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Essential Stuff Project (ESP)
Welcome! to our website, and to the ESP Community. We are located in Montana’s Flathead Valley, in the community of Bigfork, although our membership is spread throughout the valley.
ESP Home Page: no matter where you are within our website, you can always click on “The EssentiaList” in the green band at the top of every page, to return to our Home page (this page).
Note from Cat: I’m tinkering with the look of our website (specifically the right-hand column of links). If you get a “404 Error” (broken link error), please send me an email, providing the full url that gave the error (copy/paste) so I can fix the link. (see ESP Contact).
Clementine's
We hold regular events, called “Gatherings,” with presentations on specific topics of interest. Most Gatherings are held on the 3rd Wednesday of the month, 7 PM, at Clementine’s in Bigfork (photo to right). But some gatherings are held at the home of the presenter; for example, our Keeping a Family Goat gathering, or at other venues.
See also Monthly Open Stage at Clementine’s, for a great monthly community event.
About ESP
Go to our “About Us” page to learn more about ESP and the core team. Or read the Article about ESP from the Daily InterLake newspaper (November 24, 2008). Contact Us is another option.
Go to our Gatherings & Events page to learn about upcoming events. Or use the “Blog Categories” pull-down to select “Notices-Events.”
And view a short video clip of Edd giving an introduction about ESP at a Feb 24, 2010 Gathering: Edd B. opens with philosophy of ESP
About our Blog
A blog is a diary, with each entry called a Post. Each post is given a date & time stamp, then all posts are stored in chronological sequence, just as in a diary. This is where you will find the articles on various topics, including summaries of our gatherings, notices of coming events, and articles on specific subjects pertinent to our mission.
Our blog is the life of our website, where ESP members post articles or event notices in keeping with our Mission, and Rules for Posting. If you are not familiar with how blogs work, it can be confusing at first, so here’s a little help: go to Navigating our Blog.
There are many ways to access our blog, including from:
- A specific article in our newsletter (see Subscribe to our Newsletter);
- ‘BLOG’ link (displays the most current post at the top);
- ‘Search’ field (works like a Google search to find matching articles);
- ‘Blog Archives’ pulldown (select by month)
- ‘Blog Categories’ pulldown
- ‘Recent Posts’ Menu
- ‘Recent Comments’ Menu
Links
In the right-hand column you will find a list of links.
Top half of the column
These are links to other pages/posts on our website, and include: Search, Home, BLOG, About ESP, Preparedness, Files, Blog Archives, Blog Categories, Recent Posts, and Recent Comments.
Bottom half of the column
These include links to other websites.
The first of these are for other websites related to our mission, and have section titles: Energy Links, Events Links, Food: Gardening & Ag Links, Food: Local/Organic Links, Misc. Links, and Sustainability Links.
The last two section titles are for the software used to create this site: WordPress Blog Roll, and Meta. The Meta section includes links for the RSS version of this blog.
Thanks for the news letter; I enjoy it very much. I need to how ever devote more time to attending – I will make a greater effort towards that means.
I especially like the food swap idea being floated. [See also Food Swapping in the Flathead].
Food or music and essential stuff are some of the reasons that bring communities and community members closer to understanding one another. [See also Clementine's Open Stage]
First let me thank you for a very informative site. Just found The EssentiaList and will be back many times.
Now to get to what I wanted to pass on. I came across the listing concerning an external link about a book titled “A Manual of Home Making (1919) that had a link to an HTML version of the book. Time consuming to DL and keep the data. For older books like this, I try looking at the Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org/details/texts). Found the above mentioned book and DLed it in .pdf format.
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=A%20Manual%20Of%20Home-Making%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts
There are usually other formats you may choose from including .txt. Great source for older print material. As an example, try searching for “cook book”. Many older cookbooks come up in the results.
Thanks again!