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GRAB BAG book shelf • glimpse • wildlife • pop culture • words • q&a • food • fun NW word BOOKSHELF nerd By RYAN HUME Stavebolt >VWƗYEǀOW@ noun 1. a log or section of log to be cut into staves 2. Stavebolt Landing: a landing about eight miles south of Astoria and a half- mile from where Stavebolt Creek empties into the Lewis and Clark River 3. Stavebolt Creek: a stream that begins approx- imately 6.8 miles north of Seaside running through Lewis and Clark territory Origin: Before 1398, staves as a plural of STAFF. Possibly related to the Old English stafas, referring to the rungs on a ladder (first recorded around 1175). The singular stave is a back formation from the plural first recorded in 1750. Stavebolt Landing is where logs were dumped to flow into the Lewis and Clark River before being floated to the mills. According to Lewis A. McArthur, the name of the landing and creek have been in use for many generations. “The mill formerly known as Sackett’s mill is busy turning out shooks, etc. There are about two miles of railway built and about two miles more remain to be built to con- nect it with Stavebolt Landing. Fine bodies of cedar, larch and hemlock are in that vicinity.” —The Daily Morning Astorian, Thursday, July 12, 1888, P. 3 “Communication read from D. J. Ingalls, superintendent of road district No. 4, informing the court that he had advertised for bids for the building of a bridge, between Stavebolt landing and Elandt’s place, and that he had received no bids, but that he will build the bridge for $28.” —The Morning Astorian, Satur- day, Nov. 18, 1899, P. 4 BY RYAN HUME Just finished “River House: A Memoir” by Sarahlee Lawrence Tin House Books, 2010 Lawrence is keen enough to see the metaphor in her construction, which elevates this tale toward the mythic. Recommended For: Kayakers, backcountry backpackers, ranch hands, prospective homesteaders, nature lovers and adventurers of all stripes. Bonus: Sarahlee Lawrence now runs a full-diet organic farm on the acres of her family’s ranch in Terre- bonne, Oregon. Rainshadow Organ- ics runs a CSA and can be found at several farmers markets as well as in restaurant kitchens throughout Cen- tral Oregon. Look them up the next time you find yourself on the other side of the Cascades. camping van and chronicles the many characters he meets along the way. “The House at the End of Hope Street” by Menna Van Praag Penguin, 2013 Other books Plot Notes: Following an end- less season of running rivers as a guide through South America, Afri- ca and elsewhere, 21 year-old Sar- ahlee Lawrence longs for home, the parched high desert of her family’s ranch in Central Oregon near McKen- zie Canyon. Having sketched rough blueprints for a log house while in Peru and Chile, Lawrence returns home to break ground amid the ju- nipers. Enlisting the help of her fa- ther, Big Wave Dave, a somewhat reluctant rancher and avid surfer, Lawrence sets to erecting 1,981 feet of lodgepole pine into a sustain- able homestead, and in the process, builds a deeper connection with her father while discovering all it takes to realize a dream. Take Away: Lawrence has a gift for finding the mystical in physical endurance. She writes of her family’s respective reverences for water — hers, whitewater rapids; her father’s, salt and sea — with a spiritual in- tensity. These are not pursuits or hobbies for them but defining char- acteristics. Land and water are at the intersection of fulfillment and re- gret, home and away, duty and free- dom. While the building of her home is never less than a practical story of hard work and hardships and the bond between father and daughter, “Blue Highways: A Journey into America” by William Least Heat- Moon Reissued by Back Bay Books, 1999 (Original published by Lit- tle, Brown and Co., 1983) Recommended by: Lisa Reid of Lucy’s Books in Astoria. Plot notes: This enchanting novel was the Lucy’s Books Book Club’s designation for February and concerns a house in Cambridge, England, that appears to women only when they most need it. Once accepted, a woman has 99 nights of residence to get her life in order. “Night Circus” by Erin Morgenstern will be the Book Club’s next discus- sion upstairs at Lucy’s on March 21. TAKE A HIKE Photo by Rebecca Sedlak A loop trail runs the perimeter of Coff enbury Lake in Fort Stevens State Park. A 2.2-mile loop trail runs the perimeter of Coffenbury Lake in Fort Stevens State Park. Mostly forested, the trail offers scenic cross-lake views of the water — you might even catch sight of some critters, including otters, bald eagles, w hen it’s Recommended by: Glen Lafave of Time Enough Books in Ilwaco, Wash. Plot Notes: Considered a high-water mark in American travel writing, the title refers to those off - the-beaten-path rural highways that were once designated in blue on U.S. road maps. This brilliantly written trav- elogue follows Heat-Moon, born Wil- liam Lewis Trogdon, on a 13,000 mile trek across the lesser known U.S. in a ZDWHUELUGVDQGMXPSLQJ¿VK Start counterclockwise from the picnic area at the north end. Know that the south end can be a bit marshy, and there is some tall grass on the returning eastern leg of the loop. M r.D oobees w ill float your boat! “pouring on the coast” O nly prem iu m sm a ll ba tch specia l reserve ca nna bis from W a shington’s finest bou tiqu e grow er s. 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