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I approached my summer job with some trepidation. Equipped with my white hard hat, green jacket, and a bullhorn, I walked across the parking lot in the shadow of surely one of the world’s biggest billboards, proclaiming Welcome to Weyerhaeuser…Home of the World’s Largest Sawmill. As a fledgling tour guide, I was part of a rich tradition, whether I knew it or not. If R.A. Long and the founders had charged per head for all those tours they probably would have improved the balance sheet substantially. Chambers of Commerce, real estate agents, and developers by the busload. And later, in my day, tourists who’d visited Boeing up north and Trees of Mystery in the Redwoods down south (probably with a stop at the Tillamook Cheese Factory in between, too) would queue up to witness the spectacle of the mighty sawmill. And try to hear me over the noise.
It was the Industrial Age, and it lay the basis for our economy, our livelihoods, our pride, and, surely, the world’s greatest summer job. Oh, by the way, that’s Queen Marie of Romania taking the tour in 1926, accompanied by Long-Bell manager S.M. Morris. In her memoir, she recalled: “In the mill we saw giant trees lifted as though they were pencils, stripped of their bark and split into huge planks and beams as though they had not greater resistance than butter.”
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From England to America, this reader loved Spam I thoroughly enjoy the Reader. When I saw the Spam article by Neil C. Martello, in the June issue, I absolutely “ate it up.” It took me back to World War II in England. We were being rationed for anything edible, including Spam. My mother used coupons for a tin of Spam once a week. She sliced it up into eight slices even though there were nine of us. I know she sacrificed hers for a bigger slice for my dad. Fried it in lard and we savored every bite.
Every night at the end of our bedtime prayer, she would say, “And God bless the Yanks for their Spam.” When I came over here in 1948, I found that Spam was well-like and economical. My mother-in-law prepared it in various ways. I savored every bite. Now we try to avoid salty foods. Many younger people I know frown on it. Could be fun perhaps if any organization put on a Spam feed for a worthy cause. I think so! Brenda Nanney Longview, Wash.
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DEAR MISS MANNERS: Approximately 15 years ago, I gave my niece a ring. It was a ring that my grandfather (her great-grandfather), a migrant farm worker, found. He gave it to my mother, and she gave it to me when I was 15. It is a class ring from my alma mater from the year 1918, and I wore it for many years. I gave it to my niece on the occasion of her wedding; it was her “something old.” My niece has since divorced that husband, and is remarried with a family. I have never seen the ring again. She doesn’t wear it, and I truly regret giving it away. Assuming she still has the ring, is there any way to ask for it back? I do not want to hurt her, but the ring has enormous sentimental value to me. GENTLE READER: Did your niece divorce the ring along with the ex-husband? Because otherwise, there is no reason to think that these two events were related -- and the ring is still rightfully hers. Miss Manners suggests instead that you remember it fondly in front of her and her children. Tell them the legacy of their great-greatgrandfather, and add, “Perhaps someday, your mother will pass the ring along to you, as I did to her. It is such an important symbol of our family history.” And then watch as your niece quickly scrambles to produce it. cont page 10
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DISPATCHES FROM THE DISCOVERY TRAIL By Michael O. Perry
EPISODE 15
A Critical Time for the Expedition: Must Get Horses! Sacajawea Helps
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fter wasting 12 days trying t o g e t C a p t a i n L e w i s ’s experimental iron boat to float after portaging around the Great Falls in present-day Montana, the journey resumed on July 14, 1805. A week later Lewis saw smoke that he hoped meant Indians were nearby. When Sacajawea began to recognize familiar landmarks, everyone was encouraged. On July 27th, the expedition reached the headwaters of the Missouri at Three Forks, west of present-day Bozeman, Montana. This was where Sacajawea had been taken captive five years earlier, but there was no sign of her people. Finally, on August 11th, they saw a lone Indian on horseback, the first Indian seen since leaving Fort Mandan four months earlier. Lewis tried to approach, but the Indian turned and galloped away.
On August 12, 1805, after traveling 3,000 miles since leaving St. Louis 20 months earlier, the Corps of Discovery had reached the Continental Divide (the border between Idaho and Montana). There they found a spring believed to be the highest source of water flowing into the Missouri River. They crossed over a ridge and Lewis drank from a stream he assumed, incorrectly, to be the headwaters of the Columbia River.
Early rendering of Gate of the Mountains, declared a national wilderness in 1964 and formally designated Gates of the Mountains Wild Area. Postcard from Michael Perry’s private collection.
Its not going to be easy!
Lewis then went ahead to look for the hoped for one-day portage route between the Missouri and Columbia River drainages. Upon reaching the 7373-foot summit of Lemhi Pass, east of present-day
...the journey resumed... Once past the painful portage, the Expedition sought the headwaters of the Missouri. Passing through what today is called the Gates of the Mountains Wilderness, which still exists relatively unchanged, Captain Lewis wrote on July 19, 1805: ‘this evening we entered much the most remarkable clifts that we have yet seen. these clifts rise from the waters edge on either side perpindicularly to the height of 1,200 feet...the river appears to have forced its way through this immense body of solid rock for the distance of 5-3/4 Miles...I called it the Gates of the Rocky Mountains.’
Salmon, Idaho, Lewis “discovered immence ranges of high mountains still to the West of us with their tops partially covered with snow.” He could see there was no Northwest Passage or easy walk to the Columbia River. Lewis realized the fate of the Expedition now rested on their finding the Shoshone Indians and obtaining horses to continue the journey over the mountains and to the Columbia River’s watershed. The previous day, Lewis had seen the first Indian since leaving Fort Mandan four months earlier. Two days later, contact was made with two Shoshone Indians. Lewis gave them a few gifts and, using sign language, convinced them to take him to the rest of their tribe. They soon met 60 warriors on horseback; after seeing the gifts, they welcomed Lewis and his small party. Lewis only had three men with him, so the Shoshone could have easily killed them if they wanted. Chief Cameahwait held a celebration that night. I’d prefer medium-rare
Michael Perry enjoys local history and travel. His popular 33-installment Lewis & Clark series appeared in Columbia River Reader’s early years and helped shape its identity and zeitgeist. After two encores, the series has been expanded and published in a book. Details, pages 2, 39.
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The next day, in order to give Captain Clark and the rest of the men time to catch up, Lewis and his men went hunting with some of the Indians. When word came back to camp that Drouillard had killed a deer, the Indians raced off on horses. Lewis wrote that by the time he arrived, “Each Indian
had a piece of some discription and all eating most ravenously. Some were eating kidnies, the melt [spleen] and liver, blood running from the corners of their mouths.” Meat was very scarce, and the Indians had been living off berries and fish, so they devoured the whole deer without bothering to cook it. Trust but verify?
When Lewis told of more white men coming upriver, the Indians became suspicious. They feared an ambush by the Blackfeet Indians. To reduce their anxiety, Lewis and his men exchanged clothing with the Indians, and went so far as to give them their rifles with instructions to shoot them if it was a trap. Lewis told Cameahwait one of their people, Sacajawea, was with Clark. He also told about York, Clark’s black slave. The Indians were eager to see such a man. Family Reunion
Lewis was relieved when Clark and the rest of the party arrived on August 17th. Sacajawea recognized one of the girls as having been captured with her five years earlier at Three Forks, near present-day Bozeman, Montana. The other girl, Jumping Fish, had escaped while being taken to the Mandan Indian villages in North Dakota where Sacajawea was sold to Charbonneau. Even more amazing was the discovery that Chief cont page 7
In April 2021 we introduced a revised and expanded version of Michael Perry’s popular series which was expanded In the new book, Dispatches from the Discovery Trail, edited by Hal Calbom and published by CRRPress. It includes an in-depth author interview and new illustrations and commentary. Columbia River Reader / July 15, 2022 / 5
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Lewis & Clark
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Cameahwait was Sacajawea’s brother! While Sacajawea had shown no emotion as they neared her homeland, she was very excited when she found both her friend and her brother. Sacajawea jumped up and ran to embrace Cameahwait, throwing a blanket over the two of them as she wept profusely. Sacajawea was the only member of the party who could speak the Shoshone language, but it still took four people to converse. Captains
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Lewis or Clark would speak to Private Francois Labiche, who would translate it into French for Charbonneau to translate into Hidatsa for Sacajawea to translate into Shoshone. Thus, Sacajawea was the key to obtaining horses from the Shoshone Indians. Lewis was encouraged by the fact there were between 400 and 700 horses grazing around the camp. The survival of the Corps would depend on being able to obtain some of those horses. •••
... “immence ranges of high mountains”...
They follow the Missouri up to the ‘Stony Mountains.’ They have to walk across this little hill and there they would find the mouth of the river going down to the Columbia. They found a spring, drank water from it, and made a note saying ‘I drank water from the headwaters of the Columbia,’ but then they go a little further up the pass and look out and as far as they can see are mountains. Not just mountains, but snow-capped. The things are full of snow and they know it’s going to be a very difficult traverse.”
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DEAR MISS MANNERS: Our youth pastor took all the graduating seniors and their families to lunch. My daughter thinks she should write the thank-you note because she was the one directly invited, while we were the “plus-ones”; I think I should write it because I’m usually the one to buy lunch for my family, and so I received the most benefit. What do you say?
DEAR MISS MANNERS: Does wearing the flag as clothes show that you love America, or that you hate America? I was raised to believe that it was disrespectful, if not traitorous, to wear the American flag on your butt or anywhere else, except as part of an authorized uniform, or maybe a discreet pin like the ones that seem required for politicians.
GENTLE READER: You want to stop your polite daughter from expressing gratitude, with the argument that saving you money is more important than being hospitable? Are you mad?
And now I see people who identify as patriots using flag material for all kinds of things, including boxers, bikinis and everything else. Are they sending a double message?
Miss Manners begs you to stop trying to teach etiquette to your daughter, who knows more about it than you do.
GENTLE READER: On the contrary: They have received a double message.
DEAR MISS MANNERS: Is it appropriate to send out a wedding invitation with explicit directions on how guests should dress? The bride wants to stipulate on the invitation “no T-shirts, no shorts,” etc. She says too many people show up at weddings improperly dressed.
