In Memory of Barry Lopez

from The Detour · host Oregon Humanities

This episode is dedicated to writer Barry Lopez, author of numerous books on travel, landscape, animals, and humanity and a longtime Oregon resident. Lopez passed away in December 2020, just three months after losing a significant portion of his property on the McKenzie River to the Holiday Farm Fire. We’ll listen to a conversation with Lopez from 2015 and hear from Debra Gwartney, Lopez's wife, reading from her essay "Fire and Ice," originally published in Granta, about Lopez's life and final days.

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