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Welcome to Our Coast Travelers look for the best-kept secret. Discovery is half the fun of travel. We never feel so alive as when we see and experience a unique place. Our Coast is feast for the spirit and the senses, a place of natural contentment and intense experience. Stand in the presence of North Head Lighthouse during a winter storm, the seafoam swirling around you hundreds of feet in the air, and you will find it impossible to remain the person you were. It is a place of ancient and subtle magic, of transformation. Climb the observation tower at Fort Stevens State Park and gasp in amazement as the National Motor Lifeboat School trains the nation’s lifesavers within the witch’s caldron of Clatsop Spit. You’ll swell with joy that they are so brave, and rejoice you don’t have to be. Walk in the footsteps of Lewis, Clark and Sacagawea here where their mission was accomplished on what would become the USA’s western shore, in large measure thanks to them. With a full moon rising above a jagged basalt ridge or calmly sinking on the far horizon, you’ll encounter the wonder they felt. Our villages inspire novels, sonnets, rock songs, picnics and parties. Oysterville is exactly the kind of gem that many travelers seek. In this second annual issue of Our Coast magazine, we spotlight this exceptionally historic place. But from Gearhart and Arch Cape to Seaview and Bay Center, this land is rich with eccentric, wide-awake communities. They weave themselves into your spirit.
Astoria, the oldest European-American settlement on the West Coast, has a fascinating blend of appealing traits. Loaded with egalitarian personality, it was the location of the cult Steven Spielberg movie “The Goonies” and really does contain all kinds of treasures – from Victorian-era homes to outstanding restaurants and galleries.
Our Coast is a feast for the spirit and the senses, a place of natural contentment and intense experience. Never far away is the profound, fundamental, life-affirming rumble of the wild north Pacific. Go to Cape Disappointment or Ecola State Park and follow this soul-swelling sound until it grows to a roar. Walk the beach, aware that the sands beneath your feet contain ghostly shipwrecks. Walk and take deep, life-giving breaths of air freshly made in the ocean depths. Come alive. Laugh. Spin around in the
sand until you fall down drunk with life. Don’t give a damn who sees. We all feel the same. Each issue of Our Coast features at least one example of the stellar outdoor-recreation menu. For 2013, Cassandra Profita takes us sea kayaking, while also giving tips on where to find more conventional river kayak excursions. Wildlife and bird watching, zip lines through the forest, surfing, bicycling, kiting, golfing, tennis – your options are limitless. Our Coast magazine aims to give you these kinds of clues about the region that spans the mouth of the Columbia River. Oregon’s North Coast and Washington’s Discovery Coast are the most historic portions of the Pacific Northwest Coast. Our Coast’s robust website is called discoverourcoast.com. It is packed with updated calendar and event information, photography, multimedia features and in-depth articles. Thank you for wanting to visit us. It’s Our Coast, but your being here only makes it better. Join the adventure.
Steve Forrester Publisher Our Coast magazine
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Feature stories
by these four Northwest travel writers
Coastal bridges A blend of artistry and engineering
BY MATT LOVE Publisher of Nestucca Spit Press
Oysterville The pearl of the Long Beach Peninsula
BY MATT WINTERS Editor of the Chinook Obsever in Long Beach, Wash.
On the road with MJ Cody Eating and sleeping can be fun on Our Coast
BY MJ CODY Editor of “Wild in the City”
Sea kayaking It takes skill and experience to paddle out to sea
BY CASSANDRA PROFITA Oregon Public Broadcasting environmental blogger and former Daily Astorian writer
STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERS ALEX PAJUNAS DAMIAN MULINIX
The pearl of the Long Beach Peninsula
On the road with MJ Cody
Eating and sleeping can be fun on Our Coast
Golf courses on Our Coast
A guide eight great coastal golf courses
Fortification for imagination
Building a sandcastle demands wit and grit
Sea kayaking
The Astoria Column
By one of Astoria’s most respected historians
Food, glorious food
Garden tours
Admiring other peoples gardens on Our Coast
The Lewis and Clark legacy
Roam amid the chrome
Summertime cruisin’ on Our Coast
Revved up about autos
A variety of car shows on Our Coast
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ADVERTISING DIRECTOR BETTY SMITH
Oysterville
Discover the adventure of the historic expedition
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EDITOR PATRICK WEBB
A blend of artistry and engineering
Astoria Sunday Market is good, local food
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DESIGN & LAYOUT JOHN D. BRUIJN
Coastal bridges
It takes skill and experience to paddle out to sea
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PUBLISHER STEVE FORRESTER
Inside Our Coast 8 12 20 28 30 34 38 40 44 48 54 56 58 62 66
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS BRAD BULCHUNOS DWIGHT CASWELL CATE GABLE HUGH McKENNA LYNETTE McADAMS DAN HAAG KATE GIESE JOHN GOODENBERGER Cover photo by Alex Pajunas
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The annual Astoria Music Festival
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Plus regional maps and directories Index of advertisers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Seaside/Gearhart map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Astoria/Warrenton map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Long Beach Peninsula map. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Cannon Beach/No. Tillamook Co. map. . . . . . 78 Our Coast Oregon Directory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Our Coast Washington Directory . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Visitor’s information resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
coastal bridges A blend of artistry and engineering • By MATT LOVE The Yaquina Bay Bridge at Newport is one of the most spectacular landmarks on the West Coast. — HUGH McKENNA PHOTO
McCullough’s engineering masterpieces are an Oregon treasure “From the dawn of civilization up to the present, engineers have been busily engaged in ruining this fair earth, and taking all the romance out of it – there is no romance nor poetry left in the world. If we only knew the truth, the decline of ancient Babylon and the complete dissolution of Sodom and Gomorrah were probably dated from the time they formed the first engineering society. “However, I don’t know that there is anything we can do about it.” — Mac
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Actually ”Mac,” as in Conde McCullough, who wrote the passage above to a friend in 1937, did do something about it. He built beautiful bridges along the Oregon Coast that we still use and admire today.
(72 percent in Newport) and seized the public’s imagination with their distinctive and wonderfully eccentric art deco flourishes, such as stylish, often soaring arches of green steel, beveled columns, concrete obelisks, ornate railings and pedestrian plazas.
In 1936, Oregon opened five new bridges along U.S. Highway 101 on its central coastline, ending an antiquated ferry system and ushering in a modern era of transportation and commerce. The Coast Bridges Project called for bridges in the fishing and logging towns of Coos Bay, Reedsport, Florence, Waldport and Newport. The project, financed by FDR’s newly created Public Works Administration, cost $3.4 million and all bridges were built in a little over two years. Workers were paid 45 cents an hour, and had a penny a day deducted for insurance compensation.
They have since become nationally renowned.
The bridges, the brainchild of McCullough, Oregon’s state bridge engineer for 18 years (1919 to 37), quickly boosted tourism
Newport’s Yaquina Bay Bridge is the undisputed crown jewel of McCullough’s legacy, the second most photographed bridge on the West Coast behind the Golden Gate. For more than 75 years it has stood magnificently as a monument to excellence in architecture and how a partnership between state and federal government in the throes of an economic calamity can produce something practical, beautiful and lasting. It is nothing less than an Oregon landmark and a powerful reminder how to build a great bridge. story continued next page
Several years ago, I moved to the Newport area and began a daily commute across the Yaquina Bay Bridge. In short order, I realized my driving across it was revolutionizing my whole aesthetic and understanding of civic engineering. I began photographing the bridge almost every day or night I traversed it. The weather never mattered. In fact, I almost preferred the rain and clouds to envelop the steel. Their presence always made for mysterious and striking photographs. Then at some point, I finally got out of my truck and began regularly crossing the bridge on foot and bicycle. One morning, while bicycling to work, I stopped on the sidewalk in the middle of the bridge and looked around: east, layers of orange lifted from behind the Coast Range; west, a trawler shot the gap between the jetties; below, sea lions swam to Newport’s bayfront; above, pelicans flew past in bumpy formation; ahead, a man holding a huge staff limped toward me; near, beads of water clung to the nuts and bolts of girders. A thought seized me: at this moment, I inhabit a distinct and beautiful piece of art that transcends a mere feat of elegant civil engineering. And I had just ridden right into it!
I collected incredible stories about the bridge from an eclectic range of Newport people, stories that would have never existed if McCullough hadn’t built something so graceful and transfixing. You don’t get romance or poetry from banal super slabs across rivers. Those kinds of bridges merely convey transportation: nothing else. McCullough’s bridges offer so much more. To really appreciate McCullough’s bridges, you have to stop your vehicle, get out of it, and inspect them up close. I mean, lay hands on them, listen to the ambience, read the plaques and watch people take photographs of them or just stare at their matchless attraction. Even better still, walk across one. If you do, I highly recommend you choose the Yaquina Bay Bridge. Walking across it is one of the highlights of experiencing the Oregon Coast.
To really appreciate McCullough’s bridges, you have to stop your vehicle, get out of it, and inspect them up close.
And it doesn’t cost a cent.
Conde McCullough Engineer Conde McCullough began working for the Oregon Department of Transportation in 1919 and worked for the agency, with one brief break working in Costa Rica, until his death in 1946. He also taught at Oregon State University and was an attorney. He designed 22 bridges in Oregon, including the Old Youngs Bay Bridge and the Lewis and Clark River Bridge. On his death, his final Oregon work, the Coos Bay Bridge, was renamed for him.
Designed by Engineer Conde McCullough
Oregon Coastal bridges
I even gave the Yaquina Bay Bridge a nickname: The Green Lady. Eventually, I produced a nonfiction book about the bridge (“Love & The Green Lady”) that blended memoir, essay, vignette, autobiography, letter, homework, meditation,
ode, coffee table book, commentary, oral history, polemic, curriculum and confession.
Bridge name Old Youngs Bay Bridge Oregon City Bridge Dry Canyon Creek Bridge Winchester Bridge Lewis and Clark River Bridge North Umpqua River Bridge Ellsworth Street Bridge Rocky Creek Bridge Depoe Bay Bridge Crooked River High Bridge Big Creek Bridge Ten Mile Creek Bridge Wilson River Bridge Rogue River Bridge Cape Creek Bridge Isaac Lee Patterson Bridge John McLoughlin Bridge Umpqua River Bridge Siuslaw River Bridge Alsea Bay Bridge Yaquina Bay Bridge Coos Bay Bridge
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Location Astoria, Oregon Oregon City, Oregon Near Rowena, Oregon Winchester, Oregon Astoria, Oregon Winchester, Oregon Albany, Oregon Lincoln County, Oregon Depoe Bay, Oregon Jefferson County, Oregon Lane County, Oregon Near Yachats, Oregon Tillamook County, Oregon Grants Pass, Oregon Near Heceta Head Gold Beach, Oregon Oregon City, Oregon Reedsport, Oregon Florence, Oregon Waldport, Oregon Newport, Oregon North Bend, Oregon
Year completed 1921 1922 1922 1923 1924 1924 1925 1927 1927 1926 1931 1931 1931 1931 1932 1932 1933 1936 1936 1936 1936 1936
Total length 1,766 feet 745 feet 101 feet 884 feet 828 feet 784 feet 1,090 feet 360 feet 312 feet 464 feet 180 feet 180 feet 180 feet 550 feet 619 feet 1,898 feet 720 feet 2,206 feet 1,568 feet 3,011 feet 3,223 feet 5,305 feet
Carries U.S. Route 101 Oregon Route 43 U.S. Route 30 Oregon Route 99 U.S. Route 101 Oregon Route 99 U.S. Route 20 U.S. Route 101 U.S. Route 101 U.S. Route 97 U.S. Route 101 U.S. Route 101 U.S. Route 101 Redwood Highway U.S. Route 101 U.S. Route 101 Oregon Route 99E U.S. Route 101 U.S. Route 101 U.S. Route 101 U.S. Route 101 U.S. Route 101
I practically worship the Yaquina Bay Bridge, but McCullough’s other subtle masterpieces along Highway 101 beguile as well: Tillamook, Depoe Bay (look underneath and you might recall the bawdy fishing boat scene from the film “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”), Florence, Reedsport, Coos Bay, Gold Beach. One of the quirkier McCullough bridges that has rapidly become one of my favorites, is in Astoria, the old movable truss span across Youngs Bay that used to serve as Highway 101. It was built in 1921, well before the five New Deal-era “pearls” McCullough called them, but contains some distinct characteristics that later comprised McCullough’s style, such as the beveled obelisks that mark the approaches from both ends. Atop each obelisk rests an odd little decorative lantern that intrigued me when I first noticed it. I’ve never seen anything like it on any bridge in the world. To say the least, I became obsessed with the Green Lady, and really all of McCullough’s bridges. They are literally everywhere around the state and define a unique Oregon engineering aesthetic. One day, during the writing of the book, my obsession culminated with the ultimate gesture of respect to McCullough’s art. I was walking on Newport’s bayfront, and a neon sign from an upstairs window caught my eye, a neon advertising Cross Over Tattoo Studio. I’ve seen the glow a million times but previously paid it no mind. This time, however, I heard the grunting and barking hosannas of the sea lions and the light called to me, so I followed it, into the road, halting traffic, up the stairs, through the door, into the studio. A pierced and tattooed man met me at the counter. His name was Justin. It was his shop. We shook hands and I told him I was writing a book about the Yaquina Bay Bridge and wanted to ask him a question. “Has anyone ever got a tattoo of the bridge?” “No, and I’ve been here 11 years.” “Do you find that strange?” “Now that you mention it, yes, I do.” A week later, Justin tattooed one the Green Lady’s obelisks on my right arm.
