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Volume 11, Number 26 | August 8, 2019
Cranes for peace Photo and text by Laurel Smith Jill Scher (right) had some help from her 12-yearold granddaughter Lola Goldman as she taught First-Friday goers how to make origami cranes on the Rosybelle bus outside The Launchpad. Backed by Carbondale Arts’ Ro Mead Community Grant, Scher completed an origami crane peace
instillation in the entrance to the large community room at Third Street Center on Aug. 6 — the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing. “Our Western Knowledge of (origami cranes) has come from the bombing. Cranes were connected to longevity, good health, and good luck. After the bombing they came to symbolize peace,” she said. It also comes just in time for the Compassion
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Festival, beginning Aug. 9 at the Third Street Center (see page 7 for more information). Scher has been folding cranes and teaching classes in her studio for since February. It's a deeply personal project for her, as she first learned about both the bombs and origami cranes as a child when her family befriended an exchange student from Japan.
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