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Pat Garber

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in Richmond, The United States

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Science, Fiction, Poetry

Influences

Mark Twain, Rachel Carson, my parents, Don and Mary Garber

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Pat Garber Bio

Pat Garber’s goal as a young girl was to grow up with lots of stories to tell, and she has done just that. A native of Short Pump, Virginia (not far from Richmond) Pat was raised on a farm with horses and a myriad array of other animals. She has degrees in Native American Studies and in Environmental Anthropology, and is a licensed teacher for the state of Virginia. She has been a federally licensed wildlife rehabilitator and a licensed volunteer with the North Carolina’s Sea Turtle Stranding Network.

She has done just about every kind of job there is, from pushing a hot dog cart in San Francisco to milking cows on a dairy farm in western Washington; from serving pizzas in Bend, Oregon, to crewing on sailboats in the Bahamas Pat Garber Bio

Pat Garber’s goal as a young girl was to grow up with lots of stories to tell, and she has done just that. A native of Short Pump, Virginia (not far from Richmond) Pat was raised on a farm with horses and a myriad array of other animals. She has degrees in Native American Studies and in Environmental Anthropology, and is a licensed teacher for the state of Virginia. She has been a federally licensed wildlife rehabilitator and a licensed volunteer with the North Carolina’s Sea Turtle Stranding Network.

She has done just about every kind of job there is, from pushing a hot dog cart in San Francisco to milking cows on a dairy farm in western Washington; from serving pizzas in Bend, Oregon, to crewing on sailboats in the Bahamas; from teaching inner-city Head Start classes in Buffalo, New York to working as an archaeologist on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. She has been a motel maid on the island of Ocracoke, North Carolina; a soda jerk at an ice cream parlor in La Veta, Colorado; a wilderness trip leader at a rehab center for juvenile delinquents in Flagstaff, Arizona; and the executive director of the Ocracoke Preservation Society and Museum in Ocracoke, NC. She taught for three years on the Havasupai Indian Reservation at the bottom of the Grand Canyon and served as project manager and script writer for a video-documentary on Havasupai agriculture. She worked for the Environmental Protection Agency researching and writing a new policy for the Office of Pesticides and Toxic Substances to use on Indian lands. For a year she was caretaker of a 1400 acre cattle ranch in Southern Arizona, riding fence lines, checking water-gaps, and lassoing calves from her horse Brown. A singer-songwriter, she has performed at coffee houses, art openings, and protest gatherings in various places.
All of these experience are incorporated into her books.

Pat has been writing for newspapers and magazines in North Carolina, Arizona, New York, and Colorado since 1990, including history features and an award-winning nature column called “From Sea to Sound.” Her first book, Ocracoke Wild, was published in 1995, and she has since written eight books on a variety of subjects. Pat calls home the island of Ocracoke Island, NC, the Adirondack Mountains of upstate NY, and her home state of Virginia. She remains passionate about her friends and family, her work with animals, and her writing.

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	Ocracoke Odyssey: A Naturalist's Reflections on Her Home by the Sea 4.16 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ocracoke Wild: A Naturalist's Year on an Outer Banks Island 4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Shining Palace 4.47 avg rating — 15 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Shining Palace : A love song to Ocracoke Island 1984, 2019 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Birchbark Chronicles: An Adirondack Journal 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Westward Bound with the Bloxtons: Settling the Arizona Territory; One family's amazing journey west 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The View from the Back of a Whale: Poems and Selected Prose 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paws and Tales it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Colorado Reminiscence it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Pat Garber's Blog: Winter at Ocracoke

Moving Forward Through Writing

The past year has for me, as for so many people, been a trying time. Hurricane Dorian laid waste my home on Ocracoke Island in September of 2019 and it is still not habitable. As I struggled to find a way forward Covid struck. The Black Lives Matter movement brought forth a new awareness of how racially divided and unjust our country has been, along with the incentive that we might in the near fut Read more of this blog post »

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“Powell was first of all a scientist with a deep curiosity about nature, and this curiosity motivated his explorations. Because Powell viewed the landscape and waterscape as a scientist, he realized that the arid West couldn't fit into America's Manifest Destiny dreams, and thus he became a pioneering conservationist.”
― Don Lago, The Powell Expedition: New Discoveries about John Wesley Powell's 1869 River Journey