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Thursday, November 5, 2020
GO! magazine — A&E in Northeast Oregon
FISHTRAP FIRESIDE
Put a log on the fi re and log on
ENTERPRISE — Put a log on
Benjamin Curry
the fi re and log on for the next
Raised in Wallowa County’s rug-
virtual Fishtrap Fireside on Friday, ged North End, Benjamin Curry’s
Nov. 6, at 7 p.m. This month’s
claim to fame is he closed the
featured readers are longtime
Flora School all by himself. A fan of
Fishtrap friends Benjamin Curry,
Kathy Hunter and Moll McCarty.
Fishtrap Fireside is a monthly
reading series featuring diverse
voices from residents and friends
of Wallowa County. Fireside is held
the fi rst Friday of the month from
October through April. Each gath-
ering features three writers — from
published authors and newspaper
columnists to MFA poets, essayists
and student writers.
This year, due to COVID-19,
Fishtrap is bringing the program to birdsong, huckleberries, and free-
heel skiing, he tunes his senses for
the public online at www.fi shtrap.
all three from his home in Joseph.
org and on Fishtrap’s YouTube
In his spare time he writes poetry,
channel, which means you can
memoir and data center strategy
watch it wherever you are, when-
documents.
ever you want.
Following each program, a
recording of the two-hour vir-
Kathy Hunter
tual event will join recordings of
Kathy Hunter is a retired jour-
previous gatherings, available for
nalist, teacher and editor, with fam-
viewers to enjoy online at any time. ily roots in Wallowa County. After
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West are thinking about and writ-
where she served many years on
ing down.
the board and acted as den mom at
November’s Fireside is sponsored writers’ retreats. After she evolved
into a performing storyteller, she
by The Bookloft in Enterprise.
produced Fishtrap Storytime on
Fishtrap is headquartered at
KWVR. She has survived the
Fishtrap House, 400 E. Grant St.,
pandemic with an unusual hobby.
Enterprise. For more information,
In ceramics, she is creating joyful
contact Mike Midlo at 541-426-
dogs racing in go carts. Two of them
3623 or go to www.fi shtrap.org.
can be seen at Josephy’s art show
“Hello from Lockdown.”
■ October Fireside — see what you missed
Fishtrap Fireside’s eighth
season kicked off Oct. 2 with
its fi rst virtual pandemic-era
Moll McCarty lived in Wallowa
program, which can be viewed at
County for nine years and just
www.fi shtrap.org/october-fi reside.
moved to SE Arizona this fall. They
The event, sponsored by Copper
are interested in writing poetry
Creek Mercantile in Joseph, fea-
and essays that disrupt the gender
tured Mary Emerick, Cameron
binary and delineate experiences
Scott and Rich Wandschneider,
founder of Fishtrap.
Mary Emerick writes memoir
and fi ction from a log cabin in
the mountains. Her third book,
a memoir of kayaking in Alaska,
will be published in spring 2021.
Her best ideas come from long-
distance hiking such as complet-
ing the entire Pacifi c Crest Trail.
Visit www.maryemerick.com for
descriptions of her books and her
blog.
Born in Colorado, Cameron
of so-called “mental illness.” They
Scott has knocked around the
have recently been exploring the
dusty and not so dusty west,
topic of whiteness and racialization
holds an MFA in poetry from
in their submissions to Fishtrap’s
the University of Arizona and an
Circle of Seasons zine. Fishtrap
MAT through Eastern Oregon
has been deeply formative in their
University. He currently works
development as a writer.
as a fl y-fi shing guide for Mi-
nam Store in the summers and
teaches junior high and high
school English language arts in a
small Eastern Oregon town.
His lyrical essays and poems
have appeared in magazines,
journals and periodicals, and in
M R O T S E H T M O R F 2016
R E T L E he
H S was awarded The Blue
Light
Book Award for his second
y b N E P O e r a e W
Moll McCarty
book of poetry, “The Book of Cold
Mountain.” If you have leftovers,
he will eat them. Read more at
www.writerfi sh.com.
After a fi ve-year stint in the
Peace Corps, Rich Wandschneider
came to Wallowa Country in 1971
as a community development
agent with the OSU Extension
Service.
In 1976, he opened The Book-
loft bookstore in Enterprise, and
in 1988, with help from historian
Alvin Josephy and Kim Stafford
at Lewis & Clark College, he
founded Fishtrap Inc. to promote
“clear thinking and good writing
in and about the West.” He served
as its executive director until
2008.
Wandschneider has written
for the Oregonian, High Country
News, Portland Magazine and
High
Desert
Journal
and con-
tributed
a regular
column
to the
Wallowa
County
Chief-
tain. He
currently serves as the director of
the Josephy Library of Western
History and Culture in Joseph.
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