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FINDING FASHION page 20

A SPORT FOR ALL SEASONS page 10

Natural WONDERS MARYHILL MAKES MAGIC page 19

PARKS ALONG THE COLUMBIA page 16

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all is my favorite season.

Especially since here in the Northwest summer seems to linger — probably because it starts so late, usually sometime after the 4th of July. Then, maybe out of a sense of atonement for those rainy, cold June days, it teases us in the fall with its slanting, warming rays and its crisp, bright mornings well into October and sometimes even November.

This issue we have suggestions to keep your blood running well before winter hibernation sets in. Fall can be the ideal time for a picnic and Tracy Beard takes us to several riverside parks (see page16). With luck, we can work off those excess calories in a vigorous game of pickleball, although I’m not so sure pickleball can be played on hard sand, but perhaps it’s worth a try (see Tiffany Dickinson’s story, page 10). And it’s still not too late in the year — in fact the time is perfect — for one of my favorite Columbia Gorge trips.

In this month’s People + Place we visit Maryhill Musem, where art and nature meet so agreeably. Working as a freelancer for The Daily News 20 years ago, I did a Sunday feature on

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Return to Maryhill: refuge for the soul. that trip up the River, past Beacon Rock, Bridge of the Gods, and White Salmon.

It’s still an enchanting place. But accessible, user-friendly and —

ON THE COVER Thomas J. Kitts, of Portland, Ore., on Maryhill Museum’s terrace during the recent Pacific Northwest Plein Air event.

Drawing on a long tradition of painting in the open air, the event attracts painters from far and wide to capture the stunning light and inspiring vistas of the Columbia River Gorge. (Kitts was joined by Paul Zegers, of Rosburg, Ore., shown in photo, page 19).

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considering it features regalia from a Queen, chess sets from history, and the most remarkable “doll collection” in the world (you’ll see the reason for my quotation marks in Hal Calbom’s Finding Fashion sidebar, page 21) — remarkably unpretentious.

I missed the famous peacocks that used to roam the grounds, but the picnic tables and outdoor art are still plentiful. There’s a new modern wing which adds, not intrudes, to Sam Hill’s massive concrete mansion that’s the museum’s heart. And there’s its most remarkable setting, even blackened by brush fires this past summer, which somehow puts the art, and the architecture, and our human aspirations, in their proper place.

Sitting on a bench above the great river, dwarfed by sun-burnished hills bleached a bright ochre, Maryhill entices like an oasis in a dreamy desert. Refuge for the soul.

The gift shop is lovely, too, for those of us who like to preserve our exaltation with art cards and curiosities. I remember buying my son a kit for making a model of Stonehenge (the English landmark Sam Hill replicated down the road as a war memorial) at the beautifully curated Maryhill gift shop, those 20 years ago.

Whatever brought Marie, the Queen of Romania (actually a British aristocrat, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, who married well) to Maryhill is still magically in the air. Even Dorothy Parker, who I often quote, was apparently under the spell: “Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, a medley of extemporanea, And love is a thing that can never go wrong, and I am Marie of Romania.”

If you can, make a trip to Maryhill this fall. You’ll be captivated!

Sue Piper

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Letters to the Editor Dispatch from the Discovery Trail ~ Bluffs and Bluster Longview’s Alcove Gallery: Art and poetry Pickleball: A game for all seasons Medical Matters Japanese guests to visit Longview Miss Manners Northwest Gardening ~ Planting spring bulbs Out & About: Beach parks along the Columbia Provisions along the Trail (Recipes) People + Place ~ Curator of Dreams: Colleen Schafroth People+Place Top Five Books Quips & Quotes Marc Roland on Northwest Wines Essay from The Tangled Bank / Robert Michael Pyle Besides CRR, What Are You Reading?

Cover to Cover ~ Bestsellers List / Book Review Outings & Events Calendar / Hikes / Farmer’s Markets Astronomy ~ Night Sky Report Lower Columbia Dining Guide Lower Columbia Informer ~ Australian Coast to Hong Kong An unusual romance, by Laurel Murphy: GiveMore24!

Arts & Crafts: Ladies of the Lake Featured Quilter Movies by Dr. Bob Blackwood Where Do You Read the Reader?

The Spectator ~ Dialing it in Plugged In ~ to Cowlitz PUD: Oh, what a night!

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Your People + Place series is a treat.

Now I see it’s being paid for by stand out businesses, not tooting their own horns, but rather “calling out” worthy non-profits in our community. Who does that? Kudos to them! And to the CRR for such a unique idea.

Marilyn Young Skogland Walden Island Silver Lake, Wash.

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CRR connects communities I thought the August issue of CRR was among the most-interesting ever.

I really enjoyed Ned Piper’s column ... and Sue’s Views ... and several of the other features, including the lists of readers and books.

It seems to me that your paper has replaced the (Longview) Daily News’ traditional role as a unifying force in the community. There was a time, when we were kids, when everyone read the Daily News and everyone got most of their news from it.

But people have quit reading local dailies so they can get their “news” from television or Facebook or Google or — unfortunately — from nowhere at all. It’s opened the door to papers like CRR to connect neighbors, members of various specialist communities such as gardeners, picnickers, visitors, shoppers, artists, writers, etc., into one good-sized, local society. This last issue really seemed to do that at a high level.

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Lewis & Clark

Bluffs and bluster and winter weather worries

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ot all members of the Corp of Discovery were great hunters.

George Shannon came close to starving to death when he got lost at the end of August in 1804 while hunting for missing horses. In his attempt to return to the boats, Shannon followed an Indian trail; he thought he was behind the party, but he was actually ahead of them. After two weeks, he decided he was never going to catch up with the Expedition and stopped.

On Sept. 11th, his crewmates found him sitting on the riverbank, hoping to catch a ride back to St. Louis with a French trapper. Shannon must have been a poor marksman, for Clark wrote “thus a man had the like to have Starved to death in a land of Plenty for the want of Bullitts.” Shannon had gone “12 days without any thing to eate but Grapes & one Rabit, which he Killed by shooting a piece of hard Stick in place of a ball.”

Michael Perry enjoys local history and travel. His popular 33-installment Lewis & Clark series appeared in CRR’s early years and began its second “encore” appearance in April 2018.

Lewis and Clark had no way of knowing what lay ahead when the Expedition traveled through what is now South Dakota. But, worries about the approaching winter weather and interactions with the Indians were undoubtedly on their mind. Some of you may have driven across the Dakotas and feared being caught by a winter storm. Today, with reliable weather forecasts and motels along the way, few people actually get stranded.

But, for Lewis and Clark, it was a real possibility.

Lewis & Clark Encore We are pleased to present

Installment #6 of Michael Perry’s popular 33-month series which began with CRR’s April 15, 2004 inaugural issue. “Dispatch from the Discovery Trail” helped define and shape Columbia River Reader in its early years during the Bicentennial Commemoration of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Each installment covered their travels during the corresponding month 200 years prior. We are repeating the series for the enjoyment of both longtime and more recent readers.

On September 15, 1804, Clark wrote “this evening is verry Cold… the wind is hard from the N W.” Three days later, Lewis wrote “this day saw the first brandt on their return from the north.” Birds flying south was not a welcome sight since they were hoping to get to the Mandan Indian villages in present day North Dakota before winter snows set in.

The weather was changing. On September 23rd Clark wrote “aire remarkably dry – in 36 hours two Spoonfuls of water aveporated in a sauser.” On September 19th, they began recording temperatures each morning and again at 4pm each day. Over the next month, morning temperatures ranged from 38 to 58 degrees, and the afternoon highs ranged between 40 and 86. Clark wrote “the leaves of all the trees as ash, elm &c except the cottonwood is now fallen.” The men awoke to frost on the ground several times in early October.

Clearly, winter was near.

Meanwhile, Lewis and Clark were worried about the Teton Sioux Indians.

They knew a Teton war party had recently raided the Omahas, killing more than 70 people and capturing dozens more as slaves.

The Teton Sioux were a large and aggressive tribe who controlled the land on both sides of the river and had prevented small groups of traders from passing without paying tribute.

Lewis and Clark knew they had to deal with them since the Omaha survivors reported the Teton Sioux intended to prevent the Expedition from continuing up the river. President Jefferson had specifically instructed Lewis to make friends with the Teton Sioux; however, if Lewis recalled that order, he ignored it.

September 24th was the first of several tense days. First, the Teton Sioux stole the Expedition’s last horse. Efforts to get the horse back failed when three chiefs met with Lewis and Clark to hear the standard speech promoting peace and trading. Unimpressed by the medals and presents they received, the chiefs were invited aboard the keelboat for some whiskey. The chiefs were “exceedingly fond of it, they took up an empty bottle, Smelted it, and made many Simple jestures and Soon began to be troublesome.”

The chiefs resisted efforts to be put ashore; when a warrior grabbed the line holding the pirogue and one of the chiefs demanded a canoe load of presents before allowing the expedition to go on, Clark drew his sword and Lewis called all the men to arms. The swivel cannon was aimed at shore and the men loaded their rifles.

The Indians strung their bows and took arrows from their quivers. Lewis held a lighted taper over the cannon and refused to back down. Disaster was averted when the warriors began to back off. Clark offered to shake hands with the few who remained, but they refused. Two of the three chiefs stepped forward and offered to stay on the keelboat that night to insure peace. The next morning, they asked Lewis to stay another night.

That evening, the Teton Sioux put on a grand pageant and feast. A scalp dance was performed (the scalps were from a recent raid against the neighboring Omaha Indians). Clark described it as “A large fire made in the Center, about 10 musitions playing on tamberins made of hoops & skin stretched, long sticks with Deer & Goats Hoofs tied So as to make a gingling noise and many others of a similar kind, those men began to Sing & Beet on the Tamboren, the women Came forward highly Deckerated in their way, with the Scalps an Trofies of war of ther father Husbands Brothers or near Connection & proceeded to Dance the war Dance.”

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Lewis & Clark

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While returning from the pageant, Clark’s pirogue crashed into the keelboat and broke its anchor line. Clark ordered “all hands up & at their ores” to keep the loose boat from slipping into the swift current. The Indians became alarmed by the commotion and thought they were being attacked.

In no time, there were 200 warriors lined up on the bank, while the men on board had their guns loaded and aimed. Interestingly, as was the case the previous day, the Indians did not notch their arrows – doing so might have been enough to cause the crew to begin shooting. The confusion was soon resolved. Clark wrote “All prepared on board for any thing which might happen, we kept a Strong guard all night in the boat.

No sleep.”

When the crew attempted to leave the next morning, the Indians once again created a tense showdown. They demanded some more tobacco before allowing the expedition to proceed.

Lewis lost his temper and refused. As they tried to cast off, a warrior grabbed the rope. Clark was not ready to repeat the previous standoffs, so he threw some tobacco to the chief while lighting the cannon’s firing taper to show he was prepared to shoot if necessary. A

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few more pieces of tobacco and the confrontation was over and they were once again moving up river.

Although the Indians vastly outnumbered the expeditionary force, many would have been killed if fighting had occurred. Such a loss was too big a price to pay even for control of trade and travel on the river. Indians would not attack a well-armed and determined force. The French and Spanish traders who had preceded Lewis and Clark had been willing to pay whatever price the Indians demanded and were thus deemed to be weak.

Knowing the Corps clearly was fearless and prepared to fight, the Teton Sioux were not willing to fight when their bluffs and bluster failed. Lewis and Clark were fortunate since the entire crew would almost certainly have been killed if fighting had broken out. Such a victory would have made the Teton Sioux even more feared and would undoubtedly have changed history.

