GIFT FROM THE SEA Festival — A Gala Week on Captiva IslandCommemorating Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s Most Beloved Work andCelebrating 50 years of Wisdom, Insight and Inspiration

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Message from the President

As the Earth Shine Institute enters its fourth New Year, I want to take a moment toreflect on 2005 and the celebration of the 50th anniversary of Anne MorrowLindbergh’s book Gift from the Sea. I’m sometimes asked why we spend so much

time and energy celebrating anniversaries when there are so many urgent global prob-lems to be solved. Each anniversary, like each New Year, gives us an important opportu-nity to reflect on the past, project into the future and connect with the present moment.

I am reminded of the GIFT FROM THE SEA Festival Environmental Conscious-ness Program at The Captiva Island Yacht Club. Three generations of scientists werechallenged by troubles facing our planet’s water resources. In the scientist’s messages,there was wisdom and warning; excitement and hope. They all seemed to have a passionfor solving technological and human problems using a combination of technology andhuman intuition. Kristina Lindbergh closed the Symposium by reflecting on the changesin our lives since her grandmother wrote Gift from the Sea. The need for “space and calmand reflection” and availability of respite in “a beach between two covers” are as essen-tial in our complex lives today as they were fifty years ago.

As we go through our lives as individuals and as institutions, we each have manyobligations and obstacles that provide us with opportunities to take chances, makechanges and change our course. Responding positively to these changes is what a life ofbalance is all about. As I look forward to 2006, the 100th anniversary of the Anne Mor-row Lindbergh’s birth, I am optimistic that Earth Shine Institute will continue to adapt,evolve and thrive as we ride this watery blue planet around a glowing ball of gases indeep, dark, infinite space.

2006 Argonauta Scholars

Two-Day Earth Shine Institute Event atRookery Bay, Naples, Florida

The Anne Morrow Lindbergh Interna-tional “Earth Shine” Poetry Festival

Eric Hopkins and Jill Elisofonenjoyed the Edison-Ford Gala.

Despite the aftermath of Hurricane Wilma, Captiva Islandsparkled for the GIFT FROM THE SEA Festival Week.Events included: programs at the Sanibel and Captiva

Libraries; an Artisan’s Fair, a Taste of Captiva event and an Eco-Education Tent with captivating presentations by representativesfrom the Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum, The Sanibel-CaptivaConservation Foundation, and the Clinic for the Rehabilitationof Wildlife on Andy Rosse Lane; an art show; an EnvironmentalConsciousness Program at the Captiva Island Yacht Club withProfessor Anthony Brown, Argonauta Scholars Jared Reigle andPeter Borden and Sylvia Earle; a chamber music concert by themusic group QUINTUS at the Captiva Chapel by the Sea withreadings by Susanna Brown; and a well-attended book signing with

granddaughters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh Kristina Lindberghand Susannah Brown.

The week concluded with the2006 Lindbergh Symposium “TheWriter and the Writing: Anne MorrowLindbergh and Gift from the Sea.”That evening, Sam Galloway. Presi-dent of the Edison-Ford Winter Estateinvited as his guests the Symposiumspeakers, Lindbergh FoundationBoard Members, Earth Shine InstituteTrustees and honored guests to theEdison-Ford Gala at the Edison-Ford

“And so gradually, these chapters ...

became more than my individual

story, until I decided ... to give them

back to the people who had shared

and stimulated many of these

thoughts. Here, then, with my

warm feelings of gratitude and

companionship for those working

along the same lines, I return my

gift from the sea.”

“Preface”Gift From The Sea

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Winter Estates for a truly stellar finale to the week’s festivities.Kristina and Morgan Lindbergh were recognized by Sam Gallo-way during the dinner, and Margaret EilunedMorgan presented to Sam Galloway a silverfirst strike art medal sculpted by noted St.Louis sculptor, Don Wiegand, commemorat-ing the 50th anniversary of the publication ofGift from the Sea, “in the spirit of friendship.”

