by Rich Wandschneider | Jul 4, 2012 | Alvin Josephy, Chief Joseph Cemetery, Devin Becker, Doug Erickson, Garth Reese, Grace Bartlett, Lewis and Clark Library, Nez Perce, Tamkaliks, University of Idaho Library, Wallowa County Museum
Last winter I sat in Doug Erickson’s lair at Lewis and Clark College in Portland talking library work. Doug is special collections librarian there, and his office is also the home of the William Stafford Collection. In a corner sits an odd Plexiglas contraption that...
by Rich Wandschneider | May 16, 2011 | Alvin Josephy, American Heritage, New York Westerners, Wallowa County, Wallowa County Museum
Alvin Josephy loved amateur historians. When I opened the Bookloft in Enterprise in 1976, he was still working full time at American Heritage in New York City, writing his big history books and newspaper and magazine articles in the midnight hours. He and his wife,...
