Sneak Peek: Northwest Coast, Winter 2008
October 8, 2008
Dear Readers:
The Winter 2008 issue of Northwest Coast is due out on newsstands December 4th. Here are some of the featured stories that you can expect…
The Espy name is well-known around the Long Beach Peninsula, most famously Willard R. Espy, the noted philologist and wordsmith and author of “Oysterville: Roads to Grandpa’s Village.” But from the family that co-founded the historic town also came Harry A. Espy, a dairyman, justice of the peace, and one term Washington State Senator. His granddaughter, Sydney Stevens, writes of Senator Espy’s time in the state senate in “When Papa was a senator…was it a matter of fish or cows?” This enthralling piece details his time in the senate (1910-1914) and the issues-some familiar, some foreign-that were debated at the time.
To collectors, objects created from Myrtlewood are individual works of art without compare. But are industrial forestry techniques driving this famed Oregon hardwood to extinction? Suzanne Martinson explores this question and some of the artisans who produce these cherished relics in her article, “Myrtlewood, the coast’s vanishing treasure.”
It started out as a routine rescue operation for Coast Guardsmen stationed at the mouth of the Columbia River, but the night of January 12, 1961 would turn out to be anything but ordinary. Erika Weisensee describes the events of the horrific night when a commercial fishing boat and three Coast Guard motor lifeboats were lost in “Tragedy & Survival: the Triumph-Mermaid incident on the Columbia River Bar.”
During the Second World War, Waldport was home to Camp Angel, a Civilian Public Service (CPS) camp for conscientious objectors that was home to the only Fine Arts Program in the entire CPS system. In “A Million Moves Begin at the Beach,” Matt Love highlights some of the unique characters who inhabited Camp Angel and examines what these countercultural forerunners mean to Oregon and to us all.
Also in the next issue: another installment in the Our Mothers, Our Heritage series, poetry by Pat Staton, Irene Martin’s essay “Reconciling with Salmon,” and much, much more.
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