Splitting the uprights of the obelisks on the Yaquina Bay Bridge. —
MATT LOVE PHOTO
About the author: Matt Love is the publisher of Nestucca Spit Press and author/editor of 10 books about Oregon, including “Love & The Green Lady.” In 2009, Love won the Oregon Literary Arts’ Stewart H. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award for his contributions to Oregon history and literature. He lives on the Oregon Coast and teaches English, photography, creative writing and journalism at Newport High School. His latest book is “Sometimes a Great Movie: Paul Newman, Ken Kesey and the Filming of the Great Oregon Novel.” He can reached at lovematt100@yahoo.com
Matt Love displays his tattoo of an obelisk on the Yaquina Bay Bridge. LORI DANIELS PHOTO
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The Oysterville Church is an iconic image in Southwest Washington. PATRICK WEBB PHOTO
Oysterville Even the name signals this is a pearl on the peninsula • By MATT WINTERS
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Why get married in Oysterville? Well, there’s the name itself. Oysterville: The epicenter of oysters. They are the quintessential seafood, epitome of relaxed sophistication, the briny little feast in a shell that defies pretension, concentrating the raging ocean in a bite-size package. Bushels of tiny native “shoalie” oysters sailed straight from this spot into Mark Twain’s mustachioed mouth in 1864 San Francisco. Doesn’t get any more hip than that. Then there’s the setting: a somewhat oyster-shaped lozenge of meadows and forest happily drunk with pure Washington rain. A theater of elegantly utilitarian cottages and lichen-encrusted picket fences opens out upon the infinitely dynamic stage of Willapa Bay. It is a village invisibly bubbling with dramas worthy of Austin or Updike, with a Michelangelo-like vista, a sky from which it would seem natural to see God’s hand reaching. Driving north from Ocean Park on Sandridge Road, there’s a whole lot of nothing for a mile or two before you get there. Veer right onto Territory Road and all of sudden you’ve arrived at an outpost. There’s a sense of discovery, of arriving at an eccentric little port from which a person might sail away to anywhere – maybe even across time. It’s an amphitheater of possibility. Slumbering nearby is a long-buried Chinook Indian village that no one better tell you how to find. Its middens – buried heaps of discarded oyster shells – testify that humankind’s adoration of the oyster stretches deep into unrecorded generations. Decades ago – how could it be so long? – Dale Little used to host late-summer invitation-only croquet parties at the home of her grandpa R.H. Espy, founder of the village. It was a champagne and straw-hats kind of affair on our little sand spit where even gentle old ladies sharpen their own chainsaws. Dale’s brother Willard Espy, a dapper Manhattan author thankfully amused by his own citification, would read a witty poem as we attempted to swat wooden balls through delicate wire hoops. I’d have been better off using my kindling ax than the provided maple mallet, and was routinely slaughtered by the croquet sharps. But the afternoon was always a sapphire-like miracle of sun and laughter. On other occasions, there were snacks of charbroiled Pacific oysters with parmesan cheese, served on the schoolhouse lawn with a jazz singer belting out a song up on the porch. And I’ll always worship Dan Driscoll’s world-famous cookie dough shared in his untidy oysterman’s kitchen. Who knew Hollywood screenwriters had anything delicious to serve up? His Oysterville Sea Farms still provides a fresh taste of the bay’s old glories. I never tire of telling people that Dan’s dad Les was my twin cousins’ track coach at West Seattle High the year they damn near won state. It’s a small world, and a dang strange one when any relations of mine are fast runners.
There’s a sense of discovery, of arriving at an eccentric little port from which a person might sail away to anywhere ... maybe even across time.
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Returning from a trip out to his clam beds, oysterman Dan Driscoll ties up his boat to the dock of his business, Oysterville Sea Farms. Driscoll's operation is the only oyster company still operating in the small town named for the historic industry. — DAMIAN MULINIX PHOTO
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As we ate smoked sturgeon sandwiches over in nearby Surfside on the ocean side, my infinitely sweet-hearted little “good witch” of a friend Edith Olson, a native Oystervillian, told my wife-to-be “Don’t you take him away from us!” So four years later, when Donna and I found ourselves “with child” one day – happily gobsmacked by somebody else’s On the south end accidental conception – the old church across from the of the Peninsula, Espy house beckoned. Edith had moved on in body, but Long Beach, Seaview, her spell worked and it Ilwaco and Cape seemed right to get married in her village. Disappointment The day itself was one of gentle rain. We prepared in State Park are some Virginia Holway’s enormous old bunkhouse of a home of Washington catty-corner from the church. Early settler James Swan wrote state’s most popular of oystermen that “Their hospitality was the theme of redestinations mark all over the Territory, and the oyster-boys of Shoalwater Bay were looked upon as a community of generous and noble-hearted men.” When, eventually, there also came to be oysterwomen on this shore like Virginia, they turned out to be generous and noble-hearted, too. story continued page 16
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Oysterville Sea Farms on the bayshore on the far north end of the village has local oysters, plus other delicious picnic materials, depending on the latest state of a long-running zoning tussle with the county. Otherwise, bring goodies from Ocean Park or Long Beach. Picnic places include the Sea Farms grounds or the old schoolhouse lawn. There are benches available in the churchyard for picnicking and enjoying the village ambience. Oysterville is a National Historic District and participates in design-review for new buildings or modifications of old ones. Not that there are many places to build, at least near the bay – part of the waterfront was lost to storms long ago and some meadows still flood during king tides in the wintertime. Oysterville Church and the old schoolhouse are both available for weddings and other celebrations. But book far ahead. Contact Sydney Stevens at 360-665-4716 or sydney@willapabay.org for church bookings. For schoolhouse rental, contact Linda Janke lwj@centurytel.net Oysterville Vespers on Sunday, conducted at 3 p.m. on summer Sundays from Father’s Day through Labor Day, are a favorite way to see the church while participating in a come-as-you-are service, accompanied by guest musical artists.
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1. Cemetary 2. Oysterville Sea Farms 3. Stoner’s House 4. Red House 5. Heckes House 6. School 7. Espy House 8. Church
Road Sandridge
A visit to Oysterville can be easily combined with playing on the beach. The short east-west Oysterville Road on the north side of the village leads to the retirement haven of Surfside and the ocean. Or to continue north to the wilds of Leadbetter Point, turn north on Stackpole Road about midway between Oysterville and Surfside – but be aware of Discover Pass parking enforcement.
Key to historic sites
Oysterville Road
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Oysterville tips
Leadbetter Point
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Historic Oysterville, Washington
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“We became a part of Oysterville’s long, complicated, joyous story.” There were happy tears in the warm, soft-lit church – and buttery cake from the Shoalwater (now Shelburne) Restaurant at the schoolhouse to follow. We became a part of Oysterville’s long, complicated, joyous story. Oysterville. Pacific City. Bruceport. Seattle. In the 1850s, it was anybody’s guess which of these original Washington territorial settlements would become cities and which would morph into ghost towns. Of the first three, all in Pacific County, only Oysterville is still really occupied, though Bruceport remains a popular campground/park near South Bend. Pacific City, envisioned as a West Coast metropolis just inside Cape Disappointment, turned out to disappoint duped investors. It’s now just a gleam in an archaeologist’s eye. But many successful villages did spring up on this blessed shoreline on Washington’s southern outer coast. Collectively, they embody the hospitality and bravery bred into the very bones of local people. Oysterville, for all its charms, isn’t what you would call well endowed with tourist attractions. Even when it comes to seeing the bay, I’d be more likely to send you farther on up the road to Leadbetter Point State Park, where a short stroll to the east of the last parking lot takes you out to the bayshore. In all likelihood, you’ll have it to yourself – a heaven of birds and convoluted ripples carved into the sand. Ocean Park, Nahcotta, Surfside, Klipsan – these are the four north peninsula places where most people live and play. There are marvelous paintings to buy – oysterman descendent Eric Wiegardt’s are the most internationally renowned. Antiques, books, kerosene lanterns, Washington state wine, delicious meals – even oysters – are available for sale. This is among the Pacific Northwest’s premier razor-clam beaches. You’ll be wanting hot chocolate, a clam gun and warm boots. Ocean Park’s Rod Run to the End of the World on the weekend after Labor Day celebrates 20th-century nostalgia with great verve and energy. On the south end of the Peninsula, Long Beach, Seaview, Ilwaco and Cape Dis-
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appointment State Park are some of Washington state’s most popular destinations. Along with Chinook and the Middle Village-Station Camp Unit of Lewis and Clark National Historical Park, this is the centerpiece of the Discovery Coast – site of the successful culmination of the U.S. Corps of Discovery Expedition in 1805-06. Heritage, delicious local food, festivals devoted to everything from kites to sandcastles – even a Wild West rodeo – all are vital parts of life in these beautiful places embraced by the Pacific Ocean, Columbia River and Willapa Bay. And never forget that the brave men and women of the U.S. Coast Guard bring our fishing/crabbing fleet safely home to port. As for Donna, me and our soon-to-be Sweet 16 “baby,” we live in Ilwaco now. Black bears, river otters and Roosevelt elk wander the same hillsides and streams where I walk the dogs. We all rejoice in the constant throaty rumble of the ocean surf at North Head and relish the annual cycles of wild winter storms and sweet fall blackberries. It’s a good life, one we’re happy to share with guests. Come see us and sample Mark Twain’s oysters. Become part of this rich story.
About the author: Matt Winters is editor of the Chinook Observer in Long Beach, Wash. and regularly writes for the Observer and The Daily Astorian about history and the environment.
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Eating and sleeping can be fun, from Wheeler north to Nahcotta • Story by MJ CODY • Photos by ALEX PAJUNAS There has been an explosion of restaurants on the North Oregon and Southwest Washington Coast – even with the turnaround in the economy in 2008 and its lingering effects. Many coastal restaurants strive to serve fresh, local bounty (most with gluten-free or vegetarian options). So let’s take a tour and sample some treats – checking out the best lodging options along the way.
Starting south, Wheeler to Astoria It’s been foggy with a touch of mist all day at the beach, but I’m counting on sun at Wheeler, dubbed by local Indians “Hole in the Sky.” I love the Old Wheeler Hotel overlooking Nehalem Bay and a quick trot downstairs in the morning for fresh cinnamon rolls at Harrison’s Café & Bakery. I have a major breakfast dilemma besides Harrison’s: tiny Rising Star Café across the street and cozy, cheerful Wanda’s up the highway in Nehalem have fantastic breakfasts. Problem solved: stay more than one day (the food is that good). Rising Star is a culinary joy for lunch and dinner, too, featuring a seasonal Northwest menu with Asianinspired twists. (Check its peculiar hours; be sure to make reservations; cash only.) Nehalem River Inn is also a not-to-be-missed dining experience. In Manzanita, it’s an easy stroll past clever shops and cafes along Laneda Avenue down to the sevenmile stretch of beach. For overnight stays there’s the
Inn at Manzanita, rooms and suites sheltered in the pines; the oceanfront Ocean Inn; and the secluded, luxurious, Zen-like Coast Cabins. After morning beachcombing, head for fresh baked goods and scrambles at Bread and Ocean Bakery (cash only) or meander over to Manzanita News & Espresso for coffee and pastries delivered daily from Wanda’s. At lunchtime try Bread and Ocean’s sandwiches and salads (couscous and lentil salad with olives; chicken salad with cranberries and sage) or cobble together a picnic at Mother Nature's Natural Foods. Kidfriendly Marzano’s Pizza Pie does pizza from scratch baked in a stone pizza oven. Vino Manzanita is a favorite hideaway to relax over a glass of wine and savory tapas. The Great Northern Garlic Company is an unusual market/deli that serves crab, oysters, beer and wine around an outdoor fire pit (a s’mores kit from the store).
