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 A Recipe for Perry An Essay by Harold Rhenisch »» Limited edition of 100 signed copies | $5 
Pear trees are sexual creatures. The fruit of a Bosc growing next to a Bartlett doesn't cup Bosc seeds. Nor does the Bartlett contain little Bartletts, nor even Boscs. The same for Beurre d'Anjou, Sierra, Seckel, Clapp's Favourite, Flemish Beauty, and Doyenné du Comice de Chaberton: each pear tree is feminine, with the exception of the stamens of their flowers, which are male like the tiny consorts female mosquitoes keep for their pleasure. There has, in other words, only ever been one Bartlett pear tree. All the rest, the millions of them on five continents, have been cloned, through a process called grafting. The Bartletts I grew up with in Canada's Similkameen Valley, for example, are the same pears used to make schnapps in Germany: Stair's Pear, or Williams' Bon Chretien. In German, it's Williams Christbirne. Williams' Christian Pear. James Carter brought them to New England in 1812. Ignorant of their provenance, Enoch Bartlett grafted them, and renamed them after himself. In 1849, Bartletts made it to California. Forty years later, Frank Richter planted them at his new estate, Inglewood, in Upper Keremeos, British Columbia. Ours were planted five miles south in 1952, on a Veterans Land Act development. They were an attempt to put an end to a war. Thus begins the essay A Recipe for Perry by Harold Rhenisch, a chapbook from the Okanagan Institute. Harold Rhenish is the author of Out of the Interior and 25 other books of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. He lives in Vernon BC. Published in a limited edition of 100 copies numbered by the designer and signed by the author. To order your copies by Paypal, click the button below:
Our Buildings Can Save the Planet An Essay by Douglas MacLeod »» Limited edition of 100 signed copies | $5  Our buildings can save the planet because green buildings are the best means of addressing global warming, reducing energy usage and creating a healthier and safer environment.
The heating and cooling of buildings accounts for about a third of the world's total greenhouse gas emissions. When the carbon emitted in the manufacture of building materials and the transportation of those materials is included, this figure rises to almost one half. The manufacture of concrete alone produces some 7% of the world's total greenhouse gas emissions. When all of the energy costs of a building are combined, buildings have the dubious distinction of being both the largest consumers of energy and the largest emitters of greenhouse gases of any sector.Thus begins the essay Our Buildings Can Save the Planet by Douglas MacLeod, a chapbook from the Okanagan Institute. Douglas MacLeod is the Associate Dean of Science Technology and Health at Okanagan College. He is a registered architect in California, a contributing editor to Canadian Architect and the former Executive Director of the Canadian Design Research Network. Published in a limited edition of 100 copies numbered by the designer and signed by the author. To order your copies by Paypal, click the button below:
On Apples An Essay by Colin Snowsell »» Limited edition of 100 signed copies | $5  American clergyman and historian Jeremy Belknap, apparently, first used the phrase "Don't upset the apple
cart" in 1788. Writing in The History of New Hampshire about Constitutional ratification, Belknap cautioned, "Adams had almost overset the apple-cart by intruding an amendment of his own fabrication on the morning of the day of ratification." Easy there, Adams; slow it down. Why shoot yourself in the foot (I like gun and feet idioms too) when moderation, tongues both silver and honeyed, and an eye firmly on the final prize will win the battle that will allow you to continue fighting the war another day? Mixing figures of speech is, like most things wrong, great fun. But let's try to keep it apple for awhile.The most commonly used apple metaphor - any derivation of the term "rotten apple" - is almost always presently misapplied. "A rotten apple ruins the barrel" is, according to the American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms a tightening up of the 14th century Latin expression "The rotten apple injures its neighbours." The phrase in current political discourse is customarily offered as systemic exculpation premised on the identification and offering of a scapegoat. Thus begins the essay On Apples by Colin Snowsell, a chapbook from the Okanagan Institute. Colin Snowsell is a writer and a communications professor at Okanagan College. Published in a limited edition of 100 copies numbered by the designer and signed by the author. To order your copies by Paypal, click the button below:
Creator Glimpsed Serving Tea Poetic Journeys, by Derek Evans »» Limited edition of 200 signed copies | $5  Most of us, most of the time, seem to rush through our lives in a blur of plans and preoccupations, of schedules and fears. We press our way and spend our time in weighty chunks - of months and years, of decades and careers. Every now and then something may happen that allows us to step outside of our usual patterns, and to notice for a fleeting moment the power and beauty of the ordinary. For me, that rare moment tends to arrive when I am a traveler, when I am forced to scramble and grapple for perspective, when I am challenged to find a sense of being at home though surrounded by different lives in a distant place. Or just around the corner. Thus begins Creator Glimpsed Serving Tea by Derek Evans, the second chapbook in the series from the Okanagan Institute. Derek Evans is a writer, teacher, scholar, and activist. His work in peace and human rights spans three decades and five continents, and bridges local and global concerns. He served two terms as Deputy Secretary General of Amnesty International, and has led more than seventy international delegations conducting human rights investigations or peace negotiations. Published in a limited edition of 200 copies numbered by the designer and signed by the author. To order your copies by Paypal, click the button below:
The Zeppo Chair A Story by Jarrod Thalheimer »» Limited edition of 200 signed copies | $5  Tristan slid onto the worn leather of the chair and remembered it, even through his jeans. He found his comfort just as the bonds began to tighten. He strained against them, but kept his neck and head as still as possible. The red panic button was just under his left palm. He lifted his hand safely away from it.Thus begins The Zeppo Chair by Jerrod Thalheimer, the first chapbook in the series from the Okanagan Institute. In a haunting exploration of the nature of pain and how we handle it in our lives - and in our society - Thalheimer demonstrates his gift for storytelling. Jarrod Thalheimer is a freelance writer living in Kelowna. Most recently, he was a chapter winner in the Vancouver Province Newspaper's Sunday Serial Thriller fiction competition. His AdFool column appears each Tuesday on Castanet and he writes for Okanagan Arts magazines, among others. He can be reached through his website at www.littlebluetruck.com Published in a limited edition of 200 copies numbered by the designer and signed by the author. To order your copies by Paypal, click the button below:
PayPal, an eBay Company, is the secure authorized online payment processor for the Media Futures Institute, a partner in the Okanagan Institute. As the global leader in online transactions, PayPal offers the most secure, accessible, fast, easy, and reliable environment for making online payments. Click the button above to order. OKANAGAN CHAPBOOKS are occasional compilations, short texts, tracts and pictorial materials of special interest to the principals of the Okanagan Institute literary works of merit and distinction, history and heritage, the arts and crafts, leisure pastimes and fugitive enthusiasms - by Okanagan writers, and on topics of appeal to Okanagan readers. »» The chapbooks are printed in limited quantities and made available to friends of the publisher, at Okanagan Institute events, and through selected purveyors of fine publishing. »» Subscriptions are available to libraries and book collectors. Quantities are limited and only a few copies are expected to be made available. »» If you know of projects we should be involved in, or of writers, chapbooks or books that need publishing, please get in touch with us. FOR MORE INFORMATION: Robert MacDonald, Director: 250.870.2690 or info@okanaganinstitute.com
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