Reva Patrick Coon: It’s Me at connecting*the*dots

May 24th, 2006

Reva Patrick Coon: It’s Me

Three years in the making, G’ma’s memoirs are finally ready for the printer. And after a few attempts, I finally finished the book jacket this past weekend.

Now I’ve got to give her a call and ask permission to release the book as a blog…

UPDATE: I received the sweetest voice-mail message from G’ma today. I think she likes the book cover. ;-)

UPDATE II: G’ma gave me her blessings to publish her memoirs as a blog. The book is over 200 pages long, so I’ll probably convert each of her chapters into separate posts. Here’s a sample from chapter 1:

1 .. IN THE GARDEN

In 1732, the first of the Patrickâ€™s left North Antrim, Ireland, and sailed to the United States where they settled in Kentucky, later moving to Indiana where they became grain farmers.

The McKinneyâ€™s, Irish with just a wee bit of Scotch (for flavouring, no doubt) emigrated to Minnesota and later Wisconsin.

My father, Thomas McVey Patrick, curly brown hair and snappy blue eyes, was an adventurer. He forsook the security of the rich farm life in Indiana at age twenty. Mounting his horse and taking only his knapsack, revolver and a very few good supplies, he waved farewell to his family and rode off. After six or seven months he arrived in Seattle, Washington.

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9 Responses to “Reva Patrick Coon: It’s Me”

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1 lil coon May 24th, 2006 at 8:30 am

I love it… I know she would too.
2 Sean Coon May 24th, 2006 at 11:16 am

cool. thanks, bro’.
3 Tony Herrera May 25th, 2006 at 3:51 am

Wow! This is so cool. I totally dig the b/w fotos on the back cover.

It is passages like these that I so admire, “He forsook the security of the rich farm life in Indiana at age twenty. Mounting his horse and taking only his knapsack, revolver and a very few good supplies, he waved farewell…”

Looking forward to reading much more in the chapters to come.

Regards,

Tony Herrera
4 Brad Sage Nov 10th, 2006 at 3:24 pm

Hi Sean………My wife, Diana, and I visited Reva at the care center on 5 September. She looked great and we had a long chat, as you might well suppose! I first met Reva in 1940 in Dunsmuir. More recently(!)I had the pleasure of being asked by Alice Jane to be a photographer at Reva’s 100th.

I was just looking through Reva’s “Ties & Tales” and “Recipe For…” and recalled that she had mentioned “It’s Me”. Has this been published as yet? We would certainly like a copy , if so!

Regards to all……….Bradley(Brad)Sage/Pleasant Hill CA (Bradley, after Frank Bradley Van Fossen, the father of Elinore, who first introduced Reva and “Bones”)
5 sean coon Nov 10th, 2006 at 3:39 pm

thanks so much for dropping on by, brad. it’s always great to hear from family friends.

regarding the book: we didn’t have enough money to produce a large-scale run, so we ended up only running off enough copies for extended family and a small number of friends… but i do plan on creating an “it’s me” blog — hopefully sooner than later. i might even add a feature for people to order one-off prints from the website through an online printer.

so stay tuned!

(btw, you might enjoy these videos of reva as well)
6 lil coon Nov 10th, 2006 at 11:53 pm

Brad,

Have you seen her documentary I put together. Check it out here.