Announcing A New Legacy Gift
By Alexandra Fotos Linnea and George Takacs have been involved with Touchstones for many years and recently decided to seal their commitment by including
Screened-In Summer Programs
By Abraham Zhao Has everyone started using “Zoom”, “Google Meet,” or “Microsoft Teams” in their daily vocabulary yet? Zoom became a part of my
Commitment To Civics
By Howard Zeiderman Early this year, the Mt. Desert Island Regional School System (MDIRSS) contacted Touchstones. They wanted to take a great step forward
Hard Work And Bittersweet Fruit
By Stefanie Takacs In our April and July newsletters, we wrote about our Saturday community discussions—one of our early responses to being physically isolated
Recent Fiction as Navigating an Emerging and a Virtual World
A New Touchstones Discussion Program Since late spring, once a month 12 professionals— lawyers, CEOs, investors, entrepreneurs—sign onto a ZOOM meeting to spend 90
Bridging the Distance
By Stefanie Takacs Over the last five months, we’ve become more acutely aware of distance. The word enters our daily language more times and
Shaping the New Normal
By Jenn Macris Like other non-profits, businesses and organizations around the world, Touchstones is moving forward in the new normal we all face due
Transformative Giving
Elliott Zuckerman Self-portrait as Landscape #1. 1999 By Alexandra Fotos Last year, Touchstones received an extraordinary gift from the estate of Elliott
Adapting to a Remote- Access World
By Abraham Zhao The staff at Touchstones is hard at work making necessary transitions in this new educational environment online. Some teachers we have
Reflections from Within
By Jenn Macris Fyodor Dostoyevsky famously wrote that “the degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” Recently I
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