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Museum continues lecture series Exchange seeds at fourth annual event
ASTORIA — The Columbia
River Maritime Museum
continues its eight-week
Past to Present Lecture
Series in February.
Guest speakers share
knowledge about maritime
issues, industry and history
each week. The lectures
take place at 10:30 a.m.
Tuesdays at the museum.
Admission is free for
museum members and free
with paid admission for
non-members. The museum
is located at 1792 Marine
Drive.
On Tuesday, Feb. 14,
Confluence Project Execu-
tive Director Colin Fogarty
will present “Connecting to
Place: A Confluence Story
Gathering.”
Fogarty has always been
drawn to the notion that we
are surrounded by histo-
ry. So many of the most
compelling stories we tell
connect the present with the
past. As a student at Miami
University in Ohio, that
interest led to a radio doc-
umentary on the history of
the Miami Tribe, relocated
from Indiana to Oklahoma.
At Miami, he fell in love
with radio and with Steph-
anie Wiant. The two moved
to Portland, got married
and Fogarty become a radio
reporter for Oregon Public
Broadcasting. His stories
were frequently heard on
NPR and won regional and
national awards. Along the
way, Fogarty kept returning
to the theme of history and
its role in daily life. He pro-
duced stories on Columbia
River rock art, Lewis and
Clark, and the silencing of
Celilo Falls.
In September 2008, he
became regional editor of
public radio’s Northwest
News Network. He led a
talented team of correspon-
dents who serve 12 public
radio stations in Oregon,
Washington and Idaho. It’s
a small organization that
plays a big role in bring-
ing compelling regional
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Colin Fogarty will speak Feb.
14 about how history sur-
rounds us.
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Patrick Corcoran will speak
Feb. 21 about coastal storms
and community resilience.
coverage to public radio
audiences throughout the
Northwest. So it was a
perfect training ground
for becoming executive
director of the Confluence
Project in 2014. In this
role, Fogarty continues to
help tell compelling stories
about history — not on
the radio but in the land-
scape, through community
outreach and in the digital
realm.
On Feb. 21, Patrick
Corcoran will give the
talk “Storms and Hazards:
Building Community Re-
silience.”
Corcoran is a coastal
natural hazards specialist
based at the Oregon State
University Clatsop County
Extension office in Astoria.
His goal is to help coastal
residents and communities
become more resilient to
natural hazards. Corcoran
engages university re-
searchers and coastal res-
idents in collaborative re-
search and shared learning
about the nature of coastal
natural hazards; helps
communities identify their
vulnerability to hazards;
and connects local people
with data and decision
support tools designed to
help communities adapt to
hazards. His primary areas
of work are tsunami pre-
paredness, coastal storms
and shoreline change.
On Feb. 28, Scott
Williams will close out the
2017 Past to Present lecture
series with the talk “Lost
Castaways and Mystery
Shipwrecks on the Oregon
Coast.”
The North Oregon
Coast has more tales of
lost castaways and mystery
shipwrecks dating to the
period before European and
American exploration and
settlement than the rest of
the West Coast combined.
These stories, recorded
from Indian oral histories
by the earliest settlers, tell
of unknown wrecks, lost
castaways, and mysterious
deserters on the Oregon
Coast between about 1690
and 1780 — the period
before the fur and whaling
trades really took off in the
north Pacific.
Who were these cast-
aways and survivors, and
what ships did they come
from? Come hear Williams,
an archaeologist with the
Maritime Archaeologi-
cal Society, discuss the
Bees-wax Wreck, the later
wreck of Konapee, and the
Neahkahnie vessel, tales
of other survivors such as
Cullaby and Sandy, and
their descendants Soto and
Ramsey. A lot more was
happening on the Ore-
gon coast during the 18th
century than many people
realize.
NEHALEM — The fourth
annual Give Seeds a Chance
Seed Exchange will be held
from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sat-
urday, Feb. 11 at the White
Clover Grange, located at
36585 Highway 53 about
2 miles from Highway 101
near Mohler. The event is
free and open to the public.
Local gardener, per-
maculturist and landscape
designer Maia Holliday
will give a talk at 1 p.m. on
“Planting for Bees and Other
Pollinators.”
Adrian Canilho-Burke,
from Food Roots, will bring
the Tillamook Library seed
exchange pop-up that in-
cludes quite a few varieties
to add into the exchange. He
will also have information
on the Seed to Supper gar-
dening class that will start
in the beginning of March
the North County Recreation
District and on other Food
Roots programs.
At the exchange you can
get herb, vegetable, flower
and native plant seeds and
information. Handouts will
be available for people to
take, and there will also be
some books and resources
on hand for browsing. All
seeds are free, whether you
bring some to share or not.
This year the organiz-
ers of the event encourage
gardeners to commit to
growing favorite flowers and
vegetables and purposely
saving the seeds for next
year’s exchange. In this
way, people can expand the
variety of seeds available
for sharing, increase food
security and have plants that
we know do well in the local
area. There will be a sign-up
sheet available at the seed
exchange where you can
say what you would like to
grow for this purpose. If you
can’t make the exchange and
would like to participate,
email barbaraandchuck@
nehalemtel.net
If you have them, bring
seeds you have collected or
extra commercially pack-
aged seeds you no longer
want. Place your collected
seeds in small envelopes
or zip-sealed baggies, and
mark your seed packet with
as much information as you
have: plant, variety, area
grown, production qualities,
etc. Seeds that are several
years old ideally should be
tested for viability. If you are
not sure if a batch of seeds
is still good, take a sampling
of them (10 or so) and place
between two moist paper
towels in a warm place to
see if they germinate. If half
or more sprout you’re good
to go.
Give Seeds a Chance
is sponsored by the White
Clover Grange, Fulcrum
Community Resources,
Food Roots and the Ne-
halem Garden Club. For
more information, call 503-
368-6874.
Outdoor enthusiasts can experience
Pacific Northwest Sportsmen’s Show
PORTLAND — Now in its
42nd year, the Pacific North-
west Sportsmen’s Show and
Sport Fishing Boat Show,
presented by Federal Premium
Ammunition and Bushnell,
returns to the Portland Expo
Center on Feb. 8 to 12.
If you hunt, fish or just love
to play in the great outdoors,
this Northwest tradition offers
a one-stop shopping and
learning experience, with great
values on fishing and hunting
gear, clothing, camping equip-
ment, sport fishing boats and
activities for the kids.
Hundreds of local and
national vendors and outdoor
experts will be on hand to
showcase the best in outdoor
gear, tools, tips and gadgets.
Enjoy free demonstrations,
seminars and interactive dis-
plays, and up-to-date info for
outdoor enthusiasts.
Check out the latest fishing,
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The Pacific Northwest Sportsman’s Show runs Feb. 8 to 12 at
the Portland Expo Center.
hunting and camping gear,
guides and outfitters along
with information on taxider-
my, lodges and resorts, boats,
campers and tent trailers.
You’ll find ATVs, backpack-
ing, optics, outdoor clothing,
vacation packages and more.
Features include Brutus,
a live Montana grizzly bear
returning to the show, the
Head and Horns Competition,
the Kids’ Trout Pond, outdoor
survival and archery seminars,
camp cooking demos includ-
ing three chefs new to the
show, and the Million Dollar
Ammo Sale.
Admission is $12 for
adults, $5 for kids age 6 to
16, and free for kids under 5.
Two-day passes are $18. For
more information, visit www.
thesportshows.com