Country Girl Catherine Crier Fears for Her Country
Crier, the author and award-winning journalist who has covered national and international news for CNN, ABC, Fox and Court TV, moved to Bedford in 1993 and has made it her home ever since.
Nov 14, 2011
The Daily Lewisboro
by Bob Dumas
November 13, 2011
BEDFORD, N.Y. – “This is me; this is what I’m about,” said Catherine Crier, standing outside the horse barn on her Bedford farm on a beautiful autumn Saturday while surrounded by three of her six dogs.
Crier, the author and award-winning journalist who has covered national and international news for CNN, ABC, Fox and Court TV, moved to Bedford in 1993 and has made it her home ever since.
“I’m a Texas girl and when I moved to New York City I knew I wouldn’t survive if I didn’t get some space,” she said. “I need birds, dogs, horses and frogs.”
In 1993, Crier rented a car and drove north from the city through western Connecticut and Westchester County looking for space. She found Bedford.
“I fell in love with the community, and I thought this would be an easily commutable distance [to New York],” she said. “I’ve created my farm here with my vegetable garden, bees and horses. My next step is to build some chicken coops.”
Crier doesn’t rely on staff to do the work; she doesn’t mind getting her hands dirty.
“I grew up mucking stalls,” she said. “Being [in Bedford] is a way to maintain my sanity instead of having to listen to trash trucks in the middle of the night.”
While the distinctive aroma associated with mucking barn stalls may not bother her, the stench emanating from the current political landscape in America does. Crier has become concerned with the partisan ideology, false assumptions and dangerous rhetoric she said has permeated American politics and the media that covers it. That concern became the impetus behind her latest book, “Patriot Acts” (Simon & Schuster). Crier said there was no particular tipping point or last straw that sent her scampering to her word processor to write “Patriot Acts,” but rather a gradual and growing despair.
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Nov 14, 2011
The Daily Lewisboro
by Bob Dumas
November 13, 2011
BEDFORD, N.Y. – “This is me; this is what I’m about,” said Catherine Crier, standing outside the horse barn on her Bedford farm on a beautiful autumn Saturday while surrounded by three of her six dogs.
Crier, the author and award-winning journalist who has covered national and international news for CNN, ABC, Fox and Court TV, moved to Bedford in 1993 and has made it her home ever since.
“I’m a Texas girl and when I moved to New York City I knew I wouldn’t survive if I didn’t get some space,” she said. “I need birds, dogs, horses and frogs.”
In 1993, Crier rented a car and drove north from the city through western Connecticut and Westchester County looking for space. She found Bedford.
“I fell in love with the community, and I thought this would be an easily commutable distance [to New York],” she said. “I’ve created my farm here with my vegetable garden, bees and horses. My next step is to build some chicken coops.”
Crier doesn’t rely on staff to do the work; she doesn’t mind getting her hands dirty.
“I grew up mucking stalls,” she said. “Being [in Bedford] is a way to maintain my sanity instead of having to listen to trash trucks in the middle of the night.”
While the distinctive aroma associated with mucking barn stalls may not bother her, the stench emanating from the current political landscape in America does. Crier has become concerned with the partisan ideology, false assumptions and dangerous rhetoric she said has permeated American politics and the media that covers it. That concern became the impetus behind her latest book, “Patriot Acts” (Simon & Schuster). Crier said there was no particular tipping point or last straw that sent her scampering to her word processor to write “Patriot Acts,” but rather a gradual and growing despair.
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