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 | Jan 13, 2012 | photographs, Politics, Sustainability, Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival
Nevada City, California For many years now, residents of Nevada City have understood that people can save a river. Lately, California budget assaults on Yuba River State Parks have spearheaded a new campaign of activism; local students have been gathering signatures...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Jan 13, 2012 | Farming, Sustainability, Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival
Part of my coverage of the 10th annual Wild and Scenic Film Festival: January 13-15, 2012, in Nevada City, CA. They were expecting to be doctors, accountants, lawyers, chemists, physicists, historians, anthropologists. Instead, the twenty some, twenty-something...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Jan 6, 2012 | Community |
My boys are with other moms tonight, being fed, driven, loved up, cheered for. Just made dinner for four other boys I love, whose moms are dancing or relaxing or making love or celebrating. “Thanks!” they chorused to the spagetti, French bread, and salad,...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Dec 28, 2011 | Community, Essays
I wrote this almost twenty years ago now, and I still smile at the memories it conjures. We’re planning on staying home again on this “amateur night”, although the party at Nevada City Classic Cafe does beckon me. I just hate to drive that evening;...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Dec 11, 2011 | Community, Essays, Sustainability |
“It’s coming on Christmas They’re cutting down trees They’re putting up reindeer And singing songs of joy and peace Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on” Joni Mitchell It’s mid December again, smack dab in the middle of the holiday season....
