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2 / Columbia River Reader / August 15, 2022 LEWIS AND CLARK REVOLUTIONIZED What really — truly — happened during those final wind-blown, rain-soaked thirty days of the Lewis and Clark Expedition’s trek to the Pacific? Southwest Washington author and explorer Rex Ziak revolutionized historical scholarship by providing the answers: day by day and week by week. We’re delighted to offer In Full View, and Rex’s other two books, one with an extraordinary fold-out map, as our inaugural offerings from CRR Collectors Club. IN FULL VIEW Rex Ziak $29.95 A true and accurate account of Lewis and Clark’s arrival at the Pacific Ocean, and their search for a winter camp along the lower Columbia River. EYEWITNESS TO ASTORIA Gabriel Franchére $21.95 The newly edited and annotated by Rex Ziak version of Franchére’s 1820 journal, Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the Years 1811, 1812, 1813 and 1814, or The First American Settlement on the Pacific. DOWN AND UP Rex Ziak $18.95 A unique fold-out guide mapping dayby-day Lewis and Clark’s journey from the Rockies to the Pacific Ocean and back. COLUMBIA RIVER READER COLLECTORS CLUB ANNUALSUBSCRIPTION 11 issues $55. SUBSCRIPTIONS MAKE THOUGHTFUL GIFTS... FOR YOURSELF OR FOR A FRIEND! COLLECTORS CLUB / BOOK ORDER FORM 1333CRRPress14th Ave. Longview, WA Mailing*GiftPhoneemail_____________________________________________City/State/Zip______________________________________Street_____________________________________________Name_____________________________________________98632____________________________________________Subscriptionfor_______________________________Address_______________________________________ In Full View ___@ $29.95 = ______________ Eyewitness to Astoria ___@ $21.95 = ______________ Down and Up ___ @ $18.95 = _____________ The Tidewater Reach – Three Editions Color/BW Boxed Signature Edition ___ @ $50.00 = ______________ BW Edition ___ @ $25.00 = ______________ Color / BW Collectors Edition ___ @ $35.00 = ______________ Dispatches from the Discovery Trail – Three Editions Color/BW Boxed Signature Edition ___ @ $50.00 = ______________ BW Edition ___ @ $25.00 = ______________ Color/BW Collectors Edition ___ @ $35.00 = ______________ 11-issue Subscription ________ @ $55 = _________________Start with next issue; For gift Subscription* enter info at left. ORDER WashingtonSUB-TOTALresidentsadd sales tax 8.1%________________ For Books: Add Shipping & Handling $3.90 TOTAL __________________________ Tidewater Reach Field Guide Lower Columbia River R M P The Field Guide to the Lower Columbia River Poems and Pictures R M P Judy VandeRMaten All book orders to include shipping and handling charge. All book and subscription orders to include, if applicable, Washington State sales tax. THE TIDEWATER REACH Field Guide to the Lower Columbia River in Poems and Pictures By Robert Michael Pyle and Judy VanderMaten. In three editions: • Boxed Signature Edition Color and BW $50; • Collectors paperback.Edition,TradeColorandB/W $35 • Trade paperback B/W $25 Please make check payable to CRR Press. To use credit card, visit www.crreader.com/crrpress or call 360-749-1021 DISPATCHES FROM THE DISCOVERY TRAIL A Layman’s Lewis & Clark By Michael O. Perry. In three editions: • Boxed Signature Edition, Color and BW with Souvenir Bookmark $50 • Collectors paperback.Edition,TradeColorandB/W $35 • Trade paperback B/W $25 April dining guide People+Place MOSSLAWN? The art of the woodcut RIVER, MANY VOICES POET Cutting Edge Helping the Columbia road ESCAPE TO BARCELONA “FEATURED CHEF” RETURNS Signature Edition dispatches A LAYMAN’S LEWIS & CLARK HAL CALBOM from the Discovery trail M C H A E O. P R Y ALSO AVAILABLE FOR PICK-UP at 1333 14th, Longview 11-3 M-W-F or by appt. Or Call 360-749-1021 For FREE Local Delivery We’ll send your recipient a printed gift notification card. from the Discovery trail dispatches A LAYMAN’S LEWIS & CLARK Good storytelling key ages, and ‘Dispatches’ informs relaxed, enjoyable way, perfect for anyone wishing to explore with the explorers.” — DANIELLE ROBBINS Education Public Programs documented, and presented an appealing format. Corps Discovery.” President, Lower Columbia Chapter Featuring the work On the cover: “Whispering” Michael Perry has a collector’s eye, scientist’s curiosity, and the Pacific Northwest in his heart. traildiscoverythefromdispatchesMCO. Collectors Edition IDEAL GIFTS and VACATION READING
But days later, once I hold the hot-offthe-press new Reader in my hands for that first page-through — much like a mother counting fingers and toes of her newborn baby — I discover the typos. They actually seem to LEAP off the page! At #212 we are still waiting, ever-hopeful for an error-free issue. Two corrections, July 15 edition One of them wasn’t a regular typo, just my mistake that made Brad Dutz’s name come out “Rad,” in his “Me & My Piano” account of his vibraphone. None of us even questioned it because “Rad” made perfect sense as the name of a cool musician from L.A. We are told the the human brain “auto corrects” and, of course, your computer’s spell-check or cell phone’s auto-correct functions try to do the same if you let Columbia River Reader ... Helping you discover and enjoy the good life in the Columbia River Region, at home and on the road. that our son, an independent and avid traveler, aspires to be a citizen of the world. As parents, we are proud he is going confidently in the direction of his dreams, but also somewhat heartsick that he will be living so far away. The Allure of Portugal Portugal is attracting many Americans, retirees from here and elsewhere, along with multi-cultural young people some describe as “adventurers” and “digital nomads.” It’s reportedly a country of friendly, welcoming people, with perfect weather, a low cost of living, very affordable health care, a ranking of #3 in safety, worldwide, and lots of sardines. them (sometimes even if you don’t). Did you notice the extra “the” in the previous sentence? In the Kalama Heritage Festival story, Jerry Chapman’s surname appeared correctly twice, then morphed to “Chambers.” Nobody — not the writer, the editor or the proofreaders — caught it. I’m guessing most readers didn’t notice either, but we do apologize. Please see correctional blurbs, pages 32 and 37. Leaving Home Many readers have been asking about my son Perry, who is no longer writing his column or providing technical assistance to clients, but is still connected to CRR. His “People+Place Then and Now” sponsor spot in the center section, themed “Technology Through the Years,” this month features an air conditioning factoid (see page 23). Perry is joining us from afar, having just moved to Portugal, where he intends to establish residency and eventually citizenship. Ned and I have long known We’ll be visiting him, of course. People have even been asking if we plan to move there, at some point. Maybe to retire? I can’t quite imagine retiring any time soon, however — either here or in Portugal. But, who knows? Maybe some day we’ll launch a CRR spinoff, the Tagus River Reader. We would try, but TRR would probably never achieve perfection, either. Just in case, however, to prepare I’ve ordered a copy of Portuguese for Dummies. I hope you enjoy this issue!
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Columbia River Reader /August 15, 2022 / 3 Columbia River Reader is published monthly, with 14,000 copies distributed in the Lower Columbia region. Entire contents copyrighted; No reproduction of any kind allowed without express written permission of Columbia River Reader, LLC. Opinions expressed herein, whether in editorial content or paid ad space, belong to the writers and advertisers and are not necessarily shared or endorsed by the Reader. Submission guidelines: page 37. General Ad info: page 37. Ad NedManager:Piper360-749-2632.CRREADER.COMVisitourwebsiteforthecurrent issue and archive of past issues from 2013. ON THE COVER In this Issue Sue Piper Publisher/Editor: Susan P. Piper Columnists and contributors: Tracy Beard Hal Editorial/ProofreadingJudyDebraGregAliceSteveAlanMarcRobertNedMichaelTomThomasJosephBrianAliceCalbomDietzFlemingGovednikHickerLarsenPerryPiperMichaelPyleRolandRoseRoutonSlusherSmithTweedyVanderMaten Assistants: Merrilee Bauman, Michael Perry, Marilyn Perry, Tiffany Dickinson, Debra ColumbiaNedAdvertisingTweedyManager:Piper,360-749-2632RiverReader, LLc 1333 14th Ave, Longview, WA 98632 P.O. Box 1643 • Rainier, OR 97048 Office Hours: M-W-F • 11–3* *Other times by chance or Phone:E-mail:appointmentpublisher@crreader.com360-749-1021 U.S. Corps of Army Engineers Chief of MaintenanceWaterwaysKarla Ellis at the Portland moorings Photo by hal Calbom Sue’s Views Pursuing Perfection, Perry Piper and Portugal 2 CRR Collectors Club 4 Letter to the Editor / Civilized Living: Miss Manners 5 Dispatches from the Discovery Trail ~ Episode 16 8 Where to Find the Reader 11 A Different Way of Seeing ~ The Tidewater Reach 12-13 Out & About ~ Touring around Toledo / Provisions Along the Trail 15 Museum Magic: Stella Historical Museum Remnants of the Past 16 Quips & Quotes 17–26 The Long View: People + Place Then and Now ~ Chapter 3 26 The Long View Partner Spotlights 26 Longview Centennial Calendar 27 Lower Columbia Dining Guide 28 Wings on the Water: Oysters at Hama Hama. 29 Where Do You Read the Reader? 31 Roland on Wine 31 Astronomy / The Sky Report: Mid-August to Sept 20 32 Me & My Piano: Strumming my Miniature Guitar 33 Broadway Gallery at 40 34 Besides CRR What Else Are You Reading? 35 Cover to Cover ~ Book Review / Bestsellers List 36–37 Submissions Guidelines / Performing Arts / Outings & Events 38 Northwest Gardening: Castle Rock Blossoms 41 Hikes 42 The Spectator: Puzzle Pieces and Big Time Success 42 Plugged In to Cowlitz PUD: Eat for Heat Marks 5th year
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GENTLE READER: Why? What are we looking at? There are all sorts of gender-based and sexist rules about where one should sit in a restaurant. (Miss Manners assumes that that is what we are talking about, but confesses that it took her a moment to get there.)
For example, there is a rule that requires the (presumably male) person facing the room at large to survey it in case of danger. There is another that suggests the (presumably male) date only face his (presumably female) date, and the wall, in order not to be distracted by better prospects. Yet another suggests that the woman survey the room so that she can better enjoy and comment on the view -- undoubtedly rooted in her not having anything else about which to talk. Rather than defer to any of these outdated stereotypes, Miss Manners suggests that restaurant guests choose their seat based on preferences and practicalities, politely duking it out amongst themselves when they get their table. Miss Manners’ own preference is to sit at her dining table at home — for the very practical reason of being better able to hear her guests’ conversation unfettered by din. 7 pm 7 am - 9 pm Pick up drinks, break-fast, or a bag of coffeeCoffee roasted in smallbatches River Road, WOODLAND, WA 239 Huntington Ave. North, CASTLE ROCK cont page 10 Newcomers to Longview love CRR We moved to Longview this year. We love the Reader. It has really helped us to get to know this great town. We do not get out often to places that carry the Reader. Is there any way to get a subscription that can be delivered or mailed to our house? Thank you so much for your great publication. Abigail & Roger Gary Longview, Wash.Editor’s Regularly-refillednote: pick-up locations are listed on page 8. For readers who would like the convenience of home or office delivery, CRR offers an annual subscription program, the Collectors Club. Subscriptions begin with the next issue and are renewable on the anniversary date. See page 2. Since their inquiry, the Garys have subscribed. CRR welcomes them to Longview...and to CRR’s Collectors Club ... they’ll never miss an issue!
A Big Disappointment 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, 43. M I C H A E L O. P E R R Y with HAL CALBOM woodcut art dEbby NEELy from the Discovery trail dispatches A LAYMAN’S LEWIS & CLARK in april 2021 we introDuceD a reviseD 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.
On August 21st the men awoke to find a quarter-inch of ice on jugs of water. Everyone was aware of the short time left to cross the Rocky Mountains. It’s NOT downhill all the way? It appears Lewis and Clark were still in a state of denial. A water passage through the mountains was still a desperate dream they both wanted to realize if possible.
Chief Cameahwait drew a map in the dirt and made it clear there was no easy route across the Rocky Mountains. Lewis attempted to “obtain what information I could with rispect to the country.” Lewis had hoped the Lemhi River flowed through the mountains, but Cameahwait told him it flowed north for a half day’s march before joining the Salmon River. Cameahwait told of “vast mountains of rock eternally covered with snow through which the river passed, that the perpendicular and even jutting rocks so closely hemmed in the river that there was no possibilyte of passing along the shore; that the bed of the river was obstructed by sharp pointed rocks and the rapidity of the stream such that the whole surface of the river was beat into perfect foam as far as the eye could reach.”
