Wednesday, November 13, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Western author brings Fireside Stories
By Sue Stafford
Correspondent
As the long winter nights
set in, it is time again for
the popular Fireside Stories
Evenings sponsored by Three
Sisters Historical Society,
b e g i n n i n g We d n e s d a y,
November 20, with the return
of award-winning Western
author and storyteller Rick
Steber.
Thanks to a community
PHOTO BY JOE BAILIE
grant from the City of Sisters, Rick Steber will kick off a new
and the support of their mem- season of Fireside stories.
bership, TSHS will host four
Fireside Stories Evenings Chief Joseph9s Trail of Tears
at the FivePine Conference through Hells Canyon.
Center over the next five
Each of the authors will
months, bringing to town four have their books available for
popular authors and lovers of purchase and signing the eve-
local history.
ning of their presentation.
Besides Steber in
For society members
November, on Tuesday, whose dues are current
January 21, historian Steve through 2020, the four eve-
Lent from the Bowman nings are free of charge.
Museum in Prineville will be General public admission
sharing his photographs and is $10 per event. Doors will
extensive knowledge of the open at 6:30 p.m. to allow
history of logging in Central time to become members,
Oregon, much of which took purchase books and artwork,
place around Sisters.
and find a seat. All three of
Jarold Ramsey, Madras last year9s evenings had well
essayist, poet, and respected over 100 in attendance.
authority on traditional
Steber is a masterful story-
American Indian literature, teller who brings his charac-
will be here Thursday, March ters to life as he captures the
5, to entertain with stories <Voices of the High Desert,=
from the homesteading era of inspired by historical figures
Central Oregon. He will be and events in Central and
referencing two of his books Eastern Oregon. He will pro-
3 <New Era Reflections on the vide an enjoyable evening of
Human and Natural History of <story and introduction to the
Central Oregon= and <Words people and places that make
Marked by a Place 3 Local the High Desert like no other
Histories of Central Oregon.= place on earth.=
On Sunday, April 26, Bill
The prolific author of
Sullivan will kick off the more than 40 books, Steber
hiking season with an arm- has extensively researched
chair hiker9s tour of photo- a n d i n t e r v i e w e d e a r l y
graphs from his book <Hiking Oregonians for their personal
Oregon9s History.= He will reminiscences and histori-
share some of Oregon9s cal knowledge. His favorite
most scenic historic sites quote regarding those oral
like Lewis and Clark9s trail histories is, <Every time an
across Tillamook Head and old person dies, it9s like a
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library burns down.=
More than two million
copies of his works have
sold, including <Traces,=
<Jackson Sundown,= <Red
White Black,= <Little White
Man,= and his new release,
<A Cowboy to Love.= Steber
has won numerous awards
for his colorful and inten-
sively researched non-fiction
books, biographies, and nov-
els. Among his accolades
are the Western Writers of
America Spur Award for
Best Western Novel, the
Independent Publishers Award
3 Best Regional Fiction, the
Western Heritage Award, the
Benjamin Franklin Award,
the Mid-America Publishers
Award, the Oregon Library
Association Award, and the
Oregon Literary Arts Award.
Steber9s early years were
spent in the small town of
Bonanza in Klamath County,
where he was steeped in the
Western culture. He now
makes his home in Prineville,
where he writes in a cabin in
the foothills of the Ochoco
Mountains. He recently
opened a new retail business
in Prineville, Rick Steber &
Company 3 MAKERS, which
sells items from more than 50
rural artists and craftspeople.
More information about
Steber and his books is avail-
able on his website: www.
ricksteber.com.
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Cub Scouts food drive...
PHOTO BY TOM HESPE
Sisters Cub Scouts delivered 550 fliers to Sisters residents on
November 2 seeking donations for the Sisters Kiwanis Food Bank.
They went back to those residents to pick up donations on November
9 and ended up with 683 pounds of donated food.
What’s for
dinner, daddy?
That’s a tough question
when you don’t have enough
food for your family.
Sisters is fortunate to have the Sisters
Kiwanis Food Bank to ensure everyone
in our community has food to put on
their table, but that requires year-round
community support...
Cash & Food Donations
Volunteers
Nugget will
Ready to donate? The staff at The
them to
receive your donations and deliver
our food drive...
Sisters Kiwanis Food Bank during
The N P u A g P g E e R t
N E W S
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FALL FOOD DRIV
p.m. •
442 E. Main Ave. • 9 a.m. to 5
v. 22
Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri through No
erishable
Financial donations and non-p
accepted.
food (not past expiration) will be
profit.
Sisters Kiwanis is a 501(c)(3) non
d Bank.”
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Make checks to “Sisters Kiwani
DONATE ONLINE
SistersKiwanis.org/food-bank