A lively bar scene with margaritas, sliders, quesadillas and other specials highlight happy hour at McKeown’s Restaurant & Bar
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At Arch Cape the stylish Ocean Point Inn (gourmet breakfasts delivered to your suite or served on the patio) overlooks the ocean and the Inn at Arch Cape is a charming group of cottages with kitchenettes (tasty décor and great linens) a block from the beach. The fairytale-like art-filled hillside chateau, Arch Cape Inn & Retreat serves complimentary breakfasts in the small dining room and special candlelit dinners (nonlodging guests welcome by reservation). Oceanfront neighbors Stephanie Inn and The Ocean Lodge in Cannon Beach have spectacular views of Haystack Rock, both wonderful places to stay and a short walk to Waves of Grain Bakery as is the family-friendly Inn at Cannon Beach. Stephanie Inn is deluxe with extravagant gourmet breakfasts and romantic prix fixe dinners (available to nonguests by reservation). The historic renovated Cannon Beach Hotel is a block from the beach. Newman’s at 988, owned by inspired master chef John Newman, is not to be missed (extensive wine list, exquisite crab cakes, lobster ravioli, duck breast with foie gras and truffle oil). Diverting from his classic French/Italian cuisine, Newman has opened FISHES Sushi & Japanese Cuisine downtown. More foodie heaven: the Irish Table and EVOO Cannon Beach Cooking School with Bob Neroni offering cooking demonstrations and wine dinners pairing regional wines with exceptional cuisine. Lazy Susan’s for superb omelettes, poached eggs, waffles and lunches or mosey down the street to Morris’ Fireside Restaurant where they offer a hearty “loggers” breakfast (huge slabs of blackened salmon on the Benedict, large pancakes, perfect home- fried potatoes), lunch and dinner in their log lodge. For lunch, Season’s Café & Deli, Sweet Basil’s, Ecola Seafoods Restaurant and Market (cafeteria-style, fresh-as-it-gets seafood) or the Caribbean flavors of Castaways Tini Tiki Hut (and appetizers, cocktails too). Need nails, sandpaper, a brew and a hot dog? Cannon Beach Hardware & Public House. And just because: The Chocolate Café. Mexican food? Seaside’s The Stand, great food (inexplicably closed on weekends). For a quick breakfast, Bagels by the Sea. For beach view dining try to snag a window table at Maggie’s on the Prom. Happy hours compete at McKeown's Restaurant & Bar (a lively bar scene; margaritas, sliders, quesadilla, specials) or the more intimate, chic Yummy Wine Bar & Bistro (cocktails, wine, tantalizing cheese and pate plates). Both have excellent dinners as well, after which you can walk to your oceanside room at the Inn of the Four Winds. Get that sugar rush (it wouldn’t be Seaside without caramelcorn) at Phillips Candies or find a dizzying array of candy (chocolate dipped Oreos or M&M covered pretzels?) at The Buzz on Broadway.
The Firehouse Grill, opening in 2012, does breakfast and lunch. It has established itself with a loyal audience. Fresh ingredients are the restaurant’s high card.
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Seaside’s Firehouse Grill shares a common wall and restrooms with Yummy Wine Bar & Bistro. While Yummy does dinner, the Firehouse Grill does breakfast and lunch. Opening in 2012, the Grill has established itself with a loyal audience. Fresh ingredients are the restaurant's high card. The chef makes his own sausages, and his biscuits are moist and flaky. Reliable lunch favorites include the classic hamburger, halibut fish tacos and iceberg wedge. Seating options include a counter that faces the open kitchen, tables and booths. Uh, oh, a killer milkshake – the chocolate Terminator stout at McMenamin’s Sand Trap restaurant at the Gearhart Links golf course Kelley House. Here too, is the third-floor addition, Gearhart Hotel, handsome and wood-paneled, reminiscent of the former historic hotel. Borrow a complimentary bike to cruise to the beach when you stay at the Gearhart Ocean Inn or Fitzgerald Cottages (the same attention to detail, style and good linens found at their Inn at Arch Cape property). Grab breakfast (cheesy veggie tarts, pastries and coffee) or lunch and dinner at the delectable Pacific Way Bakery & Café. Or Picnic supplies at Gearhart Grocery deli. In Astoria, whiz down the RiverWalk on your borrowed bike from The Cannery Pier Hotel. The bike, knockout views, luxe accommodations, spa, and the no-worries chauffeured vintage auto transportation to dinner make the stay here special. The under-renovation Riverwalk Inn has decent rooms (balconies are closed off, but marina/river/bridge views are intact) at budget prices. Downtown offers old school glam at the historic Hotel Elliott, with its wine bar and rooftop terrace. Prefer Spartan cool? The Commodore Hotel. The hillsides are speckled with Victorian bed and breakfast inns such as the eclectic Clementine’s. Step into a bit of history at the site of the original Fort George, the oldest settlement in the West (1811), at familyfriendly Fort George Brewery + Public House, featuring handcrafted brews. It shares the historic building with the Blue Scorcher, the place in town to find homey wholesome organic soups, salads, sandwiches, breads, cookies and pastries. Cupcake treats in the whimsical grand ballroom at Marie Antoinette’s Cupcake Parlor or Simply Cakes by Jae. Astoria has the best fish and chips choices on the coast. Top contender is Clemente’s downtown (no trans fat, flash-fried in rice oil, gluten-free options) followed by the waterfront Ship Inn (British style – even bangers and mash here), and the fun (stand in line for “fast”-food style tuna fish and chips, canned sodas in coolers under a tree) Bowpicker, a fishing boat on a city lot (cash only). Clemente’s has the best seafood in town (albacore poke, salmon, oysters, cioppino) accompanied by a fine wine list, including sakes. Himani Indian Cuisine bolsters the ethnic choices, joining Fulio’s Italian Pastaria & Tuscan Steakhouse and the not-to-miss Drina Daisy’s Bosnian “comfort food.” Get there early for the succulent roast lamb.
Enjoy weekend music, crab mac, pastas, huge salads, wine and martinis at the friendly, quirky T. Paul’s Supper Club, a bistro spin-off of lunchtime casual T. Paul’s Urban Café.
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Weekend music, crab mac, pastas, huge salads, wine and martinis at the friendly, quirky T. Paul’s Supper Club, a bistro spin-off of lunchtime casual T. Paul’s Urban Café. Try everything-made-from-scratch (almost) Astoria Coffeehouse & Bistro for lunch, dinner and breakfast (the best buttermilk pancakes! Lingonberry preserves on Aebleskivers). The dramatic interior of the Bridgewater Bistro vies with the wall of windows offering one of Astoria’s best river views (along with Baked Alaska Restaurant & Lounge on the 12th Street pier). Linger over drinks or wine and the small plate tapas (chili-lime prawns, pulled duck sliders with spicy slaw and mango salsa, shrimp ceviche). Menus change daily, so there’s always something interesting like the bronzed scallops or “poisson St. Jacques.” Put together a picnic – smoked fish at Josephson’s Smokehouse, meat and cheeses at Fulio’s Deli, ready-made sandwiches and organic snacks at Astoria Co-op and a vast selection of wine at The Cellar on 10th. Have your coffee and fresh bread (grilled) toast with homemade garlic, jalapeño, or cayenne jelly at the hole-in-the-wall Columbia Café while you watch breakfast preparations (fantastic lacy potatoes, seafood scrambles, crab-havarti omelettes, vegetarian specials, crepes). Terrific lunches and dinners too. (Service can be slow; cash only). Pat’s Pantry for spices and blended vinegars and A Gypsy’s Whimsy Herbal Apothecary for loose-leaf teas and herbs (and intriguing items from India).
North to the Long Beach Peninsula Twenty-eight miles of beach and where to sleep? For ocean views and murmuring surf, the simple, breezy Inn at Discovery Coast, it’s techno-sleek sister lodging Adrift Hotel & Spa (one of the best deals on the peninsula; both eco-conscious with attention to detail, luxurious linens and bikes to borrow for the fantastic Discovery Trail) or the Lighthouse Oceanfront Resort (indoor tennis courts). Bed and breakfasts include the Boreas Inn or the captivating historic Shelburne Inn. Nancy & Jimella’s
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The Lost Roo is sports fan and family friendly (great fish tacos, lamb! and beef burgers, fries). Drive the highway (or beach) north to Ocean Park where you’ll find Rising Star Café (and knitting supplies) or find picnic makings (and anything from sweatshirts to frying pans) at Jack’s Country Store. East to Willapa Bay and quaint Bailey’s Bakery and Café, (heavenly scones; one of the best tuna melt I’ve ever had with provolone, artichokes, and olives; cash only). Drive a bit farther north through Oysterville ogling the historic homes to Oystervillle Sea Farms for fresh (and smoked) oysters, shrimp and fish. Follow signs to Surfside Golf Course to find Steve Pollock’s teensy great day café for delicious, imaginative lunches. At the Port of Ilwaco, I watch three fishermen unload their coho salmon. The beauties will go home with the men, but I know I will get salmon as fresh at the culinary gems on the peninsula like Jimella's Seafood Market & Café in Klipsan Beach, The Depot (gotta have the “oysters ’scargot!”), 42nd Street Café, The Shelburne Inn Restaurant in Seaview, the Pickled Fish (formerly scapece and apertivo) atop Adrift Hotel, overlooking the ocean in Long Beach, and Jeff McMahon’s inspired Pelicano (melding Northwest flavors with traditional Italian, French and Spanish cuisines; an excellent wine list and creative mixed drinks) at the marina in Ilwaco. Note: Sometimes eateries, including longtime classic locations, change their name, hours, menu or style, and some even disappear or just move and reinvent themselves elsewhere. Food lovers are recommended to check out where they are planning to go to avoid disappointment.
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Travel a 70-mile span, from Manzanita to the north end of Washington’s Long Beach Peninsula, and you’ll find eight golf courses waiting to elate or humble you. Astoria Golf and Country Club 33445 Sunset Beach Lane, Warrenton, (503) 861-2545 18-hole private country club, open year-round Driving range, practice chipping and putting greens, full-service pro shop, private full-service restaurant and bar open year-round for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Gearhart Golf Links 1157 N. Marion Ave., Gearhart, (503) 738-3538. Reservations recommended. 18-hole public course, open year-round Practice putting green, pro shop, golf club, pull- and power cart rentals. Full-service restaurant and bar open year-round for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
The Highlands Golf Club 33260 Highlands Lane, Gearhart, (503) 738-5248. Reservations recommended. Nine-hole public course, open year-round Practice putting green, pro shop, golf club and pull cart rentals. Snacks, soft drinks and water available.
Lewis and Clark Golf & RV Park 92294 Youngs River Road, Astoria, (503) 338-3386. Reservations not necessary. Nine-hole public course, open year-round Golf club, pull- and power cart rentals, water available.
Manzanita Golf Course 908 Lakeview Drive, Manzanita, (503) 368-5744. Reservations recommended. Nine-hole public course, open year-round Practice putting green, pro shop, golf club and pull cart rentals. Snack shop open during summer season.
Peninsula Golf Course 9604 Pacific Highway, Long Beach, Wash., (360) 642-2828. Reservations recommended. Nine-hole public course, open year-round Pro shop, golf club, pull- and power cart rentals, café open year-round for lunch.
Seaside Golf Course 451 Avenue U, Seaside, (503) 738-5261. Reservations not necessary. Nine-hole public course, open year-round Practice putting green, pro shop, golf club, pull- and power cart rentals. Full-service restaurant and bar open seasonally for breakfast and lunch.
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Building a sandcastle demands wit as well as grit A dragon tongue of rushing wind licks the battlements. Mighty ocean waves lash the outer walls, while thunderous giants clomp ever closer to crush the towers. How much will your fortress of sand withstand? Psychological forces pose a greater threat than nature. If you build your sandcastle with an eye on holding adult stodginess at bay, you will be far more likely to win the day. Embrace frolic. Be willing to play. I draw this advice from years of covering sandcastle-building competitions in Cannon Beach for The Daily Astorian, my own series of battles to form meaningful designs from misshapen blobs, and observations of the expertise demonstrated by my 9-year-old niece.
Preparation: muster your kingdom’s resources Before searching for your fortress site, consider tools for the job. Most equipment can and should be found near the place where you will build. Use sticks, shells and other material at hand for construction as well as decor. Still, a few readily available household items can help: a shovel, garden spade or trowel; a bucket, pail, empty soup can or dispensable cups of various sizes; a drinking straw; an old spoon or other dispensable kitchen utensils; and maybe a toothpick or two. Be prepared to take back whatever you may bring, as a responsible, nonlittering monarch.
Location: scout your site Check the tides. If the tide is incoming, you might be able to plan your placement to take advantage of eventual demolition by the Pacific in a salute to entropy. However, always exercise great caution near the ocean. Never turn your back on the waves, and be sure to build in a place with easy access inland, far away from logs or other treacherous debris. Ideally, find a spot where you can have easy access to water – the glue that binds your sand. Some builders like to start in a bit of a hole, digging down to the water table. The next stage is vital. If at all possible, take off your shoes and sink your toes into the sand. I’m hard-pressed to think of a more important step to transport you to the right psychological realm to build sandcastles, let alone to experience the Oregon Coast. Take the time to focus on the luscious feeling. Dare to wade into moist sand and lapping waves. Regardless of the time of year, brace yourself for exhilarating cold. You can dash back to the warm, dry sand in a moment. You can thoroughly wash your feet later. For now, allow the frothy tide to sweep your ankles. Splash. Stomp. Squish. Scrunch and flex your toes. Your feet will thank you. This endeavor also will give you keen insight into your building material, your brick and mortar. Learn how the properties of sand change in
proximity to the water. Allow yourself to discover how different areas of sand offer distinct texture and appearance.
