August 21st, 2008 (Thursday) ~ Lise Hull
Hull to discuss latest Coos County historical book.
Historical Coos County lies somewhere between paradise and hard work. It is a place of gold and coal mines, river travel and dairies, lumbering, graceful sailing ships and steamers crossing the bar. Perseverance, backbreaking labor, and Saturday dances shown through the historic photography assembled into the book Coos County by Lise Hull.
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September 18th, 2008 (Thursday) ~ William Sullivan
Oregon's Greatest Natural Disasters is the dramatic story of the floods, earthquakes, forest fires, eruptions, and tsunamis that have shaped Oregon and impacted people over the past 13,000 years. Recent events are included too: Do you remember the Columbus Day windstorm of 1962, the eruption of Mt. St. Helens in 1980, or the Flood of 1996 that nearly topped Portland's seawall? Are we ready for what's coming? A final, fictional chapter jumps into the future to visualize what might happen when geologists' predictions come true, shaking our cities with a massive earthquake and scouring the coast with a deadly tsunami.
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October 16th, 2008 (Thursday) ~ Bette Lynch Husted
With a powerful, poetic voice, Bette Lynch Husted traces an intimate history of her family on the land. Like her father before her Husted grew up on stolen land - the benchland above the Clearwater River in Idaho, land that had belonged to the Nez Perce Indians. In Above the Clearwater; Living on Stolen Land, she chronicles the struggles over land, water rights, isolation, race and class, and family secrets of mental illness. This is a courageous and beautiful book.
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November 13th, 2008 (Thursday) ~ Steven Bender
One Night in America
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December 11th, 2008 (Thursday) ~ Barbara Pope
Cezanne's Quarry
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