In consideration of the global pandemic and its impact on all of us, Ferry Beach staff and board are working to safeguard our members, conferees and community. We are thinking of all you, our members – from infants to great-grandparents – and hoping for health and safety for all of the Ferry Beach community. As you […]
Resilience in Challenging Times
As Quillen Shinn rode into the Grove in the very late 1800’s, he had no way of knowing that the sanctuary amongst the trees would be the resilience center of our lives. His vision has fed our spirit through world wars and regional wars, Great depression and recurring recessions, the 1918 Flu, AIDS, and recurring […]
Let’s Look Forward to the Summer of Joy
Once, when I was in grade school in New Jersey, we had a big snowstorm the night before St. Patrick’s Day. The next day, school was canceled and I walked to the bakery to get Italian bread (yes, I’m Irish, but in NJ, everyone is Italian and my mom was making spaghetti for dinner). An […]
The Light of Change
“I am open and I am willing To be hopeless would seem so strange It dishonors those who go before us So lift me up to the light of change.” (“I Am Willing,” Holly Near) The last of the Ferry Beach flags have been taken down and the water drained from the pipes underneath Rowland, […]