Another mystery object from the Patagonia Museum’s collection.
Leslie Schupp
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What Is That?? (April 2024)
More mystery objects from the Patagonia Museum’s collection.
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Out of Mind
I finally put my Christmas decorations away, and it was only March 5. In my defense, it wasn’t still in the living room but strewn about in random boxes on the upper floor where I couldn’t see it (out of sight, out of mind) but Mark and Naomi had to dodge around it every day […]
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My Beautiful Canyon
South32 plans to run 80 trucks every day on our little dirt road, full of acid ore from their mine. There is no way out for us in the canyon.
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Ghosts of the Museum
The Patagonia Museum is home to a collection of dolls, some of whom, the author contends, have been taken by the resident ghost. Photo by Marion Vendituoli If you are ever alone in the old grade school (now the Patagonia Museum), you might hear the ghost. I started asking museum members and old teachers if they’d […]
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Where Will the Children Play?
For cooling and swimming, we need the Patagonia Pool. Or would you like all the kids to be home playing video games?
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The Spider Tree
The Spider Tree died last spring. She had been on the edge for a long time. When the big oaks experience drought, they keep the leaves on the upper branches and let the lower ones die. She looked like a spider with all of her black dead spidery legs hanging down and a few live […]
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In Trees Is the Breath of the World
I have my favorite trees. The first one was an old wind-blasted juniper in the high desert of New Mexico. This was the place where I received my enlightenment, because I felt the tree’s essence or being. It had a soul.