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The duo's success took off in 1962, and their spin of popular recordings and concerts whirled them into 1970, when they began going their separate ways. With two decades of mostly in- dependent ventures, which in- cluded Mr. Garfunkel's renditions of "Two Sleepy People" for the movieA League of Their Own and the theme song for the television series "Brookly-n Bridge," the two were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990. "I feel there are songs in me, but there must be a block because I can't get them out even if I shake my sleeves," joked Mr. Gar- funkel, who in the '80s wrote a book of prose poems, Still Water. While his travels for work have taken him across many water- ways, Mr. Garfunkel has moved on to the land for his own style of recreational travel, using an itin- erary that takes him on a walk- ing tour from the East Coast to the West Coast of the United States. "I hatched the idea back in the '80s, when "I visited Japan for the first time," said Mr. Garfunkel, the son of a traveling salesman. "I checked whatever baggage I had into a little hotel and began to walk through the rice fields across the country and found that it was all quite feasible. When the sun went down, there always was some inn or place to stay. "In the late '80s, I began a walk across America. I left my apart- ment in New York City and walked eight days across New Jersey, trekking about six hours a day on the smallest country road I could find that was going west and then staying at motels at night. "I came back to New York af- ter the week and found another chance a month later. I picked up on the exact spot on the road where I left off and carried it for- ward. Since then, there have been about 20 different trips. Pm now in Montana about to cross into Idaho." Mrs. Garfunkel, whose intro- duction to her husband was through a photographer who had worked with both of them and thought they shared some com- mon interests, has joined her hus- band on parts of the trip, taking in the sights of West Virginia and some of the Midwest. His route went south of Michi- gan into Kentucky and around Illinois. In addition to appreciating the lessons in sociology, rural archi- tecture and the topography of the land he believes he gains through these walks, Mr. Garfunkel en- joys riding motorcycles, reading fiction and nonfiction, skiing, playing tennis and rooting for the Philadelphia Phillies. "I used to be very intense, but intensity and perfectionism can be a pain to others," he com- mented. "There's no sense in be- ing right if the other party doesn't care and doesn't like you for it. In order to be a realist and work in this world, I really had to soften a bit. "I have a wonderful marriage and a 3-year-old son, the first child in my life. Being happily married and being loved daily for the last five years has really cooled me out." Maple/Drake Fairy Tale Hansel and Gretel for children will be staged at the Aaron DeRoy Theatre at the Maple/Drake Jew- ish Community Center Aug. 3 and 10 at 7:30 p.m. It is geared for chil- dren 2-10 years. Tickets can be purchased at the JCC box office; for informa- tion, call the Cultural Arts de- partment, 661-1011. Yiddish Concert In The Park The annual Yiddish Concert in the Park will get an updated sound this year with a perfor- mance by the Klezmer Fusion Band. It will be held July 31 at 7 p.m. in Shepherd Park in Oak Park, at Church and Northfield. The concert is free. Concert goers are encouraged to bring chairs and sunshade. Acoustic Music Conceit Set Pianist Pierre Fracalanza will ap- pear in concert at Macomb Cen- ter for the Performing Arts July 31 at 4 p.m. Mr. Fracalanza will present a musical event combining state- of-the-art acoustic and electron- ic musical instruments including the Yamaha Disklavier and Yamaha MIDI Grand Acoustic Pianos. He will show how new technology involving music and computers has reached the world of acoustic pianos. This hour-long program will feature music for all ages includ- Tickets can be purchased' through the Macomb Center box office, (810) 286-2222. K