{"id":471,"date":"2009-11-05T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=471"},"modified":"2009-11-05T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T14:30:00","slug":"herstory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=471","title":{"rendered":"Herstory"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“You can’t know where you’re going if you don’t know where you’ve been.”<\/p>\n

This quote popped into my head this morning as I was thinking about how much I love history, heritage, people’s stories. Maybe I made it up, but I don’t think so. Feeling incredibly inspired lately and even though doubts creep in, I am going to go as far as I can to create a particular <\/a>dream. (Self-doubt being, “who do I think I<\/span> am? I’m with Emily, I’m nobody, who are you?”)<\/p>\n

The dream is an event for late fall 2010, something I’ve dreamed of for years, and as I watch other people doing this, I think why not<\/span> me?<\/p>\n

The food would all be sourced locally and when possible organic, including dairy, produce, coffee<\/a> and the fabulous Iggy’s<\/a> breads and such.<\/p>\n

The place is amazing, having been in the same family for generations and borders a wildlife preserve. The property is on both sides of the street and you can walk down to Buttermilk Bay from the main house, Overbrook<\/a>. Kofi and Erin’s organic farm, called Bay End<\/a> is across the street. Kofi’s grandmother used to host artists there (Kahlil Gibran<\/a> for one), and the dance hall was built for his aunt (Kofi’s) who was a ballet dancer.<\/p>\n

It will be a small retreat (about 30 on-site attendees, 10 off-site nearby), and will be a different kind of art retreat. Many of the beds are doubles, but by the time this all comes together I expect the people drawn to this will be okay with that. I hope to share the development process here in all its bits and pieces as I manifest it, with back-story, more photos and so on. In the meantime, I leave you with a few pictures of the location, the southeastern Massachusetts woodlands on the shores of Buzzards Bay, known as the wrong side of the bridge<\/a>, the land of King Philip and Hockamock Swamp.<\/a><\/p>\n

To more photos (my camera battery was dying, my battery was dying — I saved as .gif files instead of .jpg and my editing skills are minimal, but you’ll get the idea of it anyway): 4 bed room<\/a>, hallway<\/a>, another view<\/a>, great room<\/a>, library<\/a>, butler’s pantry<\/a>, pantry<\/a>, to the dance hall<\/a>, dance hall<\/a>, <\/span>red room<\/a>, blue room<\/a>, aqua room<\/a>, another 4 bed room<\/a>, dining room<\/a>, with my travel mug<\/a>, king<\/a>, queen<\/a>, space<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“You can’t know where you’re going if you don’t know where you’ve been.” This quote popped into my head this morning as I was thinking about how much I love history, heritage, people’s stories. Maybe I made it up, but I don’t think so. Feeling incredibly inspired lately and even though doubts creep in, I … Continue reading “Herstory”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[631],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}