As visitors enter the exhibition, they find themselves in a mysterious, untended yard behind a ramshackle old Victorian home. Peeking through the window, it’s clear that a crime has just taken place. A man is slumped over on a table, a goblet in his lifeless hand, as the lady of the house flees in the background. Crows caw, and a rusty gate creaks. In the overgrown garden, moss covered statues rise up out of an unruly thicket of alluring plants. Beautiful flowers and glistening berries bewitch the eye, but consider yourself warned – these plants have names like deadly nightshade, poison hemlock and white snakeroot. Here lurk some of the greatest killers of all time.
The exhibition features over 30 species of wicked plants from those with famously scandalous histories to those that grow “innocently” in millions of gardens and homes today. Visitors can enjoy corresponding excerpts from Stewart’s book full of bloodcurdling tales and fascinating facts on signs throughout the gallery.
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Floricopeia & Medicine Crow:
The Grassroots Healthcare Network
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David Crow. He is doing good work in the world. Reclaiming tonic healthcare as our own is crucial to what is coming. We need to remember that food is our baseline of medicine. We each one of us have a homeostatic, constitutional balance that we either bring into or out of greater balance based on the choices we make each day.
http://www.whatsyourdosha.com/articles.html( Find out yours here)And it all starts with food. From there we have the entire botanical medicine cabinet that plants provide, and in the case of Floricopeia, in the form of essential oils.
It's the return of
The Great Handcar Regatta!
Exposition of Mechanical and Artistic Wonders
Held right here in Santa Rosa! This Sunday from 11am - 6pm. Not to be missed!!!
Blending the fashions, mechanics and science fiction of the 19th century with more modern notions of art, the race and street fair marks its fourth anniversary next Sunday in Santa Rosa's Old Railroad Square.
“It seems that so many events resonate with a certain demographic. When you go to the Handcar Regatta, you see people of all ages and from all economic walks of life,” Backman said.
“It resonates with the crowd because they come and participate in something that feels like a movement, rather than an event. I can go to the Handcar Regatta and feel like, ‘Oh my God, we're cool.'”
Handcar Regatta organizers attribute the event's soaring success to a combination of invention and involvement.
“One of the best things to come out of the regatta is that we have a whole new group of artists who were born out of the regatta, people who never considered themselves artists before — blue-collar contractors, construction workers and mechanics,” Maxfield said.
“I also think the regatta hit a chord with this whole do-it-yourself movement, and this desire to create a form of transportation in your own garage with the tools you have available. It inspires people to get out there and try something. There's an incredible sense of empowerment.”
