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Rootdrinker Institute is an outgrowth of Rootdrinker Magazine which I started publishing in 1975 in Canton, New York. Rootdrinker history includes colorful periods of mutation, over praise, the eating of one or two cars, six different printshops, demise & survival—then dormancy and continuation with issue #17 BIG POWWOW published in 2009 and a #18 TRADE GOODS published in 2012. I used to say “since as far as I know Rootdrinker doesn’t owe any one any money” the magazine never quite died. In an attempt to develop a center for artistic expression and community education with what I call a “live action” component Rootdrinker Institute began accepting members in 2008 and currently includes over 45 families and individuals. Members participate in ongoing activities such as small press publications from Benevolent Bird Press, Normanskill Roundtable meetings, a membership newsletter ,“Adventures in Poetry” and small press mini grants, conferences, poetry readings, blogs and website and research efforts in: folklife, natural history, sustainability, local poets and poetry magazines. Members receive one copy of new publications at no cost. This is especially advantageous to the poet and small press as there is a build in distribution to a disserting audience of readers, many of them authors and small press publishers themselves.