The U.S. Flag Code — written and published by advocacy groups in 1923, adopted by Congress in 1942 and revised numerous times subsequently — states that “the flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery.” The American Legion interprets that as referring to an actual flag, not a fabric pattern that looks like a flag.
I find this rude. What do you think? GENTLE READER: Which? Dressing in leisure clothes for an important occasion, or issuing specific dress instructions to guests?
Miss Manners’ advice is to keep clear of any “More Patriotic Than Thou” contests.
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Never mind; both are rude. Which creates a problem. Hosts may set the general standard of dress, such as “black tie” — or puzzling codes they think up, such as “elegant casual,” whatever that means. But they are supposed to respect their guests’ judgment and not scold them in advance. Yes, Miss Manners knows your friends have no such judgment. She suggests a one-word instruction: “formal.” This will mystify the guests, but perhaps make them realize that their beach outfits do not qualify.
DEAR MISS MANNERS: If three office workers give a dozen cookies to a school counselor for School Counselor Week, should she offer a cookie to each of them? GENTLE READER: Although there is no prohibition against sharing food that was given as a present, neither is there a requirement to do so. Miss Manners assumes that the generous bakers got to lick the batter. DEAR MISS MANNERS: A friend of 40-plus years has again asked me not to have any contact with her married adult daughter. cont page 11
Miss Manners
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Although she and her daughter are estranged, I prefer not to have any conflict, and to be impartial with family or friends who are having disagreements. In addition, I am 70 years old and do not appreciate being told who I can and cannot associate with.
A Different Way of Seeing
THE TIDEWATER REACH Poem by Robert Michael Pyle • Photograph by Judy VanderMaten • Field Note by Hal Calbom
Long Dock It could be anywhere on the river
GENTLE READER: “I cannot promise that, but I do swear that I will not act as a go-between or divulge any private details from either one of you.”
where people want to get down to the water for all the reasons people do. There’s never been a time
Miss Manners warns you, however, that once your old friend realizes that she has lost a valuable intelligence agent, she may reconsider her position.
when people have lived along the water
DEAR MISS MANNERS: A dear college friend and I text one to two times a week. When I was going through some old things, I came across a memento of our time together. I mailed it to him and, via tracking, I know that it was delivered to the correct address.
in hoop by the water’s edge.
We continue to text weekly, but he has not mentioned it. This is wholly unlike him. He is always proper. I thought perhaps he was out of town when it was delivered, but it’s been three weeks.
are the entry-points. And when
that they didn’t build docks to get to boats to ducks to damselflies The longer the better, since it prolongs anticipation, puts off the moment of arrival, when toe goes into water or butt into boat. The docks you reach the end, only two things are possible: enter the river, or walk back up to the longing land, and start to long for water once more.
I feel uncomfortable asking him if he received a package from me. What to do? G E N T L E R E A D E R : Yo u r discomfort cannot be because it would be unmannerly, Miss Manners’ area of expertise. “Did you get it? What did you think? Isn’t it funny that I found it after all these years? Do you remember that trip?” Etiquette has no objection to your using any one of these questions -- or all four, so long as they are part of a single, breathless inquiry. But do omit the part about checking the tracking, which, though perfectly rational, tends to raise the hairs on the back of one’s neck.
PILINGS PATH: ASTORIA Few rivers are so influenced by tides and weather. The very height of river pilings, and the docks and ramps that either float up and down with them or are permanently affixed to them, anticipates tidal fluctuations well over ten feet. Among the most unanticipated, and aggravating, hazards of Lewis and Clark’s visit to the Lower Columbia was the tidal movement, which disrupted their camps and their forward progress.
On this page we excerpt poems, pictures and field notes from our own “Field Guide to the Lower Columbia River in Poems and Pictures,” The Tidewater Reach, by Gray’s River resident and renowned naturalist Robert Michael Pyle, and Cathlamet photographer Judy VanderMaten. The two dreamed for years of a collaborative project, finally realized when Columbia River Reader Press published color and black and white editions of The Tidewater Reach in 2020, and a third, hybrid edition in 2021, all presenting “a different way of seeing” our beloved Columbia River.
••• Please send your questions to Miss Manners at her website, www. missmanners.com; to her email, dearmissmanners@gmail.com; or through postal mail to Miss Manners, Andrews McMeel Syndication, 1130 Walnut St., Kansas City, MO 64106.
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Robert Michael Pyle Judy VanderMaten
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OUT•AND•ABOUT
Looping Willow Grove
Story & photos by Tracy Beard
Exercise, explore river countryside
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ycling is terrific exercise and a fantastic way to get around. Cowlitz County is a fun place to explore on your bike, whether you prefer to ride solo, with friends or as a family. In 2021 a team consisting of Complete Streets Advisory Committee members, residents, volunteers and city staff drafted a master plan to expand the current bike routes and walking trails in Longview. As I await the completion of this collaborative project, one of my favorite places to ride is the loop around Willow Grove. Willow Grove Park, located on the Columbia River west of Longview on Willow Grove Road, is easy to find and affords plenty of parking. Leave your car at either the boat launch or the picnic area, unload the bikes and take a left to follow my path out of the parking lot, heading west on Willow Grove Road.
on my travels through this section. Look for the poles with platforms in the slough; these are available for birds to nest out of harm’s way. Throughout the remainder of the ride you will tour past estate-like homes with manicured lawns, smaller houses with charming yard art, farms with cows, horses and chickens, various gardens, and several houseboats. Keep an eye out for peek-a-boo views of the Columbia River on the left in between the real estate. The Port of Longview, which celebrated 100 years of progress in 2020, purchased the park in 2014 and spent millions of dollars on renovations for the community. Plenty of barbeques are available, grassy areas and beachfront sand, and the picnic structures and bathrooms recently received a makeover. cont page 13
There is very little traffic on the roadway, so you can journey along at a leisurely speed, or pick up the pace for a great workout. Be aware there is often a police officer with a radar gun on the main section of the road. The speed limit is 35 miles per hour, and although you may get away with speeding on your bike, you will not escape a ticket speeding in your car. The loop is just over six miles long, and the elevation change throughout the ride is a mere 13 feet. Right out of the gate you will see one of my favorite houses on the right, hidden amongst trees. I love the black stone chimney. As you follow the road curving right, you can see a large farm with a round pen. Horses and cows are often grazing in this and nearby pastures. Extensive gardens with greenhouse hoop covers are on the right, and the slough quietly flows along on the left. I have spied ducks, egrets, blue herons and turtles
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from page 12 The most challenging part of this ride is the last stretch back to the park along the river. The afternoon wind makes riding more strenuous, so I like to go in the morning and stay at the park for a picnic lunch. Make the following fish recipe
OUT•AND•ABOUT at home and put it in a thermos or in your car crockpot to keep it warm until lunch or bring something to barbeque at the park. Although alcohol is not allowed at the park, I have included one of my favorite summer cocktail recipes.
The sand should make for a soft landing. Tracy Beard writes about luxury and adventure travel, traditional and trendy fine dining and libations for regional, national and international magazines. She is in her seventh year as CRR’s “Out & About” columnist. She lives in Longview, Wash.
Tasty Corn Salad ½ bag fire-roasted frozen corn – thawed 2 cups cherry tomatoes – cut in half 1 ripe avocado – diced ½ can of black olives – cut in half 4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil 1 chipotle chili – seeded and minced 1 ½ tablespoons fresh lime juice 1 tablespoon honey Salt and pepper to taste
By Tracy Beard
PROVISIONS ALONG THE TRAIL
Summer Fish Tacos 2 tilapia loins 1 teaspoon seasoning salt 2 tablespoons olive oil 4 taco-sized flour tortillas ½ head romaine lettuce or white cabbage – chopped into thin slices 1 ripe mango – sliced lengthwise 1 ripe avocado – sliced lengthwise 1/3 cup sour cream 1 chipotle – seeded and minced 1 lime – cut into wedges
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Mix chipotle in sour cream and place in the refrigerator for a few hours. Sprinkle the tilapia with seasoned salt. Heat oil and cook the fish on both sides until it flakes easily with a fork, approximately 5 minutes. Keep warm. Wash and chop lettuce. Slice the mango, avocado and lime. Cut the tilapia lengthwise. Warm the tortillas in a hot pan until hot and pliable. Lay ½ tilapia on the tortilla and dress with the sour cream mix, avocado, mango and lettuce. This recipe makes four tacos. Columbia River Reader / July 15, 2022 / 13
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he Cowlitz County Fair is the last weekend in July, and the theme is “Let the Good Times Grow!” The Cowlitz County Historical Museum is excited to partner with the WSU Master Gardeners to bring a small exhibit, “From Farm to Picnic” on the historic growing, cooking, preserving, and sharing of food in our community. This exhibit and additional museum programming is located at the Bush Family Log Cabin on the northwest corner of the fairgrounds during the Cowlitz County Fair, Wednesday, July 27, to Saturday, July 30. The Bush Cabin will be open daily from Noon to 6pm. Kids will enjoy crafts and historic toys, including the ever- popular stilts, along with the intriguing “What is It?” table of tools. Come join us for all the fun!
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Bush family raised seven children in this one-room cabin with a loft. Fire-scorched logs making up part of the cabin suggest it was made from salvaged timber remaining from the early 1800’s Hazel Dell Burn. The cabin was used as a barn in its later years before being dismantled log-by-
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It’s your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don’t take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver. ~ Betty White, American actress and comedian, 1922-2021 Longview native Debra Tweedy has lived on four continents. She and her husband decided to return to her hometown and bought a house facing Lake Sacajawea.“We came back because of the Lake and the Longview Public Library,” she says.
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the Forest for the Trees Trees have a history told in more than their rings. They also reflect the evolution of our consciousness. Trees were something to be cleared, first, for settlement and agriculture, and used to build shelter and provide fuel. They evolved into a crop, a commercial product, some decades before our Longview story begins, and remain at the heart of it. Many of us became proud R.A. Long High School Lumberjacks growing up. However, over time, it became fashionable to demean lumberjacks and the timber industry as exploiters and destroyers of the natural landscape. In fact (and we’ll be dealing with this extensively in this series), the tree business has been one of the most dutiful at fully utilizing and replenishing its product.
