Wednesday, February 11, 2015 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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Gallery owner to read from her novel, “Right of Way”
By diane goble
Correspondent
When you step into Cha
for the Finest art gallery on
Hood Avenue, it’s like step-
ping into the past ... 20,000
years into the past. You imme-
diately become immersed
in a wonderland of what life
might have been like back
in pre-historic times as told
by modern-day artisans and
crafters.
Cha is an artisan and
author. She is inviting the
public to the gallery on
Saturday, February 21, at
10 a.m. to listen to a read-
ing from her novel “Right of
Way.”
“Right of Way” is the
first in a series of books she
has been writing about the
ancients, and how they sur-
vived and adapted to the cli-
mate changes in the Alaskan
territories where there had
been a land bridge of ice.
In 1974, Cha moved from
New Mexico to Alaska where
she learned to create gold-
nugget jewelry, but moved
on to carving after she found
a wealth of raw materials
available all around her. She
became an ivory carver and
specialized in fossilized wal-
rus tusks, teeth, and prehis-
toric bones from extinct ani-
mals including wooly mam-
moths, saber-toothed tigers,
cave bears and bison.
As she carved, she devel-
oped a deep connection to the
spirits of the people who had
collected the fossils, as they
told her their life stories.
Cha used her family mem-
bers as the characters in the
book, which she wrote with
a great deal of help from her
late mother. She renamed
some of her favorite face
carvings to portray the char-
acters. She brings these
ancient people back to life to
tell their stories of love and
hardship, feast and famine, as
they struggled through their
short lives.
Book 11 is in progress,
and four books are cur-
rently in print. Cha used a
Shingledecker print for each
book cover and, inside, read-
ers will find color photos of
the hand-carved artifacts
named for the characters.
“If you love the first book,
‘Right of Way,’ you’ll want
to read the rest of the series,
buy a carving of your favorite
character, and have a print of
your favorite cover to hang in
your reading room,” she said.
If a reader helps her get
more of the series published,
she will let them name a char-
acter in the series.
Cha for the Finest is
located at 183 E. Hood
Ave. For information, call
541-549-1140.
Starts
Friday
Fri., Feb. 13 – Thurs., Feb. 19
Feb. 11th / Wed.
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Garth Stein
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Kingsman: The
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Fri 4:15, 7:00
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Mon Presidents’ Day 3:30, 6:15
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50 Shades of Grey (R)
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Tues-Thurs 4:45
American Sniper (R)
Fri 4:30
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Mon Presidents’ Day 3:45
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photo by diane Goble
cha will read from her prehistory novel at her gallery on hood avenue.
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Soloon Live Music with the
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Sunday~Feb. 15 go
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Sisters
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“Sisters
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The Open
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What’s Real?” 7 p.m. Free,
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