Category Archives: Responses

Profile Response – Jane Cook, Southport, NY

  “There is a fundamental difference between middle aged adults who have raised children versus those who have not. It’s a way of addressing problems that they have to deal with as opposed to those that are less important. I … Continue reading

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Profile Response – Yvette Sterbenk and Glen Cook, Corning Museum of Glass Corning, NY

Corning, NY, the Crystal City, is home of Corning Glass. Founded in Brooklyn as Brooklyn Flint Glassworks in 1851, the company moved to Corning in 1868 to be nearer to the Pennsylvania coal needed to fuel the furnaces, raw materials … Continue reading

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Featured Response – Chuck Latovich

Chuck Latovich is a member of the Board of GLAD (Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders), a consultant in Positive Psychology, and an intricate mystery writer the publishing world has yet to discover. He is also a longtime friend. He … Continue reading

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How will we live tomorrow? – Responses

How will we live tomorrow?  “No one is going to answer that question because we cannot know. There is only one God, who knows all. The rest is just a guess.” Rudy, waiter at Al Ameer Restaurant Dearborn, MI How … Continue reading

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Profile Response: John Crawley, Cazenovia, NY

John Cawley opened his unusual home to me as a warmshowers host. The Stone Cottage is a solid Civil War era commercial building with a central entry and two generous rooms. The building sits at the end of Cazenovia’s main … Continue reading

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Profile Response – Patricia Hoffman, Executive Director Oneida Foundation Oneida, NY

The Oneida Community was by many measures the most successful of all the nineteenth century Utopian communities. John Noyes and his followers were chased out of Putney, VT due to their beliefs in sharing not only work, lodging, and resources, … Continue reading

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Profile Response: David Gibson Family Slingerlands, NY

David Gibson and I are fraternity brothers, though we hadn’t seen each other in over thirty years. During that time he served five years in the U.S. Army in East Germany before the wall fell, went to business school, worked … Continue reading

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How will we live tomorrow? – Responses

How will we live tomorrow? “We are a want society, and that’s how we’ll be tomorrow. We live on instant gratification. We cater to that.” Colleen Thompson, Food Vendor at Kiko Auction, Palmyra OH How will we live tomorrow? “We’re … Continue reading

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Profile Response – James Huggins, Twelve Tribes Community Cambridge, NY

I passed James sitting on his front porch on a Saturday morning. When we waved to each other, I noticed the sign about the porch and decided to stop and chat. James has lived in this Twelve Tribes Community, a large … Continue reading

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Profile Response: Charlie Welch, Dave Stiger, and Marianne Barthel, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Good bones are as important to appropriate architecture as they are to good health. When I was part of the design team for Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) over 25 years ago, we were rigorous in organizing the 1.4 million square … Continue reading

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