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OREGON COVER-UP REVEALED IN GEORGE ROGERS PARK

The Oregon cover-up starts with scale for the new folks in town looking to show how backward we are, and how desperately we need help. Leader: We have our marching orders and we are assembled here to learn more about the problems these people get wrong. It would behoove you to pay attention. The lesson […]

ASTORIA OREGON, THE FIRST RIVER CITY OF THE WEST

You won’t need a boarding pass for Astoria, Oregon. Crossing the Columbia River from the Washington side doesn’t require a ferry, either. However you will need a Boarding Pass for the Columbia River Maritime Museum. More than a nice place for a regional story, CRMM tells a big history in a big way. Astoria and […]

TRAVEL BOUNDARIES? STOP BEFORE YOU FALL OFF THE EDGE

Travel boundaries means hit the brakes before you drive into the ocean. This isn’t Kansas where driving off the road means plowing a wheat field. Over here you’ll get wet if you make that mistake, so keep an eye out for an ocean.

CHRIS COLEMAN, ASTORIA, A WORLD PREMIERE

  From Washington Irving to Peter Stark to Chris Coleman, Astoria never looked better.   History readers are a funny bunch. They range from professional historians to hobbyists to just people looking for something to engage them. Then there’s Chris Coleman, Artistic Director for Portland Center Stage at The Armory, and Director of Astoria. What […]

ASTORIA BOOKS, ASTORIA DOCUMENTARY, ASTORIA PLAY

Call it Little Big Astoria?   No one doubts the importance of Astoria in Oregon history. Little Big Astoria looms in the imagination from early sea captains challenging the Columbia Bar, to Lewis and Clark showing up overland, to today. The fish packing, lumber mills, and ebb and flow of new people keep Astoria current. […]