Construction: develop fortitude with attitude Here’s the nitty-gritty of building a sandcastle, the stage where the enemy hoards of self doubt, time worries and seriousness strike fearsomely. Block these catapults of the workaday world. They do not belong here. Defy them with your wizard-like willingness to be a goofball. Allow that frivolity to carry you forward. You don’t need to build a castle, for example; you can try your hand at simply sculpting sand. Rounded shapes may lend themselves to fanciful creatures. With modest changes, you can transform mounds into bobbing goblins. That having been said, recognize you may not be able to create Neuschwanstein or a stunningly lifelike mermaid right when you begin. You just might have to work up to those kinds of creations. Start by shaping little “cakes” of sand, letting water compact them as you pile them, increasingly narrow, as you rise. Classic castles can be a good place to start. Start from the center and work outward. One solid strategy combines walls (created gradually, with your own sand “bricks”) surrounding a little courtyard with a tower at each corner. Your spade or spoon, if you have one, can be used to dig doorways and windows or define other features such as battlements and walkways. Save the moat and the drawbridge for last. Take it from me, unless you are a master builder or sand sculptor, you’ll probably want to skip too much fine detail at first. Blowing air through a drinking straw can transform your breath into a fine sculpting device, and experimenting with different amounts of water to bind together the minute granules of sand can produce remarkably different textures. But you might want to pretend the wrought iron portcullis is already retracted. Even something as seemingly straightforward as stairs can prove problematic. In one recent effort, my niece resolved this challenge with elegance. She built a ramp to the main dome of her castle. “This one is wheelchair accessible,” she proclaimed. Like magic, it suddenly became a haven for wounded knights.
Admiration: celebrate your effort Take breaks. Survey your work. Stop the enemy hoards of self-criticism by congratulating your endeavors. If you are working with others, congratulate your fellow builders for triumphs large and small. Photograph your work to share later. Even in pursuits beyond sandcastles, many of us tend skip this step. Don’t lock away this celebratory impulse in your psychological dungeon. Set it free. story continued on page 32
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Destruction: embrace the change Options abound for this final step. The first, of course, is simply to allow natural forces to take their course. Grab a snack (a sandwich, perhaps) and station yourself in a comfortable nearby spot to watch as waves and wind attack your fortress. The beauty and majesty of witnessing this kind of change, a reminder of time itself when we are king for a day (or an hour), puts us in our rightfully modest place. Other strategies expedite the process. Become a giant and stomp your way across your project – an approach best experienced with bare feet and a friend. Or whip the stronghold with a strand of kelp. Or become a deliberately overzealous moat-builder, channeling water to work its gloriously fierce power on sand. Use containers to imitate storms on the Oregon Coast, literally pouring buckets of rain on your castle. In the end, as your creation disintegrates, prepare to return to the less fanciful day-to-day world. Wash your feet. But don’t wash away the fortress in your imagination, a solid stronghold of your rejuvenation. Writer and actor Brad Bolchunos is a former Daily Astorian reporter who lives in Portland.
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Sea Kayaking Kayaking guides who are worth their salt will tell you flat out: You can’t just paddle out to sea. Unless you’ve spent hours learning to brace your boat against the breakers and roll sideways like a sea otter in the surf, they’ll say: Stick to the rivers and bays.
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he ocean along the North Coast is riddled with rip currents, eddies, overpowering winds and, of course, crashing waves. “You really do need a good foundation of skills to go into the ocean,” says Mark Whitaker, who manages Columbia River Kayaking in Skamakowa, Wash. “It’s also good to go with an experienced person. You really need to be able to negotiate the surface.” It’s sound advice that I’ve dutifully followed for six years – even though I own a 16 1/2 foot sea kayak. Seeing as a 12-footer is really all you need to paddle around inland waters, I’ve always wanted to step up my game and get my sea kayak into the sea. Even one trip would justify all the years of hauling four unnecessary feet of hull into waterways up and down the North Coast. But I still don’t have the skills. And I don’t know an experienced person who’s dumb enough to take an unskilled paddler into the ocean. So, I’d just about given up on going out to sea – at least until I had the time and energy to take a class. Then I found a loophole. Or maybe it was a loop tide. Either way, I made it to the open ocean without getting pummeled by waves or risking life and limb. Without learning to roll or brace. I would say it was cheating the system, but it wasn’t. It was using the system – the ever-present ebb and flow of the tide – to sneak a brief but glorious paddle in the Pacific. It wouldn’t have happened without the guidance of Kayak Tillamook founder Marcus Hinz. “I’ve have this sea kayak,” I whined to him over the phone from Portland, “and it’s never seen the sea.” I suppose if kayaks could “see” things, mine has seen plenty of the Pacific: From the roof rack of my Subaru, swerving around the curves of U.S. Highway 101; From way out in the mouth of the Columbia where the river gnashes its teeth on the bar; From Nehalem Bay as it necks down toward the beach; and from the sweeping saltwater in Willapa Bay, where the ocean drapes foamy white tongues across the horizon.
I could race alongside freighters in the Columbia River shipping channel or slip through sloughs with blue herons and bald eagles in the Lewis and Clark National Wildlife Refuge.
There are benefits from stepping out of your comfort zone and climbing into a sea kayak.
About the author: Cassandra Profita is the environmental blogger for Oregon Public Broadcasting. Her work can be read at: ecotrope.opb.org She is a former environmental reporter for The Daily Astorian
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Sea kayaking can offer enthusiasts a wonderful view in addition to the experience.
Sure, my boat has “seen” the sea. But I wanted it to feel the might of the ocean under its royal blue frame. I wanted it to ride those massive swells and slice through their choppy peaks. I wanted my sea kayak to be a sea kayak – and do the things it was made to do. I just didn’t want to spend four hours flipping the thing around in a swimming pool to get there. I’d bought the used boat right after moving to Astoria in 2006. One look around the inland peninsula and I knew I was going to need a vessel. There’s water everywhere! And the tides are fierce – even in the bays and estuaries. I took a salesman’s advice and bought a long and slender plastic boat that slices through current like a knife and easily withstands the occasional run-ins with rocks and concrete (oops!). It paid off immediately. I could race alongside freighters in the Columbia River shipping channel or slip through sloughs with blue herons and bald eagles in the Lewis and Clark National Wildlife Refuge. I could circle around East Sand Island and gawk at the terns or paddle out to Long Island in Willapa Bay to camp and rake my own steamer clams. “I like getting into places most people will 36 • Our Coast 2013 • discoverourcoast.com
never get to and having this intimate connection with the water itself,” says Hinz. “How it moves on its own time on an annual cycle really makes me fall in love with the entire planet.”
To the north, waves were breaking northward away from us. To the south, the waves turned southward. In between, the water was fantastically flat and glistening in the sun. Of course, you can fall in love with the planet without paddling out to sea. Hinz floated behind a coyote for a full minute without being spotted and watched a baby black bear playing in the woods. He snuck up on a herd of elk and felt the ground shake when they ran off. “It sounded like the forest was coming down,” he says. You don’t even have to be on the ocean to see hundreds of jellyfish swimming in a rainbow of
yellows, pinks, purples and blues. The tide sweeps them right into Pacific City’s Sandlake in the fall. “I’ve had salmon bounce off the hull of my boat,” Hinz says. “I’ve had a river otter growl at me. It sounded like it was choking.” I don’t think Hinz set out to show me how to sneak up on the sea. He took me and several clients on a plodding paddle through Nestucca Bay and never mentioned going into the ocean. But the trip was perfectly timed so that we reached the mouth right as the tide was turning. The ocean looked like the Red Sea after Moses parted its waters. To the north, waves were breaking northward away from us. To the south, the waves turned southward. In between, the water was fantastically flat and glistening in the sun. The Pacific had left a window open, and we floated right through. We paddled past the mouth of the bay, past the beveled edges of the beaches on either side. Soon I was able to turn my boat around to face east, and I looked in on West Coast from the outside. For 10 minutes, I paddled the Pacific in a real sea kayak. Then the window closed, and a wall of waves pushed me back into the bay where I belong.
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Attilio Pusterla was no youngster. At 64 years old, it could not have been easy to reach his workstation on the 125-foot tall Astoria Column. Each day, he climbed into a small cage and was lifted by crane to his starting point. From there, he raised or lowered the donutshaped scaffold – hung by ropes from the top of the Column – with the help of laborers. An Italian immigrant and respected artist, Pusterla came here to create a unique artwork in 1926. Using a medium called “Sgraffito,” the centuries-old European technique involved placing a dark, reddish brown plaster basecoat on the column. Gold or cream toned plaster was then brushed on top. While the plaster was still wet, a trowel was used to incise an outline around the images or to make scratches for shadows. Pusterla and his assistant hand-mixed plaster every day. The colored powder mix had to match the previous day’s work. Unfortunately, the color shifted from one day to another according to the daily temperature and the Column’s surface. The column shaft – constructed of poured concrete – was created from 10 pours over a month’s period. Each time Pusterla’s artwork reached a new section, the plaster cured differently and changed the color of his mural. He created two sets of drawings before brushing the images onto the column. First, was a preliminary sketch drawn at one-inch equals one-foot. Second, was a full-sized, final drawing that he carried onto the scaffolding.
Pusterla created the preliminary sketch while he was still in New York City. He brought the roll with him on the train to Astoria. Despite Pusterla’s artistic leanings toward picturesque or romantic views of history, he and others sought authenticity. Here, members of the Oregon Historical Society reviewed the drawing for accuracy of the regional setting. They requested adjustments. Planked Chinook canoes were redrawn as dugouts. Horses were removed from a scene depicting the Lower Columbia in 1792. Some errors remain. Totem poles appear where there should be none, a feathered medicine man is out of place and iconography at the entry of longhouses is more Tlingit than Chinook in nature. These quirks, however, do not take away from the brilliance of Pusterla’s storytelling. Consider that he related two stories simultaneously: one of an overland party, the other of a party that came by sea. The bi-coastal story features a primeval forest, the New York City harbor, the explosion of the ship Tonquin, a glacial view of the Rocky Mountains and a flag raising in full military regalia. Equally phenomenal, the sweeping adventure is punctuated with details not seen by the casual observer. For instance, Marie Dorian’s newborn baby is strapped to her back as she rides a horse over a snowfield. The baby, as depicted, is threeinches long. In another panel there’s a wagon train. Its oxen are two-inches tall. Sadly, Pusterla’s work was ultimately fragile. In 1936, he returned to Astoria and restored his rain-washed, weather beaten mural. The 74-year old artist remounted the scaffolding and breathed new life into his beautifully rendered story. John Goodenberger is one of Astoria’s most respected historians.
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Donna Quinn is the director of sales and marketing for the Cannery Pier Hotel. In addition, she hosts the program Talk of Our Towns for local community radio station KMUN Coast Community Radio, is a volunteer with the Astoria Co-Op market/deli and Lower Columbia Hospice and contributes to other local publications.
Why do you enjoy living in Astoria? “When I first moved here, I did not appreciate the unique elements of this community. Over the 10 years that I’ve lived here, it’s worked its magic on me, and there is a magic here in the air. There is something in this area that is very powerful. Some of the things I This town has really like and appreciate is that there’s an element of surprise here. The weather is always surprising. The peo- character, which ple are surprising. They were free-thinking, pioneering is because of the spirits, and that spirit is alive and well in the town. This history. That to town has character, which is because of the history. That me is a grounding to me is a grounding influence, to be here and be part influence, to be of that history. It’s old; it’s weathered; it’s real. It’s not a faux place; it’s a real place. And even all the tourists, the here and be part people that come here, they sense that this is a real of that history. place, like the Velveteen Rabbit. It’s not something that’s been made into a tourist town, because it’s really not a tourist town. It’s a town where people live. They’re born; they die; they volunteer; they get involved here.”
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Food, glorious food The Astoria Sunday Market isn’t all about gifts, jewelry, photographs and souvenirs. It’s about food. Good food. Local food. • Story & Photos by DWIGHT CASWELL The market offers the kind you consume on the spot, but also tasty fare offered at about 50 booths to take home and turn into delicious meals in your own kitchen. People you see lugging large bags bulging with vegetables are planning a week’s meals around their Sunday Market shopping. You’ll find fruit and vegetables you won’t find elsewhere, including many heirloom varieties. Kingfisher Farms of Nehalem is one popular stop. Jeff Trenary owner and operator, has been growing organic produce for two decades. Inspired by a community-based farm he encountered while traveling in Italy, he began Kingfisher Farms with the aim of providing high-quality vegetables to local consumers. In the course of a short growing season, he produces 50 kinds of vegetables. 40 • Our Coast 2013 • discoverourcoast.com
Of course, on the North Oregon Coast there are more local items than vegetables; some you don’t farm – you catch. Skipanon Brand Seafood brings locally caught seafood to the market, direct from its own boat, the “Cape Windy,” and from other local fishermen. Founded in 1978 by Finnish fisherman Norman Kujala, who started a small cannery to process the fish he caught, sons Mark and Paul now operate the business. Paul does the fishing these days, and it’s likely you’ll meet Mark and his wife Alana at the Sunday Market. Jack Penner, a farmer from Longview, Wash., is another regular. He grows a variety of organic vegetables, but what makes his booth worth a visit is Penner himself – specifically his sense of humor. The pun is generally considered to be the lowest form of humor, and Penner delivers an awful one with al-
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into grapeseed oil, and you can try this “diamond of the kitchen” at the booth. Fresh, though not exactly local, is Packer Orchards and Bakery, a Hood River family farm that brings freshly picked fruit to the Sunday Market from the Columbia River Gorge. They grow 10 kinds of cherries, 11 kinds of pears, 23 kinds of apples, and numerous varieties of Asian pears, apricots, berries, peaches and nectarines. They also make fruit preserves, jams and butters. The chief attraction, though, are the long tables filled with boxes of giant cookies – hence the “bakery” in its name. story continued next page Our Coast 2013 • discoverourcoast.com • 41
The Astoria Sunday Market is the second largest of its kind in Oregon, with thousands of visitors every week, and has a Downtown Achievement Award from the Oregon Downtown Development Association. It was founded in 2000, to “improve the economic viability and vitality of farmers, artists, artisans and other small businesses in the Pacific Northwest.”
