Fishtrap Fireside
March is Women’s History Month and each year, Fishtrap Fireside takes that opportunity to celebrate three generations of local women storytellers. For 2025 they are longtime Fishtrap friends Nodya Papineau, Janis Carper, and Kathy Hunter.
Janis Carper
Janis Carper was raised in rural eastern Washington state, spent a dozen years in Seattle and eventually found her home in Wallowa County in 2001. She’s worked at Fishtrap for 20 years, and has also spent those 20 years helping grow and nurture our music community through her work as director of the Wallowa Valley Music Alliance. As an artist and musician, she has always had a knack for songwriting, and is now exploring other forms of expression through the written word. When not making art or music, she loves spending her free time romping through the woods with her big brown dog. [janiscarper.com]
Kathy Hunter
An award-winning journalist, Kathy Hunter spent 23 years in Alaska writing for newspapers and magazines, editing Alaska Today magazine, and teaching. Her fondest memories of Alaska include feature writing for The Kodiak Fishwrapper and Litter Box Liner. Since “retiring” to Wallowa County she has won many hearts as a performer, an author of children’s books, and as the creator of whimsical clay sculptures.
Nodya Papineau
Nodya Papineau is a 25-year-old, 5th generation Wallowa Countian presently living in Lostine with her two daughters, Clover and Ivy; two cats, Beelz and Ruby; and her partner of seven years, Franklin, whom she met at the 2017 Summer Fishtrap Gathering of Writers. Nodya has been writing for as long as she can remember. Poetry and fantasy, in particular, fuel her soul. She was elected to the Fishtrap board of directors in 2023, the same year she earned her Bachelor’s in English at EOU. Nodya has spent much of her adult life teaching literacy to Wallowa County youth both as a paraeducator at Wallowa Middle School and through facilitating various after school programs for elementary, middle, and high school-aged students. Nodya can often be found in her kitchen experimenting with sourdough, gardening, kayaking, hiking through the Eagle Cap terrain, or galavanting through the many lands her backyard can become; slaying dragons, sailing the seas, brewing magic potions, and experiencing the beauty of childhood all over again through the eyes and imaginations of her own daughters.
Date and Time
Friday Mar 7, 2025
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM PST
Friday, March 7th, 2025
7:00pm
Location
107 W. Main Street – Enterprise
Fees/Admission
Admission is free although donations are always welcome.
Website
Printed courtesy of www.wallowacountychamber.com/ – Contact the Wallowa County Chamber of Commerce for more information.
101 W Main Street / PO Box 427, Enterprise, OR 97828 – (541) 426-4622 – info@wallowacounty.org