A Man Apart: Bill Coperthwaite s Radical Experiment in Living - Couverture rigide

Forbes, Peter; Whybrow, Helen

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1603585478 ISBN 13 : 9781603585477

Editeur : Chelsea Green Publishing Co, 2015

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Biographie de l'auteur

Peter has become a leader for the American conservation movement by creating a life in conservation as photographer, writer, and storyteller about the relationship between people and place. For the last fifteen years, Peter has focused his energies on bringing together and strengthening the worlds of environmentalism and social justice and offering those professions his experience with story, facilitation, contemplative practice, and relationship to nature. Peter is always learning and innovating across the boundaries of profession, culture, and home, and this has made his work influential to the different fields of leadership development, sustainability, philanthropy, and conservation. You might find him teaching spoon-carving on a city street, or giving a keynote address on courage at a national conference, or helping to heal a fracture within a community, or photographing a lost art. What he cares most about is strengthening people s connections to one another and the land that sustains them, the most visible and important example being his family s farm and tapestry in the Mad River Valley of Vermont. He is the co-editor of Our Land, Ourselves, author of The Great Remembering and What Is a Whole Community, and co-author of Coming to Land in a Troubled World, and collaborated with William Coperthwaite as the photographer for A Handmade Life. You can learn more about him at Peterforbes.org. Helen s life as an educator, farmer, and writer follows a career in book publishing, where she was most recently an acquiring editor for W. W. Norton and the publisher of their Countryman Press imprint. She left publishing to cofound, with Peter Forbes, what became a nationally recognized place of learning and change-making Center for Whole Communities at their home place of Knoll Farm in central Vermont. She now manages their organic family farm and consults for Vermont Farm Viability and the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont while also homeschooling their daughter and continuing her writing life. She is the editor of Dead Reckoning and co-editor of Our Land, Ourselves and The Story Handbook, among other works. You can learn more about their farm and ongoing projects at www.knollfarm.org.

Présentation de l'éditeur

On a winter morning in 2013, six people paddled the body of their close friend across a bay to a wild homestead on the coast of Maine where he would be buried in a hand-dug grave. Among the paddling mourners were Peter Forbes and Helen Whybrow. Wood, Stone, and Tide is the story--part memoir and part biography--of their family s long-time friendship with William Coperthwaite (A Handmade Life) whose unusual life and fierce ideals helped others examine and understand their own. It is also a story about the power and complexities of mentorship: the opening of one s life to someone else to learn together, and carrying on in their physical absence. Plenty of people can put out their ideas for reform, but only a select few have designed their lives to reflect their ideals as closely as possible. Bill is one of those few uncompromising souls, unblinded by convention, unsocialized, living what some would call an experimental life but proving it real for nearly 50 years. While mourning his death and coming to understand the real meaning of his life and how it endures in their own lives, Peter and Helen handcraft a story that reveals the importance of a life that seeks out direct experience, is drawn to beauty and simplicity, creates rather than critiques, and encourages others.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Chelsea Green Publishing Co
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1603585478
• ISBN 13: 9781603585477
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272