Tag: Oregon Zoo
We’re a (very) short three weeks and four days from the beginning of Loganberry Books’ Author Alley gatherings. For three Saturdays in a row, the good people at Loganberry Books will bring together up to 30 area authors to talk about their work. Each… Continue Reading “Three Weekends of Writers”
Category: Animals, Appearances, Authors, Books, Elephant Speak, Loganberry Books, Nonfiction, Ooligan Press, Oregon Zoo, Roger Henneous, Washington Park Zoo, Writers, Writing, ZooTags: Animals, Books, Elephant Speak, Elephants, Loganberry Books, Ooligan Press, Oregon Zoo, Writing
Please pass the word along to your reader friends near and far. We’re bound to have a fun time talking about elephants, not to mention all the other stuff that crops up. Hope you’ll join us in September at the Thompson Branch of Geuga… Continue Reading “Coming Soon to an Ohio Near You”
Category: Animals, Appearances, Authors, Biography, Books, Elephant Speak, Elephants, Nonfiction, Ooligan Press, Oregon Zoo, Roger Henneous, Writers, WritingTags: Animals, Biography, Books, Elephant Speak, Elephants, Ooligan Press, Oregon Zoo, Writing
On June 5, I received an email from Sharon Glaeser at the Oregon Zoo. In part, she wrote: “I have a tribute to Roger to share with you. We finally published our long-term study on our bulls … In our long list of thanks… Continue Reading “Bit of Pleasurable News”
…to the staff and patrons at Estacada Library in Estacada, OR for the opportunity to be the kick-off presenter for the 2022 Adult Programming. I appreciate all who attended, eager to learn more about my friend Roger Henneous and his remarkable elephants through my… Continue Reading “A Hearty “Thank You””
Category: Animals, Elephant Speak, Elephants, Estacada Library, Oregon Zoo, Roger HenneousTags: Animals, Elephant Speak, Elephants, Estacada Library, Memoir, Ooligan Press, Oregon Zoo, Roger Henneous
…is often how it goes in this game of writing, or at least that’s my experience of it. Famine, feast, famine. It’s an oft-used example, but it really is a lot like one loose pebble on a hillside. Once it begins to roll, you… Continue Reading “Momentum Like a Long, Low Swell…”
Category: Animal Books, Animals, Books, Elephant Speak, Elephants, Nonfiction, Oregon Zoo, Roger Henneous, WritingTags: Elephant Speak, Elephants, Oregon Zoo, Zookeeper
One of the world’s greatest elephant men died today. Roger Henneous knew nothing about what he came to call “the great gray clowns” when he took the zookeeper job at the Portland (Oregon) Zoological Gardens back in 1968. All he knew was that he… Continue Reading “Let the Elephants Trumpet”
Hey, everyone. When COVID-19 struck and changed all our lives, the lovely folks behind the Newburyport Literary Festival were convinced it spelled the end of this year’s event. NOT SO! Just check out their website, Newburyport Literary Festival to find out about all the wonderful options.… Continue Reading “Newburyport Literary Festival Goes Virtual TODAY!”
Category: Animal Books, Animals, Books, Elephant Speak, Elephants, Memoir, Nature, Newburyport, Newburyport Literary Festival, Ooligan Press, Oregon Zoo, Publishing, Reading, Wildlife, Writers, WritingTags: Animal Books, Animals, Books, Elephant Speak, Elephants, Memoir, Nature, Newburyport Literary Festival, Ooligan Press, Oregon Zoo, Publishing, Reading, Wildlife, Writers, Writing
By the end of our day at the zoo–and walking around Portland, window-shopping and stuffing ourselves with great food–I was more toast than human. We’d planned on driving the three hours of Bend, OR that night, but Ed and I were both so wrung… Continue Reading “World Tour – The Final Two Days”
Category: Animal Books, Animals, Appearances, Books, Elephant Speak, Elephants, Memoir, Nature, Nonfiction, Ooligan Press, Oregon Zoo, Powell's Bookstore, Roger Henneous, Roundabout Books, Sunriver Books and Music, Wildlife, Writing, ZooTags: Animal Books, Animals, Books, Elephant Speak, Elephants, Memoir, Nature, Nonfiction, Ooligan Press, Oregon Zoo, Powell's Bookstore, Roger Henneous, Roundabout Books, Sunriver Books and Music, Wildlife, Writing
On Thursday, March 5, as a Portland follow-up to our resounding success at Powell’s (I say “our” because the effort to bring ELEPHANT SPEAK to publication was definitely a group endeavor) I presented a truncated (no pun intended … trunk-ated, get it?) version of my talk; no… Continue Reading “World Tour – Part Three”
Category: Animal Books, Animals, Appearances, Elephant Speak, Elephants, Memoir, Oregon Zoo, Writing, ZooTags: Elephant Speak, Elephants, Ooligan Press, Oregon Zoo
I’m sorry to have been away for a couple of days. Like the rest of you, I’m dealing with the Corvid-19 threat as best as possible, but refocusing my efforts into wiping down surfaces, taking an inventory of what we have, what we need,… Continue Reading “World Tour – Intermission”
Category: Animal Books, Animals, Elephant Speak, Elephants, Memoir, Ooligan Press, Oregon ZooTags: Animals, Elephant Sanctuary Tennessee, Elephant Speak, Elephants, Memoir, Music, Ooligan Press, Oregon Zoo, PAWS/ARK 2000, The Elephant Sanctuary
Melissa Crandall 