On Saturday October 14, 2006, the Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine held its annual Harvest Supper. Bob St. Peter, Resident Steward of the Good Life Center in Harborside, Maine gave the keynote address on the legacy of Helen and Scott Nearing.
The primary purpose of the Good Life Center is to preserve Forest Farm, the Nearing’s last hand-built homestead of. Its mission is to “perpetuate the philosophies and lifeways promoted and exemplified by Helen and Scott Nearing, two of America’s most inspirational practitioners of simple, frugal and purposeful living.”
Bob St. Peter and his family are now charged with the care of Forest Farm. Bob’s talk follows the one given at the Peace and Justice Center’s first Harvest Supper seventeen years ago by Helen Nearing herself.
Bob discusses the incredible journey through life recorded by Helen and Scott in their writings. While many people are familiar with the Good Life and Maple Sugar books, Bob focuses for a bit on Scott’s voluminous but nowadays less-read political work–still vibrant and applicable to today’s world. Bob also raises issues of food consciousness and food justice that are integral to the Nearing legacy.
This program was broadcast on WERU Community Radio on Thanksgiving Day, November 23, 2006.
“Wendell Berry has said that ‘eating is an agricultural act.’ I would agree, and add that it can also be an act of resistance…” -–Bob St. Peter
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