by Stephanie Hayes | May 16, 2016 | Education, Essays, Travel |
There is a well-documented phenomenon called the foreign language effect. This is something that occurs when an individual is learning a third (or fourth or fifth) language. As the learner runs into difficulty with the new language, the second language jumps in to...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Apr 26, 2016 | Education, Essays, Politics |
Lakia always sat in the back of my class. Not in the back row, even, but in one of the few chairs that ended up against the back wall. Her writing started out decent and gradually improved to good. She never volunteered to speak in class. Her features were strong and...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Jan 17, 2012 | Community, Education, photographs, Politics, Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival |
Nevada City, California Some random captures of the Wild and Scenic Film Festival, January 13-15, 2012.
by Carolyn M. Crane | Jan 16, 2012 | Community, Education, Sustainability, Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival |
Nevada City, California On the closing afternoon of Wild and Scenic, well over a hundred people sat in the Foundry’s Stone Hall to watch My Father Who Are in Nature. Many of us knew the man who inspired the film, the filmmaker’s father, John Olmsted, the...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Jan 14, 2012 | Community, Education, Farmers Markets, Farming, Sustainability, Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival
In the 1970s, Flint, Michigan was the richest city per capita in the United States. Now, it is the poorest. The population has declined 40% while violent crime has increased inversely. Buildings are boarded up. People are in despair. In the heyday of General Motors,...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Sep 9, 2011 | Education, Essays, Polemics, Politics, Uncategorized |
“In every culture in decline, the watchful ones among the slaves know that all that is genuine will be scorned or conned or cast away.” Joni Mitchell Recently, this blurb has been circulating Facebook: “As a child I saw Tarzan almost naked, Cinderella arrived...
