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The Hawthorn Spinner, Vol. II, No. 4, November 14, 1994

Cernunnos: The Horned One

At the dawn of pre-history, it is said, humanity worshiped a Goddess who often co-existed with a male Deity, sometimes depicted with horns. Such figures represent humanity's elemental search for survival and meaning in mortality, a relentless quest for unity with the divine and the interdependent nature of the existential web.

October 25, 1994

Bob Gaydos, Editorial Page Editor
The Times Herald Record
40 Mulberry Street
Middletown, New York 10940

Editor:

The interview with a Woodbourne Wiccan (10/25) was enlightening, entertaining and interesting. This letter is in response to comments attributed to the Christian woman interviewed about Wicca in the same article.

On the Perfection of Love
The Hawthorn Spinner, Brigid 1994, Vol. III, No. 1, pp. 1 and 4

"‘Bide the Wiccan law ye must,
In perfect Love and perfect Trust..."

By WILLIAM W. BROWN III

My name is Bill Brown.

Minutes of a meeting of the Board of Trustees of Innisfree Corporation held on April 17, 1993 recorded the following:

"Use of Innisfree Facility

Treasurer Ann Rue reported that The River School continues to rent the entire dormitory building. Moreover, the following locally based non-profit groups make regular use of the Innisfree recreation hall for organization meetings:

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF
HAWTHORN GROVE, INC.

Under Section 402 of the Not-For-Profit Corporation Law, 

THE UNDERSIGNED, for the purpose of forming a corporation pursuant to Section 402 of the Not-For-Profit Corporation Law of the State of New York, do hereby certify and set forth: 

[1]. The name of the Corporation is:

HAWTHORN GROVE, INC.

CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS OF 
Hawthorn Grove, Inc.
(A Pagan religious congregation)

ARTICLE I - PREAMBLE

      A. The name of this religious society shall be Hawthorn Grove, Inc. 

The Myth of Endymion
The Hawthorn Spinner, Vol. I, No. 4, September 7, 1992, pp. 1-2

by Endymion Vervain

In keeping with the approach of the festival of Samhain, I recently discovered some poems pasted into a small shriveled pocket calendar dated 1876, owned by one of my ancestors.