Trees have now been given exalted status. At the extreme, we “hugged” them and we are still fighting over them. We work to balance our aesthetic regard for them and their economic value to us. And in Longview — perhaps history’s most singularly-dedicated city to the business of forestry and trees — we now do both: harvest them still for profit, and worship the ground they grow on. We are both a Tree City USA and a World Tree City, with more than 12,000 trees growing and curated within our city limits. We have what Joni Mitchell once ruefully called a “tree museum” in our very own Frank Willis Arboretum, a glorious tour around Lake Sacajawea featured in this month’s issue. Above all, we have a better sense of how people and nature interact, and find balance between what puts shelter over our heads and inspiration into our hearts. •••
A City of Longview Urban Forestry crew, clockwise from top: Kevin Beaty (in the bucket), Peter Brickey, Blaine Winter, Danny Olson.
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changes that make us what we are today. How close are we to the founders’ vision? What remains? What’s entirely new?”
“It’s important to look back and celebrate the past,” said publisher Susan Piper, “but equally important to track the
Thanks to tremendous community support (see Partner Profiles, page 27), the Reader will present 12 months of “People+Place Then and Now” reportage, then combine and expand these features into a commemorative book. The Long View: A Planned
he Long View project pairs history with modern context. To celebrate Longview’s 100th birthday, Columbia River Reader is expanding its monthly “People+Place” feature to contrast the historical “Then” with the contemporary “Now.”
City and America’s Last Frontier written by Hal Calbom, with a foreword by John M. McClelland, III. The Reader will coordinate with the Longview Centennial Committee, led by Reed Hadley and Arlene Hubble, to publicize civic activities and celebrations (see Centennial Calendar, page 27) and will host a Book Launch Gala in late June 2023.
THEN AND NOW 1. Developing Dreams 2. Empire of Trees 3. Heavy Lifting 4. People Problems 5. Renewable Resources 6. Communications 7. Transport and Trade 8. Power and Energy 9. Education for All 10. Sustaining the Spirit 11. Health and Well-being 12. Dreams Developing
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Empire of Trees THEN
The mightiest stands of commercial timber on earth: measuring, mapping, mastering.
They Came to Three Rivers To get on with this story we must commence in the early years of the last century, bringing R.A. Long and his young lieutenants out from Kansas City to build the biggest mills on earth.
NOW
Not that Southwest Washington, as we now call it, lacked a history before the timber barons came to town. Far from it. Like the rest of the Pacific Northwest it’s a relatively recent history, dating at least to the white settlers who came to the Oregon Territory in the mid-1800s.
Natural bounties carefully managed and curated, serving commerce, recreation, and people.
Thousands of years before that lies buried — and drowned — a far richer history, when indigenous peoples numbered in the tens of thousands and maintained a sophisticated civilization from The Dalles to the mouth of the Columbia. They flourished as traders, artisans, artists and storytellers, and regarded the ramshackle members of Lewis and Clark’s great expedition as the true savages, their buckskins rotting off their backs, their canoes and canoeing primitive, their offers of a few measly trade beads and baubles beneath contempt. In the 1700s nine of ten of these Chinookan and Cowlitz peoples native to the region had died from diseases brought by the first white traders, decimating them more effectively than bullets or bayonets. A few decades later, when bare bones settlements began in mid- to late-1800s, there emerged in this ancient Cowlitz Valley towns called Monticello and Kelso and Castle Rock; there cropped up hardscrabble farms owned by Bushes and Plomondons, Huntingtons, Ostranders, and Catlins. Unlike our fellow colonists on the Atlantic shore, we’re not very far removed from this history. Most every place along the three rivers is named for a native, a settler, or a builder, still.
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hey came for the timber. With its southern mills running dry, Long-Bell Lumber Company faced a momentous choice: Either give up its logging operations entirely and rely on its lumber yards to sustain it, or find new sources of old growth timber and expanded markets for its products. The rich resources of the Pacific Coast, and especially the Pacific Northwest, were well known to the Long-Bell brain trust. These were sophisticated businessmen, running the country’s largest lumber company. But what they’d learned about logging the West, especially in the Cascade and Coast Ranges, gave them pause.
LOGGING WAS A COMPLEX, LABOR-INTENSIVE, DANGEROUS BUSINESS Above: Typical stand of timber in what becomes the Ryderwood area, circa 1920s. Right: Postcard view of Mt. St. Helens, Spirit Lake, and stands of Douglas fir. Postcard from O. Perry.
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Opposite: Railroad crews at work on regional lines; huge log ready to ship. Photo Credits: Historical photos from Longview Public Library digital archives; other photos by Hal Calbom except where noted.
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Risky Business Long-Bell had already dipped its toe in the western mud, having purchased the Weed Lumber Company in northern California some years before, and several stands of timber in Siskiyou County and southern Oregon. They realized they’d been spoiled by the South’s gentle topography, eager labor force, and mature distribution channels. Especially in the rugged West, logging was a complex, labor-intensive, dangerous business. Delivering crews of daredevil men and ramshackle equipment into the midst of huge stands of behemoth trees — usually far from the nearest road, town, or river — required major investments in logistics, equipment, and manpower. cont page 19
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Transporting the harvest — a single tree section massive enough to fill an entire log truck — was an industry in itself, let alone sawing, planing, packaging and bringing it to market. Logging was almost the only industry in the Northwest that had its own special railroads. In 1923 there were 292 such rail lines in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, many of which served more than one camp and had as many as twelve locomotives. ~ Stewart Holbrook The Far Corner
Most of these railroads were a mere ten to twenty miles long. In no section of the country has a railroad business grown so quickly, then disappeared so suddenly. Huge rafts of logs became more economically transported by water, and the advent of road-pounding log trucks further eroded the railroad’s economic proposition: clearing the land, grading the roadbed, and laying miles of track. Vote of Confidence
Besides the vitality of a man half his age, R.A. Long had a gift for inspiring and empowering those with whom he worked. He attracted a young and vigorous group of acolytes, and let them vote on the proposed move west, since they would bear the burden of conceiving and executing the plan.
IN NO SECTION OF THE COUNTRY HAS A RAILROAD BUSINESS GROWN SO QUICKLY, THEN DISAPPEARED SO SUDDENLY.
I became convinced of the fact that success for an individual, after his business has become so large that he cannot conduct it himself, depends on his choice of men to fill responsible positions and to interest them in such a manner as to cause continuous association. ~ R.A. Long A hundred years before it became business gospel, Mr. Long’s management style relied on empowerment, delegation, and building a company culture from the inside. His reward was uncommon loyalty built on mutual trust and confidence. In his own words:
That has always been my policy — to build the organization from within instead of without, and so the prominent men associated with me are practically all men who commenced with us in the very early part of their manhood. The vote was an overwhelming yes, and the process of “cruising” the timberlands began in earnest. In a matter of months, Mr. Long sealed the deal himself with a week-long horseback cont page 20
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trip to Cowlitz and Lewis Counties. He emerged near what became Ryderwood ready to close a purchase with George Long of the Weyerhaeuser Company, which bought the land from the railroaders in the early 1900s. LongBell purchased nearly 24,000 acres of timber with an astonishing volume of nearly 2.5 billion board feet. When their buying binge was finished, Long-Bell would own nearly 70,000 acres on the slopes of Mt. St. Helens in southwest Washington State.
onto ships and rail cars, and to the consumers most economically and efficiently? Hence the Long-Bell decision to “go big,” or not at all. To a c h i e v e t h e economic impact it wanted, dominate its competition, and harvest the colossal amount of timber it now owned, LongBell envisioned dramatic expansion both domestically and overseas. They conceived the idea of building two huge mills: one to export green lumber by ship abroad, and the other to ship finished dry lumber by rail across the United States.
The Venerable Vandercook Now the question was where to site the mill. Or mills.
Wesley Vandercook The Long-Bell team envisioned far more than business as usual in the Pacific Northwest. THE VANDERCOOK REPORT Washington already led the nation Cowlitz Site Advantages in lumber production, mainly from ocean-dependent “cargo • Good town location mills” clustered around the Puget • Property development value Sound, Grays Harbor, the lower • Possible railroad connection Columbia River, and Coos Bay, • Most accessible to log supplies Oregon. Hundreds of small inland • Farthest downriver connection sawmills glutted regional markets point for lumber, too. Lake Coeur • Location on the Columbia River’s d’Alene was described as looking main channel “like a log pond,” rather than the
recreation destination it would become a century later. More than 60 percent of the northwest labor force already worked in the timber industry. With World War I over, economists predicted a huge building boom. The question was, who could get the lumber out of the woods,
Cowlitz Site Disadvantages • Annual freshet (flood) dangers • Need for diking around town • No good roads • Possible labor supply difficulties source: J.M. MClelland, Jr. R.A. Long’s Planned City
Map used extensively by Long-Bell and real estate interests to show favorable site of the new city. Opposite: The famous 30- by-50-foot topographic map based on the Vandercook Report.
THEY CONCEIVED THE IDEA OF BUILDING TWO HUGE MILLS With an eye to this dual strategy, Chief Engineer Wesley Vandercook led a team of scouts up and down Columbia River watersheds and began looking for desirable mill sites. They evaluated sites upriver, on Swan Island near Portland, and downriver, near Warrenton south of Astoria, and points in between. Deep water anchorage was a must; a railroad terminus ideal. And, of course, the greatest possible proximity to the timber itself. Vandercook’s boots-on-the-ground study produced a 140-page report dubbed “the most remarkable of the documents that record the beginnings of Longview,” according to author John
McClelland, Jr. The Chief Engineer named eight possible options, but had become enamored of a site midway between them, at the confluence of the Cowlitz and Columbia Rivers. The Confluence
Besides a detailed evaluation of all eight sites, including rank ordering them in each of six categories — steamships, railroads, site, log supply, labor, general — Vandercook’s report was forward-looking and prescient. He anticipated the huge hydroelectric power potential of the river, and its ramifications for
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industry. “He wrote apprehensively about the labor situation in the Northwest,” according to McClelland, and decried the wastefulness of current logging practices. It is credibly stated that the annual loss (in the fir region) is 6 billion feet. It is notorious that — considered solely as a money-making concern — the most successful operation in the Portland area is also the most wasteful, both in its woods and mill operations. In view of the rapidly diminishing forest resources of the country, this matter of the elimination of waste required very earnest consideration. To a large extent, it seems unnecessary and preventable. ~ Wesley Vandercook This was written twenty years before timber owners began to establish tree farms and mills began pioneering new methods of wood utilization — so much so that the familiar waste burner dotting the western skyline would soon become obsolete.
