And another book he printed was SCIPIO, INDIANA: THREADS FROM THE PAST by Margaret Read MacDonald which has little tidbits of my great grandfather John WAUGHTEL and other members of my ancestry. Antoinette waughtel@oz.net http://www.fortunecity.com/millenium/savannah/252/homepage.htm John Wm Sloniker wrote: > Sorry I forgot to pass this on while fresh. -- jws > > Small-press publisher tops Governor's Writers Award list > http://www.seattletimes.com/news/entertainment/html98/govs_090198.html > > by Donn Fry <dfry-new@seatimes.com> > Seattle Times book editor > > Posted at 06:13 a.m. PDT; Tuesday, September 1, 1998 > > An 86-year-old small-press publisher who has kept alive the history of > the Pacific Northwest through more than 60 years and 600 books heads the > list of winners of the 1998 Governor's Writers Awards. > > Glen C. Adams has managed to do that while battling multiple sclerosis > for more than half a century - the last 16 years from a wheelchair. > > "Well, I feel pretty flattered," Adams said of winning the Nancy > Blankenship Pryor Award, a career-achievement honor for contributions to > the literary culture of Washington state. "I knew Nancy Pryor, and she > was sufficiently interested to stop by twice over the years and see what > I was doing." > > A longtime librarian at the State Library in Olympia, Pryor was > founder and developer of of the Washington/Northwest Room and the > Washington authors' collection, and in 1966 she helped create the > Governor's Writers Awards. She died in 1991, and the career award was > named in her memory in 1992. > > Ten other Washington residents were named winners of the 32nd annual > Governor's Writers Awards, which were announced today in Olympia by the > co-sponsoring Washington State Library and the Washington Commission for > the Humanities. Chosen from among the authors of more than 400 books > published by Washington state writers during 1997, the winning writers > are: > > -- Peter Bacho of Seattle for "Dark Blue Suit and Other Stories" > (University of Washington Press), a short-story collection about > Seattle's Filipino immigrant community. > > -- Bruce Barcott, a writer and editor for Seattle Weekly, for his > book, "The Measure of a Mountain: Beauty and Terror on Mount > Rainier" (Sasquatch). > > -- Teresa Bateman of Tacoma for "The Ring of Truth: An Original > Irish Tale" (Holiday House). > > -- Linda Bierds, a poet who teaches at the University of Washington, > for her collection, "The Profile Makers: Poems" (Henry Holt). > > -- Chief Lelooska, who died in 1996, an expert on Northwest Coast > Indian art from Ariel, Cowlitz County, for "Echoes of the Elders: > The Stories and Paintings of Chief Lelooska" (DK Ink). > > -- George B. Dyson of Bellingham for "Darwin Among the Machines: The > Evolution of Global Intelligence" (Addison-Wesley). > > -- Edward J. Larson, a University of Georgia historian who also lives > at Stanwood, for his Pulitzer Prize-winning study, "Summer for the > Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over > Science and Religion" (Basic Books). > > -- Nancy Rawles, the Seattle author of the novel "Love Like Gumbo" > (Fjord Press). > > -- Shelby Scates, a Seattle journalist, for his biographical study, > "Warren G. Magnuson and the Making of the Twentieth Century" > (University of Washington Press). > > -- J. William T. Youngs, an Eastern Washington University historian > and author of "The Fair and the Falls: Spokane's Expo '74: > Transforming an American Environment" (Eastern Washington > University Press). > > The awards will be presented Oct. 25 during the annual Northwest > Bookfest at Pier 48 on the Seattle waterfront. The noon ceremony will > feature readings and comments from most of the winners, though Adams said > his infirmities will likely keep him home. > > Adams operates Ye Galleon Press in Fairfield, a Spokane County > community where he also farmed for a number of years. The press publishes > a combination of reprints and original works that chronicle Pacific > Northwest history. Just yesterday, Adams was binding a new paperback > edition of "Fire Lookouts of the Northwest," a history of lookout > stations in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana by Ray Kresek, a > retired firefighter who lives in Spokane. > > Adams has been at it since 1937, when he founded the press while still > a student at Eastern Washington University. He began by handsetting type > and printing his books on an old letterpress machine. > > "That's for the birds now," he said. "We do everything almost > exclusively by offset press, after setting it by computer." > > Adams was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis 51 years ago, he said, and > has never had a remission - "just a slow, steady, progressive paralysis." > Though he began using the wheelchair in 1982, he still helps care for his > wife, Jean, who has been an invalid for a number of years. > > "I'm still working five days a week and still getting out books," he > said. "I'm into this up to my ears." > > The largest market for Ye Galleon Press books is university and > college libraries, Adams said, noting that in addition to the U.S. > Library of Congress, his books are included in the national libraries > of Canada, Spain, New Zealand and Australia, as well as the Vatican. > > "I think the standing order I'm most proud of," he added, "is Yale > University." The Ivy League school's library has a contract to receive > every book that Adams publishes - which now total 676, though that figure > includes separate hardcover and paperback editions of some titles. > > The veteran publisher is not without other honors. In 1990, he was > awarded an honorary doctorate by Spokane's Gonzaga University, and the > previous year he was one of the original inductees into the Washington > State Historical Society's Centennial Hall of Honor. > > Despite Ye Galleon Press' importance to historians, librarians and > universities, Adams admitted that his little company typically runs at > a loss. > > "We've been in the black three times, but usually it's a sad story," > he said. "But I love making books, and at my age, I might as well keep > on doing it." > > E-mail Comments to Editor : Comments@seatimes.com > > The Seattle Times home page > http://www.seattletimes.com/ > > Seattle Times: Table of Content > http://www.seattletimes.com/news/ > > The Seattle Times: Search Archive > http://www.seattletimes.com/extra/search.html > > The Seattle Times: Browse by date > http://www.seattletimes.com/todaysnews/browse.html > > Permission requests and information > http://www/seatimes.com/general/info.html > > Copyright (c) 1998 The Seattle Times Company > http://www.seattletimes.com/news/general/copyright.html