Everybody Is Capable Of Creating Music: Artist Fellows Expand Music Education In Valley Schools aspenpublicradio.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from aspenpublicradio.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
“I can say from growing up here, just the difference in 10 years that I ve seen with the amount of arts programming and music exposure that kids are getting,” said local teaching fellow, Julia Foran. “I think it s making a huge difference.” Emily Acri and Kelly Maristoca
Every year Aspen Music Festival and School partners with the AmeriCorps program “ArtistYear” to bring a handful of recent higher-education graduates from across the country to the Roaring Fork Valley. The Aspen area is one of only four locations with Philadelphia, Queens and the Carolina Sandhills that are part of the national program.
The artist fellows who are assigned to the Valley spend the year teaching music and visual arts to students in the Roaring Fork School District.
Lucrative ‘brown gold’ needles fall from pine trees in North Carolina
The dropped needles of the longleaf pine are in such demand that a lucrative business has grown up around raking, baling and selling them to landscapers and homeowners as mulch.
By Todd C. FrankelThe Washington Post
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A worker loads pine needles into a baler at Mike Wilson s farm in West End, N.C. Photo for The Washington Post by Jeremy M. Lange
WEST END, N.C. There is a saying among some farmers in the Carolina Sandhills: “A man would have to be a fool to cut down a longleaf pine.”
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The discovery of this new animal species in NC is more than 50 years in the making greensboro.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from greensboro.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.