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Haiti

Rum Spirits

April 18, 2018 By Nancy Casey

In a Friday market at the crossroads called Chada on the island of LaGonave in Haiti, I stopped at the rum seller’s table. I wanted to buy some kleren, local rum, distilled sugar cane spirits. “If you want some rum, you have to buy this,” the man said, and indicated a bottle of Babincourt, the Haitian national rum, bearing an undisturbed seal on its cap. I wanted kleren, … [Read more...] about Rum Spirits

Three Things

March 29, 2018 By Nancy Casey

Some of my earliest trips to Haiti were as a member of a teacher-training team. We conducted two-week programs for elementary and high school teachers, aimed to fill gaps in subject matter and methodology resulting from 200 years of isolation and poverty. One year, a lot of things went wrong. The workshops were free to the teachers but before we arrived, a local organizer … [Read more...] about Three Things

Reasons for Haiti

March 9, 2018 By Nancy Casey

People go to Haiti for lots of reasons, some of which they understand. The first time I went there was in 1995.  I got off the plane in Port-au-Prince with a suitcase and the address of a group of Haitian nuns who lived in the countryside, in Pandiassou, in the northeast part of the country. The nuns weren’t what you ‘d expect.  The leader was perhaps in her 40s and none … [Read more...] about Reasons for Haiti

Teaching Spanish in Haiti

February 14, 2018 By Nancy Casey

One of the more absurd things I’ve done in Haiti is teach Spanish.  Not that it’s absurd for Haitians to learn Spanish.  They share an island with the Spanish-speakers of the Dominican Republic.  Due to Haiti's extreme poverty, young people consider slipping into the underground work force in the DR, living there as second class citizens, and facing situations where even the … [Read more...] about Teaching Spanish in Haiti

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Nancy blogs weekly for the Latah Recovery Community Center, sharing writing ideas that support self-awareness and self-esteem.


Looking for an art project that is secretly full of math? Or a math project that results in interesting art? Equilateral Triangle is an Inquiry Pack full of project ideas that will keep you thinking for a long time.


Writing classes and workshops

In-person Write-For-You workshops at the Latah Recovery Center have been suspended for a bit, but you can still do the writing prompts on your own. For more information, about the Write for You program, or if you are in recovery and interested in writing coaching, contact Nancy.


 

Let’s Talk About It

This is a program that supports reading and discussion in libraries throughout the state of Idaho.

Working with the Program Committee, I updated the theme The Humanity of Science and Technology.


Schedule of 2023-24 Let’s Talk About It sessions coming soon!


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