Topic 11 of 27: Farm Net News
Wed, Feb 16, 2000 (08:22) |
Paul Terry Walhus (terry)
Karen Flaherty just took over the reins of FNN, and I just got my first issue yesterday.
Farm Net News
c/o Karen Flaherty
1136 Azalea Drive
Tallahassee, FL 32301
$25/yr subscription
3 responses total.
Topic 11 of 27 [farm]: Farm Net News
Response 1 of 3: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Feb 16, 2000 (08:22) * 13 lines
I got my Winter 2000 issue of the Farm Net News from Karen Flaherty yesterday, "whirling rainbow news and connecting all generations of the Farm Family". Sylvia retired from doing it after 15 years. So this will give me something to comment on in these Farm topics for a bit.
Karen lives in Tallahassee FL with her mom these days and is still pretty active with Plenty, the Farm's relief organization. She had to struggle with her first issue, with her aging computer crashing (the "worst crash ever"), her internet provider shifting addresses on her, and her travels to Domnica and other places.
Space cadet turned MD Jack Wolf sent in an entertaining letter about his reefer experiences ("I do know that if I continued taking joint breaks every two hours I'd still be wandering around the motor pool looking for my 1/2 socket instead of being able to help bring sanity and comfort to my fellow human beings."). He's supporting a Burmese family this month at his North Carolina home.
Karen writes a Domnica report. She met up with Casta Calderon and Chuck Haren, who flew to Miami from Austin. They flew to the northeast coast of Dominica, home to the last durviving traces of the Carib race, where they met with the members of the Karifuna Tribal Council, a young group of community activists who Chuck had helped to get a grant from New England Biolabs. Karen met with womens groups from all over the island in another meeting.
They're setting up a computer lab at the Waikada community center with donated computers.
"I satyed at the Bionics Women's Cooperative and Guesthouse, which as room enough for a dozen people with a small kitchen and bathroom. Resting in the hammock out the back porch, I thought about the people I'd met, and while gazing at gorgeous views down the mountains to the ocean, coconut palms swaying as seabreeze brings the afteroon rain, I could hear a mucical mosaic of drums, reggae radio, children singing and strains of Cher's latest song" ".. if you beleive in love .. in love " .. It was a wonderful blend of the sounds and spirit that emanate from Dominica, and reinforced the sense of being in a special place at a time with great potential for preservation, before globalization gobbles it up." - Karen
Karens kids, Ellie and Satya, are both in Hawaii. Ellie is going to the Community College taking Environmental Science and Satya's in Paia watching dolphins swim.
Topic 11 of 27 [farm]: Farm Net News
Response 2 of 3: The Farm still lives (sprin5) * Mon, Mar 19, 2001 (09:20) * 27 lines
I heard from Karen today, she has a new email.
mailto://karens@favaca.org
She writes:
Hi --Not yet, hoping to get this issue out by end of the month. You did
get the last double issue in Dec. didn't you? Do you have anything you
want to include in this issue? If so, email me here, as I still don't
have internet at home yet--though I did get my brother's old PC hooked
up (unfortunately all my files and peripherals are Mac based, so I'm
don't have Pagemaker, etc. and my scanner's on the fritz, so it's taking
some time and money to get myself back to where I was last fall.)
Karen
"Paul Walhus (by way of Peter Schweitzer)" wrote:
> Haven't received a FNN. Is it out?
>
> Paul
I wrote and told her that if she gets Davaviz' Conversions Plus she can
pop those old Mac disks right in her pc.
Topic 11 of 27 [farm]: Farm Net News
Response 3 of 3: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Jun 27, 2001 (16:51) * 65 lines
Got the new Farm Net News today. Winter 2001 Issue.
Volume 14 Issue 18
The Farm is holding Ragweed on July 3 - 8 this year. Looks like a lot of
fun with a "Black Swan Cafe" , home tours, swimmin' at the old swimmin'
hole, archive videos on the new 60" tv in the meeting hall, golf match,
and skits.
http://www.thefarmcommunity.com (link for 30 yr celebration. Username
Farmie passowrd ragweed
Robert and Virginia Gleser wrote about their sailboat trip from SF to La
Paz for 4 months afloat "communing with the sky, wind, islands, natures,
birts, dolphins, whales, seals, sting rays and fish of all sorts." They
used their ham radio for email and communicating.
Ellie Flaherty is on the big island of Hawaii mailto://ellie@hawaii.edu
and she's getting an associates degree in liberal arts and performing
dance concerts. She's elfygirl@webtv.net, must have a box hooked up to
her tv set.
Leonna Heavens, daughter of Deborah, is on a 5 acre organic farm 35 miles
NW of Eugene, Oregon. leonnaheavens@hotmail.com.
Brian Wilkinson and Susan have beocme a clown troupe out of Willits,
CAlifornia and studied with Patch Adams. http://www.clownism.com
clownafornia@hotmail.com
Richard and Linda Speel have started a "New Land Fund" to start a retreat
place in Northern California (we're starting one here in central Texas, and
their example has inspired me to start a similar land trust and conference
center in Texas.
(See http://www.wholetech.com to see details on our land trust with it's
conference center). There's a conversation going on at
http://www.sfgate.com/conferences (topic Starting Community Again)
Check with tex@well.com on the above url and conference, etc.
Susan Goldberg and Richard Herring got "wed up".
So did Suzanne Suarez and Kevin. ssuarez@ij.net. Suzanne's doing her
attorney work now in Tampa, FL. Stephen married 'em on the white sandy
beach at sunset. October 28th, 2000.
Peter Schweitzer chipped in a Plenty report. He talks about Melanie and
Greg doing the Belize project after an intense search for the new Program
Coordinator.
Cliff Figallo and Nancy (Rhine) got married and are in a business called
"SociAlchemy" advising on web based communication systems. They are
project managers for http://www.ahi.org which the American Health
Organization. All nine of their kids (combined) are "in school or working
hard".
Farm Net News
1136 Azalea Dr
Tallahassee FL 32301
850-922-9854
subscriptions $5-25 sliding scale, free to second or third gens who write
Karen something). mailto://plenty@igc.org
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