Update from No-Toll-ville – Friday, June 16

Occupation Day 14.

It was a long night of pouring rain last night and camp felt the effects. Our screen house collapsed in a heap.

When I arrived on the scene I saw a team of 4-5 folks working on reassembling it and much to my surprise and delight, the frame is now standing. Further work is needed and Don and his team are on it. We already have finely cut bamboo joint braces and I look forward to seeing their creative strutural reinforcements emerge!

We may not canopy it until after Sunday’s predicted storm passes. Our site meterologist, Mark Huncik is predicting a doozey. We may have been flooded with rain, but we were also flooded with community support.

A famous local chef brought us 4 BIG PANS of delicious food. It is tucked safely away for the night in various fridges now.

Midday, Ariana brought snacks and stayed to enjoy some delicous food with us.

Gloriously, we had several hours of delightfully drying sun and visitors galore. Octogenarian Eileen came with her cane and we helped her to and fro. She stayed well over an hour. She was very dismayed at the plan to develop the farmland and apologized several times for “getting her fire up”. I thoroughly encouraged her to come back and get her fire up any time.

Patti stopped by twice, once before and once after her Toastmasters toast. The subject was our struggle! I invited her to join us tonight but she told me she was going to carry our message to the Greentree Neighborhood Association Annual Picnic/Meeting happening at the same time!

We had a great and delightfully dry meeting tonight while several folks held down the fort in the rain. Upon arriving back at camp, we were greeted with delicious rice and beans from Vishal and the State College Food Not Bombs folks.

Evening was (wet and) beautiful. The dropped-down canopies are perfect places to gather (but watch your head!).

This land is beautiful (Check out attached photo of the site – Thanks Sara V!).

Thanks again to Dave S. and Bruce for weathering the storm.

Check in on them in the morning if you can!

In Solidarity,

Laura

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