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A12 Hood River News, Wednesday, June 10, 2015 Traveling Red Chair visits Hood River County bed and breakfasts Where travelers once held photos of Flat Stanley in un- usual places, photographers now shoot photos of a humble red chair. Long considered simply a place to rest after a long day, the lowly wooden chair has been elevated to celebrity status, and is being welcomed at inns and bed and breakfast establishments throughout America. It’s all part of a multi-year B&B awareness program that focuses on a traveling red porch chair to highlight the comfort, hospitality and friendliness of bed and break- fasts, and the Red Chair has recently been spending time in Hood River, first at Sakura Ridge B&B, then Hood River B&B, and now at Old Parkdale Inn. Since its start in New Eng- land in 2012, B&Bs and inns have taken inspiring photos of the Red Chair from beaches to bandstands. Thanks to a partnership with BedandBreakfast.com, the Red Chair is making its way across the United States, bringing attention to B&Bs and beautiful travel destina- tions. It traveled along the East Coast and Southern states in 2014 and is making its way to the West Coast in 2015. Participating B&Bs and inns listed on BedandBreak- fast.com host the Red Chair, Submitted photo THE LITTLE chair that could graces the gate at Sakura Ridge B&B, on Riordan Hill Road southwest of Hood River. chronicling its stay with blog posts and photos on www.RedChairTravels.com. It all started in winter 2012 with a single image. Woods Hole Inn innkeeper Beth Colt posted a picture on Facebook of her simple red chair perched on the ice behind her house and watched her page light up with “likes.” The pic- ture was shared on the Face- book page of Julie Ann Cromer, a photographer from Santa Barbara, Calif., who was inspired by the image to visit the Woods Hole Inn and took a second photo of the chair on a local beach. Throughout 2012 and early 2013, the Red Chair developed a personality of its own, being photographed by innkeepers in communities from one end of New England to the other. Starting in Cape Cod, the Red Chair journeyed throughout the six New England states on a 9-month tour. “This chair is the little en- gine that could,” said Colt. “I could never have imagined that it would travel so far, to every corner of America, all on the kindness and hospitali- ty of innkeepers. It’s a barn- raising of sorts; the sharing of a piece of Americana.” Stories from the Red Chair’s travels have been chronicled on blogs at each stop throughout its journey. For a compilation of these blogs, visit www.redchairtravels.com/blo g. For a complete view of Red Chair photos, visit redchair- travels.com. Businesses could contact Mary Pellegrini of Old Park- dale Inn at 541-352-5551 or p a rk d a l e @ h o o d r ive rl o d - ging.com to set up a visit with Red. River. Work will also be col- lected in an online anthology and writers will have the op- portunity to share their work at a public reading on Sunday, Aug. 9, at CCA. Registration for ms are available at Columbia Center for the Arts and online at columbiaarts.org. For additional information, email Writing Exhibition Co- ordinator Julie Hatfield at julie@onlineprose.com. The registration fee is $20, and will be limited to 25 par- ticipants. 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Best of the Gorge features paintings, sculpture, jewelry, photogra- phy, and more. $0 July 10 is deadline for Plein Air writing exhibit The registration deadline is July 10 for the 11th annual Pacific Northwest Plein Air Writing Exhibition, orga- nized by the Columbia Cen- ter for the Arts and spon- sored by the Schmuck Fami- ly Fund. As part of the Plein Air Event, writers join visual ar tists in several sites around the Columbia River Gorge from Aug. 3-5 for cre- ative inspiration. “Plein air,” French for plain air, involves creating entirely in place, as opposed to working from sketches or notes done in the field. While any genre is permit- ted, such as poetry, fiction, flash fiction, essay, or mem- oir, writers are limited to 500 words. 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