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<H4><TT>LIVE SIMPLY & PAY AS YOU GO: SIMPLICITY & FRUGALITY AS A STATE OF MIND<BR>
</TT></H4><TT><FONT SIZE="5"><B>FOCUS OF GOOD LIFE CENTER¹S MONDAY NIGHT MEETING<BR>
</B>Harborside, Maine. The Good Life Center at Forest Farm the last homestead of Helen and Scott Nearing<BR>
announces the upcoming MONDAY NIGHT MEETING on Monday, August 24th, 7 pm, at The<BR>
Reversing Falls Sanctuary, located on Route 175 near the Bagaduce Falls in North Brooksville.<BR>
Doors open at 6:30, program begins at 7:00, desserts are served. All are welcome. Donations are appreciated.<BR>
August 14, 2009<BR>
</FONT><H1>NEWS<BR>
</H1><FONT SIZE="5">Contact: Nancy Caudle-Johnson<BR>
207-236-6855<BR>
</FONT><H3>Forest Farm<BR>
</H3><FONT SIZE="6">The Good Life Center<BR>
</FONT><FONT SIZE="5">372 Harborside Road € Harborside, Maine 04642 € (207) 326-8211 € www.goodlife.org<BR>
</FONT><H4>Live Simply & Pay As You Go: Simplicity and Frugality as a State of Mind<BR>
</H4><FONT SIZE="5">A panel, including Beedy Parker, Joan Cheetham, and Emilie Hermans, will offer personal<BR>
experiences, insights, and suggestions based on the Nearing precepts: <I>Live Simply that Others May<BR>
Live </I>(Helen) and <I>Pay As You Go </I>(Scott). The Nearings¹ message is more pertinent than ever in these<BR>
times of economic crisis, global warming, and increasing pressure on the world¹s resources.<BR>
<B>Beedy Parker </B>of Camden will address the complexity and environmental importance of living simply<BR>
and frugally within our cultural context, and will relate this to the writings and practices of Helen and<BR>
Scott Nearing. She has worked, largely with MOFGA, to reduce the use of pesticides and other<BR>
toxins, and has been active in town recycling, street tree planting, compost teaching, and environ<BR>
mental education. She fed her (now grown) family from her in-town vegetable gardens, is the<BR>
originator of, and designed and sewed the costumes for, the Common Ground Fair¹s children¹s<BR>
Vegetable Parade, and travels by bicycle wherever possible.<BR>
<B>Joan Cheetham </B>and her family live in a small wood-heated, passive solar house on fifty acres of land<BR>
in Monroe, Maine. They grow their own vegetables and fruit, raise chickens, and make maple syrup<BR>
from a grove of maple trees. They harvest firewood and saw logs from the surrounding forest. Former<BR>
teachers, they try to live simply and frugally in order to ³tread lightly on the planet² and decrease<BR>
their dependence on fossil fuel energy. Joan works with MOFGA¹s organic certification program. She is a<BR>
long-time Good Life Center Steward and serves on its board of directors.<BR>
<B>Emilie Hermans </B>is a second generation back-to-the-lander and lives with her husband and their twoyear-<BR>
old daughter in a timber-frame home they built on sixty acres in Surry. As a daughter of Tom<BR>
Hoey and Gail Disney of South Brooksville, she hauled her daily share of wood and water even as a<BR>
young child. After graduating from George Stevens Academy and Swarthmore College, she lived<BR>
and worked in Seattle before moving back to Maine¹s Penobscot peninsula. She met her husband,<BR>
Joe, while apprenticing at the King Farm in Penobscot, served on the board of the Blue Hill Coop,<BR>
and visited Forest Farm as a child. The couple now host the annual May Day celebration begun by<BR>
first generation back-to-the-landers in the 1970s.<BR>
</FONT><H5>- more on page two -<BR>
</H5><FONT SIZE="5">Countless people have been inspired by visits to the Nearing homestead and by their many books, especially<BR>
<I>Living the Good Life</I>. Scott died in 1983 at age 100, and Helen followed in 1995 at 91, leaving the property<BR>
known as The Good Life Center that others might be encouraged to pursue their own purposeful ³good<BR>
lives².<BR>
Located at 372 Harborside Road on Cape Rosier in Brookswille, the grounds and garden are open to visitors<BR>
Thursday through Monday, 1 to 4 pm, June 21 until Labor Day. Volunteer hosts will share information and<BR>
stories about Helen and Scott¹s lives. Nearing books are available for purchase; donations are appreciated.<BR>
The Good Life Center, a 501 ©(3) nonprofit, was established in 1998 to preserve the house, library, and garden of<BR>
the social, political, and environmental activists. The buildings are presently closed to the public for restoration.<BR>
For more information, call The Good Life Center at 207-326-8211 or go to www.goodlife.org<BR>
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</FONT><H4>BOARD OF DIRECTORS THE GOOD LIFE CENTER<BR>
</H4><FONT SIZE="5">Chair Jocelyn Langer, Hubbartston, Massachusetts Diane Fitzgerald, Blue Hill, Maine<BR>
Treasurer Joan Cheetham, Monroe, Maine Gwyneth Thomas, Penobscot, Maine<BR>
Secretary Nancy Caudle-Johnson, Camden, Maine</FONT></TT>
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