Living history saga of the first Viking family in the New World. The year is 1008. Stand on the deck of the Viking knarr with Gudrid and her son Snorri as she looks back at her turf-roofed house. Feel the wind whip her cloak where she has lost its pin in the meadows of Newfoundland. Seek through her eyes through the tall grass where, in her haste to catch the tide, she has dropped her spindle whorl. It will be almost a millennium before it is found.
On that stone spindle Gudrid s…
Stapafell mountain behind Snjofell guesthouse at Arnarstapi. Gudrid's fosterage with Orm of Arnarstapi is a few miles east along the cliffs from Laugabrekka.
A circumpolar exploration of Arctic cultural traditions.
Where is true North? Sight along your home line of longitude: what you see depends on where you stand. The songs and stories collected in tonight's program are distillations of firsthand experience of life in the North, following the logo of Dartmouth's Institute of Arctic Studies around its circle of Arctic nations. The ICARP conference is about discovering common truths, and about appreciating different perspectives, on the Arctic. If t…
The Green Mountain State has always had a "culture of nature." The Connecticut River played a key role in shaping the state, and its watershed today holds special natural areas from the Northern Forest to the Silvio Conte Fish and Wildlife refuge. Explore the Connecticut Valley's sense of place through writings, songs, and poems from river travellers, valley settlers, and river lovers. Discover your own relationship with Vermont in the voice of the river.
New songs in the New England tradition from the Merrimack Valley textile mills.
A collaborative project with the Belknap Mill in Laconia, NH, Picking on Tops created new songs from oral histories of the Belknap-Busiel textile mills
and traditional French, Shaker, and Irish tunes.
Fall 1995: Worked with Belknap Mill…
