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See an art show in Nehalem Trail’s End Art Association announces summer classes NEHALEM — The North

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Every Child Ready to Read classes will be offered in March in Astoria.

Help your child learn to read with free classes ASTORIA — Clatsop Kinder Ready is offering free Every Child Ready to Read classes in Astoria during March. The series of three classes will be held from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday evenings at Astor Elementary School, located at 3550 Franklin Ave., on March 7, 14 and 21. The purpose of the Every Child Ready to Read classes is to help parents and caregivers learn how to use the fun daily activities of talking, reading, writing, singing and playing to help build their children’s brains during the early critical years and help their children learn. Classes are for families

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with children ages birth to 5, but expectant parents are welcome too. Classes are offered in both English and Spanish. Pizza dinner is served each night to participants, and families go home with children’s picture books at each session to build their home libraries. Free childcare will be offered. Space is limited in each session, so register early. To register, call Angie at the Clatsop E.S.D. at 503338-3377 or email her at aharrington@nwresd.k12. or.us. Spanish-speaking families can contact Diane at 503-738-2109 or email ddieni@nwresd.k12.or.us

County Recreation District’s gallery will host an exhibition of paintings and prints by artist Alysha Graham Picard from March 1 to 31. The opening reception will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, March 4. The reception promises many delights, including the spiritually inspired art, an artist talk on the transformational creative process, storytelling from Rachael Pecore and interactive audience participation. The NCRD is located at 36155 Ninth St. Picard attended Neahkahnie High School and formally began her painting studies at age 16, when she studied oil painting with Jackie Wilson on the Oregon Coast. She painted throughout high school and also worked with pottery and a variety of mediums. At age 18 she traveled to New York to study art at the Rochester Folk Art Guild, focusing in pottery. She then moved to Eugene to study art at the University of Oregon before transferring to Portland State University to finish her Bachelor of Arts degree in 2007. Picard currently lives outside Ashland. Picard’s aim is to create a sanctuary similar to the spiritual center she was raised in, focused on artistic

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Alysha Graham Picard will open an art show at the NCRD in Nehalem.

exploration, self-awareness, full-spectrum health, and a culture rooted in the environment. “My art is a discovery, a journey of merging the interior landscape with the reflection of my outer world. My art is a blend of connecting my inner purpose while also addressing the societal complexes that the external world faces today,” Picard says. “My joy comes from a very quiet place of stillness. A place where everything is wiped clean by the simple awareness of my breath and my body. In this simplicity a vast canvas is spread, ready to be colored by the infinite possibility of my mind and heart.”

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GEARHART — Yes, it’s chilly outside, but Trail’s End Art Association is already thinking about summer. The group announces two classes taught by well-respected artists Michael Schlicting and Judy Morris. Each class will be limited to only 12 participants and will be offered at Trail’s End Art Association, located at 656 A St. in Gearhart. Artists who wish to register can go to the group’s website at trailsendart.org or follow directions provided below. Both classes are for intermediate to advanced artists who are expected to provide their own supplies. Schlicting, familiar to members of the Watercolor Society of Oregon, will offer a three-day workshop focused on painting with acrylics on June 19, 20 and 21. The cost for the workshop to TEAA members is $300, and the coast is $375 to non-members. Artists who have visited Schlicting’s gallery in Neskowin know how his use of color and knowledge of design combine to create magical paintings. Schlicting seldom teaches classes at this point in his successful career, so this is a rare opportunity to learn from him. Visit his website at www.michaelschlicting. com for more information about his gallery and work. Artist Judy Morris hosts workshops throughout the country and internationally. She will be at Trail’s End to offer a four-day watercolor class July 24 to 27. The cost for this workshop is $400 for TEAA members and $500 for non-members. Morris promises to share not only her successful strategies in that medium but also

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“Coastal Cycles” by Michael Schlicting, who will teach a three-day workshop on painting with acrylics in June.

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“Trattoria” by Judy Morris, who will teach a four-day watercolor workshop this July at Trail’s End Art Association.

the many ways in which she enhances her watercolor images to add beauty and excitement. Visit her website at www.judymorris-art.com for more examples of her work and scheduled events. Artists who choose not to register online using PayPal should send a check for $100 made out to Trail’s End Art Association to hold a spot in a workshop. Include a letter indicating which workshop is preferred and personal contact information for follow-up communication. Mail to Trail’s End Art Association, 656 A St., Gearhart, OR, 97138. Direct questions to janem270@ gmail.com

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Learn how to create a container garden PACIFIC COUNTY, Wash. — For all those gardeners who want to grow their own healthy food but have little or no outdoor garden space, here’s the answer: Do your vegetable gardening in containers. Award-winning writer Maggie Stuckey, author of “The Bountiful Container,” which Sunset magazine calls “the definitive work” on the subject, will explain all the how-tos — including choosing the container, the best soil, watering, fertilizing, harvesting and more — in a program that will visit all five Timberland Regional Libraries in Pacific County, Washington, during the month of March.

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During the program, Stuckey will share ideas and tips for success with container gardening, answer questions, and demonstrate how to create a container garden with practical planting tips and the basics of good design. This is a gardening program; specifically, how to create a full edible garden — vegetables, herbs, fruits, and edible flowers — in containers. It’s perfect for folks who live in apartments or somewhere else where there is no actual garden space — or where their outdoor garden is too shady or too something else to bring success with vegetables.

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“It’s also, as I’ve come to understand in recent years, a very good solution for folks who no longer have the flexibility they once did,” Stuckey said. “Container gardening is a lot easier on the knees!” And here’s the best part: Everyone in the audience will be entered into a drawing, and some lucky person gets to take the finished garden home. Like all library programs, this one is free. The schedule of presentations is: • 2 p.m. March 9 at the Ocean Park Library, • 1 p.m. March 11 at the Ilwaco Library, • 5:30 p.m. March 16 at

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the Raymond Library, • 10 a.m. March 18 at the South Bend Library, and • 2 p.m. March 18 at the Naselle Library. Stuckey loves to share her passion for container gardening with home gardeners and has made frequent appearances at garden clubs, nurseries and garden centers, and master gardener events. She has also been a featured speaker at: the Flower and Garden Festival at Disney’s Epcot, the Philadelphia Flower Show, the Atlanta Flower Show, the Seattle Flower Show, and Portland’s Garden & Patio Show.

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Maggie Stuckey will give a container gardening presentation and demonstration at all five Timberland libraries in Pacific County, Washington, this March.

Stuckey is the author of 11 nonﬁction books, mostly about gardening or

cooking — sometimes both. Several of her books have been selections of Book of the Month Club. She also contributed an essay to “Chicken Soup for the Gardener’s Soul” and wrote the houseplants entry for Collier’s Encyclopedia. Autographed copies of Stuckey’s books will be available for purchase at the library events. Her best-selling book “The Bountiful Container” is now in its ninth printing. The Seattle Post Intelligencer said, “You can farm right off your deck or patio with the clear and easy directions in this book. Highly recommended for those without the space, time or strength to till the soil. This book nourishes body and soul.”

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Traveling from Yakaitl-Wimak to Willapa Bay by canoe

Third Interlude: Tracing the portage remnants

By DAVID CAMPICHE

Note: This is part three of a threepart series. After weeks of harvesting salmon on the Columbia River, the Tsinuk (Chinook) were ready to return to their secure winter lodges on the shore of Willapa Bay. They would travel up one of the three water paths and portage across the Willapa Hills. A portage is a short overland route that a person follows, carrying a boat or supplies between two waterways. The portage between the headwaters of the Chinook and Bear Rivers was longer and steeper than the Wallicut portage to the west. Jimmy Goulter and I started our exploration at Brown’s Slough, a small waterway sluicing just south of his grandmother’s house, affectionately called “Granny Goulter’s,” a local landmark, and close to M’Carty’s 19th-century homestead. A decade ago, Goulter was raking a spot in front of his grandmother’s house when he found square steel nails and a burn area that indicated the remains of the M’Carty residence, long gone or disguised by age and impenetrable mounds of blackberry bushes. At the southern end of Brown’s Slough, early chronicler James Gilcrest Swan describes being ﬂoundered in an Indian canoe containing a few bottles of raw whiskey and his meager supplies. Swan left the canoe and walked ahead to the M’Carty homestead. When the natives caught up, Swan realized that his two Chinook guides had polished off one of the bottles of liquor. Goulter believes his father found that empty bottle buried in the mud. It was dated near the time of Swan’s journey in 1855. The relevance of this pioneer history has etched the Goulter family for decades. Jimmy carries the anthropologist’s mantle. In fairness, he is

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Brown’s Slough, which feeds into the Chinook River. The Chinook peoples and first Euro-American pioneers followed the slough as a portage route up from the Columbia River, overland and into Willapa Bay.