The United States could not have sent trading parties up the river for years afterwards and the westward expansion would have been slowed.

On October 8th, the expedition reached the Arikara Nation in present-day

South Dakota. Word of the Corp’s neardisasterous encounter with the Teton Sioux had already reached the Arikaras.

Things went much better when the two sides met and Lewis gave them gifts. As usual, the keelboat cannon was fired to impress the Indians, and Lewis “astonished them much” when he fired his air rifle. But, the Indians were even more amazed by one of the men in the Expedition.

••• Next month: We will learn about the only black man in the Corps of Discovery, and encounter the first snow as the Corps travels to the Mandan village in North Dakota where the group will spend the winter.

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roadside prints combining poetry and art by Joseph and Marquita Green will be on display through Tuesday, October 6 at the CAP’s Community Arts Workshop’s Alcove Gallery, 1526 Commerce Ave. with its entrance next door to the Sylvester Apartments. The Community Arts Workshop is open Monday through Thursday, noon to 3:30 PM Joe & Marquita Green’s letterpress print shop is called The Peasandcues Press, drawing its name from the time-worn advice to “mind your p’s and q’s.” Besides printing the work of other Pacific Northwest poets, Joe prints some of his own poems.

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Recreation

Pickleball ~ a game for all seasons Story and photos by Tiffany Dickinson

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earching for a racquet sport? Pickleball players are saying, “Have we got the game for you!” Pickleball is one of the fastest growing sports in America, with an estimated 2.8 million players in 2017 and membership in the United States of America Pickleball Association (USAPA) increasing five-fold from 2013 to 2017.

Pickleball combines parts of badminton, tennis, and ping pong. Instead of a shuttlecock, a small whiffle ball is used.

The net is slightly shorter than in tennis, the court about one-third the size of a tennis court, and the paddles resemble large ping pong paddles.

For anyone who’s played a racquet sport, the learning curve for pickleball is almost non-existent, says Justin Maloof, executive director of the USAPA. “You can get on a court and play even if you’ve never even heard of the sport before.” Many racquet sports rely mainly on speed or strength. To excel at pickleball, speed helps but finesse is what places the skilled player above the novice. This allows players of all ages to compete against each other. Members of USAPA range in age from 8 to 100-plus years.

Travis Rood, president of the Vancouver chapter of the Columbia River Pickleball Club, taught tennis for more than 10 years and started playing about four years ago.

“The great thing about pickleball is you can have fun on the first day.” It takes years to be good at tennis, he said, which can make it elitist and exclusionary. “But, pickleball has an open-gym/bake sale kind of quality that welcomes players regardless of skill level.” It’s a game for everyone, he noted, including the disabled and overweight.

“As a player’s skill increases the game gets harder.”

John Freerks, of Longview, is a USAPA Ambassador. He organizes a group that meets at Vandercook Park in Longview most mornings.

Freerks began playing two years ago.

“I played tennis for a long time, but I got the usual shoulder, elbow injuries, etc. I played tennis again a while back; my old injuries came back in 10 minutes. Not with pickleball.”

Freerks says he loves pickleball because of the competition. “Facing an opponent from 14 feet away is an adrenalin rush like no other sport.”

The ease of learning — yet difficulty in mastering — the game is a great attraction. “You’re always building skills.”

quick, competitive, and fast,” he said. “And you can play singles and doubles.”

Taking a break by the Vandercook courts, Barbara Dunlap, of Longview, said the best things about playing pickleball are the friendships and fun. “The game is both simple and complex. Anybody can play.”

Longview resident Jeannette Hoogland who began playing 10 years ago, loves the exercise and the affordability of pickleball. “I’m a golfer. But you don’t get any exercise with golf,” she said.

“And it costs $50 or $100 a day! This is the greatest thing that ever happened to the seniors.” cont page 11

Frank Groce of Longview started pickleball five or six years ago. At age 74, he’s played against opponents as young as 25. He’s medaled in all 25 tournaments in which he’s played.

“I like that it’s

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Multi-leveled: Different ages and skill levels can play together.

Great workout: Low impact, aerobic, full-body.

Portable and convenient: Can play on any hard, flat surface – tennis or basketball court, driveway, street.

Accessible: Places to play all over the country and the world – 90 new locations every month.

PICKLEBALL Where to Learn, Play, or Get More Information LONGVIEW •Vandercook Park, 20th Ave. and Larch St. Most mornings. Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9am for beginners.

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Longview resident Shirley Bostrick started playing in 2011 in Arizona. “They had all these pickleball courts, and we just decided to give it a try one day,” she recalled. “We had so much fun that very first day!” She’s won gold and silver medals in tournaments from Lakewood, Wash., to Sun City, Arizona.

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Recent Resurfacing of Vandercook Park Courts John Freerks and Shirley Bostrick organized approximately 25 volunteers, including helpers from the Pickleball Vets (military veterans), based in Lake Oswego, Ore. It took almost four weeks to pressure wash, apply four coats of surface coating, two additional coats within the court, and paint lines for tennis and pickleball. Longview Parks and Recreation provided a grant for supplies.

All labor was by volunteers.

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MORE LOCATIONS: Check with local park/recreation programs.United States of America Pickleball Association: USAPA.org International Federation of Pickleball: ifpickleball.org Tournaments to watch or play: www. pickleballtournaments.com

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Pickleball was homegrown on Bainbridge Island in 1965.

Congressman Joel Pritcher’s family had a badminton net set up over asphalt but couldn’t find all the pieces of the game. They cut the handles of the racquets short and used a perforated plastic ball to replace the missing badminton shuttlecock.

After discovering that the plastic ball bounced easily on the pavement, they lowered the badminton net to regulation tennis net height.

An urban legend persists that the game is named after the Pritcher’s

dog who chased after the balls. But Pritcher’s son believes that his mother, Joan, named the game after the sport of rowing. The boat that ended up with the oarsmen who were left over from the other boats was called the “pickle boat.”

Today the Vandercook Park courts look bright and new with pickleball and tennis players enjoying them side-by-side. Watching the action and camaraderie, it’s easy to get in the spirit. Why not come out to watch or give pickleball a whack? After all, it’s a game for all seasons.

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Longview Physical & Sports Therapy has added three physical therapists to its staff this year and increased its treatment area by 2,100 square feet in response to growing patient demand. Co-owners Bruce Peterson and John Kowalski say the moves were necessary in order to meet the needs of area patients.

Brian Kitzerow came on board in early February.

Kitzerow has worked in multiple fields of physical therapy, including acute care, pain Brian Kitzerow management, and rehabilitation. He specializes in dealing with the mechanics of motion dysfunctions, which includes changes in how a joint moves and how this movement affects that joint or a neighboring joint in a way that causes pain. He also has extensive experience in dealing with athletes involved in team sports, dance, and martial arts who are recovering from injuries.

Kitzerow was followed by Shonn Tanner in March.

Tanner majored in exercise physiology and earned b a c h e l o r ’s a n d doctoral degrees in Shonn Tanner physical therapy at the University of Utah. He believes his role is to serve as a guide for patients to assist them in regaining their health.

He particularly enjoys helping people overcome things that are preventing them from gaining long-lasting strength, mobility, and quality of life.

In June, LPST hired Julie Berridge, who brings more than 20 years of experience in treating hand problems. Berridge specializes in hand and upper extremity issues, including the diagnosis of fractures, tendon injuries, and all things related to the hand, wrist, Julie Berridge and elbow. She also treats shoulder conditions.

Located at Pacific Surgical Institute at 625 9th Avenue, LPST is directly across the upstairs waiting area from Longview Orthopedic Associates.

The two clinics have a strong working relationship and communication is enhanced by their close proximity.

For additional information, call LPST at 360.578.1188.

••• Former R.A. Long High School English teacher Jim LeMonds is a semiretired writer, editor, and marketer who rides his mountain bike whenever he gets the chance. He lives in Castle Rock, Wash. His published books are South of Seattle and Deadfall.

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Japanese visitors arriving in Longview October 10

By Eileen Bergeson A 26-person delegation — including a Wako city official, a principal and teacher from Wako High School, 13 adults, and 10 high school students — from Longview’s sister city of Wako, Japan, will be visiting here October 10–14. They will have three busy days, with the adults and students enjoying different experiences.

The students will be staying with host families and touring three local high schools and Lower Columbia College.

The adults will be greeted by city leaders, stay or visit in local homes, tour the city center and industries, play golf, and explore downtown.

Friendship between sister cities serves as a vehicle to unite people of all ages and cultures, overcoming barriers of distance, culture, language, and politics. Longview and Wako became official sister cities in 1999, but share a long history beginning in 1984 when a group of teachers in Wako were hosted by teachers in Longview.

Many exchanges have taken place

since then, and Longview Rotary Club established a sister-club relationship with Wako Rotary Club in 1990.

Families who can provide sleeping accommodations, meals, and morning and evening transportation are invited to host guests. Especially needed are homes for high school girls. Anyone interested can contact Susan Supola (406-871-7082/supolas@gmail.com) or Eileen Bergeson (360-425-9592/ thebergesons@comcast.net).

As Tokyo will be hosting the 2020 Olympics, Wako has offered to host anyone from Longview who wants to come to the Games. One of the venues for the Games will be in Wako.

If you see a group of Japanese visitors having lunch at the Lake or strolling downtown during the second week of October, be sure to smile and welcome them!

••• Eileen Bergeson lives in Longview. For many years she coordinated the Peace International exchange program and continues to help with similar efforts.

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DEAR MISS MANNERS: I think I do OK with dinner-table conversation, but mingling at a reception or casual buffet can be really hard. There are all of these groups of two or three people talking with each other, and I figure I should try to talk with them, too.

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conversation until I can join in? That seems OK if I already know one of the people, but it seems weird if I don’t know them.

Maybe I should just go up to a person who is alone; is that the only option if I don’t know anyone? What if I go up to a group and start listening to a conversation, and then can’t think of a way to join in for five minutes or more? Should I just sneak away?

Also, if I am talking with one person already and a third person comes up and joins in, can I just leave after a while if the two of them seem to be having a good time? I don’t really want to interrupt them just to say that I am going to get a drink, but I also don’t want to be rude by walking off without saying anything.

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Relieving loners is kind, as well as easy.

When you sidle up to a group, they should at least smile at you until they get to a break in the conversation when you can be included. If none of that happens, toss them a smile and just sidle away, no excuse needed. If your group is getting along without you, you can also slip off for better pickings with barely more than a smile.

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utumn may be upon us, but it’s never too early to think about spring! Crocuses, tulips, daffodils, and hyacinths — seeing my spring friends just makes me happy!

If properly planted and cared for, flowering bulbs plants will pop up and greet spring year after year. The best time to plant bulbs here in the Pacific Northwest is October and November.

You can even plant them later into December.

bulb, the deeper it should be planted.

Here’s how I do it: Put the shovel into the soil a little deeper than the desired depth, throw in a couple handfuls of compost mixed with the recommended amount of bulb fertilizer, then plant three or four bulbs in the same hole, a few inches apart. Remove the shovel and pat the soil into place. Water them in well, and cover with mulch.

Choose a site with good drainage, or the bulbs will rot. Shovel in some good quality compost when you dig the hole.

Add a handful of bone meal or fertilizer formulated specifically for bulbs.

