The Paramount did more to improve race relations in Goldsboro, than any focus group or town hall meeting has in at least 5 years. Thank you to Sherry Archibald and the Paramount for bringing “Life is So Good” to our town. The two man play chronicled the life of Richard Glaubman, a man who learned to read at the age of 98. The play was a poignant, yet humorous reflection of the history of racial inequality in America. Ironically, through a weaving in and out of over 20 characters throughout the play, Mike Wiley and David zum Brunnen provide us a glimpse of true racial equality; even if only on that stage. They each played white and black characters and were critical and sympathetic to both. It transformed them from a white man and a black man into actors, with no affiliation of skin color. The story they told was not black history or white history, but American history. And as I looked around the audience, the equality that began on the stage was contagious to us all, as we became not white people and black people but just people; just good people, enjoying an evening at the Paramount, all together.
-MATTHEW L. YOUNG, Lt Col, USAFR, Seymour Johnson AFB, NC
