On the Threshold of Home

Sarah Larson is the author of Memoir: Bloomies & me and Circles of Love: A Lesson for Chang You, as well as many newspaper and magazine articles of folk artists and musicians. She has been an award winning educator being the recipient of the Christa MacAuliff Fellowship for New Jersey and was recognized for Save America's Treasures as one of two New Jersey recipients. She has been affiliated with New Jersey High Schools namely Ramsey High School, Accra High School in Ghana, and SMIC Private School in Shanghai, the People's Republic of China. She was also affiliated with UNCAsheville, Olli program. She founded Stories on Asheville's Front Porch, in Asheville, North Carolina as a summer storytelling festival. She also wrote and produced two plays with global music that were adaptations of Melville's Moby-Dick entitled "Moby Rocks" and "Starbuck by Whalelight". In addition she produced nationally recognized ethnographic video documentaries, "The Sharing Season", "If Walls Could Talk", and "Attic Treasures". With the Junior League she served on the State Public Affairs Committee writing legislation that freed children in foster care to be adopted. Legislative action was taken on education, juvenile justice, foster care and adoption, child abuse on behalf of the rights of children. She is especially delighted to be collaborating on this project with illustrator Sabina Elitok.