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A Strange Place Called Home: Chapter Twenty-One: "Fifth Root Race"
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A Strange Place Called Home. My Walk Across America on the Great Peace March. Saturday, November 27, 2010. Chapter Twenty-One: "Fifth Root Race". In the morning, I showered, dressed and wandered downstairs to find Helen pulling weeds in the little front garden. She pointed out the stone fountain in one corner of the yard under a tangle of overgrown plants and a toppled-down tree. I offered to help, but she said that was her project while Bill, Evan and I created a musical garden of our own. So, when Hele...
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A Strange Place Called Home: Chapter Eight: "Peace City"
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A Strange Place Called Home. My Walk Across America on the Great Peace March. Tuesday, November 23, 2010. Chapter Eight: "Peace City". Keeping the Porta-Potties Empty. Serving Up and Washing Up. Pretenders, Andreas Vollenweider, Talking Heads, Jane Siberry, the Penguin Café Orchestra, a soundtrack called “The Gospel at Colonus,” Stevie Wonder, Bonnie Raitt, Bill Withers, and others, or one of the compilation tapes that friends had made for me. Getting or Posting Information. The Peace City News. The load...
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A Strange Place Called Home: Chapter Seventeen: "Be Here Now"
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A Strange Place Called Home. My Walk Across America on the Great Peace March. Saturday, November 27, 2010. Chapter Seventeen: "Be Here Now". California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, Nebraska…. 8221; We crossed the street. “Poopsie’s! 8221; We reached the sidewalk. Poopsie’s! After Nebraska, Iowa Seemed Downright Hilly. We had two rest days in Council Bluffs, a luxurious vacation after three weeks and four hundred miles across Nebraska. Iris and Joel and the other cooks prepared a sumptuous brunch...
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A Strange Place Called Home: Chapter Two: "Loo-Ziannah"
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A Strange Place Called Home. My Walk Across America on the Great Peace March. Tuesday, November 23, 2010. Color-Coded Neighborhoods at Training Camp. North Face Dome Home. Everyone had to sign up to do a job on the march. I had enlisted with Peggy Nelson, who was organizing the PRO-Peace school. She specialized in home schooling, and she had ordered instructional materials based on a home schooling model. I had so many questions: How many families had come to walk across the country? The LA. River. What ...
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A Strange Place Called Home: Chapter Nineteen: "Farms, Not Arms"
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A Strange Place Called Home. My Walk Across America on the Great Peace March. Saturday, November 27, 2010. Chapter Nineteen: "Farms, Not Arms". On the morning of July 14th, Bastille Day, we awoke to the most obnoxious wake-up call ever. Someone walked around camp screaming at the top of his lungs. “This is only a test! This is only a test! My first thoughts of the shattered morning were, “Who the hell is that? Does he think this is funny? To bring about nuclear disarmament. Independent spirit as citizens.
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A Strange Place Called Home: Chapter Four: "Leave the March! Leave the March!"
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A Strange Place Called Home. My Walk Across America on the Great Peace March. Tuesday, November 23, 2010. Chapter Four: "Leave the March! Walking Across the Desert to the Slash X. 8221; Another marcher announced that a survival expert had been consulted and warned that some of us might be seriously injured or even die. This is going to be fun! Mr Tucker, Libby and Me. Journal Entry – March 14, 1986. Moments ago, a hundred yards away, the peace marchers just decided to stay. Posted by Laura Monagan. 8220;...
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A Strange Place Called Home: Chapter Eleven: "Close Your Eyes And Open Your Hand"
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A Strange Place Called Home. My Walk Across America on the Great Peace March. Wednesday, November 24, 2010. Chapter Eleven: "Close Your Eyes And Open Your Hand". May 20, 1986. Today’s walk was pure exhilaration. After shuffling plans for the middle school kids, I headed out for a twenty miler over Vail Pass. It would be fifteen miles up to the summit, then five miles down into the ski town of Copper Mountain. The morning was cold and clear, perfect for a walk in the mountains. 8220;I know the story.
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A Strange Place Called Home: Chapter Thirteen: "God Save Us From a Single Vision"
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A Strange Place Called Home. My Walk Across America on the Great Peace March. Wednesday, November 24, 2010. Chapter Thirteen: "God Save Us From a Single Vision". Eastern Colorado seemed to give the marchers a sense that we were now on solid ground. Our worst organizational nightmares were behind us, we had traversed the Rocky Mountains, and spring promised to turn into summer. Now we could let our hair down, and as we did, we discovered that we were not all of one mind on a number of core issues. One ste...
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A Strange Place Called Home: Chapter Six: "You're Just Like Me!"
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A Strange Place Called Home. My Walk Across America on the Great Peace March. Tuesday, November 23, 2010. Chapter Six: "You're Just Like Me! Post Card in My Journal: "La Espina" by Raul Aguiano Valadez. The peace march, and more than anything else, talking with Evan was the something to do that had kept me in camp one more hour or afternoon or day while others departed. 8221; I asked. Evan kept packing as though he hadn’t heard me. His polite silent treatment reminded me that he and Tim had not...I didn&...
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A Strange Place Called Home: Chapter One: "$100 from Ten People and $10 from A Hundred People"
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A Strange Place Called Home. My Walk Across America on the Great Peace March. Tuesday, November 23, 2010. Chapter One: "$100 from Ten People and $10 from A Hundred People". The Route As Originally Planned. PRO-Peace Application: Due Date Crossed Out, Presumably to Allow Time for More Applicants. Training Outing: The Long View. 8221; he’d ask finally. 8220;Yeah,” I’d sigh. Post Card In My Journal. Have were sunglasses, rain boots, rain pants and a really good rain jacket. Posted by Laura Monagan. What hap...
