Guide to Yellow Springs 2012-13

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THE GUIDE to YELLOW SPRINGS 2012–13

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The Great Books Foundation, a pioneer of book discussion, brings together people whose love of reading is part of their appetite for lifelong learning. The group uses the Foundation’s method of shared inquiry. This encourages participants to entertain a range of ideas by bringing their own experiences to the discussion of a work rather than relying on outside sources of expertise, an approach the late Bill Baker thought a natural �t for Yellow Springs when he organized the group in 1998. For 2012–13, the group will continue with selections from the second volume in the Foundation’s Great Conversation series. These include: selected poems by John Donne, Meditations One and Two by René Descar tes, Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti, Physics and World Philosophy by Max Planck, The Playboy of the Western World by John M. Synge, selection from The Road to Ser fdom by Friedrich Hayek, selection from Collected Papers of John Rawls, Guests of the Nation by Frank O’Connor, Which New Era Would That Be? by Nadine Gordimer, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Car ver and discussion guides for Frankenstein by Mar y Shelley and Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt.

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The Green Environmental Coalition (GEC) is a grassroots activist group founded in 1990. The coalition’s mission is to have a positive impact on local, state and regional environmental issues. During its �rst four years, GEC helped educate the community and mobilized legal and political opposition to local burning of toxic chemical wastes. The group is a winner of the 1992 Community Service Award from the Citizens Clearinghouse on Hazardous Wastes. In 2003, GEC was awarded a Private Technical Assistance Grant from YSI Incorporated. In conjunction with the source water protection committee, GEC became the liaison between YSI and the Yellow Springs community for the cleanup of ground water contamination at the YSI site. Documents and a video of this process are in the Yellow Springs Community Library. In addition, GEC produced video coverage of the “Smart Growth for a Small Town” weekend in April 2005. These videos are available at the Yellow Springs Community Library. From 2006 to 2008, GEC waged an active educational campaign against the proposed used tire burn at the local cement kiln. Once again the community rallied together, and along with a turn in the economy, defeated the plan. This harmful type of scrap tire disposal and other alternative fuel use will probably return to the area, so group members remain vigilant, watching for air and water pollution violations. Currently GEC is involved in several projects in the area, including: • Monitoring the water quality of Hebble Creek which runs through the Pitstick Pork Farm after ODA approval to raise its capacity to over 7,000 pigs, making it the eighth largest CAFO in Ohio. • Conducting a cancer study of cases in Yellow Springs using data from the Ohio

Department of Health. • Assisting Greene County residents in their opposition to a rezoning application from Cemex to build another quarry near a residential area. • Launching a major campaign against hydraulic fracturing for natural gas and oil, which includes holding public meetings, educational outreach and working with local and state government. GEC helps support neighbors’ involvement in a range of local environmental issues, as well as becoming involved in state and federal environmental regulation efforts. Interested persons are welcome to attend the regular business meetings on the �rst Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m., on the �rst �oor of the Union School House, 314 Dayton Street.

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Chris Mucher, 767-1391

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The Grinnell Mill Foundation is a nonpro�t foundation comprised of Miami Township, Glen Helen and the Yellow Springs Historical Society. Its purpose is the preservation and promotion of the historical and educationally valuable Grinnell Mill located at 3536 Bryan Park Road. For more information, please visit grinnellmill.org.

Historical Society David Neuhardt, president; Nancy Noonan, 767-7773; P.O. Box 501

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The Yellow Springs Historical Society is dedicated to telling the stories of Yellow Springs’ histor y. The society looks for fresh ways of making the history of Yellow Springs, Miami Township and the region real and exciting to local residents and visitors. The society plans four or more programs a year at which a different story is told. In addition, the society seeks to make these stories accessible to a wider audience through other means. These other efforts have included photo and other exhibits at the Street Fair and other public events; publications, including the popular reprint of Harold Igo’s local ghost stories from the Yellow Springs News and a biography of William Mills by Jane Baker; cooperation with local history programs in schools; stories and announcements on the website and Facebook; community events and celebrations; support of oral and video history projects; advocacy for the preservation, and for collecting the stories, of historic structures; and maintenance of the Antioch Bookplate archives. Future projects include walking tours with supplemental brochures, a formal inventory of a growing collection of artifacts, in-depth research on the historical houses of Yellow Springs and the long-term vision of a museum and research center. The Historical Society is a co-sponsor of the Grinnell Mill Foundation. The historic Grinnell Mill Museum is open to the public year-round on Saturday and Sunday, noon–5 p.m. Membership fees are modest, and the group’s public programs are free and open to the public. CONTINUED ON PAGE 264


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