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Lewis and Clark living
history at Knappton Cove
KNAPPTON COVE — Knappton Cove Her-
itage Center and the Pacifi c Northwest
Living Historians will present a living
history program on Saturday, July 8, and
Sunday, July 9.
During this two-day event, costumed
members of the historians group will
demonstrate the weapons, tools and skills
employed by the explorers of the epic
Lewis and Clark expedition.
Capt. Meriwether Lewis and Capt.
William Clark were sent by U.S. Pres-
ident Thomas Jefferson to explore the
newly acquired Louisiana Territory, and
to seek the best route to the Pacifi c Ocean
through what we now call the Pacifi c
Northwest.
During their voyage of 1804 to 1806,
they led the “Corps of Northwestern
Discovery” overland from St. Louis,
Missouri, to the mouth of the Columbia
River, and back again. With no means for
resupply, the Corps — a U.S. Army unit
of 31 men, accompanied by Sacagawea
and her infant child, Jean Baptiste —
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needed to use a diverse combination of
skills, along with the right tools, in order
to survive.
Dressed in clothing of the style and
materials worn by the Corps voyagers in
1805, the interpreters will demonstrate
and discuss many of those tools and
skills, including loading and fi ring fl int-
lock fi rearms; fi re starting with fl int and
steel; camp cooking; making clothing
from leather; making canoe paddles.
Visitors will also learn the history and
stories of the Lewis and Clark expedi-
tion: the Native people who they met,
the unfamiliar territory they traveled and
mapped, and the strange new animals
and plants they discovered.
Program times:
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday
10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday
The Knappton Cove Heritage Center
is located on Washington State Route
401, along the Lewis and Clark National
Historic Trail, about 3 miles east of the
north end of the Astoria-Megler bridge,
and about 8 miles south of Naselle,
Washington.
The museum inside the historic U.S.
Quarantine Station building will be open
1 p.m. to 4 p.m. (3 p.m. Sunday) during
the event.
For more information and contact
information, visitknapptoncoveheri-
tagecenter.org.
Sou’wester off ers mosaic workshop
SEAVIEW, WASH. — The
workshop series at Sou’west-
er Lodge continues Saturday
and Sunday, July 15 and 16,
with a custom mosaics event
where participants will com-
plete a paneled mosaic using
tiles and found objects.
“You can come prepared
with an idea or sketch of a
design that you would like to
execute (or) take an experi-
mental approach to the mate-
rials,” organizers said. “Either
way, you will come away with
a wonderful, fi nished mosa-
ic panel that is specifi cally
emblematic of the particular
time and place in which it was
made. One of the great things
about mosaic is its durability
and timeless nature.”
The workshop will
include discussion of the his-
tory of mosaics and possible
materials, and an extended
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Christy Wiesenhahn, left, and Damon Ayers
“beach walk lunch hour,”
when participants will look at
different kinds of local mate-
rials (shells, rocks, etc.) they
could use in their works.
Classes are taught by
Damon Ayers and Christy
Wiesenhahn.
Wiesenhahn is primarily a
tile and mosaic artist whose
expanded practice includes
designing theater sets and
working on skateboard
parks. Ayers mostly works in
video, but his practice often
includes actors and extensive
set building, according to
press materials.
Class times:
• 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Satur-
day, July 15 — includes an
hour lunch walk on the beach
• 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Sunday, July 16 — a short
day to grout, fi nish and ad-
mire everyone’s work
The cost is $40, plus a
$10 material fee to be paid
directly to the instructor. This
cost covers both Saturday
and Sunday classes.
Participants are asked
to bring an idea, image or
sketch they would like to ex-
ecute as a tile mosaic. They
should also wear clothes
they will be comfortable in
outdoors. Bring a sack lunch
or snack. Hot tea and coffee
will be provided.
All Sou’wester workshops
are open to the public, but
there is a 12-student limit. All
skill levels are welcome. Stu-
dents under 12 should have a
parent in attendance.
RSVP via souwesterfront-
desk@gmail.com, or call
360-642-2542. The lodge is
located at 3728 J Place.
PHOTO BY GORDON GLARK
National Guardsmen train at Camp Rilea. Machine gun and M-42
air defense weapons carrier are shown in position for maneuvers.
NW
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By RYAN HUME
FOR COAST WEEKEND
Rilea [Raɪ•li•ə]
noun
1. Major General Thomas
E. Rilea: born in Illinois in
1896, Maj. Gen. Rilea spent
most of his life in Salem
and then Astoria, Oregon,
and was a major fi gure in
the Oregon National Guard
throughout the fi rst half of
the twentieth century
2. Camp Rilea Armed
Forces Training Center:
Located on 1,800 acres of the
Clatsop Plains just outside of
Warrenton, this highly regard-
ed military facility provides
diverse natural environments
for both the Oregon and
Washington National Guard
to train in a variety of combat
situations, including aerial
and amphibious assaults.
With three miles of Pacifi c
coast, shooting ranges for
both pistols and rifl es, a fully
equipped campground and
mess hall, and a complete
Military Operations in Urban
Terrain site — which is es-
sentially a fake city complete
with church and city hall that
was once called Millersburg
before it was rebuilt to mirror
an Afghani village — this
expansive facility deserves its
reputation, as The Orego-
nian said, as the “premier
war-fi ghter center” in the
nation.
Camp Rilea is also host to
many police departments’
tactical training exercises
and opens its barracks to
many community events,
including Boy Scout activi-
ties and high school football
camps.
Origin:
Founded in 1927 as Camp
Clatsop, the site was offi cially
renamed in 1959 following
the death of Thomas Rilea,
who was the adjutant general
of Oregon National Guard
and a prominent member
of Astoria civil society at
the time. The honorifi c was
heralded by many, including
The Daily Astorian, to avoid
confusion with nearby Fort
Clatsop.
The origin of the name
Rilea is contested, with theo-
ries claiming an Irish variant
of Riley, or Reilly, or a respell-
ing of the French place-name,
Rillieux, which would then fi x
these ancestors to the village
of Rillieux-la-Pape, a suburb
of Lyon in the Rhône-Alpes. If
the name is in fact a variation
of the Irish Reilly it would
trace its meaning back to a
word once associated with
“valor.”
“‘I live in Astoria,’ [Col. Dean] Perez
says, rejecting the off ered microphone.
‘When things get tough at home, I can
come to Camp Rilea and hang out with
the soldiers.’
He throws it out for grins, but
nobody’s fooled. This is where Perez
belongs.”
— Lori Tobias, “Camp Rilea
commander, Col. Dean Perez, says his is
a ‘died-and-gone-to-heaven job’,” The
Oregonian, May 13, 2013 CW