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Ashland Daily Press
Stone ending 16-year tenure with Cable Natural History Museum
For Emily Stone, the connections are clear. She traces them past the food web, “a thousand steps farther,” all the way to the stars. “We wouldn’t have iron for our blood unless there were supernovas. Our solar system was made out of the cloud of dust from a previously exploded star,” she said. “Everything just keeps getting recycled. “And then all of that energy that comes in from the sun just keeps getting passed around through all of life, and some of it escapes back into space. Everything’s connected.” After 16 years as naturalist and education director at the Cable Natural History Museum, Stone will leave the job Dec. 31. She is moving to Silver Bay, Minn., to be with her fiance and to take a sabbatical “until the finances run out.” The tagline on her Substack page sums up her worldview: “A shimmering web of relationships connects everything.” Mimi Crandall, a museum board member, called Stone 16 years ago to offer her the job. “We were looking for an education director at the time as well as a naturalist,” Crandall said. “She said, ‘I don’t want to be the education director. I want to be a naturalist. I want
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