Meeting the faces of thirty Redding (CA) honorees who demonstrated courage and kindness during last summer’s devastating Carr Fire.
An exhibition at the Redding (CA) City Hall until May employs photography, portraiture and written biographies to depict the faces that portrayed kindness and courage during the Carr Fire in the summer of 2018.
Artist David Crognale stands next to his portrait of Jermey Stoke, a local firefighter who lost his life trying to evacuate others during the cataclysmic “fire tornado.”
About Joel
Joel Stratte-McClure has been a global trekker since the 1970s. He lived in France for over 30 years, working as a journalist, before he turned his attention to a unique life-time-project of walking the shores of the Mediterranean. The first 4,401 kilometers are explored in his inspirational and entertaining first book "The Idiot and the Odyssey: Walking the Mediterranean." The next 4,401 kilometers are covered in the gods-filled sequel, "The Idiot and the Odyssey II: Myth, Madness and Magic on the Mediterranean,” published on Valentine's Day 2013. The last 4,401 kilometers will be discussed in the last book of the trilogy currently entitled "The Idiot and the Odyssey III: Alexander the Great Walks the Mediterranean."