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Genre: Documentary, biography
Length: 43 minutes plus
special features
Format: DVD
Retail price: $15.00 plus
$5.00/order for postage and handling.
Experience
the wisdom, personality, music, and life of nature educator, author, and
musician Michael J. Cohen. Cohen has devoted his life to two passions:
connecting people to nature and preserving America's musical heritage.
This film explores them both.
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Kay Brown,
Project NatureConnect
49616 Concrete Sauk Valley Road
Concrete, WA 98237
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Connecting with Nature
For more than 20 years Cohen led outdoor education schools, including the
National Audubon Society Expedition Institute of Lesley College.
These groups of young people traveled all over
North America
and led Cohen to develop his philosophy of
community and a system for connecting people with the natural world.
Beginning in 1974 with Our Classroom
is Wild America, Cohen has written seven books on these experiences
and on his nature connecting process.
With the development of the Internet in the 1990s, Cohen became a
pioneer of distance education, offering online courses and graduate
programs in applied ecopsychology -- educating and counseling with nature.
Musical Heritage
Cohen is a veteran of the
New York City
folk music scene in the 1950s and 1960s and has
played banjo and sung with many of the leading figures of that period .
He is the brother of New Lost City Ramblers founder and
musicologist, John Cohen and the brother-in-law of famed folksinger,
Pete Seeger. Early in his life
he edited two collections of folksongs: 101 Plus Five Folk Songs for Camp (1966) and To Hell with Skiing: 64 Tragicomic Ski Songs (1967).
He continues to perform traditional music at a number of venues on
San Juan
Island and in the
Pacific Northwest
as the leader of the folk ensemble Sugar on the
Floor. He is also one of two cast members in the regularly performed
historical play, The Life and Times
of General George Pickett.
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