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The John Muir Newsletter, Winter 2001/2002, The John Muir Center

Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015

Volume 12, Number 1 NEWSLETTER John Muir's Travels to South America and Africa by Michael P. Branch, University of Nevada, Reno (Continued from the Summer/Fall issue. Excerpted from Michael Branch's new book, John Muir's Last Journey: South to the Amazon and East to Africa; Unpublished Journal and Selected Correspondence. Copyright © 2001 by Island Press. Published by Island Press/Shearwater Books, Washington, D.C, and Covelo, California. All rights reserved. Hardcover $27.50. ISBN 1-55963-640-8. To order John Muir's Last Journey, please call Island Press at (800) 828-1302, or place your order at the Island Press website, www.islandpress.org ve had a most glorious …

Bern Porter International: Volume 5 Number 24 (December 15, 2001), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

Newsletters

A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute of Advanced Thinking

Featuring found art on homelessness and mail art by Bobolink Bob.

Bern Porter International: Volume 5 Number 23 (December 1, 2001), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

Newsletters

A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute of Advanced Thinking

Featuring mail art by Black Bear Bob and art by Carolyn Chute.

Mlgpa News (December 2001), Mark Sullivan

MLGPA news (1996-2004)

No abstract provided.

Bern Porter International: Volume 5 Number 22 (November 15, 2001), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

Newsletters

A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute of Advanced Thinking

Featuring "Report from H.O.M.E." by Sheila Holtz and "Columbus, 500 Year Anniversary" by Missy Martin.

Bern Porter International: Volume 5 Number 20 (October 15, 2001), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

Newsletters

A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute of Advanced Thinking

Featuring art by Bern Porter and excerpts from "The Secret Diary of Natasha Bernstein" by Natasha Bernstein.p>

Bern Porter International: Volume 5 Number 21 (November 1, 2001), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

Newsletters

A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute of Advanced Thinking

Featuring "First Writing Since" by Suheir Hammad and "The Anthrax Report" by Daniel A. Russell

Bern Porter International: Volume 5 Number 19 (October 1, 2001), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

Newsletters

A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute of Advanced Thinking

Featuring "The Secret Diary of Natasha Bernstein" by Natash Bernstein and a found poem by Sheila Holtz.

Network News, Vol.4, No. 3 (Fall 2001), Naomi Winterfalcon, Maine Rural Network

Network news (1998-2002)

No abstract provided.

Southern Register. 2001.3 (Fall 2001), University Of Mississippi. Center For The Study Of Southern Culture.

Southern Register

No abstract provided.

Msop Newsletter (Fall 2001), Maine Speakout Project

MSOP newsletter (1998-2001)

No abstract provided.

Bern Porter International: Volume 5 Number 17 (September 1, 2001), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

Newsletters

A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute of Advanced Thinking

Featuring a collage by Natasha B. and Bern Porter and "Look" by PG Robinson.

Bern Porter International: Volume 5 Number 18 (September 15, 2001), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

Newsletters

A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute of Advanced Thinking

Featuring a collage by Natasha B. and Bern Porter and poetry by M. Neville.

Mlgpa News (September 2001), David Garrity

MLGPA news (1996-2004)

No abstract provided.

The John Muir Newsletter, Fall 2001, The John Muir Center For Regional Studies

Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015

Volume 11, Number 4 NEWSLETTER John Muir's Travels to South America and Africa By Michael P. Branch, University of Nevada, Reno ■; ;rt?Jxcerpted from Michael Branch's new book, John Muir's Last turney: South to the Amazon and East to Africa; Unpublished irnal and Selected Correspondence. Copyright © 2001 by fl§and Press. Published by Island Press/Shearwater Books, Wash- Bgton, D.C., and Covelo, California. All rights reserved. Hardcover $27.50. ISBN 1-55963-640-8. To order John Muir's Last Journey, please call Island Press at (800) 828-1302, or place your order at the Island Press website, www.islandpress.org. ve had a most glorious time on this …

Bern Porter International: Volume 5 Number 16 (August 15, 2001), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

Newsletters

A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute of Advanced Thinking

Featuring art by CA Conrad and Daniel Russell.

Bern Porter International: Volume 5 Number 15 (August 1, 2001), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

Newsletters

A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute for Advanced Thinking.

Featuring mail art by Raymond Mason and Marilyn Dammann.

Bern Porter International: Volume 5 Number 13 (July 15, 2001), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

Newsletters

A special issue consisting of online submissions.

Featuring poems by Jason Cole and email-based collage art.

Bern Porter International: Volume 5 Number 12 (July 1, 2001), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

Newsletters

A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute for Advanced Thinking.

Featuring "Slim Fast Blood" by Autumn Palumbo and collage by Sheila Holtz.

