Chef Deanna D'Angelo-Karpe

Deanna is a chef who grew up in the Catskills and is the founder of Woodstock Hidden Kitchen whose mission is to prepare local food in an atmosphere of beauty and poetry.  About a year ago, after having discovered the actual situation of our food and water, largely through the influence of Vandana Shiva, she felt that she could no longer go on with business as usual, and found it necessary instead to focus on creating a safe food supply through seed saving and local sustainable agriculture and educating others about the urgency of protecting our environment.   Her mission in participating in the WalkAboutWater is to support other women, both those who have already been a victim of various crimes against our environment, and those who, like herself, wish to create and participate in grass root initiatives that empower in a nurturing way and raise awareness of the sacredness of water, food and the beauty and purity of our mountains, fields and rivers.
For more information on how you can help support our local grassroots initiatives please email Deannascatering@aol.com

Joy Ohrvall

Joy Ohrvall lives near the Neversink dam and regularly walks and meditates with the water energy. She teaches Yoga and Reiki and has been deeply involved in Shamanic studies since 1997. AS a water dowser she works with water energies and is familiar with the work of Dr Masaru Emoto about messages in water. When asked why she's walking she said; "I've used water in my daily sacred ceremonies for years to cleanse and heal, now I want to do something to wake up people about the importance of water and to help to keep it pure." joybear77@gmail.com 
www.members.tripod.com/JOYCEOHRVALL/reiki.htm

Bess Path

Bess Path resides in Homer, NY where she moved after growing up in North Muskegon MI near the Lake Michigan shore.  She has fond memories of childhood days spent playing on the beautiful white sand beaches and jumping in the waves of Lake Michigan with her brothers and sisters.  A few years later these pristine beaches were rendered basically unusable by the stench of large numbers of dead fish washed ashore because her  beloved  water had become so polluted.  This was hearbreaking to her.  More recently she has been concerned about our drinking water and that of her grandchildren and their grandchildren and many generations to come.  The issues with fracking rendering the drinking water of many families in PA unsafe for consumption by humans and other living things has been a great source of distress for Bess.  She sees that  water is a sacred, life giving  gift that must be honored and protected.

Lynn Senick

Lynn Senick was born in the city of Philadelphia. As a child she spent summers in Laurel Lake in southern NJ where she learned a deep appreciation for our planet and it's beauty and resources. As a mother of four she longed to raise her children in a more natural and pure environment than Philadelphia afforded. She and her family moved to Susquehanna County, PA in 1989 to achieve this dream. Lynn had a small homestead in Brooklyn, PA where they raised small livestock and gardened. The rapidly developing gas extraction industry in Susquehanna County has alarmed her and she is concerned about the effects of the intensive gas development on the abundant water resources of her county and on all of the Marcellus Shale region. Salt Springs State Park is a sacred and healing place to her and she is thankful the Walk About Water will honor this special place.

Annie Lenihan

Annie Lenihan was born in New York City with  a cord wrapped around her neck and an allergy to her mother's milk. She has been fighting ever since. She is a painter and graphic designer. Annie has been working for a ban on natural gas drilling for over two and a half years. Working with CDOG, she has helped with grassroots change, educational work through films, discussion, graphics and photographs that help to expose the horror of this industry. Annie believes that communities have to have the right to decide for themselves what their community will be, an industrial zone or a farming community.   She has lived in Chenango County, NY for the past ten years

Chrys Countryman

Chrys Countryman is a grandmother from Shokan NY, a small hamlet in the Ashokan watershed of the NYC reservoir system. There she has lived simply and maintained an organic garden since 1981. She is a free-lance draftsperson and energy auditor-in-training. www.sustainable-1.net

Chrys is a dancer and one of the Million Women Drummers.

She walks because she is unwilling to to sit by while unacceptable volumes of water are contaminated by shale gas mining. "Water is eternal and a gift of nature to all life. Gas is so temporary it is gone the second it's useful. My generation has a responsibility to leave a livable planet to the ones that follow. I walk because I feel I must respond personally to this serious threat to our waters and the public health".