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Author explores nature
(AI’J • Writer Harry ! yipez explains the different e
between his fiction end non-fiction in musit al
terms.
"An essay ends with a major chord A shorl sto
ry ends on a minor chord," Lopez said in an inter
view. "It's another way of saying an essay ends
on the page A short story ends somewhere in the
reader's mind "
Lopez is best known for his non-fiction work in
natural history He won the National Book Award
in l'iHfi for An tu Dreams, which grew out of Ins
earlier book. Of Wolves and Men.
But throughout his life, he also has written fic
tion His latest offering is a collection of short sto
ries. Field Nnh's The book completes the trilogy
started in ltififi by Desert .Votes, followed by River
Notes in 1«»7<I
Since he was n boy. growing up in Southern Cal
dunlin's San Fernando Valley, Ixipez Inis looked to
wildlife and the landscape to help iiim answer big
questions, such as why ,s there human suffering?
Later, a professoral the University introduced
him to the culture of the Nn\ a jo
Oik c that dour opened. Lreali/ed tli.it what 1
wanted to knots. I would learn by going outside my
own t ulture and coming ha< k in." Lopez said. "I
was % ery interested in bringing hat k a story, of one
sort or another, that was useful to my own peo
ple. about other people "
In the opening story in / ieid Notes. “Inlrodut
lion: Within Birds’ Hearing." a man runs out of
water hiking across the desert and collapses, near
death He is led to water by the song of a canyon
wren An extra note m the wren's song tells the man
that the bird knows of his suffering
In I’enryland." a lawyer stops within his hw
tu life to refill t on how he once met a biologist at
a fugged-in airport in Greenland. The biologist told
a bauntingly incotnpiele story about finding a place
when’ tin- spirits of animals go while waiting to he
relxim The native man who vvati lies over them tells
the biologist there are fewer spirits all the time,
tux ause people have stopped sav mg the prayers for
the animals they kill.
"Homecoming** tells the story of a biologist who
has forgotten the names of the plants in his own
bac kvard while chasing around the world seeking
v itintifit glory, lbs young daughter leads him Iwn.k
home
"In a i ertain way. Field Notes is about hope, that
our condition is more hopeful than we Imagine,”
l-opez said
The idea of hope is also behind Lopez's book in
progress
"Toward the end of the work i was doing in An
hr Dreams, I realized what 1 was up to was looking
at the relationship between landscape and imagi
nation How do we imagine where w e are? And how
does where we are shape the wav we imagine every
thing else?
"Where that led me is to wonder what is the con
net turn between emotion and landscape And the
emotion that I am most interested in is hope."
Lopez studied aeronautical engineering it tin*
University of Notre Dame, but realized that what
he liked about science and mathematic s were the
metaphors they posed for life He then switched to
literature
After college he entered a Trnppis! monastery,
but left to pursue ins c areer as a writer He- c ame to
the University for a master of fine arts in writing,
and settled far from the1 < ity along tin- McKenzie
River, where the river cuts through the big Douglas
fir and v im- maple on the western slope of the Cas
iade Range
Tin i >u glu-nil hi-- iitc. a tone list one* has been Her
man Melville's Main Dirk, the classic story of
Allah's quest to kill the great white whale.
"It seems to me the quintessential work of Amer
ican literature, because it brings together elements
of the extraordinary physical landscape that so per
meates everything in American life- with the big
questions, like what is the relationship hot ween an
individual and God." Lopez, said.
Youths claim abuse from ranch
(>l N Ml’LA (AH jasonlI.it
ley was only 12 years old when
hr arrived at 1ho () K Bovs'
Ranch, i group foster hotnt’ for
troubled youth
Hu was initiated into thu vio
lent o of the plat v Ins first night
white he was taking a shower
Teenagers threw n blanket
over Hatley’s head, and he was
hit and (nun hod while others
urinated on him and threw
fetes at him Hatlev said they
drugged hint outside and left
him naked on the roof
When he told staff niemtiers
about the altiti k they told hint
the ram h operated under “the
law of the jungle," and he
would have to fend for himself.
When the boys found out he
had told the staff, he was bent
en again, lie said.
Hatley, now 2t. and 14 oth
er youths from the home suc
t essfulh brought a lawsuit
against the home, whit h the
state dosed last week The set
tlement Thursday has reached
to $8.5 million and could
increase to more than S21 mil
lion.
The suit claimed sexual
abuse was rampant at the O K
Boys’ Ranch for troubled youth
from 1985 through 1993. it said
the state and the Olympia
kiwanis Club, whit h operated
the foster home, knew of the
abuse and did nothing to stop
it
The settlement included
S-t 175 million from the state.
S t million from the Kiwanis
Club of Olympia and $! 4(> mil
lion from a ranch insurer.
The boys sought nearly
$12 5 million from two addi
tional insurance agencies, said
)o< k Connelly, one of the attor
»»\ s for the youths.
The state Department of
Sim ud and Health Services has
launched an investigation into
the !«>vs' ranch So lar, a region
al administrator for the deport
ment's children's division has
been lin-d
"It's v erv regrettable and
should not have happened,"
said fsdlhv Sp«Ull». spukcs
woman for the department.
We want to make sure it nev
er happens again."
Staff memimrs lot older boys
discipline younger residents,
Hatley anil other youths said in
documents filed with the case
in Thurston County Superior
Court
" These bo\s were taught to
react with violence and anger
at all threatening stimuli." said
Richard Kelley, one of Hatley's
attorneys. "This was Lord of the
Flips gone berserk ”
A few times, staff members
put boxing gloves on the boys,
ordered a light and wagered
cigarettes on the outcome, Hal
les said
Currently. Hatley in serving
a sentem e at Thurston County
Jail for s iolating probation and
a no-contact order protecting a
former girlfriend.
Police officers aren’t wanted in Falls City
FALLS CITY (API — Residents in Falls City fig
ure they don't need any help fighting crime.
The town of 830 people does not him- a police
department or a contract with the County sheriffs
office for full-time law enforcement
And most residents like it that way.
In the Sept. 20 elet tion, voters rejected propos
als to hire a full-time city police officer or con
tract with the Polk County sheriffs office. They cit
ed two reasons money and a lack of crime.
Both hallo! measures would have required
SlHfi.000 over three years. The owner of a Shi),000
house would have paid more than $210 in extra tax
es annually during that period.
"Who can afford it?" resident Hazel Frink asked.
"We get along fine this way."
Moreover, residents said Falls City is a nice, qui
et town with no serious crime issues for a full-time
officer to address.
"It's just a typical small town," James Yurkiovich
said. "I don 't see that we have that much of a prob
lem. If things got loo crazy out here. 1 think a lot
of residents would take care of it themselves "
l ulls City dot's have 111 1 service and the sheriffs
department does respond to calls, even though it
lakes deputies am where from a half an hour to two
hours to do so.
City officials and Polk County Sheriff Ray Steele
doesn't like it
"1 ( an't say that Falls City has more crime than
any other place." he said. "Hut they do have crime
out there and they nets! to have the ability to address
that crime in a timely fashion.”
Polk County does not keep statistics on crime
in Falls City or the number of ( alls it responds to
there Hut Steele said his deputies respond to an
average of two to three calls a day from the city,
ranging from burglary and domestic disputes to
speeding and barking dogs
There are only a few incorporated cities in Ore
gon that lack a regular law enforcement service. But
|erry Freshour, deputy director of the State Hoard
on Public Safety Standards and Training, said the
state does not keep track of which ones they are
Oregon law does not require cities to have their
own law enforcement services