For several years, we’ve been tossing around an idea to turn a portion of the Huss Project property into a small park designed for quiet reflection and observation of the wild creatures in our neighborhood. In the past few weeks, we’ve identified dozens of trees and plants, marked and mowed and path, and narrowed down...
Savoring for a taste of soulful creativity this summer? At the Huss Future Fest, we’ll be enjoying the summer sunshine with a community of creative folks who are bringing their musical rhythms and colorful masterpieces to join in celebrating our imaginative and playful spirit together. Come share in the singing and music making with our talented...
Here is a draft of our new site plan for Huss (read below the image for more information): When we first purchased the Huss School property in Three Rivers, we had a lot of ideas, but no specific plan. That was intentional. We knew that if we were going to help create something that contributes to...
As Chairperson of the 7th Annual Huss Future Festival, I want to express my deepest appreciation to the community for their wonderful support and attendance. This community festival and fundraiser, held July 23, was a day full of activities that brought in over 700 visitors, community partners and volunteers and was our largest fundraising festival to date! Once...
Editor’s note: For the fourth year running, our friend and Huss Poet Laureate Elisabeth Wenger wrote a beautiful poem to help us celebrate Future Festival. She read the poem from the music stage during the Festival. Thank you, Elisabeth! “When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound… I go and lie down...
Editor's note: For the third year running, our friend and local poet Elisabeth Wenger wrote a beautiful poem to help us celebrate Future Festival. She's become the Huss Poet Laureate. Thank you, Elisabeth! Come! Let me embrace you in my arms of gentle rage, taught as bowstring, tight as catgut, a tug you and I both recognize. Let me...
The next several months are chock full of great conferences throughout Michigan where our *cino volunteer staff will be speaking, displaying and learning. We wanted to let you all know about them so you can see some of our behind-the-scenes work and also consider attending, if any of them sound like your kind of thing. Christian...
As part of a Community Visioning process in Three Rivers, Michigan, the Huss Project was invited to present our project for consideration as a community priority moving into the future. After a short 2-minute presentation during the second session, we received enough votes from the community to be invited back for a longer 10-minute presentation...
This poem was commissioned for the Fifth Annual Huss Future Festival on July 19 and was read during the Festival by the poet. Thank you, Elisabeth, for blessing our work with your gift of beautiful and disturbing words. -rvgr The worst to go is the roof. Once the roof caves in, no matter how beautiful the brickwork, the building...
"I learned that my local County Derry [childhood] experience, which I had considered archaic and irrelevant to the 'modern world,' was to be trusted." Seamus Heaney For my birthday last fall, my husband Rob bought me a used volume of poetry by the Irish poet Seamus Heaney. I'd first heard of Heaney in high school when we...
