Riddle of America, The - Waldorf Research Institute

AcknowledgmentsI am grateful to many people who considered possible articlesfor this book and to others who pointed me in the right direction. DavidSciarreta led me directly to Americanos; Edward James Olmos and Dr. LeaYbarra encouraged me to solicit official permission from Little, Brown, andCo., to reprint three articles from Americanos. Tappan Wilder was extremelyencouraging, urging me to solicit permission from Nicole Verity, of theBarbara Hogenson Agency, to reprint three Charles Eliot Norton Lectures thatThornton Wilder gave at Harvard University in 1952. Sherry Wildfeuer, editorof Journal for Anthroposophy, generously allowed us to reprint “AmericanLight,” J. Leonard Benson, 1981; “Emerson’s Epistemology with Glances atRudolf Steiner,” Gertrude Reif Hughes, Spring/Summer 1986; “Reflectionson Early Sacred Music of New England,” Michael Winship, Spring/Summer1987; ”The Thief Who Kindly Spoke,” Michael Miller, Summer, 1988;”Anthroposophy and the Spirit of America,” Rick Spaulding, Fall 1998; and“Choosing America as a Place for Incarnation or Immigration in the 21stCentury,” Virginia Sease, Fall 1999. The Waldorf Education Research InstituteBulletin gave permission to print Dorit Winter’s address, “America’s GoldRush … ,”given at the 1999 national AWSNA conference. Susan Stephensonled us to Joe Glosemeyer’s “Oklahoma.” Gosha Karpowicz, James Vaughn,and Dale Hushbeck teamed up on the cover, completed masterfully by HallieWooten. David Sloan and Jane Wulsin (who has, more importantly, givenme sustenance throughout) helped edit the editor in the introduction.And most important, David Mitchell has been a dedicated partner,helping to co-conceive the notion of the book, consulting well along theway, asking tough questions, making good suggestions, and engaging inPaul Bunyanesque labors, helping the language and manner of these manystreams become, as well as possible, one mighty river.x