Foreword Reviews has posted a review of Cabin 135:
“Cabin 135 is Katie Eberhart’s contemplative account of several decades in Alaska, through which she both reflects on the past and on environmental changes that could impact the future….” (Read more at Foreword Reviews.)
The publishing date for Cabin 135, A Memoir of Alaska is set for December 15, 2020. Pre-ordering is available through most independent bookstores as well as Internet-based booksellers. (More info.)
My book Cabin 135, A Memoir of Alaska is now available for pre-order through many (or most) book stores, including independent and neighborhood booksellers and large Internet-based sellers.
Here’s a sampling of pre-order links for Cabin 135:
University of Alaska Press | Fireside Books (Palmer, Alaska) | Roundabout Books (Bend, Oregon) | Powell’s City of Books | University of Chicago Press Books | Amazon
Please, support your nearest independent bookseller.
Composer, Mark Greathouse, has posted several of my arrangements of his compositions on SheetMusicPlus.com. The SMP page for each piece includes a description, preview of the score, and a recording.
Copy Cat – Quartet for 2 Violins, Flute and Accordion
Copy Cat — Quartet for 2 Violins, Flute and Accordion is by turns lightheartedly playful, somber, and meditative. Variations touch on jazz, gypsy, and orchestral themes. The accordion provides rhythm and low register support. The violins draw out the themes often quite hauntingly but also with a section of lighthearted pizzicato. The flute part alternates between high melodies and mid-range countermelodies. This arrangement of Copy Cat is an intermediate piece that is entertaining and fun to play.
*It’s strange to be mentioning ensemble music when “Zoom” meetings have replaced in-person rehearsals. We are, however, looking forward to better times in 2021.
I wish I was announcing that Cabin 135 is now available, as scheduled, at bookstores and on Amazon… but due to coronavirus effects on production, University of Alaska Press has rescheduled publication for December 15.
The proof I received in the mail from UA Press is lovely. The cover design is by Ruth Hulbert.
My book Cabin 135, A Memoir of Alaska has progressed through design and layout, copyediting and proofreading. It has a gorgeous cover and map created by Ruth Hulbert. Cabin 135 is being published by University of Alaska Press with printed books expected to be available in mid-August.
My review of The Rhythm of It, Poetry’s Hidden Dance by Anita Sullivan has been posted on the Oregon Poetry Association web site:
by Katie Eberhart
Cabin 135 is a house that was built for the Matanuska Colony. Living there for many years, the author became fascinated with the accumulation of layers. The house anchors this book, a collection of threaded stories, to a particular plot of landscape in the Matanuska Valley.
Whether semi-tamed garden, national park, or forest, nature meanders through the stories in this book. As does memory, that thread that ties each of us to our past. The terrain of this book includes garden and yard, but also more distant places where enticing moments offer insights to how we live and survive.
Cabin 135, A Memoir of Alaska by Katie Eberhart forthcoming from University of Alaska Press in 2020.
Sheet music for my duet arrangement of Mark Greathouse’s piano composition Copy Cat appeared in the Fall 2017 issue of the Northwest Accordion News. (Recording of Copy Cat.)
I arranged Clown Dance, composed by Mark Greathouse, for accordion trio. The sheet music was published in the Northwest Accordion News (Fall 2018) and was performed by a Portland, Oregon trio at the Rose City Accordion Camp.
An expanded arrangement of Copy Cat (for accordion quartet) was performed by a Portland, Oregon accordion quartet at the Rose City Accordion Club, Accordion Camp in June 2019.
I also adapted the Copy Cat Quartet for 2 violins, flute, and accordion. This arrangement was performed by a Bend Pops Orchestra ensemble at the Bowman Museum in Prineville, Oregon (October 2019).
Unbound: Alaska Poems is out-of-print.
I am working on a memoir about living in a house built during the Matanuska Colony. An update on that process is at Where Did The Last Year Go? on my Nature & Literature blog.
Skipper on thistle at Metolius Preserve
NATURE JOURNALING workshop Saturday July 25, 2015 at the Metolius Preserve (about 12 miles west of Sisters, Oregon ), sponsored by the Deschutes Land Trust. The terrain is flat (easy walking) and we’ll walk about a mile in the shade beside Lake Creek (the emphasis is “writing” not “hiking”). Sign up for this free workshop through the Deschutes Land Trust web site.
What: Nature Journaling
Where: Metolius Preserve, near Sisters, Oregon
When: July 25, 2015; 9:00-noon
Limited to ten participants.
Register online at http://www.deschuteslandtrust.org/events/hikes/nature-journaling-metolius-preserve or by telephone with the Deschutes Land Trust: (541) 330-0017
With registration, you’ll get an email reminder and directions to the Metolius Preserve
Related posts:
Deschutes Land Trust: Writing Personal Field Notes at Land Trust Preserves
My blog:
A Writer’s Field Notes – Part 1
Wildflowers of Whychus Canyon