the caretaker of many acres of fertile ﬁelds that cover the Chinook valley, a landscape rich in history. From the north end of that slough, the portage rolls over the Willapa Hills near what is now the water treatment plant for Ilwaco, and then pushes northward before rolling into the southerly edge of Indian Creek below Dick and Ellen Wallace’s place, a home with a spectacular vista. Big thanks to Dick for pulling my two-wheel-drive pickup back from a steep abyss below a rugged road sheaved in ice after a winter freeze. Even today, there are consequences when traveling back roads in severe weather, a fact not lost on the Chinook or early pioneers. Indeed, this was the ultimate reason for the Chinook to portage from the Columbia into the Willapa: The climate and availability of shellﬁsh was far more accommodating on Willapa Bay than residing in the reed shelters they pitched during mild summer days on the Columbia. Only yards from my near accident, Indian Creek bleeds into Bear River, near where the Wilson homestead

stood, a stopover for wet and weary pioneers as the night skies turned gray and sullen. Bear River then flows into the Willapa, not far from Baby Island, where it is said by some to be the ancient burial place of at least five Chinook chiefs. A third portage trek from Black Lake in Ilwaco along the small waterway known as Tarlatt Slough appears today to be mostly vanquished by time and the dozens of cranberry bogs that lace the landscape. As kids growing up in Seaview, we would travel that slough and watch the annual migration of native salmon struggling up the small watercourse into Black Lake. Ultimately, the slough was so badly diverted that the salmon succumbed. Unfortunately, this is an all-too-common story. At the north end of Willapa Bay was a portage that ran into the Chehalis River. There were many of these avenues. Long before white contact, Native Americans had mapped out the easiest travel routes. Mostly, they traveled by water. To quote my friend, Jim Sayce, a fine historian, “Travel was by canoe

and by water, and little else.” Other opportunities were generally laborious and circuitous. Swan recounts the travails of the trail: “A mere cart-path, full of stumps and logs, over high hills, and down deep valleys, soft from the rain and nearly knee-deep with mud and water. Over this trail, we climbed, and slipped, and splashed, and jumped, till finally we emerged.” In 1855, Swan counts the “Chenook” living around Chinook Village to be a measly hundred. He thought he was seeing the end of a way of life that included the well-traveled portages of these proud traders. He was defining the demise of an ancient culture that was vanishing from the Columbia-Pacific landscape (and across America) like campfire smoke. I am glad to report that the tribe has been growing in stature and relevance in recent years. The challenges are great, but they are a dignified and persistent people, proud of their heritage and their culture. Facing them squarely, the obstacles were and remain daunting. In the 1850s, the entire village turned out to gather the salmon. The population was evenly split between the remnants of the Tsinuk, and these

first white settlers. They fished together, the Tsinuk helping themselves to the Tyee with their homemade nets of spruce root and cedar rope. These seine nets could be two football fields in length. Among the Chinook, salmon were dried and smoked and often ground into a pulp that was mixed with eulachon (smelt) grease and then stored in hand-crafted baskets containing 10 or 12 pounds of the fish cakes. The preserved concoction might last for many moons. Back on the Willapa, it remained a security blanket for leaner times. Much is lost over time. Today, we scratch our heads and ponder our forefathers, their pleasantries and tribulations. But Bear River rolls on, and the paths that crossed the Willapa Hills recede into the harvest of third-growth tree farms. One can’t help but wonder, if somehow, we have been diminished. And doesn’t it remain a pleasure to imagine bushwhacking across ancient trails that snaked around and through monstrous evergreen groves, through rich flora and fauna nowadays delegated to a few parks and refuges? All this natural splendor is of another time and place that can only be imagined.

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IN THE COLUMBIA-PACIFIC REGION Thursday, March 2

The Banner Days 7 p.m., Peninsula Arts Center, 504 Pacific Ave., Long Beach, Wash., 360-901-0962, $15. The Banner Days features Beth Whitney, Bradford Loomis and Aaron Fishburn playing anthemic, pop, folk and Americana roots music.

Senior Center Jam 6:30 p.m., Astoria Senior Center, 1111 Exchange St., Astoria, 503-468-0390. String band, bluegrass and country. Austin Quattlebaum 7 p.m., Adrift Hotel, 409 Sid Snyder Drive, Long Beach, Wash., 360-6422311. Austin Quattlebaum plays Americana and southern acoustic folk-grass music.

Three For Silver 8 p.m., Sou’Wester Lodge, 3728 J Place, Seaview, Wash., 360-642-2542. Three For Silver plays Top 40 and gritty aesthetic, traditional world folk music.

Floating Glass Balls 7 p.m., Bill’s Tavern, 188 Hemlock St., Cannon Beach, 503-436-2202. The Floating Glass Balls plays bluegrass, Caribbean, folk, swing and country.

Friday, March 3 David Drury 6 p.m., Bridgewater Bistro, 20 Basin St., Astoria, 503-325-6777. David Drury plays guitar. Thistle & Rose 6 p.m., Seasons Café, 255 Hemlock St., Cannon Beach, 503-436-1159. Thistle and Rose perform original tunes, folk and Americana music from the 70s and 80s. Tom Trudell 6 p.m., Shelburne Inn, 4415 Pacific Way, Seaview, Wash., 360-642-4150. Tom Trudell plays jazz piano. Wes Wahrmund 6 p.m., The Bistro, 263 Hemlock St., Cannon Beach, 503-436-2661. Wes Wahrmund’s classical guitar skills amaze with light jazz and original tunes. Maggie & the Cats 6:30 p.m., Sweet Basil’s Café, 271 Hemlock St., Cannon Beach, 503-4361539, 21 +. Maggie and the Cats play Creole, jazz, blues and soul music. Eric John Kaiser 7 p.m., McMenamins Sand Trap, 1157 Marion Ave., Gearhart, 503-717-8150. Eric Kaiser plays traditional French stylings, rock, hip-hop, reggae and roadhouse blues.

Malachi Graham & Jamie Stillway Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, March 5, 6 and 7 7 p.m., Adrift Hotel, 409 Sid Snyder Drive, Long Beach, Wash. Malachi Graham presents punchy female-fronted alt-Americana music on electric guitar backed by Jamie Stillway on bass. Open Mic & Jam 7 p.m., Pacific Pearl Bistro, 111 Broadway, Seaside. All styles welcome to jam with the Tim Kelly Blues Band. RJ Marx Quartet 7 p.m., WineKraft, 80 10th St., Astoria, 503-468-0206, 21 +. Saxophonist RJ Marx leads the quartet in jazz music with John Orr (guitar), Joe Church (bass) and Dave Gager (drums). Hollis Peach 9 p.m., Adrift Hotel, 409 Sid Snyder Drive, Long Beach, Wash. Drawing from diverse influences ranging from Simon and Garfunkel, Joanna Newsom, Pete Seeger and Radiohead, Hollis Peach innovates its music.

Saturday, March 4 George Coleman 6 p.m., Shelburne Inn, 4415 Pacific Way, Seaview, Wash. George Coleman plays pop, jazz, folk and rock music on his 12-string guitar.

Tom Trudell 6 p.m., Bridgewater Bistro, 20 Basin St., Astori. Tom Trudell plays piano. Wes Wahrmund 6 p.m., The Bistro, 263 Hemlock St., Cannon Beach. Wes Wahrmund plays jazz and original tunes. Barbie G 7 p.m., WineKraft, 80 10th St., Astoria, 21 +. Barbie G plays acoustic folk. Dennis Warner 7 p.m., Arch Cape, 503-717-2997 or 503-436-1718, $20. Cape House Concert series features Dennis Warner who blends humor, audience participation and music in the likes of Harry Chapin and James Taylor; location given at time of ticket purchase. Mexican Gunfight 7 p.m., The Birk, 11139 Hwy. 202, Birkenfeld, 503-755-2722. Mexican Gunfight is a rock band with stylistic influences of blues, country, gospel, folk-rock and tinges of Latin and jazz.

Hollis Peach 9 p.m., Adrift Hotel, 409 Sid Snyder Drive, Long Beach, Wash. Drawing from diverse influences ranging from Simon and Garfunkel, Joanna Newsom, Pete Seeger and Radiohead, Hollis Peach strives to create authentic innovative music.

Sunday, March 5 Richard T. & Friends 11:30 a.m., Bridgewater Bistro, 20 Basin St., Astoria. Richard T. and friends performs a repertoire of blues. Kitchen Music 1 p.m., Long Beach Grange, 5715 Sandridge Road, Long Beach, Wash., 360642-2239. Join the circle and enjoy traditional, folk, bluegrass, country, blues and pop music played by local musicians. All levels welcome. Lisa Mann Trio 2 p.m., The Birk, 11139 Hwy. 202, Birkenfeld, 503-755-2722. Singer songwriter Lisa Mann specializes in blues, rhythm-n-blues and rock with a crossover to pop. Evensong 6 p.m., Cannon Beach Community Church, 132 Washington St., Cannon Beach, 503-436-1222. Evensong features performers Jennifer Goodenberger and Wes Wahrmund, meditative songs and quiet reflection. Skadi Freyer 6 p.m., Bridgewater Bistro, 20 Basin St., Astoria. Skadi Freyer plays piano.