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“ ... “the most terrible mountains” ... They were up in the hillsides and it’s rugged. It is nasty country. I can’t even imagine people like you and me going up there with a backpack even and trying to get across it without using existing roads. It would be a real challenge. One of the horses that fell in the river had Clark’s writing desk on it and broke it to smithereens. I always wondered what he did after that to write. How did he make his maps and everything?”
View of the Lo Lo Peak area and the formidable mountains which loomed ahead. Near the present-day border of Idaho and Montana. Postcard from the author ’ s Private collection ... “no easy route”... These guys grew up in the Appalachians, Daniel Boone and all those guys. That’s what mountains were to them, and they hadn’t seen anything like this. That’s why I think Clark and Lewis both assumed they were going to go up this mountain, cross a ridge, and head down. They didn’t comprehend that there were 200 more miles of impassable terrain.”
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Lewis traded a uniform coat, a pair of leggings, a few handkerchiefs, three knives, and some trinkets for three horses, “the whole of which did not cost more than about 20$ in the U’States.” Clark and eleven men then set out to explore the Salmon By Michael O. Perry River to see if there was a possibility of going that route. But after a week, he knew the Indians hadn’t lied. Clark sent a man with a note telling Lewis to buy more horses since the Salmon River was impassable. Today, the Salmon River is still known as the River of No MeanwhileReturn.Lewis had, “purchased five good horses of them very reasonably, or at least for about the value of six dollars a piece in merchandize.” While Clark was exploring the possibility of going down the Salmon River, Lewis used the horses, a mule, and some Shoshone women to carry their cargo the rest of the way from Camp Fortunate to Cameahwait’s camp at Lemhi Pass where the journey through the mountains would begin. A minor inconvenience? On August 26th, Lewis wrote “one of the women who had been assisting in the transportation of the baggage halted at a little run about a mile behind us… I enquired of Cameahwait the cause of her detention, and was informed by him in an unconcerned manner that she had halted to bring fourth a child… in about an hour the woman arrived with her newborn baby and passed us on her way to the camp.”
Lewis now had a pretty good idea about the drainage west of the Continental Divide. Cameahwait told Lewis the Nez Perce crossed the mountains every year to hunt buffalo in presentday Montana. Cameahwait said their route was to the north, “but added that the road was a very bad one as he had been informed by them and that they had suffered excessively with hunger on the rout being obliged to subsist for many days on berries alone as there were no game in that part of the mountains which was broken rockey and so thickly covered with timber that they could scarcely pass.”
Cameahwait told Lewis he had never crossed the mountains, but “that he had understood from the persed nosed [Nez Perce] Indians who inhabit this river below the rocky mountains that it ran a great way toward the setting sun and finally lost itself in a great lake of water which was illy taisted, and where the white men lived.”
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Russell memorializes the critical September 1805 meeting that first put the Expedition in touch with the Flatheads, or Salish, who would provide them with their horses for the critical next stage of the trip. The largest painting Russell ever did, the 12 foot by 25 foot mural hangs in the legislative chamber of the Montana State Capitol in Helena. Note again the primacy of the Indians in the narrative, with Lewis and Clark, with Sacajawea interpreting, in the background. lewis and Clark meeting indians at ross’ hole,” by Charles m russell ... relegating? ... Ironically, amidst a culture accused often of relegating Indians and marginalizing them, Russell if anything “relegated” the white men of the Expedition in many of his paintings. Speaking of his most famous canvas, the magnificent mural “Lewis and Clark Meeting Indians at Ross’ Hole,” one historian noted, “By relegating Lewis and Clark to the quiet of the middle ground at right, Russell gives over the most important part of the picture space to Montana’s original inhabitants. Nowhere else in the Capitol is the Indian presence in Montana so celebrated.” been used by the Nez Perce since the 1730s. This trail is still visible Traveltoday. was extremely difficult and, as Chief Cameahwait had said, there were virtually no animals to shoot and eat. On September 13th they reached Lolo Hot Springs and saw a bathing hole used by the Indians. They crossed the Bitterroot Mountains at Lolo Pass and began thedownjourneythe Lochsa River, which joins the Clearwater River. The men were starving. The portable soup they had brought from St. Louis was rancid. Finally, on September 14th, they killed a horse to eat. It would not be the last time they had to do that. Patrick Gass wrote, these are “the most terrible mountains I ever beheld.” As bad as the journey had been up to that point, the worst was yet to come. The journey over those coveredmountainsformidableunknown,snowcladwillbenextepisode.•••
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While still transporting their cargo, Charbonneau told Lewis he had learned the Indians were going to leave the next day to hunt buffalo — before Lewis could purchase the additional horses they would need. He was able to delay their departure and bought 22 more horses on August 28th. Clark hired an old Shoshone Indian called Toby to guide them over the mountains, and two days later the rest of the Shoshone Indians left to go hunt buffalo. The Corps reached the North Fork of the Salmon River on September 1st, and then traversed mountainsides so steep the horses slipped and slid down the slopes. Rain and snow fell, making the journey even more dangerous. Is this the way to San Jose? On September 4th, they met 400 Salish Indians (called Flatheads by Lewis and Clark) with 500 horses near presentday Sula, Montana. They bought 13 horses and exchanged 7 others. Toby then led the Corps down the East Fork of the Bitterroot River. When asked, Toby confessed he had no idea if the river joined the Columbia River (it does). The Expedition had traveled north along the Continental Divide and across trail-less mountains to get to Travelers Rest. Toby told the Captains of a trail from there east to the Great Falls that only took four days; the Corps circuitous route had taken 53 days. The Corps spent a couple of days at Travelers Rest on Lolo Creek, ten miles southwest of present-day Missoula, Montana. While hunting, George Colter ran into three Nez Perce Indians and brought them back to Travelers Rest. One of them agreed to guide the Corps the rest of the way over the mountains, which, he said, was a six-day hike. However, the Nez Perce guide abandoned them a day later. The Corps continued to follow an old trail that had from
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Initially, it was twice per week during a two-week trip, about once per year. This year, they went away for more than a month, and they are planning a longer trip next winter. How can I gracefully decline this request next winter? Would it be presumptuous to suggest hiring a neighborhood teen? That is what I do when I travel.
GENTLE READER: Their request is not unreasonable, but it is also not absurd for you to not want to make your house a showroom. Miss Manners suggests responding with something like, “We prefer not to have strangers in the house for health reasons, but we’d be happy to take pictures or even shoot a short video if your clients want to get a better idea of how it operates.”
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How should I gracefully swap holding the door? If I hold the door with my body on the inside, it leads to an uncomfortable proximity as she enters. I am tall, but if I reach over the women, it seems rude. If there is not room enough on the outside to pivot behind and pick up the slack, the door will shut on them. Should I just enter with a warm “Thank you”?
The flood that took this house of salmon was time. A wedge of geese flies over Megler Bridge, across the far reach. One more old one down, one more forest to the sea, in a land where the sea is cheap and all the rest is long gone.
All Fall Down Along the river shore lies a forest of boards, salmon-red and brown, bobbing on the high gray tide, soaking them a little darker than their faded state, as if the river splintered into kindling to feed the fire, the cold fire of the flotsam with all that’s left of Altoona Cannery. Waves flap at its wreckage, slapping the remnants of broad floors whose pilings gave way when the land’s loose logs came down.
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.
Columbia River Reader /August 15, 2022 / 11 THE TIDEWATER REACH Poem by Robert Michael Pyle • Photograph by Judy VanderMaten • Field Note by Hal Calbom
SKELETONS The ocean approaches to the Columbia — and indeed to much of the entire Pacific Northwest coast — are well-known in folklore as the mighty Pacific’s graveyard. Unpredictable weather conditions, fog and coastal characteristics such as shifting sandbars, tidal rips, rocky reefs and shorelines have claimed more than 2,000 vessels and 700 lives near the Columbia Bar alone. Although major wrecks have declined since the 1920s, several lives are still lost annually. The lethal combination of fog, wind, storm, current and wave wreaked havoc through the middle of the twentieth century, leaving wrecks made famous in regional history and skeletons still visible today. as a political issue. “Ladies first” is an anachronistic, but still charming, social custom. She trusts that you would hold the door for anyone else coming after you. But in a work context, you should not be making a conspicuous show of gender differences. DEAR MISS MANNERS: In response to “thank you,” I have been hearing a lot of “Of course” or “Certainly,” especially from the younger generation. Since when has that been acceptable? I find it arrogant and rude. Do you agree? I do not find “Anytime” rude, especially after thanking someone who did you a big favor. “Of course” just really gets under my skin.
GENTLE READER: Would you be less offended by “Of course you are most welcome -- I am so very happy to be able to do this for you”? Perhaps. But Miss Manners does not see a substantive difference between it and a shortened form. She would never say that the words chosen when conveying conventional politeness do not matter -- but she does not share your imputation of ill intent to these particular examples.
DEAR MISS MANNERS: I don’t know how to refer to my husband who passed away. He is not my “ex,” nor my “former” husband. If someone asks, I can say he passed away, but I don’t know how to refer to him in casual conversation. Is there a proper way?
GENTLE READER: “My late husband.” Miss Manners hopes that the conventions have not succumbed to literal interpretation to the point where people will ask you why he does not show up on time. ••• 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. from page 10
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.
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Touring Near Toledo
Rapid Rides Rapid Rides, located at 8011 Spirit Lake Highway in Toutle, offers white water rafting from mid-April to late May and tubing from May through early September. James Fratello started Rapid Rides six years ago. His cousin Pete assists as a Sunday guide, his sister Jill and James’s girlfriend, Dana, help run the business. Currently, Rapid Rides is open Friday through Sunday, but James hopes to also be open weekdays next summer. Riverfront tent camping is available for six small groups.
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Adventurers can rent a single tube, inflatable kayak, or a tube for four. You can ride the rapids alone or hire James or Pete to float with you as a guide. One of the best things about Rapid Rides is the shuttle at the end of the more than four-mile trip — no paddling upriver.
South Lewis County Park Pond
Occasionally I find myself with a free day on the weekend. I don’t want to travel far, but want a day filled with something other than the same old thing. Recently I planned a “day near Toledo” with my daughter, Brittney, and it included several stops: Gee Cee’s truck stop, Rapid Rides, South Lewis County Park Pond, Mrs. Beesley’s, and Bateaux Cellars. Loads of fun, good food and great wine filled the day.
Brittney paddled with Pete, and I rode with James. Since I spent most of my time taking pictures, James got a serious workout navigating the rapids alone. We tubed the north fork of the Toutle River. The river was moving at a good pace, and we enjoyed the one- and two-level rapids along the way. There was nothing too scary, but enough to get a little wet. The terrain along the river is gorgeous, and sometimes guests can spy local wildlife — deer, beavers — and other “tubers,” some wilder than others.
James and Pete constantly work to keep debris and fallen trees out of the river, but there are still obstacles to traverse along the route. Guests are required to watch a video before heading out. Life jackets are required, and helmets are encouraged. James provides this equipment and has wetsuit booties for those who want Floatingthem.down the river on tubes is fun for kids and adults. The trip takes 1-1/2 – 2-1/2 hours from start to finish, allowing people enough time to enjoy the river without taking up the entire day.
Gee Cee’s Truck Stop Brittney arrived in Longview in the morning, and we began our tour around 10:30am. Heading north on Interstate-5, we decided to pick up a light lunch before starting our float trip on the Toutle River. Gee Cee’s truck stop is just west of the highway near Vader. Here you’ll find tasty pre-made sandwiches, chips, sodas, sweets, and more. If you have time to spare, there is a great little restaurant where you can sit down and order a meal. We picked up a delicious turkey wrap, Ritz crackers, and a package of salami and cheese. Lemon cupcakes rounded out the meal, and due to a shortage of time, we shared lunch in the car.
PROVISIONS ALONG THE TRAIL By Tracy Beard from page 12
Steve produces all the wine. He makes the reds on site, and the whites are produced and bottled in Prosser, Washington, where he purchases grapes from Airfield Estates. He also continues to perfect his winemaking skills with advice from Marcus Miller, winemaker for Airfield Estates. Lauren distributes the wine and runs the tasting room, and Cheryl maintains customer relations. I enjoy Steve’s riesling with tropical and citrus notes and a light touch of kiwi at the finish. His rosé offers a delicate sweetness with a hint of tart raspberry and watermelon, a great sipper for a summer day. All the reds are tasty, but Brittney and I both favored the Nightcap, a fortified wine that is dry, not sweet, with a bit more body.
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.
Classic Gin Martini for One 2 ½ ounces well-chilled gin Dash of dry vermouth One or two green olives on a toothpick Lemon zest twist Add gin and vermouth to a mixing glass, fill it with ice, and stir—don’t shake. Strain into a frosted martini glass and garnish with the olives and lemon.
