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Clamshell Railroad Days at Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum
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Author discusses
‘Oregon’s First
Pioneer’ at
Seaside library
SEASIDE — Jerry Sutherland, author of
“Calvin Tibbets: Oregon’s First Pioneer,” will
discuss his book at the Seaside Public Li-
brary’s Community Room at 1 p.m. Saturday,
July 15. The event, hosted by the Friends of
the Seaside Library, will include book sales
and signings.
“When Calvin Tibbets ventured to Oregon
Country in 1832, it was looking more British
than American,” the library said in a summa-
ry. “That’s because Hudson’s Bay Company,
the Crown’s proxy, had virtual control of
the area and some of their French Canadian
employees had retired to farms along the
Willamette River.”
Before Tibbets, the only Americans in the
region were explorers, fur trappers, scientists
and sailors. His goal was different: to settle
Oregon with Americans and make it part of
the United States.
Tibbets died soon after achieving his goal,
according to press materials, and all that he
had done to realize it soon faded into the
shadows of Oregon history.
Sutherland spent two years scouring
archives and visiting Calvin Tibbets’ haunts
across the United States and Canada to
expand on material his father, Art Sutherland,
had collected during the previous seven years.
The Seaside Public Library is located at
1131 Broadway St. For more information,
visit seasidelibrary.org or call 503-738-6742.
Fun on track
during Clamshell
Railroad Days
ILWACO, WASH. — The Columbia
Pacific Heritage Museum celebrates
Clamshell Railroad Days on July 15
and 16 with expanded events and old
favorites, the museum announced.
The $5 admission fee includes a
souvenir pin and museum entrance
for two days. Kids under 12 are
admitted free.
On Saturday, doors open at 10
a.m. with model train layouts hosted
by the Peninsula Model Railroad
Club. Guests will include the Mt.
Rainer N-scale club, the Pacific
Northwest On30 Club, the Portland
Cascade Z-scale club and Dean and
Donna Mead’s Lego train among
others.
“Kids will love the Kid’s Craft
Caboose with fun crafts and face
painting,” the museum said in a
release.
Join the museum for “Train
Talks,” historic railroad lectures pre-
sented by local railroad historians.
Also on Saturday, Mark Clem-
mens presents “The Railroad that
Ran by the Tides” at 2 p.m. Gary
Kobes will share new research with
his lecture “The Megler Extension of
the IR&N: How Union Pacific came
to the Columbia,” to be held 1 p.m.
Sunday.
The rail car Nahcotta will be open
for touring both days. Members of
the Nahcotta Preservation Commit-
tee will be on site to talk about new
findings and the ongoing preserva-
tion of the rail car.
The museum is open 10 a.m. to
4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
Thursdays are free thanks to support
from the Port of Ilwaco. For more
information, call 360-642-3446 or
visit columbiapacificheritagemuse-
um.org.
The train
at Nahcotta,
Engine No. 6,
in 1913
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