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Wednesday, April 17, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon Columnist publishes book of essays Freelance writer and Nugget reporter and columnist Craig Rullman has published a collection of essays titled <The Bunkhouse Chronicles: Field Notes From The Figure 8 Ranch.= Some of the essays con- tained in the volume have appeared in The Nugget; oth- ers were collected or created specifically for the book. All of them center around ques- tions about the relationship of people to the landscape, specifically of the American West. <I think we9re living in an in-between time,= Rullman mused. <We9re watching the old myths that have sustained us for a very long time either die off or fade, and I think we9re in the process of build- ing the new myths that we9re going to live by for a long time to come. It9s a really intense and unsettling time.= Rullman likes the title <The Bunkhouse Chronicles= because it evokes the sense of men sitting around telling yarns and hashing out some of the fundamental matters of the human condition. <Having lived in a few bunkhouses, it9s kind of a place for conversation, for storytelling, for asking ques- tions,= he said. Rullman continually cir- cles back to the belief that <the answers are sometimes outlived by the questions.= The questions of how a repub- lic crafted in the 18th century can sustain itself in the 21st. Questions around how a frag- ile ecosystem like that of the American West can sustain millions of people who live and work on it 4 with more coming in all the time. <It9s the most fundamen- tal relationship we have 4 with the ground we live on,= he said. <It9s probably more important than ever that we take care of it.= We live our day-to-day CONCERT: Event supports the SFF capital campaign Continued from page 3 PHOTO BY LYNN WOODWARD Craig Rullman has published a book of essays on the land and our relationship with it. without thinking much about questions like, Where does our water come from? and What will we do when there9s not enough to go around? When those questions arise, it9s because the situation has gotten acute. <The tap turns on and we don9t think about it too much,= Rullman says. <You don9t think about your left thumb until you bang it on a door jam 4 then it9s all you think about.= Rullman is already at work on his next project. <It9s a collection of essays about the 8closed frontier9 after Frederick Jackson Turner and the 1893 speech he made (8The Significance of the Frontier in American History9),= Rullman said. The essays explore, in part, what happens to communities Easter Celebration Service - 10:45 a.m. Special activities for kids during service Join us for a FREE Pancake Breakfast Served from 9:30-10 a.m. Community Easter Egg Hunt for Kids! Immediately after service for elementary age & younger Join us on Mother’s Day to meet our new Pastor, Jason Visser SISTERS CHURCH of the NAZARENE 67130 Harrington Loop, Bend | 541-389-8960 | sistersnaz.org Directions from Sisters: Take Highway 20 toward Bend, turn right on Gist Road, take fi rst left onto Harrington Loop, church is on the left. that grew up in frontier con- ditions as they try to adapt to change. Rullman cites his own home country in Lassen County, California, which was once rich ranching and timber country. Now its main industry is prisons. <Timber and ranching collapsed 4 then what?= Rullman muse. <Warehousing humans. Warehousing wild See RULLMAN on page 21 Director Brad Tisdel. Ritter, who sold out his last performance in Sisters during SFF9s 2018 Winter Concert Series, was excited to be returning to Sisters and will be meeting with donors to the Capital Campaign for a pre-concert VIP experience. Brian Koppelman, film- maker, record producer and essayist says: <Ritter9s music has a way of unifying us, bonding us, and bringing us together in a search for love, peace, understanding and an escape from the earthly cru- elty all around us.= <This unifying force that Josh Ritter9s music embod- ies is exactly what Sisters Folk Festival is embrac- ing as it enters a new phase in its growth,= said SFF Development Director Steven Remington, who adds that <as an accom- plished author, visual artist, composer, songwriter and musician, Josh Ritter is the perfect person to exemplify and help us celebrate our 19 vision. We are on a path to better serve our community through the acquisition of the building and the growth of the organization. We are very excited to be sharing this vision, honoring our capital campaign donors, and encouraging everyone to get involved during this very special evening.= Opening the evening will be Sisters Americana Project alumna Slater Smith with multi-instrumentalist Tim Karplus. As leader of the Portland-based folk-rock band The Weather Machine, Smith will be releasing his third record in 2019, a con- cept album celebrating the Oregon Coast in commemo- ration of the 1967 Oregon Beach Bill. Ticket sales and dona- tions the night of the cel- ebration will support the campaign, which has raised over $1.1 million of the $1.4 million phase-one goal of purchasing the build- ing. For general admission and reserved seat tickets to the connected by creativity concert with Josh Ritter and The Royal City Band, visit www.sistersfolkfestival.org. For ticket information call 541-549-4979 ext. 3. Open 6 days a week | 541-595-6420 Tuesday-Thursday 3-9 p.m., Friday-Sunday 12-9 p.m.