May 29th, 2006
Ties & Tales Book Cover Design
In 1997, at the age of 93, my grandmother — Reva Patrick Coon — asked me to design the cover for her first book.
Ties & Tales is her personal story of Dunsmuir, California — the place she’s called home since the early 1920’s. While much of the content focuses on our family, the book also provides interesting context to mainstream American history.
Tags: America, artsy fartsy, book cover, California, design, Dunsmuir, experience design, family, history, personal, portfolio, Reva Patrick Coon.
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Wow, I hadn’t seen that before. Beautiful work.
thanks, d.
if you ever want to get away somewhere new for a weekend, just head 5hrs north to dunsmuir. between the sacramento river, mount shasta, castle crag, shasta lake… it’s simply beautiful.
a quaint, old railroad town in the middle of the forests of northern california…
Is this DeWitt Clinton related to the DeWitt Clinton who was Governor of New York State in the early 1800’s? Gerry use to know a DeWitt Clinton in MA.
Aunt Carol
well, dewitt is in his early thirties and is originally from MA. maybe gerry knows his father? i’ll email dewitt and have him post a reply here.
my family is from dunsmmuir and my grandmother would love to read this book? we can’t find it can you tell me where i can buy it?
hi sarah.
the brown trout used to sell it, so if they’re still open, i’d check there. it was also sold in mt. shasta tourist stores for a while, but that was more than a few years ago, so i’m not sure…
i’ll probably publish it to lulu.com at some point in the future, so if you can’t find it, be sure to come back and hound me to get it up there for one-off prints.