41. The United Church Observer > Archives: June 99 > Special > The Observer Wins 21 sharon butala One with the land. By Donna Sinclair. sharon butala haslived on a ranch in Saskatchewan for the past 22 years. http://www.ucobserver.org/archives/jul99_cvr2.htm

July-August COVER STORY Seeing is believing: three women writers with vision Sharon Butala: One with the land By Donna Sinclair Sharon Butala has lived on a ranch in Saskatchewan for the past 22 years. Her books, both fiction and non-fiction, powerfully evoke the spirit of the shortgrass prairie which is her home. Three years ago, she and her husband gave the ranch (where they continue to live) to The Nature Conservancy of Canada; it is now The Old Man On His Back Prairie and Heritage Preserve. The 59-year-old author of the best-selling The Perfection of the Morning , and most recently, The Garden of Eden , is a recent recipient of the prestigious Marion Engel award. Saskatchewan writer Sharon Butala: "The only way to know the land is to grow with it, to live with it, on its own terms

42. The United Church Observer > Archives: June 99 > Special > The Observer Wins 21 COVER STORY Seeing is believing three women writers with vision. sharon butalaAnne Lamott Annie Dillard. Read the related article featuring sharon butala. http://www.ucobserver.org/archives/jul99_cvr1.htm

July-August COVER STORY Seeing is believing: three women writers with vision Sharon Butala Anne Lamott Annie Dillard By Donna Sinclair It’s good to read outdoors with birdsong filling the spaces between the words. Good to have time to spin into the writer’s world, drifting in a hammock or lying on a sun-warmed dock. Especially with some recent books by three wise women. Sharon Butala, Anne Lamott and Annie Dillard are all seers, and they lay out what they have observed about humans and God and the world with precision and beauty. Anne Lamott's new book is Travelling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith (Pantheon). Read the related article featuring Sharon Butala You don’t want to rush this. It’s not because their words are difficult — although sometimes they are; these three don’t baby their readers, they respect them. But they think big thoughts: why we are born, why we hurt each other, why we love one another, what love looks like, how the land is precious and alive. What if we pray? What if we die? Butala’s novel

43. Recommended Texts For Women Writers butala, sharon. Wild Stone Heart An Apprentice in the Fields. Read it with sharonbutala's portrait of Saskatchewan in The Perfection of the Morning. http://www.sagaseminars.com/readlist.html

Butala, Sharon. Wild Stone Heart: An Apprentice in the Fields. Harper Collins, 2000. Boland, Evan. Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and The Poet in Our Time. Norton, 1995. Autobiography and argument by one of Ireland's best poets. Brossard, Nicole. The Aerial Letter. Trans. Marlene Wildeman, Toronto, The Women's Press, 1998. Canada's foremost Quebec writer. Read her with Adrienne Rich. Carson, Anne. Autobiography of Red: A novel in verse. Vintage, 1999. Cixous, Helene. Coming to Writing and Other Essays . Harvard, 1991. Heilbrun, Carolyn. Hamlet's Mother and Other Women. Ballantine, 1990. Writing a Woman's Life. Norton, 1988. (Heilbrun writes mystery under the name of Amanda Cross.) "There are four ways to write a woman's life: the woman herself may tell it, in what she chooses to call an autobiography; she may tell it in what she chooses to call fiction; a biographer, woman or man, may write the woman's life in what is called a biography; or the woman may write her own life in advance of living it, unconsciously, and without recognizing or naming the process." Holizer, Burghild Nina.

44. English Language Arts 6-9 Bibliography Harvest A Celebration of Harvest on the Canadian Prairies. (PrintNon-Fiction).butala, sharon and Korol, Todd. Fifth House Publishers (UTP), 1992. http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/curr_inst/iru/bibs/midela/t-dh.html

