Bookstore Event: Betty Krawczyk at the Inn!
Happy Spring!
Please join us on Sunday, June 19th at 3pm for a very special event with Betty Krawczyk. This event will be at the Galiano Inn, and refreshments will be served. Betty has a fantastic presentation planned, and we're so thrilled to have her. We look forward to seeing you there!
Warmly,
Your friends at Galiano Island Books
76 Madrona Drive, Galiano Island
250-539-3340
1-877-795-2665
www.galianoislandbooks.com
A bit about Betty:
Betty Krawczyk immigrated to Canada at the height of the Viet Nam War in 1966 with a physicist husband and six disgruntled children. The children were annoyed at being uprooted and the husband was temporarily jobless. These problems righted themselves soon enough. One major problem did not. Born and raised in the southern United States, Krawczyk found she couldn’t tolerate the long winters of northern Ontario where her husband had found a teaching post. Eventually the family split up and Krawczyk moved to British Columbia where the rainforests were lush and the snow was sparse. Children grown, Krawczyk retired to the stunning beauty of the forests and waters of Clayoquot Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island to live in a rustic A-frame built by her son Mike. By the time she discovered Clayoquot Sound Betty Krawczyk was already an experienced writer. She studied Creative Writing through the University of Oklahoma and had written primarily for women’s pulp magazines. While she had also been active in human rights issues and women’s issues, Krawczyk yearned to write about the natural world. Instead, she found herself writing about the destruction of the natural world by international logging companies.
In 1993 Krawczyk joined a group called “Friends of Clayoquot Sound” that blockaded logging trucks going into the Sound. And Krawczyk found herself in prison for the first time. But it wasn’t the last. She was given three other more lengthy sentences for subsequent blockades and as this book goes to press is waiting to hear if the Supreme Court of Canada will hear her appeal on her last sentence for blocking at Eagleridge Bluffs in BC two years ago. “I am still on a blockade,” Krawczyk says when questioned.
“I will be on a blockade as long as the BC government and BC courts give out injunctions to every pillaging, polluting, privatizing international logging corporation that asks for one. These forests give life and breath to us all. It’s the ancient role of elders to be stewards of the land. I’m simply trying to do my job.” Her previous books include Clayoquot: The Sound of my Heart, Lock Me Up or Let Me Go and Open Living Confidential: From Inside the Joint.