Then ... we wait through our long, wet winter until spring shows their little green finger poking up through the mulch. This is the time to feed with bulb fertilizer again. This will help the plant put down healthy roots, with lots of leaf growth for photosynthesis.

Remember to plant pointy side up — the bulb “points” to the direction the plant will grow. A general rule of thumb is to plant bulbs three times as deep as the bulb is long. The bigger the

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Here’s something I want to try this year—a lasagna tulip planter! I’ll let you know how it turns out. Choose a variety of spring flowering bulbs with long flowering times.

Grab a 20 inch pot with drain holes, and fill it half full with good quality potting soil. Choose 25-30 spring flowering bulbs with long flowering times. Place a layer of the largest bulbs, daffodils, in the pot and cover with about ½ inch of soil. Place the next largest bulbs, tulips, in the next layer, until you’ve filled the pot, with the small crocus bulbs at the top, covered with about an inch of soil.

Water in well, and place outdoors in a sheltered area. The bulbs need to be kept cold to set good roots. If it gets below 30 degrees, bring the planter into the garage or close to the house.

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and enjoy these beautiful harbingers of spring. Follow the instructions above for care after blooming. After the foliage dies back, you can either leave the bulbs in the pot for next year, or plant them in your garden next fall. You don’t need to water the bulbs until the fall. Keep them in a shady spot during the summer.

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••• Kalama resident Alice Slusher volunteers with WSU Extension Service Plant & Insect Clinic. Drop by 9am– 12noon Mon-WedFri. at 1946 3rd Ave., Longview, with your specimen, call 360577-3014, ext. 8, or send question via cowlitzmastergardener@ gmail.com.

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OUT • AND • ABOUT

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parks that line both sides of the Columbia River. Below you will find a roundup of parks in both Oregon and Washington with accompanying information about their inviting

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features. Pack a picnic, get your feet wet, finish that summer read, or inspire your exercise routine by learning a new watersport at one of these awesome parks along the river.

St. Helens Waterfront Parks

St. Helens Marina park is located just south of the St. Helens Marina. The grounds boast a small outdoor amphitheater, a covered area, several picnic tables and a few benches to enjoy outdoor dining along the Columbia River. Children and adults can cool down from the heat at the park’s water feature. Multiple sprinklers embedded into a cement pad shoot water into the sky creating a place for the youthful to romp in the “rain.” The play structure, complete with a spiral slide, will keep the kids engaged for hours.

An RV park, located near the marina, is available for those desiring to camp overnight. The Marina offers boat rentals. Try out an 18-foot ski boat for $100 per hour or $300 per day, or take a stab at sailing in a 14-foot Hobie trimaran, a small stable sailboat, for $50 per hour or $200 for the day. Sailing lessons are available at the Marina.

Grey Cliffs Waterfront Park is just north of the St. Helens Marina. Bring your dog and roam the beach, or enjoy a bite at one of the picnic tables while you watch the boats enter and exit the Marina. Quiet and secluded, this lesser-known beach is the perfect spot to read a book or dip your toes into the water on a sweltering day.

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proficient or you can expand your knowledge and take a kayak fishing class or a stand-up paddleboard yoga class.

Prescott Beach

If fishing and windsurfing are your thing, Prescott Beach is your next destination. This large park requires a fee of $5 per day, or you can obtain an annual parking pass at the main office. This park is excellent for large group gatherings, extraordinary events or a walk on the beach.

Features include a horseshoe pit, volleyball courts, playground equipment, a covered picnic shelter and a gazebo. The park is located five miles south of Rainier and is open from sunrise until just after sunset.

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Scappoose Bay Marine Park

Warren, Oregon, is home to Scappoose Bay Marine Park. Take a walk through the wooded nature trails along the water, picnic in the shelter, or visit Next Adventure Scappoose Bay Paddling Center next to the park. The Center offers classes teaching you how to maneuver a stand-up paddleboard or how to navigate the waterways in a kayak. Rentals are available for the equipment if you are already

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My favorite thing about Kalama Marine Park is the long riverfront path. With the wind in your hair and a warm hand to hold, it is a delightful place for a sunrise or sunset walk.

Bicycling on this flat pathway is easy for both children and adults. The footpath is adjacent to the five-acre grassy park on one side and the mighty Columbia River on the other. A highlight along the way is one of the tallest

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one-piece totem pole in the world (Editor’s note: this pole is set to be lowered due to deterioration but will be on display in the Park after Sept.

19.) Windsurfers, fishermen and sunbathers favor the public beaches on this section of the river.

Louis Rasmussen Park has it all: horseshoe pits, basketball and tennis courts, large grass areas to lounge and several covered picnic shelters. This park with all its amenities is a sure winner for both large and small group events.

Pick your favorite park and plan the date.

Don’t let the season’s pleasant weather pass you by without savoring the great outdoors. Below you will find some of my family’s favorite picnic dishes to bring along to one of these fabulous parks.

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By Tracy Beard Tracy’s Potato Salad 3-3.5 lbs. red potatoes, scrubbed clean 1 cup sour cream 3 /4 cup mayonnaise 2 Tbl. prepared creamed horseradish 3 /4 Tbl. kosher salt 1 /2 tsp. ground black pepper 2 cups cooked green beans, cut into bite-size pieces 6 slices cooked bacon Boil the potatoes until fork tender. Let them cool and cut into large chunks.

Steam the green beans until crisptender, approximately 2-3 minutes.

Put into an ice bath. Cut bacon into small pieces and fry until crisp. Mix sour cream, mayonnaise, horseradish, and salt and pepper in the bottom of a large bowl. Add the potatoes, green beans, and bacon. Coat with the dressing and refrigerate until picnic time.

Tracy’s Herbaceous Grilled Chicken 4 pieces chicken thighs or breasts – washed and trimmed of excess fat 2 Tbl. olive oil 2 Tbl. chopped fresh rosemary 1 tsp. kosher salt 3 /4 tsp. whole black peppercorns Pinch of cayenne pepper 1 /2 tsp. dry mustard powder ½ tsp. dried oregano 1 /2 tsp. garlic powder 1 /8 tsp. fresh thyme 1 /4 tsp. fresh chives Combine all ingredients beginning with rosemary in a spice mill; do not use the same one you use for grinding coffee. Grind to a coarse powder.

Wash and trim chicken. Pat dry. Brush chicken with olive oil. Coat both sides of the chicken with the herb powder. Grill or broil away from the flame until juices run clear.

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A monthly feature written and photographed

by Southwest Washington native and Emmy Award-winning journalist

Hal Calbom

Production Notes

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Curator of Dreams: Colleen Schafroth

Maryhill: Journey to the East

It probably wouldn’t have bothered Sam Hill, the flamboyant railroad builder, utility magnate, and pioneer road paver if he were asked why he chose to build his great monument quite literally in the middle of nowhere.

Hal Calbom

I remember a colleague recounting

the car trip he took from his native Massachusetts across the northern tier states to begin his new job as a news photographer at Seattle’s King TV.

The peripatetic Hill, who had traveled the wide world, wrote to his cousin from the site, shortly after the turn of the century, that it was simply the most beautiful countryside, ever.

That he succeeded in sharing this vision, and the development of this place, with the most improbable cast of characters — including titled royalty, rags-toriches heiresses, and a company of burlesque dancers, among others — means something resonant and timeless must have drawn them all here.

With an artist’s eye and an adventurous spirit he’d skirted great lakes and bridged great rivers. Yet after 3,000 wondrous miles, he was finally struck dumb by his first view of his new home, Washington State.

Today’s Northwesterners still make pilgrimages to Maryhill, for its alchemical mingling of art and a magnificent natural setting. Their patronage and passion testify not only to the enduring vision of Hill and his peers, but to the contemporary leadership of an engaged board of trustees and their executive director, Colleen Schafroth.

“It’s a desert! It’s 100 degrees! Where are the mountains? This can’t be The Evergreen State. My car’s an oven!

I’m overheating!”

CS: There’s something about this place.

You take this immense natural scenic space, and you combine it with the stunning art work that the museum has, and you get two things in one package.

Call it Wet Side versus Dry Side. West of the mountains or east. It remains a stunning topographical truth that we Washingtonians in fact inhabit two very different states, and that two-thirds of our land is arid, baked and basaltic. What my friend Jack encountered was more Steppes of Russia than Trees of Mystery.

Despite spending my life on the green side, I confess a lifelong love of its counterpart: the power of its heat and light, the drama of its geology, the vastness of its vistas.

And especially I revere our common mother — the mighty Columbia — breaching the Cascades that divide us, watering the crops that feed us, uniting our dry east and wet west.

Had we not been set on honoring our first President, perhaps a more fitting moniker reflecting the shared dependence of both wets and drys might have been the State of Columbia.

Constitutional Convention, anyone?

I’m not sure any of these dichotomies stimulated the imaginations of Sam Hill and his contemporaries. But they have stimulated our visit to Hill’s legacy, Maryhill, and this month’s People + Place.

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HC: Art in the wild?

CS: It’s a powerful juxtaposition. I have a profound affection for this place. I’m very passionate about it.

HC: And by place you mean more than just the building, the grounds?

CS: Oh yes! Sam Hill bought 5,300 acres here, at the turn of the century. He was going to start a Quaker farming community. And we still get revenue from the property, the ranch, to supplement our donations and admissions.

HC: It’s a pretty good failed-farmer legend, though — Hill, the railroad magnate meets a globetrotting avantgarde dancer, then a San Francisco sugar heiress …

NICE TO MEET YOU Colleen Schafroth resides

The Dalles, Oregon occupation

Executive Director, Maryhill Museum of Art from

Corvallis, Oregon known for

Knowledge of art, museum administration reading

The Art of Relevance

by Nina Simon for fun

Gardening and making art books by hand recommends

Poetry of T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Seamus Heaney, Maya Angelo, Amy Lowell, Langston Hughes and Edna St. Vincent Millay

CS: And Marie, the Queen of Romania, of course, can’t forget her.

HC: So, the genesis of Maryhill is really just “Friends of Sam?” CS: And real art lovers, yes. But especially these were people who just really loved this place. Queen Marie said that it was full of dreams.

And it is, it’s imbued with dreams. Of artists, curators, visitors, people who got married here, people who have their birthday parties here. There are plenty of these people out there where it’s just become part of their personal lives. cont page 20

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Maryhill’s story is frontier mythology: the old world greets the new, develops it, shapes it, inhabits it and embraces it. Samuel Hill’s idyllic farm community failed to launch — poor irrigation and stubborn soil. But the worldly Hill, who traveled to Europe at least 50 times, it’s said, collected friends, connoisseurs, and royal relationships along the way. Together they formed the dream, and the collection, that is today’s Maryhill Museum of Art. HC: It sounds like you actually consider the rural setting, this plateau over the river, part of the attraction, the draw of this place?

CS: Very much so. We’re the antidote to the stuffy art museum. We’re accessible.

All kinds of people come here, not just fine art types. They’re attracted by the scenery, the grounds, this historic house, even the picnic tables. And then they come in and, wow, there’s art!

People

“ It’s a gateway, a window into another world. ”

~ Colleen Schafroth

HC: Do people get the connection between the aesthetics of the art inside and the landscape outside?

CS: Oh yes. Almost everyone comments about it. And I think that was part of Sam Hill’s dream.

HC: Does it still charm you?