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Monday, March 6 Burgers & Jam 6 p.m., American Legion, 1216 Hemlock St., Cannon Beach, 503-436-2973. The legion offers good burgers and good music.

Tuesday, March 7 Brian O’Connor 5:30 p.m., Shelburne Inn, 4415 Pacific Way, Seaview, Wash. Acoustic jazz guitarist Brian O’Connor plays a mix of jazz standards. NOCS Goes Baroque 6:30 p.m., Cannon Beach Community Church, 132 Washington St., Cannon Beach, all ages. Open rehearsal performance for the North Oregon Coast Symphony “Goes Baroque!” features the chamber string ensemble and woodwind, brass and percussion sessions.

Wednesday, March 8 Thistle & Rose 5 p.m., The Bistro, 263 Hemlock St., Cannon Beach. Thistle and Rose perform original tunes, folk and Americana music from the 70s and 80s. Wanderlodge 7 p.m., Adrift Hotel, 409 Sid Snyder Drive, Long Beach, Wash. Wanderlodge plays rock, rock-n-roll and country music.

Thursday, March 9 Senior Center Jam 6:30 p.m., Astoria Senior Center, 1111 Exchange St., Astoria, 503-468-0390. String band, bluegrass and country. Floating Glass Balls 7 p.m., Bill’s Tavern, 188 Hemlock St., Cannon Beach, 503-436-2202. Wanderlodge 7 p.m., Adrift Hotel, 409 Sid Snyder Drive, Long Beach, Wash., 360-6422311. Wanderlodge plays rock, rockn-roll and country music.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE CROSSWORD By Josh Knapp / Puzzles Edited by Will Shortz Answers on Page 18

73 Beast in rare “sightings” 74 Poet/musician ____ Scott-Heron 75 One who can’t learn new tricks, they say 77 ____-Lay 79 Doze 82 “The king really wants to be around people right now”? 87 Professor’s goal, one day 88 Marvel role for Chris Hemsworth 89 Yazidis, e.g. 92 Go in (for) 95 Actor Curry 96 Go all in 98 What many 100-Across do in the spring 100 See 98-Across 103 Certain earring 105 Trader ____ 107 Baseball league for the Salt Lake Bees 108 “Yeah, let’s do it!” 109 Celebration after a coup? 112 Negative Nancy? 115 Words before a punch line 116 Muddies 117 2% alternative 118 Moving line on a tree trunk 119 Orange-and-white Pixar title character 120 Wild revelry 121 So, so awful, with “the” 122 Rapper with the most-viewed YouTube video of all time 123 P.M. after Churchill DOWN 1 Weapon usually fired between a 45° and a 90° angle 2 Ducked 3 Go wherever 4 With 41-Down, first tennis player to win two Olympic singles gold medals 5 Potent sushi-bar cocktail 6 Dependent on chance

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Caravan of GLAM brings LGBT cabaret Clatsop CASA holds 19th annual benefit ASTORIA — Caravan of GLAM, an LGBT cabaret show, will take over the Astoria Event Center on Saturday, March 4. Doors open at 8 p.m., and the 21-and-over show starts at 9 p.m. Tickets are $12 in advance or $15 at the door. VIP tables are $120. Tickets are available at Port of Call Bistro & Bar or by calling 503-325-4356. The event center is located at 255 Ninth St. Caravan of GLAM was created in 2013 by Justin

Buckles of Portland after he realized there was a need for LGBT community events in smaller cities throughout Oregon. The first Caravan of GLAM shows sold out in Portland, Bend and Eugene. Since then, the variety show has toured California, Idaho, Washington, Montana, Utah, Colorado, Nevada, Alaska, Hawaii and hit season 10 of “America’s Got Talent.” The Caravan of GLAM consists of a rotating cast of over 50 performers from Seattle to Hawaii, and perform-

ers come in all shapes, sizes and colors. All staff and entertainers are members of the LGBT community. The Astoria show will feature the talents of Ecstacy Inferno, Jayla Rose, Flawless Shade, Jaxin Yoff, Mis Inanna, Ginger Vitus and more. The performance will include a night full of debauchery, raffles and offthe-wall performances all rolled into one. The event is also a fundraiser for the 2017 Astoria Pride festival.

ASTORIA — The 19th annual Clatsop CASA Celebration will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, March 9 at the Bridgewater Bistro. The event honors the rewarding work of Clatsop CASA’s 50 volunteers who advocate on behalf of foster children. CASA volunteers help foster children on their path to a safe, permanent home. Enjoy an evening of gourmet small bites, wine and beverages while lis-

tening to music. A lively dessert auction will raise money for advocacy services for children in foster care. CASA volunteers are the only participants in the child welfare system who speak solely for the child’s best interest in making recommendations to the court and advocating for services. With over 90 children in foster care in Clatsop County today, there is still a waiting list of children who need a CASA volun-

teer. Clatsop CASA relies on community support to fund the recruitment, training and supervision of volunteers. Space is limited for this benefit event, and only 150 tickets will be sold; the celebration has sold out in the past. Tickets are $30 each, $225 for a table of eight or $275 for a table of 10. For tickets, call 503338-6063. For more information about Clatsop CASA, visit www.clatsop-casa.org

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Local author to lead workshop, reading

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Meet Melissa Eskue Ousley at Astoria Public Library ASTORIA — Are you an aspiring author seeking to strengthen your writing? Then you should head to the Astoria Public Library at 4 p.m. Saturday, March 4 for Let Your Characters Drive: A Fiction Writing Workshop. During the workshop, local author Melissa Eskue Ousley will teach you about character-driven fiction, offering writing techniques and exercises. This event is free and open to writers of all ages. Following the workshop, at 6 p.m., Eskue Ousley will read from her new book, “Sunset Empire.” The novel is a love letter to the Oregon Coast, blending local history and lore with fantasy. “Sunset Empire” showcases a number of sites readers may recognize, including Fort Stevens State Park, the Liberty Theater, Shively Park, and Astoria’s infamous underground tunnels. The author will discuss how regional history and legends inspired her writing. Eskue Ousley is an award-winning author specializing in adult and young adult fiction. Her debut book, “Sign of the Throne,” won a Readers’ Favorite Book Award and Eric Hoffer Book Award. Her third book, “The Sower Comes,” also won an Eric Hoffer Book Award. Having received her Ph.D. in higher education from The University of Arizona, Eskue Ousley has taught psychology courses and worked within higher education on diversity issues. Her expertise in psycholo-

SEASIDE — The Seaside First Saturday Art Walk, celebrating 13 years in 2017, is all about the arts. Visitors meet artists, view artist demonstrations, listen to art lectures or enjoy live performances in music. The next art walk will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday, March 4 in the historic downtown Gilbert District. The event is free and open to the public.

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Author Melissa Eskue Ousley will lead a workshop and give a book reading March 4 at Astoria Public Library.

SunRose Gallery 606 Broadway Visit with owner/artist Cathy Tippin who creates broken china mosaics in the French tradition. Colorful and inspiring, SunRose features the spectrum of creative recycle art to fine art mosaics by local, regional and nationally known artists. SunRose also offers artful women’s accessories, gifts, home decor and eclectic garden art. Moxie, Shine On! 609 Broadway Moxie features jewelry and art where everything is handmade. As a member of the Fair Trade Federation, Moxie demonstrates an equitable approach to conducting business. Find fair trade and handmade clothing, jewelry and home decor.

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“Sunset Empire” by Melissa Eskue Ousley.

gy and her interest in culture and mythology heavily influence the themes and character development in her fiction. For more information, contact the author at solasbeir@gmail. com The Astoria Public Library is located at 450 10th St. This event is part of the library’s Meet the Author series. For more information, contact library staff at comments@ astorialibrary, or visit www.astorialibrary.org

A mosaic at SunRose Gallery.

Fairweather House & Gallery 612 Broadway Fairweather will host an opening reception for “Irish Lands,” a show featuring Seaside artist Michael Muldoon and Gearhart photographer Richard Newman, who both traveled to Ireland for the first time, on separate trips, and have created signature art to document their experiences. Muldoon, a graduate of Seaside High School, is an interpretive oil painter who loves color and strives to use it to represent dimensions of shadow, light and shapes. Painting with both a brush and a knife, he creates original oils. His artistic journey followed years of teaching, coaching, West Point Military Academy and sales. “One of my favorite things from Ireland was visiting these places and viewing these iconic pieces of history dating back eight or nine hundred years,” he says. Newman especially likes to take photos of landscapes and historical

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“Celtic High Cross” by Michael Muldoon at Fairweather’s.

objects. He has traveled to Europe nine times and visited 29 countries. Photographer and naturalist Neal Maine will speak at 6 p.m. Muldoon will offer a live painting demonstration. Adult beverages, light refreshments and live music by Shirley 88 await visitors. Beach Books 616 Broadway Beach Books will feature work by artist Jim Zaleski, who combines the traditional art forms of painting and drawing with a computer world to produce art loaded with whimsy. Zaleski returns with an eclectic show that will include new works. He creates abstract prints full of intense, saturated colors and shimmering, atmospheric light. In addition, Seaside author Honey

“Central Mountain” by Billy Lutz at T.anjuli’s.

