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NOVEMBER 15, 2018 // 17
In Cannon Beach,
an evening of
poetry and music
CANNON BEACH — Mountain
Writers Series and Tolovana
Arts Colony present an eve-
ning of poetry and music to
celebrate the launch of a new
book by Clemens Starck,
“Cathedrals & Parking Lots,”
7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 16.
The free event takes place
at Tolovana Hall, 3779 S.
Hemlock St.
Starck will be musically
accompanied by fellow Fish-
erPoets Jon Broderick and
Jay Speakman, and read from
his brand new book.
“Cathedrals & Parking
Lots” represents the work of
a lifetime — poems of mem-
orable clarity and substance
based on actual experiences,
whether standing lookout on
the bow of a freighter, dis-
mantling houses for a living,
building a freeway overpass
or traveling to Russia and
studying the language.
In his early 20s, Starck
dropped out of Princeton
and decided to take respon-
COURTESY TOLOVANA ARTS COLONY
Author Clemens Starck.
sibility for his own educa-
tion — to read deeply, travel
widely and write poems with
the precision and plain-
spokenness of the Chinese
masters. Over the decades,
he also kept his mind clear
by making a living with his
hands.
For more information,
visit tolovanaartscolony.org.
Author Jim Aalberg remembers
historical company towns
SEASIDE — The Friends
of the Seaside Library hosts
author Jim Aalberg at 1
p.m. Saturday, Nov. 17, as
he speaks about his book
“Historical Company Towns
of Clatsop County.”
The event will take
place in the Seaside Public
Library’s Community Room.
There will be book sales and
signings.
The history of Clatsop
County and many of its
towns can’t be told without
the blood, sweat and saw-
dust of the Oregon logger.
Likewise, the mill towns
that the industry spawned
have formed the backbone of
our county. Aalberg’s book
focuses on the sawmills at
Wauna, Westport and Brad-
wood that were an integral
part of the logging business.
Aalberg writes that the
folks who played such a
large part of our history were
fueled by “a work ethic that
American towns and cities
could only hope to aspire to
today.”
An amateur historian
and writer, Aalberg is a
fourth-generation Oregonian
and direct descendant of
Captain John West, founder
of Westport.
The library is at 1131
Broadway St. For more infor-
mation, call 503-738-6742 or
visit seasidelibrary.org.
Brighten your holidays with the
Festival of Trees
Saturday, Dec. 1
Communhty open house
featurhng Santa Claus
10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Free admission
Beautiful trees and Candy Cane Lane
festivities for kids!
Gala Dinner and Auction
Doors open at 5:30 p.m.
Thckets: $100 per guest; $1,000 for table of 10
Seashde Chvhc and Conventhon Center
Book it to Bob Pyle’s event at KALA
ASTORIA — KALA wel-
comes author and naturalist
Robert Michael Pyle for a
book release celebration, 7:30
p.m., Friday, Nov. 16. The
evening includes a reading,
book sales and signing, and
complimentary appetizer
social following Pyle’s pre-
sentation.
Doors open at 7 p.m. The
cover is $8. KALA is at 1017
Marine Drive.
In “Magdalena Moun-
tain,” Pyle’s first novel, he
proves he’s as at home in an
imagined landscape as he
is in the natural one. At the
center of this story of majesty
and high mountain magic are
three Magdalenas — Mary,
a woman whose uncertain
journey opens the book; Mag-
dalena Mountain, shrouded in
mystery and menace; and the
all-black Magdalena alpine
butterfly, the most elusive of
several rare and beautiful spe-
cies found on the mountain.
Pyle got his Ph.D. in
butterfly ecology at Yale
University, worked as a con-
servation biologist in Papua
New Guinea, Oregon and
Cambridge, and has written
22 books.
415 First Ave., Seaside, OR 97138
For reservathons or hnformathon, please call 503-717-7604
or vhsht ProvhdenceFesthvalOfTrees.org/Seashde.
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