What is Crones Counsel and how did it get started?
The seeds of Crones Counsel began with some creative ideas from Ann Kreilkamp, founder of Crone Chronicles, a Journal of Conscious Aging magazine (now an ezine) and Shauna Adix, a retired Director of the Women’s Center at the University of Utah after 20 years. Crone Chronicles began as a small photocopied newsletter (1989) and attracted women who were enthusiastic about gathering old women together for a few days. Shauna subscribed to the newsletter and met with Ann in Salt Lake City at a small Chinese restaurant for dinner one evening to talk about their dreams and visions. Shauna said that ever since leaving the University of Utah, she had been sitting at home mulling over the question: “What is Crone work?” Then and there they decided that Shauna would take the lead and gather a group of Salt Lake women and start planning for a gathering 1993 to be held at a hotel in Jackson, Wyoming. The first gathering attracted 127 women from 16 different states, who ranged in age from 42 to 76.