Perkel will release her newest book, “The Legend of Hattie Springfield” with a reading at 5:30 p.m. In this book set in 1904 Astoria, a man and his demons and a wife and her dreams weave a chilling tale of obsession and intrigue. A prominent banker’s wife unexpectedly dies of diphtheria — or did she? Questions surrounding her death start to get unraveled by her visiting eccentric aunt, leading to uncovered secrets of desire and murder. The Columbia River Ukulele Players will perform at 6 p.m. This group plays the ukulele while jamming with harmonica players.

T.anjuli Gallery 7 N. Holladay Drive T.anjuli features the work of artist/ philosopher Billy Lutz. His artwork focuses on what lies beneath appearances. “Central Mountain,” the featured art for March, is a roof window that connects inside to outside, looking down. Participating restaurants: Guido and Vito’s, 604 Broadway; Tora Sushi, 619 Broadway; Nonni’s Bistro, 831 Broadway; Yellow Curry Thai, 20 N. Holladay Drive SUBMITTED PHOTOS

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Main photo: Pictured is a stage left view of the Coaster Theatre’s interior this year after the remodel. The new theater seats are dark brown and black with gold tones. Gold velvet curtains replaced the red, water-stained stage and side curtains, and carpeting in shades of tan and chocolate has been installed. Insert: Pictured are seats in the Coaster Theatre in 2016, before the remodel. These 180 seats installed in the theater 45 years ago came from Lincoln Hall at Portland State University.

AUDIENCES AT THE COASTER THEATRE WILL BE TREATED TO A REMODEL AND THE POPULAR AGATHA CHRISTIE MURDER MYSTERY ‘THE MOUSETRAP’ By NANCY MCCARTHY

hen the Coaster Theatre Playhouse begins its season March 3, the audience will see more than the opening of a new play. It will see a newly remodeled space. With new seats, curtains, carpeting and paint, the Coaster is celebrating its 45th anniversary this year. The theater was a dream realized

by early Cannon Beach builder Maurie Clark, who purchased the Waves Roller Rink and remodeled it in 1972. The 180 seats installed in the theater 45 years ago came from Lincoln Hall at Portland State University. Although they were refurbished at least once during the past four decades, the seats needed repairs, and parts were no longer available, said Patrick Lathrop, the theater’s executive director. The new seats are dark brown and black with gold tones.

Gold velvet curtains replaced the red, water-stained stage and side curtains, and carpeting in shades of tan and chocolate has been installed. “We tried to take the natural wood in the walls of the theater and bring out its warmth,” Lathrop said. Lathrop also is excited about the mural that will be painted on the theater’s back wall. Against a dark green background will be a menagerie of gold animals familiar to the North Coast —

elk, deer, salmon and even a bunny or two romping in leaves. The theater’s 45th anniversary also is being celebrated by bringing back some of the plays that proved popular in previous years. They include “Barefoot in the Park,” “Steel Magnolias,” “Clue: the Musical,” “Blithe Spirit” and, what was the Coaster’s tradition for many years, “A Christmas Carol.”

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Continued from Pg. 8 Opening the season is Agatha Christie’s “The Mousetrap,” which first opened in London in 1952 and has run almost continuously since then. The play will run at the Coaster through April 15. Lon time North Coast director Susi Brown attributes the play’s popularity to its playwright. Agatha Christie, said Brown, created characters who are familiar to her audiences. “People can see themselves in her plays or in her books,” Brown said. “She’s quite the trickster, and people like to be surprised.” In “The Mousetrap,” a group of strangers is stranded in a guest house run by newly married couple. When a murder occurs, suspicion is cast on everyone there: a spinster with a curious background, an architect who enjoys cooking, a cranky jurist, a retired army major and an uninvited guest whose car overturned in a snow storm. It’s up to a police sergeant, who skis to the manor, to find the killer who whistles “Three Blind Mice.” Since she was asked to direct the play, Brown has been sleuthing for clues herself, cleverly played out in Christie’s script through the actors’ movements and dialogue. It has been fun, she said. “I like mysteries.” A frequent director at the former River Theater and owner of the former Pier Pressure Productions in Astoria, Brown approaches the play academically, probably due to 27 years of teaching literature, theater, speech, dance and art in the Knappa School District. She also has a master’s of fine arts degree in theater direction. She read the play at least five times and wrote notes on it before casting it. She also consulted a stack of books about “The Mousetrap” and Agatha Christie. Although she directed the play at Knappa

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As with any murder mystery, everyone in “The Mousetrap” has a secret, and Detective Sergeant Trotter is trying to determine what those secrets are. From left, are Mrs. Boyle (Toni Ihander), Mollie Ralston (Emily Dante), Trotter (David Sweeney), Mr. Paravicini (Don Conner), Giles Ralston (William Ham), Miss Casewell (Heather Neuwirth), Major Metcalf (Frank Jagodnik) and Christopher Wren (Tim Garvin). Not pictured is Richard Bowman, who also plays Christopher Wren.

High School and saw performances of it in London and again in Astoria, Brown still had “tons of questions” about Christie’s intention. “There were a lot of details,” Brown said. “I had to ask, ‘Why is that happening?’” While she prepares herself thoroughly as a director, Brown still wants her cast to bring their own insight into the characters they play. Her cast includes actors ranging from Nehalem to Washington’s Long Beach Peninsula. All have appeared on the Coaster stage before.

Uppermost in her mind is maintaining the surprise for the audience. To do that, the actors must get “underneath” their characters’ multi-dimensional personalities so their responses to each other are natural onstage and contribute to the story being told, Brown said. The audience, then, can enjoy picking up clues of its own. If an actor is confused about some dialogue or movement, Brown will discuss with him or her the character’s “back story.” Sometimes she needs to tell a brief bit of history about mid-century England or talk about

some aspect of British culture. At other times, she provides some vocal techniques for those doing British or Italian accents. The cast members — both the seasoned and those who are less experienced — have absorbed the personalities Christie developed. They will keep the audience interested — and guessing — until the big reveal, Brown said. “I just feel like a person who inherited a beautiful crystal bowl of candy with this cast,” she said. “This has been a real treat.” Christie’s play is more than a mystery, Brown said. It’s also a description about what it was like to resume life after World War II. “Food was still being rationed. People were going through a very hard time,” she said. “What happened to people who had hopes and dreams?” Mollie and Giles Ralston (played by Emily Dante and William Ham), married only a year, represent the young generation facing an optimistic future, who experience the “relief of coming out of the war and possibly feeling giddy, asking themselves, ‘What are we going to do now?’” They also represent a change in a culture where hasty war marriages were made without parental vetting or consent. “What once was is no longer,” Brown said. Brown literally wears the play on her collar at every rehearsal: She attaches three mouse pins on her jacket or blouse. Her mother also collected mouse pins. “I think I have, at present count, probably 12 different sets of three mice,” Brown said, checking out a cute wooden mouse pin with green ears and a long leather tail. If she forgets to adorn her jacket, there’s a mouse pin on her rehearsal bag. “I would be completely unnerved if I showed up one day without a mouse,” Brown said.

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William Ham as Giles Ralston, Emily Dante as Mollie Ralston, David Sweeney as Detective Sergeant Trotter in “The Mousetrap.”

Heather Neuwirth, as Miss Casewell, dances to the “Flight of the Bumblebee,” to annoy the cranky Mrs. Boyle, played by Toni Ihander in the murder mystery “The Mousetrap,” opening March 3 at the Coaster Theatre in Cannon Beach.

What: The Mousetrap, opening the 45th anniversary of the Coaster Theatre Playhouse Where: Coaster Theatre Playhouse, 108 N. Hemlock St., Cannon Beach When: 7:30 p.m. March 3 to April 15; Sunday matinees are 3 p.m. March 12, 26 and April 2 Who: Directed by Susi Brown and performed by: David Sweeney, Emily Dante, William Ham, Toni Ihander, Frank Jagodnik, Heather Neuwirth and Donald Conner. Richard Bowman and Tim Garvin share a role.

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COA S T W E E K E N D C A L E N DA R Friday, March 3 thriller that follows two playwrights who were once successful crime writers and are now struggling to write their next hit show.

Thursday, March 2 “Bye Bye Birdie” 7 p.m., Seaside High School, 1901 Holladay Drive, Seaside, 503738-5586, $4 to $8, all ages. “Bye Bye Birdie: A Musical Comedy” is a family friendly musical loosely based on Elvis’ journey into the Army in the 1950s. Ales & Ideas 7 p.m., Fort George Lovell Showroom, 426 14th St., free, all ages. Clatsop Community College professor Julie Brown will speak about the history of the Lady Washington, the replica of a 1789 merchant brig that sails from Seattle to San Diego each year. She will also discuss her time working as a deckhand aboard the ship. Coast Weekend welcomes comments and contributions from readers.

