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BY LOIS WADSWORTH Geology Love the land. IN SEARCH OF ANCIENT OREGON: A GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY by Ellen Morris Bishop. Timber Press, 2003. Hardcover, $39.95. T BabyCakes Café A Unique Child Friendly Experience Come in for a 12oz Egg Nog Latte and a slice of Pumpkin Ginger Bread for $3.00 Hours - 7am - 5pm daily 760 Blair Ave., Eugene, OR • 484-CAKE JAMS STARTS ! FLOWERS ! Find the bounty of the local harvest Downtown through Nov. 15 & then come to Lane County Fairgrounds for the next 5 weekends starting November 22nd & 23rd for a Season of Festivity at FARMERS’ MARKET Saturdays, 9 am - 4 pm, November 8 t h & 15 t h At 8th & Oak in the Park Blocks of beautiful Downtown Eugene Saturdays & SUNDAYS 10 am - 6 pm, starting November 22 nd & 23 rd In the Auditorium Building of the Lane County Fairgrounds FOR MORE INFORMATION or PRODUCT AVAILABILTY, CALL (541) 431-4923 ! PORK ! FLOWERS ! VEGGIES ! STARTS ! BUY LOCAL ! FRUIT ! HONEY ! PRESERVES ! NUTS POTATOES ! STARTS ! FRUIT ! WREATHS ! N ! HONEYS ! FLOWERS ! SALSAS ! POULTRY ! VEGGIES ! STARTS ! FRUIT ! PRESERVES ! HONEYS ! BREADS ! RED BARN N AT U R A L G R O C E RY E S T. 1 9 8 2 Whole foods, for whole people . . . Fresh from the farm to you! organically grown produce • organic beer & wine organic bulk foods • vitamins & supplements organic herbs & spices • special orders / case discounts natural body care products LOCALLY OWNED & OPERATED 4 TH & BLAIR • 342-7503 • M-Sa. 8 AM -10 PM • Su. 10 AM -9 PM You define the family . . . We provide the food! Ask about Thanksgiving reservations! 2435 Hilyard • Eugene, OR 97405 (in the Humble Bagel) Open Wed.-Sun. @ 5pm • 541-684-8400 • www.iraila.com 30 NOVEMBER 6, 2003 o keep the record straight, I did not read Ellen Morris Bishop’s 289- page geological and natural history of ancient Oregon from cover to cover, although I would love to have the leisure to read, study and engage with this book. Looking at her excellent large-format cam- era photographs and reading select pas- sages stirred memories of an inspiring geol- ogy class I took in the late 1960s, when ideas about continent-building were seduc- tive theories. Now, plate tectonics, moving seafloors and colliding continents are accepted geo- logical tools that explain how the land we now call Oregon was added to the continent from its earlier forms as ocean bottom, shallow water coral reefs, volcanic islands and warm seas. This lavishly illustrated and beautifully designed book pulled me in. I was hooked by her caption for the photo on pages 2-3: “Glacial erratic, once part of Mt. Hood’s eastern rampart, eroded and transported by Pleistocene glaciers, now resting atop the extensive moraine of Eliot Glacier.” Bishop’s gift of straddling time in a few succinct phrases makes sense of complex geological processes. The oldest rocks in this part of the new world are Devonian limestone, about 400 million years old, found in the Blue Mountains of northeast Oregon and the Klamath Mountains of southwest Oregon, which became part of the continental land- mass at different times. Blue Mountains’ rocks were coral reefs and forested volcanic islands that now “crown the Wallowa, Elkhorn, Strawberry, Aldrich and Greenhorn ranges,” Bishop writes. Oregon’s Klamath Mountains, the Rogue River Canyon, Kalmiopsis Wilderness, Illinois River drainage and Mount Ashland were a volcanic archipelago much like Indonesia today. These islands and micro continents merged offshore and were added to the continent as a single, complex block. In Search of Ancient Oregon will not only help you master the lexicon of geolog- ic terms such as “subduction zones,” the place where the seafloor dives back into the Earth’s mantle, but also lesser-used words like exotic terrane, mélange and erratics. Bishop brings these geologic features to life in pictures of the landscape you might encounter on a drive from Eugene to Burns, for example. Bishop selected photographs from more than 3,000 large-format images. Her text is lively, and the narrative builds logically. I like how Bishop describes her intention here: “The geologist’s mission is to trans- late the mute stuff of stolid stones into a planetary biography.” Her search for ancient Oregon is a trip well worth taking. Bishop presents a slide show and lecture at 7 pm on Nov. 10 at Tsunami Books. Jointly sponsored by Black Sun Books and Tsunami Books, take this unique opportu- nity to meet Bishop, see these magnificent photographs. Reception follows. ew B oo k N o te s No v . 