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Diana Rivers: From Atheist to Pagan

Diana Rivers: From Atheist to Pagan

Diana Rivers’s sculpture called Goddess Rising is the centerpiece of her home altar. Courtesy of Diana Rivers

Diana Rivers goes from atheist to pagan while serving cakes for the Queen of Heaven.

Posted on October 1, 2022 Posted in Culture and the Arts, Lesbian Land Groups, Publishing, Publications, and Booksellers, Spirituality and Religion Tagged with Bea Howard, City of Strangers, Clouds of War, Dancer for The Goddess, Diana Rivers, Fayetteville Arkansas, Goddess Festival, Goddess Productions, Journey to Zelindar, Matriarts, OLHA, Ozark Land Holding Association, Path Hennon, Sassafras, Snake Memories and Other Stories, speculative fiction, the Hadra, The Red Line of Yarmald, The Smuggler The Spy and the Spider, Vick Kelley, WomanVision

Diana Rivers: Author, Cultural Activist, and Grassroots Landyke

Diana Rivers: Author, Cultural Activist, and Grassroots Landyke

Diana Rivers in the home she built at OLHA

Divorced and alone in 1972, Diana Rivers paddled her way from New York to Arkansas with an unbridled fever that turned the local landscape upside down.

Posted on October 1, 2022 Posted in Culture and the Arts, Lesbian Land Groups, Publishing, Publications, and Booksellers Tagged with Aguila, antiwar activism, Arco Iris, Arkansas, Blue Creek Tribe, Buffalo River, commune, Congress of Racial Equality CORE, Debra Gish, Diana Rivers, Earth school, Fayetteville Arkansas, feminism, land community, Landyke, Lesberadoes, lesbian, lesbian land community, Madison County, Nancy Vaughn, Newton County, non-violent civil disobedience, Ozark Land Holding Association OLHA, Ozark Women’s Land Trust OWLT, Rose Norman, Sassafras, separatism, Sun Hawk, Wild Magnolia