One of the most unusual booths is that of Candy Her. You can find bok choy, Asian eggplant and fresh ginger root. You can buy tofu, which she makes at the market, and if you can’t wait to go home for your stir fry, she will cook it for you right at her stand. Add some of her steamed barbecued pork humbow, or other Asian dumplings, and you have a substantial lunch. Iko Farms, of Hermiston, brings melons, along with peaches, asparagus, cherries, beans, tomatoes and eggs. De Asis Farm, near Yakima, Wash., brings fresh vegetables and vine-ripened fruit, and sells wholesale as well as retail. Don’t be surprised if you see a local chef shopping at the Astoria Sunday Market. After all, who is more interested in freshness and quality than a good restaurant? Up-to-date information about what is fresh at the Astoria Sunday Market, what bands are playing, as well as recipes and a list of all vendors, may be found at astoriasundaymarket.com
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Garden Tours On the Coast, we love to admire other people’s gardens • By CATE GABLE
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Music in the Gardens On July 20, Music in the Gardens is a fundraiser for the Water Music Festival Society, a nonprofit organization that provides classical music from “Bach to Basie” on Washington’s Long Beach Peninsula. “Our tour is special because musicians, in various styles, play at all of the gardens,” tour organizer Nancy Allen said. “This, along with food and drink offered at most venues, encourages lingering. Gardeners, often planning two or three years in advance of opening their grounds to the public, provide expertise and talk about the history of their properties.” Tickets are $15. (See http://watermusicfestival.com/ for more information)
The Edible Garden Tour Sponsored by the Long Beach Grange, The Edible Garden Tour is in its third year. “We all love to look at other people's gardens, and this is a chance to visit the kind of gardens that aren't on most garden tours, “ said organizer Lisa Mattfield. “These are usually smaller, owner-maintained, and usually quirky in some kind of practical rather than purely visual way. “On a practical level, we are inviting people to witness the possibility of growing food, and sharing our enthusiasm, tips and information about growing food in this specific location. “My experience is that gardeners tend to be generous people, and this may be even more so for food gardeners – sharing produce, plants and especially knowledge. I've been food gardening here for more than 25 years, and I always learn something on the tour.” Contact the Long Beach Grange for more information: www.longbeachgrange.org 44 • Our Coast 2013 • discoverourcoast.com
The Lower Columbia Preservation Society The13th annual LCPS garden tour will be July 13. The tour usually includes six or seven gardens in the general Astoria area, including Astoria, Warrenton, Hammond, and Lewis and Clark. “We get some gorgeous gardens,” said Pam Chestnut, vice chairwoman of the LCPS board and co-chairwoman of the garden committee. “We look for different kinds of gardens and gardners who have put a lot of effort into variety and finding what grows well here, which is sometimes a challenge.” Small or large, formal or informal, new or old – you name it, and the LCPS garden tour includes it. Past gardens have included vegetable-only gardens, expansive tiered gardens, oriental gardens and even deer-proofed gardens. Tickets in the past have cost $15 for nonmembers and $10 for members of LCPS. They are available the day of the tour at the end of Grand and 17th streets in Astoria. Raffle tickets are also available. The tour is self-guided with a recommended map, and the last garden on the map includes refreshments and the raffle. Proceeds are used to promote the mission of the LCPS, which is to preserve, protect and promote the historic architecture of the Lower Columbia region, through educational programs and workshops throughout the year. For more information, call 503-791-1236, or see www.lcpsweb.org
The Seaside Downtown Garden Tour Lead by Pam Fleming (Nature’s Helper Landscaping Inc.) The Seaside Downtown Garden Tour has been going for 17 years. It will be held July 28. “I took over and completely redid the downtown gardens, and every year I give a breakfast lecture with a Powerpoint presentation,” Fleming said. “Then we walk all over downtown, and I show off examples of what we’ve been talking about. I give people tastes and smells of the plants I’ve discussed.” The event runs from an hour to an hour and a half, and usually 20 to 30 people attend. “There is no fee, except if you want to join us for breakfast,” Fleming said. “But a lot of people are just waiting for us outside on the sidewalk. “I designed the gardens to reflect Seaside and the uniqueness of all the shops, so they have themes. They reflect the architecture or the color, or if it’s a restaurant I might plant culinary herbs or edibles in front.” Everyone attending receives a written note of the plants they will see. “I go through all the seasons of gardening on the coast – and I like to incorporate my philosophy of design. I want people to notice all the beautiful things about Seaside – the water, the mountains and the oceans. There is a lot to appreciate. I love my city and I love gardening – I’ve been doing it for 30 years.” For more information call the Seaside Downtown Development Association, 503-717-1914 or see www.seasidedowntown.com
Tillamook County Master Gardeners Association This tour is staged during the third week in July. Jean Scholtz, past president, said the group also has a demonstration or learning garden at the Tillamook County 4-H Fairgrounds. “We have experiments going on there and a lot of plants are labeled,” she said. “We have some vegetables too and we show people how to build cloches and do composting – you can visit year-round. “We are usually there working Thursdays and Fridays. As long as the fair grounds are open, you can get to our garden on Third Street, just head east out of Tillamook.” The group hosts a plant sale May 14. Call the office at 503-842-3433 for more information or see http://extension.oregonstate.edu/tillamook/mg/tcmga story continued next page Our Coast 2013 • discoverourcoast.com • 45
The CASA Gardens by the Sea Garden Tour CASA’s garden tour will celebrate its sixth year on the third or fourth Saturday in July. Beth Holland, member of the CASA board, has been designing and building commercial and residential gardens for years, and selects the gardens for the tour. The tour is self-guided with a map and includes five or six gardens in Gearhart. “I really think one reason our garden tour is so successful is because we really hold a high standard for the gardens. We review them and make sure we have the cream of the crop,” Holland said. “People love getting out there to see what other people are doing with their gardens,” Holland said. “July is such a great time to visit gardens on the coast because that’s really when the gardens are peaking, as far as all the perennials and the blooming flowers go. And the days are long and warm.” Tickets are $25, and proceeds go toward Clatsop Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA), which provides trained volunteers to advocate for abused and neglected children in foster care and in court. “This person, this CASA, will watch over the child and make sure the child is safe,” Holland said. “It’s quite a safety net, and it’s quite valuable.” Call the office CASA office at 503-338-6063 or visit www.clatsop-casa.org for more information.
Cannon Beach Cottage and Garden Tour Organized by Elaine Murdy is, in her words, “just a little bit different. “The homes that will be on the tour are not only cottages, but they have some historic value. Some of them have been landscaped for 100 years or more. “There is a range of gardens from Victorian to those with a real ‘beach vibe.’ We showcase all different locations, some with tucked-away benches and little tables and fire-pits. Some with indigenous wildlife.” The 10th anniversary of the annual event comes in 2013, and to make it special, the tour has increased its usual line-up of approximately 7 places to about 20 homes and gardens. “We’re doing a lot more this year,” Murdy said. The event will span from Sept. 13 to 15. Friday will see a cocktail hour in the line up; Sept. 14 will see both the cottage tour, which starts with a wine reception and live music, and the garden tour, which includes a reception and art show; Sunday’s line-up includes a brunch and lecture about Cannon Beach cottages. The fee is $40 for all three days, and it raises about 15 percent of the operating budget for the Cannon Beach History Center and Museum. “That pays for field trips for local schools and special classes, as well as a folk music and lecture series we do in the winter,” Murdy added. For more information call the Cannon Beach History Center and Museum at 503-436-9301 or write P.O. Box 1005, Cannon Beach, OR 97110. Photos from top: An original garden gate welcomes visitors on the Music in the Gardens Tour. — MARILYN GILBAUGH PHOTO Long-time coastal gardener Sojourner Smith clears fallen limbs from her yard to a debris pile. — ALEX PAJUNAS PHOTO Whimsy in Louis Hatfield's garden on The Lower Columbia Preservations Society’s Tour. — DWIGHT CASWELL PHOTO 46 • Our Coast 2013 • discoverourcoast.com
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he Columbia River estuary’s waters, valleys and mountains teem with legends. Stand in any one of a hundred places on these shores and you will sense the benevolent ghosts of strong and brave people. They achieved greatness in this vast and gorgeous kingdom of light, rock and rain. Imagine this: Chinook Indians sweeping out of a storm squall in nimble cedar canoes to greet the American Corps of Discovery Expedition on a harsh November day in 1805. This was an ancient civilization greeting the ambassadors of a newborn nation, welcoming them to a major trade emporium of the Pacific Rim. This is the marriage place of cultures, the intersection of Columbia and Pacific.
If you’re lucky enough to be here on the right day in late June, you might just see a Chinook canoe as Lewis and Clark did. Approaching Wash-
“In the Columbia Pacific region, Lewis and Clark has become the entrée into a story that is deep and huge and important to our nation’s history.” ington’s Fort Columbia State Park for the tribe’s private First Salmon Ceremony, tribal members honor a salmon, symbolic of countless centuries of interconnection with the natural world.
Every day of the year, many sites pulsate with the spirit of the Lewis and Clark adventure and the good people who greeted them. This adventure, this sensation of first-time discovery, is accessible to all of us. “In the Columbia Pacific region, Lewis and Clark has become the entrée into a story that is deep and huge and important to our nation’s history,” observes Jim Sayce, Washington Historical Society and liaison to the Lewis and Clark National Park. “We always say that between 1792 and 1820 the story of the United States and the West Coast was taking place right here – and in the middle of that was the Lewis and Clark expedition. It was all happening at the mouth of the Columbia River.” story continued on page 50
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At the crossroads You are communing with a landscape that captured the imagination of one of America’s greatest founders. “The mouth of the Columbia River is the only place on the West Coast where Thomas Jefferson has a direct connection. It is the tie-in to the beginning and building of our country,” according to Carolyn Glenn, cochairwoman with Karen Snyder of the Pacific County Friends of Lewis and Clark. “He was never able to stand here as you can, but Jefferson sponsored the expedition; his vision catalyzed the journey that made possible a country stretching “from sea to shining sea.” The story of the expedition resonates on multiple levels. It’s a story of heroism, ingenuity, exploration, scientific discovery and relationship-building. But there is a sensitive balance to find, because it also marks a turning point in the fate of the Native American tribes that had been living at the mouth of the Columbia for 10,000 years. The Lewis and Clark journals capture an environment that was about to be dramatically changed by trading and settlement. Snyder, spoke at the recent dedication of Middle Village/Station Camp, where a momentously all-inclusive vote about where to winter-over was taken. “Now with Station Camp completed, there is a feeling of accomplishment and knowing there is something for generations to come,” she said. “This is the jewel in the crown of the projects that run from the Long Beach Peninsula south to the mouth of the Columbia (on the Washington side of the river.)” Ray Gardner, chairman of the Chinook Tribe, was given a Peace and Friendship Award during the Middle Village ceremony. To him, the site has profound significance. “Our people, the Chinook people, were here to meet every new person who came into the area,” he said. “This is a place that has many stories and many meanings to many different people.”
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unshine and ocean air offer a great excuse to put the top down, turn up the radio and take a leisurely scenic road trip to the area’s plentiful attractions. But it is also a great time to park – and show off some chrome at the many car shows in Seaside, Ilwaco and Ocean Park, Wash. Jim Varner was 12 when he got his first car, a 1953 Ford that wound up rusting in a junkyard. He caught the bug mowing lawns, listening to the purr of the gasoline motor. “It was a sickness,” he smiles, when asked how he got involved with cars. From his earliest memories he was always fascinated with gasoline motors. He wanted to mow the lawn and operate anything with a motor that made noise. Varner’s neighbor Bill Carlson, parts manager at Johnson Motors in Astoria, would bring Varner auto parts. He learned how they worked by taking them apart. When Varner was 15, he took his car to his first drag race. The organizers wouldn’t let him drive because he only had a learner’s permit, so a friend raced the car for him. Now the owner of Jim Varner’s Automotive at Miles Crossing, he does his own driving. And it’s a family affair with son Austin, 12, and daughter Elizabeth, 10, enjoying the drag racing and his wife, Teresa, serving as crew chief. Varner made his hobby his business, so he may not be typical, but he’s not alone. Coast resident Ron Murders has been building a 1954 Chevy Pickup Hot Rod for five years. This ground-up restoration is the first he’s done of this magnitude. He plans to have it on the road in late spring, then disassemble the body and paint it. The Hot Rod runs on a 383 small block Chevy engine, an R700 transmission and a 9-inch Ford rearend. It has seats from a Cadillac and a custom interior. To get the power to the ground, the large rear tires require oversized fenders. There’s nothing like it. Murders became interested in cars during his time at Tillamook Junior High School. He and a friend competed to see who could draw the coolest car. This was followed up with metal shop and automotive classes at Tillamook High School. After hot rodding a number of Corvettes, Chevelles and Camaros, he decided to build a car from the ground up. He started in October 2007. “I didn’t think it would take this long,” he said. He has been participating in and attending car shows for years, loving the craftsmanship of the vehicles and the camaraderie of the owners. “There are all sorts of neat people in that scene that are willing to share,” he says. Perhaps Dave and Kathy Pedegana capture the reason for the car show craze best: Nostalgia. They like nothing better than to sit at a car show, listening to the spectators talk about their car. Hearing people say, “That was Dad’s first car” or “I had one like that” makes them happy. Their bright red 1937 Ford two-door, slant-back tows a trailer made from a bumper car that attracts a lot of attention. Dave Pedegana became involved with cars in high school. “Cars were real important to our lifestyle,” he said. “You couldn’t be cool without a car.” He started hot-rodding as a teen. Family, career and the normal pressures of life forced him to take a hiatus from the hobby. Later, he bought a 1961 Chevy then a 1937 Ford as a gift for his wife Kathy Pedegana.
