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I wanted to write a story that was fantastic, that allowed my philosophical training a forum less confining than treatises, and that took me from a bleak present to places I knew only as a happy youth.
  A "Valley Vignettes" Special Five Part Report
Published between April 18 and May 25, 1980
as part of The Daily Clarion's centenary
celebration of Valley Southside's founding
By Allan Mow, Staff Reporter
What starts out as a simple newspaper report on a decaying farmstead and the family that once lived there, turns into a tour de force of writing at the hands of Colin Snowsell.
"I found it impossible to regard the Frollett Homestead and not hear the chants of the ghosts of children, children who play there no longer. Children grown old. Children passed on. The day I visited the Frollett homestead I kept looking at my octogenarian host, only to see beside me a boy not yet eight."
The text is accompanied by a suite of photographs by Gary Nylander that shadow the tone and temperment of the writing, and the story.
Published in a limited edition of 500 copies, numbered and signed by the author.
64 pages | paperback | 8 x10 inches | Illustrated with photographs throughout.
ISBN 978-0-9810271-4-2 | Price: $20, plus $1 GST.
Publication date: Mach 2010
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Up Chute Creek is a portrait of Okanagan landscape and people like no other. It is alternately passionate, joyful, heartbreaking, lyrical, quirky, and always wise, and always human, in the best sense. This is a book for the people of the Okanagan, both new and old, to treasure and to share.
"A wise, funny, heartfelt, smart, poetic memoir of a love affair with a
wild, granite farm at the end of the road in Naramata. If you didn't love the Okanagan before you read this book, you will by the time you're done." - Harold Rhenisch, author of Out of the Interior and The Wolves at Evelyn
"For 30 years, my family has made a ritual pilgrimage to celebrate food's seasonality by picking cherries in the Okanagan Valley, the Garden "of Eatin" of this book. But in that time, the rural charm of this area has changed beyond recognition from the forces of development and growth. Up Chute Creek zip-lines readers through this region's environmental issues, from population growth and water shortage to a unique, but endangered ecology. No easy solutions, but what a ride!" - David Suzuki, author of The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature and host of CBC's The Nature of Things
Published in a limited edition of 500 copies, numbered and signed by the author.
224 page paperback | 6 x 9 inches | Illustrated with photographs throughout.
ISBN 978-0-9810271-1-1 | Price: $20, plus $1 GST.
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"This was a marvellous project and the book is an extremely elegant publication. As Julia Ketler (age 14) says, "Every single medallion has something to say". All in all, I found looking at the works that came out of the project quite a moving experience." -- Philip Attwood, Curator, The British Museum
The extraordinary Spirit of Kelowna medallion project brought a diverse cross section of the community together. They merged in a spirit of learning and sharing to create an impression of what was in their hearts. Their vision of Kelowna's community spirit is powerfully expressed through the diversity and uniqueness of the medallions that were created under the supervision of artists Geert and Elly Maas.
The medallions have been brought together in the pages of a unique and beautiful full-colour book - the perfect legacy of a great community event.
Copies of the book make ideal gifts for family and friends, and business colleagues and customers.
128 page paperback | 8 x 10 inches | Full colour throughout
Introductory texts by Karen Close, Sandra Kochan and Randy Cleveland. Photography by Yuri Akuney.
ISBN 978-0-9810271-0-4 | Price: $20, plus $1 GST.
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