A collage series extending the thoughts of the revolutionary quote ‘they tried to bury us, they didn’t know we were seeds’ along with trying to make sense in ‘these troubled times’. These days many of us are holding on by a thread. When the thread thins and breaks, we knot it back together – it’s...
Heather Lyon is an artist with a deep connection to the place we now call the Blue Hill peninsula. She was born on a farm in Blue Hill, Maine to parents involved in the back-to-the-land movement that was inspired by the work of Helen and Scott Nearing. In 2009, she returned to the land that...
Join us for a special celebration, marking the The Good Life Center's designation on the National Historic Register of Historic Places. It will feature garden tours, food, music, and speaker: Noel Paul Stookey! Noel Paul Stookey is a musician, activist, and member of the legendary folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary — long engaged in...
Helen Nearing's last full book, Loving and Leaving the Good Life (1992), insists that how we live and how we die are not separate questions. Kate Braestrup has spent her life walking alongside people in their hardest moments and arriving at something like the same conclusion. In this talk, she will reflect on grief, presence,...