Posts tagged as “People of the wet mountain Valley”

 I heard a gentle voice call out behind me: “Well, hello there, Mr. Stark!” I turned to see a bright-eyed woman who said she’d spotted me on the local com­munity pages. That’s how I met Adelle SolariMoon — walking down Main Street on her way to meet with acclaimed local ceramicist Karen LeBlond. Hands in Clay, Heart in the Valley Adelle had just begun an appren­ticeship in pottery — using the same hands that, most days, are out past the edge of town, homesteading as she defines it: studying the connec­tion between sky, earth, and all living things, while quietly exploring how to support local youth and rethink the cul­tural gaps we face as a community. She didn’t lead with that, though. Like many folks…