Collins Brook, A Maine Free School
A Memoir

Table of Contents
 Preface: Susy Dolloff
Forward: Barry Daniels
Introduction

 Part I

1                                  Bean Boots
2                                  Neill and The Pioneers
3                                  Changin’ Times
4                                  The Cushing Farm
5                                  Going Up
                                    Photographs
Part II
6                                  We’re Open 1969 - 70
7                                  Animal Pancakes 1970 - 71
8                                  Freya the Newfoundland 1971 - 72
9                                  The Red Dragon 1972 - 73              
10                                Dancing on the Blue Carpet 1973 - 74
11                                Whipped Cream and Pine Needles 1974 - 75
12                                Flying Geodesic Domes 1975 - 76
                                    Photographs
Part III
13                                Lonely Land 
14                                Under the Bridge
15                                Spiritually Alive

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Music:
Radios played when we worked, songs like Green, Green Rocky Road; Mr. Noah, other Van Ronk and Tom Rush songs, Goin’ Up Country; The Beatles’ With A Little Help from My Friends, Crosby, Stills & Nash’s Teach Your Children, Mimi and Richard Farina's Reflections in a Crystal Wind, John Denver’s This Old Farm, with the telling line, “Sometimes this old farm feels like a long-lost friend, Lean on Me, and later, Jackson Browne’s After the Deluge.

I played these songs at our reunion:
Our House
Teach Your Children
Ohio
The Honor of Your Company
Here Comes the Sun
Come Together
Maxwell’s Silver Hammer
Lean on Me
Woodstock
Octopus’s Garden
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
Let It Be
Penny Lane
Mr. Tambourine Man
Just Like a Woman
Visions of Johanna
The Times They Are a-Changin’
Blowin' in the Wind
Hotel California
Goin’ Up Country
Bridge over Trouble Waters
Green, Green, Rocky Road
You've got a Friend
Urge for Going
Michael Row the Boat Shore
This Land is Your land
Pack Up Your Sorrows
Reflections in a Crystal Wind
Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
Hobo's Lullaby
City of New Orleans
Mr. Noah
Boulder to Birmingham
Up on Cripple Creek
Recommendations:
We're Gainin' is a heartfelt reflection of an enormous endeavor that Jacob dared to dream possible. His passion is palpable, his vision admirable. A vividly personal account of the triumphs and defeats shared with honesty and humility. The massive burden Jacob carried through sheer willpower and commitment demonstrates his resilience, faith, courage and dedication to something bigger than himself. After reading We're Gainin', I feel humbled, moved and inspired. Tasha Hughes, Collins Brook student

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This fall I continue teaching at Chime and the Center for Grieving Children. I welcome the new students and volunteers.