CS: It’s incredibly important to me. I think it’s part of the mystique. I grew up in the Willamette Valley, an Air Force brat. Nice country but kind of boring. Then we moved here, and there were these beautiful hills and cliffs. And line. I love line. And line gets lost in the valleys and the west side because there are all these trees. But out here it’s like you can see all the way to the horizon, especially to the south, for miles and miles.

HC: I like the proportion of space to exhibits, you’re not overwhelmed.

C S : We l l , we’re limited by the size of the rooms — this was, after all, designed to be a house.

But we choose accessibility.

We ’ r e n o t tricking people, but I always feel like they come in, and they see all the beautiful art, and just maybe, just maybe, they might try the Seattle Art Museum, or the Philadelphia Art Museum, or wherever they are next. It’s a gateway, a window into another world.

That’s what I’m passionate about.

like Rumpelstiltskin, spinning straw into gold, connected to this intense blue of the sky here. It is simply beautiful, “God’s Country,” as they say out here.

HC: And then you have this little creek running by your front door.

CS: The piece of the Columbia River set in these cliffs and hills is magnificent. It’ll be blue one day, steel gray the next, or the fog will fill up the chasm out here on a winter day and it looks like you can just walk straight across to the other side. It’s so dynamic, and the geology out here is endlessly fascinating.

HC: The colors are extraordinary.

CS: To experience this place fully you really should spend a week here. Getting up early and watching the sunrises, driving down the highway at sunset.

The light changes all day and the colors change all year. They start out almost like Ireland, a lovely green, and then they gradually morph, this time of year — when there’s no fire — to this really, really gorgeous yellow, this kind of ochre. I don’t even know what to call it. I always think of it as

Maryhill runs with a lean staff and a committed board of trustees, many of whom happily recount their childhood recollections of the place. Income from Hill’s vast ranch helps supplement budgets, as do a café, gift shop, and modest admissions topping off at $12. The museum is open seasonally, from March 15th to November 15th, and doubles its permanent staff of eight with part timers during its eightmonth exhibition season. cont page 22

People+ Place visits the Columbia’s magical Maryhill Museum.

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FINDING FASHION

Consider the provenance of one of Maryhill’s most prestigious, beloved, and historically significant exhibits known, prosaically, as the doll collection.

By Hal Calbom

No Raggedy Ann and Andy languishing in fields of corn. No American Girls strutting and preening. Not even any Poor Pitiful Pearls. Nor, thankfully, any buxom Barbies.

Théâtre de la Mode

In 1983, the esteemed documentarian Stanley Garfinkel was researching his latest project, “Completely Dior,” a history of the French fashion icon, and particularly of the revival of French fashion following its low point, the German occupation and subjugation of Paris in World War II. Garfinkel had heard that after the war an extraordinary group of artists, modelers, and fashion designers had produced a traveling exhibit of contemporary French fashion, miniaturized, to revive the industry in the post-war era.

“Frankly,” says Curator Colleen Schafroth, “this was a propaganda thing after the war, to raise war relief funds and promote the French fashion industry, which was the second largest industry in France at the time.”

By a twist of fate suitable uniquely to the story of Sam Hill and Maryhill, the collection had ended up in the basement of a San Francisco department store in the early fifties, unwanted and homeless. “I know just the place for it,” said Hill benefactor and confidante Alma Spreckels, and the entire collection (minus the artfully painted backdrops and jewelry returned to Paris) ended up at Maryhill, largely under-appreciated and ignored.

Until, of course, Stanley Garfinkel and a host of design doyens got wind of it, and revived interest in this critically important — and artistically ravishing — collection.

The rest is history. And skillful curating.

Today, draped over the carefully crafted wire armatures that give them life and limbs, the fashionable inspirations of more than 50 French fashion and jewelry designers, from Balenciaga to Schiaparelli to Cartier, occupy the third floor of Maryhill Museum of Art in timeless elegance and style.

Theatre de la Mode crowns Maryhill’s remarkable trove of treasures contrived from serendipity and idiosyncrasy and Friends of Sam. They called it Théâtre de la Mode: realistic models, dolls, clad in note-perfect designs by some of France’s most illustrious stylists, and set in dramatic backdrops and scene-sets — custom jewelry, shoes, perfectly cut couture — and displayed resplendently on 172 mannequins, each two to three feet tall.

It’s a doll collection for the ages.

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time. It gets in the way a little bit.

So sometime I just come over on the weekend and look, if I haven’t had a chance to see an exhibition as much as I’d like.

HC: Where do your visitors come from?

CS: We did a zip code study last year. Basically 60 per cent of our visitor population is from Oregon and Washington, almost split in half, with the Portland and Seattle metro areas dominating as you’d expect. The rest come from around here, in the gorge, and the western states. There’s also a lot of dedicated art visitors, many international, who come mostly for the Rodins.

HC: Any special places, haunts, exhibits dear to your heart?

CS: Well, the chess sets. There are stories behind all of them. And I had to do quite a bit of research on them, ended up writing a couple of books about them. They’re absolutely fascinating and I think it’s because they’re not just chess sets, there is a kind of Fun atsocial Ape historyCave with them.

They’re something I’m particularly passionate about.

HC: If you’re trying to introduce yourself to new patrons, or funders, or visitors, what’s the elevator pitch?

HC: How many people know you have such a collection of a really prominent figure in the art world?

CS: Not many of the casual visitors. Most of them know who he is, or they have seen The Thinker.

Sometimes they ask us if they’re real, like “how could they possibly be here?” but they are.

HC: But this was more of Sam Hill’s international aplomb?

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CS: Yes, and as is so often the case with Samuel, he was in the right place at the right time, and bought some 80 original Rodins — from an artist probably under-known and undervalued at the time.

HC: Do you still have moments when it’s closed and you kind of wander around yourself like a museum goer?

CS: Well, you have to, don’t you, or you forget. There are times when the pressure of raising the money for this, or like the fire this week, and communication is so important all the

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CS: We’re actually working on that right now. It seems to me it’s this marriage of art and nature, and that you can experience them both. And the nature usually comes as the surprise.

There was a woman who came around the corner in the new wing and looked out and saw Mt. Hood and said, “Oh, my God!” HC: You seem to be preserving Sam Hill’s dream with style and substance.

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HC: You’ve certainly boosted our spirits.

Any chance of rustling up a picnic?

CS: The café is open. Try the Salad Nicoise to go and a bottle of Washington Pinot Gris!

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CS: It’s just a wonderful place. I love to keep my door open, so visitors come by and tell me how much they’re enjoying the place. And that makes all the harder parts of the job worth it, when you’re trying to figure out how to get some money here, or working a problem there.

The visitors keep me in high spirits.

They’re very appreciative.

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Richer than I you can never be — I had a mother who read to me. ~ Strickland Gillilan Whenever you see a job to do, ask yourself these two questions: If not by me—by whom? If not now— when? ~ Arthur Lagueux Some people want to homogenize society everywhere. I’m against homogenation in art, in politics, in every walk of life. I want the cream to rise. ~ Robert Frost, American poet, 1874-1963

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Roland on Wine

Trampling the Grapes

Fall: A magical time in the winemaking process By Marc Roland

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Soon we will be crushing grapes.

But first, the ritual of hitching up the truck and trailer, cleaning and loading the bins, and getting up in the wee hours of the morning to head out over White Pass is exhilarating.

The ritual is happening all over the Northwest right under your nose. From Vancouver to Linden, small boutique winemakers are bustling around in their rigs, traversing the mountains to the sacred vineyards, whose alluvial soils were brought about by volcanic events and spread out over the valleys of Eastern Washington by the Missoula floods long, long ago.

woke up late at night, not able to sleep, heart pounding in anticipation of the upcoming grape harvest. It may seem strange to most of our readers that someone so far from the vineyards of Eastern Washington would have such things on their mind. But believe it or not, most of the delicious wine made in our lovely state is, indeed, made here on the west side.

It’s the “perfect storm” because our climate here on the coast is mostly moderate to cool during the year, making for ideal conditions in the wineries for making and aging wine.

I feel sorry for the wineries in Yakima who need to run their air conditioners while the grapes ferment in the fall.

Temperature control is always an issue and their energy bills must be enormous.

One harvest fact that really got me was that 70 percent of all the grapes harvested in the state are crushed by one winery, the first in the state, Chateau Ste. Michelle. Now, that

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is impressive. All the other grapes go to the other 900 wineries which create an economic impact of more than $10 billion dollars and provide 30,000 jobs. The good news is that Washington wineries provide us with 16 million cases of wine to drink — well, not just us, but also for people all over the world who are starting to recognize the quality and variety of Washington wine.

People ask me all the time about the crush and especially whether we crush with our feet. They always bring up the infamous crush scene in the classic “Lucy’s Italian Movie” episode of the classic TV series I Love Lucy.

The inquirers are always surprised when I say, “We do crush some of the grapes with our feet.” It is still the most gentle form of crushing.

Machine crushing is the norm in modern winemaking, but there are some famous wineries who still make some of their wine using this method.

The only difference is they usually wear hip waders! As for dirty feet and their effect on wine, if you have ever been to a crush, you know that plenty of MOG (materials other than grapes) find their way into each batch. Not to worry, all the MOG is filtered out during the winemaking process. Plus, our foot crushers thoroughly wash their feet first!

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The Natural World

Leaves that Speak

By Dr. Robert Michael Pyle

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happen to live in a paradise of leaves. On the whole, the Pacific Northwest, and the Maritime Rainforest in general, photosynthesizes more with cedar scales and the needles of firs, hemlocks, and spruces than with full-blown, deciduous leaves.

But this particular place is an old Swedish farmstead founded by an immigrant, by way of the Midwest, who cared more for horticulture than agriculture. Eventually he returned to Sweden, leaving the farm to dairyherding descendants for the next 70 years until I came along. But before he sailed home, H. P. Ahlberg planted and nurtured a remarkable array of European, Midwestern, and native trees and shrubs, several of which are now the largest of their species in the state. The by-product of this fine arboreal legacy is a floristic melting pot of trees from many places reproducing together, a bastard ecosystem that coincidentally spawns, each spring, this paradise of leaves.

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As I write, the furrowed broad blades of European hornbeams press toward my study window, overhung by the downy pink unfurlings of the greatest red oak’s leaves. The forest beyond grows daily more clogged with the many-greened vanes of English oaks, Swedish birches, and adventitious, exotic sycamoremaples, all growing in company with each native conifer that might be expected on such a site. Along the margins, the freshest spring greens of all express jointly in the luscious tissues of Eurasian beeches and native vine maples and the new growth of Sitka spruces. Then of course there is the panoply of form and verdure of the field layer, the understory, the ground plants, and the chaotic accumulations of more than a century of gardens.

Robert Michael Pyle is a naturalist and writer residing along Gray’s River in Wahkiakum County for many years. His twenty-two books include the Northwest classics Wintergreen, Sky Time in Gray’s River, and Where Bigfoot Walks, as well as The Thunder Tree, Chasing Monarchs, and Mariposa Road, a flight of butterfly books, and two collections of poems. His newest titles are Butterflies of the Pacific Northwest and Magdalena Mountain: a novel, released in August.

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This is the fifth in a series of selected essays to appear in Columbia River Reader. These essays were originally published in Orion Afield or Orion Magazine in the author’s column, “The Tangled Bank” and, subsequently, in the book of the same name published by Oregon State University Press in 2012.

