‘World War II on the Oregon Coast’ exhibit opens
Presentations
Cannon Beach History Center hosts historians, authors, documentarians
CANNON BEACH — On Dec. 7,
1941, citizens across the nation
heard the shocking news: Pearl
Harbor had been attacked by
Japan. World War II had be-
gun. No matter how small the
town, the repercussions of war
echoed across the nation. Can-
non Beach and other coastal
towns were no exception.
The Cannon Beach History
Center & Museum will open
its latest exhibit, “World War
II on the Oregon Coast,” Fri-
day and Saturday, May 22 and
23 with two presentations by
local historians, authors and
documentarians.
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take place at 7 p.m. Friday,
May 22 by Alisha Hamel, who
will talk about Oregon’s role
during World War II. Hamel
is a member of the Oregon
National Guard’s historic out-
reach program and is active-
ly involved with the Oregon
Military Museum. She is well
known for her acclaimed docu-
mentary “The Jungleers” about
the 41st Infantry division’s role
during World War II.
Saturday’s
presentation
will be at 7 p.m. by Profes-
sor Ellen Eisenberg who will
present her latest book, “The
First to Cry Down Injustice?
Western Jews and Japanese
Removal During WWII.”
Eisenberg has taught in
history since 1990 and holds
the Dwight and Margaret Lear
Chair in American History at
Willamette University. She
teaches courses on American
history: the Civil War, Amer-
ican social history, American
Jewish history, American im-
migration history, the 1960s,
Reconstruction, the Holocaust
and a research seminar called
“History in the Archives.”
The Cannon Beach Histo-
ry Center & Museum and the
Oregon Historical Society will
offer the next presentation at 7
p.m. Friday, June 12. This will
be a panel discussion with care-
fully prepared presentations,
leaving time for audience ques-
tions and discussions.
Laura Jane Gifford is a
historian of modern American
politics with a special interest
in the dynamics of Oregon’s
political landscape. Steve Mc-
Quiddy is the author of “Here
on the Edge,” the story of how
a small group of World War II
conscientious objectors plowed
the ground for the social and
cultural revolutions of the
1960s. He writes and lectures
on the eccentric margins of
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vid G. Lewis is an independent
educator, author and anthro-
pology researcher who lives
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shoalwater cove gallery
in Salem, the homeland of his
people, the Santiam Kalapuya.
The Cannon Beach History
Center & Museum’s “World
War II on the Oregon Coast”
exhibit will share a collection
of stories and memories from
the Oregon Coast of those who
lived and served during the war.
The goal of the exhibit is
to shed light on events that oc-
curred on the coast, while ex-
ploring how the war impacted
the state and its coastal com-
munities. The exhibit will be
on display through February
2016 and is sponsored by the
city of Cannon Beach and the
Oregon Humanities Commu-
nity Project.
This program is made pos-
sible in part by a grant from
Oregon’s role with Alisha Hamel
7 p.m. Friday, May 22
Cannon Beach History Center
1387 S. Spruce St., Cannon Beach
503-436-9301
Western Jews and Japanese Removal with Ellen Eisenberg
7 p.m. Saturday, May 23
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Panel discussion
7 p.m. Friday, June 12
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Oregon Humanities, a state-
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the National Endowment for
the Humanities.
The Cannon Beach History
Center & Museum is located at
1387 S. Spruce St. across from
the Cannon Beach Fire Station.
The history center is open from
1 to 5 p.m. Wednesday through
Monday.
For more information, call
503-436-9301 or visit www.
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on Facebook.
Jackalope Saints bring folk energy to the Fort
ASTORIA — The Jackalope
Saints will perform at 8 p.m.
Sunday, May 24 at the Fort
George Brewery, 1483 Duane
St. All ages are welcome, and
there is no cover charge.
Duplicitous, the wilder-
ness speaks half-truths; it
calls and goes silent. The
Jackalope Saints’ stories are
similarly mysterious.
From the experience of
singer-songwriter
Clinton
Herrick, the Saints’ music
preaches the folklore of wild
America. Herrick’s imagery
is elemental — wind and
stone, bone and dust — but
the lyrical detail guards more
than it reveals. Sun-bleached
teeth and a shadowed gun-
Jackalope Saints
8 p.m. Sunday, May 24
Fort George Brewery
1483 Duane St., Astoria
All ages
No cover
shot grow large in the listen-
er’s mind.
The imagery, however,
only distracts from questions
of substance: who, when and
where?
But these are tall tales,
ghost stories, the true expe-
rience of which cannot be
found in fact. Herrick has
been drawn to this folkloric
imagery since his youth.
“My grandmother gave
me a jackalope postcard
when I was 10,” he says. “It’s
still in my guitar case.”
Traditionally
associat-
ed with the American West,
the mythical jackalope can
mimic any sound. Cow-
boys around their camp-
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to hear the creatures singing
songs back to them in the
cowboys’ own voices. It is
these uniquely American leg-
ends that continue to fasci-
nate Herrick and inspire the
Saints’ music.
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The Jackalope Saints will play at the Fort George Brewery May 24.
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