The original Healdsburg Peace Project began as a University of California student exercise. That happened a long time before Susan and I returned to California. The project then went dormant until it was reanimated by local progressives like Bob and Laura and Robert and Heidi around the time of the crackpot second war against Iraq.
For more than 20 years the project met at the town square in Healdsburg on Thursday evenings and held up signs calling for peace. And then we would usually adjourn to someone's house and enjoy a potluck dinner and an argument.
The Peace Project won an award or two. We joined many larger demonstrations. Over time important leaders died. People moved away. Some of us got old. The generation that had opposed wars of aggression in the 1960s was going. And now the Peace Project has shut its doors. The friendships remain, and we'll be seeing you, as the song goes, in all the old familiar places.
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