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    Asho Craine Writings 1993–2009
    Asho Craine Writings 1993–2009
    Asho Craine Writings 1993–2009
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    Asho Craine Writings 1993–2009

    By Asho I. Craine

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    This collection of Asho Craines writings is organized into three sections titled Ashos Story, Family and Friends, and Poetry.

    Following her husbands death in 1993, Asho Craine joined the Learning in Retirement Collective in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and began writing about her childhood and youth. The first part of this collection tells about her family background, her experiences growing up in Brooklyn, New York, the challenges she faced in school, her experience as a member of the first class of students at Bennington College, and her first romance. The chronological account of her life ends with a description of her first job after college.

    Rather than continue chronologically, Asho then embarked on a series of Memory Letters to her late husband, Lyle Craine. These letters weave recollections of the fifty years they spent together with updates on her life and the lives of her children in the late 1990s. They include her account of Lyles stroke in 1988 and the four and one half years he spent in a nursing home.

    The appendix to the first section contains three short autobiographical summaries of her life.

    The second section of the book contains character sketches of members of Ashos family and close friends, written for various occasions.

    Following her move to Connecticut in 2004, Asho turned to writing poetry. The third section of this book contains her poems written between 2004 and 2009.
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    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateDec 23, 2011
    ISBN9781468508734
    Asho Craine Writings 1993–2009
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    Asho I. Craine

    “Asho Craine, a champion with a social conscience,” read a headline in the January 11, 2002, Ann Arbor [Michigan] News, days after her 87th birthday. The article continued, “Her mother was a suffragette. Her father, a lawyer, was Brooklyn borough president in the reform-minded administration of New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia...She was a member of the charter class—1936—at Bennington College, a free thinking school in Vermont, an experience she says ‘opened up the world to me.’ Sixty-six years later, she retains liberal views on the environmental, politics, and social issues.” In 1934 Asho traveled with the first student group to enter Russia after President Roosevelt recognized the Soviet Union. After graduation she worked for a consumer-farmer milk cooperative, which led to a job in Washington with the Consumers’ Counsel Division of the Department of Agriculture. There she met Lyle Craine, whom she married in 1942. They had two sons and a daughter. In 1953 the family moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan, where Lyle earned a Ph.D. and then joined the faculty of the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources. They enjoyed life together in Ann Arbor for forty years until Lyle’s death in 1993 following a 1988 stroke. In Ann Arbor, Asho became a volunteer and community activist primarily through the League of Women Voters and the Gray Panthers, and once ran for school board. Following her husband’s death, Asho joined the Learning in Retirement Collective and began to produce her memoirs, excerpts of which appear in The Man Who Eats Snakes, an anthology produced by the Collective in 2001. In 2004 she moved to the Seabury Retirement Community in Bloomfield, Connecticut, where she joined a poetry group and begin writing poems. This volume is the product of sixteen productive years as a writer.

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