Night at the Upcountry Museum

This morning I filmed an interview with Max Heller, the 88-year-old former mayor of Greenville who was the primary force behind the city's change from a grungepot ("there was grass growing on Main Street," he said) to a thriving, corporation-luring hive of activity.

Arriving here in the US in 1938, he reflected calmly on American anti-Semitism: "It was minimal. Nothing seemed bad to me after Hitler."

This afternoon I hung out at the Upcountry History Museum that I'm shooting footage for on behalf of Michael Schaffer Productions (I'm the cameraman and Director of Photography). I got a chance to see production drawings of the Museum's different areas and it's amazing to watch the bare walls become large-scale exhibits. Having said that, riht now it's a lot like me first thing in the morning - the lights are on but nobody's home.

Walking through the place after those lights had been turned out, I half expected a dinosaur skeleton to start chasing me as in Night at the Museum. Or at least, considering this is the Upcountry, a wild hog and a runaway Nascar automobile. It didn't happen though. Ben Stiller has all the luck.