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9 Wednesday, October 2, 2019 GO! magazine — A&E in Northeast Oregon FROM THE COVER Fishtrap Fireside celebrates seventh season an inside look at northeast oregon’s arts and entertainment scene ■ Monthly reading series opens Oct. 4 with special event at Wallowa Lake Lodge JOSEPH — Fishtrap brings its popular monthly reading series to Wallowa Lake Lodge Oct. 4 for a special season-opening celebration of Fishtrap Fireside. Come up to the lake, fi nd a seat by the fi re and enjoy readings from Wallowa County local writers Whitney Chandler, David Laskin and Forrest Van Tuyl beginning at 7 p.m. An open mic follows the read- ings, giving audience members the chance to share their stories too. Fireside is a free monthly event for Wallowa County writers to share their work. More than 80 Wallowa County residents have stepped up to the podium to read their personal stories, poems, essays and more since the event began. “When we launched Fireside in 2013, I thought we might run out Whitney Chandler David Laskin of local writers to feature, but every year more people attend, read and become a part of the program,” said Program Manager Mike Midlo. “It’s great fun.” Fishtrap Fireside takes place the fi rst Friday of the month October through April. After this month’s special season-opening event at Wallowa Lake Lodge, Fireside will return to its original location at Fishtrap, 400 E. Grant St. in Enterprise. The community is encouraged to attend these readings, enjoy light refreshments and hear new work by local writers. October’s Fireside is sponsored by Wallowa Lake Lodge and The Bookloft. For more information, contact Midlo at 541-426-3623 or mike@fi shtrap.org, or visit www. fi shtrap.org. PICK’N PATCH We will be OPENING on October 4th! Where: Corner of Booth Lane and Lower Cove Road When: Friday and Saturday: 9am-6pm Sunday: 10am-4pm Monday-Thursday: By appointment What you will fi nd: Small corn maze, several varieties of pumpkins and gourds, straw bales, corn stalks. If you would like to schedule a school fi eld trip or other event, please call the number listed below. Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/PickNPatchFarm farmkidsatoregonwireless.net Please call 541-786-2421 WHITNEY CHANDLER Chandler is a Colorado native, literally raised with her head in the clouds. She earned a master’s degree in natural resources with certifi cates in environmental edu- cation and science communication from the University of Idaho before relocating to Joseph in 2018. Chandler is passionate about us- ing nature as a muse and a tool for expanding the creative mind. You can fi nd her blogs, poetry, editori- als and op ed pieces all over the internet. When not reading and writing, she is usually traipsing through the Forrest Van Tuyl mountains and fi elds of Wallowa County with her dogs. DAVID LASKIN Laskin was born in Brooklyn and raised in Great Neck, New York. He graduated from Harvard College in 1975 with a degree in history and literature and went on to New Col- lege, Oxford, where he received an MA in English in 1977. After a brief stint in book pub- lishing, Laskin launched a career as a writer. In recent years, he has been writing suspense-driven nar- rative nonfi ction about the lives of people caught up in events beyond their control. His 2004 book, “The Children’s Blizzard,” won the Washington State Book Award and the Midwest Booksellers Choice Award and was nominated for a Quill Award. Laskin writes frequently for the New York Times Travel Section and has also published in the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and the Seattle Times. FORREST VAN TUYL Van Tuyl is a packer, poet, cow- boy and songwriter who resides in Wallowa County. His poetry is free verse musing lifted from journals kept while working horseback in the Eagle Cap and Hells Canyon wilderness and inspired by Chinese hermit poets and the voices of the place he calls home. He says, “I believe the open wilderness of the Western United States is the most important thing.” When he’s not writing songs, Van Tuyl is learning to train horses from older cowboys or leading pack mules.
