Hoff man Gallery
opens August show
MANZANITA — Hoff man Center for
the Arts’ new show will run Aug. 5 to Aug.
29 at the gallery, 594 Laneda Ave.
The show features artists Joe Robinson
and Audrey Sloan.
Robinson will present “Crow’s Shadow
Lithography.” The show will feature work
created by artists at the Crow’s Shadow
Institute of the Arts, which was founded
in 1992 by painter James Lavadour on the
Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian
Reservation.
Sloan will feature anagama-fi red ceram-
ics. The works celebrate diff erent natural
elements. Pieces are inspired by observing
Bay City and Tillamook Bay.
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“These tales have come out since these his-
toric events have occurred.”
The stories range from tales of ghostly
treasure hunters eternally searching for bur-
ied gold, to accounts of lighthouses haunted
by the souls of shipwrecked seamen, to sto-
ries about the spirits of shanghaied sailors
wandering the underground tunnels they were
dragged through to involuntary service on a
stranger’s ship. Kitmatcher said some of his
favorite tales include the stories of:
• Bandage Man, the supposed ghost of
an injured logger that tries to jump into the
back of pick-ups and other open vehicles
driving along U.S. Highway 26 near Can-
non Beach.
• The J.C. Cousins, a pilot boat that
wrecked in 1883 after taking several unex-
plained and erratic trips across the Colum-
bia River near Clatsop Spit. Both of the
lifeboats were missing from the ship once
it was recovered, and none of the crew was
ever found.
• The General Warren, a sidewheeler that
wrecked on Clatsop Spit in 1852. The bod-
ies of a newlywed couple who had been
on their way to their honeymoon washed
ashore, reportedly holding hands.
• Terrible Tilly, a lighthouse stranded
from land, yet involved in ghost stories as
early as the 1880s and as recently as the
1940s.
• O ysterville, Washington’s cemetery, a
burial site for a number of unknown sail-
ors who lost their lives to the G raveyard of
Concert
set for
Saturday
Anna
Tivel
SEAVIEW — The Sou’wester His-
toric Lodge will host Portland singer-song-
writer Anna Tivel for a concert from 8 to
9:30 p.m. on Saturday at the lodge, 3728 J
Place.
The show will be open to all ages and
free to watch.
Some of Audrey Sloan’s ceramic vases.
The gallery is open from 1 to 5 p.m. Fri-
day through Sunday. Admission is free.
the Pacifi c.
Kitmacher chose to include only stories
with multiple reported sightings. The bibli-
ography section includes well over 100 ref-
erences. One-off hauntings did not make the
cut.
“My background is as an attorney, as a
professor … and also as a senior federal exec-
utive, so I don’t take anything at face value.
I always try to look to see if there are at least
numerous reported sightings,” he said.
Kitmacher said he views most of the sto-
ries as a sort of supernatural interpretation of
historical events. He would not describe him-
self as a “full believer” in ghosts. However, he
said he has experienced potentially supernatu-
ral run-ins on two occasions.
Once, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, he saw
what he thought was a Civil War reenactor —
until the man inexplicably disappeared on an
open plain upon Kitmacher’s second glance.
Another time, a mysterious German coin
appeared in his house shortly after two family
deaths, and the coin seemed to move to new
places in the room when left alone.
Despite those two personal encounters and
the countless ghost stories he researched to
write the book, Kitmacher said he’s never got-
ten spooked.
“I can’t say exactly why that is … but I
have never come in contact with anything that
would make me afraid or scared,” he said.
“I’ll say that now and I’ll knock on wood so it
doesn’t happen.”
K itmacher is also set to publish “Spirits
Along the Columbia River,” a second install-
ment of ghost stories, later this year.
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