Titles and Descriptions - H Haiku: One Breath Poetry Hal Harvest: A Celebration of Harvest on the Canadian Prairies Hatchet Hawk and Stretch The Haymeadow Heads or Tails: Stories From the Sixth Grade Heart of a Champion Heath Middle Level Literature Series Heather, Come Back Heinemann Shakespeare Series Here She Is, Ms Teeny-Wonderful Hero of Lesser Causes Heroic Adventures Hiroshima His Banner Over Me Hitting the Mark: Assessment Tools for Teachers Hockey Night in Transcona Hockeybat Harris Holiday in the Woods Home and Homeland The Homecoming Honor Bound. Rev. ed. The Honorable Prison Horseshoes and Hand Grenades Hot News How Can a Frozen Detective Stay Hot on the Trail? How Come the Best Clues Are Always in the Garbage? How Porcupines Make Love III: Readers, Texts, Cultures in the Response-Based Literature Classroom How to Build a Long-Lasting Fire: Writing Poems From Your Life How to Fold a Paper Crane How to Tell the Difference: A Checklist for Evaluating Children's Books for Anti-Indian Bias How We Saw the World: Nine Native Stories of the Way Things Began Hunter in the Dark Haiku: One Breath Poetry (Print-Non-Fiction). Wakan, Naiomi. Pacific-Rim Publishers (PRSS), 1993. 71 p. ISBN 0-921358-18-0 ($14.95 pbk.).

45. English Language Arts 10 Bibliography: H Titles (PrintNon-Fiction). butala, sharon and Korol, Todd. Fifth HousePublishers (UTP), 1992. 121 p. ISBN 0-920079-95-4 ($14.95 hdc.). http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/curr_inst/iru/bibs/xela/t-dh.html

Titles and Descriptions - H H.G. Wells: The War of the Worlds Handbook for Writers. 3rd Canadian ed. Harvest: A Celebration of Harvest on the Canadian Prairies HBJ Shakespeare Series Heathen Injuns and Hollywood Gospel Heinemann Shakespeare Series Her Story II: Women From Canada's Past Her Story: Women From Canada's Past Heroic Adventures: Video Package Herstory: Women Who Changed the World Hidden Children The Hiding Place Hiding to Survive: Stories of Jewish Children Rescued From the Holocaust History of Canadian Literature The Hitch Hiker The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy Hitting the Mark: Assessment Tools for Teachers Home and Homeland A Home in Hastie Hollow: A Prairie Romance How Porcupines Make Love III: Readers, Texts, Cultures in the Response-Based Literature Classroom How to Build a Long-Lasting Fire: Writing Poems From Your Life H.G. Wells: The War of the Worlds In this video, film excerpts, computer animation, and original footage recreate Wells' dark world. Biographers discuss the novel and Wells' dysfunctional family, his beliefs, sexual activities, and battles with depression. Note: Teachers ar e advised to preview this video and select excerpts suited to their class needs.

46. Concordia's Thursday ReportNovember 5, 1998 sharon butala and the cowboys. sharon butala lives and writes abouta kind of life that's pretty foreign to most Concordia students. http://pr.concordia.ca/ctr/archives/is051198/art19.html

Please enable Java in your browser's "Options" (or "Preferance") menu to view this page Click here to select article About Concordia's Thursday Report Bright prospects for CFI projects CFI project aims to catch all the bugs Aboriginals will not be forever passive: Fontaine Tittler soaks up Yale experience The glamour and false simplicity of TV history Names in the News Report on protest incident released Commercialization of Concordia Letters War united us against evil forces Campaign closes in on goal New gifts enrich Concordia's Undergraduate Awards A poet for all seasons I Protagonisti tells the story of Italians Books, hot off the presses 25 years of publishing in our own backyard From the prairie to Japan, people are people Goldberg variations on an Afro-Caribbean theme Want to get your thesis published? Sharon Butala and the cowboys More books by Concordians Political Science for the real world Internships plunge students into the newsroom Setting up a Web site Celebrating Pauline Gross From the Stingers to the Sabres Winning varsity teams this season In Brief Of Note The BACK page Feedback Sharon Butala and the cowboys Sharon Butala lives and writes about a kind of life that's pretty foreign to most Concordia students. On a recent reading and talk to an English literature class, she took pains to explain to her young urban audience the macho world of working cowboys, and the intense loneliness that can make their women "go funny."

