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Arena
Scrapbook People ask where I get my ideas. As with all authors, mine come from things I've experienced in my life, either directly or indirectly through reading, movies or things others have told me. Sometimes places or events surface that I think are completely original, only to discover later that I actually experienced them somewhere before. It was a real shock to be walking down the upper switchbacks of the Grand Canyon’s Bright Angel Trail some twenty years after the first time I'd done it and come to a spot that was "straight out of Arena." Until then, I thought I'd made it up completely. |
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University of Arizona, looking northeast
toward the Modern Languages and Psychology buildings. |
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of Skyway: 1974 by Werner W. Weiss. |
When I wrote Arena I was drawing on my own memories (pleasant ones,
actually) of the Skyway. When I discovered
just this year that it ceased to exist at Disneyland back in 1994, I was
shocked. And saddened. It was a great ride. There's a fun site by Werner
Weiss called Yesterland, which covers all the old rides at Disneyland,
including the Skyway, and you can link to it here
if you want to know more. |
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Years before Lake Powell could bring sight-seers to the foot of Rainbow
Bridge, I visited this famous site via the back way in: a 28 mile backpacking
trip through a maze of hair-pinning, red-walled canyons that obviously made a
big impression on me. |
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This is a photo of my husband and I on our "hike the Grand Canyon in
a day" trip twenty years ago, most likely the time I first saw the image
later translated into Arena. We went down the Kaibab and up the Bright
Angel, all in one day. I have never been so SORE or so exhausted in my life
and I hobbled around for days afterward doing the "Grand Canyon
Shuffle." |
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George Winston's December is a great CD of piano music, especially
for the winter-time. It is special to me because I love the 9th
track on it, "Variations on the Kanon" by Pachelbel. Every time I
hear it I imagine Pierce playing it for Callie after they have returned home. |
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This is me, walking through the high country of Colorado, near the
Highland Mary Lakes. |
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This not so great photograph is of a painting some readers may recognize.
I went through the same problems with it as Callie did (though I didn't get to
take a year off in the Arena while I did it) and barely finished in time to
deliver it to a local Watercolor Guild show. I was astounded when it won
first place and quickly sold. A nice surprise, but the result was that I
never got a better picture. |
Globe
Mallow by Karen Hancock |
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