I have worked here since 2011 telling stories of the Earth as preparation for a history of the Intermontane Grasslands of Central Cascadia and the rainswept coast that keeps them windy and dry. Now I am presenting this history, step by step, as I have learned it, often from the land itself. The history of this region includes the Canadian colonial space “The Okanagan Valley”, which lies over the land I live in above Canim Bay. The story stretches deep into the American West, into the US Civil War, the War of 1812, and the Louisiana Purchase, as well into the history of the Columbia District of the Hudson’s Bay Company. In all, the story spans the Chilcotin and Columbia volcanic plateaus and the basins that surround them. In this vast watershed lie homelands as old as 13,200 years (Sequim) and 16,200 years (Salmon River.) That’s how far we are walking together here, who are all the land speaking.
Blessed be.
Okanagan Okanogan 
Please tell me about the book “Manual of Fugue”.
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I’m glad you noticed it! I was hoping someone would!
I picked it up in an antique store and am planning to use it to form the basis to a visual poem of some kind (don’t worry, without damaging it)
It is a teaching manual from 1939, and spent most of its life on the Canadian prairies (Saskatchewan). It talks about fugues, what they are and so on, and then gives musical examples as teaching guides to the playing of fugues on a keyboard… complete with some on counterpoint as well.
It’s a beautiful little thing.
Why?
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I see that Robin admires it, too!
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He does indeed!
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