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River Love, Part 1

September 19, 2016 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes Leave a Comment

The importance of wild rivers hits home to me again on a rainy September weekend as I explore my way deep into a notch valley of the Incomappleux River.  I am searching for one of the last remaining stands of old growth cedar and hemlock in the upper Columbia Basin.  It’s the last stop on […]

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In search of Springbank Clover

June 26, 2016 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes Leave a Comment

Phase II of my 6,000 mile search for beauty took me on another road trip last week – to the Broughton Archipelago. This smattering of rocky islands between the west coast of British Columbia and Vancouver Island has been home to the Kwakwaka’wakw indigenous tribe for thousands of years. I was drawn to feel for […]

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A Gypsy-sort-of-Garden

May 16, 2016 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes 1 Comment

Some of you know that I have landed back in south-eastern B.C. after a winter of exploration across the west. Soon after I arrived, I was thrown a curve ball that resulted in the continuation of my gypsy life in a community I have called home for 22 years. While there have been challenges, I’ve […]

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Finding the headwaters

March 31, 2016 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes Leave a Comment

I cross into Montana and head west, drawn by the allure of Headwaters State Park, about 30 miles west of Bozeman, Montana. The second-longest river in North America begins here, tucked into a wetland east of the Rocky Mountain divide. Every river begins differently. The Missouri’s alpha is actually the confluence of two rivers, the […]

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Expansion into Sky

March 27, 2016 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes Leave a Comment

Nebraska shares a boundary with the state of my dreams: Wyoming. I say this not because of the side-by-side signs I saw in a town called Grey Bull (“Obama is a pile of excrement” said one. “Trump hats for sale,” said the other.) Wyoming is the state of my dreams because of its expansive, exhilarating […]

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The Keepers of History

March 22, 2016 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes Leave a Comment

A seemingly innocent question posed by my sister led me to spend a day at the county records office in Stockville, Nebraska. “Do you think our grandfather was born in Frontier County, like his older brother?” Our maternal great-grandfather met his wife, married and started a family on a farm near Stockville in 1899. As […]

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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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