When the people who were here before the Europeans first confronted bibles, books, and treaties, they could see that these strange new objects held great power for their colonial owners. Some of them referred to the black-marked pages as “talking leaves,” since they seemed to mediate speech as they turned in the wind like the leaves of trees. Sequoyah, a young Cherokee man, determined to provide his people with this power, which seemed to come from “making words fast on paper,” as he put it. Sequoyah proceeded to develop the only complete alphabet ever constructed by an individual. For this mammoth achievement, which resulted in rapid literacy among the Dr. Kristi Poe Cherokee people, Sequoyah’s name was attached to the genus of the most Dr. Terence Tack massive trees in the world, the giant redwoods—trees whose own leaves are merely tight, overlapping scales.

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The metaphor of the speaking leaf is a powerful one. Yet in our quickness to adopt comparisons, we sometimes forget to honor the original image upon which clever metaphors are built.

While ours is a culture dramatically affected by printed pages every day— prattling pixels on our computer screens notwithstanding—we spend relatively little time attending to the actual objects: real leaves. Oh, we rake them, burn them, and mulch them in the fall; stand in their shade

in torrid summertime; and watch our philodendrons twine around our window frames, if we remember to water them. But how often do we go deliberately out-of-doors, especially to listen to the leaves speak?

My odd homeplace, rich as it is in botanical contradiction and the happenstance of growth, differs little from any other vegetated zone in the complexity of its conversation. The textures, flavors of green, progressions of season (those hornbeams will be October gold, those oaks, flagrant red rags), are only the accents. The leaves speak in the dialects of warblers, the whispers and growls of the wind, the minings, riddlings, and stridulation of insects, and the chemistry of their own compact with sun, soil, and water. The point is that wherever leaf comes from bud, grows, falls, and goes to ground, the colloquy is endless and endlessly nuanced; yet seldom really heard.

Sequoyah’s achievement was indeed large, and the dedication of redwoods in his name suitably proportioned— though he never saw such trees. Nor did his honor reach worldwide: in Britain, Sequioadendron gigantea trees are known as Wellingtonias, sharing the honor of being named after Lord Wellington with rubber boots. But I doubt Sequoyah would care. Besides inventing an alphabet, he knew a language that few of the owners of the new talking leaves could hear. Each of us could strive to learn that lingo, could go forth among the silent plants, to listen, to hear what we will, and to learn from the old talking leaves. Only then can the black-marked pages of books, of magazines, of this journal, find their fuller meaning.

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Mokhtar travels to Yemen where he is caught up in its brutal civil war. He becomes stuck there. “Abandoned by his government and left to evade Saudi bombs and Houthi rebels, he had no means to leave the country,” said Rena. “The airports had been destroyed and the roads out of the country were impassable.”

and shout, ‘Keep going!’ or cry out of frustration.”

She thinks readers who appreciate well-developed characters will especially enjoy this book. “I like to read about someone who could be my neighbor and does something wonderful, steps out of his background and soars. Mokhtar is a very likable person. I wanted to give him a hug.”

Rena enjoyed the book, in part, because of what it isn’t, “not a mystery, not a love story, not a psychological study. There are lots of little stories within the big story, adding interest and depth, and historical background.

A cup of coffee is no longer just a cup of Joe.” •••

Rena read the book, “a vivid pageturner,” in two sittings. “As obstacle after obstacle blocked his way, I just wanted to stand up

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BOOK REVIEW Greek mythology for the #MeToo moment

By Alan Rose Circe By Madeline Miller Little, Brown and Company $27

Y

ou probably remember in The Odyssey that Circe was the sorceress who turned Odysseus’ men into pigs. Hearing Circe’s side of it, as presented by Madeline Miller, they totally deserved it.

In The Song of Achilles (2012), Miller told the story of the Greek hero with the famous heel. In her new novel, she re-imagines parts of The Iliad and The Odyssey from a female perspective. The result is a tantalizing re-interpretation of these well-known stories.

Alan Rose, author of The Legacy of Emily H a r g r a v e s , Ta l e s of Tokyo, and The Unforgiven, organizes the monthly WordFest events and hosts the KLTV program “Book Chat.” For other book reviews, author interviews, and notes on writing and reading, visit www.alan-rose.com.

Angering her father Zeus, Circe is exiled to live alone on an island. She wiles away the time by learning the arts of witchcraft. Since her parental time-out involves centuries, she gets very good at it.

In the course of Circe’s long banishment, Miller introduces familiar characters from Greek mythology: Jason and Medea, Daedulus and his high-flying son, Icarus, King Minos and the Minotaur. And of course, we meet Odysseus, aka Ulysses, if you prefer the Latin form of his name.

(If you need to refresh your Greek mythology — Now, who was Telegonus again? — there is a handy reference at the back of the book with the names and descriptions of the various gods and goddesses, nymphs and naiads, titans, heroes and monsters.)

Miller has taken up the mantle of Mary Renault (The King Must Die, The Bull from the Sea) in giving ancient myths new life. Like Renault, she brings us into the living, breathing mythological world we first knew as children, where there are centaurs and giants, and where great passions rule both mortals and gods. She keeps faith with Homer’s original tale. Odysseus is still the wily charmer who can trick cyclops and seduce sorceresses (“Not even Odysseus could talk his way past

“War has always seemed to me

a foolish choice for men. Whatever they win from it, they will have only a handful of years to enjoy before they die. More likely they will perish trying.”

“Well, there is the matter of glory.

But I wish you could’ve spoken to our general. You might have saved us all a lot of trouble.”

“What was the fight over?”

“Let me see if I can remember the list.” (Odysseus) ticked his fingers.

“Vengeance. Lust. Hubris. Greed.

Power. What have I forgotten? Ah, yes, vanity and pique.”

father—“He will be a good ruler, I thought. Fair-minded and warm. He will not be consumed like his father was. He had never been hungry for glory, only for life.”

The witchcraft that she practices is life-affirming and life-enhancing, close to nature, reflecting its ways and wisdom. However, when used aggressively, Circe learns that the results can be less than desirable.

“The truth is,” she says, “men make terrible pigs.”

Plus, in the current #MeToo moment, turning men into pigs seems rather redundant.

•••

“Sounds like a usual day among the gods.”

~ from Circe

witchcraft. He had talked his way past the witch instead.”) but he is also reckless, boisterous, egotistical, and seeks fame more than home. With his eventual return to Ithaca, we should not be surprised that his homecoming is brief and unhappy.

Circe will meet his grown son, Telemachus, who, raised by his mother, is very different from his legendary

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Performing & Fine Arts Music, Art, Theatre, Literary Submission Guidelines Letters to the Editor (up to 200 words) relevant to the publication’s purpose — helping readers discover and enjoy the good life in the Columbia River region, at home and on the road — are welcome. Longer pieces, or excerpts thereof, in response to previously-published articles, may be printed at the discretion of the publisher and subject to editing and space limitations.

Items sent to CRR will be considered for publication unless the writer specifies otherwise. Writer’s name and phone number must be included; anonymous submissions will not be considered.

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Unsolicited submissions may be considered, provided they are consistent with the publication’s purpose. Advance contact with the editor is recommended. Information of general interest submitted by readers may be used as background or incorporated in future articles.

Outings & Events calendar (free listing): Events must be open to the public. Non-profit organizations and the arts, entertainment, educational and recreational opportunities and community cultural events will receive listing priority. Fundraisers must be sanctioned/sponsored by the benefiting non-profit organization. Businesses and organizations wishing to promote their particular products or services are invited to purchase advertising (contact info, page 3).

FIRST THURSDAY • Oct. 4 Broadway Gallery Enjoy refreshments and meet the month’s featured guest artist and enjoy the “Autumn” art show.

Reception, 5:30-7:30pm.

Music: Dan Hoggatt, native flutes www.the-broadway-gallery.com 1418 Commerce Ave. Downtown Longview, Wash.

The public is invited to join BWG’s October Art Show. The theme is “Autumn.” (details at the Gallery or online at the website, then join us for your reception).

Across the River Cowlitz County Historical Museum 405 Allen St, Kelso, Wash.

7pm Program: WWI Victory Garden: Sowing the Seeds of Victory,” presented by WSU Master Gardeners.

Explore the Longview Outdoor Gallery

Unique sculptures on display along the sidewalks of Downtown Longview, both sides of Commerce Avenue

HOW TO PUBLICIZE YOUR NON-PROFIT EVENT IN CRR Send your non-commercial community event’s basic info (name of event, sponsor, date & time, location, brief description and contact info) to publisher@crreader.com Or mail or hand-deliver (in person or via mail slot) to: Columbia River Reader 1333-14th Ave Longview, WA 98632 Submission Deadlines Events occurring Oct 15–Nov 25:

by Sept 25 for Oct 15 issue.

Events occurring Nov 25 – Jan 15:

by Oct 25 for Nov 25 Holiday issue.

Calendar submissions are considered for inclusion subject to lead time, general relevance to readers, and space limitations. See Submission Guidelines, above.

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16th Annual Artrails Studio Tour Sept 15-15, studios open 10–5, free and open to the public. Opening Reception, Historic Train Depot, 210 Railroad Ave., Centralia, Wash. See ad, page 18.

Broadway Gallery Artists co-op. Classes for all ages, workshops and paint parties.

Featured Artists: Sept: Guest Artists Virginia Paul (Western art, pastels, Alessa Berringer (vintage crochet) and Robin Rodenberger (ceramics); October: Autumn Art Show, guest artist Jean Watson (knits, weaving, quilts). Gallery hours: Mon-Fri 10-5:30, Sat 10–4. 1418 Commerce, Longview, Wash. 360577-0544. www.the-broadway-gallery. com. Currently calling for New Artists for Gallery Membership. See’s candy available, benefits SWW Symphony Auxiliary.

Tsuga Gallery Fine arts and crafts by area artists. Thurs-Sat 11–5. 70 Main Street, Cathlamet, Wash. 360-795-0725.

Redmen Hall History and art. 1394 SR-4, Skamokawa, Wash. Thurs-Sun, 12-4pm. Info: 360-795-3007 or email fos1894@gmail.com.

Koth Gallery, Longview Public Library Through Sept 28, oil and watercolor paintings by Krista Mead and Leslie Pogue, for viewing or purchase. 1600 Louisiana Street, Longview, Wash. MonWed 10am-8pm, Thurs-Sat 10am-5pm.

Info: Daniel, 360-442-5307.

Michael Allen Harrison Holiday Concert Wed, Dec 10, 6 pm. Community Hall, 1850 Second Street, Columbia City.

Concert tickets $20, may be purchased in advance by contacting City Hall, or at the door. Some food and drinks (including wine and beer) will be available for sale.

Benefits maintenance and upkeep of the 92-year old Columbia City Community Hall. Info: City Hall 503-397-4010 or colcity@columbia-city.org.

Architecture of Internment: The Buildup to Wartime Incarceration Oct. 1–16. Traveling exhibit by Graham Street Productions. Various photographic exhibits and presentations sponsored

by Columbia County Coalition for Human Dignity explore how Oregonians participated in the decision to incarcerate Japanese Americans and Japanese immigrants during World War II, how individuals, organizations, businesses and elected officials advocated or stood by while it happened. More info: www. ccchd.info

Outings & Events

Recreation, Outdoors Gardening, History, Pets, Self-Help Friends of the Library at Kalama (F.O.L.K.) book sale Sept 28-29, 10am– 4pm, City Council chambers at the Kalama Public Library, 321 N. 1st Street, Kalama, Wash. Hardcovers $1 each; paperbacks 50 cents, children’s books 25 cents each. A large shopping bag of “you-pick-’em” books $5. Donations to F.O.L.K. to support Kalama Public Library gratefully accepted. For more info, call the library, 360-673-4568.

