A Gathering of Voices

Essays from Oregon, covering decades of adventure -- true loves, children, heartbreaks, politics from the inside, births, deaths, mystical revelations, building a tipi, vision quests, anchoring Bend in the River with Ken Kesey, covering Bobby Kennedy and Gene McCarthy, star parties, the love of mountains, naked sit-ins, guys, teen car crashes, dancing, addictions, "pearls at random strung" and, ah, the writing life. This is the first of four volumes of essays, culling the most moving, perso...