VANDERCOOK’S REPORT WAS FORWARD-LOOKING AND PRESCIENT
Were the company to choose the Cowlitz site, a peninsula bordered on three sides by the two rivers and on the fourth by Fowler’s Slough (later to become Lake Sacajawea), Vandercook recommended a thorough topographic study, both of the city site and the company’s precipitous new timberlands. 100 Men and 42 Mules
Some time in early 1921 — and rather quickly, say some — the company decided on the Cowlitz site. Long-Bell would locate both its huge new mills there. Historians commenting on the relative hastiness of the siting decision point to the combination of Vandercook’s masterly surveying, and Mr. Long’s impetuous excitement. Long’s health and energy, his outlook and orientation put to the lie his chronological age of seventy. So exhilarating was the prospect of beginning again, starting afresh, that he could hardly contain his enthusiasm. It welled up and spilled over at every session in the boardroom. If anyone had doubts, that person took care to conceal them. ~ Lenore Bradley Robert Alexander Long Vandercook immediately undertook his study, both of the mill site and the company’s vast and isolated new timberlands. With 100 men and 42 mules, Vandercook spent months through the summer and fall of 1921 mapping the tricky terrain. When completed, he’d accomplished “a revelation in forest mapping,” according to a Forest Service official. His report proved far more than a topographical study; it became a Michelin guide for lumbermen entering new territory where everything — climate, timber, terrain, labor — was different than in the south. ~ Lenore Bradley In keeping with its mode of operation, “everything on a grand scale,” according to McClelland, the company assembled a three-dimensional map based on Vandercook’s work, 50 feet long and 30 feet wide, assembled in sections from cardboard and overlayed with plaster of Paris. It showed not only the volumes and locations of the various stands of timber, it demonstrated Vandercook’s passion for efficiency and eliminating waste. He proposed where the company might put spar trees, roads and rail lines for maximum productivity. Grand Designs, Great Challenges
Mr. Long later admitted that from the beginning of the Pacific Northwest expansion, Long-Bell had risked biting off more than it could chew: “I expect if we all knew the amount of work ahead of us we would not have gone forward with the courage that we did.” The industrial expansion alone was unprecedented. But three additional factors — some directly under the control of the founders, some more fickle — would influence Longview’s development over the next decade, and nearly bankrupt the LongBell Lumber Company.
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from page 21 Topography
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The Cowlitz delta was a public works nightmare: the entire plain required diking, dredging, and expensive infrastructure to control water, sewer, and drainage. The inimitable Vandercook himself would advocate diking nearly three times the area originally envisioned, a huge expansion in scale and expense. His argument relied not only on basic hydrology and topography, “the lay of the land,” but also on avoiding discrimination among the eventual settlers on the good and bad sides of the dike: Just across the dike would be land that would look just as good and to the average man would be just as good until his water came. Many would buy on the outside of the dikes and our land would stand vacant. We couldn’t dispose of it. And the people outside would not be protected — either their property or their lives.
And finally, and most fickle of all, the founders could not have anticipated the economic disaster that would nearly capsize the country, let alone the company or the town, in a matter of years. The Twenties stopped roaring. With a crash. And in retrospect some feel the company over-estimated the demand for lumber, depression or no. Even a ho-hum financial climate would have sustained their efforts. But a worldwide depression? Not a chance. Long-Bell would soldier on, and had the great good fortune of a good great fortune, much of which went into its new endeavor. And it adds luster to Longview’s early years that the founders created a legacy not just of industry, vision and prosperity. It’s also a compelling story of resilience, courage and, ultimately, survival. Long-Bell’s entrance into the Pacific Northwest began on the high clarion note of a brass choir. Yet eight years after Long and his men had voted to make a new start in the state of Washington, the city that rose from reclaimed marshland, and the two gigantic sawmills on the Columbia, had exhausted their energies and consumed all of the company’s cash reserves as well as the money that Long raised from banks and bond issues.
~ Wesley Vandercook The founders would follow the Chief Engineer’s recommendation, and — thanks to the huge amount of land now falling under company control and cultivation — suddenly find themselves in the real estate business: city builders, not just lumbermen.
~ Lenore Bradley •••
Grandiosity
The company and its founder had an appetite for the grand gesture, the grand scheme. From the beginning Longview has struggled with a sense of proportion — huge, wide streets with sparse habitation, a world class hotel next to makeshift wooden huts, tightly zoned districts segregating its intended populations.
Contrasts. The grand ballroom of the Monticello Hotel and the portable shacks of Skidville, less than 500 yards apart in downtown Longview, circa 1925.
THE COMPANY, AND ITS FOUNDER, HAD AN APPETITE FOR THE GRAND GESTURE
R.A. Long, despite his legendary modesty and strong Christian faith, was still a product of the Gilded Age, and embodied its trappings. Traveling to and from the worksite in his luxurious private railroad car, he reveled in the Georgian architecture of his magnificent hotel, library, and high school. Meanwhile, the more mundane problems of workers’ housing, public health, retailing and banking weighed heavily, and increased the burdens on developers of this company town trying always to insist that it wasn’t one. In the words of one early visitor, an associate editor of the publication Survey: Here stood the hotel, far from the railroad. There beside it, the public library far from its readers. At the center of town, the shops, far from the customers. A town doesn’t grow that way left to itself.
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•Trees absorb 40 percent of ambient traffic sound •Tree-filled neighborhoods are 7 to 9 degrees cooler •Energy costs drop by 25 percent with shade and wind protection from trees •Trees and green spaces absorb CO2 and increase physical and mental health Longview’s founders and builders didn’t need a press release or PowerPoint slide presentation to sell them on the value of trees. They just needed a telegram from Kansas City. Word that the impetuous, at times impatient, and relentlessly tree-loving R.A. Long was on his way out for an inspection visit often prompted an immediate and sometimes desperate response: “I know we’re running behind. Plant more trees!” Danny Olson is an arborist, a tree surgeon. Like his human surgeon counterparts, he dresses in protective clothing, requires board certification and continuing ed, and spends his days attending to limbs, trunks and various extremities. cont page 24
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And he does it fifty to a hundred feet off the ground. “Every one that I touch becomes a favorite tree,” he said, and every tree under his care, and that of the six other specialists working in the Urban Forestry Division of the Longview Parks and Recreation Department, receives plenty of TLC. “It’s a tough balance, because I’m doing everything I can to preserve the trees, but if it’s sick or dangerous, it may have to come down.” Protecting Plants and Persons
Olson and his Urban Foresters do more than simply nurture and protect trees from environmental damage. They do the converse as well, protecting
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the urban environment — us and our property — from the trees themselves. “Public safety is probably our main concern,” he told us, “and we spend as much time looking for potential targets as we do for sick trees.” “Targets” are the things — houses, fences, cars, people — potentially damaged by a falling, sick or diseased tree. Parks and Rec is especially concerned about places where people live, work, and gather. They pay close attention as summer holidays approach and popular spots see more traffic, where a weak limb or toppling tree could injure or even kill.
EVERY ONE THAT I TOUCH BECOMES A FAVORITE TREE
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“We have more than 12,000 trees that we keep track of, and I can pinpoint virtually any of them from this aerial view,” said Manager Joanna Martin, showing us an illustrated database on her desktop computer. Martin tracks not only what’s planted where, but health and vitality, too. The diagnostic side has a lot of common sense to it. One of the most obvious signs of tree failure is leaf die-back, either sparseness or discoloration of leaves. Fallen limbs and peeling bark are also telltale signs. And irregular weather can exacerbate tree problems. Heavy rains soften the ground and can actually make the trees more robust, which in itself can create problems. Olson said, “It’s sometimes called the ‘tip weight.’ You get trees sucking up nutrients like crazy after a good rain, they get overloaded with sap, the seeds get heavier, and all of a sudden there’s more strain on that limb or branch.” The Hazards of the Job
There are more hazards to tree surgery — urban forestry — than those created by the patients themselves. According to Joanna Martin, citizens and motorists often fail in their courtesy. “We get heckled a lot,” she said, “People either upset about being stopped in traffic, or accusing us of abusing the trees, harming the environment, when we’re doing just the opposite.” Martin points out that Urban Forestry plants way more trees, about 500 a year, than it’s forced to take down. “And we look for desirable species with good prospects,” she added, so that the overall health of the tree population continues to improve. “We don’t plant alders, for example,” said Olson, “since they grow great for awhile then fall over and die.” cont page 26
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TRAIL OF TREES
FRANK WILLIS ARBORETUM 1. Douglas Fir 2. Deodora Cedar 3. Shore Pine, Lodgepole 4. Alaska Yellow Cedar 5. Sitka Spruce 6. Bosnian Pine 7. Colorado Blue Spruce 8. Giant Sequoia 9. Black Pine 10. Spanish Fir 11. Ponderosa Pine 12. Goldenrain Tree 13. Bradford Pear 14. Red Horse Chestnut 15. Cleveland Select Pear 16. Dawn Redwood 17. European Hornbeam 18. Coast Redwood 19. Western White Pine 20. Red Oak 21. Southern Magnolia 22. Red Alder 23. Eastern White Pine 24. Raywood Ash 25. Horse Chestnut 26. Scarlet Oak 27. Black Cottonwood 28. Blue Atlas Cedar 29. Mugho Pine 30. Oregon Ash 31. European Larch 32. Bald Cypress 33. Monkey Puzzle 34. Katsura 35. Hinoki Cypress 36. Japanese Red Pine 37. Peach-leaf Willow 38. Honey Locust 39. Japanese Maple 40. Elderberry 41. River Birch 42. London Plane 43. Korean Fir 44. Red Maple 45. Austrian Pine 46. Western Red Cedar 47. Hawthorn 48. Sweetgum 49. Mountain Ash 50. Lombardy Poplar 51. White Basswood 52. Mossy-cup Oak 53. Arizona Ash 54. Umbrella Pine 55. Zelkova 56. Filbert (Hazelnut) 57. Chinese Elm 58. White Ash
Arboretum map courtesy of City of Longview, available as PDF download at mylongview.com under ‘Parks and Urban Forestry’ tab. Above, Arboretum trees, from top: 33. Monkey Puzzle; 26. Scarlet Oak; 27. Black Cottonwood; 35. Hinoki Cypress.
