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Fishtrap

Writing, reading, and conversation about the West, rooted in Enterprise.

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An aerial view of Enterprise and the surrounding fields. Community context for this record.
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An aerial view of Enterprise and the surrounding fields. Community context for this record.

Sam Beebe · 2007-07-08 · CC BY 2.0 · Image & source ↗

Fishtrap offers writing workshops and community programs, including youth activities, readings, theater, and writing groups. Its published contact address is 107 West Main Street.

For an atlas built around people’s words, a writing organization is both a place and an invitation: accounts of ordinary life can sit alongside historical documents and public records.

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Around Enterprise, in photographs.

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Brick storefronts along a street in Enterprise.View photograph
Enterprise

Enterprise street corners

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An old truck in a field near Enterprise, with the Wallowa Mountains behind it.View photograph
Enterprise

The working landscape

Gary Halvorson, Oregon State Archives14 June 2011
A barn on Wallowa Lake Highway 82 near Enterprise.View photograph
Enterprise

A barn beneath the mountains

Gary Halvorson, Oregon State Archives20 June 2016
Original accounts

Voices connected to this place

From the recordings

From the ranch to a world at war

Jack McClaranApril 14, 2009
Interviewed by the Record
“The people that think there’s nothing to do are not the people that come to Fishtrap Fireside or Tunesmith Night.”
Janis CarperOctober 5, 2026
Interviewed by the Record

One community, with its towns as neighborhoods

Shannon McNerneyOctober 2, 2026
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The OK Theatre facade in Enterprise. The marquee records a moment in the past, not a current program.
Chapter 05 Culture & gathering

A used book got you in the door

In 1899 you could join the Enterprise library by handing over a used book. A Grange brunch in Lostine, a writers’ gathering at Wallowa Lake and four file drawers of one woman’s papers finish the story.

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