“Making of” Video is here! March 6, 2008
The Temple University students who have worked with the Village video class put together their own videos. Last spring, in May 2007, I interviewed and edited together a video of a mentor and dear friend of mine, Ike Johnstone, as part of an assignment in which Professor Eugene Martin asked that we profile a community leader in North Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Daily News profiled him in August 2006, mentioning the many successes of the 37-year veteran of the Temple police force.
ISAAC “Ike” Johnstone, 67, watched the children grooming the horses in his Fairmount Park corral and remembered when his son, Lance, was 12 and “so skinny his football coach was going to kick him off the team because he was afraid Lance would get hurt.” Johnstone and his wife hit upon the idea of spending family weekends at a Brewerytown stable, hoping that “messing with big, powerful horses would build up Lance’s strength and self-confidence.” “Well,” Johnstone said, laughing, “it sure did.” After a standout football career at Temple University, Lance Johnstone has spent the last 10 years playing defensive end for the Minnesota Vikings and the Oakland Raiders in the National Football League - and funding his father’s free horseback-riding sessions for some of the city’s most endangered children.
I made a shorter cut, but, below, see its long form, original state.
Today, we officially launched this blog, for the video class of the Village of Arts and Humanities. Here we will share all of the videos we make at the Village in the Fairhill neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pa.This is meant to give a regularly updated form of 