59. Photinia 60. European Beech 61. Washington Hawthorn 62. Purple-Robed Locust 63. Norway Spruce 64. Bolleana Poplar 65. Japanese White Pine 66. Armstrong Red Maple 67. Incense Cedar 68. Madrona 69. Ginkgo (Maidenhair Tree) 70. Mt. Fuji Cherry 71. Nuttal Willow 72. Redbud 73. Empress Tree 74. Western Hemlock 75. Port Orford Cedar 76. English Holly 77. Laurel Oak 78. Basswood 79. White Birch 80. False Cypress 81. Amur Maple 82. Weeping Willow 83. White Oak 84. Catalpa 85. Emerald Queen Maple 86. Pacific Dogwood 87. Black Walnut 88. English Elm 89. Tulip Tree 90. Korean Dogwood 91. Green Ash 92. Thundercloud Plum 93. Flowering Ash 94. Golden Chain Tree 95. Sweet Cherry 96. White Fir 97. Kwansan Cherry 98. Schwedler Maple 99. Pin Oak 100. Plum Tree (Prune) 101. Pink Dawn Chatalpa 102. Sycamore Maple 103. Scotch Pine 104. Fir 105. Crabapple 106. Sumac 107. Pink Dogwood 108. Western Yew 109. Irish Yew 110. Western Black Hawthorn 111. Liberty Elm 112. Hackberry 113. Sugar Maple 114. Vine Maple 115. Quaking Aspen 116. Purple-leaf Beech 117. American Elm 118. Autumn Cherry 119. Yoshino Cherry
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At left:: Example of a potentially sick tree. Among this row of Little Leaf Lindens the center tree is conspicuously lacking in leaves; “It may be simply running out of room,” said Danny Olson.
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IT’S NOT JUST CITY BEAUTIFUL IT’S PUBLIC SAFETY AND PUBLIC WORKS, TOO
I asked both Urban Foresters if they strut their stuff among their peers, being part of a city known for its glorious canopy of trees. “I do talk about us being world class here,” said Olson.
He acknowledged that the tree business can be full of contention and controversy, too. When it finally comes down to it, people get riled up about trees: They become passionate either about saving a particular tree or having it removed. And there’s always that precious quality dear to real estate agents and homeowners, “the view,” either blocked or enhanced by a tree or trees. “You can see most of the newly-planted trees around town,” said Olson. “They’re the ones with the water bags on them, those green bags around the lower trunk.” Many of these new trees come from the City’s nursery in Roy Morse Park, and are mostly 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 inches in diameter. Forecasting the Future
Longview’s art and science of treekeeping has attracted attention from other agencies and allies. A recent state Department of Natural Resources study, grant-financed, evaluated the city’s tree canopy and planting prospects. It will help Martin, Olson, and other Parks and Recreation staff assess where to plant new trees, and better care for those in the ground. “Our tree canopy came in at around 20 percent, which is excellent,” said Martin. “And the Report will help guide us in the future, and highlight areas that need help.” Again, the converse holds true. This planning process will help staff bring urban development to bear — considering the trees as the City and private interests determine where to expand, pave, and build.
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Public Works Works
The Urban Forestry ecosystem touches virtually every area of the city’s infrastructure. Public Works Director Ken Hash, emphasized that the Parks and Recreation Department, and Urban Forestry, have more responsibilities than simply beautification and maintenance. “Public Works includes waste water, potable water, sewers and roads, all of which are influenced by trees and especially leaf fall.” When I asked him what keeps him awake at night, he said, “A high wind and wet ground,” which can turn friendly trees and leaves into nemeses. Add in the intersection of trees with various utility lines — which are the responsibility of the utilities themselves — and the entire interwoven set of systems begins to look complex and potentially vulnerable. “The Urban Forestry guys are crucial,” Hash concluded. “It’s not just city beautiful. It’s public safety and public works, too, 24 hours a day.”
Haunted by Trees
A walk around Longview’s Lake Sacajawea can make a tree hugger out of anybody. And hundreds, thousands of people seem to make that trip every day, every week. The colossal canopy of elms over the boulevards, the juxtapositions of types and colors and shapes, the 120 trees curated in one of the city’s hidden treasures — the Frank Willis Arboretum at the lake — all fulfill Mr. Long’s vision and promise.
Hal Calbom is a third generation Longview native who works in public affairs television and educational publishing. This is his fifth year photographing and writing Columbia River Reader’s People+Place feature. Reach him at hal@halcalbom.com.
As I walked Sacajawea shooting a last set of photos for this story, reading the plaques on the arboretum trees, I was struck especially by one dedication: “Longview our home because of this park.” Charles & Mary Williams This is why they’re here, the trees. And why many of us, the people, are here, too. •••
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Holly’s maternal grandparents, Dan and Delsa McDonald Grandpa’s Garden My siblings and I remember especially G ra n d p a’s gar den, a working garden, in the backyard of their home on Fir Street in Longview. To a child, the corn and beans seemed huge. They grew a lot of rhubarb, too. We had dinners out in the open air, always, in the summers.
“When I saw Lake Sacajawea, I was sold on Longview.”
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I moved to Longview in 1994 because I thought it looked like a fantastic place to live. When I saw Lake Sacajawea, I was sold on Longview. I had friends from here, and visited often, plus I’d been living in Oregon and didn’t want to pay any more state income tax. Dan McDonald at his backyard garden on Fir Street in
Besides providing fresh Longview, circa 1955. vegetables for the table, What a treat to visit both Mom’s the garden produced vegetables for parents, the McDonalds, and canning, or to be “put up,” as our Dad’s parents, Harry and Ida Calbom, grandma would say. We do not have whenever we wanted to. They shared fond memories of the cannery, which the alley between Field and Fir Streets, was hot and steamy and smelly as we and both backyards were filled with recall. Canning was a kind of religion vegetables and flowers. There was to our grandparents, who’d had plenty often laundry hung out to dry on the of experience on farms growing up, and clotheslines (visible in the picture above), relied on the seasonal harvest, even and we were asked not to get the sheets from their own backyards. dirty as they blew in the wind and we The McDonalds were originally from romped among them. southern Indiana, and came to KelsoTo h a v e s o m u c h f a m i l y l i f e Longview via Idaho Falls, Idaho, where concentrated in one place, in walking my mother, Esther, was born. Grandpa distance, was a great blessing growing ended up working at the mill until up. The richness of their experience in retirement, and was glad for the work Longview is essential to our memories through tough economic times. and the legacy of our family. •••
Most of my life I’ve been lucky enough to be a working artist and teacher. I love the fact that Longview has galleries and public art, and programs all the time. What more could you want from what is still basically a small city? The fact that you can get anyplace in ten minutes helps, too. For me, it’s the best of both worlds. You could probably say my life has revolved around art. Drew doodles as a kid, all the time. Even when I was in the Air Force I was sketching all the time. It probably seemed like wasting time then but now I suppose you could say I had an artistic temperament. At an isolated base in New Mexico I was on the night shift at the control tower once, doodling away, and I guess I dropped off to sleep. When the captain called me out on it I said I was observing a UFO. That ended that assignment. Too creative to be a good air controller, I suppose. I spent almost 30 years in chilly Buffalo, New York, as Director of the Creative Craft Center at the college there. It was adult education, the average age around 38. You can imagine how I appreciate the milder climate here. My best memory of Longview is meeting my wife. I’d been in town about 18 months and some mutual friends said they wanted me to meet somebody, have lunch with their friend Alona. My beard was down to my chest at the time and Alona never forgot it. She told her friends “How dare you set me up with an ex-hippie!” So I went back to my apartment and started trimming. And we ended up married. I dedicate this sponsorship to her memory, and to the great town of Longview.. •••
“To have so much family life concentrated in one place ... was a great blessing growing up” ~ Holly Roe
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The Corner Cafe
796 Commerce Ave. Breakfast & Lunch. Daily Soup & Sandwich, breakfast specials. Tues-Sat 7am-3pm. Closed Sun-Mon. 360-353-5420. Email: sndcoffeeshop@comcast.net
Eclipse Coffee & Tea
Ixtapa Fine Mexican Restaurant 640 E. Columbia River Hwy Fine Mexican cuisine. Daily specials. The best margarita in town. Daily drink specials. Dine-in, curbside pickup. M-Th 11am–9:30pm; Fri & Sat 11am–11:30pm; Sun 11am–9pm. 503-728-3344
Rainier. Ore. 102 East “A” Street Microbrews, wines & spirits 7am–8pm Daily. Inside dining.
Interstate Tavern
119 E. “B” St., (Hwy 30) Crab Louie/Crab cocktails, crab-stuffed avocados. 17 hot and cold sandwiches. Amazing crab sandwiches. Full bar service. Catering for groups. 503-556-5023. interstatetavern@yahoo. com 503-556-5023
In the Merk (1339 Commerce Ave., #113) 360-998-2139. Mon-Fri 8am–4pm. Specialty coffees, teas, bubble teas and pastries....drinks with a smile. Takeout and on-site.
