Oregon's Main Street

Pat Edwards is an author of Oregon history books. She and her husband Jim have owned the Lorane Family Store in Lorane, Oregon since 1977. Their family of five children have given them grandchidren and now great-grandchildren. Pat spent 15 years at the Institute of Neuroscience at the University of Oregon, many of those years working as the communication coordinator for a group of scientists who were doing landmark developmental biology and genetic research using the zebrafish, a hot new research model whose popularity had caught on internationally. Since then, Pat has taken on the role of Managing Editor for a small press publishing company called Groundwaters Publishing. It's main focus for over 10 years was to publish a local literary quarterly by the same name. By 2015, when the cost of printing it became too much, Pat and her co-editors began publishing the equivalent of 4 quarterly issues into one annual book format called the Groundwaters Anthology which is now available on-line at http://groundwaterspublishing.com. She and Jennifer Chambers also prepare books for self-publishing for themselves and for others and give talks on Self-Publishing. Pat also is the community correspondent for two small Lane County weeklies, the Fern Ridge Review and the Creswell Chronicle. "I'm blessed with a large, loving family. Jim and I celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary in 2014 and our family and home are our highest priorities." Check out Pat's personal website at: http://allthingslorane.com