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Drawing by Pamela Takigawa
Authors and Interviewees

Passion for Place features forty-five community members who have contributed their time, talents, and love for the watershed and river. Thirty–seven have written thought-provoking, beautiful stories, essays, and poems. Drawings by Pamela Takigawa and Anne Greene, plein air paintings, and photographs of water of the Carmel River and its tributaries by Paola Fiorelle Berthoin accompany the text. In addition to the writings, a CD features eight community members who have enthusiastically shared their stories in interviews. Excerpts from these interviews are accompanied with natural sounds from the watershed. Freeman House, author of Totem Salmon: Life Lessons Learned From Another Species, has written the Foreword. Internationally recognized writers Terry Tempest Williams and Peter Forbes have lent their support for the book through granting permission to use excerpts from their writings.


The contributors are:


Pam Krone-Davis        Pamela Takigawa      Tom Little Bear Nason

                      Nikki Nedeff            Karin Strasser Kauffman          
Rosemary Luke

                                Frank Emerson       John Brennan         
Darby Worth 

                                         Thomas Christensen         Melissa Taylor       
Sean Flavin                

                             Paula Haro          Warren Masten         
 Steve Dorrance                 

               Bob Schuh         Anne Greene          
Doug Westphal

     Marilee Childs      Bill Leahy         
Debbie Whittlesey    Paul Kephart

                  David J. Gubernick        Stephen Meadows        Rod Mesquit           

                               Mark R. Stromberg      Patrice Vecchione   
Paul Kephart      

                                       Illia Thompson       Barbara Mossberg    
Alexander Henson  
 

                       Pat Regan         Karl Pallastrini     Dale Agron       Bryan Colter 
   
   Mary Cunov     Mary Gale          Laura Lee Lienk          Robert Reese    Cari Herthel
  
                                                                                                     
                Nancy Abildgaard        Vicki Andrews       May Waldroup 

                                    John Dotson      Laura Bayless        Paola Fiorelle Berthoin 


The arts and humanities play an historical and pivotal role in inspiring civic will to take action for wise regard of our Earth. John Muir, Henry David Thoreau, William Keith, Rachel Carson, Wendell Berry, Terry Tempest Williams and so many more citizens, past and present, all invoke through writing or art a passion for preservation and conservation.

In the stories of this book and CD, we are given examples of what happens when people take up the fate of the watershed community. Consider the ingenious efforts to help preserve the Carmel River steelhead and the sustained, impassioned efforts to create forward-thinking planning documents to help protect the beauty of the river and Carmel Valley. This fusion of scientific and political efforts joins conscience and imagination in caring about the fate of the fish, the fate of soil, the fate of trees, the fate of us. 

Excerpt from book flap summary by Barbara Mossberg PhD.



The book is beyond adjectives. The land, plants and water thank you from their beds be it bedrock, soil, or sandy stones...The People will thank you from their souls...a diamond-faceted gem.    ~ John Brennan




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