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COLUMBIA RIVER READER COLLECTORS CLUB LEWISANDCLARK REVOLUTIONIZED
What really — truly — happened during those final wind-blown, rain-soaked thirty days of the Lewis and Clark Expedition? Southwest Washington author and explorer Rex Ziak revolutionized historical scholarship by providing the answers: day by day and week by week. We’re delighted to offer In Full View, and Rex’s other two books, one with an extraordinary fold-out map, as our inaugural offerings from CRR Collectors Club.
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IN FULL VIEW
Rex Ziak $29.95
A true and accurate account of Lewis and Clark’s arrival at the Pacific Ocean, and their search for a winter camp along the lower Columbia River.
EYEWITNESS TO ASTORIA
Gabriel Franchére $21.95
The newly edited and annotated by Rex Ziak version of Franchére’s 1820 journal, Narrative of a
Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the
Years 1811, 1812, 1813 and 1814, or The First
American Settlement on the Pacific.
DOWN AND UP
Rex Ziak $18.95 A unique fold-out guide mapping day-byday Lewis and Clark’s journey from the Rockies to the Pacific Ocean and back.
CRREADER.COM • Vol. XVI, No. 176 • March 15 – April 15, 2020 • COMPLIMENTARY Helping you discover and enjoy the good life in the Columbia River region at home and on the road
MOSS IN YOUR LAWN? What to do page 15
ONE RIVER, MANY VOICES WASHINGTON’S POET LAUREATE COMES TO WAHKIAKUM COUNTY page 14
People+Place
COLUMBIA RIVER dining guide page 28 The art of the woodcut Cutting Edge ESCAPE TO BARCELONA • “FEATURED CHEF” RETURNS page 19
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Field Guide
to the Lower Columbia River in Poems and Pictures
Robe t Michael Pyle Judy Vande Maten The Tidewater
Reach
Field Guide
to the Lower Columbia River in Poems and Pictures
Robe t Michael Pyle Judy Vande Maten
AVAILABLE NOW!
THE TIDEWATER REACH
Field Guide to the Lower Columbia River in Poems and Pictures Robert Michael Pyle and Judy VanderMaten. Boxed Signature Edition, Color and BW $50 / Trade paperback $25
“It’s a different way of seeing.” A one-of-a-kind Field Guide to the lower Columbia, in poems and pictures. Now available from Columbia River Reader Press in two editions.
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Just because kids aren’t going back to school, and there won’t be any football games, and the political season gives most of us heartburn… does not mean we can’t still enjoy Fall. As the days grow shorter and shadows longer, crisp, misty mornings and mellow evenings set the scene for what many people — including moi — consider the best time of the year. Glorious Fall! John Keats, in his poem “To Autumn,” describes it perfectly: Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. Autumn is a time for enjoying the harvest, the late afternoon golden sunlight, walking your neighborhood, hunkering down with a good book you’ve always meant to read. This is prime time to go on a hike through crunchy leaves, enjoy a tailgate picnic and a cup of hot cider or mulled wine, and appreciate all the good in our lives. Don’t forget to turn off the TV news. And there’s another wonderful treat on the horizon: The movie inspired by Robert Michael Pyle’s life and his book, Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing the Dark Divide, is finally about to be released. It will show in a few theaters and drive-in theatres and online Sept. 18. Then, starting Nov. 10, it will also be available through VOD (video on demand) streaming services.
Publisher/Editor: Susan P. Piper Columnists and contributors: Tracy Beard Hal Calbom Alice Dietz Matty Duka Joseph Govednik Jim LeMonds Michael Perry Ned Piper Perry Piper Retha Porter Robert Michael Pyle Alan Rose Alice Slusher Greg Smith Debra Tweedy Production/Graphics Manager: Perry E. Piper Editorial/Proofreading Assistants: Merrilee Bauman, Michael Perry, Marilyn Perry, Debra Tweedy, Tiffany Dickinson.
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Sue’s Views
Morning mists, mellow fruitfulness and a new movie!
Yes, everybody, this is OUR Bob Pyle! Information was still sketchy at press time, but sign up at darkdividefilm. com for updates as details become known (see story, page 6). Along with a few friends, I’ll be seeing the movie in Morton, Wash.,
ON THE COVER Warren Seely during harvesting on the family farm near Clatskanie, Oregon. photo by Hal Calbom.
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CRREADER.COM Visit our website for the current issue and archive of past issues from 2013. near the very edge of the Dark Divide, and will be taking along hiking and survival supplies — and food Tracy Beard recommends (see page 21) — in case we stop for a bite before, or get lost after the show and find ourselves wandering in the wilderness.
Happy Fall, to you all! Sue Piper
David Cross as Robert Michael Pyle, in scenes from “The Dark Divide,” to be released Sept. 18. Debra Messing plays his wife, Thea.
Above: Not a scene from the movie. This is the back of my car, ready to go to Morton to see “The Dark Divide,” set in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest.
Columbia River Reader . . . helping you discover and enjoy the good life in the Columbia River region at home and on the road.
In this Issue
2 4 5 6 7 9 11 12 14 15 16 17-20 21 22 23 24 25 26 29 30-31 33 34 34 CRR Collectors Club Letter to the Editor Civilized Life: Miss Manners Movie Premiere: The Dark Divide Dispatch from the Discovery Trail ~ After the Return Me & My Piano Northwest Gardening: Putting your Garden to Bed A Chihuly Glass Collection in the Longview Public Library Out & About: Seminary Hill Hike Museum Magic: Rainier Historical Museum Quips & Quotes People Place ~ Mint Tradition: Warren Seely Provisions along the Trail: Tailgate Fare Where Do You Read the Reader? The Natural World/ Roll Call Besides CRR, What Are You Reading? Cover to Cover ~ Book Review / Bestsellers List Lower Columbia Dining Guide Lower Columbia Informer: Slow and Steady Saves Face Outings & Events Non-Calendar / Hikes / Farmers Markets Astronomy / The Sky Report The Spectator: Bravo, Gian Paul Morelli Plugged In to Cowlitz PUD:Introducing SmartHub
