by Carolyn M. Crane | May 30, 2011 | Essays, Politics |
thinking of my dad today….this essay is from the archives My father died six days after the eleventh of September, 2001, and he was well enough for most of those days to glimpse the television, which for some horrible reason they encouraged him to watch. He...
by Carolyn M. Crane | May 23, 2011 | Abbey Country, Education, Sustainability |
Photographs from Abbey Country “It pleases me, loving rivers.” Raymond Carver The San Pedro River flows north from Mexico into southeastern Arizona. It is one of the last free flowing rivers in the Southwest. At the San Pedro River Riparian National Conservation...
by Carolyn M. Crane | May 20, 2011 | Abbey Country, Community, Farmers Markets, Sustainability |
Twenty years ago, my parents moved from the Sierra–near where I still call home–to a town called Sierra Vista in southeastern Arizona, near the Mexican border. For two decades I’ve visited–first them– and then just Mom after my dad...
by Carolyn M. Crane | May 18, 2011 | Community, Education
Each year for fourteen years now, Dale and Diane Jacobson have hosted the Medieval Games at their dude ranch just outside Nevada City. Last May 13, over two hundred sixth graders from Waldorf or Waldorf-inspired schools attend the games, from as far away as Chico,...
by Carolyn M. Crane | May 5, 2011 | Essays |
an essay from the archives… I am sixteen. I am a Catholic Air Force brat transplanted to the suburb of Alta Sierra. My parents have warned me that nearby Nevada City is a town full of dangerous artists and homosexuals. I write for the high school paper, and...
