Meeting Summaries

Essays in Celebration of Novalis’ 250th Birthday / by Bruce Donehower, Ph.D.

  2022 is the 250th Anniversary Year of the Birth of Novalis   This spring, in celebration of the event, two essays appeared in German in publications sponsored by the Goetheanum. These essays arise directly from the regular ongoing meetings of the Section...

Report from the Fairytale Group / “Baba Yaga & Firebird;” A Report by Marion Donehower

Summer, 2022 What is the Fairytale Group doing this summer? We certainly enjoyed coming together again! And we all fitted exactly around the dark brown circular table on the porch. The table has a story to tell also, about its life as an old barn in Santa Cruz from...

Poetry Night / June 25, 2022

“Poetry arises from the natural action of the human spirit. Does not every human being strive and compose at every moment?” -- Novalis, Heinrich von Ofterdingen   Poetry Night / St. John's Celebration On June 25, 2022, the Section for the Literary Arts and...

Percy MacKaye / Our American Drama

At the Section meeting on June 11, 2022 I gave a lecture presentation on American poet, playwright, biographer, and impresario Percy MacKaye, along with a look at the extended MacKaye family: Steele MacKaye, Arvia MacKaye, Christy MacKaye, Robin MacKaye, Marion...