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38-576: White was listed among the 25 Most Influential Pagans in 2004. Margot Adler interviewed White for Drawing Down the Moon , and he has contributed material to other neopagan works. He serves as executive director of Church of the Sacred Earth, and founded the Wiccan Church of Vermont, the first legally-recognized Wiccan congregation in the state. White was subsequently ordained a minister of

76-684: A career in journalism and was accepted into the Master’s Program at Columbia University. But being part of the establishment did not end her political activism. She and a friend, as part of their studies, joined the Venceremos Brigade harvesting sugar in Cuba to support the Cuban revolution and to counter the crippling impact of the USA's economic embargo against the country. Her stay ended when she

114-482: A general assignment reporter, after spending a year as an NPR freelance reporter covering New York City, and subsequently worked on a great many pieces dealing with subjects as diverse as the death penalty, the right to die movement, the response to the war in Kosovo , computer gaming, the drug ecstasy , geek culture , children and technology and Pokémon . After 9/11 , she focused much of her work on stories exploring

152-615: A lonesome country road where they were forced at gunpoint to abandon the one African American volunteer who was with them and who ultimately walked back to safety on his own. The experience left Margot shaken and she decided to return home to New York. She stopped en route in Little Rock, (where she had been born while her father was stationed there during the Second World War) to visit a family friend who lived in an all-white neighborhood and who shared with Margot her regret at

190-771: A master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York in 1970. She was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1982. The focus of Heretic’s Heart was Margot’s experiences in the 60s. She was a freshman at Berkeley when the Free Speech Movement (FSM) erupted there in 1965 in response to the University of California’s crackdown on student and faculty rights to meet and organize on political issues, specifically to enlist students as workers in

228-534: A new school, the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts , at a new building designed by Eduardo Catalano in the Lincoln Square area of Manhattan. The Board of Education posthumously honored Mayor LaGuardia by naming the new building after him. The 1924 gothic revival building was designed by William H. Gompert , Architect & Superintendent of School Buildings for

266-570: A personal friend of Leon Trotsky ’s. Trotsky was ruthlessly hunted and ultimately assassinated by Stalin and his henchmen. Her grandfather had brought his family to the United States to avoid persecution by Stalinist, anti-Trotsky factions in Austria. But he was unable to save his oldest daughter, Valentine, who was imprisoned in Russia. Albert Einstein , a friend of the family interceded on

304-486: A son born in 1990. In early 2011, Adler was diagnosed with endometrial cancer , which metastasized over the following three years. Adler died on July 28, 2014, at the age of 68. High School of Music %26 Art The High School of Music & Art , informally known as "Music & Art" (or "M&A"), was a public specialized high school located at 443-465 West 135th Street in the borough of Manhattan , New York , from 1936 until 1984. In 1961, Music & Art and

342-485: A war he didn’t support but had had to fight to survive. He and Margot finally rendezvoused in San Francisco and spent several days together. However, the love affair did not last, and there is no record that they stayed in touch afterward although it came closest to the romantic obsessions spinning in her mind. After graduating from Berkeley Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in political science, she chose to pursue

380-651: A warm glow on its dark wood interior. The iron ends of the auditorium seats have a casting with an image of the Tudor window arches in the gymnasium. The building won status as a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1997. According to the Landmark Commission report, this was not an expensive building for its time, and many of the structural components (like the staircase bracings in

418-695: The High School of Performing Arts (est. 1947) were formed into a two-campus high school. The schools fully merged in 1984 into the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & the Arts . Colloquially known as "The Castle on the Hill," the building that once housed Music & Art is located in the Hamilton Heights neighborhood of Harlem , in the campus of the City College of New York across

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456-661: The High School of Performing Arts to become the LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and the Performing Arts ) in New York City. It was her mother Freyda to whom she was closest and with whom she lived after her parents’ divorce. Her mother retained the family apartment on Manhattan’s West Side overlooking Central Park , which Margot inherited when it was still a rent-controlled apartment and which she and her husband subsequently purchased when

494-722: The Vermont church. He has served as both national public information officer and co-president of the Covenant of the Goddess . White is affiliated with Freemasonry and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn . White has published four books: White is a frequent lecturer at Neopagan gatherings and festivals, speaking on such topics as organization, pastoral counseling, initiation, and magical practice. White has been on

532-496: The 1930s. Comic book artists Ross Andru and Mike Esposito , did as well, though they were slightly younger than Jaffee and the rest. R. O. Blechman , Milton Glaser , Ed Sorel , and Reynold Ruffins – three of the four co-founders of the design firm Push Pin Studios – were M&A students in the 1940s. Other M&A graduates from the 1940s include Bess Myerson , Allan Kaprow , and Hal Linden . Notable graduates from