“A Sting in the Tale” 7 p.m., Barn Community Playhouse, 1204 Ivy Ave., Tillamook, 503-842-7940, $10 to $15. TAPA presents “A Sting in the Tale,” a witty, comedy

“Bye Bye Birdie” 7 p.m., Seaside High School, 1901 Holladay Drive, Seaside, 503-738-5586, $4 to $8, all ages. “Bye Bye Birdie: A Musical Comedy” is a family friendly musical loosely based on Elvis’ journey into the Army in the 1950s.

“The Mousetrap” 7:30 p.m., Coaster Theatre Playhouse, 108 Hemlock St., Cannon Beach, 503-436-1242, $20 to $25, rated PG. “The Mousetrap” follows the tale of a group of strangers, a blizzard and an unknown killer that culminates to the famous Agatha Christie switch finish.

Saturday, March 4 PBL Tournaments 8 a.m., Seaside, Warrenton, Astoria, 503-717-4308. Enjoy the excitement of the annual Pacific Basketball League tournaments held at schools in Seaside, Warrenton and Astoria. Gearhart ArtWalk 2 to 5 p.m., multiple venues, Gearhart. Celebrate creative art forms during the monthly Gearhart ArtWalk at businesses and galleries in Gearhart. Look for the “Welcome to the Shore” flag at participating merchants. Learn more on Page 13.

Preserving the Past 2 p.m., Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum, 115 Lake St., Ilwaco, Wash., 360-642-3446. Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum welcomes Keith Cox of Stony Point Pictures, who will lecture on “The Ilwaco Tribune Photograph Project.” UnWined 5:30 to 8 p.m., Liberty Theatre, 1203 Commercial St., Astoria, 503-325-5922, $35, 21 +. Sample award winning wines during this tasting event following the wine

competition for the 2017 Crab, Seafood and Wine Festival; live music and appetizers provided. “Fish Eyes” 5:30 p.m., Clatskanie Middle High School, 471 Bel Air Drive, Clatskanie, 503-3080671, $10, all ages. “Fish Eyes” takes the audience on a fun tour through the gospels as seen by two ordinary

fishermen; a benefit for Clatskanie Baptist church, includes a silent auction, raffle, bake sale, refreshments and music by Leah Newton. Artist Reception 6 to 9 p.m., NCRD Gallery, 36155 9th St., Nehalem, 503-368-7008. Join artist Alysha Graham Picard at an opening reception of her work, includes an artist talk, storytelling and interactive audience participation. Author Reading 6 p.m., Astoria Public Library, 450 10th St., Astoria, 503-3257323, free. Melissa Eskue Ousley, author of “Sunset Empire” will be featured, followed

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by a book signing. “A Sting in the Tale” 7 p.m., Barn Community Playhouse, 1204 Ivy Ave., Tillamook, 503-842-7940, $10 to $15. TAPA presents “A Sting in the Tale,” a witty, comedy thriller that follows two playwrights who were once successful crime writers and are now struggling to write their next hit show. “Bye Bye Birdie” 7 p.m., Seaside High School, 1901 Holladay Drive, Seaside, 503738-5586, $4 to $8, all ages. “Bye Bye Birdie: A Musical Comedy” is a family friendly musical loosely based on Elvis’ journey into the Army in the 1950s.

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“The Mousetrap” 7:30 p.m., Coaster Theatre Playhouse, 108 Hemlock St., Cannon Beach, 503-436-1242, $20 to $25, rated PG. “The Mousetrap”

follows the tale of a group of strangers, a blizzard and an unknown killer that culminates to the famous Agatha Christie switch finish.

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Seaside Art Walk 5 to 7 p.m., enjoy original artwork, live music and refreshments during Seaside’s monthly First Saturday Art Walk, includes artists receptions and demonstrations. Look for the art walk signs at participating merchants.

Sunday, March 5 “A Sting in the Tale” 2 p.m., Barn Community Playhouse, 1204 Ivy Ave., Tillamook, 503-842-7940, $10 to $15. TAPA presents “A Sting in the Tale,” a witty, comedy thriller that follows two playwrights who were once successful crime writers and are now struggling to write their next hit show. Afternoon with the Arts 3 to 6 p.m., Northwest Carriage Museum, 314 Alder St., Raymond, Wash., 360-942-4150. Join author Jan Bono, photographer Cathy Russ and songwriter Jessica Marie Porter for a talk on their latest projects and their work process, followed by book and CD signings.

Tuesday, March 7 Open Rehearsal 6:30 p.m., Cannon Beach Community Church, 132 W. Washington St., Cannon Beach, free. The North Oregon Coast Symphony will hold a free open rehearsal in advance of the symphony’s concerts in

Nehalem and Astoria March 10 and 12. Ric’s Poetry Mic 7 p.m., WineKraft, 80 10th St., Astoria, 503-468-0206, 21 +. Sign up at 6:45 p.m. to read poetry or a short story at this monthly poetry open mic.

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PBL Tournaments 7 p.m., Seaside, Warrenton, Astoria, 503-717-4308. Enjoy the excitement of the annual Pacific Basketball League tournaments held at schools in Seaside, Warrenton and Astoria.

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Every Kid Ready to Read 5:30 p.m., Astor Elementary School, 3550 Franklin Ave., Astoria, free. Parents and their children age birth to 5 are welcome to this free class to learn reading activities.

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Thursday, March 9 Bountiful Backyards 2 p.m., Ocean Park Library, 1308 256th Place, Ocean Park, Wash., 360665-4184, adults. Join author Maggie Stuckey as she introduces the easy world of growing vegetables in a container garden. Business After Hours 5:30 p.m., Bank of the Pacific, 303 11th St., Astoria, 503-325-6311, free. Sponsored by the Astoria Warrenton Chamber of Commerce, Business After Hours provides a social networking opportunity for members and business owners to meet and mingle. CASA Celebration 6 p.m., Bridgewater Bistro, 20 Basin St., Astoria, $30, 503338-6063. The annual CASA celebration benefit is an evening

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Northwest Throwdown

5 p.m., Tolovana Inn, 3400 Hemlock St., Cannon Beach, $40, 21 +. Taste 12 award-winning wines of different varietals, cast your vote for best wine, enjoy chef-designed light bites and pairings at the Thursday Night Throwdown kick off event for Savor Cannon Beach; limited tickets available.

of small bites, wine, a dessert auction and raffle to raise money for advocacy services for children and youth; advance ticket purchase recommended, tables available. LNWC Speaker Series 6:30 p.m., Pine Grove

Nature Matters

7 p.m., Fort George Lovell Showroom, 426 14th St., Astoria, 503-861-4443, free. Guest speaker Quinn Reed will give a presentation on Northwest orcas and their need for Oregonians.

Community Center, 225 Laneda Ave., Manzanita, free. Join Paul Atwood of Oregon Dept. of Fish & Wildlife for a presentation exploring common wildlife species that use coastal estuaries; presentation begins at 7:20 p.m.

Wednesday, March 8 Fascination Benefit 6 p.m., Funland Arcade, 201 Broadway, Seaside, 503738-7393, $25 each, $100 team, 21 +. Bob Chisholm Community Center commission members will host a Fascination Tournament fundraiser for the Main Hall Refresh Project, includes

food, drink and fun; sign up required. Salty Talks 6:30 p.m., Salt Hotel & Pub, 147 Howerton Ave., Ilwaco, Wash., free. Learn about the changes in the beaches and dunes from Kathleen Sayce, who will talk about non-native plants; open to the public.

HRAP Lecture Series 7 p.m., Cannon Beach Library, 131 Hemlock St., Cannon Beach, 503436-1391, free. Haystack Rock lecture series will feature Tommy Swearingen presenting “Oregon Marine Reserves: An Overview of the Human Dimensions Research Program.”