Lindbergh Foundation vice-chairman,Kristina Lindbergh wrote about her Festivalexperience, “I’m enormously grateful that Igot to be part of the Captiva event…, and feelenormously enriched by it. “A tour de force”and “a generous moment” is how NancyKennedy, Earth Shine Institute Vice Presi-dent, described it. “It was indeed a celebra-tion. Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s inspirationcontinues because of the great many caring friends of her work.”

Laura Anderson Barbata wrote of her experience at the Festi-val: I want to thank you for a wonderful experience on Captiva. Ifelt honored to be among the family and friends of Anne MorrowLindbergh and understood once again the impact small but power-ful acts can have on our lives. Did my mother know when shehanded me her favorite book that in the future I would be speakingabout that moment? Or that one day I would meet the author’s fam-ily? Or that it would influence me so much? Did Anne MorrowLindbergh ever imagine how many lives she would touch, influence,change, motivate, inspire? Thank you for your generosity and forall of your help for making this a very special experience for me andfor everyone there. … Congratulations to you and to the beautifulEarth Shine Family!

Library Programs

The Sanibel and Captiva Libraries hosted several programsdesigned to cover a variety of topics and reach out to all ages.

The Sanibel Library and Librarian Patricia Allen, hosted the firstprogram at which Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s niece and Festivalchairman Margaret Eiluned Morgan spoke to an attentive audi-ence of fifty on the intellectual development and the publicationhistory of the book Gift from the Sea. She gave a similar presen-tation later that week at the Captiva Library. However, as shestarted each presentation asking the audience what they would

like to hear about, the talks fol-lowed their own path.

Under the able guidance ofCaptiva Librarian, Naomi Pastor,four programs for children weregiven. The first was based onSylvia Earle’s popular books forchildren. The participants cre-ated a magnificent jelly f ish

sculpture out of recycled dry cleaner’s bags which was presentedto Sylvia Earle at the Captiva Island Yacht Club, by Librarian Ann

Bradley. Susannah Brown appeared at two af-ternoon story hours, reading her mother, ReeveLindbergh’s books for children, in particularMy Hippie Grandmother, which was voted a “fa-vorite book” by Florida grade school children.The fourth program was a very successful pa-permaking workshop with Lindbergh Founda-tion Grant recipient Laura Anderson Barbata.

In the middle of the week, a group gatheredat the Captiva Library to read and listen to Giftfrom the Sea read out loud in its entirety. Read-ers were: Jill Ellisofon, Nancy Kennedy, Marga-ret Eiluned Morgan, Sarita Van Vleck, andSusannah Brown. This is always a powerful andmoving experience for all involved, and one is

again struck by the beauty of Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s prose.Susannah Brown ended the reading by reading her mother, ReeveLindbergh’s new introduction written especially for the 50th an-niversary edition.

The culminating program was a panel discussion about thehistory of Captiva and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. The panelistswere: long-time Captiva resident, Sarita Van Vleck; CatherineBixby Barrett whose father was one of the original backers of theSpirit of St. Louis and whose family maintained a house on Captivafor many years; Judy Shiff, chief archivist of the Lindbergh Papersat Yale; Susannah Brown, granddaughter of Anne Morrow Lind-bergh; and Margaret Eiluned Morgan who acted as moderator. Itwas an amusing and poignant retrospective of a community in asimpler time. Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s books continue to in-spire readers to find their own compass and chart new paths intheir complex lives.

Art Show

The work of ten artists were brought together and exhibitedon Captiva at the private residence generously donated by

Karen and Stuart Buck for the GIFT FROM THE SEA FestivalWeek. Margaret Eiluned Morgan and Eric Hopkins acted as cu-Susannah Brown reads “My Hippie

Grandmother.”

Laura Barbata helps children during a paper-making demonstration.

L-R: Susannah Brown, Catherine Bixby Barrett, Sarita Van Vleck, JudySchiff, Margaret Eiluned Morgan.

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Roseate Spoonbill, by JimSprankle.

rators for the show, and Jill Elisofonacted as docent and coordinated theopening celebrations. Kat Epple,noted Fort Myers composer andmusician played her collection offlutes from around the world for thewell-attended event.