570-437: The 1950s included Gloria Davy , Diahann Carroll , Susan Stamberg , Jonathan Tunick , Billy Dee Williams , Peter Yarrow , Tony Roberts , James Burrows , Erica Jong , Felix Pappalardi , and Jeremy J. Shapiro . Notable M&A graduates from the 1960s include Peter Hyams , Steven Bochco , Robbie Conal , Graham Diamond , Maira Kalman , Bob Mankoff , Diane Noomin , and Margot Adler ; while notable graduates from

608-431: The 1970s include musicians Paul Stanley and Kenny Washington . Notable M&A grads from the 1980s include writers Jonathan Lethem and Lynn Nottage , and hip-hop musicians Slick Rick . As per Mayor LaGuardia's vision, Music & Art and Performing Arts merged on paper in 1961 and were to be combined in one building. However, this took many years and it was not until 1984 that the sister schools were merged into

646-617: The Alders’ behalf and learned that Valentine and her husband had died in a gulag in 1942. Margot describes herself as “raised by left-wing parents,” a red diaper baby , in the height of the McCarthy era . Her father, like her grandfather, was a psychiatrist, who remained a cipher to Margot. He devoted his life’s work to analyzing his father’s theories of human psychology and drawing parallels to those of Karl Marx’s theories of economic socialism , although this work remained incomplete at

684-763: The Civil Rights Movement in the South. Campus protests and finally a sit-in at Sproul Hall, the Berkeley Administration Building, resulted in the largest mass arrest of students for political protests in the nation’s history. Following in her mother’s footsteps, Margot did not shy away from political activism. She embraced it, drawn to issues, feeling matters deeply to the point where she willingly went to jail for 90 days for her protests in FSM when she might have escaped her punishment. It

722-515: The Landmarks Commission report describes as "finials in the shape of creatures bearing shields." The tower rooms have dramatic acoustics, which Music & Art used as choral practice rooms. The large gymnasium features large Tudor -arch-shaped windows on two sides that at certain times during the day stream sunlight into the room. The auditorium has excellent acoustics, and features diamond-shaped amber windows that during daylight cast

760-692: The Moon , a seminal work on neopaganism in America. Born in Little Rock , Arkansas, she was the only child of Dr. Kurt Adler, and the only grandchild of renowned psychologist Alfred Adler , a contemporary and associate of Sigmund Freud ’s and Carl Jung ’s in Vienna before the Second World War . She was also the only child of her mother Freyda Nacque Adler (nee Pasternack) who was the daughter of uneducated immigrants, both of whom were dead by

798-783: The New York City Board of Education, to house the New York Training School for Teachers. The Training School became the New York Teachers Training College from 1931 to 1933. That school was abolished during the Depression when there was a surplus of teachers for the city's school system, and Mayor LaGuardia used the opportunity to create the High School of Music & Art. Architecturally, the building blends in with

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836-573: The historian James Breasted's characterization of monotheism as “imperialism in religion.” Her second book, Heretic's Heart: A Journey Through Spirit and Revolution , was published by Beacon Press in 1997. Adler was a Wiccan priestess, an elder in the Covenant of the Goddess , and she also participated in the Unitarian Universalist faith community. Margot’s partner in life was John Gliedman whom she married in June 1988 when she

874-433: The human factors in New York City, from the loss of loved ones, homes and jobs, to work in the relief effort. She was the host of Justice Talking up until the show ceased production on July 3, 2008. She was a regular voice on Morning Edition and All Things Considered . She was also co-producer of an award-winning radio drama, War Day . Adler wrote Drawing Down the Moon , a 1979 book about Neopaganism which

912-467: The older gothic revival buildings of the City College campus, designed by architect George B. Post around 1900 to create a setting that came to be known as "the poor man's Harvard ." Music & Art students and graduates often referred to the building as "The Castle on the hill," a reference to the design of its gothic towers, and the decorative gargoyles done in a quirky and playful style that

950-504: The outside I tried to look reasonably ‘straight’ and presentable; I spoke softly and politely. On the inside I was raging.” After returning to New York City , she worked at its sister station, WBAI-FM , where, in 1972, she created the talk show Hour of the Wolf (still on the air as hosted by Jim Freund ), and later another talk show, called Unstuck in Time . Adler joined NPR in 1979 as

