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Garden of Radio Delights

August 20, 2021 by Michael Wright

Roll back the tape: 1960, Cincinnati, Ohio, 3 am. My upstairs bedroom.  Headphones on, I’m squinting in the dark at the lighted dial of my Hallicrafter S-38e short wave radio, with a Q-multiplier attached that I built from a Heathkit. The S-38e was produced from 1957 to 1961, making it the end of the Hallicrafters S-38 line of shortwave…READ MORE >

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Music in the Wood: Harmonic Forms by Paul Fairchild

October 16, 2020 by Michael Wright

I climbed down out of the Crow’s Nest and spent a recent Saturday afternoon worrying a pile of knotty red oak rounds with a maul and wedge, whittling them down to size for the wood stove. As I split them open, I enjoyed seeing the beautiful swirling grains in the wood, exposed to the sunlight…READ MORE >

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Beechnuts

September 2, 2020 by Michael Wright

Each morning on the way to the barn we walk under the hanging limbs of the great beech tree that stands by the corner of our house. Names and dates carved long ago on the smooth, gray trunk are dark and distorted, barely legible. The tremendous number of beechnuts that grow on a tree this…READ MORE >

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A Glance into the World of Gourds

July 5, 2019 by Michael Wright

  My interest in gourds began when I was introduced to the axatse, a rhythm instrument used in West African drumming ensembles. The axatse is a dried gourd that has been emptied of its seeds and covered in netting with small shells attached. When the gourd is shaken, the shells rattle and make a loud…READ MORE >

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Daisy and the Pandemic Pup Pulls

January 12, 2022 By Living Traditional Arts

I don’t know what you did during the pandemic, but we got a puppy.      Answering an ad in the local paper, we got her from a farm family in the Shenandoah Valley. All ten puppies in the litter got farm names, the girls: flowers, the boys: tractors. We chose a girl, the best looking of…READ MORE >

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Modern Illustrations for Timeless Fairy Tales

August 7, 2021 By Kate Walter

Teaching first grade at the Waldorf school, I visited with dragons and elves, fairies, giants, gnomes, and all the mythical creatures that our ancestors in the very early days described in stories they told one another. The Waldorf curriculum framework was designed to support children as they retrace the human journey into literacy. Fairy tales,…READ MORE >

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A New Book with a message from our deep and distant human past: The Shoemaker and the Elves, presented by Leni Smith Covington.

June 11, 2021 By Kate Walter

Once upon a time it happened, when indeed did it not happen, a teacher telling a fairy tale to a class at school was deeply touched by the power of the story. She saw it in the eyes of the children, and she felt it in her own heart. That experience awakened her interest in…READ MORE >

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