The 33 works shown by artists:Helen Sparkes, Evalina Green, JimSprankle, Charlie McCullough,Maybell Stamper, Sarita Van Vleck,Michael Collins, Ikki Matsumoto,

Eric Hopkins and Erik Lindbergh, were all chosen because theirwork, two dimensional and three dimensional, reflected similarthemes contained in Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s Gift from the Seaand her other writings.

Margaret Eiluned Morgan contributed notes for the exhi-bition pointing out the similarities: the use of pattern and tex-ture, rhythm and design; the themes of emergence and retreat;a delighted reverence for life; and ongoing respect for the artist’srole as explorer recording the inner and outer journeys of ourlives. These artists, many of them working on Sanibel andCaptiva, continue in their own way Anne Morrow Lindbergh’slegacy of wisdom, insight and inspiration.

Eric Hopkins’ Limited Edition Blown Glass ShellsCreated to Honor 50th Anniversary of the publi-cation of Gift from the Sea

Several noted art critics over the years have made comparisons between AnneMorrow Lindbergh’s writings and EricHopkins’ work – paintings, drawings,sculpture and blown glass. To honor the

50th anniversary of the publication of Giftfrom the Sea, Eric has created a limited edi-

tion of 50 of his celebrated blown glass shells. Thisis the first new series of his coveted shells he has created in 20years. One of his shells from a previous series is on display at theCorning Museum of Glassas well as in many privatecollections.

The shells come inthree sizes and are allsigned by the artist andmarked “GIFT FROMTHE SEA 2005.” A selec-tion of the shells will be onexhibit at the continuation of the GIFT FROM THE SEA Art Showat the Rookery Bay Environmental Learning Center, Naples,

Florida, March 4-April 3, 2006. For information about purchas-ing a shell, please contact the Eric Hopkins Gallery atwww.erichopkins.com or tel: 207-867-2229. For informationabout the Rookery Bay show please go to www.rookerybay.org ortel: 239-417-6310.

Chamber Music Concert

On the night of the full moon, Wednesday, November 16, thechamber music group QUINTUS joined Susannah Brown,

actress and granddaughter of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, for a per-formance of music and readings at the Captiva Chapel by the Sea.The little Chapel has servedislanders for the better partof a century and is one of thelast buildings left on the is-land that would have beenpresent when Anne MorrowLindbergh visited in the late1940’s and early 1950’s asshe was writing Gift from theSea. Margaret Eiluned Mor-gan wrote in the programnotes, “The book is trulymusical, and its music is builtinto its core.”

The program of musicand readings created agraceful dialogue betweenSusannah Brown’s readingsfrom her grandmother’s writings and pieces played by the artistsof QUINTUS: Jo Ann Lawler, pianist/composer; Ann MarieBabos, soprano; Eugene Eichler, cellist; Cheryl Carpenter Bauer,flautist; and Katherine Caldwell, oboist. The programs includedreadings from Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s Gift from the Sea; TheUnicorn and other Poems; Bring Me A Unicorn; and War Withinand Without, and musical pieces by Vivaldi, Bach, Handel,Mozart, Loeillet, Teleman, Beethoven, and Lawler. The space wasintimate, the acoustics perfect, and in the silences between thepieces one could hear the rhythm of the waves beat on Captiva’sshores.

New Art Medal by noted St. Louis SculptorDon Wiegand Unveiled

At the elegant Speakers’ Dinner at Tween Waters Inn, theevening before the 2006 Lindbergh Symposium, Morgan

Lindbergh, grandson of Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh,and Stuart Symington, Jr., secretary and legal council of TheWiegand Foundation, Inc., unveiled Don Wiegand’s latest art

Margaret Eiluned Morgan andSusannah Brown stand outside theChapel by the Sea.

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medal to a de-lighted audi-ence of sup-porters of theGIFT FROMTHE SEA Fes-tival, the EarthShine Institute,The Charles A.and Anne Mor-row Lindbergh Foundation, and The Wiegand Foundation, Inc.Special presentations were made at the dinner to The WiegandFoundation, Inc., the Captiva Civic Association, the Captiva Me-morial Library, Tween Waters Inn and Peach Hendry Sonne fortheir loyal and generous support of the Festival. Also recognizedfor their support were: Northern Trust, Michiko Nakagawa, ReeveLindbergh, Captiva Island Inn and the Captiva Island Yacht Club.

