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Eileen Delehanty Pearkes

The path of Mt. Rainier’s Snow

June 13, 2024 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes 1 Comment

Touring Big River since June 1 has brought me into the sights of Mt. Rainier. On clear days, this pinnacle rises high above the Seattle skyline and busy port. I’ve been lucky enough to see it often during my time here. Most of the snow on Mt. Rainier descends to the ocean. The snow on […]

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River Miles and Stones

May 28, 2024 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes 6 Comments

This week, a unique book about the Columbia River will launch June 1, 2024 at the Nelson Museum and Art Gallery at 7 p.m. Big River represents an important literary milestone: the first truly international project about this powerful river. A few years ago, I was contacted by Braided River, a non-profit press based in […]

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Nerding out about dams

March 13, 2024 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes 2 Comments

He was smart, deeply interested in the ecological impact of dams, and understood immediately the national importance of the columbia River Treaty.

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Winter Drought

February 16, 2024 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes 2 Comments

For a while now, I have been following a remarkable turn of events in the upper Columbia River region. The Columbia River Treaty (CRT) is an international agreement between the US and Canada, for flood control and enhanced hydroelectricity. The CRT was entirely designed to provide spring storage of winter snowmelt, so that summer and […]

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Mapping Revisited

January 3, 2024 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes 1 Comment

A reader of The Geography of Memory recently praised the originality of the maps. I blushed, mostly because I developed them myself (with considerable help from Charles Syrett, the ace map-guy from Nelson, B.C., Canada. Check him out!) Since my earliest days as a writer, I have sketched maps, some of which have their own […]

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Two Worlds, One Heart

November 12, 2023 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes 1 Comment

Since my personal move to California during the pandemic, I’ve spent less time in the upper Columbia River region that formed and shaped my writing, but I have not stopped thinking and writing about it. Last year, Rocky Mountain Books released a new edition of The Geography of Memory, and next year they will provide […]

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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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