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The North Coast car shows offer ample opportunities to fawn over classic cars and get tips on how to keep your current ride running smoothly.
Dan Haag contributed to this story. More on the next page.
The Wheels 'n' Waves car show in Seaside. —
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1968 Chevrolet at the Rod Run at Ocean Park —
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Dave and Brenda Kreg 's customized 1962 Ford Thunderbird from Puyallup, Wash., at a North Coast show. —
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Revved up about autos From Long Beach to Seaside, there’s a car show to suit every preference
• By DAN HAAG Slow Drag at the Port
Muscle 'N Chrome
The annual Slow Drag at the Port, presented by the Ilwaco Merchants Association and the Port of Ilwaco, gathers hot rod enthusiast for a “slow” drag race in early September.
The Friday and Saturday of Father's Day weekend, Seaside is home to the annual Seaside Muscle ’N Chrome show with muscle cars from 1960 to 1978 and factory performance vehicles from 1979 to today.
The fun part is a short, loud burst of speed where spectators watch the hot rods run a short-distance, fast-acceleration race along the waterfront. The event attracts 65 entries.
North Coast Car Show Information: Slow Drag at the Port
“We even hold a Drag Queen costume contest,” said Clint Carter, president of the Merchants Association. “We've had people dress up like the Church Lady and Carmen Miranda, and just have fun with it.”
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The Rod Run to the End of the World on the weekend after Labor Day features thousands of automobiles, from Model As to muscle cars of the ’60s and ’70s. Main events are held at Ocean Park, Wash., on the north end of the Long Beach Peninsula. The event is presented by the Beach Barons Car Club.
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“The car events are a fabulous win-win to our community and its visitors,” said Laurie Oxley, executive director of the Seaside Downtown Development Association.
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The Lower Columbia Classic's Car Club hosts three car shows. The Astoria Swap Meet, at the Clatsop County Fairgrounds in early March, allows car enthusiasts to gather and talk shop while searching for specific cars, parts and “automobilia.” The 50s Cruise Reunion, held in April in Warrenton, helps usher in summer. The Astoria Regatta Cruise-In is held in early August. 56 • Our Coast 2013 • discoverourcoast.com
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Astoria hosts an award-winning, edgy festival featuring three weekends of music
• Story & Photos by DWIGHT CASWELL Wagner, Verdi, Stravinski, on stage, live, loud and emotive, threatening to take the roof off the Liberty Theater. It’s what Astoria has come to expect in the summertime. The 11th annual Astoria Music Festival happens in June. This year’s theme commemorates the 200th anniversaries of the births of Richard Wagner and Guiseppe Verdi with three weeks of concerts featuring musicians from all over the world. It’s also the 100th anniversary of Stravinski’s ballet “The Rite of Spring,” which caused a riot at its Paris premiere. Maestro Keith Clark is staging a new version with local and Portland dancers, but using a four-hand piano score, with percussion, instead of the familiar orchestral version. “We do things that most festivals don’t do,” said Clark. “Our reputation is as a developing, young and energetic festival that does unusual things well. Most of our repertoire is standard, the meat and potatoes of Beethoven and Brahms, but we also go to the very edge.” That edge has included everything from a comic book opera to Purcell’s “Fairy Queen,” a 300-year-old opera never before heard on the West Coast, to the Northwest premier of “Wozzeck.” All this artistry didn’t happen by accident. The first year’s production of Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” was a building block, adapting Kevin Costner’s baseball mantra into, “If we stage it, they will come.” From this seed a dozen years ago, a phenomenon blossomed. It grew and grew, with more added each year. “We’re building the greatest music festival on the West Coast,” Clark said. In 2012, the Astoria Music Festival celebrated its 10th anniversary in grand style bringing two of America’s greatest sopranos, Angela Meade and Ruth Ann Swenson, to the stage of Astoria’s renovated Liberty Theater. Organizers tweaked the schedule so New York-based soprano Meade flew into Astoria from Europe, delighted audiences with her portrayal of Bellini’s “Norma,” and had just enough time to hug her family (they live in Centralia, Wash.,) before flying back to Germany to give a totally different concert. These days the New York Metropolitan Opera’s discovery – she’s simply the hottest diva in America – smiles out on the covers of magazines and just made her debut with the Berlin Opera. She loved her chance to perform in Astoria, with family watching in the Liberty and her terminally ill mother listening to the live broadcast on KMUN’s sister station, KCPB.
Wagner, Verdi, Stravinski, on stage, live, loud and emotive. It must be summertime in Astoria.
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2013 festival highlights • Metropolitan Opera dramatic tenor Allan Glassman will sing highlights from Verdi’s “Otello,” opposite longtime Music Festival baritone Richard Zeller as Iago. • Glassman will perform as Siegmund in the first act from “Die Walküre,” (the Valkyrie), the second of four operas in Wagner’s epic Ring Cycle. • A full production of Igor Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring,” with the Portland-based Agnieszka Laska Dancers and the Maddox Dance Studio Little Ballet. The production will feature Stravinsky's rarely heard version for four-hand piano with percussion. • Los Angeles Philharmonic concertmaster Martin Chalifour with the Glazunov Violin Concerto. • U.S.-based Russian cellist Sergey Antonov with Lalo’s Cello Concerto. For details of the Astoria Music Festival, log on to www.astoriamusicfestival.org
Maestro Keith Clark conducts during the Astoria Music Festival.
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Elizabeth Pitcairn plays Sibelius on the "Red Violin" as Keith Clark conducts.
Richard Zeller is a nationally known singer whose booming voice fills the Liberty Theater.
A production of Mozart's “The Magic Flute.”
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If that wasn’t enough, last year featured Elizabeth Pitcairn and her legendary “Red Violin,” and Sergey Antonov, a young Russian cellist. Antonov, a prodigy whose parents were cellists, has been called the next Yo-Yo Ma. Based in Boston, he travels the world pleasing audiences. But for four years he has blocked out June on his calendar, accepting no other engagements. The audience reaction to his Astoria debut was described by a critic in terms that sounded like a rock concert. He’s back this year too. In 10 years the festival has grown from a good idea, and a small cadre of overworked volunteers, into an event that draws national attention. In 2008, the festival won the Ovation Award as Oregon’s best cultural and heritage event, and in 2011 it won two American Prizes, which are national awards. It took second place in opera production, for Alban Berg’s rarely staged “Wozzeck,” considered the finest, and most difficult, opera of the 20th century. A first place award went to Clark for conducting “Wozzeck.” The Festival now runs for two weeks and three weekends, and there are more overworked volunteers than ever. They man the office, help stage the events, collect tickets, and run every conceivable kind of errand. Does a concert require a bird and cage? A volunteer tracks them down. Finding fake food for a scene? Pet shop chew toys worked fine once their squeaking devices were removed. How about life jackets for “The Magic Flute”? A volunteer talked the Columbia River Bar Pilots into loaning their float coats. The North Coast Chorale and other local choirs augment the chorus, and a local ballet school provided little fairies to dance in “Fairy Queen.” For the award-winning “Wozzeck,” the festival rented a set from an opera company in San Francisco. A volunteer drove it the 800 miles to Astoria in a truck loaned by Englund Marine. But how to unload the set? Even disassembled, one of the pieces weighed almost a ton. The Astoria High School football coach was called, the team was organized, and when the truck arrived it was greeted by a group of beefy young men ready and willing to meet the challenge. The largest group of volunteers, almost 100, are homestay hosts, who make their homes available to the musicians to avoid hotel bills. “Without them we cannot imagine the cost of all those musicians in hotels,” said Leena Riker, past president of the Festival. Antonov and Pitcairn have become regulars at the festival, as has pianist Cary Lewis, baritone Richard Zeller, soprano Amy Hansen, and Astoria baritone Deac Guidi. The list of visiting stars is long, including Emily Pulley, of the Metropolitan Opera, the Oregon Symphony’s Norman Leyden, Thomas Lauderdale of “Pink Martini,” Katie Harman (Miss America 2002) and actor David Ogden Stiers, conductor of the Newport Symphony, who has done a couple of well-received narrative parts. Joanne Rideout, host of KMUN’s “Ship Report, served as narrator for a “Stormy Seas” evening. Any event is fueled by money, and the total cost is not covered by ticket sales, which organizers keep reasonable. Although the festival has a strong local following, more than half the tickets are sold outside the area, primarily from Portland. As each festival approaches, the pace accelerates. Volunteers take care of all details, musicians arrive, rehearsals begin. For almost two months, the pace builds, until the curtain goes up in June. And the result is always magic. Patrick Webb contributed to this story
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he North Coast experience changes with the seasons, but its love affair with making music is a year-round thing. This means visitors during off-season will find a multitude of music played live in every coastal community from the Long Beach Peninsula south to Tillamook. During these “quiet” months, gone are summer’s congested streets and the lines at local attractions and restaurants. This is a time for finding a snug spot – in a cozy restaurant bar or a nearby brewpub to hear live jazz, blues, rock, folk and more. Visitors will find concerts, musicals and other offerings at two
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beautifully restored vintage theaters, Astoria’s Liberty Theater and the Raymond Theater in Raymond, Wash., in northern Pacific County. The Coaster Theatre, also brings fine music by accomplished performers to Cannon Beach (when plays aren’t running, that is). For its new season, the Liberty Theater will host the Portland Chamber Orchestra celebrating Oscar Night in style, with “The Music of Film,” playing movie music classics along with some rarely played gems in February. Presidio Brass, a tour-de-force in brass chamber music, will wow audiences May 11. The Raymond Theater’s “Sunday Afternoon Live” series will enchant in February when musician Alexander Sevastian performs on on the accordion, followed in March by The Journeys,
featuring harpist Bronn and vocalist Katherine. Popular North Coast string band Brownsmead Flats takes to the stage in May. At community festivals and special events, good music is always around, often in local churches like the one in Oysterville, Wash., high school auditoriums and community centers. And there are bigger venues. At the Seaside Convention Center, the Seaside Jazz Festival – in its 30th year – takes place every February. Another event, where the music almost never stops, is the annual Crab, Seafood and Wine Festival held in April at the Clatsop County Fairgrounds. The Astoria-Warrenton Area Chamber of Commerce festival attracts people sitting elbow-toelbow eating tasty seafood surrounded by an Oktoberfest vibe. One unusual spot featuring live country-folk jams is the Tillamook Forest Center. Sessions pay tribute to area settlers who lived in the hills and composed music about their day-to-day experiences. The center is located on the Wilson River Oregon Highway 6 in Tillamook. Many places where out-of-towners will find a huge variety of live music include restaurants and local watering holes, such as bars, clubs, pubs and taverns. Jazz fans will appreciate music by the Basin Street NW trio Thursdays and a range of local jazz professionals on Sundays at Astoria’s Bridgewater
Here is a selection of some locations for off-season music Liberty Theater 1203 Commercial St. Astoria, OR 97103 www.liberty-theater.org 503-325-5922 Ext. 55 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 24, Portland Chamber Orchestra – “The Music of Film” 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 11, Presidio Brass
Raymond Theater 323 3rd St. Raymond, WA 98577 www.sundayafternoonlive.org 360-875-5831 “Sunday Afternoon Life” Sunday, Feb. 17, Alexander Sevastian March 24, The Journeys May 12, Brownsmead Flats
Seaside Civic and Convention Center 415 First Ave. Seaside, OR 97138 www.seasideconventioncenter.com 503-738-8585 Seaside Jazz Festival, 3 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21 to 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 24
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T Paul’s Supper Club 360 12th St. Astoria, OR 97103 www.tpaulssupperclub.com 503-325-2545 Blues ‘n Burgers with Richard Thomasian Every Tuesday night
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Bistro. Situated at the edge of the riverfront almost beneath the Astoria Bridge, the restaurant boasts some of the best views around. Looking out a window, you can marvel at the raw power of Mother Nature if the weather has turned tempestuous. At Burgers ‘n Blues nights on Tuesdays at Astoria’s T-Paul’s Supper Club, you’ll find guitar player Richard Thomasian strutting his stuff. Dig into a tasty burger for 10 bucks, and enjoy an evening out in a comfortable, family-friendly atmosphere. Both weekdays and weekends see any number of establishments up and down the North Coast where there is terrific live music to be enjoyed. Be sure and get your copy of The Daily Astorian’s Coast Weekend magazine every Thursday for an exhaustive listing of what’s happening where and when. In this same vein, music coordinator Heidie Johnson has booked literally hundreds of bands (she’s given up keeping track) for Sunday night shows at Astoria’s Fort George Brewery and Pub. It’s a “happening” scene with bands that range from punk-tinged rockers and sweet, laidback folk players to rockabilly cool cats. Enjoy a burger and brew while listening to live music. If you’re into the indie or alternative scene, check out the New Orleans-themed Voodoo Room in Astoria. Connected to the Columbian Theater and Columbian Cafe, the Voodoo Room is a dark, one-room bar that rocks a red-light, urban vibe. One corner is regularly devoted to traveling bands: folk, indie, punk, and periodic performances by members of Portland-based Blind Pilot. Other good bets musically for the younger, more hip set are the Sand Dune Pub in Manzanita, Sweet Basil’s Café in Cannon Beach or Sam’s Seaside Café in Seaside. Whatever your musical tastes, come to the North Coast and be assured of hearing music that’ll feed your soul, get your toes tappin’ or, if this is your preference, furnish a fitting soundtrack as you absorb the beauty of its landscapes.
