Work begins early in the press room at Bear Creek Press, where the staff often celebrates "casual days" by donning the garb of sixteenth century Flemish peasants and dabbling in alchemy. In the background, employees' children are gently guided to our company's day-care center, there to be patiently instructed in the Three Virtues of the Book Arts: collating, binding, and trimming. Furthermore, to ensure a multiculturally-diverse, gender-neutral secular spiritualism based on liberal conservatism and conservative liberalism, the little darlings receive instruction in the book's evolution as well as its intelligent design.
The Bear Creek Press staff and their families gather in the dining hall for lunch, settling down to their typical noon meal of gruel and beer. Our editor-in-chief stands at left in red tunic and with bagpipes, ready to entertain his beloved employees by playing the only song he knows, Wayne Newton's "Danke Schoen," to an always enthusiastic reception.
It's more bagpipes and beer at the 3:00 p.m. break, when Bear Creek Press employees enjoy the chance to kick up their heels and blow off some steam. Our fearless publisher is sitting at the table at left, hat pulled over his eyes to show that in spite of his extraordinary talents and achievements, he's just "one of the boys."
At the end of the work day, the Grand Poo-Bah Excelsior of Bear Creek Press, captured here in a rare informal photograph, waves a fond farewell to his adoring staff before starting on his way home upon a wine cask. His unusual mode of transportation not only helps him reduce his "carbon footprint," but also provides him with needed refreshment in case of emergencies.
All pictures provided by the artistic genius of Pieter Bruegel of Flanders (c.1525-1569).
Bear Creek Press
With its World Headquarters located at the old Abbie Riggle Place on Bear Creek Road just one mile from downtown Wallowa, Oregon, Bear Creek Press is the largest publishing house on the southwest bank of the Wallowa River.
"Well-designed and well-printed books."
Statesman-Journal (Salem, Oregon)
"There could be nothing so important as a book can be."
Editor Max Perkins in a letter to author Thomas Wolfe
Bear Creek Press produces only organic, free-range books containing no pesticides, herbicides, preservatives, or growth hormones. Ask your bookseller if Bear Creek Press books are right for you.
