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 | 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 | Feb 6, 2011 | Abbey Country, Essays, Farmers Markets, Sustainability
February 6, 2011 Downtown Portland, Oregon This last week, traveling in one day from Sierra Vista, Arizona to Portland, Oregon was a bit like stepping from Edward Abbey’s Good News into Ernest Callenbach’s Ecotopia. On each count this is an...
