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NEWS Wallowa County Chieftain A18 Wednesday, May 6, 2020 The Josephy Center presents a virtual exhibit Historical postcards from the Edsel White collection displayed online On Monday, May 4, the Josephy Center opened the virtual exhibit of historical post- cards from the Edsel White collection. It is curated by Wallowa historian David Weaver. Seth Kinzie has done a masterful job of putting up the front and back images of the postcards, and accommodating a read- ing (by voice specialist Amanda Berry) of a brief essay based on each card, written by Weaver. He examines the image and mes- sage on the card as it all relates to the his- tory of Wallowa County 1907-15 and the national “craze” for postcards, the “social media” of the day. Contributed photo Wallowa Lake Dam, 1916, from Edsel White postcard collection. ONLINE Summer Fishtrap goes virtual: July 6-12, 2020 By Ellen Morris Bishop Wallowa County Chieftain In the long shadow of COVID-19, the Sum- mer Fishtrap Gathering of Writers will be held online as a Virtual Week- long Writing Conference. Using this year’s theme, Courage, as the inspiration, the Summer Fishtrap faculty, Fish- trap’s partners at Eastern Oregon University, and local community partici- pants will be able to bring as much of the Summer Fishtrap experience to your home as possible. Fishtrap’s decision to go virtual came as a rec- ognition that “There is nothing more import- ant than the safety of our community, whether that’s the community of writers who come to the lake, or our local remote Wallowa County Commu- nity,” said program direc- tor Mike Midlo. “While we are seeing signs that efforts to “flatten the curve” have had a posi- photo/Edsel White collection Go to https://josephy.org/virtual-exhibit/post-cards/ to see the cards. Participate in an online meeting at 5 p.m. Friday, May 29. tive impact, there is a lot of uncertainty about when it will be safe for people to travel or gather in large groups. At the same time, we know there is a real need for writers to come together to share work and build skills. Provid- ing a virtual experience gives us the ability to do just that while protecting our Fishtrap community.” “We’ll miss seeing everyone at Wallowa Lake this summer,” says Fish- trap Executive Director Shannon McNerney, “but the public health crisis has revealed how Fishtrap can provide high quality writ- ing workshops and events to even more people no matter where they live. We hope veteran Fishtrap- pers and new ones alike will give our Virtual Sum- mer Fishtrap experience a try and join the unique community of writers that is Summer Fishtrap. This year, online.” For more information, contact Fishtrap at www. fishtrap.org. Construction of the Wallowa County Courthouse is nearly complete in this rare 1909 courthouse postcard. Janis Carper releases Sweet Relief: a new solo album By Ellen Morris Bishop Wallowa County Chieftain Janis Carper can’t let her guitar sit idle for any length of time. On Wednesday May 6, at 7 p.m. she’ll release her newest album, four- teen original songs com- posed between April and December, and “recorded during the COVID-19 pan- demic, quarantined in my basement studio with ‘way too many instruments at my disposal,” she said. It’s the prolific songwriter and per- former’s first solo album in a decade. And it’s a solo tour de force, showcasing Carper’s mastery of lyrics, instru- ments and voice from the lilting first cut of “Sweet Relief” to the bossa-no- va-like beats of “Fire and Flood” and “Sing Coyote”, a jazzy “Losin’ Ground”, the slow waltz of “The Long Goodbye” and thought-pro- voking, evocative final cut, “Let It Go.” There’s some- thing for everyone in this album. Ellen Morris Bishop Janis Carper will release her new solo album, Sweet Relief, at Facebook event on May 6 at 7 p.m. The album was mixed and mastered by local audio-auteur Bart Budwig. “It seemed kind of funny to Dropbox it all to someone who just lives across town,” Carper said. “But he did a great job.” The release “party” will be on Carper’s Facebook page. And it’s her birthday too. So there are two rea- sons for celebration. “I’ve got a little bit of everything on the album,” she said. “It’s a collec- tion of songs I wrote pretty quickly and steadily, and that I’m ready to send off into the hills.” With the summer con- cert and festival season put on hold by COVID- 19, Carper felt that a digi- tal release was the best way to go. She’ll have CD’s in another week or so, but right now there’s no place to sell them. Someday, she said, when the Bookloft is open again, where there are concerts and the Music Alli- ance is sponsoring events, those CD’s will come in handy. 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