The new medal commemorates the 50th anniversary of thepublication of Gift from the Sea with the five thematic shells fromthe book portrayed by the edge of the sea. The art medal is thesecond in a series that includes the 2002 Spirit of St. Louis pincommemorating the 75th anniversary of Charles Lindbergh’s his-toric solo New York-to-Paris Flight, and will include the LockheedSirius, “Tingmissartoq” to commemorate the 75th anniversary of

the Lindberghs’ Pacific Survey Flight and ascallop shell to commemorate the 100th an-

niversary of Anne Morrow Lindbergh’sbirth in 2006.

A few of these special art medalpins will be available for purchase

through the Earth Shine Institute. Theprice will be $250 for the bronze and $500 for the silver. Toreserve a Gift from the Sea art medal pin from the second strike,contact esinfo@earthshineinstitute.com.

The Woman Fifty Years Later

The following is an excerpt from Kristina Lindbergh’s presenta-tion as published in the 2006 Lindbergh Symposium proceedings.

I’ve come back to Gift from the Sea this year to find that itand I are in one of those magical moments of illumination not

unlike what happens in those ancient earthwork structures whenall the planets are aligned just so. I realize not only that the bookand I are the same age, but that I am just about the age my grand-mother was when she wrote it. And, to my astonishment, I findthat this little book, written when skirts were still hemmed by hand(and women were expected to wear them), when families werelarge, doctors and lawyers were men, and the vacuum cleaner wasconsidered a labor-saving device, is at least as relevant to my lifenow as it was to the women who read it in 1955.

I first read Gift from the Sea when I was in college in the sev-enties, and I’m ashamed to admit that I felt it was a little dated.Women no longer needed this advice because we were liberatedand would be fulfilled! The woman who might otherwise havescrubbed our floor and peeled our potatoes was instead going tobusiness school and pouring boiling water over freeze-dried po-tato flakes. Decades later, we have indeed been leading lives ofextraordinary opportunity and choice. We’ve chosen to be as fran-tically busy as we are, working, raising children, coaching soccerand running ballet companies, no small thanks to women like myshy little grandmother who proved we could.

But how “blurred withmoss” and “knobby with bar-nacles” the shells of our elec-tronic lives have become afterall! How far “out of grace” wesometimes find ourselves be-tween the internet and thedigital-camera-cell-phone.How many midnights, blurredand barnacle-y from the day,have I gazed at my copy of Giftfrom the Sea and thought, “sowho can afford to take off fortwo weeks in Captiva in themiddle of all this?”

Of course the great suc-cess of my grand-mother’s gift to us is that it may be just that –and even for my mother-in-law’s woman: a beach between twocovers, with all its space and calm and reflection, now availablefor $16. It is itself a retreat to be dipped-into, inhaled, savoredgrain by grain, pondered any time between the Late Show andthe traffic report, and always relevant, inspiring and comforting.

Morgan Lindbergh presents a silver Gift From The Seapin to Stuart Symington.

Kristina Lindbergh.

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PresidentEric Hopkins

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Honorary Chairman

Margaret Eiluned Morgan

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Steven R. Whitley

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Symposium Honors Anne Morrow Lindbergh on CaptivaBy John Nance

The Earth Shine Institute’s 2005 Lindbergh Symposiumhonored the artistry, wisdom, and brilliance of Anne Mor-row Lindbergh with insightful speak-

ers, music, photographs, and inspiring read-ings–in five languages—of her most famousbook, Gift from the Sea. Anne MorrowLindbergh based her book Gift from the Seaon visits to Captiva Island, Florida, the site ofthe symposium, which was entitled “TheWriter and the Writing.”

Margaret Eiluned Morgan, niece ofAnne and Charles, and Chair of Earth ShineInstitute, opened the program and was mas-ter of ceremonies. She told the audience atCaptiva’s Tween Waters Inn that the successof Gift from the Sea had been rapid and ex-traordinary. Morgan also discussed the val-ues, tensions and concerns that broughtAnne Morrow to Captiva and informed the writing of the widelyacclaimed book that continues to be a significant seller today.Morgan introduced Eric Hopkins, President of the Earth ShineInstitute. Hopkins welcomed the gathering then turned the stageover to five women who each in turn read the same moving pas-sage from Gift from the Sea, each in a different language—English,French, German, Spanish and Korean.

