/02/gerry.html

Life and times of an inmate at the United States Penitentiary in Terre Haute. Published by Whitney Smith.

https://whit-superfriends.blogspot.com/2011/12/santa-kid.html

A reading of the play about Whit's life, his time in prison and his death has been scheduled here (Cincinnati) at the theater for April 10. Whit's birthday. If you are interested in attending, le...

https://whit-superfriends.blogspot.com/2011/12/whits-play.html

New visitors everywhere from Rotterdam, Holland to Portland, Oregon today. Thank you one and all. Jeff, Whit's dad

https://whit-superfriends.blogspot.com/2011/12/visitors.html