Network News, Vol.4, No. 2 (Summer 2001), Naomi Winterfalcon, Maine Rural Network

Network news (1998-2002)

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Mr. Edgar Anderson On Leisure, Amber Panzella

We Exist Series 4: Quotes

Interviewer: Amber Panzella

Interviewee: Mr. Edgar Anderson (Male; age 51; born 1950 in Chicago suburb called Harvey; Moved to Portland Maine in 1985)

“I just spent last weekend down in Massachusetts with-as I said before-with my daughter who played in basketball tournaments Saturday and Sunday, so we spent the weekend in Massachusetts playing basketball. This weekend her mom will spend time with her in Hudson, New Hampshire, playing softball. She's also a softball player…Yeah, and two weeks from now we're gonna be in Connecticut, and the week after that we'll be playing basketball in D.C. So we're very involved with …

Mr. Edgar Anderson On Employment, Amber Panzella

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Mr. Edgar Anderson Full Interview

Edgar Anderson was born in Chicago in 1950, the second-oldest of six children. On his mother’s side, he has black, German, and Cree Native American ancestry; on his father’s side, he is descended from sharecroppers and former slaves from Mississippi. He attended high school in Chicago, and then went to the Military Academy at West Point in 1968, where he was one of ten black cadets in his class of 1200. He spent time in the Army as a basic training officer, and then received a graduate degree from Yale in business management and human …

Mr. Edgar Anderson On Education, Amber Panzella

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Mr. Edgar Anderson Full Interview

Edgar Anderson was born in Chicago in 1950, the second-oldest of six children. On his mother’s side, he has black, German, and Cree Native American ancestry; on his father’s side, he is descended from sharecroppers and former slaves from Mississippi. He attended high school in Chicago, and then went to the Military Academy at West Point in 1968, where he was one of ten black cadets in his class of 1200. He spent time in the Army as a basic training officer, and then received a graduate degree from Yale in business management and human …

Bern Porter International: Volume 5 Number 11 (June 15, 2001), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

Newsletters

A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute for Advanced Thinking.

Featuring "Form #110 Random Poetry Generator" by Daniel A. Russell and collage art.

Mlgpa News (June 2001), David Garrity

MLGPA news (1996-2004)

No abstract provided.

Mrs. Odessa Barret On Leisure, Usm African American Collection

We Exist Series 4: Quotes

Interviewer: -

Interviewee: Odessa Barret (born in Port Arthur, Texas, 1948)

“Life for me as a child was bitter sweet. I was between the youngest boy and girl so I was never alone. Church was the focal point of our lives. It was a time of "White Only" restrooms and drinking fountains, but we were spared a lot of that because we owned our own car so public transportation was not a worry for us. Traveling food for us was a basket of fried sausage and biscuits if it was morning and fried chicken and bread if it was lunch …

Mrs. Rose Jackson On Leisure, Hamida Suja

We Exist Series 4: Quotes

Interviewer: Hamida Suja

Interviewee: Mrs. Rose Jackson (age 66; born in Louisville, Mississippi; lives in South Portland for 39 years; married 34 years; has six children; had five children with her first husband; he died and she remarried and had a child with the current husband)

“And we would get together, like, have a fish fry on the weekend with our white friends, our white neighbors. And when we would get out and fish, my daddy and them would go down and get in the water and just muddy the water up with hoes-what you chop cotton with-and the fish …

Ms. Lucille Young On Leisure, Anab Osman

We Exist Series 4: Quotes

Interviewer: Anab Osman

Interviewee: Ms. Lucille Young (age 73; born 1928 in Jackson, Mississippi; moved to Maine in 1967) “[Barbeque] Yeah. We have four picnic tables in the backyard, and chairs, and we have a grill. And I have a swimming pool, so they’re always there. They’re always at my house. Which I’m trying to get rid of half of them, but I know it’ll never happen.”

Mrs. Rose Jackson On Education, Hamida Suja

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Mrs. Rose Jackson Full Interview

Rose Jackson was born in Louisville, Mississippi, to Willie O Clayton Hathorne and Bertha Ophelia (Young) Hathorne; she had three sisters and three brothers. She left school at fifteen to marry her first husband, with whom she had five children; after his death, she married John Jackson, with whom she had another daughter. She worked as a cleaner and hairdresser, and received her diploma from Portland High night school. At the time of this interview, she had been living in Maine 40 years; her family moved here because she had a brother-in-law who had been …

Mrs. June Mckenzie On Leisure, Aretha Williams

We Exist Series 4: Quotes

Interviewer: Aretha Williams

Interviewee: Mrs. June McKenzie (age 72; born 1929 in Portland Maine; fifth-generation Mainer; lived in Maine all her life)

“Oh, yes we do, and they're really big. My sister in Connecticut has, what, seven children, and my sister in the islands has three, and my other sister has one. And all our families and our grandchildren and everything, we all get together on Fourth of July and have a picnic at Sebago Lake, which started out as a big church thing. Our church did it every year, and we've just kept up the tradition.”

“Well, my neighborhood …