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F inal F ishtrap F ireside F riday
■ Monthly gathering, now offered online, features three Wallowa County writers
ENTERPRISE — The fi nal Fish-
trap Fireside of the season happens
Friday, April 2.
The virtual gathering of Wal-
lowa County writers will be posted
online at www.fi shtrap.org and on
Fishtrap’s YouTube channel, with
readings by Wallowa County writ-
ers Dustin Lyons, Pamela Royes
and Adele Schott.
Fishtrap Fireside is a monthly
reading series featuring diverse
voices from around Wallowa
County. Each month’s episode of-
fers a fresh look at what people of
the West are thinking about and
writing down.
This episode of Fishtrap Fireside
is sponsored by Wallowa Lake
Lodge.
The April Fireside is the fi nal
gathering of this season. Fishtrap
Fireside will return in October.
Depending on the state of the
pandemic, the series will either be
online or again held live.
Keep up to date on Fishtrap hap-
penings at www.fi shtrap.org.
ADELE SCHOTT calls Wallowa
County “the County” and also
“home.” She was brought up
slightly feral on her family’s multi-
generational ranch where she
decided she wanted to be a cowboy
when she grew up.
And so she has. Besides cowboy-
ing around the West she has been,
among other things, a cocktail
waitress in downtown Austin, an
exchange student in Buenos Aires,
a van-dwelling surfer in Mexico,
a culinary student in Texas and,
most recently, a wife and mother
Fishtrap/Contibuted Photos
Adele Schott
to the three best men she has ever
known.
Infl uenced by some of the great-
est storytellers around, Adele has
always loved to write. Mostly she
writes lists but sometimes she fi nds
the quiet space to write down her
musings, recipes and experiences.
Being a part of Fishtrap Fireside
will be the fi rst time she has read
original work out loud to strangers.
PAMELA ROYES lives on a farm
with her husband, Skip, and an
undetermined number of cows,
horses, mules, dogs, cats, ducks,
chickens and honeybees. But no
pigs.
Pam loves planting things, bak-
ing sourdough bread, playing her
ukulele and writing.
The author of the memoir
“Temperance Creek,” she is cur-
rently writing a novel for young
adults and also working on a book
of essays about people, food and
landscape.
DUSTIN LYONS was raised in a
small, defunct timber town in
Southwest Washington, where he
developed an unshakable case of
poesy. The notion that writing could
become his vocation, perhaps even
a vehicle to worldwide acclaim,
was companioned with a likewise
Pam Royes
Dustin Lyons
dubious push toward professional-
athlete superstardom.
The viability of the latter dream
was summarily crushed by a body
that stubbornly refused to develop
competitive size and speed. So, he
carried his big shaggy head full of
words and affected insight to the
English Literature Department at
the University of Washington.
After graduation came a decade
of seasonal work in Alaska and
several forays into Asia and Latin
America, producing countless jour-
nals. In response to these literary
triumphs Dustin decided to shift
gears and study shoemaking in
Ashland, eventually co-founding
Alkahest Leather.
But his lifelong affi nity for crit-
ters and wild places drew him to
the base of Chief Joseph Mountain,
where he owns a tumbledown
cabin on a couple of acres. The
words keep coming and he does his
best to intelligibly lay them down.
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