Freddy’s Just for the Halibut
1110 Commerce Ave. Cod, Alaskan halibut fish and chips, award-winning clam chowder. Burgers, steaks, pasta. Beer and wine. M-Sat 10am–8pm, Sunday 11am–8pm. Inside dining, Drive-thru, outdoor seating. 360-414-3288. See ad, page 10. The Gifted Kitchen 711 Vandercook Way, Longview “Celebrate, create, inspire.” Soups, salads, sandwiches, wraps, entrees, sides, pot pies, quiche, grazing boxes & more. M-F 11–6; Sat special events only; Sun closed. 360-261-7697.
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El Tapatio
924 15th Ave., Longview Tues–Thurs 11am–7pm; Fri & Sat 11am–8pm. BBQ meat slowcooked on site. Pulled pork, chicken, brisket, ribs, turkey, salmon. Worldfamous mac & cheese. 360-577-1541.
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Kyoto Sushi Steakhouse 760 Ocean Beach Hwy, Suite J 360-425-9696. Japanese food, i.e. hibachi, Bento boxes, Teppanyaki; Sushi (half-price Wednesdays); Kids Meal 50% Off Sundays. Mon-Th 11-2:30, 4:30-9:30. Fri-Sat 11am10pm. Sun 11am-9pm.
117 W. ‘A’ Street Mexican Family Restaurant. Open FriSat 11am-11pm, rest of week 11am-10pm. Full bar. Karaoke Fri-Sat 8-11pm. Patio seating. 503-556-8323.
1335 14th Avenue 18 rotating craft brews, pub fare. M-Th 11am–8pm. Fri-Sat 11am–10pm; Sunday 11am–6pm. Local music coming soon. 360-232-8283. Inside dining See ad, page 32. Follow us on Untappd.
Broadway Barrel Room
1133 Broadway Family friendly tap house and eatery. 18 taps local craft beverages, hand-crafted soups, sandwiches, flatbread and desserts. Live music on Thursdays. Hours: TuesSat 11am–10pm. 360-353-4295. Sun & Mon available for special events. Bruno’s Pizza 1108 Washington Way. Pizza, breadsticks, wings, salads, fish & chips. WE DELIVER. Four beers on tap. 360-6364970 or 360-425-5220,
The Carriage Restaurant & Lounge
The Carriage Restaurant & Lounge 1334 12th Ave. Open 8am–9pm (sometimes later, call to check). Breakfast, lunch and dinner. Full bar, banquet room available for groups, special events. Happy hours daily 9–11am, 5–7pm. 360-425-8545.
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Lynn’s Deli & Catering 1133 14th Ave.
Soups & sandwiches, specializing in paninis, box lunches, deli sandwiches and party platters. Mon-Fri 8-3, Saturday 10-2. 360577-5656
Roland Wines
1106 Florida St., Longview. Authentic Italian wood-fired pizza, wine, and beer. Casual ambience. 5–9pm Wed-Fri, Sat. 1–9. 360846-7304. See ad, page 30. Scythe Brewing Company 1217 3rd Avenue #150 360-353-3851 Sun-Thur 11am-10pm, Fri-Sat 11am-10pm Family-friendly brewery/restaurant with upscale, casual dining, lunch and dinner.
Stuffy’s 804 Ocean Beach Hwy 360-423-6356 8am–8pm. Breakfast, lunch, dinner. American style food. Free giant cinnamon roll with meal purchase on your birthday with proof of ID. Facebook: Stuffy’sII Restaurant, or Instagram @ stuffys2.
Teri’s, 3225 Ocean Beach Hwy, Longview. Lunch and dinner. Burgers, steak, seafood, pasta, specials, fresh NW cuisine. Full bar. Tues– Sat 12Noon–8pm. Sat 5:30–8:30pm.. Curbside pickup. Inside dining. 360-577-0717.
Castle Rock, Wash Luckman’s Coffee Company 239 Huntington Ave. North, Drive-thru. Pastries, sandwiches, salads, quiche. See ad, page 4.
Parker’s Steak House & Brewery 1300 Mt. St. Helens Way. I-5 Exit 49. Lunch, Dinner. Burgers, hand-cut steak; seafood and pasta. Restaurant open 1-8pm Tue-Th, 1-9pm, F-Sat. Lounge Happy Hours 4pm. 360-967-2333. Call for status/options. Vault Books & Brew 20 Cowlitz Street West, Castle RockCoffee and specialty drinks, quick eats & sweet treats. See ad, page 34.
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Scappoose, Ore. Fultano’s Pizza 51511 SE 2nd. Family style with unique pizza offerings, hot grill items & more! “Best pizza around!” Sun–Th 11am–9pm; Fri-Sat 11am–10pm. Full bar service ‘til 10pm Fri & Sat. Deliveries in Scappoose. 503-543-5100. Inside Dining.
Ixtapa Fine Mexican Restaurant
33452 Havlik Rd. Fine Mexican cuisine. Daily specials. The best margarita in town. Daily drink specials. M-Th 11am–9:30pm; Fri & Sat 11am–11:30pm; Sun 11am–9pm. 503-543-3017
Warren, Ore. Warren Country Inn 56575 Columbia River Hwy. Fine family dining. Breakfast, lunch & dinner. Full bar. Call for hours.503-410-5479. Check Facebook for updates. Dine-in.
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215 N. Hendrickson Dr., Port of Kalama. A Northwest pub and unique bars serving breakfast, lunch & dinner daily. Info & reservations, bar hours at mcmenamins.com. 8am–midnight daily. 360- 673-9210. Indoor dining, covered outdoor seating, curbside take-out.
Lunch & Dinner, burgers, sandwiches, wraps, salads, famous cobblers. Riverview dining. Check website for updated hours: FMGRILL.COM See ad, page 12.
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St. Helens, Ore. Sunshine Pizza & Catering 2124 Columbia Blvd. Hot pizza, cool salad bar. Beer & wine. Limited inside seating, curbside pickup and delivery. 503-397-3211 See ad, page 14. Big River Tap Room 313 Strand Street on the Riverfront. Lunch/Dinner Tu-Thurs 12–8pm; Fri-Sat 12–9pm. Chicago-style hot dogs, Italian beef, pastrami. Weekend Burrito Breakfast, Sat 8-11, Sun 8am-3pm. See ad, page 14.
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298 S. 1st Street, St. Helens, Ore. Family friendly, food, 14 tap handles. Open daily 11am-10pm. See ad, pg 14.
“SoCo” 1350 Atlantic Ave. Rotating craft brews, pub fare. Open M-Th 11am–6pm; Fri–Sat 11am–10pm; Sunday 11am–6pm. 360-841-8941. See ad, page 32.
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Art in the Park set for August 20 By Carol Boudreau
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troll among the 25-plus artisan vendors on the north end of the Civic Circle across from the Longview Library during the Columbian Artists Association’s “Art in the Park” on Saturday, August 20, 9am–5pm. You’ll see art and high quality crafts from Pacific Northwest artists presenting and selling pottery, watercolors, acrylics, and oil paintings, fabric art, jewelry, leather work, photography, scrimshaw, fused glass and metal designs. Talk with the artists about their work and enjoy the peace among the trees while watching the day’s events unfold around the Civic Circle, where Squirrel Fest festivities, sponsored by Longview Rotary Club, will be in full swing. In conjunction with Squirrel Fest, the Columbian Artists will host their own booth, selling original 6x6-inch paintings created and donated by members to raise funds for future association events. Make sure to enter the raffle for your chance to win one of five high-quality art pieces in the CAA booth.
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e are now in Mid-Summer sky mode. The three bright stars that make up the Summer triangle are Vega, Deneb and Altair. Vega is in the constellation Lyra (the Harp), Deneb is in the constellation Cygnus (the Swan), and Altair is in Aquila (the Eagle). The Summer Triangle is an asterism, a group of stars that are not a constellation in itself, but make up a recognizable pattern of stars.
The Evening Sky
On July 11th at about 11:30 pm, Saturn rises in the east southeast. By late July, Jupiter will join the pre-midnight hour for rising in the eastern sky. This will leave the evening sky for viewing the summer constellations with very little moonlight for distraction. See above right for Moon phases. The Morning Sky
Cloudless eastern horizon sky required Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus and Mercury (the unaided eye planets) are all up 50 minutes before sunrise by July 12th (except Mercury). This is a parade of the four bright planets all in a row in the eastern sky about 90° wide. Saturn starts the parade just before midnight, Jupiter rises about 12:45am, Mars around 1:30am, and finally, Venus around 4am.
Mercury is no longer easily visible as it has gone back in its retrograde motion to being very close to the sun as it rises, making it very difficult to see. In End of twilight - when the addition to the other five stars start to come out: visible planets, Neptune is Wed. July 15th, 9:01pm also visible (but only with Mon, July 26th, 9:26pm a telescope) located about Tues, Aug. 11th , 9:00pm 14º southeast of Jupiter in line with Saturn and rises around 11:45pm. It will appear as a small dim bluish star in the telescope’s field of view. The planet Uranus can also be seen (with a telescope only) between Mars and Venus, rising about 2:30am. It is 14º to the left of Mars. Large binoculars might pick up Uranus, but a telescope is the best bet. Moon Phases: Full: Wed, July 13th 3rd Quarter: Wed, July 20th New: Thurs, July 28th 1st Quarter: Fri, Aug 5th
Night Sky Spectacle: Andromeda Galaxy(M32)
The large constellation of Pegasus doesn’t fully rise until after 10:45pm. It will be located lower toward the eastern horizon below Cygnus. But its best object is up around 10pm. Pegasus is marked by a diamond-like shape of four stars. The northernmost star (on the left side) is actually the head of the constellation Andromeda. Andromeda looks like the hind legs of Pegasus. The Andromeda Galaxy (M32) is well above the horizon. It can be viewed from a dark sky with the naked eye as a pale smudge; a pair of binoculars will make it a bigger and brighter smudge. A telescope will show that the smudge has an eye shape. You will be seeing only the very center of this galaxy. The bigger the telescope, the more detail can be seen. Go to the second star of the lower “leg” and climb up past the middle dim star in the upper “leg” an equal amount and you will see the smudge of M32. •••
Did China Hear from ET? By Greg Smith D
id you hear about the claim that China may have picked up a radio signal from somewhere out in the galaxy (although they are not fully endorsing this claim). Virtually all astronomers who work in radio astronomy say it is most likely a signal of Earth origin. A stray reflected signal of an earth-made signal. There are so many satellites now and more coming online weekly, that filtering through all the signal noise is a difficult task. (Thank you, Elon Musk.) But what if all Earth sources are ruled out? Then what? So we caught a stray signal. There is not enough of it to decipher what it says. We would never know what it means. Maybe a stray text of one alien saying to another, “I’ll be late for bowling practice.” But it would be of huge psychological impact. We would know that we are not alone in the universe. What about the Defense Department’s release of the videos of objects that Air Force pilots have chased through the skies? What are those things, anyway? I have friends who have seen black objects moving slowly overhead big enough in the sky to blot out stars. These were amateur astronomers who know the skies and what the difference is between a star and aircraft. They know that a cloud at night has no sharp edges. As the famous astronomer and educator Carl Sagan once said, “If there is nobody out there, then the universe is a lot of wasted space.”
