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Eileen Delehanty Pearkes

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Eileen Delehanty Pearkes

Columbia River Narrows

March 2, 2015 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes

  In 2013, local author Takaia Larsen invited me to participate in a history of the Columbia River valley between Castlegar and Revelstoke.  In preparation for my contribution to this volume, I imagined the Columbia River as it was 1,000 years ago, drawing on my years of research and travel in the region.

Filed Under: Imagined Maps, Maps, Upper Columbia River Region Maps

First Trip to Grand Coulee Dam

March 2, 2015 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes

  It was spring, 2004.  I set out in my old Mercury pickup to find the dam that blocked salmon from ascending to spawn in the mountains where I live. It was my first trip to Grand Coulee Dam and the start of a decade-long research project that became an award-winning museum exhibit on the […]

Filed Under: Special Projects, Visual Notebooks

Grand Coulee Dam -Banks “Lake” Reservoir

March 2, 2015 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes

  Ever been to Banks Lake?  This is where water from the Columbia River is pumped and stored.   An ancient geological coulee, carved by water flowing across volcanic basalt.  Banks Lake is not a lake at all.  It is a giant irrigation project, but that does not lessen its beauty on a still spring […]

Filed Under: Special Projects, Visual Notebooks

Boundary Dam

March 2, 2015 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes

  This dam is just below the international boundary between Canada and the U.S., in a tucked-away corner.  Pacific Northwest dams are often in tucked-away corners…..though they share water’s power with millions of people living in cities like Vancouver and Seattle.

Filed Under: Upper Columbia River Region, Visual Notebooks

Spokane River Shell

March 2, 2015 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes

  I found this shell in a sand bank on the Spokane River.   It is this sort of noticing that opens up water’s mystery for me.

Filed Under: Upper Columbia River Region, Visual Notebooks

Liking Lichens

March 2, 2015 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes

  Sometimes, on a drippy, early spring day, there is little else to notice in the woods than lichens.  This was from one walk in a fairly dry, rocky woods at the edge of Slocan Lake.  I collected a piece of each one that I could find on the short walk.

Filed Under: Upper Columbia River Region, Visual Notebooks

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About Eileen

Eileen Delehanty Pearkes explores landscape, history and the human imagination in writing, maps and visual notebooks.

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