Yarrow, Ruth

Ruth was born in New Jersey in 1939 and grew up in many small college towns across the Midwest. After Antioch College she taught in the Peace Corps in Ghana, followed by graduate school at Cornell and marriage to Mike. Ruth taught ecology and created environmental education programs at universities and environmental centers. While in Ithaca, she launched and coordinated the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign for the county for six years and was active in local peace and justice organizations.



In the mid 1980s, the Yarrow family spent a year in Beckley, West Virginia, when Mike and...