Trouble starts when members of the West Spirit Reservation, better known as The Chekesuwand, live under the high desert sun. Their survival becomes so fragile that they have no choice but to allow outsiders to bail them out.

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Over The Peanut Fence: about homeless and runaway youth

2019 Living Now Book Award Winner

Former OMSI President, Marilynne Eichinger, reveals what she learned when she and her partner invited a twenty-year-old homeless youth to  live in their home. A moving look at traumatized youth, leaders, and the volunteers who work diligently to help them scale barriers that led them to the streets.

 
  • Read emotional stories about those who overcame abusive childhoods.
  • Discover the causes of youth homelessness.
  • Meet good samaritans who help traumatized youth succeed.
  • Learn about traumatized brains and interventions used to help youth scale barriers.
  • Discover what you can do to help

“The author’s account is lucidly written, both intellectually thorough and emotionally affecting. In addition, this isn’t a work of ax-grinding political partisanship—Eichinger prefers cool-headed analysis to grandstanding. Further, at the heart of her “part memoir and part storybook” is a profound reflection on the ailing condition of American society, withering from the widespread disintegration of the family and the grim plague of “lovelessness.” Kirkus Reviews

Available on line and in local bookstores. For a signed copy, contact the author at eichingerbooks@gmail.com.

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Lives of Museum Junkies

The Story of America’s Hands-On Education Moveme

Updated after COVID!  Peer into the political and educational climate of the 1960s to discover factors that propelled the hands-on education movement into prominence. Follow the missteps and breakthroughs of Marilynne Eichinger and 11 other naive but dedicated museum directors, board volunteers, and National Science Foundation managers as they strove to change the way science was taught. Their oft humorous stories are revealed with candor and clarity. Responding to the latest research in learning and child development, they created engaging, self-teaching displays that impacted the landscape of 2,900 centers worldwide while serving 98 million people in the U.S.

2018 Chanticleer Finalist

“This great read tells the story of the beginning of science museums through the eyes of early pioneer Marilynne Eichinger. She includes lessons from her life and the lives of other pioneers in museums of experience. Recommended for those who care about museums, libraries and society today.”  Ginnie Cooper, boards of Literary Arts in Portland, the Smithsonian Center for Folk Life and Cultural Heritage. Former executive director of the Portland and Brooklyn Public Library Systems and head librarian of the District of Columbia Public Library.

“Marilynne Eichinger has created a very worthwhile contribution to her thorough analysis of science museums. Her book will bring added interest to museums and what they can offer now and in the future.Jean Auel, author Earth’s children series


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Marilynne Eichinger, entrepreneur, founder, and developer of institutions promoting science education shares her experiences in writings as well as art. She served as founder and past president of Impression Five Science Museum in Lansing, Michigan, president and developer of the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry in Portland. Marilynne went on to found and publish the Museum Tour Gift Catalog to encourage hands-on learning in the home. In 2015 she and her partner invited a twenty-year old street youth to live with them. Their experiences inspired four years of research into the causes and interventions used to help homeless youth. In retirement she turned her attention to global warming and the deep problems that must be overcome to save the environment. 

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Anthia Among the Thorns: second thriller in the Rightfully Mine Series. About petroleum coke and the people who make billions shipping it to third world countries. Known as petcoke, the U.S. is its largest producer. It is a coal like product that burns hotter, is more polluting, and  and costs less than coal. 

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