47. SCN :: Producer Information of Lake Superior. UPCOMING EPISODES. Feb 9, 1030 AM, Ben Gadd. Feb16, 1030 AM, sharon butala. Feb 23, 1030 AM, Peter Von Tiesenhausen. http://www.scn.sk.ca/bn/viewshow.php?pid=792&eid=9540

48. Tony Butala Biography Tony butala, founder of The Lettermen, has been on stage performing and entertainingall of at the age of four at home with his family in sharon, Pennsylvania. http://www.thelettermen.com/bios/butala.htm

"One Voice" - A biography of Tony Butala "The Lettermen" - The classic vocal group of the sixties, seventies, and eighties, are still on the road with a fabulous show playing to audiences all over the world. For 40 years, "one voice" has persevered without interruption. Tony Butala, founder of The Lettermen, has been on stage performing and entertaining all of these years with trademark, close harmony love ballads. Tony began singing at the age of four at home with his family in Sharon, Pennsylvania. By the age of eight, he was a regular on KDKA Radio, Pittsburgh. Young Tony became known as a singer of the songs of the famous Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor and other entertainers of the vaudeville era. For the next few years, he performed his song-and-dance act professionally for service organizations as well as private dinner parties and nightclubs, building his popularity throughout Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York. The Butala family relocated to sunny California after 10-year-old Tony auditioned and was chosen out of hundreds of other boys to beome a member of the world-renowned Mitchell Boys Choir of Hollywood. Tony appeared with the Mitchell Boys Choir in some of the biggest hit movies of the 50's - On Moonlight Bay with Doris Day and Gordon MacRae in 1951, War of the Worlds with Ann Robinson and Gene Barry in 1953, and White Christmas with Rosemary Clooney, Danny Kaye and Bing Crosby in 1954. Tony was the singing voice of child actor Tommy Rettig on the Lassie TV series, and in the feature movie, The Five Thousand Fingers of Doctor T (1952) with Hans Conried, Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healey. He also did the voices of several cartoon characters in the first color television commercials for "Sugar Krisp" and "Krinkles" breakfast cereals as well as the voices of "The Lost Boys" in the hit Walt Disney movie, Peter Pan in 1952. While attending Hollywood Professional High School, Tony formed and performed with his first vocal group, "The Fourmost," from 1954 through 1956 which consisted of classmate Connie Stevens and friends from the Mitchell Boys Choir, Jimmie Blaine and Dan Witt. In 1957 Connie left the group to pursue her movie career leaving Tony and the other two singers to "make it" without her.

49. Sharon Wild only of the milliondollar reward until the consul general Shared Vision June 2000Wild Stone Heart Wild Stone Heart an interview with sharon butala By Jeffrey http://www.mykristi.org/travel-caribbean.htm

50. Canadian Literature: Review sharon butala. In Wild Stone Heart, sharon butala continues the spiritual questshe represented in her 1994 bestseller, Perfection of the Morning. http://www.canlit.ca/reviews/unassigned/4256_lousely.html

"Spirit and Land " Sharon Butala. Wild Stone Heart: An Apprentice in the Fields. Harper Collins $28.00 Reviewed by Cheryl Lousley In Wild Stone Heart, Sharon Butala continues the spiritual quest she represented in her 1994 best-seller, Perfection of the Morning. Like Perfection, Wild Stone Heart Wild Stone Heart people Perfection of the Morning, and now to Amerindian cultures in Wild Stone Heart. This shift is explained in Wild Stone Heart: Back to Current Reviews

51. Canadian Literature: Current Reviews Wild Stone Heart An Apprentice in the Fields, butala, sharon. WildWest Women Travellers, Adventurers and Rebels, Neering, Rosemary. http://www.canlit.ca/reviews/t8.html

Upcoming Book Reviews: U-W Title Author U Ukrainian Wedding, The Warwaruk, Larry Ultimate Voyage: A Book of Five Mariners Gilkerson, William Uncharted Heart, The Hardy, Melissa Understanding Children's Literature Hunt, Peter (Ed.) Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as Feminist Space Alaimo, Stacy Unless Shields, Carol Unseen Dimensions: Musings on Art and Life Koerner, John Unvarnished Truth: Personal Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America, The Fabian, Ann V Very Heaven Lambert, Ann Carducci, Lisa Vintage 1999: League of Canadian Poets League of Canadian Poets, The Vintage 2000 League of Canadian Poets, The Day, David (Ed.) Visions of Canada Approaching the Millennium Gil, Eulalia C. Pi–ero and ’ –igo, Pilar Somacarrera (Eds.) Vital Signs: New Women Writers in Canada Schoemperlen, Diane (Ed.)

