Katie Lee - The Desert Goddess of Glen Canyon

[Kali]

http://www.tucsonweekly.com/TheRange/archives/2015/04/30/the-desert-goddess-of-glen-canyon

The Desert Goddess of Glen Canyon
Posted By Jim Nintzel on Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 11:30 AM

National Geographic's short film showcase highlights DamNation, a documentary about America's dams, with an excerpt featuring Katie Lee, the Desert Goddess of Glen Canyon.

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Leo Banks profiled Katie Lee in the Weekly way back in 1999. An excerpt:


Katie Lee's considerable passion is never far from the surface. It shows when her blue eyes widen in a rage, and in the tenor of her voice when she takes off on one her rants against greed or government bureaucrats. She has a theatricalings an arm toward the big window in her study, beyond which lay the pink and purple hills of Jerome, in central Arizona's Verde Valley.

"I suppose it's strange that I'd wind up here in an old mine town," she says, eyeing the gouges in the ground that yielded one of North America's greatest lodes of copper: "Look at what they've done to the earth. My earth."

But Jerome, population 500, is actually the perfect place for Lee. The mining has long since ended, and the town is now home to artists, longhairs, rednecks, witness protection graduates and fools bold enough to cling to their own ways of thinking and doing.

much more at link http://www.tucsonweekly.com/TheRange/archives/2015/04/30/the-desert-goddess-of-glen-canyon

also -

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/short-film-showcase/damnation-desert-goddess-remembers-arizonas-glen-canyon

In this excerpt from the award-winning documentary DamNation, filmmakers Ben Knight and Travis Rummel interview the "desert goddess." Now in her 90s, Lee reminisces about walking naked through the enchanting landscape—"It was absolutely the most natural thing in the world"—and the significance of what was lost in the flood. "I don't think Eden could have touched Glen Canyon," she says. DamNation was produced by Patagonia, and the full-length film can be seen through Vimeo on Demand.

[livetohike]

1. This was wonderful. Just absolutely love her.

Thanks for posting this .

[Kali]

2. you are welcome

my parents were on the arch teams for Glen Canyon and knew her. I can remember a party when I was a kid, and hearing her play/sing downstairs when us kids were supposed to be asleep.

[livetohike]

3. That is so cool!!

You must have heard some great stories over the years and what interesting work that would be.