Labor history meet set
Local history, contemporary workers’
issues and music to be featured
ASTORIA — Respected Ore-
gon historians Irene Martin,
Bryan Penttila and Regan
Watjus will discuss the As-
toria area’s industrial and
labor history at a day-long
mini-conference on Satur-
day, March 14 at the Colum-
bia River Maritime Museum.
“The coastal city has a
vibrant and sometimes vola-
tile labor history,” said Ron
Verzuh, a labor historian and
Oregon vice-president of
the Pacific Northwest La-
bor History Association, the
sponsor of the event. “The
history of radical Finnish
trade unionists speaks to the
richness of the region’s labor
history as does the celebrat-
ed Astoria Labor Temple.”
Coffee and introductions
will take place from 9:30 to
10 a.m. Labor educator Mar-
cus Widenor will moderate
the labor history panel from
10 to 11:30 a.m.
At lunchtime, Nathan
Moore and Kate Downing of
the Eugene-based Low Tide
Drifters, fisherpoet Mary
Garvey and banjo-playing
folklorist Joe Seamons will
play and discuss their labor
and social issues music.
The mini-conference will
also address the growing
minimum wage movement
represented by groups like
$15 NOW. “Our Oregon”
research director Daniel
Morris, Oregon School Em-
Submitted photo by Brian Halbrook
Eugene-based Americana band The Low Tide Drifters will perform and discuss their labor
and social issues music. notforsale
Let’s Ea t
ASTORIA
ployees Association staff
member Mimi Khalili, and
Portland labor activist Ryan
Wisnor will offer their views
on low-wage concerns at a
panel moderated by labor
historian Bob Bussel from
1:30 to 3 p.m.
At the end of the day,
Pacific Northwest historian
and labor educator Norm Di-
amond will lead a discussion
about the future of labor his-
tory in the region from 3:15
to 4 p.m.
To register, email Verzuh
at rverzuh@shaw.ca. There
is no registration fee, but
participants will be asked
to complete a registration
form. Those who wish to
join the PNLHA may do so
at the registration table.
The PNLHA was found-
ed in 1968 as a nonprofit
association dedicated to
preserving the history and
heritage of workers in Or-
egon, Washington and Brit-
ish Columbia. Its next annu-
al conference will be held at
SeaTac in Seattle from May
1 to 3.
Liberty Theater kicks off new
Third Thursday Comedy Series
ASTORIA — The Liberty The-
ater’s Third Thursday Com-
edy Series begins two days
after St. Patrick’s Day with an
Irish comedian. George Casey
brings “A Night of Laughter
with the King of Blarney” at 7
p.m. Thursday, March 19.
Casey was born in a remote
seaside village on the west coast
of Ireland legendary for its sto-
rytelling. Growing up in a large
family, he saw humor everywhere
and honed his skills as a comic.
Casey has been entertain-
ing audiences all over the U.S.
with his self-deprecating sense
of humor and clean jokes.
Some of the acts Casey has
opened for and toured with in-
clude Rosemary Clooney, The
Osmond Brothers, Ray Price,
Three Dog Night, Brooklyn
Bridge, Donald O’Connor and
Bobby Vinton. He performed
with Vinton as his special
guest in Vinton’s Blue Velvet
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