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At about the time this issue is published, some of its first pictures from the new James Webb Space Telescope will be released to the public. One article I read says there will be data about a nonsolar system planet (exoplanet) orbiting another star. The data will include information about its atmosphere. Will it be livable for us or will it be poisonous? On July 12th we will find out, so you may already know the answer to this question. Stay tuned for more information in the news. There will more pictures and data coming from the James Webb Space Telescope in the coming weeks and months. It has enough fuel to last 20 years and will replace the Hubble telescope’s remarkable pictures and data that we have come to love and enjoy. There is still good news out there to read about. ••• Longview resident Greg Smith is past president of Friends of Galileo. Meet him and other club members at monthly meetings in Longview. For more info about FOG, visit friendsofgalileo.com. Columbia River Reader / July 15, 2022 / 31
Roland on Wine THE PET CORNER So glad those &#*?*@ fireworks are over, at least until New Year’s Eve! Meanwhile, get ready for the Dog Days of August!
GINGER SAYS
Sauvignon Blanc
By Marc Roland
The best summer wine on the planet
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et’s continue on in our discussion of noble grapes, starting with Sauvignon Blanc. Sauvignon Blanc has become wildly popular, and for good reason. It is good and affordable. Thanks to the abundance
of the New Zealand version in the past few years, it has captured our attention with its crisp acidity and mouthwatering grapefruit flavor. The approachability of the wine has made wine drinkers out of those with limited knowledge of wine. It is unpretentious and tastes great with food. The “down under” expression of the grape was so cont page 33
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popular that I seldom ventured very far way. But now it seems like it is harder to find a brand that doesn’t contain ‘bay, river, or creek’ in the name. It’s time to venture out to taste other expressions of the grape. Sauvignon Blanc is a white grape variety started in the Loire Valley of France. Its genetic origin is uncertain, but it is grown almost anywhere there are cooler climates. What makes it so darn good is its piquant acidity and dry fruity finish, which is difficult to achieve if the fruit gets too ripe. If you don’t have cases of this go-to wine at your house, you are missing perhaps the best summer wine on the planet. So why is it so good? The taste is very different from other white wines in that it is green and herbaceous, smack-you-in-the-face wild! The name Sauvignon Blanc means “wild white,” so who wouldn’t want a little wild once in a while? The style of sauvignon blanc depends mostly upon where it is grown. Is it from a warm climate like New Zealand, or California, or cool climates, for Longview resident and former Kelso teacher Marc Roland started making wine in 2008 in his garage. He and his wife, Nancy, now operate Roland Wines at 1106 Florida Street in Longview’s new “barrel district.” For wine tasting hours, call 360846-7304.
example, Loire Valley in France? In Washington State, we have a combination with the sunny eastern side of the Cascades, and the cooler western side. The flavors can be very different, making it hard to call for sommeliers and wine experts in blind tastings. But it is hard to mistake the drinkability and universality of its dry, fruity, and food-friendly nature. Here are a few to try out on the deck this summer. You will be surprised!
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Mercer Estates Sauvignon Blanc, Yakima Valley, $14: Many people describe sauvignon blanc as grassy with gooseberry as a prominent fruit. In this warmer version we find more tropical fruit like kiwi, lime, and tangerine. You will taste gooseberry, but mellowed with watermelon and lavender. The alcohol is 12.5% which is low for the warmer climate. Not as much grapefruitas the New Zealand versions. King’s Estate $19. Alcohol 13.5% Willamette Valley: stone fruit, apple, citrus, honey. This wine has more green flavors like grass and bell pepper. It is well balanced with medium acidity and a wee bit of sweetness. The cooler climate of Oregon brings out underripe orchard fruit that reminds me of home. Kirkland Signature Sancere $20 alcohol 13%: Loire Valley, France: This is the flagship of sauvignon blanc grapes. You will recognize the minerality of the limestone soils— lemon and peaches come through in a refreshing aroma. A steal! All of these wines are perfect for Northwest cuisine, like seafood, grilled meats, and cheese assortments. I was really surprised how little difference climate seemed to play on the alcohol levels of the wines. Winemakers have some control over alcohol levels by picking before the sugar levels get too high. This seems to be the case with these wines. Hats off to the makers! •••
Rad Dutz, shown here with his Deagan vibraphone, is a professional musician who moved to Kelso, Wash., in January 2021.
Good vibes for life
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By Rad Dutz
hen I was 13, (in 1974), after my parents had already seen me practice piano and snare drum for about three years, they figured I was pretty serious about music. They bought me an excellent professional musical instrument, a Deagan vibraphone made in Chicago, two hours north of Decatur, Illinois, where I grew up.
During my 50 years now as a professional musician, this instrument has appeared on hundreds of CDs and many TV shows, like Family Guy, American Dad, King of the Hill, STAR TREK Next Generation, Duck Tales, Mickey Mouseworks, and several movies including Cowboys and Aliens, Up, Syrianna, Transformers, and Blood and Concrete.
It has the serial number 19741, which I assume might be the first production vibe of that year. I practiced this instrument countless hours throughout junior high, high school and took it to Texas for college. It moved with me in 1982 when I started free lancing in the music business in Los Angeles and I am still using it everyday.
This vibraphone (vibraharp or “vibe” for short) now resides in my percussion studio with several other percussion instruments, up in the hills of Kelso, Wash., where I am currently teaching students of all ages, and all levels. The Deagan company was purchased by Yamaha musical instruments in the early 1980s, so my “vibe” is a bit of an antique. •••
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What are you reading? Monthly feature coordinated by Alan Rose
By Philip Portwood
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any people living here have either worked for Weyerhaeuser or know someone who has, yet few know about the kidnapping of George Weyerhaeuser, great- grandson of the founder of the company. In 1935, eight-year-old George was an ordinary kid attending Lowell Grammar School in Tacoma. As opposed to his grandparents who lived in a mansion, George’s parents John and Helen Weyerhaeuser chose to live in a fairly normal home and wanted to raise their kids as normally as possible. The recent kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby had made national news when William Dainard, in prison for grand larceny, assault, and bank robbery, met Harmon Waley. After being paroled, they decided kidnapping for ransom would be a good way to make money. They grabbed George walking home for lunch, then drove into the woods where they first placed him in a hole in the ground, later moving him to a Spokane house, and then to Idaho.
while he was touring our saw mill. He smiled and nodded to me as I was separating lumber. George was a brave young man, a good and humble man who knew about hard work and also about forgiveness. While in prison, Harmon wrote to George, expressing remorse, and when he was released, George offered him employment as a truck driver. Editor’s note: George Weyerhaeuser died June 11, 2022. He had served as Weyerhaeuser Company’s CEO from 1966 to 1991 and board chairman until 1999. He was 95.
A ransom note was typed and delivered to John Weyerhaeuser. John’s father had just passed away, there were labor riots at the mills in Tacoma and Longview, and now his son had been kidnapped! Amid the media frenzy, the money was delivered and George was brought to a shack in Western Washington, from where he walked to the nearest house. Not knowing who he was, the owner told him to leave. George went to the next home where he did receive help and eventually was returned to his relieved parents. A reporter overheard him apologizing to his pet mouse for being gone for the week.
••• Longview resident Philip Portwood worked for Weyerhaeuser for 30 years. An organist and pianist at several local churches, he also tutored for Project Read for 15 years prior to the Covid pandemic.
