It has been nearly 24 years since Patrick Dixon sold his Cook Inlet drift boat and moved from Kenai to Olympia, Wash. But for the former fisherman, writing has always been a way to remember.
Patrick Dixon on his first boat, the Skookum Too, in the 1980s.
The first of those summers came by accident. Dixon was a new transplant to Kenai from Indiana in the 1970s. He had moved to be a teacher and had no concept of commercial fishing as a livelihood.“When I first moved to Alaska in ’75, my first house was out the North Road, in North Kenai, right across the lake from Jim and Nedra Evenson,” he said.
“And for the next year and a half, I was pretty depressed because I missed Alaska, I missed fishing. I didn’t have an identity anymore,” Dixon said. “And another fisherman, good friend of Thor’s and mine, Frank Mullen, ended up telling me about the FisherPoets gathering.” And he made sure his new book would be ready for the 2022 gathering, happening later this month. The book compiles stories he started writing years ago and put together as a pandemic project in early 2020. The 225 copies he ordered should arrive in less than two weeks – right in time for the start of FisherPoets.
Some of his writing is a callback to the earliest lessons he learned, when he was still a new arrival from a landlocked state in the midwest.
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