Storytellers at the Columbia River by Nancy Danielson Mendenhall

Her most recent book, fiction, is set at the mid-Columbia in the 1990s. That and the health of the natural environment and many of the social issues we face today are her focus when she writes. Mendenhall is a retired educator as well and is still involved for her grandchildren and community in life-long learning for all. All of those experiences are brought out in her books: one a short history of Nome, where she lives, one about the political and management survival battles of our commercial fishermen from Oregon to Alaska, and two books about life and issues for the people and the salmon on the mid-Columbia.

She has commercial and subsistence fished in Alaska since 1963 and is still picking a set-net. Her love of boats and fishing developed as a teenager on Puget Sound. Her love for rivers began with first memories as a child playing on the banks of the Columbia River in Washington. Nancy Danielson Mendenhall is a long-time Alaskan with great love for its people and its incredible surroundings: the ocean, rivers, mountains, and tundra.

Storytellers at the Columbia River by Nancy Danielson Mendenhall