Voices: Marianna Edmunds
Mimi Edmunds
Marianna Edmunds has been a documentary journalist since 1981, working at CBS' "60 Minutes," PBS and the Discovery Network. She has also taught at the Maine Media Workshops for 22 summers and recently moved from Tucson to Rockport with her daughter Eliza. Today she is excited to make her stories visual through the art (craft) of writing.
Recent Posts by Marianna Edmunds
DAY 15
Sovanna Phum: the Shadow Puppet Theater
By Marianna Edmunds - Mar 23Back in Phnom Penh on the search again for young Cambodian artists leading the way in creating a new cultural identity for Cambodia by reviving ...
Day 13
Animators, fishermen, bloggers
By Marianna Edmunds - Mar 23A day of goodbyes, unexpected surprises, and traveling. After three days at the exciting arts institute of Phare Ponleu Selpak a 15-year-old ...
Day 9
Leaders, entrepreneurs, fireworks on the Tonle Sap
By Marianna Edmunds - Mar 23It’s Memorial Day in Cambodia, a national holiday, the day the Khmer Rouge under Pol Pot was deposed by a coalition led by the Vietnamese. ...
Day 6
Art from a different perspective
By Marianna Edmunds - Mar 23Another long and productive day in Phnom Penh chasing down our story, interviewing young Cambodian artists who are creating a new cultural ...
Day 4
The ancient and the modern
By Marianna Edmunds - Mar 23In Phnom Penh we met Srey Pov, a 19-year-old first year university student, who practiced ancient Cambodian music, Smot, learning from a 63-year-ol...
Prelude
Cambodia plus 25
By Marianna Edmunds - Mar 23In January, I went to Cambodia to research a documentary on young artists who are creating a new cultural identity in a country often still ...
My Daughter the Wolf
By Marianna Edmunds - Dec 23It was graduation day from pre-school, Santa Monica, May 1997. Eliza, my five-year-old, was graduating. Eager parents, precious but interesting...
On October’s Cusp
By Marianna Edmunds - Oct 24Maybe you can see Through this dense fog White with the last days Of an Indian summer, Soft air gently lifts the flags Up and around ...
After Mary Bok's piece: 9.30.10
By Marianna Edmonds - Oct 24Mary, Mary you fill us with awe and some full of sassy secrets, Hissed along skinny walls And long halls Winding down old stairs And ...
Word Jumble (just for fun)
By Marianna Edwards - Sep 13Clumped words howl across the room, while pasteurized prose puts police whistles into worn-out smiles. Logs floating through a morass of ...
Underbarrow, evening ...
By Marianna Edmunds - Jul 07Recently I had the joy of a gift trip to England – to visit cousins in London – but more importantly to walk in the Lake District with a good ...
Bessie's hands
By Marianna Edmunds - May 05I felt her hand in mine, her long bony fingers with flat nails evenly clipped. She held mine even though she didn't know it, so close. I knew she ...
Route 1 with Baba Mal
By Mimi Edmunds - Apr 07Driving down Route 1 from the small coastal Maine village of Rockport, on an emergency trip to Boston, Baba Mal softly wails on the CD I just ...
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