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Hometown Featured in Boston Globe

It’s not often the Boston Globe has a column about one’s hometown—these correspondents featured it the travel section—yes, it’s a gem of a 340+ year-old town.  A TANK AWAY Hats off to the little river city of Amesbury  By Diane Bair and Pamela Wright Globe correspondents      June 11, 2013 Located on the banks of [Read more...]
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Do You Love Your Teacher?

Today I heard one boy’s answer— When I left New Jersey, leaving behind my work as the Director of Community Development at the Princeton Waldorf School in 1995, I didn’t know that when I settled in my hometown in northeast Massachusetts, I would learn of a group trying to start a Waldorf school in Portsmouth, [Read more...]
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Chinua Achebe—revered Nigerian author

Thousands mourned the literary giant Chinua Achebe at his hometown funeral today. He has been revered throughout the world for his depiction of Africa’s journey from the traditional to modern times. He was often very critical of the leaders of his native Nigeria. He had lived in the US since an accident in 1990 left [Read more...]
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It’s Spring—Go Outdoors!

Spring has finally arrived in New England.  Many of us have been indoors far too long—avoiding the perils of icy sidewalks or muddy trails and puddles. Two weeks ago I heard the song birds just before the dawn. Those of us who have a home office are freed from commuter traffic, but may also spend [Read more...]
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Comfort and Compassion

Many of us- even editors and publishers—discover that when tragedy strikes, the mind numbs and words cannot express feelings. This is when I appreciate the gift of writers. This sensitive and inspiring essay in a blog by Katrina Kenison (NH writer and former parent at the Lexington Waldorf School) may offer comfort. I’ve written about [Read more...]
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Pondering Passover with Puppets

Today marks the beginning of Passover and I am including a link to a blog post written by Durga Bernhard, the illustrator of our Make Way for Reading.  Durga shares her experience of working with a class on this theme. Four Archetypes of Learning    http://durgabernhard.com/bookblog
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Growing Easter Grass

By the end of the post, you’ll see the final result of my growing some grass for an Easter basket. About a week ago, I purchased winterberry wheat seeds from a local natural foods grocer. If you can’t find those, then you might use “Cat Grass” which you might locate in a feed or a [Read more...]
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“Real” grass for your Easter Basket

Why not use “real” grass instead of using plastic shredded grass for your Easter decorations?  It’s not too late. If you have a week—or even a day or so less than a week, here are photographs showing examples of our family’s table decorations grown in time for Easter Sunday in past years. Look through your [Read more...]
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Fresh Air and the Arts

This is a sad commentary on the arts and recess disappearing from many schools.  This cartoon was posted on the AWSNA Facebook page Feb 1.  
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A Rich, “Must-Have” Anthology

Anthologies are some of the most useful books one can have in a library—I love perusing through them. Here one can find collections of short stories, plays as well as poetry—all selected by one or more editors or a publishing house. One of the most important collections for families in the last century (including my [Read more...]
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