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You like wind in your hair, the kiss of salt on your lips; you function best with a bit of sand between your toes. You are the fully grown (mostly responsible) adult who spent a string of carefree childhood days along the water’s edge and you know this: The call of the sea is strong, and for the lucky among us, it rings early. Hop out anywhere along this 75mile stretch of coastline to find kids being kids on the shores of the sea in all the same ways you’ll remember: Holding fast to the string of a soaring kite, shaping a world-class sandcastle, and roasting a s’more to tawny perfection – the list goes on. Introduce your old favorites or discover something new; wherever you drop in on Our Coast, you’ll find plenty to please the next generation.
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Step out in Astoria If Astoria is first on your list, pop the kids out of the car atop Coxcomb Hill, site of the 125-foot tall Astoria Column, whose spiral staircase to the top has been soothing the tensions of a long car ride since 1926. Count the 164 steps to the peak, then cast a few old fashioned wooden gliders ($1 from the gift shop) to the winds. The sweeping views of the Columbia River, Pacific Ocean and snowcapped Cascades make the perfect backdrop for a picnic, and when lunch is over, nothing aids digestion like a tumble down the best grassy knoll in the Northwest. Gather them up, head toward the river, and dangle the dollar that will buy you a ride on the Astoria Riverfront Trolley, where sea lions are escorts along this 2.6-mile run. Kids get to ring the trolley’s bell. Then hop off at the Columbia River Maritime Museum and spend a couple of hours drenched in the area’s rich and watery history, brought to life through interactive exhibits designed for every age. story continued on page 68
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Why do you enjoy living on Long Beach Peninsula? “The beauty here is just incredible. To just be able to live where you’ve got ocean if you want to, you have the bay, you’re not far from the Columbia River, all of the forest and all of the animals. Every time we come back from traveling somewhere, when we hit the Astoria Bridge and look out and we see what’s across that four-mile span and see that little piece of land and where we’re going, it’s always a little amazing to us. Even though it does seem like the end of the world and when you try to explain to people where we live they say “Huh?”, it does feel very special here. It’s an interesting mix of people here. People come from so many varied backgrounds, and it’s sort of fascinating because you meet them through certain interests.”
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North to the Peninsula Should the dive into history bring out the explorer in your child, consider following in the wake of Lewis and Clark and cross the river to Washington’s Long Beach Peninsula, where the imagination broadens in direct proportion to the 28-mile horizon. Here you can ride horseback on the beach, photograph the family in a frying pan of unusually large size, or build the driftwood fort of your dreams at Waikiki Beach. A walk on the boardwalk with a waffle cone is a guaranteed sibling mediator, and don’t miss your chance to bike or walk at least part of the 8.5-mile paved Discovery Trail that wends its way through the grassy dunes. While in the neighborhood, stop at the North Head Lighthouse where the historic grounds are open every day, year-round. Tours to the top vary seasonally.
Seaside to Cannon Beach If you’re traveling with teenagers, Seaside’s the place. Home to a 1.5-mile oceanfront promenade with plenty of people-watching, shopping and classic beach attractions, this Oregon city has long been favored by young adults. Turn your teens loose on The Prom while you
trot off with the smaller ones to the Seaside Aquarium, where they can feed the ever-amusing resident seals and then enjoy the marine exhibits inside. Heading back to the heart of downtown, hitch a ride with a seahorse (or a pink ostrich) inside Carousel Mall, then rendezvous with the older bunch at Oregon’s largest arcade. A 9-mile skip south on U.S. Highway 101 will land you in Cannon Beach where a drive through old-growth forest in Ecola State Park ($5 per vehicle) culminates at one of the state’s best views. Catch your first glimpse of famous Haystack Rock and when you’re ready for a closer look, head into town and dig through a bin of saltwater taffy while you wait for low tide, then breeze onto the beach and straight to the tide pools where the whole family can wish upon a Common Sea Star or coax a reclusive crab. This special place is protected through the excellent efforts of the Haystack Rock Awareness Program so before you go, take the time to educate kids about proper tide pool etiquette and the importance of preservation, and tell them that their help is vital. Then stand together at the edge of the spellbinding blue immensity of it all and share in what’s worth saving. Years from now, when they make this journey with their own kids, they’ll still be thanking you for it.
When it rains ... grab a memorable hot chocolate from any expert barista, then check out these indoor options: Astoria Aquatic Center 1997 Marine Drive, Astoria (503) 325-7027 Four public indoor pools and a large fitness center. Two slides. Pool toys available. Port of Play 786 Alameda Drive, Astoria (503) 325-8669 Indoor play center with mats, tricycles, small slides and scooters. Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center 248 Robert Gray Drive, Ilwaco, Wash. (360) 642-3029 Fully interactive exhibits blend the area’s natural and cultural history. Sunset Empire Park & Recreation Center 1140 Broadway, Seaside (503) 738-3311 Indoor public pools, youth center and fitness room. Outdoor playground and skate park. Cannon Beach History Center 1387 S. Spruce St., Cannon Beach (503) 436-9301 Free museum of local history and home to the town’s namesake cannon.
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Our Coast Advertiser Index ANTIQUES Phog Bounders ................................80 892 Marine Drive Astoria, OR 97103 (503) 338-0101 facebook.com/PhogBoundersAntiqueMall
APARTMENTS Emerald Heights Apartments .......64 1 Emerald Drive Astoria, OR 97103 (503) 325-8221 www.emeraldheightsapartments.com
ARTS, CULTURE & ENTERTAINMENT Astoria Music Festival.....................61 P.O. Box 113 Astoria, OR 97103 (503) 325-9896 www.astoriamusicfestival.org
Astor Street Opry ............................66 129 Bond Street Union Town Astoria, OR 97103 (503) 325-6104 www.astorstreetoprycompany.com
Bay Avenue Gallery.........................81 1406 Bay Avenue Ocean Park, WA 97640 (360) 665-5200 www.bayavenuegallery.com
Clatsop County Fairgrounds .........52 92937 Walluski Loop Astoria, OR 97103 (503) 325-4600 www.clatsopfairgrounds.com
Clatsop County Historical Society...............................84 P.O. Box 88 Astoria, OR 97103 (503) 325-2203 www.cumtux.org
Columbia River Maritime Museum............................2,3 1792 Marine Drive Astoria, OR 97103 (503) 325-2323 www.crmm.org
Coaster Theatre Productions ........61 108 North Hemlock PO Box 53 Cannon Beach, OR 97110 (503) 436-1242 www.coastertheatre.com
Friends Of Old Fort Stevens ..........64 P.O. Box 138 Hammond, OR 97121 (503) 861-1470 www.visitfortstevens.com
Interstate Amusement ...................33 110 Broadway Seaside, OR 97138 (503) 738-5540
Liberty Theater ................................61
TJ’s Auto Repair ...............................57
1203 Commercial Astoria, OR 97103 (503) 325-5922 www.liberty-theater.org
1085 Alternate Highway101 Warrenton, OR 97146 (503) 861-2886 www.tjsautorepair.com
Marie Powell’s Shoalwater Cove Gallery ...............................................18
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177 Howerton Way S.E. • P.O. Box 899 Ilwaco, WA 98624 www.marie-powell.com
North Oregon Coast Symphony...80 P.O. Box 503 Cannon Beach, OR 97110 (503) 436-0936 www.northoregoncoastsymphony.org
Pacific County Historical Society..81 1008 West Rubert Bush Drive South Bend, WA 98586 (360) 875-5224 www.pacificcohistory.com
Peninsula Arts Association............63 P.O. Box 321 Ocean Park, WA 98640 (360) 665-6041 www.beachartists.org
Scandinavian Midsummer Festival ..............................................53 P.O. Box 34 Astoria, OR 97103 www.astoriascanfest.com
Seaside Jazz Festival.......................63 P.O. Box 813 Seaside, OR 97138 (888) 345-6257 www.jazzseaside.com
Shoalwater Bay Casino...................19 4112 Highway105 Tokeland, WA 98570 (866) 834-7312 www.shoalwaterbaycasino.com
Water Music Festival.......................63 Ocean Park, WA 98640 (360) 665-4466 www.watermusicfestival.com
Wiegardt Studio Gallery ................18 2607 Bay Avenue Ocean Park, WA 98640 (360) 665-5976 www.ericwiegaroadt.com
ASSISTED & RETIREMENT LIVING Suzanne Elise Assisted Living .......37 101 Forest Drive Seaside, OR 97138 (503) 738-0307 www.suzanne-elise.com
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DAY SPA Spa at Cannery Pier Hotel..............80 No. 10 Basin Street Astoria, OR 97103 (503) 338-4772 www.cannerypierhotel.com
DRY CLEANING SERVICES Astoria Cleaners & Coin Laundry ................................80 823 W. Marine Drive Astoria, OR 97103 (503) 325-5235 facebook.com/AstoriaDryCleanersCoinLaundry
FAMILY, COMMUNITY & CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS Astoria Aquatic Center ...................52 1997 Marine Drive Astoria, OR 97103 (503) 325-7027 www.astoriaparks.com
Astoria Park & Rec ...........................52 1411 Grand Avenue Astoria, OR 97103 (503) 325-7275 www.astoriaparks.com
City of Seaside Visitors Bureau.................................83 7 N. Roosevelt Mailing Address: 989 Broadway Seaside, OR 97138 503-738-3097 or 888-306-2326 www.SeasideOR.com
Long Beach Merchants Association...................18 P.O. Box 896 Long Beach, WA 98631 (360) 642-4421 www.longbeachmerchants.com
Ocean Park Area Chamber of Commerce ..................57 1715 E. Bay Avenue Ocean Park, WA 98640 (888) 751-9354 www.opwa.com
Port of Play & Lil Sprouts ...............52 785 Alameda Avenue Astoria, OR 97103 (503) 325-8669 www.astoriaparks.com
Seaside Aquarium...........................80 200 N. Promenade Seaside, OR 97138 (503) 738-6211 www.seasideaquarium.com
Seaside Carousel Mall ....................53 300 Broadway Seaside, OR 97138 (503) 738-6728 www.seasidecarouselmall.com
Seaside Chamber of Commerce....................................80 7 N. Roosevelt P.O. Box 7 Seaside, OR 97138 (503) 738-6391 www.seasidechamber.com www.seasidenaturally.com
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Columbia Memorial Hospital........69 2111 Exchange St. Astoria, OR 97103 (503) 325-4321 www.columbiamemorial.org
Providence Seaside Hospital ........37 725 S. Wahanna Road. Seaside, OR 97138 (503) 717-7000 www.providence.org/northcoast
The Rinehart Clinic..........................80 230 Rowe Street P.O. Box 176 Wheeler, OR 97147 (503) 368-5182 www.rinehartclinic.org
Urgent Care NW – Astoria..............68 2120 Exchange St., #111 Astoria, OR 97103 (503) 325-0333 www.urgentcare-nw.com
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Astoria Rivershore Motel ...............69 59 W. Marine Dr. Astoria, OR 97103 (503) 325-2921 www.rivershoremotel.com
Classic Towing ...........................57
Long Beach Peninsula Visitor’s Bureau................................17
Cannery Pier Hotel & Spa...............23
34747 Highway101 Business Astoria, OR 97103 (503) 325-0411 www.classicbodywerksandtowing.com
3914 Pacific Way Long Beach, WA 98631 (360) 642-2400 www.funbeach.com
No. 10 Basin Street Astoria, OR 97103 (503) 325-4996 www.cannerypierhotel.com
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Silver Sands Oceanfront Motel.....80
495 Marine Dr. Astoria, OR 97103 (503) 325-4211 www.colimbiainnastoria.com
215 S. Pacific Rockaway Beach, OR 97136 (503) 355-2206 www.oregonsilversands.com
Gearhart By The Sea .......................29
The Anchorage Cottages ...............47
1157 N. Marion Gearhart, OR 97138 (800) 547-0115 www.gearhartresort.com
George Johnson House B&B .........64 26301 ‘N’ Place, Ocean Park, WA 98640 360-665-6993 www.georgejohnsonhouse.com
