FEBRUARY 9, 2017 // 3
Northwest Author Series hosts Barbara Drake
Author off ers
appreciation of
rural life in memoir
living in her latest memoir,
“Morning Light: Wildfl ow-
ers, Night Skies and Other
Ordinary Joys of Oregon
Country Life.”
Drake will speak about
her book on Saturday, Feb.
11 as the February speaker
for the Cannon Beach Li-
brary’s Northwest Author Se-
ries. The event will be held at
2 p.m., admission is free and
the public is welcome.
Born in Kansas in l939,
Drake moved to Oregon in
l941, grew up in Coos Bay,
and earned her Bachelor of
Arts and Master of Fine Arts
degrees from the University
of Oregon. After teaching at
Michigan State University,
she returned to Oregon in
l983 to develop the creative
CANNON BEACH — When
Barbara Drake and her
husband left Portland and
moved to a small farm in
western Oregon’s Yamhill
Valley in the late l980s, they
saw it as a temporary relo-
cation. But as the couple’s
experiences on the farm
multiplied — training herd-
ing dogs, fi nding a well, and
stargazing in the nightime
darkness — they decided to
hang onto their rural life as
long as possible.
Drake articulates the
lessons she’s learned from
her long years of country
coast
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weekend
writing major at Linfi eld
College, where she taught
until 2007.
Drake writes nonfi ction,
fi ction and poetry. She is the
author of “Writing Poetry,”
a college textbook, in print
since 1983. Her earlier
memoir, “Peace at Heart: on
Oregon Country Life,” was
a 1999 Oregon Book Award
fi nalist. “Peace at Heart”
describes her early years on
the small sheep ranch/vine-
yard outside of Yamhill and
conveys her deep love of the
quiet lifestyle and her joy in
little things.
“Morning Light” was
published by Oregon State
University Press in 2014.
Replete with records of
native wildfl owers, an en-
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The Cannon Beach Library
will host author Barbara
Drake on Feb. 11.
“Morning Light” by Barbara
Drake
counter with an elderly man
who lived on her farm 80
years ago, and an old family
recipe for wild blackberry
pudding, “Morning Light” is
an appreciation and explo-
ration of the landscape of
western Oregon.
In nearly 30 years of
small farm living, Drake
has trained her eye on the
natural world sharing her
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beloved place. The mosses
thriving on the forest fl oor,
the quick work coyotes
can make of chickens, the
anxiety of well-drilling, her
satisfaction in recognizing
constellations — this is the
stuff of Drake’s life and it
fi lls her book.
As entertaining and
instructive as it is person-
al and refl ective, Drake’s
writing will resonate with
anyone who has experienced
a convergence of family
history with natural history,
considered their place in
the historical continuum, or
wondered if their lifestyle
can be sustained with age.
In a world where even
“the country” is becoming in-
creasingly citifi ed, “Morning
Light” reminds us why we
should care for rural land-
scapes — while we still can.