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Fort George’s Festival of Dark Arts is a choose-your-own-stout adventure Review and photos by MOUTH OF THE COLUMBIA

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Something was afoot Saturday afternoon, Feb. 18 in downtown Astoria. Despite the drizzle, an effervescence prevailed. The sidewalks were dotted with throngs of young, hip-but-appropriately-weather-clad professionals, all wide-eyed and a little louder, friendlier and sudsier than usual. They were streaming to and from the Fort George campus for the hallowed Festival of Dark Arts. Approaching Duane Street, the thrum grew. Music blared from speakers and second-story windows. Crowds gathered under tents and spilled from one building to the next, all cradling little snifters sloshing with black brew. At the entrance, along with the snifter, ticket holders were presented a handful of wooden tasting tokens (12) and an elegantly designed passport — a festival guidebook. “February is Stout Month at Fort George Brewery,” the introduction read. “The shortest and darkest month is the perfect time to showcase the immense variety hidden within this style of beer.” Indeed, the timing is right — February is the nadir of the North Coast’s incessantly dreary winters. And like so many who get creative when pounding weather locks us in, Fort George’s preferred outlet is stout. As co-owner Jack Harris once told The Daily Astorian: “The great thing about stouts is that they’re really accepting of almost anything you want to throw into them. They’re really an excellent food-y kind of beer. There is just this incredible variety of ﬂavor and aroma and mouth feel and texture that you can get.” The Festival of Dark Arts is not just the culmination of Stout Month but Fort George’s year at large. In just its ﬁfth iteration, the event has become a destination. Tickets sell out weeks in advance. I met revelers who came from great

The Scotch egg made for an ideal festival food: portable, hot and a nugget of protein.

distances. One couple traveled all the way from Alaska. They made the pilgrimage last year too. Besides the 60-plus stouts — 16 of which were crafted at Fort George, the others from mostly Northwest breweries — the hundreds of revelers enjoyed myriad live arts, including metal smithing, tattooing, ice carving, dancing and a full slate of live music. Tipping back a glass to the soft, psychedelic pop wash of Portland’s Jackson Boone, the Mouth was in his happy place. The dozens and dozens of stouts — more than any human short of Andre the Giant could sample in a day — were scattered about at eight pouring stations, each with different selections. Part of the fun is devising one’s own tasting expedition. To that end, the passport, with its list of beers, details and locations, is integral. (Lovely as it is, there’s room for improvement: Rather than alphabetically, beers should be organized by location.) In it I scrawled notes and highlighted batches I’d like to sample. I can only imagine the lengths to which stout fanatics took the exploration and cataloging. My ﬁrst pour came in the shining din of the Lovell building: Fort George’s own Matryoshka w/

The wood-fired pizza on the festival’s menu made for a great accompaniment to the stout on tap at Fort George Brewery’s Festival of Dark Arts.

Cocoa Nibs. I traded three tokens for a 3-ounce pour. (Tokens cost $1 each, and beers were exchanged for one to three tokens.) Among the towering tanks, I smelled then sipped the Matryoshka. It was deep, rich, thick and syrupy sweet like molasses. Aged in bourbon barrels, there was indeed that oak-y wooden, booze-y hint. And at 12 percent alcohol by volume, it was strong — certainly denser, heavier and more complex than what we normally think of as beer. These would be baseline essences throughout the day: enveloping, burly, bottomless. (Bourbon barrel-aged stouts would also become a recurring theme.) Next I went for another of Fort George’s: the All Seeing Pie. It ﬁnished with holiday-evoking wisps of apple pie ﬁlling and cinnamon. Around Thanksgiving or Christmas it would make a marvelous substitute for eggnog. But, of course, there’s a stout for that too: Fort George’s Keg Nog was viscous and milky, with the requisite twinkle of cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg. With an ABV of just 5 percent, however, it wasn’t nearly as stiff as many of the competing titans. Indeed, stouts truly run the gamut.

And, as such, I was in need of a shakeup, overwhelmed by the intensely sugary stouts I’d sampled. I sought to break the trend and did so with Sunriver Brewing’s El Rey Mexican Imperial Stout. Spicy chili peppers afforded a chiseled, serrated edge. Fort George’s Itsy Bitsy Stout, a 4.2 percent Irish Dry Stout, too had a lightness and welcoming bitterness that belied a dark complexion. Like the scattered taps, there was plenty of food too, all provided by Fort George. Though I sampled a reasonable amount, in deference to stout I’ll try to be brief. First, for a beer-centric festival, the food could’ve been more entwined with beer — I mean, heck, they were painting with stout. Some food selections — like fish and Scotch eggs — were beer battered, and those salt bombs provided necessary ying to the sugary stout’s yang. The fish was fine, but the Scotch Egg ($4) — like a baseball on a skewer — was absolutely ideal for the fest. Steaming hot and edible with one hand, the shell was crunchy, the sausage herby, and the egg precisely cooked. It was a much-needed nugget of protein that wouldn’t require a nap — and, hence, leave room for more stout.

The Mac and Cheese ($8 to $9) was the opposite, an anchor that was overpriced and had nonexistent flavor. The pizza emerging from that same wood-fired oven ($4 a slice), was much, much better, with a perfect crust. Back to the stouts: The Kolossos, from The Commons brewery, had a pinch of citrus derived from orange peel, but it stuck close to the mean. The Suge Knight, from one of my preferred breweries, Boneyard, had an eye-catching, perhaps controversial name, but a smooth character that was the opposite of the eponymous rap mogul. The Kaiju too, from Fort George, hardly felt “destructive” as it was described, though the black tea it included was a welcome tweak. But to that end, I wished for a few more far-out concoctions — something like the briny stout Fort George made a few years ago by running the beer through a few bushels of oysters. It’s wholly possible that those high-concept stouts were out there, somewhere on the campus, and I just hadn’t found them. To be fair, for as much as I was seeking, I too let the beers find me. (And some taps, like the one from the highly sought after, small-batch pFriem Family Brewers, blew early in the day.) As the 10 p.m. closing time neared, I wondered if maybe the rich flavors were running together, blurring in my palate. Then I had Great Notion Brewing’s Double Stack. Made with coffee and “boatloads of Vermont maple syrup,” it was familiar and robust, creamy like coffee ice cream. It was at once a member of the stout family I’d grown accustomed to over the evening and yet strikingly vivid. But just like that, my pockets swollen with more wooden tasting tokens, the Festival of Dark Arts was over — like the daylight in February, gone too soon.

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Local coastal symphony presents winter concerts Hear music by Handel, Vivaldi

NEHALEM, ASTORIA and CANNON BEACH —The North Oregon Coast Symphony, under the direction of conductor Cory Pederson, will present its winter concert series, “The North Oregon Coast Symphony Goes Baroque” this March. Musical selections will be performed by the symphony’s chamber string ensemble, as well as members of the symphony’s woodwind, brass and percussion sections. The first concert will take place at 7 p.m. Friday, March 10 at the North County Recreational District auditorium, located at 36155 Ninth St. in Nehalem. The second concert will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 12 at the Clatsop Community College Performing Arts Center, located at 588 16th St. in Astoria. Admission for these concerts will be $15 for adults, $10 for seniors 65 and older, and free for children under 12 with adult supervision. There will also be an open rehearsal held at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 7at the Cannon Beach Community Church, located at 132 E. Washington St. in Cannon Beach. All concerts are family friendly. The programs will include such selections as George Frederic Handel’s “Music for the Royal Fireworks,” “Water Music,” and “Lascia Ch’io Pianga” from “Rinaldo,” featuring soprano vocalist Janice Wall. Vivaldi’s “Flute Concerto No. 2 in G minor” will be performed by the symphony’s string ensemble with Shelly Loring as solo flautist. The second movement from Vivaldi’s “Winter” Concerto No. 4 in F Minor

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will feature concert master Angela Calvin-Pederson on violin. The North Oregon Coast Symphony also announces openings for musicians and board member positions. There are ongoing opportunities for community members to become involved as performing musicians or support staff. The symphony is open to all members of the northwest Oregon and southwest Washington community who are interested in playing or supporting classical music, and all are encouraged to seek membership at any time. This all-volunteer symphony is committed to growing into a sustainable arts organization for the benefit of the community, offering concerts, trios and quartets for events, musical education and scholarships for K-12 students. The symphony is actively seeking string players. If you play violin, viola, cello or string bass and are interested in rehearsing and performing in a local ensemble, contact director Cory Pederson at 503-836-2198 or nocscory@ gmail.com If you would like to volunteer in any capacity or are interested in serving on the board of directors, call Nancy Giasson at 630-5250566. For more information about the North Oregon Coast Symphony, visit www. NorthOregonCoastSymphony.org

Savor wine, food in Cannon Beach CANNON BEACH — Unique wine experiences with a focus on Northwest wines and regional cuisine are planned for the Savor Cannon Beach Wine & Culinary Festival, taking place March 9 to 12. Highlighting Northwest wines and regional cuisine, the Savor Cannon Beach festival offers a four-day lineup of wine, culinary and arts events in one of the Pacific Northwest’s most popular destinations: Cannon Beach. A series of festival events focus on specific themes that showcase the bounty of Northwest wine and cuisine while the town’s restaurants, galleries and shops feature a weekend full of tastings, special dinners and cultural events. Most of the wine tasting events are intimate and are limited to less than 150 participants, though the largest event of the festival, the Saturday wine walk, accommodates several hundred wine tasters who can visit approximately 40 Northwest wineries pouring tastings at Cannon Beach art galleries, restaurants and retail shops, all within easy walking distance in this compact beach community. Participating wineries represent many of the wine-growing regions in Oregon and Washington. Other festival wine-tasting events showcase award-winning or notable wines from the Pacific Northwest and cuisine prepared by talented local chefs. The festival kicks off on Thursday, March 9 with Best of the Northwest, a wine-tasting “throwdown,” where participants taste 12 selected wines representing different wine growing regions of Oregon and Washington, then vote on their favorites to determine the evening’s top wines. A menu of light bites designed to pair with the evening’s featured wines will be served by three-time Iron Chef Goes Coastal champion Jonathan Hoffman.

