Appleseeds articles from March 2002

Appleseeds archives from March 2002

Welcome.(Editorial)
March 1, 2002... Grab your imagination and join us, along with the AppleCorps kids, as we explore some very special places in the world. Do you wonder what we mean by "sacred"? If you look in the dictionary, sacred is defined as something of religious or...

A visit to sacred Jerusalem.(Israel)
March 1, 2002... The Old City in Jerusalem is a sacred place for the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic religions. A 40-foot stone wall that is two and one-half miles long encloses the small city and protects its ancient treasures. Visitors enter through one of...

Japan's sacred mountain: Mount Fuji's volcano is quiet today but has erupted 18 times. It erupted last in 1707.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Above the clouds, the sun slowly appears to crowds waiting atop Mount Fuji. Greeting the sunrise from the peak of this sacred volcano is an ancient custom for followers of Shinto, Japan's native religion. How did Mount Fuji come to be...

Places that inspired writers.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Is there a place that inspires you--a place where you go to dream, read, write, or just be alone with your thoughts? Many famous authors had a special place and have written about it. Bill Peet was an artist for Walt Disney. He also wrote...

Find your genius loci.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... What is your favorite place? Whether it's a clearing in the woods, a curve of beach, or a quiet corner in the park, it feels different from anywhere else. The ancient Romans thought such special places were sacred, inhabited by a local god or...

The ancient city of Tulum.(Yucatan, Mexico)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Have you ever wondered where people worshipped long ago? Today, on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, you can visit the ruins of one of these ancient places. It is Tulum, a sacred city of the Maya Indians. Built in the 1200s, it is believed that...

Labyrinth, path of peace. (Fun Stuff).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Students at the Chewonki Foundation in Wiscasset, Maine, made a 30-foot-wide Cretan labyrinth as a sacred place to pray or meditate after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. You can make a labyrinth,...

Mysterious drawings in the desert.(Nazca, Peru)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... On the dry plains of Peru in a place called Nazca, an ancient people drew strange lines in the desert sand. Stretching as far as the eye can see, they look like a giant's doodlings. Were they a landing strip for space travelers, as some people...

Coventry cathedral: where love won.(England)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... For 500 years, the people of Coventry, England, had a special sacred place--their cathedral. But in 1940, England was at war with Germany. On November 14, German planes dropped thousands of bombs on Coventry. The Germans wanted to wreck...

The holy river of India.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Glaciers, melting snow, and ice in the Himalayan Mountains form the Ganges River, the most famous river in India. It has many tributaries, and empties into the Bay of Bengal to the east. The Ganges is considered a holy river. It is also...

Uluru.(Australia)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... A rock? Who could believe that a rock is a sacred place? The Anangu, the aboriginal people of central Australia, believe it. Ayers Rock, which they call Uluru, is a massive monolith (single huge rock) sitting alone in the middle of a desert. It...

Mysterious megalithic monuments.(England)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... There are rocks everywhere but few get as much attention as the rocks at Stonehenge, an ancient megalithic monument in Wiltshire, England. It was built more than 4,000 years ago, at about the same time as the Great Pyramid in Egypt. Imagine...

My backyard.(Poem)
March 1, 2002... A sacred place to me is my backyard. It smells good and fresh. It feels to me like a good place to have a good time and a place that can have fun. It sounds peaceful at times, but other times you can hear the traffic from Willow Wood Drive....

Chautauqua: a place of beauty, art, and learning.(New York)
March 1, 2002... Long ago, people believed that water was sacred. Long ago, people believed that land was sacred. More than 800 years ago, the Seneca people in western New York thanked the Creator of All Things for the peaceful water of Lake Chautauqua and the...

Branching out.(books)(Review)
March 1, 2002... To learn more about Jerusalem and other spiritual sites, read Sacred Places, by Philemon Sturges (Putnam). Places that are holy to other religions besides Islam, Judaism, and Christianity are beautifully brought to life in amazing collage...