INC NEWS - secret places is finished; intro tomorrow and Sun.

[RW Pickle]

Em has finished her book about the land my neighborhood (as well as
others) contributed to saving. Our neighborhood $500 challenge  was
matched by other park neighborhoods across town and amounted to $3500 of
the $200,000 raised by citizens to purchace this land (it was being sold
by Duke to a developer; total cost $1.2M). The cClean Water trust Fund
gave us $1M, so the contribution by citizens was the largest amout raised.
It's a story of grass roots activism at it's best. She did the art and
wrote a book about the whole ordeal. It finish and the introduction party
is this weekend. See below.

Emily Eve Weinstein 9th Annual Open Studio 2007
INTRODUCTION OF NEW BOOK - ART EXHIBITION - BOOK SIGNING
 
DATE & TIME: December 8-9, 10 am - 5 pm
LOCATION: 8 Blue Bottle Lane, Durham, NC
CONTACT: Emily Weinstein - (919) 402-0160
 
www.WeinsteinArt.com

            Saving Magic Places, Emily Weinstein's fourth published
art/gift book, has been three years in the unfolding, writing and
painting. This angst-riddled adventure of saving a part of the
decommissioned Duke Forest took every bit of three years, four
jurisdictions and thousands of supporters. A dozen or so villains working
behind the scenes helped give the story a nail-biting suspense as they
undercut the efforts of about a dozen environmentalists who had vacated
their normal lives to pursue saving a magic place.

            Printed in the United States and published by Beau Soleil
Publishing, the book is 8.5” x 8.5”, 104 pages with 98 full-color plates.
Emily Weinstein uses her paintings to evoke the landscapes of the area,
neighboring and connected greenways, a trip to Holland, and other sundry
meanderings. She painted on wood and cut out action figures of 30 key
players in the book: such elected notables as Durham’s Mayor Bill Bell,
Becky Heron, Ellen Reckhow, Diane Catotti, Reverend Phil Cousin, Bill
Strom, and Chapel Hill's Mayor Kevin Foy; rising activists like Wendy
Jacobs and Deb Christie; and several well-known environmentalists, like
Hildegard Ryals Randy Pickle and Jeff Fisher.

            Emily Weinstein, assisted by fellow artist Alice Griffin,
interviewed the key players. Ms. Griffin's job was to keep Ms. Weinstein
on-task in getting the facts at least somewhat straight. The assistant
often took additional notes and crossed out many paragraphs in the initial
edits. For the centerpiece of the book, Weinstein placed all 27
Lilliputian cut-outs of key players amongst the weeds in her yard.

	The appendix includes the continuation of interviews of four of the key
players, the complete list of key players, the timeline (compiled by
Wendy Jacobs, Deb Christie and Alice Griffin), and resource pages, this
last included to assist others in their pursuit of saving magic places
wherever they may be. The author's B&W photo includes “The Makeshift
Studio” and beside it the recipe to make one.

 “A joyful narrative of passionate people protecting what they love...”,
Lisa Renstrom, PRESIDENT OF THE SIERRA CLUB OF AMERICA

RWP
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