Hallmark Resort...............................33 1400 S. Hemlock Cannon Beach, OR 97110 (888) 448-4449 or (503) 436-1566 www.hallmarkinns.com
Heidi’s Inn .........................................64 126 E. Spruce Street Ilwaco, WA 98624 (360) 642-2387 www.heidisinnmotel.com
Holiday Inn Express ........................80 204 W. Marine Drive Astoria, OR 97103 (503) 325-6222 www.astoriahie.com
Hotel Elliott ......................................80 357 12th Street Astoria, OR 97103 (503) 325-2222 or (877) 378-1924 www.hotelelliott.com
2209 Boulevaroad North Long Beach, WA 98631 (800) 646-2351 www.TheAnchorageCottages.com
Riverwalk Inn ...................................17 400 Industry Astoria, OR 97103 (503) 325-2013 www.riverwalkastoria.com
Rodeway Inn & Suites.....................65 115 3road Street SW Long Beach, WA 98631 (360) 642-3714 www.rodewayinn.com/hotel-long_beach-washington-WA192
MUSEUMS Garibaldi Maritime Museum .........80 112 Highway101 N Garibaldi, OR 97118 (503) 322-8411 www.garibaldimuseum.com
Marsh’s Free Museum.....................42 409 Pacific Way S. Long Beach, WA 98631 (360) 642-2188 www.marshsfreemuseum.com
Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum ...........................16 P.O. Box 153 • 115 Lake Street Southeast Ilwaco, WA 98624 (360) 642-3446 www.columbiapacificheritagemuseum.com
Inn at Seaside...................................23 441 2nd Avenue, Seaside, OR 97138 (800) 699-5070 www.innatseaside.com
KOA ...................................................39 (Astoria/Warrenton/Seaside KOA) 1100 NW Ridge Road. Hammond, OR 97121 (503) 861-2606 (800) 562-8506 www.astoriakoa.com
Pilot House .......................................43 Foot of 14th Street Astoria, OR 97103 (888) 683-7987 www.AstoriaPilotHouse.com
Sand & Sea Oceanfront Condominiums ..........80 475 S. Prom Seaside, OR 97138 (503) 738-7473 (800) 237-7463 www.sandandseaoregon.com
Shelburne Inn Restaurant & Pub ............................25 4415 Pacific Way Seaview, WA 98644 (800) 466-1896 or (360) 642-2442 www.theshelburneinn.com
Columbia River Maritime Museum..........................2,3 1792 Marine Drive Astoria, OR 97103 (503) 325-2323 www.crmm.org
Cranberry Museum & Gift Shop .......................................66 2907 Pioneer Road. Long Beach, WA 98631 (360) 642-5553 www.cranberrymuseum.com
OUTDOOR MARKETS Astoria Sunday Market...................80 P.O. Box 973 Astoria, OR 97103 (503) 325-1010 www.astoriasundaymarket.com
World Kite Museum & Hall Of Fame .................................14 303 Sid Snyder Drive Long Beach, WA 98631 (360) 642-4020 www.worldkitemuseum.com
NATIONAL PARKS Lewis & Clark National Historical Park .................51 92343 Fort Clatsop Road. Astoria, OR 97103 www.nps.gov/lewis
757 W. Marine Drive Astoria, OR 97103 (503) 338-5200 www.riverandsea.net
Pacific Realty ...................................53
River People Farmers Market........41 P.O. Box 243 Warrenton, OR 97146 (503) 791-2602 www.riverpeoplemarket.org
Saturday Market at The Port Of Ilwaco ......................41 P.O. Box 36 Ilwaco, WA 98624 (360) 783-1143 www.portofilwaco.com
102 NE Bolstad Long Beach, WA 98631 (360) 642-3127 www.pacreal.com
RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS First Baptist Church ........................80 349 7th Street Astoria, OR 97103 (503) 325-1761 www.FBCastoria.org
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North Coast Family Fellowship.....80
Pacific County Emergency Management Agency ..............37, 69 300 Memorial Drive • P.O. Box 101 South Bend, WA 98586 (360) 875-9340 www.co.pacific.wa.us/pcema
2245 N. Wahanna Road. Seaside, OR 97138 (503) 738-7453 www.ncffchurch.org
Peninsula Church Of Christ ...........81 7709 Sandridge Road Long Beach, WA 98631 www.peninsulachurchofchrist.com
REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION Bob Mathews Lighthouse Realty ...........................67 31511 ‘I’ Street Ocean Park, WA 98640 (360) 665-4114 www.lighthouseproperty.com
Coaster Construction LLC ..............52 390 Elk Creek Road P.O. Box 245 Cannon Beach, OR 97110 (503) 436-2235 www.coasterconstruction.com
RESTAURANTS, FOOD & BEVERAGE Camp 18 Restaurant .......................27 42362 Highway26 Seaside, OR 97138 (800) 547-0115 www.camp18restaurant.com
Chen’s Chinese Restaurant ............81 400 Pacific Avenue N. Long Beach, WA 98631 (360) 642-8288
Doogers.............................................23
Discovery Coast Real Estate ..........17 1711 Pacific Ave S Long Beach, WA 98631 (360) 642-3325 www.discoverycoastrealestate.com
900 S. Pacific Avenue Long Beach, WA 98631 (360) 642-4224
Geno’s Pizza & Burgers ...................66
Duane Johnson Real Estate...........32 296 N. Spruce St. • P.O. Box 924 Cannon Beach, OR 97110 (503) 436-0451 www.duanejohnson.com
3693 Lief Erikson Drive Astoria, OR 97103 (503) 325-4927
Hungry Harbor Grille......................24
Northwest Carriage Museum........65 314 Alder Street Raymond, WA 98577 (360) 942-4150 www.nwcarriagemuseum.com
Re/Max River & Sea ...........................4
Gary McGrew Lighthouse Realty ...........................65
313 Pacific Avenue Longbeach, WA 98631 (360) 642-5555 www.hungryharbor.com
Jimella & Nanci’s Market Café .......24
25810 Vernon Avenue Ocean Park, WA 98640 (360) 783-2823 www.lighthouseproperty.com
21742 Pacific Way Ocean Park, WA 98640 (360) 665-4847 www.jimellaandnancis.com
Lighthouse Realty .............................1
Marie Antionette’s Cupcake Parlor.................................23
31511 I Street Ocean Park, WA 98640 (360) 665-4141 www.lighthouseproperty.com
Melissa Eddy Windermere Cronin & Caplan .......47 588 Pacific Way Gearhart, OR 97138 (503) 440-3258 www.MyBeachHomeBroker.com
1215 Duane Street Astoria, OR 97103 (503) 468-0188 www.marieantionettescupcakes.com
McMenamins Sandtrap..................29 1157 N. Marion Avenue Gearhart, OR 97138 (503) 717-8150 www.mcmenamins.com/gearharthotel
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RESTAURANTS, FOOD & BEVERAGE Ole Bobs Galley Café & Seafood Market ...........................81 151 Howerton Way Ilwaco, WA 98624 (360) 642-4332 www.olebobs.com
Seasonal Seafoods ..........................15 306 Bay Center Dike Road Bay Center, WA 98527 (888) 905-9079 www.baycenterfarms.com
Shelburne Inn Restaurant & Pub ............................25 4415 Pacific Way Seaview, WA 98644 (800) 466-1896 or (360) 642-2442 www.theshelburneinn.com
Ship Inn .............................................26 #1 2nd Street Astoria, OR 97103 (503) 325-0033 www.shipinn-astoria.com
Astoria Food Co-op.........................43
SeaSoles............................................65
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1355 Exchange Astoria, OR 97103 (503) 325-0027 www.astoriacoop.org
2 locations 12 N. Holladay Drive Seaside, OR 97138 (503) 738-5033 139 W. 2nd Street, Ste. 4 Cannon Beach, OR 97110 (503) 436-9033 www.seasoles.com
165 Howerton Avenue Ilwaco, WA 98624 (360) 642-3143 www.portofilwaco.com
Bikes & Beyond ................................80 1089 Marine Drive Astoria, OR 97103 (503) 325-2961 www.bikesandbeyond.com
Bruce’s Candy Kitchen ....................32 256 N. Hemlock Cannon Beach, OR 97110 (503) 436-2641 Seaside Outlet Mall Seaside, OR 97138 (503) 738-7828 www.brucescandy.com
1105 Commercial Astoria, OR 97103 (503) 338-6640 www.silversalmongrille.com
Street 14 Coffee ...............................25 1410 Commercial Astoria, OR 97103 (503) 325-5511 www.facebook.com/pages/Street-14Coffee/137587476264587
T-Pauls Supper Club........................27 360 12th Street Astoria, OR 97103 (503) 325-2545 www.tpaulssupperclub.com
T-Pauls Urban Cafe .........................27 1119 Commercial Street Astoria, OR 97103 (503) 338-5133 www.tpaulsurbancafe.com
The Depot Restaurant ....................23 1208 38th Place Seaview, WA 98640 (360) 642-7880 www.depotrestaurantdining.com
201 Pacific Avenue N. Long Beach, WA 98631 (360) 642-3166 www.denniscompany.com
695 Highway101 Warrenton, OR 97146 www.fredmeyer.com
Holly McHone Jewelers ....................5 1150 Commercial Street Astoria, OR 97103 (503) 325-8029 www.hollymchone.com
Homespun Quilts ............................65 108 10th Street Astoria, OR 97103 (503) 325-3300 www.homespunquilt.com
Jessie’s Ilwaco Fish Co.....................65 On the Docks in Ilwaco P.O. Box 800 Ilwaco, WA 98624 (360) 642-3773
Jonathan’s LTD .................................65 332 12th Street Astoria, OR 97103 (503) 325-7600 www.jonathonsltd.com
1545 N. Roosevelt Seaside, OR 97138 (503) 735-5405 www.thehumanbean.com
Sportsmen’s Cannery .....................81 1215 35th Street Seaview, WA 98644 (360) 642-2335
447 Laneda Avenue Manzanita, OR 97130 (503) 368-7573 www.syzygymanzanita.com
RV PARKS & CAMPGROUNDS Cranberry RV Park...........................47 1801 Cranberry Road Long Beach, WA 98631 (360) 642-2027 www.cranberryrvpark.com
Driftwood RV Park ..........................53 1512 Pacific Avenue N. Long Beach, WA 98631 (888) 567-1902 www.driftwood-rvpark.net
Ocean Park Resort...........................81
Seaside Golf Course........................29 451 Avenue U Seaside, OR 97138 (503) 738-5261 www.seasidegolfcourse.us
Seaside Naturally ............................80 7 N. Roosevelt • P.O. Box 7 Seaside, OR 97138 (503) 738-6391 www.seasidenaturally.com
TRANSPORTATION Pacific Transit System .....................47 216 N. 2nd Street Raymond, WA 98577 (360) 875-9418 www.pacifictransit.org
Royal Cab, LLC..................................64 P.O. Box 101 Astoria, OR 97103 (503) 325-5818 www.royalcab.net
20803 Pacific Way Ocean Park, WA 98640 (360) 665-4221 www.vacationwestgate.com
SPORTS & RECREATION
2006 N. Pacific Highway 103 Long Beach, WA 98631 (360) 642-4004
Rusty’s Coin Shop............................81
33445 Sunset Beach Lane Warrenton, OR 97146 (503) 861-2211 www.astoriagolf.com
Gearhart Golf Links.........................29
Active Enterprises, Inc. ...................52
Seaside Carousel Mall ....................53
P.O. Box 501 Long Beach, WA 98631 (360) 642-2102 www.propanelongbeach.com
Highlife Adventures........................47
300 Broadway Seaside, OR 97138 (503) 738-6728 www.seasidecarouselmall.com
33136 Highway 101 Business Warrenton, OR 97146 (503) 861-9875 www.highlife-adventures.com
Seaside Factory Outlet Center......67
Peninsula Golf..................................29
1111 N. Roosevelt Drive Seaside, OR 97138 (503) 717-1603 www.seasideoutlets.com
9604 Pacific Hwy Long Beach, WA 98631 (360) 642-2828 www.peninsulagolfcourse.com
3811 Pacific Hwy Seaview, WA 98644 (360) 642-4541 www.artisticbouquets.com
185 Howerton Way SE Ilwaco, WA 98624 (360) 642-2300 www.seabreezecharters.net
Westgate Cabins & RV Park ...........52
1157 N. Marion • P.O. Box 2874 Gearhart, OR 97138 (503) 738-3538 www.gearhartgolflinks.com
Artistic Bouquets & More ..............81
Sea Breeze Charters........................14
25904 ‘R’ Street Ocean Park, WA 98640 (360) 665-4585 www.opresort.com
100 Bolstad Ave E. #105 Long Beach, WA 98631 (360) 783-2646
RETAILERS & SPECIALTY SHOPPING
6413 Sandridge Road Long Beach, WA 98631 (360) 642-2009 www.redbarnarena.com
Astoria Golf & Country Club..........29 Pioneer Market & Deli ....................81
The Human Bean.............................24
183 N. Hemlock Cannon Beach, OR 97110 (503) 436-2027 www.sesameandlilies.com
SYZYGY .............................................43 Dennis Company.............................37
Fred Meyer........................................43 Silver Salmon Grille ........................24
Sesame & Lilies ................................67
Red Barn Arena................................15
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OLEBOB’S Galley Cafe and Seafood Market
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VISITORS INFORMATION RESOURCES ASTORIA-WARRENTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 111 W. Marine Drive, Astoria, OR 97103 (503) 325-6311 or (800) 875-6807 www.oldoregon.com
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7709 Sandridge Rd. • Long Beach
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OCEAN PARK AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE P.O. Box 403, Ocean Park, WA 98640 (360) 665-4448 or (888) 751-9354 www.opwa.com
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