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From 1984-2006 I owned and operated the Photographic Image Gallery, showing a unique mix of fine art photographs, decorative photography and photographic posters.
.In 1998 I was a Founding Board Member of Photo Lucida. Today, under the direction of a dedicated group of photographers, the festival has attained an international reputation.
Many of those galleries have closed with the Pandemic. Soon we will enter the post pandemic years and I believe that once more artistic vision will prevail. |
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After stepping back from my gallery and museum commitments I started writing the Juniper Berry Notes, a personal writing blog about the history and country of Middle Oregon.
I have always found a nostalgic tie to the history of Oregon and a special draw to the Central Oregon area lower desert.
In 2013 I was visiting a pioneer cemetery in the Central Oregon desert and ran across Hope Nance. She was born in 1917 in the town of Grandview, a community that had long since had fallen victim to scavengers, relic-hunters and curiosity seekers. Nothing remained but gravestones and her stories.
She described to me a community of farmers and families, a school and a church, wheat fields to the horizon, and the Saturday night life at the Grange. I knew that one day she will take her stories to the grave and join over twenty relatives in the Grandview Cemetery. |
This was the book that I wanted to write and for over three years we met every month. She shared her her personal memories, letters, maps and family photographs.
It's a story with many twists and turns and a tribute to a woman who was born on a cold wooden floor and ended up with more than enough love to share with her fifty-six grandchildren.
On February 8, 2017 she passed in her sleep and took the final trip to that cemetery to join her family.
You can read a chapter here.
To read the full story of this journey, you can click here |