Listen 51 min MORE Convent Mesa, aka The Convent near Moab and Castle Valley, Utah. Annotations for The Rectory and Castleton Tower. Photo by Ron Clausen (Wikicommons).
Activist, conservationist and acclaimed author Terry Tempest Williams says that she could only make sense of this past year by returning to her gift: putting words to the page. She’s been writing through the pandemic, and looking for beauty where there often is none to be found. In her quest to use language and stories to alleviate a broken heart, she believes that a grief shared is a grief endured.
For the last year, she has hunkered down amongst the natural beauty of the red desert mountains in Castle Valley, Utah, a landscape she describes as both eroding and evolving. There s no shortage of issues close to her heart. The land, climate, and conservation are important to her, and so are her politics. These days, bigger questions are on her
Rhode Island
(William Morrow)
The week before Halloween seemed the ideal moment to pick up the 617-page epic horror novel “Plain Bad Heroines” by Emily M. Danforth. The tangled story toggles between a cursed Rhode Island boarding school for girls during the early 1900s and present day when a group of queer women return to film a movie about the school’s fabled history. Danforth writes with humor and is at her brilliant best with vivid female character portrayals, who are as wild and unpredictable as the untamed Rhode Island shoreline.
South Carolina
One of the most compelling books I read this year was “Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots.” Morgan Jerkins takes readers through South Carolina and the Low Country as she embarks on a reverse migration to trace 300 years of her family’s history, much of which has been obscured by cultural erasure and lack of documentation. Through research and conversations about land displacem
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Artsline - Local Music, Dance, and Story to Challenge and Inspire
Celebrate Tu B Shevat or Birthday of the Trees with the Weinstein JCC as a day of ecological awareness.
Artsline: Virtual Edition || January 25, 2021
“This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories.” ~Terry Tempest Williams
As we as a nation heal from the events of the past month and the past year - from political division to racial division, from pandemic to ecological disaster - find the stories that heal. Your local arts and culture communities tell them every day, offering a source of conciliation, solace, and inspiration to rise to the challenges before us. Look throughout your community for opportunities to connect, engage, and heal through the power of music, art, and story.
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Partly cloudy skies this evening will give way to cloudy skies and rain overnight. Low 54F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 100%. Updated: March 27, 2021 @ 7:15 pm
Today
Partly cloudy skies this evening will give way to cloudy skies and rain overnight. Low 54F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 100%..
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Partly cloudy skies this evening will give way to cloudy skies and rain overnight. Low 54F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 100%. Updated: March 27, 2021 @ 7:15 pm