Light in the trees / Gail Folkins ; foreword by Andy Wilkinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Folkins, Gail Louise, 1963- author.

Contributor:

Wilkinson, Andy, writer of foreword.

Series:

Voice in the American West

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folkins, Gail Louise, 1963---Family.

Folkins, Gail Louise.

Folkins, Gail Louise, 1963---Homes and haunts.

Lifestyles.

City and town life.

Washington (State)--Description and travel.

Washington (State).

Northwest, Pacific--Description and travel.

Northwest, Pacific.

Natural history--Northwest, Pacific.

Natural history.

City and town life--Northwest, Pacific.

Lifestyles--Northwest, Pacific.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 139 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lubbock, Texas : Texas Tech University Press, [2016]

Summary:

"From the book: At the end of our visit in the big snow, I hiked the mountain behind Dad's house with my brother, stepping into his size 13 footprints. With trail signposts long buried, we kept to the main road, a route once used for logging. Although almost every trip home included this steep climb, I'd never hiked it in two feet of snow. The muffled whiteness made it difficult to tell how far we'd come, how much farther we had to go. More than once I sat on a log saying I'd stay there and wait for Ken, whose long strides made it look easy, to go up without me. Each time I did this, he stopped, waited, and told me we were almost there, although I suspected we weren't. A memoir of home, nature, and change in the American West, Light in the Trees makes cultural and environmental topics personal through a narrator's travels between past and present, rural and urban. Growing up on a mountain foothill in western Washington, Gail Folkins offers a small-town viewpoint of the Pacific Northwest. Sasquatch myths and serial killer realities, a runaway Appaloosa, and turbulent volcanoes beneath serene mountaintops help chronicle a coming of age for both a narrator and a place. Later, a move to the Southwest expands Folkins's view of the West. From this new perspective paired with frequent journeys to the Northwest, she explores challenges of the natural world, from wildlife habitat and water quality to a changeable climate and wildfires, navigating new versions of home and self along the way."-- Provided by publisher.

""A memoir about growing up in a mountain foothill in Washington state, chronically a coming of age for author and region. Includes further views of the Northwest through the eyes of Southwest terrain and climate."--Provided by publisher"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Blackberry Summers 5

2 Bigfoot in the Backyard 13

3 A Palouse Horse 22

4 After the Volcano 30

5 Three Stages of Sustenance 39

6 High-Tech Forest 46

7 Upstream 54

8 Last Light on North Beach 62

9 Visits from Black Bear 69

10 Mountain Meadows 76

11 The Voice of Wood 83

12 Between Drought and Snow 91

13 Earthquake Chaser 99

14 Unseen on Orcas Island 106

15 Light in the Trees 114

16 Through the Smoke 122.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780896729513

0896729516

9780896729520

0896729524

OCLC:

922970585

Publisher Number:

40025734977