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We’ve been mostly asking the wrong questions: (…) Were our earliest ancestors simple and egalitarian, or complex and stratified? Is human nature innocent or corrupt? Are we, as a species, inherently cooperative or competitive, kind or selfish, good or evil? Perhaps all these questions blind us to what really makes us human in the first place, which is our capacity—as moral and social beings—to negotiate between such alternatives. ~ from The Dawn of Everything
in such tight conceptual shackles that we can no longer even imagine the possibility of reinventing ourselves.” Not for the intellectually faint of heart, this book can be exhilarating or upsetting, depending on how comfortable one is with new ideas that challenge what one “knew” to be true. Reading it, I was reminded of the famous axiom of T. H. Huxley, himself no stranger to upsetting new ideas: “It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.” Stay tuned for updates. •••
They show that the human experience has been rich in its diversity and imagination of social forms, less an evolutionary progression culminating in this present moment than a kaleidoscopic array of social possibilities with which humankind over the past 30,000 years has continuously re-invented itself. Amid this richness, they ask “how did we find ourselves stuck in just one form of social reality, and how did relations based ultimately on violence and domination come to be normalized within it?” More, they warn that we have become “trapped
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The Kelso Garden Club invites you to the Cowlitz County Fair, July 27-30 beginning at noon each day. Display booths located in the Floral Building. “Let the Good Times Grow,” and “Water-wise Gardening in the Pacific Northwest” display. The public is invited to participate in the Flower Show. See schedule cowlitzcountyfair.com under Exhibits - floral. Bring flowers for the show to the Floral Building on Mon, July 25, 6–9pm or Tues, July 26, 7–9am to participate in the contest. Ribbons will be awarded. Finnish American Folk Festival July 29,30,31, Naselle,Wash. Exhibits, lectures, music, dance, food. Worship and closing ceremonies on Sunday. Info@nasellefinnfest.com, 360-4843602. See ad, page 15. Stella Historical Society Museum Located at 8530 Ocean Beach Highway (10 miles west of Longview). Soapmaking workshop Sat., Aug 6, 10–4, with take-home sample. Free, registration required, call 360-423-8663. Museum open 11–4 every weekend through Aug. 28. Off-season tours offered, call 360
-423-3860. Call to artists Artists and fine crafters may submit applications to become vendors at Art in the Park (in conjunction with SquirrelFest at the Longview Civic Circle, Saturday, Aug 20.) This is a juried event; deadline August 10. Application forms at Broadway Gallery, 1418 Commerce Ave., Longview, or online, columbianartists.org. Info: Mary 206-940-9885 or maf43@comcast.net Writing for Teens and Young Adults Workshop with Marianne Monson Sat, Aug 6, 10am–1pm via Zoom. Register in advance at thewritersguild. org. Cost $25 for Guild members, $35 for non-members. Needs-based scholarships always available. Info: info@thewritersguild.org
farmers markets Cowlitz Community Farmers Market 9–2, Tues thru Sept; Sat thru Oct 1900 7th Ave, Cowlitz Expo Center, Longview, Wash. www.cowlitzfarmersmarkets.com Astoria Sunday Market Sundays • 10–3 thru Oct 9 Downtown on 12th, just off Hwy 30, Astoria, Ore. www.astoriasundaymarket.com Clatskanie Farmers’ Market Saturdays • 10–2 thru Sept. Copes Park. clatskaniefarmersmarket.com Ilwaco Saturday Market Saturdays •10–4 thru Sept 10 Port of Ilwaco, Ilwaco, Wash. www. portofilwaco.com Scappoose Farmers Market Sats, thru Sept • 9–2. Behind City Hall next to Heritage Park, 2nd St., Scappoose, Ore. www.scappoosefarmermarket.com Market managers: Please send changes or new info to publisher@ crreader.com
Lower Columbia Genealogical Society Public is invited to Zoom meetings 2nd Thurs. Meeting opens at 6pm for welcome to visitors, instructions, announcements. Program with guest speaker 7pm. For a Zoom link, contact lcgsgen@yahoo.com.
Cathlamet Wooden & Classic Boat Show Aug 13. Elochoman Marina, Cathlamet Wash., 8am–5pm. The Chamber of Commerce and TSCA are the main sponsors of the event. For more info: Michael, 503-860-5036 or Allen, 805208- 7335.
RA Long High School Class of 1967 Reunion Aug 20, 12 Noon. Bring-yourown picnic; alcohol prohibited. Riverside Park, Kelso,. Wash. Reserved tables, Sec. 9 and 10. Info: Chris, 360-261-6051.
Friends of the Castle Rock Library Monthly Book Sale Aug 18-19 (1-4pm) Aug 20, 10am-1pm. Sale held in the back room of the library, 137 Cowlitz Street West, Castle Rock. All items $4 per grocery bag. Bags are provided.
Southwest Washington Community Yoga In-person Mon-Wed-Fri7:45–9am, St. Stephen’s Church,1428 22nd Ave, Longview, Wash. (enter via alley). Practices led by volunteers. Suggested donation $2 per session. Money collected is donated to the church. For more info, please contact Ruth, 360-430-0420.
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Northwest Gardening
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off last summer, but I moved them into pots on my deck—I can wheel them into the shade when needed. Plant the right plant in the right place, and you will avoid significant problems in the future—stressed plants are vulnerable to pests and diseases.
Consider the afternoon sun
Last year, many of us saw our rhodies, azaleas, camellias, some Japanese maples, and hydrangeas fry in the extreme heat and sun. Myself included. A little homework could have prevented that disaster. None of those plants like afternoon sun and should never have been planted where they could not be shaded. My little hydrangeas recovered after their leaves burned
As tempting as it is to buy those beautiful new nursery plants, hold off on it until a long spell of cooler weather is expected. Autumn and spring are the best time to put in new plants…not summer. Another thought—plant a shade tree in your landscape to create ready-made shade for your sun-fearing plants. Water your plants, correctly
Drip irrigation is the best way to keep your soil evenly moist. It puts
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July 26: Water-wise Gardening - the water right where it needs to Drought-tolerant landscaping be—at the roots. You may need Aug 2: August Garden Tips to adjust the settings to get more Aug 9: Harvesting the Garden water when it’s sweltering. If you When to Pick water overhead, be sure to do it Aug 16: Food Preservation Basics in the morning or early evening so less will be lost to evaporation. Use a good organic mulch like wood chips to keep the soil moisture This year, plan a garden that’s droughtin and to moderate soil temperature. tolerant—replace plants that struggle Made in the shade with our summer heat with ones that Create some shade for your plants — thrive in it. Read plant labels and hang bedsheets, row cover fabric, or ensure you’re planting your choices shade cloth on a trellis or a clothesline in the right place with other plants between stakes. Use a beach or patio that like it dry. umbrella to protect vulnerable plants. How do you know if your plant is I propped a cardboard box over my heat stressed? remaining hydrangea so it receives If you see wilting and/or rolling leaves morning sun but remains in the shade with crispy edges or drooping leaves in the afternoon. Be creative! and flowers—take action. They need more water and possibly, some shade. Some plants, notably hydrangeas and petunias, will droop in the hottest time of the afternoon, even if they have enough water, and will perk back up by morning.
Keep an eye on your plants and learn what they need—don’t let them get past the point of no return. Tomatoes, peppers, melons, squash, and beans will probably drop their flowers— they won’t pollinate when it’s in the 90s for the whole day. They’ll recover and send out more blossoms when it cools off. Make sure to keep their soil evenly moist, or you will end up with dreaded blossom end rot—the bottom of the fruit will turn black. And don’t forget to take care of yourself, too.
Do your gardening chores early in the day or at dusk. Take breaks and be sure to hydrate. Then sit in the shade, sip a cool drink, and admire your beautiful garden! Enjoy the coming growing season! •••
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Cultural commingling in Kalama Festival celebrates historic confluence
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ne of the Lower C o l u m b i a ’s most welcoming traditional events — the Kalama Heritage Festival — returns to Rasmussen Beach Park in Kalama the weekend of August 19th to 21st. The Festival celebrates the historic intermingling of Lower Columbia Native Peoples with the Hawaiian Kanaka who were brought to the region by Hudson Bay fur traders in the mid-1800s. Planned events include traditional dance, drumming and craft exhibitions, workshops and demonstrations, a canoe landing event hosting visiting tribal canoe families Saturday morning the 20th, and copious beach-cooked Native and Hawaiian traditional food — salmon and roast pig. Festival organizers are especially pleased to welcome regional tribes’ canoe families, who lately curtailed most water-borne festival visits due to COVID restrictions. “There’s just a pent up excitement to get out on the water,” said Jerry Chapman, one of the event’s organizers and performers, “just to be out on the water paddling.” Following timehonored traditions and protocols, the Cowlitz Tribe will host the canoe rendezvous, then honor, feed and celebrate the participating tribes. “Right now we have commitments from the Muckleshoot, Chehalis, and Warm Springs canoe families,” said Chapman, “but all tribes are welcome. If we get good weather and calm conditions we’re prepared to be surprised.” Canoes will land on the beach between 8:00am and noon on the 20th. Chapman, who personifies the blending of the two cultures — he shares blood with Sta Lo tribal members (in today’s British Columbia) and Kanaka from Maui — is also a renowned drum maker and performer, with a passion for sharing indigenous rhythms. “Virtually every tribe up and down the coast uses some kind of drumming — for dance, for chanting, for singing, for meditation,” he said. Besides the traditional hand drum, Native musicians use bells, rattles, and clapper sticks to vary and interweave tones and rhythms. Chapman maintains his own workshop and manufactures traditional drums of all types, and encourages people
to craft and create their own. “A clapper stick, for instance, is simply an elderberry or cedar branch, about 18 inches long, split halfway down the center, and hit with the hand. It’s amazing the variety of sounds from the most basic of materials.”
Jerry Chapman
The introduction of Hawaiian culture to the Columbia River is one of history’s most fascinating footnotes. Originally brought to the region by whalers and traders, because of their prowess as swimmers and boaters, the Kanaka soon found they shared a welcoming spirit — and traditions that encouraged tribal intermingling, not antipathy — with the indigenous peoples of the Lower Columbia. The result was extensive mixing, intermarriage, and rich cultural crossover.
There is still debate (see CRR June 2018 issue) over the historical role of John Kalama, recorded on the books as an employee of the Hudson Bay Company. Although many claim Kalama as the founder or namesake of today’s town, other sources insist today’s Kalama is named after local tribes, has little to do with John Kalama, and is the product of phonetic similarities later merged by legend and lore. It makes a good origin story, certainly, and for sure the legend of the Kalama Heritage Festival is real — sharing the culture, artistry and generous spirit of these commingled peoples. Admission to most events and performances is free, with donations appreciated. The public is welcome. Exit 27, I-5.
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ortland area pianist/recording artist John Nilsen said in a press release he will cover styles from classical, jazz, folk, classics, originals, boogie-woogie, etc. in a solo concert at Longview United Methodist Church, 2851 30th Ave, Longview, Wash., on Sat., July 23, 6 pm. Admission is by donation. “If you like piano music you’ll enjoy it.” said the artist whose 21 CDs have sold more than a million copies. Nilsen has toured all 50 U.S States and four continents, and was selected as a Yamaha Signature Piano Artist in November 2022. Nilsen founded the Magic Wing recording label in 1987. The label has a catalog of 18 successful titles, each with international distribution. His album, “Foreign Films” was released August 2019 and emphasizes Nilsen’s superb piano compositions with orchestral backing. Several piano solos sit alongside others with a string quartet providing backing. All 18 tracks make the listener feel as though they’re listening to a motion picture soundtrack. For more info: johnnilsen.com
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