Finns at Folkmoot
Waynesville’s signature event is FolkmootUSA, a gathering of folk dancing groups from around the world to celebrate traditional dance and music as a way of promoting mutual understanding and appreciation for both the diversity and unity of our humanity. This is its twenty-eighth year. The product of year-round planning by a small staff and six [...]
Street Dance
For some forty years now Waynesville, North Carolina, our adopted home town, has held street dances in front of the old Courthouse during the summer. Several hundred people gather in lawn chairs and a few bleachers to listen to local musicians perform “Old Timey” music, bluegrass, and old fiddle tunes, while some of us enact [...]
On Constitutions, Covenants, and Preambles
It is July 4 – the American summer festival of extravagant patriotism, razzle-dazzle festivities, hot dogs, hamburgers, and (for many) beer. It is also a moment when the punditry and intelligentsia ponder this republic’s founding principles. Since most Americans can’t distinguish the Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776) from the Constitution (drafted September 17, 1787, [...]
William J. Everett
In my teaching career I authored eight books and numerous articles in social ethics and religion. After over thirty years of academic work — in Germany, India, and South Africa as well as in the United States — I wanted to turn my hand to a poetically written novel to probe the issues of ecological and human reconciliation.
When I am not writing, I create furniture for worship settings. For more about my work, go to www.WisdomsTable.net, where you will also find galleries of artwork by my wife Sylvia, whose ancestors were the original inspiration for Red Clay, Blood River. READ MORE...
Red Clay Blood River
Red Clay, Blood River is a story told by Earth about two brothers from Germany and an enslaved South African woman whose lives bind together America’s “Trail of Tears” and South Africa’s simultaneous “Great Trek” of 1838.