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Joni B. Cole's Newest "Diary"

A few years ago Joni B. Cole introduced us to what has become the fascinating "This Day" series of American women's day diary excerpts.  She and B. K. Rakhra (both Upper Valley women) have just published the latest, called Water Cooler Diaries: Women Across America Share Their Day at Work. Check the newspaper for announcements of book readings.

Another Remarkable Book

Sienna Craig spoke at our Fall "Remarkable Women" luncheon about her experiences with Tibetan healers.  She has just published Horses Like Lightning:  A Story of Passage Through the Himalyas:  "a tender account -- by turns cultural exploration and memoir -- of a young woman's first hand experience of change and continuity in one of the world's most remote regions, through the lens of the horse and 'horse culture'.  At just 19, Sienna Craig made her first venture to Mustang, an ethnically Tibetan area of Nepal, in the rainshadow of the Himalayas. As an equestrian and a student of anthropology, she sought not only to understand what it was like to rely on horses to navigate through the windswept valleys and plains of High Asia, but also to grasp how horses lent meaning through myth, ritual, and metaphor to the lives of Mustang's people. Through living and working with local Tibetan medical doctors, veterinarians, and other horse experts, as well as the deep friendships she formed, Sienna began to understand the region's history, and to witness how life in Mustang was being transformed in the face of social, political, and economic transitions. She also endeavored to learn about herself, and her life's course, through her year in Mustang -- a place that came to feel, for all its foreignness, like home." 


Vermont Peace Academy Web Site

The Vermont Peace Academy's web site, listed in the April newsletter, is up and running again.  Check it out:  http://www.vermontpeaceacademy.org.

Share with Your Friends!

Please send the Women's Network web site's link, http//:www.womensnetworkuv.org, to your friends and organizations (clubs, churches, PTA's, business groups, and, well, you get the picture). 

Links of Interest:

League of Women Voters of the Upper Valley http://www.uppervalleyleague.org
Norwich Women's Club http://www.norwichwomen.org
Valley Net (lists organizations, community calendar, and more) http://www.valley.net
Vermont Woman (monthly newspaper) http://www.vermontwoman.com
Women's and Gender Studies Program http://www.dartmouth.edu/~wstudies/