Teaching Amanda Fish

In the summer of 1975 I first set my eyes upon this river in Western North Carolina. It was the southern border of a place that has touched the hearts and souls of learners for many decades. In 2015, I returned to visit this place and found it to be as energizing and welcoming as it had been 40 years earlier. In that time, many lives have come to know this place as a home away from home where friendships were forged, adventures pursued, and memories etched forever on the emulsion of young minds. Like the waters that continue to pass over the rocks and are still constrained by its banks, the river serves as a metaphor of the lives of children and adults who have flowed through this special place. On July 4, 2017, I will return with many of those who were immersed in this river of life for a 60th anniversary celebration. What lessons might be learned as those who parted as teenagers are reunited in the AARP phase of life? What stories of life and learning might be shared? What hopes and aspirations for the future will be cast? For answers to these questions, I am now on the road to find out #road2findout.

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