Bateaux Cellars Now that we had sustenance, it was time for wine. I have been to Bateaux Cellars in Toledo before. Steve and Cheryl Padula founded Bateaux in 2009. They brought their daughter Lauren and her husband Angelo on board three years ago to assist with the business.
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Bateaux is a delightful place to visit. Enjoy your wine inside by the fireplace or outside by the fire pit when it’s cold. In the summer you can sip while relaxing on the cellar porch or the new shaded deck. You can bring your picnic lunch or order a charcuterie box, wine, chips, or one of Steve’s margherita or pepperoni pizzas baked in their wood-fired oven.
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English Pea Bruschetta for Two ¾ cup fresh shelled peas 8 fresh mint leaves, chopped 8 fresh basil leaves, chiffonade (finely cut or shredded), 4 fresh tarragon leaves, chopped 3 ounces feta cheese, crumbled 1 teaspoon chives, chopped Black lava salt, season to taste Black pepper, season to taste 4 herb crostinis 3 Tbl extra virgin olive oil Mix everything but the feta and crostini in a bowl. Place ¼ of the mix on each crostini and sprinkle ¼ of the feta on top. Garnish with a pea shoot and serve with a delicious Washington viognier (pronounced “veeown-yay”).
Grilled Peach & Watermelon Salad for Two 2 balls fresh burrata cheese 2 4 x 4 x ½-inch thick squares of ripe watermelon 1 ripe peach 6 oak lettuce leaves 2-3 Tbl balsamic glaze – reduce balsamic to syrup or use Nonna Pia’s Smokedglazesea salt, to Blacktaste pepper, to taste 2 Tbl basil oil 1 tsp olive oil Dip the peach in boiling water for 30 seconds to one minute. Peel off the skin. Cut in half, remove the pit, cut a little off the round side to flatten the surface and brush both sides with olive oil. Grill to make hash marks on each side. Cook until warm but not mushy. Place the oak leaves decoratively on the plates. Place the watermelon in the center, top with the peach and then the burrata. Drizzle with balsamic glaze and basil oil, season with salt and pepper.
South Lewis County Park Pond South Lewis County Park Pond is south of Toledo off SR-505. This quiet park boasts a good-sized pond with a couple of fishing docks, picnic tables, trees, a covered group picnic area, restrooms, and a designated swimming area. The sandy beach is perfect for sunbathing, and the large grassy areas are ideal for group games and watching activities. Mrs. Beesley’s I have passed Mrs. Beesley’s, a burger stand located on the east side of I-5 near Toledo, at least a hundred times. I always thought I would one day stop and see if it’s any good. Brittney and I added Mrs. Beesley’s to our itinerary. After visiting South Lewis County Park Pond, we stopped and shared a deluxe bacon cheeseburger, fries, and a banana fudge shake. The burger was juicy and delicious, and the crinkle fries were crispy and hot. But if I must rave about anything, it was the shake. It was cold and creamy with thick, decadent fudge and banana chunks. Mrs. Beesley’s uses real fruit in the shakes, and the shake menu is extensive.
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14 / Columbia River Reader / August 15, 2022 Find gifts, home décor, antique treasures, clothing ... enjoy brews, bites & great dining! SHOP Historic Riverfront St. Helens! Off Oregon’s Hwy 30, 20 miles from Longview • No sales tax •Free parking • Old town charm IN ST HELENS • 2124 Columbia 503-397-3211Blvd FRESHPIZZAHOTCOOLSALADBAR THE BEST AROUND! wildcurrantcatering.com event!nextatguestaBeyour St.201800-330-9099503-366-9099S.1stStreetHelensOR Serving the Columbia River region, Longview-Kelso.including CATERING 298 S. 1st Street Saint Helens, OR Open everyday 11am til 10pm Family-friendlysportspub14taphandles FULL SERVICE SALON Hair, colorinwaxing.pedicures,manicures,andSpecializingalltypesofhairandcuts.261 S.1st Street St. Helens, 503-397-0310OR HairScandalousDesign We host a CRR Sidewalk Box! Open 8am–8pm Daily Salads, Mississippi Pizza We deliver to 13 Nights on the River Event Space For Rent Inquire Within 290 S.1st Street • St. Helens 503-396-5479 Mini-StorageClatskanie Temperature conditioned units -15 sizes! RV Storage • Boat Moorage Quality since 1976 Resident Manager 503-369-6503503-728-2051 Places to go • People to see Good books • Good cheer Enjoying the Good Life at home and on the road Organic at heart Nice, crinkly paper Perfect for poolside, patio, and park bench reading! We regret to inform you that Ginger died Aug. 3 from injuries sustained in an encounter with a deer in the backyard. Ginger and her owner, Victoria Findlay, brought much joy to each other’s lives. Our condolences to Victoria for this loss. THE PET CORNER • R.I.P. Jaime Tovar 360-751-0120 • 360-430-8510 ATTENTION Landowners whose trees need trimming.. Call now for free estimate appointmentsor . We buy cedar and noble boughs. Two-month season begins in September.Wedoallthe work.
museum is operated by a dedicated volunteer base who maintain regular operating hours during the summer starting the weekend after July 4th, and concluding the weekend before Labor Day Weekend. The museum is open on Saturdays and Sundays from 11am-4pm during the summe;, however, don’t hesitate to call the museum at 360-423-3860 to schedule a private tour at any time during the year.
Columbia River Reader /August 15, 2022 / 15 Kalama Vancouver LocksCascade Bridge of the Gods RainierScappoose Portland Vernonia SkamokawaClatskanieIlwaco Chinook MuseumMaryhill Stevenson YakimMt.OlympiaCentralia,To:Rainiera(north, then east) Tacoma/Seattle AshlandEugeneSilvertonSalemTo: Washington Oregon ColumbiaOceanPacificRiver BonnevilleDam 4 Naselle RiverGrays• • Oysterville • Ocean Park • •Yacolt • Ridgefield 503504 97 The Dalles Goldendale Hood River Cougar • Astoria Seaside Long Beach Kelso Cathlamet Woodland Castle Rock St.MountHelens St Helens • Kelso-Longview Chamber of Commerce Kelso Visitor Center I-5 Exit 39 105 Minor Road, Kelso • 360-577-8058 • Woodland Tourist Center I-5 Exit 21 Park & Ride lot, 900 Goerig St., 360-225-9552 • Wahkiakum Chamber 102 Main St, Cathlamet • 360-795-9996 • Castle Rock Visitor Center Exit 49, west side of I-5, 890 Huntington Ave. N. Open M-F 11–3. • Naselle, WA Appelo Archives Center 1056 SR 4, Naselle, WA. 360-484-7103. • Pacific County Museum & Visitor Center Hwy 101, South Bend, WA 360-875-5224 • Long Beach Peninsula Visitors Bureau 3914 Pacific Way (corner Hwy 101/Hwy 103) Long Beach, WA. 360-642-2400 • 800-451-2542 • South Columbia County Chamber Columbia Blvd/Hwy 30, St. Helens, OR • 503-397-0685 • Seaside, OR 989 Broadway, 503-738-3097; 888-306-2326 • Astoria-Warrenton Chamber/Ore Welcome Ctr 111 W. Marine Dr., Astoria 503-325-6311 or 800-875-6807 VISITOR CENTERS FREE Maps • Brochures Directions • Information Longview To: Walla Kennewick,WallaWALewiston,ID Local informationPoints of ArtsDiningSpecialRecreationInterestEvents~Lodging&EntertainmentWarrenton • 101101 Westport-PugetIslandFERRY k NW PassCorneliusRoad CaveApe • Birkenfeld Vader SkamaniaLodge Troutdale Map suggests only approximate positions and relative distances. Consult a real map for more precise details. We are not cartographers. Col.Interp.CtrGorge PointCrown Columbia City IslandSauvie • SouthRaymond/Bend •Camas 12 Local Culture MUSEUM MAGIC Remnants of the Past: A Family Fun Event for All!
360-577-0544 1418 Commerce Your Local SW Washington Artist Co-op since 1982 OPEN Tu-W-F-Sat 11-4 • Th 11-6 “Housescapes” Weylanby Johnson Gallery Member FeaturedSeptemberandArtist the-broadway-gallery.com In Longview,DowntownHistoricWA JOIN US ON THURSDAY!FIRST Sept. Reception5:30–7pm1, with the Artists, Music by
By Joseph Govednik, Cowlitz County Historical Museum Director Stella Historical Museum
Concluding the season is Remnants of the Past which features several activities at the museum including demonstrations of soap making, china painting, ornamental wood burning, and even a blacksmith at work. In conjunction with the activities at the museum, take a mile and a half journey up Germany Creek Road to the Stella Lutheran Chapel for more fun. Dan
Photos from prior Remnants of the Past event courtesy of Stella Historical Museum
Hoggatt. Help celebrate our 40th Anniversary Sat, Sept 17, 11-6. Live music all day, Refreshments & Drawings for Fine Arts & Crafts! See story, page 33. No, I do not redhim.CRRMyDonaldrepresentTrump.tenurewithfarprecedesIgnorethetie.
Late summer is a time of transition, when kids go back to school, football is on TV, and Remnants of the Past, the Stella Historical Museum’s signature event is back! Located at 8530 Ocean Beach Highway, this little museum is the definition of what a small community with a big heart and commitment can accomplish. The museum is housed in several structures which include the old post office, blacksmith shop, equipment shed, and new forge building. The cont page 16
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--John Steinbeck, American writer, 19021968 The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises, walking is best.
Elizabeth Gilbert, American author, 1969We must beware of trying to build a society in which no one counts for anything except a politician or an official, or a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges.
--Susan Cain, American writer and lawyer, 1968page 15
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you. --Anne Lamott, American writer, 1954It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
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You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That’s the only thing you should be trying to control.
--Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer and physician, 1859-1930 The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
Winston Churchill, British statesman, soldier, and writer, 1874-1965. It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people, without possessing genius, have a remarkable power of stimulating it.
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--Dorothy Parker, American writer and satirist, 1893-1967 At school, you might have been prodded to come “out of your shell”--that noxious expression which fails to appreciate that some animals naturally carry shelter everywhere they go, and that some humans are just the same.
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.
--Carl T. Rowan, African-American journalist, author, and statesman Expectation is the root of all heartache.
--Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the U.S., 1743-1826 Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or you go dowdy to the grave.
--William Shakespeare, English playwright and poet, 1564-1616
A Century on the Lower Columbia ViewLong PEOPLE+PLACETHE ~ THEN AND NOW For information about sponsorship publisher@crreader.comopportunities:orNedPiper,360-740-2632. A Year of Journalism in Columbia River Reader • June 2022 through June 2023 A Commemorative Book • Multiple-media Gala Variety Show at Columbia Theatre JOE FISCHER Proud Sponsor of People+Place Then and Now Celebrating The Planned City’s Centennial Longview is Alive with Art! “The Duke” painting24 x 30 inches acrylic paint on canvas by Joe Fischer This little church is tucked away in a secluded spot where visitors may shop at the farmers market or bake sale, and enjoy some live music. Bring your appetite, as lunch is available. Remnants of the Past takes place Saturday, September 10, from 10am until 4pm. Requested admission Proud Sponsor of People+Place Then and Now Serving our communities since 1975 Contributing to the Quality of Life envisioned by Longview’s Founders 360-442-5563 www.rctransit.org • customerservice@rctransit.org RiverCities Transit donations are $5 for adults, $2 for kids 5-12, and under age 5 is free. This is a perfect event to take the family and step back into a simpler era and enjoy a genuine old-time•••experience.
