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Jun
17
Tue
Bone Arrowheads, Archery, & Bow Plant Ethnobotany w/ Northwest Natura & Firecraft Northwest @ Northwest Natura private land
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Jun 17 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Bone Arrowheads, Archery, & Bow Plant Ethnobotany w/ Northwest Natura & Firecraft Northwest @ Northwest Natura private land

Discover the ancient skill of archery with a focus on the plants of the Pacific Northwest!

In this 3-hour field session collaboration, join Jazmen Yoder of Northwest Natura and Ryan Johnson of Firecraft Northwest to study native and naturalized plants of the region that can be used for archery.

What to Expect:
-Learn how to identify the plants that can be used to wildcraft bows and arrows.
-Handcraft a deer or elk leg bone arrowhead to take home.
-Field archery practice session that will teach beginners how to handle, hold, and shoot longbows and recurve bows safely.

What to bring:
-Dress for the weather
-Snacks and water
-Notebook and pen (optional)
-Your own bow and arrows (optional; materials provided by instructors)

Directions and Location:
-Registered individuals will receive location details, driving directions, weather forecast details and other info in an event-reminder email a few days prior to the event.

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Categories: Local History Outdoor Recreation Workshops, Classes and Lectures Tags: archery arrowhead bowandarrow Bushcraft ethnobotany Foraging hiking hunting survival skills
Bone Arrowheads, Archery, & Bow Plant Ethnobotany w/ NWN & FCNW @ Northwest Natura land
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Jun 17 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Bone Arrowheads, Archery, & Bow Plant Ethnobotany w/ NWN & FCNW @ Northwest Natura land

Discover the ancient skill of archery with a focus on the plants of the Pacific Northwest!

In this 3-hour field session collaboration, join Jazmen Yoder of Northwest Natura and Ryan Johnson of Firecraft Northwest to study native and naturalized plants of the region that can be used for archery.

What to Expect:
-Learn how to identify the plants that can be used to wildcraft bows and arrows.
-Handcraft a deer or elk leg bone arrowhead to take home.
-Field archery practice session that will teach beginners how to handle, hold, and shoot longbows and recurve bows safely.

Registration and more info on the event website.

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Categories: Arts and Entertainment Education Home & Garden Outdoor Recreation Workshops, Classes and Lectures Tags: archery arrowhead bowandarrow Bushcraft ethnobotany fire craft survival skills wildcrafting
Jun
28
Sat
Michael N. McGregor in Conversation with Dr. Laura Laffrado- An Island to Myself: The Place of Solitude in an Active Life @ Village Books in Fairhaven
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Jun 28 @ 4:00 pm
Michael N. McGregor in Conversation with Dr. Laura Laffrado- An Island to Myself: The Place of Solitude in an Active Life @ Village Books in Fairhaven

Welcome Michael N. McGregor back to the Readings Gallery for his newest book, An Island to Myself: The Place of Solitude in an Active Life! Dr. Laura Laffrado from WWU’s English Department will be joining him for the afternoon.

In his twenties, Michael N. McGregor traveled to the remote Greek island of Patmos to spend two winter months alone, 6,000 miles from home. Although he expected his solitude to be meaningful, he wasn’t prepared for how it would change him. Before his island days, McGregor had spent years reporting on the world’s poor and months on the road. As he settled into days of rigorous writing, evening walks through fierce wind, and nights full of memories, dreams and spiritual encounters, he learned that solitude can be difficult and even dangerous, but also awe-inspiring and life-altering.

Michael N. McGregor is an award-winning author, essayist, journalist, and biographer. His first novel, The Last Grand Tour (January 28, 2025), received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews, and his first book, Pure Act: The Uncommon Life of Robert Lax, was a finalist for a Washington State Book Award and several other prizes. The New York Times has praised McGregor’s writing as “vivid and engaging” and Image magazine has called it “emotionally honest, intellectually engaging, and profound in its search for spiritual truth.” His work covers the range from short to long fiction, reported to personal nonfiction, secular to spiritual contemplation of both inner and outer life. A former professor of creative writing, McGregor holds an MFA from Columbia University and has published over 300 shorter works in publications such as Tin House, StoryQuarterly, Poetry, and Orion. He lives in Seattle. To learn more about McGregor and his work, go to: michaelnmcgregor.com.

Dr. Laura Fernandes Laffrado is an award-winning Professor of English at Western Washington University. She has published widely on American literature in journals such as a/b: Auto/Biography Studies; ESQ; Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers; Literature in the Early Republic; Nathaniel Hawthorne Review; Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture; and many other journals and collections. Among her books are Uncommon Women: Gender and Representation in Nineteenth-Century US Women’s Writing and her most recent book, Selected Writings of Ella Higginson: Inventing Pacific Northwest Literature, which received the Society for the Study of American Women Writers 2018 Edition Award. She is currently at work on a biography of Pacific Northwest writer Ella Rhoads Higginson.

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Categories: Author Talk Tags: #VILLAGEBOOKS bookevent books Memoir
Jun
29
Sun
Mark Strohschein in Conversation with Jeffrey Morgan- Cries Across Borders @ Village Books in Fairhaven
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Jun 29 @ 2:00 pm
Mark Strohschein in Conversation with Jeffrey Morgan- Cries Across Borders @ Village Books in Fairhaven

Join us and local author Jeffrey Morgan in the Readings Gallery to welcome Pushcart Prize-nominated poet Mark Strohschein in celebration of his new chapbook, Cries Across Borders!

Cries Across Borders, a telling chapbook about the vagaries of the immigration system, poignantly and deftly addresses how difficult and trying unification with a loved one can be. In intelligent poems of longing, perplexity and discovery, the poet deconstructs the metaphor of exile and asks why borders still separate us.

Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and educator Mark Strohschein resides on Whidbey Island. His poems have appeared in Cirque Journal, Flint Hills Review, Bryant Literary Review, Broad River Review, The Milk House and other journals and anthologies. His new chapbook, Cries Across Borders, was a semifinalist for Button Poetry’s 2023 chapbook contest.

Jeffrey Morgan is a two-time National Poetry Series Finalist and the author of Crying Shame (BlazeVOX [books]) and The Last Note Becomes Its Listener (Conduit Books & Ephemera), winner of the Mind’s on Fire Open Book Prize. He lives in Bellingham, WA.

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Christina Baldwin- The Beekeeper’s Question @ Village Books in Fairhaven
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Jun 29 @ 5:00 pm
Christina Baldwin- The Beekeeper's Question @ Village Books in Fairhaven

Join Christina Baldwin in the Readings Gallery to celebrate her debut historical novel, The Beekeeper’s Question!

World War II looms over of the Cooper family: a soldier son sends his pregnant bride to their Montana town; another son brings home his Blackfeet wife and reopens racial tensions. Their father, Leo, local preacher and beekeeper, endeavors to make the community as harmonious as bees. Doctor Jereldene Jesperson, keeps the valley together, curing bodies and tending souls. And Blackfeet grandmother, Josie Shines-the-Light, relies on Leo and his son to safeguard her granddaughter. A mysterious figure threatens the family and Maire, the war bride, must find the way to save her husband’s ravaged soul.

Christina Baldwin is a pioneer in personal writing and story with eight classic books in this field. For twenty-five years she taught circle facilitation across North America and around the world. The Beekeeper’s Question is her debut historical novel. Her website: www.christinabaldwin.com is dedicated to issues raised in her books.

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Categories: Author Talk Tags: #VILLAGEBOOKS bookevent books fiction literary fiction
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