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Irene Rawlings grew up in Detroit, went to school in Pennsylvania and New Jersey and moved to Colorado in the 1970s. She is the host of an award-winning radio program, "Focus," aired on the Clear Channel stations. She has been editor-in-chief of Mountain Living and Log & Timber Style magazines as well as group editorial director of Colorado Homes & Lifestyles. She is currently the editor of Call of the Wild, the magazine of the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, Wyoming.
She writes about food, art, travel, and the environment for Art & Antiques, Sunset, Style 1900, Town & Country, ForbesLife, The New York Times, Country Home, Country Living, Hemispheres, O, The Oprah Magazine and National Geographic Traveler.
Irene has also been art reviewer at the Denver Post, curator of the Anschutz Collection of Western Art and editor in chief of the now-shuttered (alas!) Country Home magazine.
She, along with her colleague Andrea Van Steenhouse, wrote a book on clotheslines (The Clothesline) published by Gibbs Smith in April 2002. Portable Houses, co-authored with Mary Abel, was published by Gibbs Smith in the spring of 2004. Sisters on the Fly was published by Andrews McMeel in the spring of 2010.
A launch party and old-fashioned "happening" for her upcoming book Cooking in Cast Iron with Sisters on the Fly (featuring the Dutch Oven Divas of the Desert) is planned for the spring of 2013 at The Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in Ft. Worth, TX. More than 200 Sisters on the Fly and their colorful vintage trailers will attend. Fun!!
In her spare time, Irene enjoys fly fishing, looking for a vintage trailer to buy and fix up, collecting antique quilts and traveling by train--not necessarily in that order.
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Non-fiction
Hanging the laundry is a labor of love that connects us to our mothers and grandmothers, and to the simpler times spent sharing recipes, remedies and closely held secrets over the back fence. With tips for creating a fabulous laundry room, information on laundry collectibles, hints for easy care of heirloom linens and traditional wash-day recipes like lavender ironing water and verbena soap, The Clothesline puts a positive spin in everyone's rinse cycle.
From restored trailers to all-weather tepees, whimsical yurts, converted packing crates, modular ski pods, inflatable one-room huts, renovated train cars, vintage wooden boats, and even a 747, Portable Houses takes you behind the scenes to meet the designers, architects, builders and owners who will inspire you to choose the portable life style. Illustrated with photos of some of the worlds most ingenious portable structures, this book shows how to make movable homes functional and practical by including tips on acquiring travel tools and gear, problem solving and converting the dream into a highway-legal reality.
What's stronger than campfire coffee and wider than the Montana sky? It's the bond shared by Sisters on the Fly, a group of more than 2,000 women, ranging in age from 22 to more than 90. They enjoy fly fishing, playing poker for pennies, cooking food in cast iron (heavy, yes, but you don't have to go to the gym quite so often) and telling tall tales around the campfire. Sisters on the Fly find (sometimes for as little as $50 in a farmer's field), restore and travel in their uniquely decorated "homes on the range." Their one-of-a-kind vintage trailers have iconic names such as Sister Sioux, Rhinestone Cowgirl and Calamity Jane. Sisters on the Fly features tales from the open road, chic trailer décor, recipes that would make John Wayne himself weak in the knees and plenty of hints and tips to help transform a vintage trailed from "trashed to treasured." |
Art & AntiquesSkiing in the American West probably got its start when some old miner strapped a couple of barrel staves to his feet so he could navigate the deep snow. Times have changed. The West’s champagne powder attracts the affluent from all corners of the globe, and each resort town has dozens of art galleries and antiques shops to coax even the most passionate skier off the slopes.
New York TimesOver the holiday season all was snowy and bright at ski areas across the country, with a festive jingle in the air. It wasn’t sleigh bells — it was the sound of money. Vacation-home seekers who saw recessionary opportunities were looking to buy.
O, the Oprah MagazineFor this group of free-wheeling women, anytime’s a good time to hit the highway. No husbands, no children…finding joy on the open road.
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