by Carolyn M. Crane | Jun 8, 2012 | Abbey Country, Back Yard Days, photographs, Sustainability |
Hummer has been slang for hummingbird since 1868, when Titus Fey Cronise used the term in The Natural Wealth of California. For birders, the term refers to one of dozens of species of hummingbirds rather than obscenely big cars or bedroom frolics. Having spent some...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Apr 6, 2012 | Back Yard Days, Community, Friends of Bloody Run Creek, Mining, Sustainability, Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival |
When I covered the Wild and Scenic Film Festival last January, I wrote a piece called “Occupy Confluences”. It’s about creating new systems, the blue lines on the map, and what inspired me to be a more active steward of the two watersheds that...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Jan 19, 2012 | Farming, Polemics, Sustainability, Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival
Nevada City, California This piece wraps up my coverage of the 2012 Wild and Scenic Film Festival. Last weekend at Wild and Scenic, a drama named BEE made its world premiere. (I don’t know why the filmmakers capitalized the title as if it were an...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Jan 16, 2012 | Community, Essays, Sustainability, Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival |
Nevada City, California On the opening night of Wild and Scenic, John Trudell addressed a packed house at the Nevada Theatre. I’ve heard him speak before, even spoken with him. His words are so potent, his message so rich, it’s difficult to paraphrase, or...
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 15, 2012 | Farming, Sustainability, Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival
Nevada City, California photos courtesy of Whirled Beet Productions The Quest for Local Honey (Part One) had its world premier yesterday at the Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival. Wild and Scenic combs the globe for the best environmental films; it is rare...
