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ISSUE 5.1 | JANUARY 2014 | FREE Sage the Birchwater Featured Artist Book issue Pages 4 & 5 PAGE 2 | THE STEW Magazine | January 2014 hear | PAGE 1 January 2014 | THE STEW Magazine The Stew Magazine celebrates the written word FREE ISSUE 5.1 | JANUARY 2014 | So this is the ‘Book’ issue, the first issue of the Ne w Year. Some of our writers wanted to do the year in retrospect. I on the other hand want to talk about the history of the book and how we also use the word ‘book’ in many aspects of our life. I know in the course of On the a day in our businesses we use the word book many times. I will book the client an appointment, we will Cover: book the tuxedo for the grad or wedding, Christa will go to her computer and do our books or book- keeping and our 19-year- old employee will “book it Sage Birchwater, out of here” at the end of our artist of the the day. There are people who month, has been know you like a book. The Police might throw incredibly prolific the book at you. An event in the last few years, might be one for the books. You can make a bet cally is what we have today. started to write on lighter from the skins of animals. googled how many books as both a writer and by seeing a bookie, buy Since the dawn of hu- items, engraving on stone If your ancestors were there were in an average raffle tickets in a book and mankind we have wanted tablets and scratching into indigenous to North or library. The figure they an editor. The photo win a game of bridge by to leave a legacy of our metal sheets. South America they were came up with is about on our January cover playing a book. That’s a lot short time on earth. Before These items were still writing on tree bark either 10,000 books. Based on of book references. the written word was not a practical way of car- whole or pounded flat. the size of Williams Lake shows a sampling of I’ve been told that the created we drew pictures rying our story around. What is obvious here or Quesnel I would say our English language is easy that would tell the story of We began looking for is that it doesn’t matter libraries carry between five his work. to learn but hard to learn events happening around lighter things to write on. what your heritage is, to seven thousand books You can find out properly. It’s no wonder us. Then man started using Depending on where in all humans have wanted and 100 Mile House is with multiple meanings these pictures to form a the world your ancestors to write. Early libraries probably half that size. more about Sage and for the same word in many written language which are from, they started writ- showed up about three Now if we say our instances. eventually formed into ing on different mediums. thousand years ago and libraries have 5,000 books his work on pages 4 So where does the characters. If you have Asian decent have been in existence that will take us just under and 5. word come from? Most This is a very simplistic your forefathers used and since. 14 years if we read just one of the dictionaries online history of writing and I still sometimes today use Up until 1440 when a day. The only problem agree that it comes from know I have left a lot out. shells, bone, silk and rice Gutenburg invented the with that is the book old English and before We wrote on everything, paper. If you are Middle printing press, books were inventory is constantly that Germanic. The word cave walls, rocks, and the Eastern papyrus was used. made and written by hand. changing so that seems to “buch” means a document ground. Eventually after The Romans wrote on wax Around the 12th century me to be a lifelong hobby. or a charter. This later realizing these objects tablets and the Greeks paper came to Europe When Christa and I evolves into a collection of couldn’t be moved or were wrote on parchment, from Asia and books start- first took over The Stew documents which techni- very hard to move, we which was carefully made ed to be made in a regular I visited the library to (paper) and a premium meet our librarian and ask (parchment) edition. her if she would like to As of 2010, according to write about books for us. Google, who has decided I hadn’t been to a library to catalog the world collec- in years and thought with tion of books, there have the internet and the use of been 129,864,880 books e-books there might not written. If you speed read be anyone there, but was one a day that would take I ever wrong. Our local you over 355,000 years to libraries are some of the read them all. Well thats busiest places in our three not going to happen. What cities. about reading all the books On that note, and with in a library? The library this also being literacy of congress has 32 million month, grab a cup of your books. That would only favorite beverage, grab a take us a hundred thou- bound group of pages and sand years. escape into the realm of Just out of curiosity I the written word. January 2014 | THE STEW Magazine | PAGE 3 Nutrition Facts Serving Size: 20 pgs Servings Per Container 1 Amount Per Serving ingredients Calories 0 % Daily Value* Books, manuals, instructions, letters, and billboards, like it or not we are surrounded. Make a New Year’s resolution to read Sage Birchwater something new. Ingredients: This month’s Featured Stew was compiled from a lot of book sources and fun facts about books. Sometimes get- Artist ting a chance to read seems like a luxury, other times it is out of necessity. This month was a fun issue for thinking Pages 4 & 5 up new ways books can be discovered and how much they can impact your life. Best books Books and Video Games of 2013 Page 8 Page 7 The best Cuba is the new albums of ‘in’ destination 2013 Page 12 Page 14-15 PAGE 4 | THE STEW Magazine | January 2014 flavour of the month CRAIG SMITH PHOTO A MAN OF MANY WORDS u Author and editor Sage Birchwater is our artist of the month. January 2014 | THE STEW Magazine | PAGE 5 flavour of the month Sage Birchwater chronicles the Cariboo Chilcotin What a huge honour to write ing in a commune out in the a grant to research and write Frank, and Corky Williams, for an article that features such an Miocene area, before buying for two years. The culmination which he just finished a tour to accomplished writer and amaz- a trap line out near Tatla Lake of his research resulted in the promote. ing artist of word. Sage Birch- where, with his partners, he book Chiwid, used in Univer- Sage has a new project in water is our artist of the month. still has ownership. Along with sity curriculum, and now in its the works about Extraordinary Sage has deep roots here in the trapping, Sage’s passion for fifth edition. Men which will be similar to Cariboo Chilcotin that go back people and writing started to The Hoof Print series of the book Gumption and Grit. for over 40 years. come together. He started his books for the Chilcotin Sage He also wants to write an au- Born in Victoria, Sage found writing career with a small ‘how coordinated and edited, he has tobiography documenting the himself leaving his pursuit of to’ Magazine out in the Chilco- also worked with Stan Navra- history of the people from the knowledge through formal tin writing about roofing and til on the Williams Lake 75th Tatla area. education at the University of tanning. Anniversary book, and Chris Sage has two children who Victoria to follow his adventur- Sage got his start with the Harris on Fly Over BC Chilco- live in the Okanagan and seven ous side and pursue a different Tribune after being passionately tin Coast. grandchildren. This very tal- kind of knowledge here. opposed to a resolution passed In 2001 Sage moved into ented writer is an extraordinary After hitchhiking his way to by City council and writing Williams Lake where he worked man with so much knowledge town with a friend Sage spent a letter to the editor. Dianna for the Tribune again as a fill-in and passion. His collection of time working on a humanitar- French, the Tribune publisher which evolved into a long-term work is a compilation of history, ian level, he started a crisis line, at the time, published the let- relationship where he was roots, and real life. youth hostel, and a food co-op. ter and asked Sage to write a an instrumental voice in the At the age of twenty Sage Working with people seemed ‘Backwoods Comment’ column. Tribune until 2009. During made the decision to retire so to be a passion that would lead From there Sage began to cover this time Sage started to write that when the time came he him down a future path of be- events and was given a camera articles for Lived Experiences a would have plenty of practice.