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By RYAN HUME
Stavebolt
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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
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