52. Our Shared Home: 23879. References. butala, sharon. 1994. Perfection of the Morning.Toronto Harper Collins. Dalibard, Jacques. October/November 1984. http://trumpeter.athabascau.ca/content.back/v14.2/lousley.html

An Écomusée Initiative Trumpeter (1997) ISSN: 0832-6193 Our Shared Home: An Écomusée Initiative Cheryl Lousley McMaster University I am currently working on a Masters of Arts at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), learning a new city neighborhood in the big move to Toronto. My other recent projects include working with secondary school students in Hamilton-Wentworth as coordinator of the Young Citizens for a Sustainable Future program and preparation for a summer volunteer experience in Botswana with Canadian Crossroads International. This initiative is directed by a small group of historians, teachers, and naturalists brought together by outdoor recreation coordinator Wayne Terryberry in 1994. The group was interested in celebrating the local, whether it be local history, cultural activities, or natural areas, and to do this actively by getting out and touching the community! Perfection of the Morning: The world is more wonderful than any of us have dared to guess, as all great poets have been telling us since the invention of poetry. To discover these truths, we don't need to scale Mount Everest or white water raft the Colorado or take up skydiving. We need only go for walks. (Butala p.65) For more information contact: Wayne Terryberry, Department of Recreation, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4K1, (905) 525-9140 ex. 23879.

53. Donnez L'herbe Que Vous Aimez Translate this page Patchen Barss. « Il aimait son herbe ! » Mme sharon butala parle del'amour de son mari pour la prairie naturelle qui couvrait sa terre. http://www.agr.gc.ca/cb/news/2003/n30124cf.html

agro-reportage Agriculture et Agroaliamentaire Canada Donnez l'herbe que vous aimez Patchen Barss « Il aimait son herbe ! » Mme Sharon Butala parle de l'amour de son mari pour la prairie naturelle qui couvrait sa terre. « Au fil des années, il a commencé à s'en soucier tellement, qu'il lui fallait trouver une façon d'économiser suffisamment pour prendre sa retraite sans simplement vendre la terre à un agriculteur qui l'aurait labourée. Il voulait sauver son herbe, explique Mme Butala. Grâce à la Société canadienne pour la conservation de la nature (SCCN), il a réalisé ce rêve. » Organisation de charité dont le mandat précis est de collaborer avec les propriétaires fonciers privés pour préserver l'habitat naturel, la SCCN a versé aux Butala suffisamment d'argent pour leur retraite. Désormais, elle peut conserver l'une des plus vastes étendues d'un seul tenant de la prairie naturelle canadienne. Les Butala n'ont pas seulement bien agi. On leur a également décerné un prix Paysage agricole canadien pour leur générosité. En février 2000, le Fonds canadien d'adaptation et de développement rural (FCADR) d'Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada (AAC) a consacré 600 000 dollars sur quatre ans au programme de reconnaissance Paysage agricole canadien, assorti d'un prix du même nom. Par ce programme, Habitat faunique Canada, en collaboration avec la Fédération canadienne de l'agriculture, honore les agriculteurs et les éleveurs de tout le Canada pour leurs efforts exemplaires dans l'intendance de l'environnement. On récompense ainsi les propriétaires fonciers qui conservent l'habitat faunique, plantent des arbres ou des végétaux qui procurent nourriture et abri à la faune, installent des nichoirs sur leurs propriétés ou, par d'autres moyens, trouvent le juste milieu entre l'agriculture profitable et l'aménagement durable des ressources.