Columbia River Reader /August 15, 2022 / 17 SPONSORPEOPLE+PLACEPARTNERSPARTNERS Busack RiverCitiesElectricTransitCowlitzPUD Don & Andrea Cullen Cutright Supply Evans Kelly Family Joe M. Fischer Richelle Gall Insurance The LeeNORPACFamily Michael & Marilyn Perry Perry E. Piper Port of Weatherguard,LongviewInc LEGACY PARTNERS Merrilee Bauman Linda Calbom Elam’s Furniture The Gebert Family Robert & Pauline Kirchner Kirkpatrick Family Care Edward Jones • Nick Lemiere The Minthorn Family Rodman Realty, Inc. Holly & GM Roe Sessions Teague’sStirlingPlumbingHondaInteriors The Long View project pairs history with modern context. To celebrate Longview’s 100th birthday, Columbia River A year-long feature series written and photographed by Southwest Washington native and Emmy Award-winning journalist Hal Calbom anyway?Whosewaterisit, where we’ve Been • where we’re GoinG then and now Reader is expanding its monthly “People+Place” feature to contrast the historical “Then” with the contemporary “Now.” “It’s important to look back and celebrate the past,” said publisher Susan Piper, “but equally important to track the changes that make us what we are today. How close are we to the founders’ vision? What remains? What’s entirely new?” Thanks to communitytremendoussupport (see Partner Spotlights, page 26), 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 City and people+place monthly Journalism commemorative Book Gala celeBration hoNoriNg LoNgviEw’s1923cENtENNiaL–2023 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 Countdown, page 26) 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. Well-being 12. Dreams Developing proDuction notes
THE LONG VIEW • CENTENNIAL EDITION • CHAPTER 3 Karla Ellis, Chief, Waterways Maintenance, Portland District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Below left: Dredge “Texas” at work in Longview, ca. 1924;USACE hopper dredge “Yaquina” on the lower Columbia River today T his mon T h we ’ re down T o T he basics : earth and water Which led me — at a misguided moment in my research — to ask a seemingly innocent question: Whose river is it? The answers, or lack of them, or especially the infernal complexity of them, told me a lot about the changes to our own Columbia, the Mighty River of the West, over these last hundred years. I couldn’t find anybody claiming to own the river outright. I found hundreds of people claiming the right to do things on, or with, or under, the river. Remember that initially we regarded the river as not just transportation. She was a dangerous obstacle, an inundating terror, a tidal nightmare. A beast to be tamed.
Lewis and Clark were never more scared in their lives than watching the surging tides bash two hundred-foot logs together and shower them with boulders. “Oh for a damme and some fluid control,” muttered a despairing William Clark. Not really. We began granting rights to do things to the river. Congress passed The Rivers and Harbors Act of 1925, authorizing the Army Corps and the Federal Power Commission to look into taming the Columbia. After the Vanport floods in 1948, Congress mandated more dams, levees, and locks. We signed a treaty with Canada to control the upper reaches, and allocate power. Today the River system is more than its 400 dams and innumerable waysides. It’s an overwhelming, overlapping, and often conflicting welter of rights. We’ve made progress, at least agreeing to coordinate and collaborate. In Colorado they’re still arguing about who owns what; you can own the banks and riverbed but not the water that flows over them. Stay tuned. The best, and most diplomatic answer I got to my question was, “a whole host of inter-agency players,” which sounds like a bureaucratic dodge, and is, but for better or worse is accurate. And one of those players is still us, the people, thanks to our historical access to the River as a public right-of-way.
Photo Credits: Historical photos from Longview Public Library digital archive. cont page 19
THE CHALLENGE WAS TO DEVELOP AND EXECUTE FOUR AMBITIOUS PLANS AT ONCE
3. ThisPhotos:page, above: Dike building, 1924, by hand and by horse.
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When Wesley Vandercook got his way — the founders diked the entire Cowlitz delta from river to the surrounding hills — the founders protected the flood-prone plain with a ring of earthen levees that has never been breached over the 100 intervening years. Today these dikes and drainages are largely overgrown and blended into their landscapes. They remain quiet monuments to that most crucial, and mundane, undergirding of a city — what we grandly call infrastructure. Aged and anonymous, these mounds and ditches are silent memorials to the thousands of men who labored day after day, with their picks and shovels only, one scoop at a time, shaping the Planned City and laying its very foundations.
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Below: Vandercook’s legendary topographic map dominated LongBell’s Kelso office. Page 19, top: Dredge “Texas” excavating the Long-Bell log pond. Below: One of the hundreds of drainage pipes honeycombing the flood plain.
“The hands of men and the sweat of horses built Longview.”
Page 20: Samuel Mark Morris, R. A. Long, Wesley Vandercook.
Page 21: Long-Bell’s huge sheds under construction; band saw and head rig; completed planer mill. Page. 22: Finished sheds and log pond; cargo dock crane.
Historian Lenore Bradley marvels that every inch of Longview’s excavating and grading — including the painstaking shaping of Lake Sacajawea — was accomplished by scrapers pulled by teams of horses. Imagine the miles of ditches, thousands of pipes, acres of dikes and pilings all dug up and and re-buried by horse and by hand, without a single bulldozer, ditch digger or Otherbackhoe.than that glorious Lake, the legacies of these shapers of the land now go largely unnoticed amd under-appreciated.
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And, thanks to the huge investment, and the impatience of a certain timber baron back home, to do it all as quickly as possible.
It didn’t present a very promising prospect. Its 14,000 acres awash with marshes, swamps and sloughs, at the intersection of two fast-flowing and fickle rivers, Long-Bell’s Planned City had a whole lot of planning to do, indeed. At the junction of the Columbia and the Cowlitz, I found a whole army of men clearing land and burning brush, building dikes and bridges, laying tracks for the new Longview, Portland & Northern; putting up a city hall, schools, churches, a library and a hotel; digging a lake and a scenic waterway that would remind me of the Fens around Boston — all to the end that Longview, Washington, should be the biggest and finest lumber city on earth. It is, too.
The clock was ticking. Dredgery Dredging and diking worked hand in hand. And together they made frequent visits to the bank. The bank of Long-Bell. No conventional bank would loan money to drain and dike completely vacant land. From an estimate of some $850,000 the budget ballooned to $3.2 million — the amount requested for a special diking district financed by taxing its eventual residents. The ultimate cost of the diking, drainage and dredging was four times that amount. Dikes were to be fifteen miles long and thirty feet high — six feet above the high-water mark of the 1896 flood that had inundated the valley. All through 1923 and 1924 the dredges kept up their sandy flow of water, the big pipes around the giant hoses, disgorging, besides sand the pumice rock, live fish and an occasional salamander.
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NO CONVENTIONAL BANK WOULD LOAN MONEY TO DRAIN AND DIKE COMPLETELY VACANT LAND Proud Sponsor of People+Place Then and Now Highland Dairy • 1924 Located at California Way and 14th Avenue. Got milk? Thanks to Longview’s founders and early business people for providing the basics needed for the residents and young city itself to grow healthy bones! “Perfectly Pasteurized Products”
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Lenore Bradley Robert Alexander Long Monticello Hotel circa 1925
The challenge for city fathers (the mothers were all home in Kansas City) was to develop and execute four ambitious plans at once, each of which overlapped, intersected and at times conflicted. First, to reclaim the delta — draining, diking, filling. Second, to prepare the mill site and begin its construction. Third, to blaze trails, roads and railroad spurs into the forest and begin timber operations. And, finally, to lay out and build the city itself, the municipal space that would house at least10,000 workers, families, and the commercial community.
Everything was happening at once. While one dredge labored to fill dikes and encase drainage pipes, another dug out Fowler’s Slough and the huge log pond the company would need to float, organize, and feed its logs to the mill. Sand (and salamanders, one assumes) from the Fowler’s Slough dig filled the adjacent land, raising the level of many tracts, including what became Longview’s Old West Side. The sheer amount of earth, water and slurry moved is staggering.
J.C. Nichols Kansas City-based urban planner and designer Despite seemingly bottomless stores of energy, and loyalty to Mr. Long and his vision, the pace and complexity of their assignments caused some misgivings. “I believe we are trying to go too fast with this proposition,” Morris wrote to Mr. Long, Each day I am learning something new about the situation, and the more I study the situation the more I am convinced that it is dangerous to proceed too quickly without formulating complete plans.
Wesley Vandercook Chief Engineer and planning visionary
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S.M. Morris Vandercook blamed the confusion on trying to start too many projects at once, that managers and even supervisors were being asked to make major decisions with only minimal time, planning, and justification. Costs were mounting. By May of 1923 Long-Bell had purchased, or was buying on contract, almost ten billion board feet of standing timber, at a cost of $17 Companymillion. officials collectively held their breath as other major costs of the entire project — real estate, transportation, building the huge mills — were calculated. The planners still had few benchmarks to rely on. George Long of Weyerhaeuser provided some cost figures for a mill built previously in Everett, but no other big mills had been built in the Northwest for years. J.D. Tennant was charged with doing the estimating. And breaking the news to the boss. Mr. Long was in Kansas City, waiting for a telephone call that would tell him what his biggest project at Longview, the mill itself, was going to cost. He was alone…in the directors’ room when the call came through from Kelso. Mr. Long took the phone. The West Fir Unit alone — half the mill — plus the powerhouse to run it, Tennant had to report, would run at least $11 million. Mr. Long sank into a chair, aghast. J.M. McCLelland, Jr. R.A. Long’s Planned City
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The founder, who owned 70 percent of the company, apparently showed little hesitation in gambling on its future. Long-Bell sold a $28 million bond issue to the public, and raised an additional $8 million by taking the company public and issuing preferred stock. They could hardly afford to pause. The timber was bought and paid for; the diking and dredging continued round the clock; the foundations were being laid. There was no turning back now. page
Sticker Shock R.A. Long and his lieutenants were now making day-to-day decisions with huge consequences, especially financial. In many cases they flew blind; the lack of available engineering and construction talent and experience made estimating virtually impossible. The brain trust carried great responsibilities, and their decisions still echo down through the generations. Among this corps of energetic managers five stand out as responsible for major chapters of the Longview narrative (and for a substantial number of local place names).
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Nichols gave them a new idea: He described a zoned city that would not grow outward, adding neighborhoods haphazardly, but would lay out districts from the center to the rim according to a plan, filling them as the population increased. This was a radical departure from the jerry-built housing for workers that characterized logging communities they knew in the South. Urrutia People+Place Then
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The choice of Jesse Clyde Nichols, considered a wizard of urban design after transforming dismal Kansas City tracts into “country club” style districts, profoundly influenced the city. Mr. Long had made well known his distaste for conventional mill towns, which were both socially degenerate and physically shabby. He went to the opposite extreme with Nichols, who in the words of author Lenore Bradley, assured that the Washington State project “would assume a scale of grander dimension than rows of company housing and a small commercial block.”
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Nichols’ designs have provoked both extravagant praise and quieter, but persistent, head wagging over the years. Compared by some to world class layouts in Paris and Washington D.C., to others they smacked of overreaching and, worse, an implicit social engineering bias that relegated prospective citizens to neighborhoods based on income, job status and, ultimately, race and class. In retrospect we probably have Nichols, with the enthusiastic support of his boss, to thank for many of the touches that separate Longview from a host of plainer, more modest “towns with mills.” The remarkable transformation of Fowler’s Slough into the town’s centerpiece, Lake Sacajawea, surrounded by a chorus of stately homes, churches, and cathedral-like trees, was most surely an early Nichols vision, well-tuned to the romantic ideals of his patron, R.A. Long. Nichols’ ideas went straight to that bedrock romanticism beneath the surface of his hard business head, his so apparently iron will. He had always been drawn to monumentality. In one sense he had already experienced the thrill of founding a model community, Longview Farm, but here he would have the incomparable satisfaction of remaking the world in his image. ~ Lenore Bradley Robert Alexander Long
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Previously we’ve cited three factors most observers agree influenced Longview’s conception, birth and early years: the challenging topography of the Cowlitz delta: a taste for grand architecture and public spaces fashionable at the time; and the fickle economy which would “bust” the 20s and finish off the decade with the Great Depression. To these three we should add a fourth factor — speed — the acceleration of development, of time, of consciousness itself. The 20s weren’t roaring for nothing. A generation tired of war and recession, ready to reject what seemed now quaintly Victorian, was mad for change, mad for new inventions and fads, mad for progress, however it manifested itself. Call it the Gospel of Speed. And the Pacific Northwest, that last, latent frontier, was especially suitable, and vulnerable, to its temptations. Everyone here had come from someplace else. In contemporary terms, they had “been there, done from page 21 Proud Sponsor of People+Place Then and Now that.” They were as impatient as they were innovative. They’d left something behind with an eye to improving themselves and their collective lot. They wanted results, quickly — from the lowliest transient laborer to the timber baron in the private railroad car. This is one busy place, and does consume practically every minute of our time, and on account of being in a great rush for everything we are doing, it makes it more difficult than if we had sufficient time to plan….(We are) badly handicapped on account of rush. S.M. Morris Letter to R.A. Long Working Class Except for their extravagant cost, the mills themselves were probably the single most successful endeavor of the entire Longview project. The founders knew the territory, the engineering, the state of the art. The fickle factors that influenced city-building — people and politics, mainly — didn’t distract them from industrial development. They knew building, machining and producing. They also possessed, and took for granted, something that we value more and more today: a tremendous work ethic. Quiet pride in their accomplishments. From laborers to managers, the founders put in extraordinary hours under relentless pressure. They did dangerous jobs and endured back-breaking daily grinds. They laid a foundation as solid as the concrete and pilings, one that sustains Longview to this day: They embraced hard work and the fruits of their labor. In their own habitually humble way, doing what for them became business as usual, the builders of the giant mills were also giants among men.
