FROM THE DIRECTORS
Kroka has completed its big move! We wake up every
morning in our beautiful new home, overlooking Kroka
as village- to-be and farm-to-be. We can see the
big sky, the weather coming and the late fall settling
onto the Northern forest all the way to the foot
of the Pumpkin Hill. We are physically exhausted
and spiritually uplifted: the grand effort of our
community has carried Kroka through space and time
in just a few short months, and we are filled with
gratitude.
Misha Golfman & Lynne Boudreau
Co-Founders
View from the farmhouse
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How To Move A Village?
By Misha Golfman
On the beautiful morning of Saturday, October sixth,
Kroka Village began its journey from Newfane, Vermont
to Marlow, New Hampshire. It was a sunny and warm day,
and with the help of twentysix volunteers both the office/store
yurt and the workshop yurt were disassembled, moved and
reassembled in their new homes. The following week Mathias
Dammer, Tom Rosenberg, Emily Turner, Misha, Lynne and
Lisl finished up the details, moving in the furniture,
unpacking boxes and getting ready for the next moving
weekend. The workshop yurt will continue to be just that
– a workshop. It is now set up on an old barn foundation
and is in use every day. The small yurt has been reborn
into a new and exciting life: It is now a yearround dwelling
for Kroka’s new staff members, Dan and Sarah Simons. Together
with the log cabin, the small yurt is now forming the
emerging outline of a new staff village.
After the warm-up of the first weekend, we were eager
to begin taking down the big yurt on Saturday, October
13. We were blessed with dry weather and a great group
of able woodworkers, so that by the end of Monday, October
15, the platform stood ready to be reassembled at the
edge of the Kroka Village field, complete with southern
exposure. That following week the seventh grade class
from the Monadnock Waldorf School and their teacher, Maggie
Myers, came to Kroka for two days and helped erect the
yurt. They were the first group to spend the night in
the new place.
It was Saturday, October twentieth. The sky had cleared after a long rain and once
again we stood ready to continue our move from Trollhaugen Farm. This time it was the
solar shed, which had to be jacked up, lifted onto a trailer, moved and lowered at the
new site. At the same time, tent platforms at Trollhaugen Farm and the structures at the
Hearts Bend camp were coming down. By the end of that weekend we had gotten our
truck stuck in the ruts in the field and had to recognize that driving
back and forth with loads was over for the season. Oh, well, we had
gotten most of it down by that time! From that point on it was our
horse, Brita, who carried the rest of Kroka to its new home.
The last weekend of moving was approaching, and we were getting
tired. It was raining hard on Saturday, October 28, but we were determined
to press on. Now it was the turn of the equipment barn. The
barn itself would stay with the Gardner-Mahdavi Family, but all of its
contents, equipment and shelving had to go. By the end of Wednesday,
October 31, Kroka Village was moved and the Newfane site
was cleaned and lovingly said goodbye to. The only structure remaining
was the Gamme and it was taken care of by Chris Knapp
and his crew of Vermont Semester ’08 students.
On Saturday, November 10, the first group of Vermont Semester students
and parents arrived for the acceptance weekend at Kroka. For
many of the new folks, this was the only Kroka they had ever seen:
our new Marlow home. It was then that we realized we have moved
and we are here!
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Misha, Dan Simons & Silvano
Biffis
carry a post from the Big Yurt
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