988-480: The performing arts. Music & Art was made up of three departments: Art, Instrumental Music, and Vocal Music. It was a magnet school, meant to draw talented students from all boroughs. In 1948, a sister school – the High School of Performing Arts – was created in an effort to harness students' talents in dance. Future Mad magazine contributors Al Jaffee , Will Elder , Harvey Kurtzman , John Severin , and Al Feldstein all attended Music & Art together in

1026-407: The place that remained whole and intact and vibrant, even when my own family fell apart” . It was here that she fell in love with the stories of the gods and goddesses of myth that were later foundational in her decision to become a Wiccan priestess. There she also discovered her love of singing and performance which would influence her to go to the High School of Music & Art (later joined with

1064-575: The program for numerous events: This article about a Vermont politician is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Margot Adler Margot Susanna Adler (April 16, 1946 – July 28, 2014) was an American author, journalist, and lecturer. She worked as a correspondent for National Public Radio for 35 years, became bureau chief of the New York office, and could be heard frequently on nationally syndicated All Things Considered and Morning Edition on National Public Radio (NPR). A Wiccan high priestess, Adler wrote Drawing Down

1102-519: The recent school desegregation in that city. This served to further underscore Margot’s sense of alienation in her own country. At the core of Heretic's Heart is the correspondence between Margot and a GI in Vietnam that took place while she was a student at Berkeley. They wrote 200 pages of letters between the spring of 1967 to later that year when they finally met after he returned in October from

1140-668: The stairwell) were left exposed to save money. Yet much thought went into humanizing the space and creating a good environment for learning, with plenty of natural light and air, expansive collaborative spaces, and much playful decoration thrown in for good measure: The five- and six-story (plus basement and central tower) L-shaped [building] was designed in an abstracted contemporary Collegiate Gothic style and clad in limestone and mottled buff-to brown iron-spot brick, with large window bays filled with unusual folding-casement steel sash windows. Exterior articulation, divided vertically by pavilions, buttresses, and square towers, also differentiated

1178-539: The street from St. Nicholas Park . The building now houses the A. Philip Randolph Campus High School , a magnet school of the New York City Department of Education . New York City Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia started the high school in 1936, an event he described as "the most hopeful accomplishment" of his administration. As the mayor of New York City he wanted to establish a public school in which students could hone their talents in music, art and

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1216-424: The time Margot was born. Freyda was charismatic--Margot likened her to Auntie Mame, beautiful, and a renowned political activist, and beloved mother to Margot. Both parents were Jewish although neither practiced the religion nor observed its religious holidays. In her autobiographical account of growing up in the 1960s, Heretic's Heart , she branded herself, “an alien in America.” Her paternal grandfather had been

1254-621: The time of his death. Margot wrote, “The only thing that was beaten in my head was the Adlerian notion of ‘social interest,’ which, while never clearly defined in my youth, seemed to have something to do with being cooperative and merging your individual desires with the needs of society—rather like socialism”. Margot grew up in Manhattan where she attended the liberal City and Country School in Greenwich Village, “my utopia, and

1292-475: The units became condominiums. Margot referred to the apartment as her bit of heaven on earth, high up on the western edge of Central Park with a view of the city. It came with all of the family mementos stored there since Margot’s childhood, including the letters that formed the basis of Heretic’s Heart . Adler received a Bachelor of Arts in political science from the University of California, Berkeley and

1330-534: Was 42. Like Margot, he was the child of a psychiatrist, well-educated with a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They held a commitment ceremony in 1976. They were married in a pagan ritual that took place on Martha’s Vineyard where Margot had loved family vacations with her parents as a child. “Their wedding was the first Pagan handfasting to be written up in the society pages of The New York Times.” Margot and John had one child,

1368-639: Was at this time that Margot began working as a volunteer journalist reporting on FSM for Pacifica Radio, KPFA, in Berkeley. In 1965, the summer of her freshman year, she went to Mississippi to volunteer with the Democratic Freedom Party to register African Americans to vote. This was not a positive experience on many levels. There was discord between the volunteers and regular staff workers; little success in registering many voters; and finally, she found herself stranded with other volunteers on

1406-458: Was called back to her mother’s bedside in the final days of her battle with lung cancer. She died in 1970 at the age of 61. In 1971 Margot went to Washington, D.C. during the Nixon years to serve as bureau chief for Pacifica radio. These were difficult times for her. She struggled with her weight and body issues and felt “I was way over my head in the strange land of Richard Nixon’s Washington. On

1444-515: Was revised in 2006. The book is considered by some a watershed in American Neopagan circles, as it provided the first comprehensive look at modern nature-based religions in the US. For many years it was the only introductory work about American Neopagan communities. She was also drawn to paganism as the spiritual side of her feminism which rejected the hierarchy of monotheism. She agreed with

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