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<p>Colleagues: Here is an unusual note from Sam Coghlan, a
well-known librarian/community networking activist in southwestern
Ontario. Some of you might have contacts you are willing to share.<br>
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<p>Marita<br>
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<td>Communities conversation - Bering to Tierra del Fuego -
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<td>Tue, 10 Oct 2017 12:20:56 -0400</td>
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<td>Sam Coghlan <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:sam@oxford.net"><sam@oxford.net></a></td>
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<p class="Body" style="line-height:80%"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Hi folks!
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body" style="line-height:80%"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body" style="line-height:80%"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"
lang="EN-US">In case you don’t remember, I am a librarian
(now retired) living rurally in southwestern Ontario, Canada
approximately half way between Toronto and Detroit. I am a
fervent believer that the job of pubic libraries is to help
communities improve themselves.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body" style="line-height:80%"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"
lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body" style="line-height:80%"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"
lang="EN-US">I am sending this email to colleagues and
friends who may be able to assist my colleague/friend,
Brendan Howley, in an initiative in which he and his son
will travel down the west coast (roughly) from the Bering
Strait to Tierra del Fuego. He would like to meet people in
communities, especially indigenous communities, along his
journey to learn their stories/myths of the natural world,
to record their music about such things, and to track dying
languages for posterity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body" style="line-height:80%"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"
lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body" style="line-height:80%"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"
lang="EN-US">If this interest you, I am hoping that you will
contact Brendan directly (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:brendan.howley@gmail.com">brendan.howley@gmail.com</a>) and/or
that you will share this email with others whom you know who
may be interested. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body" style="line-height:80%"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"
lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body" style="line-height:80%"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"
lang="EN-US">I won</span><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">’</span><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"
lang="EN-US">t talk about Brendan because he will do better
himself in the attached description of his project. </span><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body" style="line-height:80%"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body" style="line-height:80%"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"
lang="EN-US">Brendan states that the core process is one
already proven by BC poet Wendy Morton in her groundbreaking
</span><span class="Hyperlink0"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a
href="http://www.theelderproject.com/home.html"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.theelderproject.com/home.html</span></a></span></span><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"
lang="EN-US">—to share literary skills with indigenous
children to induce them to create poetry about their elders:
<i>to bubble up the lost voices of the indigenous past,
especially regarding the natural world so damaged by
global climate disruption.</i></span><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body" style="line-height:80%"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body" style="line-height:80%"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"
lang="EN-US">Brendan and his son Nikolai, a gifted
musician/coder-technologist/videographer, are going to
travel along the west coast of the Americas from the Bering
Strait to Tierra del Fue</span><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">go</span><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"
lang="EN-US">—from Alaska to Antarctica, meeting through
local libraries subject matter experts, local elders and
especially young students. </span><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body" style="line-height:80%"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body" style="line-height:80%"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"
lang="EN-US">While the trek focuses on the Pacific Coast
indigenous storytelling, the six month itinerary includes
stints eastward to the Four Corners of Utah, New Mexico,
Arizona and Colorado, and across the Mississippi, along the
Seminole/Choctaw ‘trail of tears.’</span><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body" style="line-height:80%"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body" style="line-height:80%"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"
lang="EN-US">Nikolai and Brendan, a former CBC investigative
journalist-turned social media strategist, will be involved
in at least six simultaneous projects during their journey,
almost all of which will use local libraries and telecentres
as hubs for interviews/recordings/filmings of local subject
matter experts and indigenous elders, storytellers and
musicians.</span><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body" style="line-height:80%"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body" style="line-height:80%"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"
lang="EN-US">That’s where YOU come in. </span><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body" style="line-height:80%"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body" style="line-height:80%"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"
lang="EN-US">If you are in their path and/or if you know
somebody in a community that is on their path—maybe you can
help. </span><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body" style="line-height:80%"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body" style="line-height:80%"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"
lang="EN-US">Brendan is looking for librarians for sure, but
also other community activists who play roles similar to
libraries. The project has already won sponsorship from
Mercedes-Benz, with CIBC, ThomsonReuters and Canadian Tire
in queue.</span><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body" style="line-height:80%"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body" style="line-height:80%"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"
lang="EN-US">If you might be willing to help, please contact
Brendan directly at +1.226.880.1449 or <a
href="mailto:brendan.howley@gmail.com"
moz-do-not-send="true">brendan.howley@gmail.com</a> or
@brendanhowley.</span><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body" style="line-height:80%"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body" style="line-height:80%"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"
lang="EN-US">Thanks for reading this,</span><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body" style="line-height:80%"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body" style="line-height:80%"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"
lang="EN-US">Sam I am</span><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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