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16 // COASTWEEKEND.COM Cranberrian Fair celebrates the local harvest ILWACO and LONG BEACH, Wash. — A celebration of the local harvest, including all things cranberry, kicks off the fall season on the Long Beach Peninsula. Foods, crafters, vendors and more will show- case the area’s rich heritage during the annual Cranberrian Fair from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 8 and 9. Collectible Cranberrian Fair buttons are $5 each and cover admission to all events at the Columbia Paciic Heritage Museum, located at 115 SE Lake St. in Ilwaco. The Paciic Coast Cranberry Research Foundation and Cranberry Museum is free and located at 2907 Pioneer Road in Long Beach. As part of Cranberrian Fair activities, the Columbia Pacif- ic Heritage Museum in Ilwaco will host a variety of vendors, offering handmade items such as pottery, jewelry, paint- ings, cranberry vine baskets, homemade baked goods and more. Demonstrations will be conducted by the Penin- sula Rug Hookers, local iber spinners, the Peninsula Quilt Guild, blacksmith Gary Lewis and other artists throughout the day both Saturday and Sunday at the museum. On Saturday, the Columbia Paciic Heritage Museum will welcome three authors as they present readings from their re- cently published books, each with a cranberry connection, with book signings to follow: • James Tweedie, author of “Long Beach Short Stories: Possibly Untrue Tales from the Paciic Northwest” will keep listeners guessing until the very end. Was the body found in Cole McCrae’s cranberry bog the victim of a tragic accident or murder? What might happen if a valuable pearl was found in a Willapa Bay oyster? Come to the museum at 11 a.m. Saturday to meet Tweedie and ask him yourself. • At 1 p.m. Saturday, Michael Lemeshko, author of SUBMITTED PHOTO SUBMITTED PHOTO SUBMITTED PHOTO Local cranberries will be sold outside the entrance to the Co- lumbia Paciic Heritage Museum. Julia Harrison will give the talk “Ripe for the Telling: Sur- prising Stories of Washington Fruit” at 2 p.m. Oct. 9. SUBMITTED PHOTO Blacksmith Gary Lewis from Portland will demonstrate his techniques in general blacksmithing. “The Cantankerous Farm- er vs. The Ilwaco Railway & Navigation Company,” will explore the life of John Briscoe, a cantankerous farm- er who served as the ifth rep- resentative for Paciic County to the Washington Territorial Legislature and as a probate judge, whose “feuds” with developers and landowners, including the Ilwaco Railway and Navigation Co., were many and his legal wrangling well known. • At 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Sydney Stevens, author of “Jailhouse Stories from Early Paciic County,” will bring true crimes to light. Hang- ings, lynching and jail breaks are long forgotten in Paciic County, where tourists lock to quaint attractions every season. But back in the early days, when the irst jailhouse was built, this was a rough, rustic setting. The Cranberry Trolley will run between the Columbia Paciic Heritage Museum and the Paciic Coast Cranberry Research Foundation from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday. Space is limited, and seating is on a irst-come, irst-served basis. Self-guided tours of cranberry harvesting will be underway at the Paciic Coast Cranberry Research Foundation. Then, at 2 p.m. Sunday, the Columbia Paciic Heritage Museum will host a special free lecture by anthropologist Julia Harrison of the Human- ities Washington Speakers Bureau. Harrison will give a talk on the messy and juicy history of Washington’s pro- duce industry in “Ripe for the Telling: Surprising Stories of Washington Fruit.” From apples to oranges, huckleberries to durian, Har- rison will cover how these perishable products preserve historic events and relect our changing relationship to the natural world. This discussion includes a large cast of characters: pioneers, entrepreneurs, orchardists, labor activists, a horticultur- al prodigy and Cashmere’s own “Cider King.” Full of suspense, tragedy, triumph, heroism and even some romance, this presentation will reveal some of Wash- ington state’s juiciest stories. Beyond providing nutrition and injecting billions of dol- lars into Washington state’s economy, fruit connects us to the past, to the environment and to people we may never meet. John Orr, left, and Ted Brainard make up the local duo Red Beans and Rice. Hear them perform Sunday, Oct. 9 at the Bridgewater Bistro restaurant in Astoria. Hear local duo perform as Red Beans and Rice Ted Brainard, John Orr will play blues, swing at Bridgewater Bistro ASTORIA — Ted Brainard and John Orr will team up as the musical duo Red Beans and Rice, offering a tasty sample of Southern blues, swing and Tin Pan Alley tunes from the 1920s and 1940s. Hear the local duo per- form on guitar, mandolin and violin during brunch, 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sun- day, Oct. 9, at Bridgewater Bistro, located in Suite A at 20 Basin St. Red Beans and Rice will also perform at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 21 at the restaurant. The two musicians form a cohesive unit, moving easily from pleasant background to engaging entertainment. Red Beans and Rice’s repertoire includes “Up the Lazy River,” “Crazy about the Automobile,” “Sheik of Araby,” “I’m Confessin’,” “Blue Moon Nights,” “It Should Have Been Me,” “Basin Street Blues,” “On the Street Where You Live” and “Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby.” Both Brainard and Orr are from Astoria after a life of sampling the musical scenes of America. Orr was born and raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan, after which he traveled to Arizona, Texas and Cali- fornia before inally setting in Oregon. In addition to playing dobro and guitar across many styles, includ- ing lead guitar and vocals with Astoria band Acustica World Music, Orr also plays the pedal steel and lap steel guitar. Among his vocal in- luences, Orr counts The Beatles, Frank Sinatra, Mose Allison and Louis Prima, and his guitar inluences include Django Reinhardt and Barney Kessel. Brainard was born and raised in Southern Califor- nia, where he cut his teeth on the competitive studio and club scene as a young musician. He has toured extensively, both as a solo and band performer. In addition to being a familiar player on the local scene, alone and with groups like Swing Cats of Astoria, Brainard is also a nationally renowned instrument repair specialist. Brainard’s inluences include Louie Jordan, Leon Redbone, Doc Watson and and Stephan Grappelli.