Distinguishedlibrarian JudithSchiff then pre-sented the key-note address:“The Life andLetters of AnneMorrow Lind-bergh: Author,Aviator and Ex-plorer.” Schiff,

who is Yale University Library’s Chief Research Archivist, hasworked with Lindbergh papers from the early l960s until today.Schiff’s address featured a selection of photographs that spannedthe lives of Anne and Charles. She described when Charlesbrought Anne to see the Yale collection for the first time: “I wasamazed at what an ethereal woman she was. On the arm of herhusband, she seemed to almost float into the room.”

The next presentation was by artist, teacher and social workerLaura Anderson Barbata, who grew up in a small beach town inMexico. She said Gift from the Sea was “the first grown-up bookmy mother gave me” and it had a powerful and lasting impact.

Barbata, who received a Lindbergh Foundation Grant in2002 for her work with the Yanomami tribe in the VenezuelanAmazon, showed photo and video reports from villages of central

and South America where she organizes social projects; artisticinstallations and performances; teaches paper- and book-making

and costume design; and producesher own art.

The morning program endedwith a presentation by Dr. JoseLeal, director of the Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum onSanibel, Captiva’s neighboringbarrier island, on the taxonomy ofAnne Morrow Lindbergh’s five the-matic shells in Gift from the Sea. Dr.Leal offered a fascinating overviewof the scientific identity of eachshell. For lunch, symposium par-ticipants and attendees receivedboxed lunches, and were invited toenjoy a picnic lunch on the nearby

beach, as Anne Morrow Lindbergh often did while staying onCaptiva. The afternoon session opened with an exhibition of livebirds—a Red Shouldered Hawk, a Bard Owl, a Green-Winged Ma-caw, and a Bald Eagle—with their handlers, Jeff Ewelt and MelindaMendolusky of the Lowry Park Zoo. They provided a lively andvisually dramatic account of sea shore bird life.

Next, prominenthistorian, author, andexecutive Jill KerConway appeared byvideo to “offer someexplanations for theuniversal appeal ofGift from the Sea.”Conway said the rea-sons are three. “AnneMorrow Lindberghwas on the cusp of the major forces shaping late twentieth cen-tury culture—feminism, environmentalism, and the explorationof space.” The final presentation of the symposium was byKristina Lindbergh, eldest grandchild of Charles and Anne Mor-row Lindbergh. In recalling the impact and significance of Giftfrom the Sea when it came out fifty years ago, Kristina Lindberghsaid that despite the vast cultural changes that have occurred, “tomy astonishment…. I find that this little book is at least as rel-evant to my life now as it was to the women who read it in 1955.”Her moving presentation received a wildly enthusiastic receptionby the Symposium audience.

Contributing to the coverage of the GIFT FROM THE SEA Festi-val: Nancy Kennedy, Jill Elisofon, Jean Matthew, Don Wiegand, EricHopkins, Laura Anderson Barbata, Ann Bradley, Naomi Pastor, Mar-garet Eiluned Morgan and John Nance. All pictures by John Nance.

L-R: Rosame Piret? (French), Simone Behr? (German),Kristina Lindbergh (English), Mahlee Wallace (Korean),and Laura Anderson Barbata (Spanish).

Jeff Ewelt from the Lowry Park Zoo talks aboutthe Bald Eagle at the symposium.

L-R: Laura Anderson-Barbata (speaker), Carrie Farmer (ESITrustee and Lindbergh Board Member), Peach Sonne (ESITrustee), Joe Anding (Lindbergh Board Member), KristinaLindbergh (speaker, ESI Trustee and Lindbergh BoardMember), Nancy Kennedy (ESI Vice President), Eric Hopkins(ESI President), Judy Schiff (speaker and Lindbergh BoardMember), Margaret Eiluned Morgan (ESI Chairman andSymposium moderator).