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Author to recount historic
Oregon massacre May 6
Explore Oregon’s ocean
at Listening to the Land
SEASIDE — Things happen
in the near-shore ocean off
Oregon that don’t happen
everywhere else in the Eastern
North Paciic, along the path
of the California Current. Life
abounds — as do challenges,
some of them perennial and
some of them speciic to this
moment in Earth’s history.
Join marine ecologist
Kirsten Grorud-Colvert for
a wide-ranging talk about
the sea beside us in the
presentation “Into the Deep:
Exploring Oregon’s Ocean”
at 6 p.m. Wednesday, May
18, at Seaside Public Library.
It is the inal program in the
2016 Listening to the Land
speaker series, which this
year has focused on the theme
of water. Admission is free;
refreshments will be served.
Grorud-Colvert will begin
by talking about some of
the dynamism of our coast
and certain features unique
to the ocean. She’ll give the
audience a look at under-
water reefs as she discusses
upwelling and its role in the
productivity of the ocean.
She will address challenges
such as Sea Star Wasting
Syndrome and ocean hy-
poxia, or “dead zones.” And
she’ll explore steps Oregon
is taking — with marine
reserves in particular — to
conserve its ocean.
Grorud-Colvert is on the
faculty of Oregon State Uni-
versity, where she has studied
marine systems and ocean
organisms from the Florida
Keys to the near-shore ocean
off Oregon. She uses data
from many different marine
species and habitats to look
at what happens when you
protect an area in the ocean
and what we can learn from
these areas in order to design
better protections. She also
directs the Science of Marine
Reserves Project, a team of
marine ecologists, graphic
designers, communication
specialists and marine reserve
scientists around the globe
developing effective ways to
share scientiic data about ma-
Honky-Tonk Rebel to play in Clatskanie
CLATSKANIE — The Clats-
kanie Arts Commission
presents the third performance
of its Sunday Series, The
Honky-Tonk Rebel, at 3 p.m.
Sunday, May 15 at the Birken-
feld Theatre in the Clatskanie
Cultural Center, located at 75
S. Nehalem St.
The Honky-Tonk Rebel —
Mario Carboni — is a Portland
musical performing artist
specializing in an extensive
repertoire of honky-tonk,
blues, New Orleans jazz, coun-
try western, early rock ’n’ roll,
and boogie woogie, featuring
two keyboards, a trumpet, a
harmonica and killer vocals.
His shows are high energy,
and his talent does not go
unnoticed. He plays to his
audience and can perform just
about any song requested.
“I started playing piano at
the age of 9 months,” is what
he’ll tell you, and since then
he has performed over 3,000
shows in Alaska, Washington,
Oregon, California and Arizo-
na as a professional pianist and
entertainer.
The Honky-Tonk Rebel has
performed and recorded with
Bakersield’s Red Simpson, a
legendary singer-songwriter
who penned songs for Buck
Owens, Merle Haggard,
Dwight Yoakum and Alan
Jackson. In September, Car-
boni and Simpson entertained
a crowd of 500 in Portland.
Carboni also regularly
works with Western Swing Mu-
sic Society Hall of Fame drum-
Register and learn to play the ukulele
Ukalaliens visit
Seaside Public
Library May 14
SEASIDE — Come out to the
Seaside Public Library at 1
p.m. Saturday, May 14 and
learn to play the ukulele at the
Ukalaliens workshop, which
is sponsored by the Friends of
the Seaside Library.
Participants must sign up
for this class and can do so at
the circulation desk or by call
503-738-6742. The Seaside
Public Library is located at
1131 Broadway.
Musician-teachers Kate
Power and Steve Einhorn
travel in a Johnny-Appleseed
fashion from town to town,
introducing one and all to the
fun of playing the ukulele.
Power and Einhorn will
bring 30 ukes for participants
to use and will teach begin-
ners, in a friendly atmosphere,
how to play these simple
instruments.
The mission of the Uka-
laliens workshop is to grow
budding musicians from
scratch through ukulele and
to give the uke-curious the
opportunity to the play the
little musical powerhouse that
is the ukulele.
Power and Einhorn are
Learn about the
1887 murders of
Chinese miners
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Marine ecologist Kirsten
Grorud-Colvert will speak
about the ocean of the Ore-
gon Coast on May 18.
rine reserves with the general
public.
Listening to the Land is
a monthly winter speaker
series presented by North
Coast Land Conservancy and
the Necanicum Watershed
Council in partnership with
the Seaside Public Library.
mer Dennis Wall, opened for
Wayne “The Train” Hancock
last spring, and performed at
the Alaska Salmonfest in 2015,
which featured Emmy Lou
Harris and Rodney Crowell.
He has studied with
numerous teachers, including
studying trumpet and piano
at the Oregon jazz school at
Mount Hood College.
Tickets are available at
Hump’s Restaurant in Clats-
kanie, by calling Elsa at 503-
728-3403 or at the box ofice the
day of the performance. Seating
is limited. Tickets are $10. Only
cash or checks will be accepted.
lifelong musicians, song-
writers, artists and publish-
ers. They are the creators
of the Ukalaliens Songbook
and companion CD, Home-
spun DVDs, and the book
“You Can Play the Uku”
volumes one and two. They
formerly owned Portland’s
historic music hub (1981-
2006) until they passed it
on to become a nonproit
community center. After
this, they ventured fulltime
into playing and teaching
music.
ASTORIA — Astoria Public
Library will present the
next Library After Hours
event at 6 p.m. Friday, May
13. Author R. Gregory
Nokes will speak about his
nonfiction book “Massa-
cred for Gold: The Chinese
in Hells Canyon.” The li-
brary is located at 450 10th
St. Admission is free.
Nokes’ book is the first
authoritative account of the
1887 massacre of as many
as 34 Chinese gold miners
in Oregon’s Hells Can-
yon, the deepest canyon
in North America. The
massacre was the worst of
the many crimes commit-
ted by whites against the
Chinese who emigrated to
the American West in the
second half of the 19th
century. Though the killers
were known, no one was
convicted. The massacre
was all but forgotten until
over 100 years later, when
a county clerk uncovered
records of the crime in an
unused safe.
“Massacred for Gold:
The Chinese in Hells Can-
yon” is now in its fourth
printing by Oregon State
University Press. The book
traces the author’s journey
to expose details of the
massacre and its aftermath.
Nokes also discusses the
background of the Chinese
experience in the American
West and the history of
the Wallowa country, the
homeland of Chief Joseph
and the Nez Perce until
they were forced to leave
in 1877.
Nokes is a former
reporter and editor, with
more than 40 years of
experience in journalism,
including work for the
Medford Mail Tribune, The
Associated Press and The
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Former journalist R. Gregory
Nokes writes about the his-
tory of the Paciic Northwest.
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“Massacred for Gold: The Chi-
nese in Hells Canyon” by R.
Gregory Nokes.
Oregonian. He served as
a correspondent in Latin
America and as a diplo-
matic correspondent in
Washington, D.C. During
his career, he traveled to
more than 50 countries on
reporting assignments. Af-
ter retiring from journalism
in 2003, Nokes embarked
on a second career as an
author and lecturer on
Northwest history.
For more information
about library programs and
services, call 503-325-7323
or visit astorialibrary.org