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Saving the Earth with Sierra Club

By Mary Edna | Published: February 27, 2019
Folks ask me how to become involved in saving our sacred environment. Here are some great ideas and tips to get started talking about climate change… I also tell them I am a member of the Sierra Club, both national and local. My band Lime and the Coconuts have played at their oyster roasts for twelve years now. […]
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Folk musician Mary Edna unites protest with art – upcoming events

By Mary Edna | Published: January 7, 2010
This week I am putting on my musical hat. In the 60’s and 70’s I was a folk singer and traveled the South, mainly in my home state of NC, playing guitar on porches and various venues. My first coffee house was opened when I was in the 10th grade in a church basement in […]
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Philip Simmons remembered by Mary Edna

By Mary Edna | Published: June 26, 2009
Philip Simmons, whose skill with the hammer and anvil elevated him from a working man to an artisan widely recognized as a national treasure, died Monday night, June 22, 2009. He was 97. The renowned blacksmith passed in his sleep at Bishop Gadsden retirement home, right across the creek from my studio. I rode my […]
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