THURSDAY, MARCH 9 Best of the Northwest 5 to 7 p.m. Taste 12 award-winning or notable wines representing different wine-growing regions of Oregon and Washington, and vote for your favorites. Includes a selection of light bites. Location: Tolovana Inn (3400 S. Hemlock) Price: $40

FRIDAY, MARCH 10 Winemaker’s Premium Pours 1 to 4 p.m. Five Northwest wineries will share three special wines. Offerings will include library wines, verticals, horizontals or reserve wines. This is a drop-in wine tasting event. Location: Tolovana Inn (3400 S. Hemlock) Price: $40

Wine & Gallery Walk 6 to 8 p.m. Visit participating Cannon Beach galleries, each hosting a Northwest winery and serving light appetizers. Check-in begins at 5:30 p.m. at the Community Hall (207 N. Spruce) Price: $40

SATURDAY, MARCH 11 Taste Like an Expert 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Learn to taste wine like a expert in this educational program with wine competition facilitators Hank and Nancy Sauer. Location: Tolovana Inn (3400 S. Hemlock) Price: $20 Savor Cannon Beach Wine Walk 1 to 5 p.m. Taste wines from approximately 40 Northwest wineries pouring tastings as you make the rounds of Can-

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Taste wines from about 40 different Northwest wineries during the Savor Cannon Beach Wine Walk on March 11.

On Sunday, participants can indulge in Gold Medal Wines & The Battle of the Bites, featuring 12 Gold Medal wines from the SavorNW

Wine Awards and appetizers offered by area chefs and restaurants. Participant votes determine which bite wins the battle.

non Beach art galleries, shops, restaurants and hotels. Proceeds benefit Clatsop Animal Assistance. Check-in begins at 11 a.m. at Coaster Theatre (108 N. Hemlock) Price: $40

SUNDAY, MARCH 12 Gold Medal Wines & The Battle of the Bites 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Taste 12 Gold Medal-winning wines from the SavorNW Wine Awards selected the previous week by some of the top wine judges in the Northwest. This event will also feature the Battle of the Bites prepared by area chefs and restaurants; and your vote will determine the winner. Location: Tolovana Inn (3400 S. Hemlock) Price: $40 Friday’s events include Winemaker’s Premium Pours, in which five Northwest wineries each pour three special wines that may include library wines, verticals, horizontals or reserve selections. Friday night’s Wine & Gallery Walk will lead participants through several popular Cannon Beach galleries hosting wineries from both Oregon and Washington. Individual tickets to festival events are $20 to $40 each, and a full Festival Pass good for admission to all festival tasting events is available for $195. Advance purchase is recommended, as events are limited in size and have sold out in past years. Tickets are available at www. savorcannonbeach.com. For additional information, call 503-717-1122.

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Find art activities at Astoria Art Loft Be creative with spring workshops

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See photos preserved from the former Tribune newspaper based in Ilwaco, Washington, by Keith Cox and Stony Point Pictures on March 4 at the Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum.

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Keith Cox and Stony Point Pictures is working to preserve the history of The Tribune newspaper of Ilwaco, Washington.

See the Ilwaco Tribune photo project Enjoy illustrated lecture by Keith Cox on March 4

ILWACO, Wash. — Did you know there used to be a newspaper in Ilwaco called The Tribune? Learn about the defunct newspaper, its history and the efforts to preserve it on Saturday, March 4 at the Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum. The museum will hold its Annual Meeting, open to the public, at 2 p.m. as well as an illustrated lecture by Keith Cox, of Stony Point Pictures. Inspired by the preservation efforts of his great-grandfather Frank Turner and grandparents Dick and Martha Murfin, Cox has captured some of the history of The Tribune newspaper. Cox is also inspired to follow in the footsteps of other great community preservationists by helping preserve the local history of greater Pacific County. Cox previously spent four years creating a video documentary series about oyster farming in Willapa Bay with Stony Point Pictures. After the project wrapped, he realized how important it was to help capture and preserve the stories and images of this

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A photo of Ilwaco from the now defunct Tribune newspaper.

community’s history. “As we continue to move deeper into a digital era, it comes with advantages and disadvantages in regards to preserving the days of old,” said Cox. “It’s important to inspire younger generations, who have a grasp on the technologies, to have interest in bringing our history up to date,” he continued. “With that comes the great advantage of sharing history through social media platforms, such as the Stony Point Pictures Facebook page, and others. We are able to not only reach larger numbers of folks who live all over the world, but encourage live discussions about history, which teaches and inspires others to want

to know more. The more we know, it seems the more we appreciate the value in why it should be preserved.” The Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum is located at 115 SE Lake St. For more information about the lecture or the museum’s preservation efforts, call 360-6423446.

Keith Cox will speak Saturday, March 4 about the Tribune newspaper.

MEETING AND LECTURE

ASTORIA — Art is for people of all ages, and the Astoria Art Loft has activities for the young and the not-so-young. Who doesn’t love to whittle and carve? You can create your own whimsical or realistic owl in an upcoming workshop with Brigitte Willse, master carver, who will supply ocean-worn driftwood, carving tools, basic carving and painting techniques. An accomplished artist, Willse specializes in recycling, and she works in many mediums. Her eye for design and her agile imagination enable her to inspire others to jump into the waters of creativity. Willse’s Owl Workhop will be from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, March 4 at the Astoria Art Loft, 106 Third St. The cost is $60 for all supplies and materials.

Willse’s imagination extends to young children too. She is inviting children from ages 4 to 6 or so to join her to meet and get acquainted with Wee Forest Folk on from 4 to 6 p.m. April 7, and from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 8. The Wee Forest Folk will be found at the Astoria Art Loft. Children will be encouraged to imagine, to create, and to enjoy a beautiful woodland with marvelous flowers, tiny cottages, incredible gardens, and special adventures and stories. A woodland picnic on April 8 will have tasty delights such as butterfly appetizers and toadstool cupcakes. For anyone who wants to have a child to stretch the imagination, to create art, to increase vocabulary and concepts, and have a memorable adventure, the Wee Forest Folk with Willsee is a great venue. The cost for the entire workshop is $60.

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Northwest Carriage Museum presents an Afternoon with the Arts on March 5

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Roosevelt elk are common native wildlife creatures in the Nehalem estuary.

What wildlife use the Nehalem estuary and why? MANZANITA — Estuaries are typically defined as the area where a river meets the sea or the site where freshwater and salt water mix. But estuaries and their surrounding wetlands are so much more than this simple definition. Estuaries are among the most productive ecosystems in the world and are critical for the health and vitality of communities around the world. They act as a sink for nutrient-rich sediments, filter water before it flows into the ocean and act as a buffer protecting communities from coastal storms. Estuaries are home to unique plant and animal communities that have adapted to regular tide cycles and changing flows from the river. Many animals rely on estuaries for food, as places to breed and as migration stopovers. Locally, the Nehalem estuary spans more than 2,800 acres and encompasses a variety of habitats from freshwater streams, Spruce swamps, tidal sloughs, salt marshes and much more. During its next Speaker Series event, the Lower

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Great blue herons are often spotted in river estuaries.

Nehalem Watershed Council will welcome Paul Atwood, assistant district wildlife biologist with Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, for a presentation exploring some of the common wildlife species that use coastal Oregon estuaries, including Nehalem Bay and the habitats that each species relies on. The event will be held Thursday, March 9 at the Pine Grove Community House, located at 225 Laneda Ave. in Manzanita. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for

refreshments. The presentation will start at 7:20 p.m. following an update from Lower Nehalem Watershed Council at 7 p.m. Atwood’s presentation is scheduled just two days before the 10th Biennial Nehalem Estuary Cleanup and will highlight why a debris-free estuary is important for salmon, other wildlife and people. On March 11,over 100 volunteers will descend on the Nehalem estuary to remove trash and recyclables from around the bay. The all-day event culminates in an evening celebration with food, live music and socializing. The Nehalem Estuary Cleanup is organized by community partners Lower Nehalem Community Trust, Lower Nehalem Watershed Council, CARTM, Nehalem Bay State Park, North Coast Land Conservancy and Tillamook Estuaries Partnership, with additional support from local businesses and community members. To learn more about the cleanup or to register as a volunteer, visit www. nehalemtrust.org/events

RAYMOND, Wash. — On Sunday, March 5, enjoy an afternoon strolling among 50 historical, 19th-century, horse-drawn vehicles and meet three local talents at the Northwest Carriage Museum’s Afternoon with the Arts. Author Jan Bono, photographer Cathy Russ and singer-songwriter Jessica Marie Porter will be at the museum from 3 to 6 p.m. to share their latest projects, discuss their talents and sign books and CDs. Bono is a retired teacher-turned-author from Long Beach, Washington. She has recently completed a mystery series set on the southwest Washington coast. Her poetry and collection of humorous personal experience books will be available. Bono has written plays and has been published in a variety of magazines. Russ, a photographer, has been a resident of Pacific County for 20 years. She recently released “Barns,” a collection of old barns throughout Pacific County.