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Meanwhile, the Mills And still the dredgers dredged, the scrapers scraped. Piles were driven. Foundations poured. It was lost on no one that the quickest way to recoup these extravagant project costs was to get the mills up and running as soon as possible. Here the founders were on surer ground. Their biggest challenge, besides grooming the site (and later dealing with labor and housing issues) was upping the scale. The new mills would do everything a sawmill operation always did, only to gargantuan proportions. In a bare four years the mill itself rose. Long-Bell by 1926 had invested $19 million in it, a complex of Olympian proportions. If the sawmill was not the largest in the world, as the company claimed, its size and equipment astounded observers, prompting one Pacific Northwest lumber entrepreneur to exclaim, “Everything is on such a mammoth scale it knocks the ordinary lumberman completely off his feet.” Lenore Bradley Robert Alexander Long
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Maintenance is such a pedestrian idea. We’re inspired by innovation, creativity, leaps of faith, thinking out of boxes. The idea of maintenance — tending to what we already have — seems to come up short in comparison. Is it just our frontier sensibility, always in love with what’s new? Or is it simply the banality of infrastructure? The patience to maintain something old, venerable and taken for granted? If we transported our founders back in time — swapping their stories of moving the earth and redirecting the rivers and sloughs — a scavenger hunt for the old dikes and drainages would probably bore them just like it does us. Yet modern Longview — and the mighty river that feeds and serves it — depends both on what they did then and what we’re still doing now.
As a favorite regional brewer used to remind us: It’s the water. Our boon and our burden. On the one hand, we reside at a perfect confluence of two powerful waterways, for transport, commerce and recreation. On the other, we’ve settled on a swampy plain once half-submerged and subject to killer floods, dike-bursting surges and the quaintly-named “freshets” — melting snow and torrential rain — called out in the Vandercook Report. Moving Mountains, a Grain at a Time
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The founders, their indefatigable engineers, and thousands of pairs of hands on picks, shovels and horses’ reins built the intricate system of drainages, dikes and sloughs which transformed Longview. Most of this work is long interred in the earth, overgrown with weeds, still performing admirably, albeit quietly, some hundred years later.
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Those early engineers made ingenious — if perhaps culturally questionable — use of the materials at hand. One of the site’s earliest local landmarks, the ancient Cowlitz - Chinookan burial ground known as Coffin Rock or Mount Coffin, ended up blasted to pieces, quarried for rock later used to build the jetties that still shield the mouth of the Columbia. Though highly evolved in technique and sophistication, today’s river crews still perform that same, very basic chore: moving rock, moving dirt, moving sand.
The Big River “We have probably the most diverse mission of any of the Corps’ districts,” said Karla Ellis, Chief of Waterways Maintenance for the Portland District, United States Army Corps of Engineers. “Both fresh and salt water, navigation aids, dams and locks, and our ongoing dredging and channel maintenance.”
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Today, most of the action on the water — on which Longview still depends heavily — is on the Big River. And it’s spearheaded by an agency the independent, free-spirited founders might have found unlikely: The United States Army. “My job within the Corps’ Navigation Group is to maintain the underwater highways,” said Ellis, “And that means reliable transport for goods, services, commerce and Irecreation.”metEllisat
“ PreviousPhotos: page: Repairing pile dikes, lower Columbia Page 24, clockwise from top: South jetty, mouth of the Columbia; today new crushed rock covers original Mount Coffin rock quarried to build the Dikesjetties still protect Longview from “hundred year floods” Coffin Rock (aka Mount Coffin) with Long-Bell sheds in Pagedistance25: Skamokawa Vista Park’ and pit offering ‘Sand for Sale’ Karla Ellis in US Army Corps of Engineers’ northwest Portland maintenance shop Pile dike and leveled dredge spoils
The Moorings in northwest Portland, a district office for the Corps and maintenance hub for the two hopper dredges operated by the district, Yaquina and Essayons. I knew a few of the monumental tasks mandated to the Corps here in our region — operating three locks and four dams in the Columbia River Basin; stewarding nearly 500 miles of navigable waterways; dredging and maintaining all the deep water ports and ship channels. They also coordinate with 15 tribes up and down the river, prepare emergency response plans, issue all sorts of permits, and regulate and supervise hydropower generation.
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Sand Dollars According to CNBC science writer Sam Meredith, “Our entire society is built on sand. It is the world’s most consumed raw material after water, and an essential ingredient to our everyday lives.” Declaring a near- term concern and long-term potential crisis, Meredith concluded: Sand is the primary substance used in the construction of roads, bridges, highspeed trains and even land regeneration projects. Sand, gravel and rock crushed together are melted down to make the glass used in every window, computer screen and smart phone. Even the production of silicon chips uses sand. Yet, the world is facing a shortage — and climate scientists say it constitutes one of the greatest sustainability challenges of the 21st Century.
Which brings us back to the banks of the Columbia, the enterprising town of Skamokawa and its Wahkiakum Port District 2. “Yes, we’re in the sand business,” proclaimed Commissioner Allen Bennett, “and we’ve got plenty to go around!”
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Yes, we’re in the sand business…and we’ve got plenty to go around!”
Pile dikes are something else entirely. Purpose-built for well over a hundred years, they’re ubiquitous on the Great River, extending their pilings, in rows, out from the shorelines, around islands, in the most likely and unlikely of places. The lower Columbia hosts 233 of them, all maintained by the Corps, and a good share of ramshackle amateur efforts, as well. Nudging the Water Pile dikes are gentler river managers than the big earth fill dikes and concrete dams, redirecting currents and nudging water into the shipping channels. Much of the Corps’ activity on the river, besides constant dredging, is maintaining these old wing dams, as they’re also called, which help reduce the overall dredging Theload.Corps says currently about a third of the pile dikes are in substandard condition, and require special attention to the “king piles” located at their ends that warn ships of their “Wepresence.work to maintain the integrity of those structures long into the future,” said Ellis, whose job involves coordination with other agencies, from page 24 private contractors, and the network of hundreds on the river every day getting their feet wet and boots sandy. “I love that the work is always different. There are new challenges every day, it seems there’s always something totally unique we need to work Mountthrough.”St.Helens continues to challenge the Corps, as ash, sand and soil erode off its shoulders, inundate the Toutle, Cowlitz and Columbia, and clog navigation channels. It’s a moving target, this sand and sediment, subject to the vagaries of weather, runoff and other seasonal quirks. Karla Ellis admits to spending as much time wrangling information as she does ships and sediment. The Sandsellers And then we have the merchants of Thesand.same folks who are amazed anyone could make a business out of bottling water and selling it should also be amazed at today’s bull market for sand. On our river we’ve long called these great dunes of dredged sand “spoils,” certainly a pejorative. These “spoils” were the necessary by“
products of our constant mucking out and clearing of the channels. They’re everywhere. Acres and acres — often flat-topped like 30-foot beige mesas — line both sides of the river and sit placidly atop its islands.
Now, lo and behold, sand has become a commodity. This to some degree can be blamed on climate change, sea and river levels rising and falling dramatically, on beaches eroding. But it’s even more fundamental.
Pull up to Skamokawa Vista Park and load on up. You’ll pay a nominal fee. From the looks of the sand stash there’s not exactly a glut, but the supply is still considerable. The Port District divides the financial spoils with the Department of Natural Resources for facilitating the deposit. The moral of this sandy story? At least in the dredging business, the more things change ... Imagine those founders, come back to look around. If they ignore the big dams, the power lines, the relentless parade of ships up and down the channels, they might reckon not much really has changed. “Well, I’ll be! They’re still just moving sand around!”
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What I didn’t know much about is pile dikes. Familiar Rivermarks They may be among the most common sites on the river and among the most mischaracterized. Most of us, I think, simply assume they are the remains of decrepit old structures standing out from the river like decayed pickets, the slowly crumbling remnants of canneries and docks and cabins we know well from our trips downriver.
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The girls grew up and became a nurse and a loan officer…their families coming and going from Longview. Great Gramma Shirley was inspired by the town and lived here more than 30 years —the longest she ever lived in one place. She walked and rode her bike regularly around the Lake, inspired by the lovely homes, the garden-like yards and parks. She and the Kosloskis advocated for beauty and vitality downtown with their custom framing and home décor shop, Teague’s Interiors. In spite of being blind in one eye, Shirley was not deterred from walking, riding her bike, framing customer’s treasures, and painting. Surely generations to come will follow the work to Longview and invest in its beauty and prosperity. By Wendy Kosloski Kelso Longview Chamber Visitor Center to I-5 in Kelso, and Longview YMCA. will needed contact Danielle Robbins.
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Joanna and Tom, Vince and Susi Lee -- Tom Lee In 1923, Homer and Essie Mills followed the work to Longview. No doubt they got word of the new sawmill and the building of a new town! A carpenter by trade, Pop tried working in the mill. He told of finding it a dangerous, life-threatening place and turned to laying concrete at the new Civic Circle. Their son Ray was a toddler. They lived in the temporary housing behind the Hotel, a small house with a porch later, and are known to have built another dwelling on the Cowlitz River in Kelso. Then off they went to work on dam projects, seasonal work in Canada and Eastern Washington. Shirley was born the first day of spring, 1929 in Lewiston, Idaho. She met Don, the love of her life, in Seattle. Many years went by; they drove up and down I-5 and recognized the unique odor of Longview. Their daughter Wendy’s husband, Ron Kosloski, and engineer with Weyerhaeuser, was transferred to Longview right when Mount St. Helens was blowing up! Longview was now a tree-filled city with a central park, fresh air, sparkling waters, and some ash! They came with their two daughters and soon Shirley and Don also came. Ron’s work at Weyerheauser continued 39.5 years.
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A decade later, Tom Lee moved back to Longview. With an underserved legal market, he seized the opportunity to open his own law practice. He specializes in real estate law and recently won The Daily News’s “Best of 2022” award, in the category of Real Estate Law. His wife, Joanna Broderick Lee, works remotely as a Senior Finance Analyst for Intel. Joanna is no stranger to Longview. Her parents grew up around Scappoose and Rainier, Oregon, both the children of traveling fruit pickers. Her father, Rodger, was born at Longview’s newlyconstructed St. John’s Hospital. During Joanna’s childhood, Rodger was often based in Longview for his job with Portland General Electric. Joanna and her family fondly remember visiting Rodger for weeknight dinners in Longview, usually crowding into a booth at the now-extinct Azteca, on Washington Way. life.” Frank Lloyd Wright
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When Vince and Susi Lee moved in Longview in the early 1980s, they did not expect to stay beyond a couple of years. Instead, Vince and Susi’s teaching careers at Toutle Lake and Longview School Districts would each span three decades. Susi accumulated an encyclopedic knowledge and appreciation of Longview history. Their son, Tom, served as editor-inchief of the school newspaper and student body president at R.A. Long High School.
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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, sand wiches, salads, quiche. See ad, page 4.
Parker’s Steak House & Brewery 1300 Mt. St. Helens Way. I-5 Exit Lunch,49.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 Rock. Coffee and specialty drinks, quick eats & sweet treats. See ad, page 34 Kalama, Wash. 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. 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 Tue-Thurs 12–8pm; Fri-Sat 12–9pm. Chicago-style hot dogs, Italian beef, pastrami. Weekend Burrito Breakfast, Sat 8-11, Sun 8am3pm. See ad, page 14. Plymouth Pub 298 S. 1st Street, St. Helens, Ore. Family friendly, food, 14 tap handles. Open daily 11am-10pm. See ad, pg 14. Scappoose, Ore. Fultano’s Pizza 51511 SE 2nd. Family style with unique piz za 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
Fultano’s Pizza 770 E. Columbia River Hwy Family style with unique pizza offerings, hot grill items & more! Dine-in,Take-out and Home Delivery. Visit Fultanos.com for streamlined menu. 503-728-2922 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 com503-556-5023.groups.interstatetavern@yahoo.503-556-5023
El Tapatio 117 W. ‘A’ Street Mexican Restaurant.FamilyOpen Fri-Sat 11am-11pm, rest of week 11am-10pm. Full bar. Karaoke Fri-Sat 8-11pm. Patio seating. 503-556-8323. Longview, Wash. 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 30. 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: Tues-Sat 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 RestaurantCarriage&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. 360425-8545.