Cowlitz County Museum “The Great War: A Cowlitz County Centennial Reflection,” exploring how the Lower Columbia region supported the war effort (WW1). Open Tues-Sat 10am– 4pm. 405 Allen St, Kelso, Wash. www. co.cowlitz.wa.us/museum. Info: 360577-3119.

Wahkiakum County Historical Society Museum Logging, fishing and cultural displays. Open 1-4pm, Th-Sun. 65 River St, Cathlamet, Wash. For info 360-795-3954.

Apple Cider Pressing Sat., Sept 29, 1–4pm. Cedar Creek Grist Mill.

Woodland Exit #21 from I-5. Turn onto C-C St to cross North Fork, Lewis River.

Left onto NW Hayes Rd. toward Amboy, which becomes Cedar Creek Rd. 8 miles from Woodland, a sign points left to the mill. Turn left on Grist Mill Rd. and the Mill is about 3/4 mile farther.

Appelo Archives Center Historic exhibits, Naselle-Grays River area.

1056 State Route 4, Naselle. T-Fri 10–4, Sat 10–2, or by appt. 360-484-7103. appeloarchives.org.

Crossing Clatsop in the 1800s with historical researcher/writer Jerry Sutherland. Sunday, Sept. 16, 1pm.

“In Their Footsteps” free lecture series.

Netul Room, Lewis and Clark National Historical Park, Fort Clatsop (near Astoria, Ore.). Series presented by Lewis and Clark National Park Assn. and Fort Clatsop. Info: 503-861-2471.

Cranberrian Festival Oct 13, ColumbiaPacific Heritage Museum, Ilwaco. See ad, page 16.

Longview Bridge Club Weekly duplicate bridge games Mon 10:30am, Thurs 6:30pm, Kelso Senior Center, 106 NW 8th Ave. New players welcome. For info or help finding a partner: Rich Carle, 360-425-0981 or rhcarle@msn.com.

Bingo Fundraiser Sat. Sept. 25 Rainier Senior Center. Doors open 5pm. Selling food from kitchen. Bingo 6pm. 20 games. Win prizes and money. Everyone welcome. More info: 503-556-3889.

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Sat, Sept 15 • Red Mountain Lookout (M/S) Drive 200 miles RT. Hike 9 miles loop with 1,400 ft. e.g. on the PCT past Indian Heaven Race Track to summit of Red Mountain.

Excellent views of Indian Heaven Wilderness from the existing lookout tower. Leader: Bruce 360-425-0256.

Wed, Sept 19 • Lake Sacajawea (E) Walk around the whole lake (3+ mi.) or walk half the lake (1+ mi.) with little e.g. Leaders: Ed & Trudy 360-414-1160.

Wed, Sept 26 • Lewisville Park & NatureScaping Wildlife Botanical Gardens (E) Drive 85 miles RT. This is a two-stop adventure in Clark County. Carpool to Lewisville Park ($3 County Park fee per car). Hike 2.8 mile trail thru historic park along the Lewis River. Drive add’l 6 miles and tour 3-acre native plan garden in Brush Prairie. Leaders: Marcia 360-846-7827, Pat 360-295-0570.

Sat, Sept. 29 • Cloud Cap to Gnarl Ridge (M/S) Drive 250 miles RT. Hike 9 miles with 2,400 ft. e.g. Cloud Cap Campground up to a 7,300-ft viewpoint on Gnarl Ridge.

An out-and-back hike, so you can go as far as you wish. Leader: Mary Jane 360-355-5220..

Wed., Oct 3 • Rainier High School Nature Trail (E) Drive 10 miles RT. Walk 3.5-mile loop with 100 ft. e.g. arounds ponds and meadows. Leader: Bruce 360-425-0256.

A New Twist on Living History: The Bunker Hill Cemetery Tour Have you ever stood in an old cemetery and thought, “How I wish these stones could talk!” Well, here’s your chance!

Bunker Hill Cemetery, Stella Historical Society and the Cowlitz County Historical Museum invite you to experience history as it comes to life in a unique, fascinating way on Saturday, September 22.

Bunker Hill Cemetery graves date back to the 1870s and contain the remains of loggers, farmers, teachers and early settlers of Stella and the surrounding area. The tours will allow participants to relive the history of the area as some of the “residents” of the cemetery appear and relate what life was like during those past days.

The tours, which will run 3–5:40 pm and last about 45 minutes each, are recommended for those ages 10 and up. Tickets are $5 a person and can be purchased at the cemetery, located at 340 Bunker Hill Road about 8 miles west of longview, half a mile north of Ocean Beach Highway. Wear sturdy shoes as the ground is somewhat uneven. For more info, call 360-4238663 or 360-423-3860.

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Community / Farmers’ Markets Astoria Sunday Market

Sundays • 10–3 thru Oct 14 Downtown on 12th, just west of Hwy 30, Astoria, Ore. • 503-325-1010 www.astoriasundaymarket.com

Clatskanie Farmers’ Market

Saturdays• 10–2 thru Sept. 30 Copes Park. From Hwy 30, turn north on Nehalem, east on Lillich. Music, a food cart, children’s activities each week. SNAP, FDNP accepted.

Info: 971-506-7432 Darro Breshears-Routon clatskaniefmvendorcoordinator@gmail.com

Columbia-Pacific Farmers’ Market Fridays •12–5pm thru Sept 28 Downtown Long Beach, Wash. www.longbeachwa.gov info: cpfmmallory@gmail.com Info: 360-224-3921

Cowlitz Community Farmers’ Market 9–2, Tues thru Sept; Sat thru Oct 7th Ave, Cowlitz Expo Center, Longview, Wash. www.cowlitzfarmersmarkets.com Info: John Raupp 360-785-3883 Jrshamrockhill3@aol.com.

Ilwaco Saturday Market

Saturdays • 10–4 thru Sept 29 Arts/crafts, housewares, plants, foods.

Weekly entertainment.

Port of Ilwaco, Ilwaco, Wash. www.portofilwaco.com Info: Cyo Kertson 360-214-4964

Kelso Bridge Market

Sundays • 10–3, Three Rivers Mall Kelso, Wash. Info: 360-957-2515.

Elochoman Marina Farmers’ Market Fridays thru Sept 28 • 3–6pm 500 2nd St,, Cathlamet, Wash. cathlametmarina.org Info: Mackenzie Jones, Mgr: 360-849-9401

Scappoose Community Club Farmers Market

Saturdays, thru Sept 29 • 9–2 Behind City Hall next to Heritage Park, 2nd St., Scappoose, Ore. wwwscappoosefarmermarket.com Info: Bill Blank 503-730-7429 email: scappoosefm@gmail.com

Sat, Oct. 6 • Mount Margaret (M/S) Drive 260 miles RT. Hike 11 miles with 2,400 ft. e.g. through the 1980 Blast Zone to the top of Mt. Margaret (5,700 ft.) for great views of Spirit and St. Helens Lakes. Leader: Bill D 503-260-6712.

Mon., Oct. 8 • Coweeman Dike (E) Hike 3+ miles with no e.g. on the dike. See the club’s new picnic table. Leaders: Trudy & Ed 360-414-1160.

Sat., Oct. 13 Lookout Mountain (M/S) Drive 250 miles RT. Hike 5 or 10 miles RT with 600 ft. or 3,000 ft. e.g. to a former lookout with spectacular views of Mt. Hood, Mt. Jefferson and the Three Sisters. Leader: Dan 360-355-6241.

Wed, Oct. 17 • Lake Sacajawea (E) Walk around the whole lake (3+ mi.) or walk half the lake (1+ mi.) with little e.g. Leaders: Ed & Trudy 360-414-1160.

Sat, Oct. 20 • Little Baldy (M/S) Drive 125 miles RT. Hike 8 miles RT with 600 ft. e.g. on the remote Bluff Mountain Trail. Scramble up talus slope to summit of Little Baldy. Excellent views of Silver Star and surrounding Yacolt Burn area. Leader: Bruce 360-425-0256. .

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LOOKING UP / FRIENDS OF GALILEO

By Ted Gruber

Sky Report: Sept 15 – Oct 15 Evening Sky Venus is visible low in the westsouthwestern sky just after sunset through very early October. The bright planet lies about 5°–10° above the horizon and is visible for only about 30 minutes after sunset, so you’ll need an unobstructed western view to see it. Venus will return to the morning sky in early November.

Like Venus, Jupiter now sits lower in the sky than it was over the summer, but you can still see the giant planet in the southwestern sky at dusk. It remains visible for about two hours after sunset in mid-September, and for about an hour after sunset in midOctober.

Look for Saturn about 25° above the south-southwest horizon as darkness falls. The ringed planet is visible until it sets in the southwest about four hours past sunset.

Mars is visible in the southeastern sky at dusk and remains visible until it sets in the southwest around 1:00am. Although not as large and not as bright as it appeared in July and August, the red planet is still easy to locate. A special treat occurs just past midnight on September 20 (the night of September 19-20) when the moon passes 5° north of Mars.

Sidewalk Astronomy The local Friends of Galileo astronomy club will host a public sidewalk observing session the evening of Friday, September 21 (weather and air

quality permitting). Join us starting around 8:30pm in the parking lot outside Starbucks at 808 Ocean Beach Highway in Longview. Several club members will have telescopes set up to observe the moon, Mars, Saturn, and possibly some deep sky objects. If skies are overcast or it’s raining on September 21, we’ll try again the next night, again weather permitting.

Apologies to anyone who showed up for last month’s sidewalk astronomy event on August 17. We cancelled it due to heavy smoke in the air earlier in the day, but by nightfall the air quality had improved somewhat. The club now has a new website where you can check for last minute updates on sidewalk astronomy and other public astronomy events. Please see the “Coming up next” section at the bottom of the calendar page on www.friendsofgalileo.com for the latest info.

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M-Sat 11am–10pm; Sun 11am–9pm.

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Ixtapa Fine Mexican Restaurant 640 E. Columbia River Hwy Fine Mexican cuisine. Daily specials.

The best margarita in town. Daily drink specials. Sports bar.

M-Th 11am–9:30pm; Fri & Sat 11am–11:30pm; Sun 11am–9pm. 503-728-3344

Rainier Alston Pub & Grub 25196 Alston Rd., Rainier 503-556-4213 11 beers on tap, cocktails.

Open daily 11am.

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Longview 716 Triangle Shopping Center. 18 rotating craft brews, pub fare. M-W 12 noon –9pm, Th-Sat 12 noon-11pm, Sun 12 Noon-8pm.

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1260 Commerce Ave. Serving lunch & dinner Mon–Sat 11am–10pm. Full bar, banquet space, American comfort food. 360-703-3904. www.millcitygrill.com. See ad, page 9.

The Original Pietrio’s Pizzeria Homestyle cooking from the 1960s-1970. All natural ingredients. Beer and wine available. Open Wed. thru Sun, 7am–8pm. 1140 15th Ave., Longview. See ad, page 33.

The Carriage Restaurant & Lounge

Full breakfast, lunch and dinner 6am– 9pm. Full bar in lounge, open 6am.

Three happy hours daily (8–10am, 12– 2pm, 5–7pm). Group meeting room, free use with $150 food/drink purchases.

1334 12th Ave. 360-425-8545.

