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Fundraiser concert for SOULKISS CD Completion! Joining SOULKISS on this special evening was ELIZABETH CUNNINGHAM (amazing author, composer and SOULKISS mother!)

SOULKISS performed from their upcoming CD as well as some special new songs...and ELIZABETH sang from "Maevensong."

Kate Power and Steve Einhorn

Fri. June 25, 7:30 A House Concert at High Valley

"Your music is wonderful! I love your harmonies." - Pete Seeger

Grand prize winners for "songs that make a difference" (Music2Life 2006), raconteurs, Kate Power & Steve Einhorn built community with harmony, guitars, banjo and two mighty little ukuleles.

Steve was a High Valley camper, and spoke a lot about his experience here circa 1961-62, when he learned his first three chords for the guitar.

The audience was small, but enthusiastic, and the big barn venue was perfect for their folk songs.

Roberto Fuentes

It is with deep sadness that I share the news that our beloved friend Roberto Fuentes died yesterday,Sunday, May 16 at 12:20 PM. He and his mother were staying with David and me. Hospice came last Mondayand offered their competent and compassionate care throughout the week.

Roberto had been suffering with cancer for two years. He met this challenge with grace, courage and his typicalsweetness and gratitude for any help he received. David and I have been blessed with his loving friendship andbeautiful music for many years, and it is with deep sorrow and breaking hearts that we now say farewell to our soul brother and companion. With his wonderful music he wove a tapestry of many different groups of friends into a community of joyful loving.

Roberto will be cremated tomorrow and his ashes will be spread at High Valley, a place he dearly loved and where wehave shared many happy times, basking in the sun, swimming, making fires, playing music and talking the nights awayunder the stars. Although the loss of him from our lives leaves a void where we three once shared love, laughter and joy,we are at peace and relieved that he is freed from his suffering.

There will be a memorial gathering at High Valley on Roberto's 49th birthday, Saturday, June 5.More details to follow.

Remember him in your prayers and carry the love and joy of his music in your hearts. In Love, Karen

Ginger Scott Sunrise – May 9, 1928 Sunset – April 23, 2010

We have such fond and admiring memories of Ginger from the days when she taught with our mother, Bee Stone, at the Poughkeepsie Day School, and from the times when our late sister Midge worked at High Valley Camp under Ginger’s guidance.

The teaching partnership between Ginger and Bee was so comfortable and creative; it was a wonderful example to us of how people can work together, an example which we’ve always done our best to emulate with our own teaching partners.

Ginger’s unfailing calm and cheeriness made her an ideal teacher and teaching partner. She and Don both were inspiring examples to us as we made our own ways into the teaching profession. Ginger, or Mrs. Scott as we school-kids called her, brought patience and enthusiasm to her work.

We admired everything about her—her beauty, her skill, her twinkling sense of humor. In her care we learned so much about fair play, about the camaraderie of teammates, and the possibilities for joy in action. We missed her keenly when she had to stop teaching for the sake of her pregnancy; but we were thrilled to think of the baby (Chris) on its way.

We pestered Don daily for news of her, and he answered us kindly each time and carried our messages back and forth. When Christopher was born, all of us felt a special closeness to him: As we did with the arrival of Jennifer. And of course the personal relationship between our mother (Bee) and Ginger is reflected in Jennifer’s middle name, Beatrice.

We have special memories of visiting and being allowed to hold the youngest Scotts. The loving kindness that Bee and Ginger shared makes us feel drawn especially close at this time to the Scott family and to all who knew and loved Ginger. Deborah Stone and Susannah Stone Eldridge

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