I met Doris soon after I moved to Patagonia. She and I connected at the library where she was on the Board and had recently succeeded in keeping the library financially afloat with an epic fundraising effort, selling chocolate chip cookies to residents of the town. I came to know Doris as an artist, a […]
Janet Winans
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Herstory: Changing Lives
Describe an experience or event that changed everything in your life – maybe not immediately, but over time, little by little. It came in the form of a jury summons from the Federal Court in Sacramento, the state capitol. I had no problem getting excused for the day from my job in the bookstore in […]
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Library Notes – June 2015
A Summer Event The Friends of the Library are pleased to announce that they will be hosting an author event showcasing H. Alan Day and Lynn Wiese Sneyd. The two wrote The Horse Lover: A Cowboy’s Quest To Save the Wild Mustangs, his story of turning a 35,000-acre ranch in South Dakota into a government-sponsored […]
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Two Poems
“A single yellow leaf high in a cottonwood at what would be milepost 15 (no road sign there)”: poet Janet Winans describes the shift of seasons in our region.
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I was in charge of World War II
I was in charge of World War II Not the bad parts- Dunkirk, Auschwitz, Hiroshima, all that, but the good stuff, on the home front. I was 8, 9 & 10 then and grew radishes in my Victory Garden. I bundled newspapers and pulled them in my wagon to the Girl Scout leader’s garage. I […]
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Tonto Speaks
Tonto Speaks For me, no more following that beat-up trail, eating Silver’s cloud of dust, trying to decipher what the L.R.’s saying. Hard enough to understand the white guy without his mask but when he’s muffled up, darn near impossible. Still I admit, it was a great ride while it lasted. We did some serious […]