Barry Lopez was born in 1945 in Port Chester, New York. He grew up in Southern California and New York City and attended college in the Midwest before moving to Oregon, where he has lived since 1968. He is an essayist, author, and short-story writer, and has traveled extensively in remote and populated parts of the world. He is the author of Arctic Dreams,. For which he received the National Book Award; Of Wolves and Men,. His essays are collected in two books, Crossing Open Ground.

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Author, songwriter, poet, and performer. Oh, The Places he Did Go. Barry Louis Polisar is an author, songwriter, poet, and story-teller for children who also writes songs and books for adults. He performs his songs on two different Grammy Award-winning albums and sings his song All I Want is You. In the opening credits of the Academy Award winning movie Juno.

Wednesday, October 21, 2015. Jackson Kayak Irish Whitewater Race League. This past season we managed to fit in six races with postponements, cancellations, too little water and sometimes too much water! With the fickle nature of Irish paddling we will probably never have a year where we get every race in, but when are we ever happy about the amount of boating we get done! With the number of solid races, organisers and sponsors involved, we will always have a base for the whitewater community in Ireland.

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