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Eclipse Coffee & Tea In the Merk (1339 Commerce Ave., 360-998-2139.#113) 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. Hop N Grape 924 15th Ave., Longview Tues–Thurs 11am–7pm; Fri & Sat 11am–8pm. BBQ meat slow-cooked on site. Pulled pork, chicken, brisket, ribs, turkey, salmon. Worldfamous mac & cheese. 360-577-1541. Kyoto Sushi Steakhouse 760 Ocean Beach Hwy, Suite J Japanese360-425-9696.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. 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. 360-577-5656 Roland Wines 1106 Florida St., Longview. Authentic Italian wood-fired pizza, wine, and beer. Casual ambience. 5–9pm Wed-Fri, Sat. 1–9. 360-8467304. See ad, page 32. Scythe Brewing Company 1217 3rd Avenue #150 Family-friendlySun-Thur360-353-385111am-10pm,Fri-Sat11am-10pmbrewery/restaurantwith 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’s II Restaurant, or Instagram @ stuffys2. “SoCo”
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
Warren,WarrenOre.Country Inn 56575 Columbia River Hwy. Fine family dining. Breakfast, lunch & din ner. Full bar. Call for hours.503-410-5479. Check Facebook for updates. Dine-in. Toutle, Wash. DREW’S GROCERY & SERVICE 5304 Spirit Lake Hwy (10 mi. fr Exit 49) 24-hour fueling (gas & diesel, card only). Now open: Jule’s Snack Shack and Red Leaf Organic Coffee. See ad, page 38. Fire Mountain19GrillMile House 9440 Spirit Lake Hwy. Toutle, Wash 98649 360-957-0813Lunch&Dinner, burgers, sandwiches, wraps, salads, famous cobblers. Riverview dining. Check website for updated hours: FMGRILL. COM See ad, page 12. Woodland, Wash. 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 30. uckman Coffee Company 1230 Lewis River Rd. Small batch on-site roasted coffee, breakfast, lunch. Inside seating. M-F 5:30am–6pm, Sat 6am–5pm, Sun 7am–3pm. See ad, page 4. L Clatskanie, Ore.
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Poppy now on her perch in the hangar, John and I felt satiated from the overcooked steaks he prepared. It would be hard to improve on such a day without indulging in the complications we cautiously avoided from its start.
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The Havens are now hiring Licensed Caregivers 360-442-0758 The Havens is a group of 11 premier, independently owned and operated homes. Drop in for a tour any time! By Brian Fleming Oyster on the Water Brian Fleming, started taking flying lessons at age 19. He is restoring an historic railroad freighthouse in downtown Longview. He enjoys flying Poppy, his restored 1950 Cessna-195 float plane, all around the Lower Columbia region. Summer finally in full swing, I’m beginning to settle into what bachelorhood is at 40. Usually without children on Sunday and not wanting to pain my heart and mind by pursuing a romantic interest today, I reach out to my buddy, John. John, also divorced and without his children today, was ready to escape the mundane, joining me. Effortlessly, Poppy’s war era radial engine comes ecstatically to life. Untying from the dock, we idle into the channel. Staying clear of the amused, cell phone-wielding picturetaking kayaking group, we idle past. Clearing them, we accelerate up the channel about a half mile to give us plenty of space to turn around and depart into the wind. What a perfect late July day. Breaking the tension holding the floats to the water, we lift off. Pointing Poppy’s nose north we begin our 125mile journey to Eldon, an unincorporated community near Lilliwaup, Washington, home to the Hama Hama Oyster Company. Founded in 1922 and now celebrating its centennial year, the HHOCo. is on its fifth generation of family stewardship. Skirting by the west side of the Shelton airport, I begin a descent towards Hood Canal. Leveling off at a safe distance above the surface, we pass Hoodsport on our left. We reach Eldon about an hour before high tide. Circling the area while looking for obstacles, I line us up between a large oyster boat and a lonely Bayliner set at anchor.
There are few feelings I have experienced greater than beaching a seaplane on the shore of a saltwater inlet. This particular beach, just south of the HHOCo. headquarters was a mixture of rounded rock, oyster shells and sand above the highwater line. Turning the plane around, we heel into the beach and tie Poppy to a couple of trees protruding from the bank that is also propping up that stretch of Highway 101. We walked up the shore to the restaurant only to find with little exception, you need reservations to get in on a Saturday in the summer. Their fish market, though, was still first-come, first- served and we each ordered a dozen U-shuck oysters, brought out to us with a bucket for the shells, gloves, shucking knife and a delightful vinaigrette. Amazing! Leaving Eldon, we decided to stop in Hoodsport to get some fruit. I dealt with the plane and John walked across the street for apples and sunflower seeds. And we were off again. Just south of Olympia, we decided there were not adequate adult liquid rations at the hangar and altered our course. In 22 minutes, we landed in Cathlamet, with a delightful little grocery store within walking distance of the marina.
At the Palace of Versailles on their recent Paris trip: Megan Vining and Rylee Vining, Colton, Wash.; Samantha McCoy, Pasco, Wash.; Nancy McCoy, Cathlamet, Wash.; Ashley McCoy and Eriselda McCoy, of Pasco, Wash.
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The noblest of the nobles By Marc Roland
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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.
Fall is approaching. The summer constellations are moving out to the west. The summer triangle is high overhead. The winter constellations of Orion and Gemini are making their first appearance in the early morning eastern sky.
From a winemaking perspective, Cabernet Sauvignon is a joy to make. Their thick skins protect the grapes from disease and the elements. In the winery, you can extend the maceration time to extract maximum flavor because the grape skins break down slowly and resist oxidation. More importantly, it has elevated amounts of tannins that protect the wine in the bottle, allowing for longevity and improved taste over time. I love how the grapes develop in oak barrels. The wine can take the infusion of flavors that oak invokes. It fabricates layers of tertiary flavors of leather, chocolate, vanilla, clove, smoke, and coconut. Cabernet Sauvignon also has a distinctive green pepper flavor that is enjoyable, if checked by not picking too soon. Cabernet Sauvignon is often blended with varieties like merlot to mitigate some of the harsher tannins and green flavors associated with the grape. The famous Bordeaux blends are some of the most sought out wines in the universe. Don’t you agree? With climate change and all, it has become increasingly difficult to hold down the alcohol levels below 13 percent without some kind of intervention to remove excess alcohol. Could the grape that has acquired the distinction of the great colonizer, becoming most loved around the world, fall from grace? And if so, will we be adding some other hybrid to the noble grape category some time soon. I guess we will•••see.
that the California expression of this noble grape has surpassed Bordeaux for its iconic producers and mind-blowing wines.
The Morning Sky (cloudless eastern horizon sky required) Mars and Venus are up in the hours before sunrise while Jupiter and Saturn are far in the south having been up since before midnight.
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Consult a larger star chart or look overhead and find the great square of Pegasus adjacent to the milky way.
The Evening Sky On August 10th at about 10:30pm Saturn rises in the east southeast. By Mid-August, Jupiter will join the pre-midnight hours around 10:50pm, rising in the eastern sky. The moon will be in first quarter on the 10th in the southwestern sky, beginning its blinding of most of the dim stars and objects. Wait till after the third quarter moon when the evening night sky is dark for most of the night to do your best viewing. Orion is rising at around 5am, to prep for its winter dominance. By September 18th Saturn will be rising just after sunset and so will Jupiter in the southeast. They will then take command of the night sky through the rest of September, and viewing is easier.
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Moon Phases: 1st Quarter: Fri, Sept. 4th Full: Sat, Sept. 10th 3rd Quarter: Thurs., Aug 18th New: Sat, Aug. 27th End of twilight - when the stars start to come out: Tues, Aug. 16th, 8:51pm Wed, Aug 31st, 8:23pm Sun, Sept 10th, 8:03pm Ithink most would agree that mostSauvignonCabernetisthepopularwinegrape in the world. Big statement, but the facts bear it out. In Washington State, it was the top grape harvested in 2020 at 52 tons, with chardonnay right behind. It is the most noble of the noble grapes. It turns out that Cabernet Sauvignon is a cross between Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon Blanc. In my last article we talked about Sauvignon Blanc. In the seventeenth century in southwestern France, an accidental breeding created this variety. I love when something beautiful comes out of mistakes. First planted in Bordeaux, France, it rose to unprecedented heights because of its rich flavor and boldness. It has proven to be a wine that improves with age and only gets better in the bottle. Folks everywhere love how well it pairs with foods that are also rich and savory, like barbecued meats and bold Bordeauxsauces. is the king of Cabernet Sauvignon. Its success in France took flight and it became even more triumphant when it was planted in California. In 1976, a Cabernet Sauvignon from Stags’ Leap in the Napa Valley beat out the top Bordeaux wines in the 1976 Judgement of Paris. In a blind tasting, the U.S. won. That changed everything. In the aftermath, the grape found a home in almost every wine region you can imagine. Now it could be argued Longview resident and former Kelso teacher Marc 360-846-7304.tastingdistrict.”newinFloridaatRolandnowwife,HeinwinestartedRolandmakingin2008hisgarage.andhisNancy,operateWines1106StreetLongview’s“barrelForwinehours,call
Night Sky Spectacle: (M15) the Pegasus Cluster This is a globular cluster that sits just 4 degrees from the “nose” of Pegasus. This is one of the most densely packed globular clusters containing more than100,000 stars, located some 35,700+ light years away from earth. At Magnitude 6.2, M15 approaches naked eye visibility under good, dark sky conditions and can be observed with binoculars or a small telescope, appearing as a fuzzy star. This globular may very well have a black hole in its center. A 4-inch diameter or larger telescope will allow to see some of its individual stars.
By Thomas Hicker
CORRECTION In the last issue Brad Dutz was featured with his vibraphone, and incorrectly identified as “Rad Dutz.” CRR regrets the typo and appreciates Brad being a very good sport about it, even saying “Maybe you’ve given me a cool new nickname!” Thanks, Rad!
some of the easier songs that have anywhere from three to five chords. By age 12, I had mastered some simple songs on the ukulele, such as “Five Foot Two,” “Over the Rainbow,” and the song that my family most often wanted me to play: “Far, Far Away.”
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Thomas Hicker, of Vader, Wash., shown here with his ukulele. At nine years of age, my 14-year-old brother Jim learned enough of the basic chords to play the ukulele. Since younger brothers look up to their older brothers and may even try to imitate them, I told myself that I could learn to play that miniature “guitar” myself. Jim showed me about six or seven chords which is enough to play
Of course this all happened many years ago and now, that I am “less young,” I hang out with my peer group at the Winlock and Toledo Senior Centers in Lewis County. In 2018, a ukulele instructor named Candy came to the Toledo Center and offered to teach. We got up a group of eight and she taught us, free of charge. She even had several ukuleles for those who were without, and provided all the music for us. Candy and two of her friends have played for years at nursing homes and churches. The pandemic kept us from getting together these past few years, but it looks like this same lady will be starting up another class if some seniors are interested once again. So check with your Senior Center.•••
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On the Beach... Strumming his miniature guitar
At age 17, I joined the Navy upon high school graduation. After boot camp in San Diego, and school in Norman, Oklahoma, and A.O. School (Aviation Ordnanceman) in Jacksonville, Florida, each for three months, the rest of my three years was spent at Barbers Point, Oahu, Hawaii. This was between wars so it was like a fully paid vacation and I spent a lot of time on the beach, body surfing and acquiring a good suntan. One day while sitting under a palm tree on Nanakuli Beach, strumming my ukulele, along came a sailor who thought I was a native Hawaiian and asked me if I spoke English. I tried so hard to keep from laughing, but it didn’t work. He was probably very embarrassed, but I couldn’t tell since he seemed in a hurry to leave the scene.
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Today some 30-plus members strong, the Gallery includes painters, printmakers, jewelry makers, water colorists, photographers, weavers, welders and anyone else who can craft works suitable for sale and passing muster with the other members. “We all pay dues, monthly,” said Chase, a former teacher who calls the Gallery a “lifeline” in her retirement, “and that’s what really supports us, pays the rent. We price things reasonably, and love making sales, but we have to run this as a business, too.”
Co-op celebrates fine art and friendship
As good friends do, the artists at Longview’s Broadway Gallery often finish each other’s sentences. “The camaraderie that we have is truly amazing,” said painter Debra Chase. “Yes, we actually really like each other!” added ceramicist Nöel Datin FormedMcDonald.by17independent
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Members see a town interested in and supportive of art. “That mill town stereotype just doesn’t fit,” said Woods.
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“We meet once a month, and have lots of rules,” said Chase, laughing, “but that’s what keeps us organized and has helped keep us afloat, too.”
“I think Longview is really taking off,” added Chase, “with the Longview Outdoor Gallery sculptures now in place downtown, and the Columbian Artists’ annual Art in the Park event. It’s exciting.”
Most buyers are local, according to the artists, with many repeat customers. They pride themselves on a substantial presence in the community, donating knitwear at Christmas, staging special events, hosting a First Thursday series, and awarding scholarships to promising young people. “We try very hard to offer good quality at reasonable prices,” said Woods. “Our art inspires us and we want it inspiring our customers, too.”•••
Potter Trudy Woods, who was present at the creation, recalled, “my husband said, ‘I’ll give this a year if you’re lucky,’ and I’ve never let him forget those words,” said Woods, smiling. “Now of course he’s one of our biggest supporters.”
