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It begins with simple curiosity—a tiny book in the Enterprise City Library titled The Train Comes To Wallowa County: A Brief History. It’s published by Bear Creek Press, which claims on the [...]

I went looking for the past this weekend, walking the old steel rails through downtown Enterprise, where in 1908 the first steam engine visited the valley. By 1966, most depots that residents had [...]

No lesson plan is necessary to describe the smiles on these faces. No detailed outline, no footnotes. Just the true picture of success. Here, a Joseph High School senior has just successfully [...]

I’m finding it a little challenging to orient to Enterprise. This is probably due to the fact that I’m still teaching in Joseph and, unfortunately, still cannot go on walks (doctor’s orders) [...]

This week I started an email discussion amongst a handful of Pacific University MFA alumns. The question posed was this: What successful classroom activities have you used to help make revision [...]

It seems appropriate to begin my explorations of Enterprise with what was here before. That is, before the Court House was built and before the Wallowa Chieftan set up shop and before—as I’ve [...]

First things first, what is a fishtrap, anyway? We can thank Rich Wandschneider in Wallowa County: People, Places, Images for the following explanation: “To the Nez Perce people who lived here, a [...]

After almost three weeks at Wallowa Lake in Joseph, yesterday I moved 8 miles down the valley to Enterprise (population 2,000…the biggest town in a hour’s drive or so). Fishtrap headquarters are [...]

I’m beat tonight…long story. For now, please accept the following: Public Reading by Katey Schultz @ Fishtrap Coffin House This Sunday, February 6 @ 1pm in Enterprise, Oregon (Come [...]

Good news, folks: The new issue of Calyx hit the stands this week and it includes my short story, “My Father Calls me Pequeña.” This Oregon-based, nationally known publication has been around for [...]