by Carolyn M. Crane | Aug 28, 2011 | Education, Essays
This essay is from the archives; I wrote it in 1998 about my oldest son, Forrest, now an honor student at Portland State, studying Russian and history. We home schooled from 2nd through 7th grades. I hope he learned half as much as I did. In early August the memories...
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 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 | Apr 12, 2011 | Community, Education, Sustainability |
Each May for many years now, Nevada City resident Mary Moore has donated one of her handmade quilts to the North San Juan Fire Auxiliary’s Scotch Broom Breakfast raffle. A nationally known quilting queen and artisan, Moore is incredible unassuming and humble...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Mar 28, 2011 | Education, Essays, Polemics, Politics
“And these children that you spit on As they try to change their worlds Are immune to your consultations They’re quite aware of what they’re going through” –David Bowie For a few weeks now, in response to the union crisis in the Midwest,...
