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7/3/22 PHOTOS
by Frank Knutson 06 Jul '22

06 Jul '22

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7/6/22 PHOTOS
by Frank Knutson 06 Jul '22

06 Jul '22

The earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. This we know. All things are connected. Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web we do to ourselves. ~ ~ ~ Chief Seattle

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More Weird and cramped places in which we lived gloriously
by Mari Crocker 05 Jul '22

05 Jul '22

Hi Beloved Community, I’m beginning a new thread, because the last one was sooooo long and repetitive, but utterly illuminating. So here are the Crocker’s offerings: When Joe and I were assigned as Area Priors to NY, we followed Fred and Sarah Buss, who resided with the NYRH in Gramercy Park at a facility I believe was provided by the Episcopal Church there. Unbeknownst to us when we said YES to that assignment, the entire NYRH residents had just been “evicted”, and we arrived to find “there is no room at the inn.” Joe’s first move was to work with former NYRH members, like John and Melinda Howell, and LCX colleagues from NY and Philadelphia (where we had been House Priors before reassignment) to find temporary housing in diaspora. For example, our twin sons, then nearly three years old, were shipped off to the care of Galaxy pastor family Gil and Gretchen Horn and another family in his parish in Parsippany, PA. Joe pulled strings with Methodist colleague Max Trowbridge, UMC in Patterson, NJ who found a small, 3 bedroom, post-war Garrison Colonial dwelling into which moved the 20+ members of the NY Religious House, “Temporarily Located in Patterson New Jersey”, as was our subtitle for the next year. Our space design was creative: The unheated attic, housed the First Prior Family, (Joe and me) sleeping on camp cots, in a small alcove on one end. The balance of the open, unheated attic, equipped with bunk beds, was inhabited by all the single men — at that time they included Tom Bergdall, Jim Colvin, Mike Harvey, John Jago, Bob Rammage, and Stan ______ (I cannot remember his last name.) The unheated basement housed the Second and Third Prior Families, Rich and Joanne McCabe, and Melinda and John Howell — separated by a sheet hung from the rafters. The three-bedroom second floor housed 1. Our newest intern family, Paul and Suzanne Frazer; 2. The young boys dorm: Drew Howell, Jon and Ben Crocker 3. The single women’s dorm: Nan Bailey, Debra Eldrige and her daughter Rebecca; Heather Howell and the two little daughters of Bob Rammage. We 23 residents used ONE bathroom on the second floor, and one half-bath on the first floor Each morning we celebrated Daily Office and breakfast collegium in the “livingroom”, which was redesigned as the pre-school when we all left for work/study. Have you ever slept for a whole year on a camp cot? Or shared one bathroom, even an out-house, with 22 others who need to get up and go in the morning? ________________ When the Crockers arrived in Maliwada, we were assigned to the “demonstration house.” Wow, I thought, lucky us! It was a large one-room structure with a tin roof (as I recall), that made it quite hot in the day. But during the day we were working in the village or teaching, so, no problem. Until the night Joe came home LATE from a faculty planning meeting. Our five year-old sons and I were sleeping on straw-filled mats on the floor. Joe snapped on the light — one naked bulb suspended from the rafters — and suddenly I was awakened by a thunderous THUD, right over my head. “Get up! “ he expostulated. “It’s a scorpion!!” Joe had killed it by throwing his shoe! That experiment was swiftly concluded and our family moved into one small room in “the Castle”, similar to those in which pretty much everyone else on staff slept. But….scorpions be gone, Nat Shinn and our boys, Jon and Ben teamed up for something even more nocturnally enlivening” ---frogs in tin cans!! Wait for the next installment!

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Our movies
by Nancy Trask 05 Jul '22

05 Jul '22

I collected this list of our movies with their YouTube links. Thought you might like to see them as well. If there are others, please share! The Courage to Care, narrator: Sir Richard Attenborough, about The International Exposition of Human Development. https://youtu.be/RQ5swKNePDs The World of Human Development, Narrator: Sir Ben Kingsley, (1977) part 1, about ICA’s Human Development Projects. https://youtu.be/YbaDWIHXLuY Fifth City Chicago (1983). World of Human Development, (Part 2?) Narrator: Oprah Winfrey. https://youtu.be/JJ9fFR9QK0E Women of the World: The Unfolding Promise, slide compilation and narration/narrative by Sunny Walker, movie format by Frank Knutson (1984?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BvL8bAkRDE&list=FLbHKH7K2p2wvDn2oLCBH3CA&i… Nancy Trask -- “If you love it enough, anything will talk with you” ~George Washington Carver

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7/5/22 PHOTOS
by Frank Knutson 05 Jul '22

05 Jul '22

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7/4/22 PHOTOS
by Frank Knutson 05 Jul '22

05 Jul '22

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Fwd: Remembering A Civil Rights Swim-In: 'It Was A Milestone' : NPR
by Nancy Trask 05 Jul '22

05 Jul '22

Here's the Story Corps reminiscence by Charles (Al) Lingo & his friend who were involved in the "Swim-In" which ended in the hotel worker dumping acid in the pool. I think 1964. We've probably shared it before, but not for awhile, and it's so worth remembering now & then. Nancy Trask ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Nancy <nlt462(a)gmail.com> Date: Sun, Jul 3, 2022 at 6:06 AM Subject: Remembering A Civil Rights Swim-In: 'It Was A Milestone' : NPR To: Nancy Trask <Nlt462(a)gmail.com> https://www.npr.org/2014/06/13/321380585/remembering-a-civil-rights-swim-in… Sent from my iPhone

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Fwd: Recording Women and Men together, Let’s Sing! Grace and Peace, Ellen
by RICHARD HOWIE 04 Jul '22

04 Jul '22

Sent from my iPad Begin forwarded message: > From: Stephanie Lasselle <stephanieklasselle(a)gmail.com> > Date: June 12, 2022 at 12:26:29 PM EDT > To: rhowie3(a)verizon.net > Subject: Recording > >

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PHOTOS
by Frank Knutson 03 Jul '22

03 Jul '22

People have been sending me great photos to be included in my daily display. If you have photos to share, please send to my mailbox.

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7/2/22 PHOTOS
by Frank Knutson 02 Jul '22

02 Jul '22

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