If you did not get to meet or hear Michael GrayHawk Parsons at The Gathering, check out his book:

Hope On Hatterask is fundamentally a true story about three very different early nineteenth century characters who are brought together through an unlikely series of profound events in each of their lives. They are: Elijah, an adolescent orphaned Scotch Irish boy struggling to survive the port ghettos of Northern Ireland; Embato, a proud young West African warrior whose whole life is abruptly and dramatically altered forever by both fellow Africans and pale skinned intruders from lands an ocean

away; and a brave adolescent Eastern Coastal Native American woman who faces constant oppression and danger on a colonized continent that only two centuries earlier was occupied and controlled exclusively by her own people. The story takes place in the early 1800s and chronicles their lives from early adolescence through early young adulthood. Each character’s individual culture, ethnicity, spirituality, geography of origin, and ancestral history is explored in detail.

If you did not get to meet or hear Philip Burnham at The Gathering, check out his book "Dewey Beard, Last Survivor of Little Bighorn."

Beard was not only a witness to two major battles against the Lakota; he also traveled with William “Buffalo Bill” Cody’s Wild West show, worked as a Hollywood Indian, and witnessed the grand transformation of the Black Hills into a tourism mecca. Beard spent most of his later life fighting to reclaim his homeland and acting as “old Dewey Beard,” a living relic of the “old West” for the tourists.

Philip Burnham is a teacher and a free-lance journalist/historian based on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Burnham has published in American Heritage, The Washington Post, MHQ, Transition, Emerge, The Columbia Journalism Review, and Indian Country Today. He is currently a Term Assistant Professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, where he teaches beginning and advanced writing courses.

If you did not get to meet or hear Ira Wallace at The Gathering, she is available online. She is author of the 2013 book The Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening in the Southeast and speaker, blog author, contributor to Mother Earth News blog.

This new book by Southern Exposure Seed Exchange's own gardening expert Ira Wallace gives home gardeners the regionally specific information needed to succeed in our hot, humid climate. It features what to plant, when to plant it, and when to harvest, based on our climate, weather, and other info.

The southeast region includes Alabama, Arkansas, northern Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, N. Carolina, S. Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, W. Virginia, and a slice of NE Texas.

Monthly planting guides show exactly what you can do in the garden from January through December. The “Skill Sets” in the book go beyond the basics, with tutorials on seed saving, worm bins, and much more. This book also includes a comprehensive gardening primer and an A-to-Z of edibles - a detailed guide for the region’s tried-and-true varieties. Softcover, 216 pp.

If you did not get to meet The Gathering of Illustrator Lex Avellino, check him out.

If you’re looking for someone to listen to your ideas and create beautiful illustrations for your children’s story, then you’ve found the right person for the job. Lex can create any sort of illustration you need along with full, formatted covers. Check out some reviews and my portfolio HERE. The work speaks for itself.

Featuring Lex Avellino
College Age Author and Illustrator

The Gathering of authors Glenn Geffcken. Glenn and his lovely wife Maria traveled from North Carolina to support The Gathering with his book "Shift." For those who missed meeting Geffcken at fall event, here is a little more him and "Shift. Indigenous Principles for Corporate Change."

Many of our greatest business thought leaders proclaim that the most powerful way to transform a business is to transform its culture. In Shift: Indigenous Principles for Corporate Change, author Glenn Geffcken offers a culturally based process and path to help move companies from stagnation to change, from mediocrity to innovation, and from disconnection to harmony. Geffcken details a set of principles that underlie indigenous societies throughout the world-principles that have kept them in a state of grace and harmony with nature for longer than recorded history

can account. Shift draws on the wisdom of indigenous cultures, their teachings, and their implications for significant transformation of core behaviors, beliefs, values, and ethics-which, taken as a whole, represent a paradigm shift of magnitude rarely seen in the business world. Through personal stories and experiences from Glenn Geffcken's twenty-four years in the corporate world, in parallel with an eighteen-year immersion in North American indigenous culture and religion, Shift traces a path of self-discovery and organizational transformation. Geared toward businesspeople and entrepreneurs focused on culture as a force of positive change, it offers a methodology to help you break free and consider a different course.

More about Geffcken online: http://balancedis.com/
http://www.linkedin.com/in/glenngeffcken

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"God, our creator,  uses our experiences, positive and negative, as thread, to weave together who we are and how we interact with each other in our world.

The love, acceptance and Native American awareness that was born of the Gathering was certainly a positive thread in the tapestry of Clarke County residences’ lives.

Witnessing people from different walks of life talking together, dancing and celebrating a unique cultural experience was validation that we can love one another in spite of our outward differences."

By Chris (Comeswithclouds) White
CEO Sanctuary on the Trail and Host to The Gathering

    "We reached a new dimension of humanity that we believed in, then saw for the first time."

     "We pulled it together. We united. They united with us; tears of inexpressible healing and evidence of Creator God at work."

    "The Gathering was an experiment in humanity. We knew going in, not everyone would get it."

    "Our goal was to plant this spiritual seed within the individual. We found that the hearts of the people attending The Gathering is fertile ground. We saw it in dancing, in the arena holding hands, in tears of joy, laughter and smiles, and the expression of acceptance and unconditional love among strangers."
    We saw it in tears of forgiveness of generational oppression where the lack of identity and uncertainty is in the hearts and minds of individuals. Where the light of ‘Mitakuye Oyasin’ showed we truly are all related; and part of the oneness of creation.

    "Know that the work we're doing now collectively may not be realized in our life time. It's a goal we're working towards, which will benefit people beyond any of our expectations or imaginations. As a peaceful people we can gather people to one sacred hoop and accomplish good."

    "This was the beginning of a new dimension in humanity. The possibilities that this planted seed will bring forth through individuals that received it."

    "The Gathering proved to be a homecoming of sorts – home within the heart."