Ira White
- Location
- Pendleton, Oregon, USA
- Birthday
- September 15
- Bio
- I was born in California in the '50's. I have worked in a number of jobs from field worker to teacher. I currently am retired.
During the sixties, I was considered to be a radical. I wrote for my college newspaper and helped organize and lead the antiwar movement on campus. Over the years I have written off and on both fiction and nonfiction. My most recent book is "Enchanted Shores," a book of short stories and poetry based on the ocean with a folk tale sort of delivery. I also have published, "Tennessee Tears," a book I worked on with a close friend that tells about his search for his family and how he was one of the last babies at the Tennessee Childres's Home Society which was selling children.
I'd rather be fishing, but my conscience won't let me.
MY RECENT POSTS
- The Bomb Blast that Was-The
Reporting that Wasn't
October 31, 2011 08:22PM - Conflict and Bomb Blast At
#Occupy Salem, OR
October 26, 2011 12:50PM - United We Stand
October 03, 2011 10:42AM - Theft of Our Country
October 01, 2011 12:32PM - Toad Hall Part 5: Broke Down
January 18, 2011 07:05PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Unfortunately, life is
full of surprises and not all
of them
are pleasant. I'm
so…”
March 11, 2012 05:41PM - “Great post! And they
said Occupy was dead! Keep on
protesting
until we get what
w…”
March 11, 2012 05:35PM - “I can really relate to
this. Nice job!”
March 02, 2012 03:34PM - “Thank you Karen. If I
were to speculate, I might
think that
the bomb was thrown
b…”
November 01, 2011 10:14PM - “Mr. TheBadScot,
Did
you actually read the article?
If you had you would
note
that…”
November 01, 2011 09:31PM
Ira White's Links
Last week I reported that there was a bomb blast at #Occupy Salem Oregon. An hour after putting up my post, I decided that this should have been covered by local media so I searched out the local newspapers. I found three references to the e… Read full post »
Around 2:30 yesterday, a bomb was thrown from a car into Wilson Park which is now occupied by several demonstrators. The bomb apparently was thrown into an area where there were no people. No one was hurt but it did cause a stir among the Occupy Salem group. At this time… Read full post »
United We Stand
For years the process of division has gone on in this country. We have become divided in so many ways. Workers were told that environmentalists were going to take their jobs without regard to the fact that an organism needs clean air, water and food to survive and without noting that… Read full post »
Theft of Our Country
We are in the midst of a revolution whether you like it or not. If you have your senses about you, then you are hoping that it succeeds. If not, you must be one of the 1% or have been deluded into thinking that they will "take care" of you with… Read full post »
Toad Hall Part 5: Broke Down
Gandalf and Holly moved to St. Johnsbury while I hitched back to the West Coast to get together some money and essentials to load into my VW bus and bring back to Vermont. I did not want to be unprepared for the cold weather I was told I would… Read full post »
Toad Hall Part 4: The Characters
I had quite a choice of characters to choose from in writing this part. Just a few were chosen as some have already been written about and some will be. With this being the first time my experiences have seen paper and the actual incidents occurring almost 40 years… Read full post »
Toad Hall Part 3: A Wedding on My Doorstep
The names have been changed because of the passing of time and a forgetful mind, not to protect the innocent. There were no innocent.
Living in a teepee, as you saw in the last post, had some distinct disadvantages along with the inherent advantages. The location of the teepe… Read full post »
Toad Hall Part 2: Life in a Teepee
When I first saw Toad Hall, I was coming off a dusty road trip that spanned the continent. I had been riding the nation’s highways and byways using only my thumb to propel myself from Berkeley, CA, to Norton, VT. With a huge population of about 200, the town was perched… Read full post »
Toad Hall, An Experiment In Living, Part 1
My last post mentioned Toad Hall, a cabin in the Vermont woods where I spent the winter. It brought back so many memories of that time and place that I thought it would be good to do a piece on it.
As I said in the other piece, Toad Hall was… Read full post »
A Simple, Old Fashioned Christmas (update)
In 1974 I was moving around the country on my thumb when I came across a group of people living on some property bought by hippies during the ‘60’s. For some unfathomable reason, I decided to stay there despite the temperatures that plunged into the minus column on a daily basis… Read full post »
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