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St. Croix Headwaters, Wisconsin Northwoods
I cannot explain my excitement for @The606Chicago! I love New York City’s High Line and this is going to be just as beautiful.
jordy sirkin, via twitter (the 606 is slated to open this june!)
and culture among people and wild- life along the lakeshore and in gardens and play areas. Then they used the magazine stories to develop com- munity-building ideas for their own neighborhoods. They wanted greener public spaces—but they also wanted them to be places to participate, “unplugged” from technology, in art, music, food, sports, and education. Many thanks for your role in helping them see how nature and people can coexist in a meaningful way. Jana Carp, Oakland, California
True love floats A blog post on canoeing the St. Croix River inspired readers to share their own stories from the water—including this high praise for a paddling partner.
If you can canoe, together, off the coast of Maine, where the Atlantic and the harbor meet (a metaphor for marriage, perhaps?) and make it to the “south end,” managing to avoid
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the seemingly imminent crash into the boulder-strewn shore that the three-foot swells pushed you toward, without killing each other, then you belong together. Forever. Love you, Joel Skogen. And I’ll paddle a canoe with you anywhere. Deirdre Stevens Skogen, via Facebook
Recess, reinvented Our green schoolyards are designed for kids, by kids—especially inspiring for supporters who remember how break-time used to be.
Starting school in East Harlem in 1945 we had a choice of playing on a concrete surface or indoors in the gym area, which consisted of white circles painted on a blacktop floor. No grass, and not much fun, either! Glad to hear that kids in Philly are better treated—with real green! Helen Santiago, Media, Pennsylvania
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