catapult magazine

vol. 5, num. 9 :: 2006.05.05 — 2006.05.19

"Third place" is a term used to describe the places we gather with one another apart from work and home. This issue will take a look at the places where we renew ourselves and experience community.

Feature

Nuts and bolts and conversation

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

An interview with Dale Ter Haar, owner of South Park Hardware in South Holland, Illinois.

Editorial

Healing place: a sketch

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

A reflection on lives intersecting in unexpected spaces.

Articles

Church as "third place" as church

by Steve Collins

What is the relationship between church space and third place?

Paths lead here

by Reverend Karen Fitz La Barge

On how the Centennial Park Gazebo in Holland, Michigan, became engraved into a life story.

Thin place

by Wm. Anthony Connolly

A story of discovering the place of refreshment.

Reviews

Audio community

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

A review of Susan Enan's five-song EP.

Gallery

In case you missed it the first time

An e-mail address for the guy who took our photo at the place around the corner where we went for coffee

by Kelly Crull

The merging of two cultures yields a lesson in experiencing community.

Re-inventing the well

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

Even as big boxes multiply, "neighborhood values" are becoming an important part of the national conversation.

Denim sinner, coffeeshop Savior

by Jeremy Huggins

How true love meets guilt and shame one fateful, folk-filled evening.

A cup half empty

by Henry Bakker

A review of Coffee and Cigarettes directed by Jim Jarmusch.

Weaving the web

More on Ray Oldenberg

Project for Public Spaces

A biography and information about the sociologist who coined the term "third place."

Third Place Commons

Explore the web site for this important public space in Lake Forest, Washington.

Columns

A concert hall reclaimed

by Kate Bowman Johnston

On live performance space as "third place."

daily asterisk

Even in a country you know by heart
its hard to go the same way twice
the life of the going changes.
The chances change and make a new way.
Any tree or stone or bird
can be the bud of a new direction. The
natural correction is to make intent
of accident. To get back before dark
is the art of going.

Wendell Berry
“Traveling at Home” from Traveling at Home

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