Broadway Gallery members maintain a continuous call for new artists, and welcome submissions. “A lot of us are more or less retired,” she said, “so we’re always looking for new blood, younger artists, or people who’ve just taken it up.”
There are no gallery employees. Broadway members themselves take turns at the cash register, putting on events, curating and displaying their works, and, with the fears of pandemic subsiding somewhat, hoping to resume the popular classes that helped establish their identity in the first place. “People love our instructional classes,” said Woods. “Many of us are former or still active teachers and the educational role of art is vital to all of us.” The co-op’s Commerce Avenue shop features a deep space with plenty of display area and a generous back room for instruction and meetings.
Gallery members pictured above, clockwise from left: Debra Chase, Trudy Woods, Samantha Furer. See Broadway Gallery’s featured artists and First Thursday details, page 37.
Hal Calbom produces CRR’s People+Place feature series. See his bio/tagline, page 25.
Downtown Longview
artists in September 1982, the Gallery will begin its fifth decade with a month of celebrations this fall.
The title comes from Adeline’s desire to one day settle in a green valley with snow-capped peaks in the distance. Her family will ultimately find their valley, thousands of miles from home on a different continent. The Last Green Valley is a compelling read, one that particularly resonates today given the tragic events occurring in that part of the •••world.
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Emil and Adeline pack their two young sons and as many of their belongings as will fit into a horse-drawn wagon and leave their home on a snowy morning in March 1944. German tanks and Soviet artillery lob shells at each other over the heads of the immigrants. Tragically, the years that follow make the journey seem tame in comparison. Emil is captured by the Soviets and taken to a work camp in Ukraine. In East Berlin, Adeline struggles to survive and to keep Emil’s memory alive in the minds and hearts of their sons. The hardships the family endures can be hard to read — the author doesn’t shy away from the harshest realities — yet the family’s determination and faith always shine through the darkest moments.
Presented as a historical novel, The Last Green Valley is based on the true-life story of a family forced to flee their home in western Ukraine during World War II. After Josef Stalin attempted to crush the country’s fledgling democracy and bring the independent farmers under the Russian Collective farm system by creating an artificial famine, Emil Martel does the unthinkable and swears an oath of allegiance to the Nazis, who offer him and his family safe passage because of their German heritage.
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Within many of us there is a latent adventurer. A Walter Mitty on steroids who yearns for the epic life, who scoffs at danger, laughs in the face of fate, and bears unbearable hardships with a stiff upper lip, and stiff lower lip, too. You know who you are: There is no mountain too high, no sea too deep, no challenge too great that you can’t read about it. This book is for you, you of stout-heart and indomitable though sedentary spirit, willing to suffer everything to solve one of the earth’s great mysteries: finding the source of the Nile, the longest river in the world. Actually, it was “found” in 1863, so you must settle for once again reading about it, but Candice Millard is a vivid storyteller who captures the dangerous, frightening, painful, heartbreaking, and sometimes icky experiences without your needing to leave the comfort of your armchair. She did this in her earlier bestseller, The River of Doubt , a harrowing account of Theodore Roosevelt’s near-fatal exploration in the Amazon. River of the Gods centers on two English explorers whose friendship turned into a bitter rivalry. One was Richard Burton (no, not Elizabeth Taylor’s husband.) A larger than life character, Burton was an explorer, writer, poet, anthropologist, and accomplished linguist, fluent in more than 25 languages. His translation of the Arabian Nights was the first to include its sexually explicit tales, what he called the “uncastrated version.”
The second explorer was John Hanning Speke. A young lieutenant in the Bengal Native Infantry, experienced traveler, skilled surveyor, accomplished hunter, he desperately wanted to be larger than life like Burton. Africa, though a huge continent, was not large enough to contain both men’s egos. From their expeditions together and separately, they each claimed a different source for the great river. Burton said it was Lake Tanganyika; Speke argued it was Lake Victoria (or Nyanza to the people who actually lived by it.) Spoiler alert: Burton was the better explorer, but Speke was correct. There is a third character in this story: their guide, Sidi Mubarak Bombay. Courageous, patient, kind, and invariably reliable, he would prove essential to their explorations. It was also Bombay who guided Henry Morton Stanley in finding David Livingston, and Verney Lovett Cameron in being first to cross the African continent. Yet he remained modest, a quality never attributed to Burton or Speke. So, pour your glass of lemonade, turn up the air conditioning, and settle in to your favorite armchair for an adventure. For information www.alan-rose.comvisit SECOND At St. Stephen’s Church 1428 22nd Ave., Longview September 13 1. This Is Your Mind on Plants Michael Pollan, Penguin, $18 2. Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20 3. The Body Keeps the Score Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19 the Mother Tree Suzanne Simard, Vintage, $17 Come As You Are Emily Nagoski, Ph.D, Simon & Schuster, $18.99 Educated: A Memoir Tara Westover, Random House, $18.99 to Focus (Mindfulness Essentials #9) Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason DeAntonis (Illus.), Parallax Press, $9.95 About Love: New Visions bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99 The Splendid and the Vile Erik Larson, Crown, $20 The Bomber Mafia Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay, $18.99 Alan’s haunting novel of the AIDS epidemic, As If Death Summoned, won the www.alan-rose.com.Hecategory.)YearINDIESForewordBookoftheAward(LGBTcanbereachedat
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1:00pm Highland Dance Competition – afternoon session 1:15pm Beltaine 2:00pm Fort Vancouver Pipe Band performance 2:30pm Tacoma Scots Pipe Band performance 3:00pm Sons of Malarkey 4:30pm Silent Auction ends and winners announced 4:45pm Sons of Malarkey
It’s time for the Seventh Annual Garlic Festival in Clatskanie. And organizers have worked hard to line up vendors and entertainment. Here are highlights: Ian, with Columbia Gorge Garlic, will bring his astounding array of organic garlic strains and organic, heirloom cont pg 41
What a garlic year it’s been: intense winter snow storms, a surprise late spring snow event and seemingly constant rain through the spring and into the early summer! All this before summer heat waves. This year’s crop, planted in autumn 2021, has weathered it all. Because of all this, even the early- maturing strains are late, but have now sized up beautifully. One garlic farmer predicted that we may never see a year like this again in our lifetimes.
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11:45am Entertainment under the covered area with Sons of Malarkey 12:30pm Opening Ceremonies / Posting of colors / Mass Bands
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Cowlitz Community Farmers Market 9–2, Tues thru Sept; Sat thru Oct 1900 7th Ave, Cowlitz Expo Center, Longview, www.cowlitzfarmersmarkets.comWash.
Astoria Sunday Market Sundays • 10–3 thru Oct 9 Downtown on 12th, just off Hwy 30, Astoria, www.astoriasundaymarket.comOre.
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Seventh Annual Clatskanie Garlic Festival Sat, Aug 20, 10am–2pm - Copes Park, Clatskanie, Ore. See photos, page 36. Town Yard Sale Aug. 26-27, 8am–4pm. Clothes, kitchen items, furniture, tools, appliances, electronics, more. Lunch in café 11–2. Maps available. Pioneer Hall, 201 Morse St., Ryderwood. Bridgette, 541-2902591, email RyderwoodEvents@yahoo.com.
Friends of the Castle Rock Library Monthly Book Sale Aug 18-19 (1-4pm) Aug 20, 10am-1pm. Back room of the library, 137 Cowlitz Street West, Castle Rock. All items $4 per grocery bag. Bags are provided.
Clatskanie Farmers’ Market Saturdays • 10–2 thru Sept. Copes Park. clatskaniefarmersmarket.com
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13 Nights on the River 6–8:30pm. Aug. 18 The Horn Dawgs; Aug. 25 Macey Gard Band. Free summer concerts, Columbia River Park, St. Helens, Ore. Suggested donations. Concessions available. No outside alcohol. Open air market from 3pm. Stella Historical Society Museum 8530 Ocean Beach Highway (10 miles west of Longview). Open 11–4 every weekend through Aug. 28. Off-season tours offered, call 360 -423-3860. Art in the Park at SquirrelFest at the Longview Civic Circle, Sat, Aug 20, 9-5. Stroll among 20+ artisan vendors. Art, crafts, raffle, special 6”x6” paintings. Big Band in the Park Clatskanie, Ore., city park, Sept 5, 1–4pm, music 2pm. Bring your own chair; bleachers open. Visit clatskaniearts.org or Sept CRR for Clatskanie Arts Commission season, ticket info. How to Haiku with Sam Blair Sat, Sept 17, 10am-1pm via Zoom. www.thewritersguild. org. $25 for Guild members, $35 for non-members. Needs-based scholarships available. Email: info@thewritersguild.org
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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
Author Night Sat, Sept 24, 7 pm. Evening readings at Winekraft, Astoria, Ore. Free, open to the public. John Sibley Williams, Dede Montgomery, Marianne Monson. info@thewritersguild.org.
Featured artists: August: “Metamorphosis” Community Art Show thru Aug. Sept: Gallery member Weylan Johnson, “Housescapes;” Guest artist Vicki Green (glass) Celebrate with us Sept. 17 See story, pg. 33 one top 3 Southwest Washington. Gift wrapping Layaway! a unique gift! have beautiful artisan cards, masks, jewelry, books by local authors, wearable art, pottery, sculpture, so much at local Co-operative Fine Arts & Crafts VisitGallery.our booth at Squirrel Fest Aug 20, 10–5 and buy a hand-printed Squirrel Tote! Shop Local Saturday (4th Saturday each month) to receive a free gift! Us for First Thursday Sept 1, 5:30–7pm. Enjoy new art, live music by Don Hoggatt, refreshments. Meet the artists!
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Northwest Gardening Castle Rock in bloom! Flower program perks up small town Story & photos by Alice Slusher In 2008, we were kicking around the possibility of moving to Washington to join my son and his family. We drove around the area, getting the lay of the land, and passed through Castle Rock. I mentioned to my son that the economic downturn must have devastated the town. It was tired-looking, with storefrontsrun-down—manyofthem unoccupied, bleak and unwelcoming — lining the town’s streets. Fast forward to 2022. Storefronts and office space now show 100 percent occupancy, and greater than 30 percent are owned by Castle Rock High School
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VisitJules Snack360-274-8920ShackServing the local community for 85 Years! DREW’S GROCERY & SERVICE, INC gasRE-OPENED&diesel pumps for 24-hour fueling Your convenient last stop on the way to the Mountain! by card only and OPENNOW! cont page 39 The nonprofit Castle Rock Development Alliance is dedicated to engaging residents and businesses to make Castle Rock a beautiful and welcoming place to live. Year-round planned activities like the
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OSU Extension Columbia County • Aug.503-397-346216,6:30pm-8pm. Chat with Chip: Interactive Zoom program. Register in advance online; you will receive a confirmation email with info to join meeting.
The fantastic makeover of City Hall’s drab lawn into an all-season interest landscape sparked the imagination of Castle Rock residents. When Nancy began entering the America Blooms competition that year, the community all pulled together to beautify and revitalize their little Speakingtown. with Nancy and some residents, it’s clear there is a community-wide culture of hope, participation, and home pride. “It takes a village… that’s the beauty of it, beyond the flower beauty.,” Nancy explained. “It takes everyone on the same page — everyone in the Castle Rock community has the same focus on how they want their community to look.” WA
Aug 27 Free Household Hazardous Waste Event (Kathy at Transfer Station, 503-397-7259 or 503-397-7259 Other programs: extension.oregonstate.edu WSU Extension Cowlitz County 304 Cowlitz Way, Kelso, WA 98626 Free Zoom Workshops. Tues., noon online. 360-577-3014 X3, for connection info. Info: cowlitzcomg.com/events) Aug 16 Food Preservation Basics Aug 23 Seed Saving Aug 30 Extending the Garden Season Sept 6 Deer Resistant Plants Sept 13 Growing Garlic Sept 20 Putting the garden to bed & Events
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Thegraduates!breathtaking floral displays in the town invite the visitor to stroll around and browse the shops. The Visitor Center at I-5 Exit 49 is a lovely welcoming scene. Castle Rock was just designated a Proven Winners Signature City, the first in the nation! I met with Nancy Chennault on a bright sunny summer morning for a walking tour of the city. She is the heart and soul of the 10-years-running America In Bloom program in Castle Rock, and its volunteer coordinator. A feast for the eyes! There was floral eye candy everywhere I looked! We started at City Hall, standing proudly amid a vibrant display of sunflowers, bright red coleus, feathery white guara, and many other colors and textures. The stately mountain hemlock stands tall alongside a burbling water feature. Around the corner of the building is the drought-tolerant xeriscaped garden, with a rain garden, lavender buzzing with bees, fragrant rosemary, Japanese forest grass, and double yellow poppies. Nancy told me that this is where it all started back in 2012 when a group of people comprised of local businesses, the city, the Chamber of Commerce, and community volunteers got together to landscape City Hall. Nancy drew up a landscape plan to demonstrate a sustainable garden area; the rest is history.
