This Dangerous Place
While imprisoned for Contempt of Court in the spring of 2003, Betty Krawczyk searched for understanding into the reasons for her actions. Had she signed a paper promising not to go back to the Walbran Valley where she was arrested for blockading logging trucks with her group, Women in the Woods, she would have been released from prison until trial. But she refused. Her own stubbornness and intransigence before the courts of British Columbia baffled everybody, including Krawczyk herself.
This Dangerous Place poses these questions: What is the source of the human will? And an even more elusive question: to what degree can humans interact with the dead? Do the passions of people long dead still hang around in certain situations and seek to interfere with the lives of the living? This book asks these questions from lived experience. The answers may belong to the future. This is a true story.
Praise for This Dangerous Place
"Betty Krawczyk's charismatic sharpness of wit and evocative Southern-based turn of phrase make THIS DANGEROUS PLACE an immense pleasure to read. And like any cherished moment, the book is a delight to recall after inhaling its last pages. Krawczyk's personal, idiosyncratic story transcends the particularities of time and space and takes you to a deeper place within yourself, a place of new possibilities".
- Shelly Wine, PhD (ABD), M.S.W., B.A., Producer/Director, FURY FOR THE SOUND: The Women at Clayoquot
"A great read. With humour and compassion Krawczyk demonstrates the triumph of freedom over despair".
- Bonnie Simpson, M.A., Psychotherapist
"A time will come when science will explain the explosive vindictive energy that swept through the kitchen and veranda of Krawczyk's childhood".
- Mary Wells, Minister, International Spiritual Alliance