54. If You Love Your Grass, Then Give It Away By Patchen Barss. He loved his grass, sharon butala says of her husband'sdevotion to the native prairie grass covering his land. http://www.agr.gc.ca/cb/news/2003/n30124ce.html

agri-feature Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada If you love your grass, then give it away By Patchen Barss "He loved his grass," Sharon Butala says of her husband's devotion to the native prairie grass covering his land. "Over the years he began to care so much about the grass that he had to find a way to put together enough money so that we could retire without simply selling to a farmer who would plough it up. He wanted to save his grass," Mrs. Butala says. "The Nature Conservancy of Canada was the answer to that dream." The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC), a charity organization with a specific mandate to work with private landowners to preserve natural habitat, paid the Butalas just enough money to retire. And it can now conserve one of the largest single tracts of native prairie grass in Canada. Aside from doing the right thing, the Butalas were also gratified recently to receive a Countryside Canada award for their generosity. In February 2000, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's (AAFC) Canadian Adaptation and Rural Development (CARD) Fund invested $600,000, over four years, into the Countryside Canada Recognition and Award Program. The program honours farmers and ranchers across Canada for their exemplary environmental stewardship efforts. These awards are administered by Wildlife Habitat Canada in collaboration with the Canadian Federation of Agriculture. They are given to landowners who conserve wildlife habitat, plant trees or crops that provide food and shelter for wildlife, install bird-nesting structures on their property, or otherwise strike a balance between profitable agriculture and sustainable resource management.

55. Canadian Authors Bowering, George Canadian historical fiction based mostly in the West.butala, sharon Vivid stories of the lives of ordinary women. http://library.portmoody.ca/Resources/Recommendations/Canadian Authors.htm

Catalogue Access Resources Computers Using the Library ... Kids' Site You are here: HOME Resources Recommendations Canadian Authors ... Small Business Canadian Authors Table of Contents Contemporary Fiction Mystery Classic Favourites Contemporary Fiction Atwood, Margaret Canada's most famous poet and novelist. Bantock, Nick Author of e and other unique "pop-up" books Beresford-Howe Constance Novels of contemporary women. Bowering, George Canadian historical fiction based mostly in the West. Butala, Sharon Vivid stories of the lives of ordinary women. Cameron, Anne Stories of compassion and tolerance. Carrier, Roch Popular Quebec author of books for children and adults. Cohen, Matt Fiction about love, death and time. Coupland, Douglas Vancouver writer of Generation X. Findley, Timothy Award winning author of novels of wisdom and despair. Fraser, Sylvia Novels about exploitive relationships between men and women. Gedge, Pauline Historical fiction of ancient times and peoples. Hebert, Anne One of Quebec's best, known for her haunting novels. Hodgins, Jack

56. World Literacy Of Canada - Kama Coast To Coast 2002 Organized by the Lethbridge Reading Association, Subtitles featured awardwinningSaskatchewan author sharon butala, whose writing uses the shortgrass prairie http://www.worldlit.ca/kamaC2C_lethbridge.html

About WLC WLC Programs Learning About Literacy The Kama Reading Series ... Shop at WLC World Literacy of Canada Kama Coast to Coast 2002 Celebrating Literacy Coast to Coast Subtitles Back to list Lethbridge, Alberta ~ September 25 . 2002 Subtitles, Lethbridge's first annual reading festival, was launched on September 25th at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery. Organized by the Lethbridge Reading Association, Subtitles featured award-winning Saskatchewan author Sharon Butala, whose writing uses the shortgrass prairie as her setting and for her subject the lives of the agricultural people among whom she lives. Guests were welcomed by Bob Tarleck, Mayor of Lethbridge and long-standing literacy advocate. Sharon Butala signs books for the crowd at Subtitles, Lethbridge's first annual reading festival. Award-winning author Sharon Butala reads from her best-selling books.

57. Sidekick: Adventures Of A Library Card - The Garden Of Eden sharon butala The Garden of Eden. I discovered sharon butala on the ChaptersWebsite. sharon butala. The Garden of Eden. Toronto HarperCollins, 1998. http://www.sidekickmagazine.com/nov99/books.html

