Meeting Summaries

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...

Plant A Seed & Water It! / “Does the Work of Our Section Really Matter?”

  "Does the Work of Our Section Really Matter?" Those who have been active in the Section for many years will recognize this question as the title of an essay by Vivien Law. You can read this brief essay, along with two other essays by Vivien Law, by clicking the...