High Country News http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 10. Seeds of atonement: an interview with writer Shann Ray http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.16/seeds-of-atonement-an-interview-with-writer-shann-ray Shann Ray's short stories focus on the theme of redemption in the lives of ordinary Western families. No publisher Jenny Shank psychologists forgiveness Shann Ray fiction Western writers teachers American Masculine short stories 2011-09-28T15:19:58Z News Article Don't tell her she can't: a profile of author Mary Clearman Blew http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.16/dont-tell-her-she-cant-a-profile-of-author-mary-clearman-blew Mary Clearman Blew struck out on her own, leaving rural Montana and a life as a housewife to become a professor and writer. No publisher Andrea Clark Mason Mary Clearman Blew memoirs ranchers fiction Western writers teachers short stories This Is Not the Ivy League 2011-09-23T14:36:09Z News Article Teaching Whitney to cook http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.22/teaching-whitney-to-cook An environmental educator discovers a rewarding way to help the planet -- teaching a young woman how to cook. No publisher Julia Corbett locavore movement Cooking organic food teachers 2011-01-03T20:25:31Z News Article Loves, losses and utter disasters http://www.hcn.org/issues/373/17777 In her new novel, The Berkeley Pit, Dorothy Bryant intertwines the stories of two very different Berkeleys: The California college town during the ‘60s, and the famously toxic open-pit mine in Butte, Mont. No publisher Tanya Lee History Dorothy Bryant The Berkeley Pit historical fiction novels 1960s Berkeley California teachers students copper mines 2010-02-05T08:39:58Z News Article ‘Death is stingless indeed and as beautiful as life’ http://www.hcn.org/issues/311/15958 Writer and activist Michael Frome looks back on more than 80 years of a life filled concern for the environment and social justice No publisher Michael Frome Human Beings And Nature Michael Frome aging teachers activists memoirs autobiographies environmental movement growing older death muckrakers Lincoln Steffens Gaylord Nelson conservation movement Paul Brooks Rachel Carson Bernard DeVoto Richard Neuberger Wallace 2010-02-05T08:56:05Z News Article Loss and renewal in the Northwest http://www.hcn.org/issues/328/16499 Steven Radosevich writes simple, painful, personal essays about the changing landscape of the Pacific Northwest in his new book, Good Wood: Growth, Loss and Renewal. No publisher Annie Dawid Communities in Transition Steven Radosevich Good Wood essays hunters fishermen grape growers anthologies Pacific Northwest Siletz Indians Tieton Washington memoirs family history timber logging clear-cutting forests Coast Range Charlie Wakenshaw teachers Oregon 2011-11-30T16:47:59Z News Article Dear friends http://www.hcn.org/issues/323/16323 Welcome, new interns Stephanie Paige Ogburn and Allison Gerfin; Southwest Research and Information Center celebrates 35 years; Wendell Duffield wants to know what happened to the U.S. Geological Survey No publisher Stephanie Paige Ogburn, Allison Gerfin and Jodi Peterson High Country News Dear Friends Paonia Colorado Allison Gerfin Stephanie Paige Ogburn High Country News interns writers copy editors Grand Junction Daily Sentinel SAGE magazine Edinburg Texas teachers Yale Southwest Research and Information 2011-11-11T22:25:22Z News Article Imagine http://www.hcn.org/issues/344/16957 A teacher asks his students and the rest of us to imagine: What would the world be like if we had the courage to use our imaginations? No publisher David Oates social policy imagination David Oates national priorities activism poetry fiction Gerard Manley Hopkins changing the world policy Iraq war reading literature government students Je dreams Human beings and nature tax cuts foreign teachers James Welch Education metaphors 2010-08-06T22:53:11Z News Article She builds new words in an ancient tongue http://www.hcn.org/issues/303/15691 Reba Teran is painstakingly building an audio dictionary of spoken Shoshone, hoping to save both her language and her culture No publisher Kerry Brophy Indian Culture Reba Teran Shoshone language Native Americans Indian languages teachers dictionaries words Indian culture Wind River Reservation 2012-04-09T18:38:49Z News Article Getting out of the office, and into hot water http://www.hcn.org/issues/332/16629 California geology professor Jeff Mount uses river trips as an educational tool No publisher Matt Jenkins and San Francisco Bay-Delta Alaska Columbia California Rivers Copper River geology Science river trips British Rivers professors levees teachers Jeff Mount Skeena floods State Reclamation Board Gray Davis University of California at Davis Colorado River 2010-09-22T22:40:43Z News Article