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See historic carriages up close, hear live music and meet a local photographer and writer at the Northwest Carriage Museum on March 5.

Her keen eye through the lens of her camera records history and nature. Come talk photos with Russ, and enjoy her new book. Porter began writing songs as a young woman growing up on the Willapa River. After temporarily abandoning her dreams to be a working musician, she has returned to her roots, writing distinctive songs and playing music. Her latest CD will be available at the event, and Porter will

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Register for writing, creative thinking workshop Peninsula Arts Center hosts singer-songwriters ILWACO, Wash. — What have you lost in life? What does it mean to be lost? What do you hope to ﬁnd? What found you when you least expected it? Explore these questions and more in a writing and creative thinking workshop, “Lost and Found,” taught by Astoria author and publisher Matt Love, on March 18 in Ilwaco, Washington. “I’ve lost and found a lot in my personal and professional life lately,” said Love, “and I think this class will help others who’ve experienced similar upheavals and discoveries.” Based in part on Rebecca Solnit’s book “A Field Guide to Getting Lost,” where she

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In this writing and creative thinking workshop, participants will consider the lost and found in their lives.

writes, “Never to get lost is not to live…,” the workshop hopes to recruit an eclectic group of people wanting to learn from one another. “I think this workshop would be of keen interest not

only to writers, but also educators, artists, counselors, therapists and those of us who have lost something important and seek, unwittingly or not, to ﬁnd something new along the way. Isn’t that about everyone?” said Love. In the workshop, Love will present a series of short readings, thinking exercises, props (including a recently found message in a bottle), songs and writing prompts that encourage participants to consider the lost and found in their lives. The intent is for attendees to record, share and discuss their responses and conclude

by each ﬁnishing a poem or piece of prose connected to the “lost and found” theme. Or it could be a piece of art, musical composition or knitting outcome. Love is the publisher of Nestucca Spit Press. He’s the author/editor of 17 books about Oregon. He’s taught writing workshops at Portland State University, University of Oregon, Hoffman Center for the Arts, Willamette University, Paciﬁc University, Clackamas Community College, and the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology. In 2009, Love won the Oregon Literary Arts’ Stewart H. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award for his contributions to Oregon history and literature. His website is www.nestuccaspitpress.com The workshop runs from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Ilwaco in a private home. The class costs $60 and will cap at 12 participants. Participants will pay at the beginning of the workshop. Scholarships are also available. To register, email Love at nestuccaspitpress@gmail.com or call 503-812-1524.

LONG BEACH, Wash. — When artists Beth Whitney and Bradford Loomis began writing together they had no idea their casual co-writing experiment would blossom into the award-winning, critically acclaimed album “The Banner Days.” That ﬁrst night, they wrote “My Beloved” in two hours. The Peninsula Arts Center welcomes singer-songwriters Beth Whitney and Bradford Loomis on stage at 7 p.m. Saturday, March 4. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. From the ﬁrst time Whitney and Bradford played together, along with Whitney’s husband and collaborator Aaron Fishburn, the chemistry has been powerful. The combination of Whitney’s delicate, melodious voice and Loomis’ soulful, growling tone makes for a heart-wrenching blend. Their dramatic crescendos and minimalistic intensity through intricate harmonies have elicited comparisons to The Civil Wars, the Swell Season, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss’ “Raising Sand.”

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Bradford Loomis and Beth Whitney will perform Saturday, March 4 in Long Beach.

With equal parts sweetly anthemic pop-tinged folk the duo’s gritty, passionate Americana roots sound, “The Banner Days” is an intrepid step for both artists that has garnered them awards. The Peninsula Arts Center is located at 504 N. Paciﬁc Ave. Admission is $15 at the door, online through Brown Paper Tickets, or call Bill at 360-9010962. Wine, beer and other refreshments are available for purchase.

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Essay anthology doesn’t go far enough By BARBARA LLOYD McMICHAEL

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writer/editor Marcia Aldrich shows how contemporary essays build on the energy and ideas of one another in the new anthology, “Waveform.” Aldrich, who also is an English professor at Michigan State University, curated this collection to focus on the diversity of essay structures in the 21st century. This is a showcase of experimentation — writers creating essays using lists, collage, photographs, graphic elements and letters; tinkering with style and tone and voice. And although she includes only essays that have been written by female practitioners of the form, Aldrich asserts that she isn’t focusing on women essayists for thematic purposes. Instead, she’s trying to correct an imbalance of exposure that prevails even in the 21st century: the work of female writers still doesn’t get published as frequently as that of their male counterparts. “Waveform” already is being hailed by academics as a great new resource for use in the college classroom, but there’s grist here for the general reader, too. Aldrich collected essays from around the country, but we’ll begin by looking at the contributions from Pacific Northwest writers. Portland author Cheryl Strayed’s piece, “Tiny Beautiful Things,” kicks things off with one of her “Dear Sugar” advice columns, in which she

“Waveform: Twenty-First-Century Essays by Women” edited by Marcia Aldrich University of Georgia Press, 256 pp., $29.95 counsels a 22-year-old from her 40-something self in the future. “Your life will be a great and continuous unfolding,” she promises, in the midst of reciting a litany of foolish and sometimes dangerous missteps taken along the way. “The useless days will add up to something,” she croons. Bellingham author Brenda Miller picks up a similar lament in “We Regret to Inform You,” crafting a series of rejection letters that trace the trajectory of life’s disappointment. She begins the essay with a rejection letter to an enthusiastic young artist whose picture of a tree is deemed unworthy of display in her grade school class. Then Miller

moves on to a letter that extinguishes the hopes of a tenth grader who dreamed of being the girlfriend of the star of the basketball team; and then to a letter to the thespian wannabe whose dreams of a future in theater are dashed by the college drama department. Thirteen letters across 37 years describe the power of “no” in shaping a life. As bleak as it sounds, Miller’s piece will inspire snickers of recognition, too. We’ve all had to bounce back from those smarmy rejections at one time or another. On the other hand, Chelsea Biondolillo is the rejector, not the rejectee, in her essay, “Toward a Partial Definition of Home.” “We left Portland together, in love;” she writes, “we left New Orleans together too, but troubled. When it came time to leave Santa Fe, we each left on our own.” This essay is a patchwork of places and incidents — the frayed edges are intentional. While there’s much to admire in “Waveform,” its emphasis on the personal essay ignores the impactful and mold-breaking pieces women are writing on politics, sports, international relations — let’s hope for an expanded edition soon. The Bookmonger is Barbara Lloyd McMichael, who writes this weekly column focusing on the books, authors and publishers of the Pacific Northwest. Contact her at bkmonger@nwlink.com

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[ɛl•si] noun 1. an unincorporated community in Clatsop County. Located on the mountainous terrain of the Northern Oregon Coast Range, Elsie sits near where the junction of U.S. Highway 26 and Oregon Route 103 crosses the Nehalem River as well as the confluence of West and East Humbug Creeks. Elsie is probably best known to travelers of U.S. Highway 26 for being the home of the restaurant and logging museum Camp 18, Sunset Coffee, Baker’s General Store and the Elderberry Inn Origin: Elsie is named in honor of Elsie Foster, a relative of George Gragg, who was the first postmaster, having established the Elsie Post Office in 1892. The post office closed in 1943. Gragg apparently wanted to originally name the community Clover, but the name was rejected and he settled on honoring his niece instead. Elsie is a British diminutive variant of the name Elizabeth, which arrives from the Greek version of the Hebrew name, ‫ ע ַ ב ׁ ֶש י ִ ל ֱא‬, or Elisheva, which roughly translates to “oath of God.” “Elsie, like so much on the Oregon Coast, is endangered. Lying on the edge of urban sprawl from Portland and gaining favor with

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The annual Camp 18 Logger’s Memorial Dedication and Logging Exhibition features an array of competitive events for students, from spur climbing, to double bucking, sawing and axe-throwing.

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A paean to local timber, Camp 18’s exterior features carvings of wildlife and people. —R.J. Marx, “More than a passthrough, Elsie is at crossroads,” Seaside Signal, Aug. 7, 2015, P. 4A

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The Elderberry Inn, along with Baker’s General Store, are the hub of Elsie.

those priced out of Cannon Beach, the green hills of Elsie may soon be more than a pass-through and secret sanctuary.”

“Expect to see lots of cool wood carvings throughout the Camp 18 facilities. The eye-catching marvel is a definite place to stop while driving Highway 26 in the Pacific Northwest. If you are visiting local communities like Seaside, Astoria, Cannon Beach, Nehalem, Wheeler or Portland, it’s a short and beautiful drive to Elsie!”

—Camp 18 Restaurant website, camp18restaurant.com

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