Memphis Democrat June 28th, 2000

Welcome to the new weekly column about the goings on at Dancing Rabbit, an ecologically focused community of people near Rutledge.

We've been very busy, as its become summer. We have many folks come as interns for a few months. This week Alexis from the University of Michigan arrived to work on land management. Last week Shawn and Sara, students of College of the Atlantic in Maine, showed up to be garden and general interns. They join the interns already here: Stephanie from Truman State doing construction, Sunshine from University of Michigan doing gardening and Christina from State University of New York doing construction.

In other news, members Rachel and Tony celebrated on the17th their decision to spend their life together. The rehearsal dinner was catered by Eleanor Zimmerman at Zimmerman's Cafe and featured delicious mulberry and black raspberry pies. Their guests stayed around for a day to help around the farm, including cleaning up from the party, plastering our timber-framed strawbale cabin and mulching the potatoes.

Member Alline and visitor Dan were sorely missed, but they were attending the Midwest Renewable Energy Fair in Madison, WI. Alline was there selling books as part of her business, Community Bookshelf.

We welcome folks to come by for a tour, but please call first at 883-5511.

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