Header("books"); SideBar1("article"); SideBar2("article"); Sharon Butala: The Garden of Eden I discovered Sharon Butala on the Chapters Website . I spend a lot of time cruising that site: spending money, perusing the Bestsellers list, prize nominees, reader reviews, and discovering writers that have never crossed my path before. I stumbled upon Sharon Butala in the Canadian authors section and took the plunge. After reading The Garden of Eden I was happy to have finally discovered her, and also quite dismayed that I hadn't found her sooner. This is not Butala's first work. She has written several novels and short story collections I'm sure I'll be visiting Chapters.ca sometime soon, to see what else she has written that I can spend my money on. Butala tells the tale of two women: farmer's wife Iris and her niece Lannie. Iris grew up on her father's farm in Saskatchewan and now farms it with her husband Barney. Her niece Lannie, who Iris and Barney raised since she was a little girl, has disappeared. Running away from her troubles ten years earlier, Lannie leaves the farm and hasn't been seen since. She is heard from very rarely and Iris, although she misses Lannie and wonders periodically where she is, is not prompted to find her until Barney dies suddenly. After Barney dies, Iris's own troubles magnify: how will she run the farm by herself? Should she sell to the big corporation that is offering to buy up all the land in the area? Why did Barney live the last year of his life at his ranch all by himself? Why is her father-in-law blaming her for Barney's unhappiness? In her confusion and mourning, Iris decides now is the right time to try to find Lannie. Iris claims she now needs to find Lannie simply so she can advise her of her uncle's death. But she can't fool me, I know she is just running away from her fears and doubts just like Lannie did ten years ago.

58. The Globe And Mail - Entertainment sharon's stones. 'Everything on Earth is enspirited. . . . And stones, of allthings, are the most mysterious.' Cecily Ross talks with sharon butala. http://www.globebooks.com/interviews/sharonbutala.html

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59. FFWD Weekly - September 21st, 2000 Books by Trevor Klassen Interview with sharon butala. Things are not what theyseem. So goes the lesson offered by bestselling author sharon butala. http://www.greatwest.ca/ffwd/Issues/2000/0921/book1.htm

FFWD Weekly Books by Trevor Klassen Interview with Sharon Butala Things are not what they seem. So goes the lesson offered by best-selling author Sharon Butala. Her latest book, a companion piece to the prize-winning The Perfection of the Morning , is Wild Stone Heart , an account of her personal, mystical experiences in a field she owned with her husband. Butala is not one for cityscapes and concrete. She prefers the silence and solitude of the field to the distracting quick pace of urban living. To her the field was Spirit, was land sacred to First Nations people. In it she found burial grounds, a connection to history and prehistory, and being relatively undisturbed, it was the place she had many visions. It was her link to the mythical. "Land uncentres oneself, and you can concentrate on listening, rather than worrying about the mundane. The land gave me a subject I wouldn't have found on my own – the greater reality of myth," she muses. "I cannot explain with great specificity of my visions. I can't tell you exactly what they mean," she says, her soft, hoarse voice quivering. "But I know what I saw, and I continue to work out its meaning." Butala is now working on her third collection of short stories, and is preparing for several upcoming literary events. She is busy these days, and goes to the field less often than she once did, but it still fulfills her needs.

60. Music Feature Winner, who lives in sharon, is investing the $ 1 million it will take to makethose buildings usable and open the museum. butala grew up in sharon. http://www.post-gazette.com/soundscene/pages/20010511vogues06.asp

Sunday Mar 23, 2003 Music Feature Vocal Group Hall of Fame to be built in Sharon Friday, January 12, 1996 By Henry Cutter, The Associated Press Gray-haired men holding mementoes like old records, yellowed tuxedo shirts and ornate cufflinks gathered at a hotel outside this small town to receive recognition for the decades they spent touring the country and singing harmony. Groups like The Lettermen, The Four Freshmen and The Vogues are likely inductees in the Vocal Group Hall of Fame. Tony Butala, an original member of The Lettermen, announced yesterday that the Hall of Fame would open within a year. "I just celebrated a birthday yesterday 54 years old and I couldn't think of a better present than this," said Chuck Blasko, who has been singing with The Vogues since he was a 17-year-old high school student in the late 1950s. Like many of those who attended yesterday's announcement, Blasko is the only original member of his band still performing. The others, he said, couldn't stand the constant travel that making a living with the group required. They quit and went into engineering, advertising and the home improvement business. One of seven former members of The Lettermen now gives inspirational talks for the Mormon church, while another is an avocado farmer and a third acts in soap operas.

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