614 Commerce Ave., Longview. 18 varieties of pizza. Salad bar, Lunch buffet all-you-can-eat. Beer & wine.

Mon-Fri open 11am, Sat-Sun 12 Noon.

360-353-3512.

Castle Rock Parker’s Restaurant & Brewery 1300 Mt. St. Helens Way. I-5 Exit 49.

Lunch, Dinner. Burgers, hand-cut steak; seafood and pasta. Restaurant opens 11am, Lounge 12 Noon. Closed Monday.

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Toutle/Mt St Helens Fire Mountain Grill 9440 Spirit Lake Hwy, Milepost 19. Lunch & Dinner: Burgers, sandwiches, salads, steaks seafood, chicken & dumplings, housemade cobblers and infamous Bigfoot Burger. Riverside dining. Open daily 10am–6pm. 360-274-5217.

St. Helens, Oregon Porky’s Public House 561 Industrial Way, Longview Slow-roasted prime rib Fri & Sat, flat iron steaks, 1/3-lb burgers, fish & chips.

33 draft beers. Full bar. Family-friendly, weekly jazz and acoustic dinner hour sets on Weds. 360-636-1616. See ad, page 15.

Sunshine Pizza & Catering 2124 Columbia Blvd.

Hot pizza, cool salad bar. Beer & wine.

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Conestoga Pub Cornerstone Café 102 East “A” Street Microbrews, wines & spirits Prime rib Friday & Sat. Open M-F 6am–8pm; Sat-Sun 7am–8pm.

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Evergreen Pub & Café 115-117 East 1st Street Burgers, halibut, prime rib, full bar.

503-556-9935. See ad, page 8.

Goble Tavern 70255 Columbia River Hwy. (Milepost 31, Hwy. 30) Food, beer & wine + full bar, Live entertainment. 503-556-4090.

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Luigi’s Pizza 117 East 1st Street, Rainier 503-556-4213 Pizza, spaghetti, burgers, beer & wine.

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Country Folks Deli 1329 Commerce Ave., Longview. Serving lunch and dinner. Sandwiches, soups, salads. Open M-Sat 11am. 360-425-2837.

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Freddy’s Just for the Halibut. Cod, halibut & tuna fish and chips, oysters & clams., award-winning clam chowder. Prime rib every Thurs. Beer and wine. M-W 10–8, Th-Sat 10–9, Sun 11–8.

1110 Commerce 360-414-3288.

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Hop N Grape 924 15th Ave., Longview M–Th 11am–8pm; Fri & Sat 11am–9pm; Sun 11am–7pm. BBQ meat slow-cooked on site. Pulled pork, chicken brisket, ribs, turkey, salmon. World-famous mac & cheese. 360-577-1541 See ad page 11.

Masthead Castaways 1124 Washington Way, Longview.

Famous fish & chips, gourmet burgers, Chowders. 13 beers on tap.

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Red Kitchen 848 15th Ave., Longview. Cocktails, taps, vino. Traditional diner fare, breakfast, lunch, dinner. Sandwiches, burgers, funky comfort food, incl. Bacon Gouda Mac n Cheese, shepherd’s pie, healthy options. Full service bar, incl 12 taps. 7am–10pm, M-F, 8am–10pm SatSun. See ad, page 32.

Fultano’s Pizza 51511 SE 2nd.

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Roland Wines 1106 Florida St., Longview. Authentic Italian wood-fired pizza, wine, and beer.

Casual ambience. 5–9pm Wed-Sat. (Harvest Hours thru Oct: Fri-Sat 5–9pm) See ad, page 14.

Ixtapa Fine Mexican Restaurant

33452 Havlik Rd. Fine Mexican cuisine.

Daily specials. The best margarita in town. Daily drink specials. M-Th 11am–9:30pm; Fri & Sat 11am–11:30pm; Sun 11am–9pm. 503-543-3017

Warren Teri’s 3225 Ocean Beach Hwy, Longview.

Lunch and dinner. Fine dining, with specials, fresh NW cuisine. Happy Hour.

Full bar. Mon–Sat open 11am. Closed Sundays. 360-577-0717.

Fresh-roasted coffee, snack and pastries. 1335 14th Ave., M-F 7am–4pm, Sat-Sun 9am–4pm.

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Warren Country Inn 56575 Columbia River Hwy. Fine family dining. Breakfast, lunch & dinner. Fri Prime Rib special, Taco Tuesday. Full bar. M-Th 8am–9:30pm, Fri-Sat 8am–10:30pm, Sun 9am–9pm.

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Miss Manners

from page 13

soon as I was notified that the gift would be coming, even though the notification was not from them.

GENTLE READER: Even Miss Manners, a fastidiously prompt sender of thank-you letters, would not require someone to write one before the present had been received. Please tell your family to pull themselves together and slow their enthusiasm — lest they similarly start cashing checks before they are sent.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My sibling and I were raised as white. I know we’re not. I’m being genetically tested to prove it officially.

This is not news my sibling will want, especially medically confirmed. He is wealthy and a somewhat public figure.

We are not close. If I email or phone him, he will probably just ignore it, per usual.

It feels weird to tell someone who will not feel the relief I do — that now, things make sense — but who will just ignore it or still deny it. Is it best to just not contact him anymore? We do not see each other for holidays, etc. For me, this is like a brand-new start on life.

G E N T L E READER: That your brother may find the news unwelcome is, no doubt, distasteful to you, given your own enthusiasm.

Miss Manners recognizes that many would be inclined to tell

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But a careful reading of your letter — an examination of your heart not being possible through the mails — suggests that you believe he already knows.

Aghast as she would be at the suggestion of actively hiding the information from him, Miss Manners does wonder what the result of initiating such a communication would be, beyond further fraying what is already a tenuous relationship.

However, you could tell him that you were tested, but not give the results unless he requests them.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My wife is in a group of four or five women who get together for brunch once a week. Usually they meet in a restaurant, but occasionally one will host the brunch in her home.

Several weeks ago, my wife hosted the event. After the meal, when she had brought the dishes into the kitchen, she put them on the floor for our dog to lick clean before putting them in the dishwasher.

One of the women walked into the kitchen and saw this, and got physically ill. She said it was the most disgusting thing she had ever seen and will never eat at our house again.

Now she is demanding an apology from my wife. Is my wife required to give her one?

GENTLE READER: The image of a dog licking the plate from which you just ate would give most people pause, admittedly for reasons that, strictly speaking, defy logic.

In her head, your guest knew that the plate was not going to be returned to the table — at least not without first going through a dishwasher. But in her heart, she momentarily thought she was being asked to eat the dog’s leftovers.

(Miss Manners realizes that her flights of fancy also defy logic.)

Your wife assumed, incorrectly, that the kitchen was a “backstage” area to which no guest would be admitted. The result was embarrassing to all parties. But counteraccusations -- that your guest was not supposed to see something -- will only raise questions in her mind about what goes on not just after, but before, the food appears on the table.

Your wife should apologize and, next time, delay Rocky’s dinner until after the guests have left for the afternoon.

••• (Please send your questions to Miss Manners at her website, www.missmanners.com; to her email, dearmissmanners@gmail.com; or through postal mail to Miss Manners, Andrews McMeel Syndication, 1130 Walnut St., Kansas City, MO 64106.)

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hen I imagined Australia, I always dreamt of camping in the outback under the stars, around a fire while playing the didgeridoo in a group. I essentially achieved that, minus the musical instruments on a three-day trek from Alice Springs to Uluru and King’s Canyon. We slept in a very warm and waterproof thing called a swag, which made me instantly regret the freezing cold camping trips in Boy Scouts growing up, realizing there was this far superior invention we could have had. The swag is a warmer and more rugged outer zipper container that holds within it a mattress, sleeping bag and pillow. We slept under the stars the first night, which was great with the lack of light pollution. We pitched in for cooking meals together as a large 20-person group and I made a great friend from from Poland. The

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Driving from Melbourne to Cairns, Australia, and being warned about kangaroos jumping around the roads at night, I adapted my days to the sun.

I would wake up 20 minutes before sunrise to head out around 6 or7am to get a great view, see some sights and be checked into the hostel by sunset around 5:30pm. This gave me time to unwind, chat up other travelers and organize my photos. I also had a time to listen to audiobooks that had been on my list for years. I finally finished the Lord of the Rings trilogy, read Atlas Shrugged and Ender’s Game for the second time. This has now become a habit since that road trip and I am on course to read dozens of books a year compared to one or less like before.

The eastern Australian coastline has some very diverse colors and shapes of rock layers. Perhaps my favorite place was Kamay Botany National Park just south of Sydney (see photo, below). This place had dramatic contrasting views of white layered and water-sculpted rock backdropped by the deep blue ocean.

Other regions had red and green rock in thick, foot-tall layers, while others were surrounded by varying colors of algae or plants.

I visited an excellently-presented exhibit in Sydney on historical men’s fashion. I saw modern rainbow colored metallic suits to irrationally

the Great Barrier Reef, seeing some 60 feet down in clear, warm water through towers of coral and fish and I flew around the site in a helicopter for spectacular views of textured blues.

Making my final stop in Hong Kong on the way home, my second Asian destination after Japan years ago, I tasted strange cuisine like jellyfish and a foul smelling fruit called durian. I witnessed the most majestic metropolis skyline (photo above) and streets filled with more Tesla cars than any city I’ve ever been in, despite the shocking realization that they pay double the American prices! My favorite thing here was the Octopus card, a city wide cash loadable pass we used to pay for everything from food in shops, taxis and even public transit.

I learned many things on this long four month journey, the longest of my life so far. But I’m glad to be back in the USA to just stay in one place for a while and enjoy my time not being adventurous on a daily basis.

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Community Giving

An unusual romance: ‘Elderly’ woman falls in love

By Kalama resident and community volunteer Laurel Murphy

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The object of my affection is GiveMore24!, a 24-hour online donation challenge for community nonprofit organizations hosted by the Community Foundation for Southwest Washington. I am the chair of Longview Outdoor Gallery (LOG). We provide a rotating exhibit of outdoor sculptures in downtown Longview and raise money to buy new pieces for the City’s permanent art collection. We installed our first show of 11 temporary sculptures in 2011. We raised money by speaking to civic groups, mailing fundraising letters and applying for grants.

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LOG applied to the Community Foundation for several years and did not receive any grant money. But in 2014, LOG was invited to participate in GiveMore24!. Participation meant entry into a whole new world of digital fundraising. LOG had a few donor emails, a website and a Facebook page (87 Likes) but no member of our board was assigned to Information Technology duty. The Community Foundation understood that many small nonprofit organizations needed help, so they helped. They created a Digital Communication Handbook full of email, Twitter and blogging tips, a countdown calendar, and generic language. They offered training classes on the basics of digital communication, nonprofit storytelling, strategy, publicity, timing and giving day events.

In addition, The Community Foundation sweetened the money pot.

They offered 20 $1,000 prizes and a $50,000 matching fund.

I was caught — hook, line and sinker. I recognized that this was our opportunity to learn how to help ourselves. I probably spent 60 hours on this project, often losing sleep because of an exciting new idea, and loved every minute of it. We raised $5,800 that first year, including one of the $1,000 prizes and $1,200 from the matching fund.

