Author shares memories of rustic cabin life

Writer and retired fisheries scientist Dennis Dauble will present his new memoir, "A Rustic Cabin: Finding A Sense Of Place" at Paulina Springs Books on Monday, August 5, at 6:30 p.m. Dauble is the author of several popular books including "Bury Me With My Flyrod: The Unvarnished Truth About Flyfishing" and "Fishes of the Columbia Basin."

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Dennis Dauble.

"A Rustic Cabin" is about carpenter ants, jaybirds, cornbread, wild trout, forest gnomes, Indian legends, racoons, secret creeks, organized religion, 100-year floods, s'mores, packrats, Adirondack chairs, and other affairs of rustic cabin life.

After searching the slopes of northeastern Oregon's Blue Mountains for five years, Dauble stumbles upon a circa 1940 log cabin located inside a former dude ranch/hot springs resort in the Umatilla River canyon. Through it all - the fixups, 100-year flood, passing of loved ones - 19 years of ownership have passed with no regret.

Part natural history, part memoir, and part practical advice, "A Rustic Cabin" is an entertaining account of one man's dream of owning a cabin near a rushing trout stream. His love of place and family will raise your spirit and fill your heart with delight.

Gary Lewis, TV host and author of "Fishing Central Oregon and Fishing Mount Hood Country," says of "A Rustic Cabin": "If you care deeply about your sense of peace, your sense of place in the world, perhaps you, like Dennis Dauble, have dreamt of "A Rustic Cabin." In these pages infused with memories of work and wisdom, of fortitude and forgiveness, redolent of the essences of moss and morels, one finds the recipe for simple living."

Paulina Springs Books is located at 252 W. Hood Ave.