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Blooming Generations Garden at the Castle Rock Elementary School, the Festival of Lights, Halloween Jamboree, Street Art, and Castle Rock in Bloom bring the community together. They are supported financially by the city, Chamber of Commerce, local businesses, donations, and grants and by enthusiastic community volunteers of all ages. Walking through the town, Nancy showed me stunning baskets and planters designed, planted, and grown by volunteers and the Castle Rock High School horticulture students. The city provides the Water Wizards, who take care of the baskets. Some shop owners sponsor and care for their planters, and volunteers adopt the rest. We visited Gateway Park, a lush green oasis adopted and tended by
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learnplantandwanderandinvitesbookletwithBloomslunchpeacefulOldtransformationisediblevolunteers.passionateAnewgardenpartoftheofJailPark,atinyhavenforbreaks.AHunt—agreatlittleguide—visitorsresidentstothestreetstrailscollectingtags,andaboutthe Photo by Jim Chennault Dr. Cavens Dr. HenricksenDr. Hutfilz Dr. SmeenkDr. Tolby Dr. Wu PNP McCubbins PNP Wulff See a Pediatric Specialist Every Visit Providing medical care for the children of Cowlitz County since 1978. • Well Child Examinations • Same Day Sick Visits • Behavior/Social Concerns • Adolescent Health Care • Care Coordination • Evening Urgent www.CandAC.comCare • 971 11th Avenue in Longview, WA (360) 577-1771 Open Monday - Friday 8:00-5:00 Evening & Weekend Urgent Care by appointment Child & Adolescent Clinic SPECIALIST CARE FOR EVERY CHILD from page 38 • Fresh local produce & plants • Handcrafts • Live music • Food vendors • We welcome SNAP, WIC, SENIORWIC, Market Match Located opposite Cowlitz County Event Center 1900 7th Avenue, Longview, Wash. Market info CowlitzFarmersmarket.com • Vendor info 360-957-7023 EXPANDED PARKING FOR YOUR SAFETY AND CONVENIENCE Watch for directional signs cowlitz community farmers market SeptTuesdays9am–2pmSaturdaysthru13 OPEN THRU OCT 29 annual flowers in the displays. If they collect all the plant tags, they win a Streetprize! art brings a touch of whimsy to the town. A visitor can stand in front of the butterfly for a photo op. Small children enjoy seeing fanciful art at their level—utility meters on the sidewalks have been transformed into pint-size sculptures by imaginative local artists. I’ve heard from many residents that Castle Rock is a great place to raise a family and they credit Nancy with being the driving force behind it. Chennault feels honored she can give back with something she was able to do for 48 years... talking to people about plants, learning about plants, growing plants, from the landscaping in her retail nursery, to the marketing. “I just feel very fortunate to be able to roll that into giving back to my community,” she said. Get out there, enjoy Castle Rock in Bloom, and help it win the America in Blooms video contest again. You’ll have a chance to vote on their Facebook page (Castle Rock In Bloom) in September! ••• If You Go: I-5 Exit 49, follow signs to downtown. Info: americainbloom.org
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Aug 17 - Wed • Reflection Lakes/ Panorama Point (S). Drive 230 miles RT. Hike an 11-mile loop RT with 3,100’ e.g. to viewpoints with some of the best views in Mt Rainier Nat’l Park, looking down at Paradise Inn and across to the Tatoosh mountain range on a clear day.
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Leader: Bruce (360) 425-0256 Mt St Helens Hiking Club (E) - Easier: Usually on relatively flat ground (up to 5 miles and/or less than 500 ft. e.g.) (M) - Moderate: Longer and more elevation gain (over 5 miles and/or over 500 ft. e.g.) (S) - Strenuous: Long hikes and/or elevation gain (over 8 miles and/or over 1200 ft. e.g.) Call leader to join outing or for more info. Non-members welcome. Aug 31 - Wed • Salmon Creek (E) Drive 100 miles RT. Hike 5.5 miles loop. Leader: Barbara 360- 431-1131 Sept 3 - Saturday Hamilton Mountain (M/S) Drive 150 miles RT Hike 8 mile lollipop with 2100’ e.g. Water falls, flowers, and high views make this one of the best Gorge hikes. Leader: Joe H. 360-430-8447
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Wines Hard Apple Cider. With a focus on wild and forgotten apples, everything from Carola is picked and pressed by a single pair of hands in Tillamook AllCounty.ofthe above will be complemented by our steadfast array of makers and artists offering up goat milk soaps, custom stitchwork, framed artwork, eggs, honey, homemade toffees, microgreens, baked goods galore, the coolest varieties of plant starts, and succulent scenes in all things glass.
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Aug 20 - Sat • Packwood Lake (M/S) Drive 200 miles RT. Hike 10 miles RT out & back, with 600’ e.g. through old growth forest in the Goat Rocks Wil derness to a serene mountain lake with great Leader:views.Bill D. 503-260-6712
Aug 17 - Wed • Capital Lake (E) Drive 140 miles RT. Hike 3.5 miles on a level path around the lake. Leader: John R. (360) 431-1122
Aug 26 - Fri • Dog Mountain (S) Drive 200 miles RT Hike 6 miles RT with 2,700’ e.g. through an old growth forest, trail is 80% under canopy and comfort able even on a hot day. Out & back hike with views of the Columbia River that are some of the best in the Gorge. Great workout! Leader: Bill D. 503-260-6712
Aug 27 – Sat • Milo McIver State Park (M) Drive 150 miles RT. Hike a 6 mile loop with 350’ e.g. through large trees & meadows, views of Clackamas River.
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Sept10 - Saturday Mt Margaret (S) Drive 260 miles RT. Hike 11 miles out & back RT with 1,658’ e.g. from Norway Pass to Mt. Margaret. Stun ning views of Spirit & St. Helens Lakes. Leader: Bill D. 503-260-6712
Sept 14 - Wed • Castle Rock River Trail (E) Drive 22 miles RT. Walk the level paved River Trail, about 4.5 miles. Leader: Gary U. (360) 2748445 Sept 17 - Sat • High Rock Lookout (M) Drive 200 miles RT. Hike 3 miles with 1500’ e.g. to calendar view of Mt. Rainier. Hikers can also follow the Cora Lake Trail another 2.5 miles with a car shuttle.Leader: Bruce (360) 425-0256
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Parts of our lives are like jigsaw puzzles. The first pieces of this puzzle was when my father, Em Piper, took a year off from his vice principal position at R.A. Long High School to attend the University of Hawaii to earn a master’s degree, which he’d need to become a principal. During Dad’s absence, he and Mom rented their home to a family in town. A boy named Bud Black was in that family. Buddy became a star pitcher for Mark Morris High School the year they won the state championship. Buddy went on to pitch for LCC before entering Major League Baseball, pitching for Kansas City and Cleveland. He later coached for the Angels and managed the Padres. He is currently managing the Colorado Rockies. Local boy succeeds. Big time. More puzzle pieces date back to my life insurance career. I rented office space from Cowlitz Bank. There, I got to know a board member, Greg Drew, whose father Edwin opened Drew’s Grocery in 1937. This successful business in Toutle is now run by Greg and his wife Carol. I started delivering Readers to Drew’s Grocery a few years ago. Typically, Greg called to volunteer to pick up the papers in Longview, saving me the drive. When I asked Greg if he’d like to advertise in Longview resident Ned Piper coordinates advertising and distribution of CRR, and enjoys the opportunities to meet and greet friends, both old and new. Colulmbia River Reader, he directed me to his daughter, Julie Cox, who handles that aspect of the Juliebusiness.isanother piece to the puzzle. It was through her that I learned about her talented sons, Jackson and Connor. I started reading stories about the boys on The Daily News sports page. March 9, 2022, was a sad day for the Drew family; Greg and Carol were awakened in the middle of the night with the news that the grocery store was on fire. It was badly damaged. During the subsequent dark days, however, Jackson Cox, with brother Connor behind the plate, distracted the family and provided a silver lining by pitching winning baseball for Toutle Lake High School. Then came the MLB draft. Jackson had already committed to play for University of Oregon, but if drafted by a major league team, he would have another option. The likelihood of the majors drafting a high school senior is slim, but it does happen. With Greg’s prompting, I was watching the MLB draft show on TV when Jackson Cox was drafted number 100, by none other than the Colorado Rockies, the same team that Bud Black manages. Is this a small world, or what? Another local boy succeeds.
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PUDCOWLITZ Eat for Heat is back for its 5th year! Warm Neighbor’s Eat for Heat Meal Kits for Two are back for year number FIVE! Looking for an easy meal to grill up before your Friday Night Lights? This event has always had our community at heart and why not include a little hometown pride with an “AllAmerican Friday Night Lights” Grab and Grill theme? Stop by one of our pickup locations in Longview, Woodland or Castle Rock on September 9th and receive a locally-curated box including your choice of a bottle of Roland’s wine or a crowler of beer from Scythe Brewing Company. We are ramping up our menu this year and partnering with many local vendors to bring you an All-American Friday Night Lights meal kit with chicken, steak, potatoes, salad, dessert and more. Stay tuned as we announce our menu items and partners leading up to the event. This is the Warm Neighbor’s largest annual fundraiser that supports our communities’ most vulnerable by assisting with their utility bills. 100 percent of the proceeds benefit the Warm Neighbor Fund and are dispersed in Cowlitz County. While we are benefiting a good cause, we also hope to give local restaurants, vendors, and farms a platform to showcase their talents. If you are interested in purchasing tickets, visit our website at cowlitzpud.org Puzzle pieces and big time success!
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Columbia River Reader /August 15, 2022 / 43 THE TIDEWATER REACH Field Guide to the Lower Columbia in Poems and Pictures By Robert Michael Pyle and Judy VanderMaten A WayDifferentofSeeing... Both books Include Hal Calbom’s author Interviews DISCOVERYFROMDISPATCHESTHE TRAIL A Layman’s Lewis & Clark By Michael O. Perry Both books feature original woodcut art by Debby Neely At 1333 14th AVE, LONGVIEW, Wash. or locations throughout the region Both titles available in • Boxed Signature Edition Color / BW $50 • Trade Paperback in BW $25 • Trade Paperback in Color/BW $35 Online: CRREADER.COM/CRRPRESS INFO: 360-749-1021 Get Yours Now!Order Form, page 2 Also available at: • Columbia Gorge Interpretive Museum Stevenson • Vintage Books 6613 E. Mill Plain, Vancouver • Broadway Gallery Longview • Cowlitz County Historical Museum Shop Kelso • Vault Books & Brew Castle Rock • Morgan Arts Center Toledo • Mount St. Helens Gift Shop Castle Rock, I-5 Exit 49 • Tsuga Gallery Cathlamet • Wahkiakum Eagle Cathlamet • Redmen Hall Skamokawa • Skamokawa Store Skamokawa • Appelo Archives Naselle • Time Enough Books Ilwaco • Beach Books Seaside, Ore. • Fort Clatsop Bookstore Astoria, Ore. • Godfathers Books Astoria, Ore. • RiverSea Gallery Astoria,Ore. • Columbia River Maritime Museum Store Astoria, Ore. • Columbia Gorge Discovery Center & Museum The Dalles, Ore. Please support our local booksellers & galleries COLLECTORS EDITION M C H A E L O. P E R R Y with HAL CALBOM woodcut art dEbby NEELyfrom the Discovery trail dispatches A LAYMAN’S LEWIS & CLARK “Michael Perry gets it right! Good storytelling is key to meaningful learning for all ages, and ‘Dispatches’ informs us in a relaxed, enjoyable way, perfect for anyone wishing to explore with the explorers.” — DANIELLE ROBBINS Education & Public Programs Coordinator, Cowlitz County Historical Museum “‘Dispatches’ is a great read, well researched and documented, and presented in an appealing format. The perfect place to start learning more about the Corps of Discovery.” — ALLEN BENNETT President, Lower Columbia Chapter Traditional Small Craft Association www.crreader.com/crrpressISBN978-1-7346725-4-1
Featuring the work of woodcut artist Debby Neely “Meadowlark” On the cover:author“Whispering”Michael Perry takes a fresh look at the Lewis and Clark Expedition — what they set out to do, what they experienced, and where they failed and succeeded — from the layman’s point of view. Compiled from a popular monthly magazine series, and adding new notes and commentary, Perry’s Dispatches adds to the lore and legacy of the famous Expedition the insights, quirks, and wry observations of a gifted amateur historian. MIchael o Perry is a retired environmental technician, avid collector and conservator, student of Pacific Northwest history.
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