Katie Lee is the grande dame of Western singers
and environmentalists. She is an author, musicologist, folk singer, storyteller,
actress, songwriter, filmmaker, photographer, activist, poet, and river
runner. Katie Lee is one of a handful of men and women who knew the 170
miles of Glen Canyon very well. She made sixteen trips down the river,
even named some of the side canyons. Glen Canyon and the river than ran
through it has changed her life, so it is not surprising that she has
never gotten over her horror and disbelief at the destruction of this
exquisite Eden drowned under 500 feet of Colorado River water behind Glen
Canyon Dam.
“My trips through Glen Canyon and the river that ran through
it changed my life—gave me an understanding of myself, my talent
and its limitations; taught me about intimacy and the value of observation.
Together they resurrected my spirit and melted my heart with their beauty;
showed me time was not my enemy, and with their power to entertain, mystify,
and nearly kill me, diluted my ego to its proper consistency. For all
my wandering the Glen gave me roots as tenacious as the willows along
its banks.”
-Katie Lee |
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