from David Orr's book, Earth in Mind

"year-by-year, the number of people with first hand experience in the land dwindles. Rural populations continue to shift into cities...In the wake of this lose personal and local knowledge, the knowledge on which a country must ultimately stand, has come something hard to define but I think sinister and unsettling."
[pp 10]

The Dangers of Traditional Education...
1 - formal education will cause students to worry about how to make a living before they knew who they are

2 - it will render students narrow technicians who are morally sterile

3 - it will deaden their sense of wonder for the created world

[this is not to blame education alone, but in conjunction with our culture, it is part of a greater decline...]
[pp 24-25]

T | S is so proud of our board members!!!! They are all over the media!

board member meghan williamson is all over the news!!!

http://www.whsv.com/home/headlines/104051959.html

http://augustafreepress.com/2010/09/28/business-conference-to-highlight-local-success-stories/
...

http://www.newsleader.com/article/20100930/NEWS01/9300326/Small-business-advocates-to-explore-Staunton-as-part-of-conference


http://augustafreepress.com/2010/09/21/the-sweet-sound-of-small-business/

http://www.whsv.com/home/headlines/104051959.htmlhttp://augustafreepress.com/2010/09/28/business-con


our beautiful secretary Ally Bowersock with the Mayor of Roanoke, and gaining national recognition:

http://www.informz.net/acsm/archives/archive_990241.html



our amazingly talented microloan - economic development - community-based business guru Meghan Williamson:

http://augustafreepress.com/2010/04/14/fund-fosters-growth-of-small-business-in-staunton/



last but not least our incredible Vice-Chair/Historian and resident permaculturist Adam Campbell:

http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=46436&CHID=2

4.16.07 join us in remembrance...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Tech_massacre


and a touching quote borrowed from Corey...
"We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly We are brave enough to bend to cry ... And sad enough to know we must laugh again"