Hey...this years National Gathering in N.E. Tennessee

Hi Family,

This year's annual gathering to be held in Cherokee National Forest. The site is East of South Holston Lake between the lake and Holston Mountain in the NE corner of TN. N 36.50175 W 82.04347 Words is come in on the 41 - other roads are bad. Please check http://appalachiangathering2012.blogspot.com/2012/06/howdy-folks.html daily for the next week or so as I will be posting updated directions, info on parking, etc. as it becomes available.

As a reminder, all the info I have on the gathering is at http://appalachiangathering2012.blogspot.com
If you haven't been to a gathering before, or haven't been in 10 years, I strongly recommend you read all the raps so you come home informed.

Much love,
Karin

Be the love you want to see in this world. Our love is more powerful than all their lies, guns, and fear.

 

Thanks for posting Sandoz. When is the technical start of the Rainbow Gathering? I've only ever been to one National in my life. Can I show up early...if so how early?

 

hey sister,

no such thing as too early. as soon as spring council announces the site (happened today), all are welcome to come

it was too rainy today, but folks are heading out there tomorrow to start seed camp. if you're self-sufficient (have your own tent, food, enough to survive on your own for a few days) and want to help, come out! if that sounds intimidating, maybe wait until this weekend.

onion

 

Thanks for the info for the this years site.I always thought no one is supposed to mention where it is until after the council is over and when seed camp is already just getting started.We dont want to much family coming to early and causing a problem for the LEOs.I used to remember no one would spread the info about where the current site was untill a week or 2 at the most on the where the site is.Now everyone spreads the word to quickly.It has to grow slowly to become more organized and well planned.I hope anyone who comes early can help out and do a little work as anyone who comes to the site now is helping out with seed camp. The gathering dont start to July 1st and ends the 7th.We all got to help out,because ,we are the gathering and we can make as good as we want if we can can all pitch in and help with some work and some love.Everyone have a safe trip.PEACE and LOVE

 

To Cactus: Council WAS over when Karin made her announcement, hence the detailed location and the GPS coordinates. As for showing up early...don't show up unless you intend to help a LOT with physical labor. Seed camp is for building things and digging shitters and infrastructure work. There is a lot to do and not a lot to eat. Only come if you are prepared to make the gathering happen. At the very least, do NOT show up with just a blanket and the clothing on your back and expect to be taken care of - this is easy to do at the actual gathering, but at seed camp the folks have more pressing matters to deal with than early bird stragglers.

That being said, if you're enthusiastic about helping and have a head on your shoulders, PLEASE come be part of seed camp! You will make lifelong friends and true human connections. Nothing bonds people together better than digging a shitter together.

Love you all and can't wait to see you at hOMe!

 

cant wait to get there

 

Here's a link from Karin's fb page: http://appalachiangathering2012.blogspot.com/2012/06/go-with-flow-be-flow.html

I couldn't get the link posted earlier to work, so trying again. The the busiest time of gathering is 1-7 July, but by the middle of June folks will be setting up. We were at Utah two weeks before the 4th and there were about 250 people in main circle, two witches veering by, and several dogs that cleo from logan chased away, "No dogs at the dinner table!"

Several people I knew went for seed camp in CO '06 and helped build kitchens - for the teens it was a great experience and they really got "in" with some of the kitchens and folks that some of us consider the high status hippies, just by working their asses off. I also heard that as more people showed up it got cleaner because some of the early arrivals were bums, drainbows who can't dig a latrine and were the shit-in-the-woods types, in other words, those walking in darkness, or atleast dampled light.

One fun time I had was getting some shrooms and spending the morning of the 4th with a humble hippie doing all the cleanup for Kiddie Village kitchen - and when everything was done (circle formed and broke while we worked), realized that the wash line outside was yucky so we changed all the rinse/wash water. We met some nice people, some amazing people, and a few assholes (for some reason some people insist on saying that they can blab during Prayer on the 4th because they are IN Kiddie Village. Yeah clowns, you are IN KV, bullshitting about the fucking UFC and if I wanted to break silence more I could tell you all about Chuck Liddell and B.J. Penn, having been a fucking black belt since before you were born, but I'm above all that!
I'm cooking at a youth camp in the mts of Colorado for a couple weeks, so HAVE FUN! and remember, it's all karma. I was lucky enough to join Kiddie Village wood crew first Gathering (ID '01) and the vets on the crew would stop working and pray in a circle every morning. And a grower from Maui would come by and... Later in Trading Circle I'd hear people begging for highs and I'm like, dude, go chop wood for an hour and see what happens. Building bleachers for Honky Tonk night at Rainbow Zion we ended up turning down weed as we were using axes and saws and getting too fucked up!

 

Thank you all for the info. Yes, I come self sufficient And I would happily help. It sounds exciting. And don't worry, I'm not one to sponge off the system. It sounds like fun. Is parking on this site easy. I drive a van. Is getting in and out easy? Thanks