In 2015, we focused our fundraising story around the purchase of Beginning, a beautiful bronze sculpture of a newborn baby in a hand, and raised $8,100. In 2016 we raised $5,130 and purchased Journey, the People’s Voice winner. (The other 25 Cowlitz County nonprofits that participated raised a total of $65,000.) Last year we honored our biggest contributor, Dorothy GeversWojtowych, and raised enough money to purchase her favorite (Summertime cont page 35

Southwest Washington’s annual day of online giving is set for Thursday, September 20. Residents from across Clark, Cowlitz and Skamania Counties may visit www. givemore24.org and give collectively—as one community—for 24 hours, making charitable contributions to any of more than 100 participating nonprofits — including 26 in Cowlitz County listed below. Every charitable contribution made through the website also gets a boost, thanks to prizes, matching funds and a “stretch pool.” The event is sponsored by the SouthwestWashington Community Foundation.

Caring Pregnancy Center of Cowlitz County Children’s Discovery Museum Children’s Justice & Advocacy Center (CJAC) Columbia Theatre for the Performing Arts Columbia Wellness Community Health Partners Community Home Health & Hospice Community House on Broadway Cowlitz County CASA Cowlitz County Habitat for Humanity Cowlitz Wahkiakum Legal Aid Emergency Support Shelter Envision Kalama Ethnic Support Council FISH of Cowlitz Clounty Goodwill Longview Work Opp’ty Center Janus Youth Programs Kelso Public Schools Foundation Lelooska Foundation Life Works/Farm Dog Bakery Longview Outdoor Gallery Lower Columbia College Foundation Lower Columbia School Gardens NAMI Southwest Washington Southwest Washington Symphony Stageworks Northwest

Local Arts & Crafts

Ladies of Lake quilt show set for Oct. 5-6

By Lois Sturdivant

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atty Rinard, this year’s Ladies of the Lake featured quilter, insists she is “just a regular girl,” but her quilts show that she is extraordinary.

In 2003, Patty visited a Longview sewing shop and was introduced to a “Shop Hop.” Participating quilt shops feature a quilt block in coordinating fabrics, which must be picked up from each individual shop. Depending on how many shops a quilter visits, a quilt made from the blocks can become a small wallhanging or as large as a bed quilt.

Patty spent two days visiting quilt shops on the prescribed route and finished her quilt in 2006 when she took a long-arm class.

by Mark Andrew, pictured above) from the eight new sculptures installed in September 2017.

GiveMore24! will take place on September 20 and LOG is raising money to purchase the 2018 People’s Voice sculpture to give to Longview.

I am pumped — and ready to fall in love again.

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When Patty retired in 2013, quilting became her passion. Her sewing room was set up in her daughter’s former bedroom. Although the room is small, it contains two sewing machines, and is very organized with totes holding future quilt projects. The garage, which was off the kitchen, was converted into her long-arm quilting studio. The current quilt on the machine features chickens in bright colors of red, green and yellow with black accents.

Vi n t a g e a n d h o m e made aprons hang in Patty’s kitchen. Each one tells a story and her grandchildren love to hear them when they visit.

Quilts are displayed prominently throughout Patty’s home. A rack in the hallway between the bedrooms displays a revolving array of six quilts. Quilts are draped over the living room couch and several grace each bed. Smaller quilts serve as wall art.

Patty loves taking and Featured quilter Patty Rinard. Courtesy photo. teaching quilt classes. She My Garden and third place Members’ designed the Block of the Month Choice for her Trailers Row quilt. for the Ladies of the Lake guild in In 2017 her Hydrangea quilt won both 2017 and 2018. This year’s President’s Choice, and Field of Flowers pattern is also a Mystery Quilt that won Viewers’ Choice. will keep participants guessing the final layout until early next year.

The 2018 Ladies of the Lake Quilt Patty designs quilts on her computer Show is October 5-6 (more details using Microsoft Excel and Word, and below). Put it on your calendar and recently purchased computer software come to see Patty’s amazing quilts, as for designing quilts. Her quilts have well as many others made by talented won awards in past quilts shows. In LOL members.

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Blackwood on Movies

TWO ACTION FILMS

‘The Meg’ and ‘Mile 22’: Two for the end of summer

By Dr. Bob Blackwood

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hen I was a teenager, the only Meg I knew was a tall young lady who went to the same high school that I did. As it is an old English surname, relatively rarely used anymore, I was not surprised that this “Meg” was really a shortened version of “megalodon,” a shark 7090 feet long (and quite huge around) which bit the dirt about 2.6 million years ago. How Jason Statham found his Meg in the depths of the ocean is beyond my comprehension, but it worked in this film. Director Jon Turteltaub was determined that the movie-going audience needed a “Meg” to end the summer. Someone had to rescue the ex-wife of rescue diver Jonas Taylor, played by Statham, and her fellow ocean scientists.

Statham does a lot of seagoing in this film. We see him in a submersible that enables us to see some very large teeth followed by a very large Meg. We see Meg in the underwater housing of the scientists; we see him bouncing around a fishing boat. Eventually, the Meg appears near a beach filled with swimmers. Will the giant shark nibble on sun-tanned folks, or will Jonas Taylor take him down? Will there be a “Meg 2” next summer?

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somewhere over $100 million or much more by the time you read this review. It is fun, and it is the summer.

Just don’t start getting nervous when you go out to the beach next time. I still remember a shark fin way out from Miami Beach when I was young.

Jason Statham as Jonas Taylor is hunted by The Meg in “The Meg.” Warner Bros.

I can wonder about that. After I’ve seen Godzilla tramping through various cities, I can only surmise that somewhere there may be another Meg (or maybe the same one with a few large scars) just waiting for a chance to have several raw human hamburgers.

Hey, Director Peter Berg and Mark Wahlberg have done it again. Surprise, an action film, “Mile 22.” Wahlberg is a military tough guy. I know; you thought he would be playing a young father figure with several small children.

OK, I was only kidding. He has a very nice automatic weapon, and he knows how to use it. He also knows how to boss soldiers and lean on Russian spies. I saw the film because I do admire John Malkovich. He plays a restrained operative who can get things done without killing a large number of people. I wish his character had more to do in this film. Oh well, it could have been worse, maybe. Maybe not.

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Let’s face it folks. This is an action film. We don’t see extended takes of Jonas getting closer to his ex-wife. Statham is an action star, not Clark Gable, certainly not Montgomery Clift. As for “The Meg,” it will have made

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Susan Worden at Tea Time in St. Helens, Ore., in May with daughters Valorie and Veronica Worden, celebrating birthdays, including that of the girls’ late great grandmother, Winifred Hadlek who would have been 100 on Memorial Day. Photo by Pat Hadlock-Valiapani.

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Boys will be boys Men from the RALong Class of 1967 gathered recently at one of their longtime favorite watering holes. Top photo, clockwise from lower left (and bottom photo, same “boys” in different order, including Terry Miller, 5th from right, crashing from Class of 1966): John Pisapia (crashing from the Class of 1968), Rick Lowe, Dan Stokes, Ron Lindsey, Bob Latham,Tim Harris, Dave Anderson, Tom Gilles, Larry Johnson, Jim Sund.

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Skip Urling of Longview with dudes Randy and Aanjulena Sweet of Kalama at Kingfishers Camp on the Nushagak River, Bristol Bay, Alaska on the 4th of July.

No throwing of stones please! Don and Dee Dalgarno,

of Longview, Wash., on their recent trip on the International Selkirk Loop through northeast Wash., Idaho and southeastern British Columbia. The Glass House, located along Kootenay Lake north of Creston, B.C., was built as a family residence in the early 1960s using more than a half million discarded glass embalming fluid bottles.

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By Alice Dietz

o you ever say to yourself, “How did we manage before cell phones were developed?”

“Well, my phone just rang and your name was on the screen. You must have butt-dialed me?”

Some believe that these amazing devices are the bane of our existence, while others, like me, find them indispensable. When Sue says, “Can you let Perry know that it’s time to come downstairs for dinner,” I no longer yell the message up the stairwell, or climb the stairs when he’s . listening to music, sleeping or playing a video game. No, I send him a text.

“Not on purpose, my friend. Not on purpose.”

Oh, what a night!

I have a few Columbia River Reader advertisers with whom I communicate only via text messaging. They don’t answer their phones when I call. I can’t leave a voice message because their mail boxes are often full and they don’t do e-mail. They text...period. Once I realized that, my life became easier.

Farm-to-table dinner raises $6,000 for Warm Neighbor Fun

Do you remember picking up a friend or relative at the airport, pre-mobile phone days? We would drive through the arrival lanes, craning our necks, not knowing for certain whether their plane had even arrived. Round and around we’d drive until we saw a familiar face and a friendly wave.

When Perry was three or four years old, we drove to PDX to pick Sue up.

After we’d made five unsuccessful passes without seeing her, our young exasperated son said, “Dad, can’t we just go home?”

With the advent of the cell phone, and Cell Phone Waiting Areas, this activity ceases to be a frustration and a waste of gasoline. In addition, in the comfort of your car, you can go online with your phone and check the flight schedule of the person you’re picking up.

I do not profess to use all of the many features of my cell phone. I do, however manage to pocket dial my contacts without meaning to.

“Hi. This is Don. Did you call me?”

“No.”

Of course, we all have to deal with the annoying feature that corrects our spelling. “Siri” seems to change the words whether we want them changed, or not. I’m told you can turn that feature off, but I’ve never figured how.

One beneficial feature I’ve learned to use is the White Pages app on my phone. I can almost always get the person’s address, including the four digit addition to their zip code. Unless they have blocked their land line number, or no longer have a land line, I can obtain that, as well. You have to pay extra to get their cell phone number, something I’m too cheap to do. I haven’t picked up my Dex phone book in years. For one thing, if your friend lives in, say, Las Cruces, New Mexico, you won’t be able to find them in the local phone book.

If you want to get in touch with me, look in the Reader (page 3) for my cell number. I will answer your call, assuming my battery hasn’t gone dead.

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ur first annual Eat for Heat made for an incredible night. With more than 60 people eating family style in our beautiful courtyard, it was a night filled with community.

Chef Josiah Fox prepared a lovely meal of beef tenderloin, tiger prawns and chicken breast, accompanied by fresh vegetables from Watershed Garden Works and the Lower Columbia School Gardens. Kalama Sourdough Bakery donated loaves of fresh bread, there were appetizers of local preserves, Skamokawa Farmstead Creamery provided an assortment of cheeses and local wineries Bateaux Cellars and Roland Wines were at the event pouring their finely crafted wines.

Although the meal was something to write home about, at the heart of this event were the great folks in our community who so generously came together to sit at one table and not

only share a meal, but share with the community and eat as a family. There was an ease to the evening that made the pressures of an event like this so enjoyable and relatable. It was like eating dinner as a family... Which is what a community should aspire to be, right?

My brother was the chef for the evening.

Over the weekend, we spent hours preparing. The time was filled with talks about life, snapping green beans while watching episodes of The Office on my cell phone, yelling at our kids to quit acting like kids — all for the grand finale of serving dinner to our community, family style — then having our mom and dad help us clean up our mess. It truly was a family affair – and not just for my own family but for our community — that really felt like one big family that night.

I hope that you all will join us next year for our second annual Eat for Heat.

The two-hour event raised over $6,000 to be donated to CAP’s Warm Neighbor Fund.

••• Alice Dietz is Communications and Public Relations Manager at Cowlitz PUD. Reach her at adietz@cowlitzpud.org, or 360-501-9146.

THE PET DEPT.

We are both wondering why we have been relegated to the back page. ~Ginger aka Gretchen Victoria Findlay’s dog

~Smokey Man in the Kitchen’s cat

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