Travel Article on Marin - 30 views

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  #1 Jonah Steinhart on 13 May 13

   

  http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/10/stranger-than-paradise/
  
  1) What do you think of the piece? Do you feel it is accurate/fair?
  2) If a national writer can find these quirky stories and places in Marin, what are we missing? Give some examples of places, people, history in Marin that we might want to look into. Feel free to steal from this article. Would kids want to read about the water skiing elephant on Richardson Bay?

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner"><a href="http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/10/stranger-than-paradise/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/10/stranger-than-paradise/</a> <br /> <br /> 1) What do you think of the piece? Do you feel it is accurate/fair? <br /> 2) If a national writer can find these quirky stories and places in Marin, what are we missing? Give some examples of places, people, history in Marin that we might want to look into. Feel free to steal from this article. Would kids want to read about the water skiing elephant on Richardson Bay?</div>

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  #4 Sonja Hutson on 16 May 13

   

  1)The piece is absolutely accurate. The author mentions "the eternal tension between the encouragement of kooky freewheeling California freedoms and the contradictory, conservative urge to tamp all that down, to maintain the place exactly as it was found by its latest wave of settlers." Marin is most definitely a strange mix of "hippie-dippie" and conservative, depending upon where in the county you are. The water-skiing elephant was a perfect example of this; I really like how he used the story as an opportunity to comment on Marin's climate.
  
  2) I think we are all very narrow-minded in our awareness of the world, because so many teenagers are stuck in the marin-is-so-boring mindset. There are definitely lots of interesting stories that occur in Marin and it would be very beneficial to report on them. We could do a feature on a community within Marin (Sausalito houseboats, Bolinas, the Canal, etc) with mini-profiles of interesting community members as well as interesting events that occurred there.

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">1)The piece is absolutely accurate. The author mentions "the eternal tension between the encouragement of kooky freewheeling California freedoms and the contradictory, conservative urge to tamp all that down, to maintain the place exactly as it was found by its latest wave of settlers." Marin is most definitely a strange mix of "hippie-dippie" and conservative, depending upon where in the county you are. The water-skiing elephant was a perfect example of this; I really like how he used the story as an opportunity to comment on Marin's climate. <br /> <br /> 2) I think we are all very narrow-minded in our awareness of the world, because so many teenagers are stuck in the marin-is-so-boring mindset. There are definitely lots of interesting stories that occur in Marin and it would be very beneficial to report on them. We could do a feature on a community within Marin (Sausalito houseboats, Bolinas, the Canal, etc) with mini-profiles of interesting community members as well as interesting events that occurred there.</div>

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  #5 Dom Quaranta on 02 Jun 13

   

  "Welcome to Marin County, the most beautiful, bucolic, privileged, liberal, hippie-dippie place on the earth. Love it or loathe it - it's just hard to leave it." After reading this brief summary of Marin, I couldn't help but grin with some agreement. The article however, seemed composed strangely. I thought that Merz's unusual experience in Marin for 51 years was interesting, but I do agree with Billie in that it lacked a focus and it seemed to be packed with unnecesary anecdotes.

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Welcome to Marin County, the most beautiful, bucolic, privileged, liberal, hippie-dippie place on the earth. Love it or loathe it - it's just hard to leave it." After reading this brief summary of Marin, I couldn't help but grin with some agreement. The article however, seemed composed strangely. I thought that Merz's unusual experience in Marin for 51 years was interesting, but I do agree with Billie in that it lacked a focus and it seemed to be packed with unnecesary anecdotes.</div>

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  #6 Ava Mathews on 06 Jun 13

   

  I feel like this was very exaggerated, it made it seem like everyone here is a hippie, there's nothing but forests and all the food is organic and sustainable, when that's not the case. But maybe that's just because I've lived here so long and am used to it, maybe that's how outsiders view Marin. It's hard to tell how other people view you sometimes, so I think this was valuable insight into how other people see Marinites.

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I feel like this was very exaggerated, it made it seem like everyone here is a hippie, there's nothing but forests and all the food is organic and sustainable, when that's not the case. But maybe that's just because I've lived here so long and am used to it, maybe that's how outsiders view Marin. It's hard to tell how other people view you sometimes, so I think this was valuable insight into how other people see Marinites.</div>

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  #8 Gibson Katz on 06 Jun 13

   

  I feel like it missed the part of Marin that are neocons. Marin is a bit more different than you would think.

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I feel like it missed the part of Marin that are neocons. Marin is a bit more different than you would think.</div>

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