Journal

[gallery type="slideshow" ids="268,259,260,261,262,263,264,265,266,267,271,270"] We had such a wonderful time at the Common Ground Country Fair! A yearly tradition for our family, it was a treat to be there for the first time with Taproot. We shared our days with many wandering-by-contributors, and many friends old and new. I was happy to be reminded in the faces we saw and the conversations we had that there are so many of us out here, living fully, digging deeper. ~ amanda

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Photos from September Squam

In June, we participated in the Squam Art Fair (alas, no photos) and returned again in September with a retooled sign, a spiffy new red typewriter (for collecting e-mail addresses, natch!) and two more issues under our belt. We visited with subscribers as well as folks who hadn't heard of us and also had the opportunity to meet face-to-face with Maya Stein, who wrote the wonderful piece in ISSUE 3::RETREAT about her cross-country travels from her home in Boston to the birthplace of the typewriter in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. We also visited with Maya Donenfeld who has contributed clever crafts to several issues, Pixie Campbell, whose amazing art and words closed out ISSUE 4::WOOD and Meredith Winn who contributed heartfelt photo essays to our first three issues. It's funny how working an event like this can be simultaneously exhilarating and exhausting. Of course it was nothing compared with our first vist as vendors to Common Ground Country Fair, just a week later. -jason

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Photos from our Portland, ME Launch Event

After the publication of ISSUE 1::SOIL, we gathered in Hardwick, Vermont at the Galaxy Bookshop and in Portland, Maine at Longfellow Books to celebrate the launch of the magazine. Contributors from around both locales (as well as Ashley English, who traveled all the way from North Carolina with her family!) joined us to read from their pieces. Well wishers traveled from all around to hear them and to visit with us about Taproot. In Portland, after the event at Longfellow, we had a terrific party at 158 Pickett Street Cafe (they kept the cafe open for us after their normal Sunday crowd had already departed!), where we spent some time getting to know our contributors in person as well as a few folks from the event who had tagged along. Here's a belated, but still warm, "Thank You!" to all who attended, to our contributors and to the bookstore staff. -jason