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MIXED MEDIUM
THE ARTS AROUND
EASTERN OREGON
MARCH 30�APRIL 6, 2022
Fishtrap Fireside wraps up April 1
Go! staff
he fi nal episode of Fishtrap
Fireside’s ninth season is
available online beginning Fri-
day, April 1, with readings from
Fishtrap friends Ralph Swinehart
and Ashley Tackett, plus special
guest, Fishtrap’s 2022 Writer-
in-Residence, playwright E.M.
(Ellen) Lewis.
Anyone anywhere watch the
episode at fi shtrap.org and on
Fishtrap’s YouTube channel.
Fishtrap Fireside is a monthly
reading series designed to
feature diverse voices from local
Wallowa County writers. Each
month off ers a fresh look at what
people of the West are thinking
about and writing down.
The April Fishtrap Fireside is
sponsored by Stewart Jones
Designs, a custom jewelry
designer working in Wallowa
County since 1999.
T
E.M. LEWIS
Lewis is Fishtrap’s 2022
Writer-in-Residence. Her numer-
ous plays and operas have been
produced around the world. She
has received the prestigious
Steinberg Award, the Primus
Prize from the American The-
Ralph Swinehart
ater Critics Association, the Ted
Schmitt Award from the Los
Angeles Drama Critics Circle,
Portland Civic Theater Guild New
Play Award, a Hodder Fellow-
ship from Princeton University, a
playwriting fellowship from New
Jersey State Arts Commission,
the 2016 Oregon Literary Fellow-
ship in Drama, and an Edgerton
Award. Lewis is currently enjoying
a three-year Mellon Foundation
National Playwright Residency
at Artists Repertory Theater and
lives in Oregon’s Willamette Val-
ley on her family’s farm.
Learn more at emlewisplay-
wright.com.
We thank these Chambers Members
for their continued support
www.VisitUnionCounty.org
RALPH SWINEHART
Swinehart moved to Wal-
lowa County in 1972 as part of
the back to the land movement
and has spent the last 50 years
developing his small farm and
built his own barn, solar home,
and numerous outbuildings.
His friend Rick calls his storage
shed the MTA, for Monument
to Accumulation. He restored
his fi rst car, a 1928 Model A
Phaeton, while he was in high
school and still drives it regu-
larly. It has attracted several
Ashley Tackett
E.M. Lewis
other Model A’s and T’s, which
enjoy living in the MTA with it.
He recently sold his sheep after
raising them for 46 years, and
is still a part time civil engineer,
but he is working on becoming
a full time luddite.
ASHLEY TACKETT
Ashley Tackett is a designer,
developer, educator, and is
fundamentally a country gal at
heart. Beauty, connection, and
growth are her guiding stars
to a very engaging life. After a
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Episode goes live Friday,
April 1, at fi shtrap.org and
Fishtrap’s YouTube channel.
This is the last Fireside of
the season and features
E.M. Lewis, Ralph Swinehart
and Ashley Tackett.
two-year stint living alongside
snakes, steelhead, and turkey in
Imnaha, she is presently carving
out a life under the bright, warm
sun of Mexico.
The Call of Public Service:
The Life and Legacy of
Mark O. Hatfield
Heritage Station presents a
traveling exhibit from the
Oregon Historical Society
March 5 - April 3,
2022