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Mulligan: The Pelican Who Went to School: A True Story
28 pages, Paperback
Published June 20, 2024
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Pat Garber
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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.
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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