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Mary's Writings/Editings/Publishings
(Note: the ones referenced in red are available in toto
- or as excerpts - on this website, for you to look at!)
 
 
ON THIS WEBSITE- REVIEWS:
 
A Life in School, Or What the Teacher Learned, by Jane Tompkins
Amazing Grace, by Jonathan Kozol
Changing Lives: Voices for a School that Works, by Jane Day
Daisy Sutra; Conversations with my Dog, by Helen Weaver
How Like an Angel Came I Down: Conversations with Children on the Gospels, edited by Alice O. Howell
May You Never Stop Dancing, A Professor's Letters to his Daughter, By John Lawry
The Underground History of American Education, by John Taylor Gatto
ADDRESS in John Taylor Gatto's Carnegie Hall program:
 
Learning Flows Naturally: The Free School, a Multi-Generational Learning Community
 
 
ARTICLES IN PUBLICATIONS:
 
"Tribute to Fritz Perls," Energy and Character, the Journal of Biosynthesis, Abbotsbury, Dorset, England, May, 1971.
"Reality and the Rose Curtain; Owning Your Anger," New Schools Exchange Newsletter, November, 1972.
"The Free School Controversy: Letter From America," Energy and Character, January, 1973.
"A Social and Political Reassessment: the Work of Wilhelm Reich Today," Energy and Character, June, 1978.
"The Free School Community," Offshoots of Orgonomy, New York, Spring, 1982.
"Fury on Earth: A Biography of Wilhelm Reich, by Myron Sharaf," Review, Energy and Character, Spring, 1986.
"La Clinique de Michel Odent," Practicing Midwife, Summertown, TN, 1987.
Death by fire at Montségur, a past life account of life at the end of the 13th century
"Albigensian Crusade"
 On Glastonbury Tor, a strange adventure which fulfilled a old prophesy about this mysterious site.
My Ashfield: a child's history of the small hilltown of Ashfield, Massachusetts
"Shoestring School," Journal of Orgonomy, New York, May, 1977.
Mainlining Sesame Street: from The Flying Bird Brings the Message Chapter 8: a polemical article decrying what we do to our children in modern society.
"Obstetrical Nursing During the Forties," The Birth Gazette, Summertown, TN, 1989.
"Whaddya Mean, Free?" Holistic Education Review, Greenfield, MA, Summer, 1988 (award-winning issue). 
"Which Way - Top-Down or Bottom-up?" Chepter 19 in Bill Ellis' anthology about Learning Centers and Communities.
"Hey, Grandma, Whatcha Doin'?" Crank magazine, Vancouver, Canada.
"A Catholic?" - a letter to John Taylor Gatto
"Family, the Hope of the Generations," an essay on American anticulture.
 
BOOKS:
As author:
Jessica Dragonette's Fiery Breath, Down-to-Earth Books, Albany, NY, 1974.
Love Songs for the Irishwoman, Down-to-Earth Books, Albany, NY, 1974.
Rushing to Eva, Down-to-Earth Books, Albany, NY, 1975.
Looking For One's Shadow at Noon, vols. 1 and 2, Down-to-Earth Books, Albany, NY, 1984; 1993.
The Flying Bird Brings the Message, Down-to-Earth Books, Albany, NY, 1993.
India Journal, Down-to-Earth Books, Albany, NY, 1993.
Trying to Get it Right This Time, Confessions of a Survivor of a Large Family, by Mary M. Leue, volumes 1&2. Click here for an excerpt from Volume 2.
 
As editor (all available for purchase in the Down-to-Earth bookstore):
Challenging the Giant, the Best of SKOLE, the Journal of Alternative Education, volumes I-IV, Down-to-Earth Books, Albany, NY, 1992; 94; 96; 99.
A Search for the Historical Jesus, From Apocryphal, Buddhist, Islamic and Sanskrit Sources, by Professor Fida Hassnain
The Fifth Gospel, by Professor Fida Hassnain - predecessor to Search, with some sources not offered in the later book.
Hermit's Handbook, by Jack Barry
The World's Goin' to End at Loonchtime, Poems of the Free School Community, Down-to-Earth Books, Albany, NY, 1993. See also Snow Cave, by Larry Becker.
Songs of an Earth Family, Poems of the Free School Community volume 2, Down-to-Earth Books. See also The Magic Hat, by Chris Mercogliano, plus table of contents.
 
 
PERIODICALS:
As Editor:
SKOLE, the Journal of Alternative Education, 1985-1999.
The Journal of Family Life, 1994-2000.