6 - D ec . 1 1: L a ur e n K es s le r (Cover Girl, HarperCollins, 2003) will speak on “Crossing the Line: From nonfiction to fiction and back again” at 6:30 - 9 pm on Nov. 6, Baker Downtown Center, $5 donation. …Poet Pa u l Dr es m an (The Silver Dazzle of the Sun: Selected Poems ) reads at 7 pm on Nov. 6 at Tsunami Books. …Essayist Ri c h ar d Ro d ri g u ez (The Browning of America) speaks at 4 pm on Nov. 6 in 305 Pharmacy Hall, OSU, Corvallis. …Al Sandine (Plundertown USA: Coos Bay Enters the Global Economy) at 7 pm on Nov. 6 at UO Bookstore. Fr an c es M ay e s (Under the Tuscan Sun) speaks at …F noon on Nov. 7 at Portland State’s Smith Memorial Su za nn e Ki n g s bu r y Student Union. (503.725.4949). …S (The Gospel According to Gracey) reads at 7 pm on Nov. 11 in Knight Library Browsing Room, UO campus. …Veneta attorney D e a n V a n Le u ve n (Life Without Anger: Your Guide to Peaceful Living) speaks at 7 pm on Nov. 13 in UO Bookstore. …Literary Arts’ O r e g on B oo k Aw ar ds Ce r e m o n y is at 7:30 pm on Nov. 13 at the Scottish Rite Center, Portland (503.227.2583) Award for lifetime achievement goes to playwright, poet G e o rg e H i t c h c oc k (Harrisburg). Poetry nomi- nees: Ja ne B ai le y, Ca s ey K w an g, R o b e r t M c D o w el l , R it a Ot t R a ms ta d, C l em en s S ta r c k. Novel: C a i Em m on s (Eugene), A pr i l H e n ry , J an e K ir k p a tr i c k, Al an S i po ri n (Eugene), L o n o Wa iw ai o l e . Short Fiction: T r a c y Da u g he r t y, Do u gl a s R e n n ie , L i d ia Yu kn a vi t ch . General Nonfiction: Ri ck H a r m on , Ba rb a r a S . Ma h on ey , K i m S t a f f or d. Creative Nonfiction: C ar ol An n Ba s se t t (Eugene). Ch r i s C he s te r, Ga br i e l le Gl a se r , F l o yd S k l o o t, Ki m St af fo r d. Children’s Literature: E ri c K i mm e l, Pe tr a M a th e rs , Va l er ie R a p p, Ni c ol e R ub el, C yn th ia Ry la nt . Young Adult Literature: Br ia n A. C on n ol l y , H ea t he r V og el F re de ri c k, K ez i M at t h e ws , E l i z a be t h R u s c h , G r a h a m S a l i s b u r y . …C l em S ta rc k (China Basin) reads at 7 pm on Nov. 15 at Newport Recreation Center and at noon on Dec. 4 W ay n e H ar ri s o n and at OSU Bookstore, Corvallis. …W Mi c h a el S p ri n g read 7-9 pm on Nov. 18 at Eugene Public Library. …Historian and author D a v id Pe t er s o n d el M ar (Oregon’s Promise) reads at 7 pm on Nov. 20 Ka t e Mo se s (Wintering: A Novel of at UO Bookstore. …K Sylvia Plath) reads at 7:30 pm on Nov. 20 at Powell’s SE Hawthorne bookstore. …Novelist E dm u n d W hi te (Fanny) reads at 7:30 pm on Nov. 21 at Powell’s Ba r ry L o pe z introduces readers Beaverton store. …B from Best Essays Northwest, including K i m S ta f fo r d, J oh n D a ni el and Bo b b ie W i ll is , at 7 pm on Nov. 25 in Knight Library Browsing Room, UO campus. …Memoirist, novelist T o bi a s W o l f f (Old School; Knopf, 2003) speaks at 7:30 pm on Dec. 2 at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall (503.227.2583). …Writer, Jungian analyst J am e s H o ll i s (On This Journey We Call Life) speaks at 7 pm on Dec. 4 at the Knight Law Fl oy d S kl o o t (In the Shadow of Memory) Center. …F speaks at 7 pm on Dec. 4 at the Knight Library 4t h a n n u a l A ut ho rs an d A rt i st s Browsing Room. …4 F a i r, 7-10 pm on Dec. 6 at the Eugene Public Library (www.eplfoundation.org).
