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Hooking & Heritage Skills Lessons, On Your Terms

Hooking & Heritage Skills Lessons, On Your Terms 0

Want to learn to hook? Already hook and want to learn more? Or maybe you'd like to learn some other heritage skill? I recently had a student call t...
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Learning to Trust the Journey - Four Days on the Schooner J&E Riggin

Learning to Trust the Journey - Four Days on the Schooner J&E Riggin 0

 The J&E Riggin in her home port at Rockland, Maine, shortly before we boarded. As many of you know, I was aboard the Schooner J&E Riggin f...
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Blondie, MassMoCA, the Susan B. Anthony Birthplace, Shaker Museums, Dogs, and the Impossibility of Failure – Part 2

Blondie, MassMoCA, the Susan B. Anthony Birthplace, Shaker Museums, Dogs, and the Impossibility of Failure – Part 2 0

Detail from a hand quilted replica of a quilt made by Susan B. Anthony at the Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Musuem. (If you have not read "Part 1,"...
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Blondie, MassMoCA, the Susan B. Anthony Birthplace, Shaker Museums, Dogs, and the Impossibility of Failure - Part 1

Blondie, MassMoCA, the Susan B. Anthony Birthplace, Shaker Museums, Dogs, and the Impossibility of Failure - Part 1 0

 These get explained at the end of Part 2. Last weekend my husband, Bill, and I took a mini vacation trip out to Western Massachusetts. The primary...
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Honoring Thoreau on His 201st Birthday

Honoring Thoreau on His 201st Birthday 0

Many readers know that I refer to Henry David Thoreau as my "dead soulmate." He came in to the world two hundred and one years ago today, making it...
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An Informal Video Tour of the Work Studio at the Parris House

An Informal Video Tour of the Work Studio at the Parris House 0

Something a little different for this post... I haven't gotten a lot done this week because I've been recovering from a very nasty ankle injury, bu...
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