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Katie Lee, Our Lady of Glen Canyon

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Brett Martin May 24, 2018 Before her death last November, Katie Lee spent half a century working to restore Glen Canyon, a lost place that was even more astounding than Grand Canyon Katie Lee was a notoriously blunt woman. I had been in her living room, in Jerome, Arizona, for just ten minutes last summer before we covered sex and death. I had noticed a model sitting on a shelf—a small white dory with the name Mexican Hat Expeditions painted on its side. It was a replica of the crafts on which, half a century ago, Lee first forayed through … Continue reading →

Cline Library Interview

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My Parents I had great parents, really. I was very, very lucky. I had a dad who was like a kid, always. Taught me how to stay outdoors and taught me how to shoot and hunt when I was old enough. Took me on picnics–my mother and dad did that, of course. My dad was the athletic type, and my mother was the artistic type. So I was influenced from both sides there. My mother was a singer and a teacher of music, before she married my dad. When I look back on it, I think, “Wow, how lucky can … Continue reading →

Interview with The Kitchen Sisters

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The Kitchen Sisters (Davia Nelson & Nikki Silva) produce the NPR series Hidden Kitchens, which explores how communities come together through food. As California residents, they’ve been “watching every year the encroachment and development of the west.” In their two-part radio documentary “Cry Me a River,” produced with Martha Ham, they visit the West we lost through the stories of three river guides who try – and fail – to stop the damming of their rivers and interviewed Katie Lee. Ken and Katie Lee and Mark DuBois are such great characters. What drew you to them? Nikki Silva: I think … Continue reading →