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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
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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.
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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.