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September IO, 2008
‘History Detectives’ Examine Cannons
Vancouver.
G reg Shine, Fort V ancouver
National Historic Site’schiefranger
and historian, met with the show 's
host, Dr. G w endolyn W right and
opened his research files to the
History Detectives team.
He provided details essential
to their investigation, including
first-hand accounts of the Shark's
personnel locating debris and
carronades from the schooner in
PBS series
examines
beach find
The popular PBS television
series "History Detectives" will
feature the Fort V ancouver N a
tional Historic Site and the work
o f park staff in helping uncover
the story o f two carronades (short
cannons) recently found on the
Oregon Coast.
T heepisode will airon Oregon
Public B roadcasting's Channel
I Oat 9 p.m. on M onday, Sept. 15.
Last w inter, storm s unearthed
a pair o f carronades on the beach
at Arch Cape. Many reports as
so c iated them w ith the U.S.
Schooner Shark, a U.S. Navy ves
sel wrecked on the Columbia River
bar in 1846 after departing Fort
An encrusted cannon
believed to be from the
USS Shark sits in the
sand during low tide Feb.
19 on the beach at Arch
Cape. The PBS television
series "History Detec
tives " has examined the
evidence in an upcoming
broadcast.
Getting Political with New CD
Rapper puts in
his two cents
(AP) — Young Jeezy may seem
like an unlikely political com m en
ta to r, g iv e n h is s ta tu s as a
gangsta rapper. But on his new
CD , "The Recession," he talks
about more than just hustling,
putting in his two cents about the
econom y, struggling tim es and
Dem ocratic presidential candi
date Barack Obama.
The platinum-selling, Atlanta-
based rapper is broadening his
subject m atter as he also tries to
appeal to a w ider audience. Solar,
it seems he's achieving that goal:
He appeared on Usher's No. I hit,
"Love in This Club," and got a
boost when Michael Phelps gave
him props in Beijing, noting he
jam m ed to the Jeezy hit "GoGetta"
before bringing hom e a record
eight O lym pic gold medals.
Sitting back while wearing an
O ham a T-shirt and studded dia-
YoungJeezy
mond chain, the 30-year-old talked
about his third album with The
Associated Press.
How was w riting and record
ing "The Recession"?
Jeezy: I think I came up with the
name like m idstream into the al
bum because when I looked up at
the songs I had, like "My Presi
dent" and "Crazy W orld." 1 was with good music. W e're going to
like, maybe I'm paying too much party our way through it; we can
attention to w hat's going on, and not sit here and cry about it.
How was it recording the single
I didn't want my music to com e
out in a depressive (or) negative "Put On" featuring Kanye W est?
Jeezy: I had been all over the
way. So I looked at what I had and
I was like, "The rest of the songs world and I never had one song
that I am going to do are going to that everybody was into.... I put on
be those 'W e Shall O vercom e' for Atlanta. I don't care what no
anthem s that were always made, body says — if you're in Atlanta
for more than two days, you're
but were more street."
W hat's the overall m essage going to see me. in the streets, the
you're trying to send with the new clubs, the mall. So I felt like I put on
for my city but everywhere I went,
album?
Jeezy: We as people, we have everybody else felt like that. I
to stand. We have to get together reached out to Kanye because my
as far as voting, we have to get element o f it was so street (that) I
together as far as our com m uni wanted to see how he felt and what
ties, we have to get together as far he felt "putting on" was. And he
aso u rcu ltu re. We all know we're went ina totally different direction;
in a recession, how are we going he felt like "putting on" was put
to deal with it? W e're going to ting on his homies and putting on
deal with it the same way when other people in the game. And it
the V ietnam W ar was going on: just made sense.
Little Feet, Big Drums
P ortland T aiko inv ites fam i
lies to jo in them for an a fte r
noon o f taiko, dance and crafts
on Saturday, Sept. 20 at 2 p.m. at
N ew m ark T heatre in the P ort
land C e n ter for the P erform ing
A rts.
"L ittle Feet, Big D rum s!” is a
sp ecial c o n c e rt p ro g ram for
fam ilies and ch ild ren that e x
plores the art o f Japanese drum s,
d a n c e and th e tr a d itio n s o f
O bon, a Jap an ese and Japanese
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A m erican holiday celeb ratin g
a n c e stry .
“T he co n c ert is very interac-
Reggie Houston &
Sharing Japanese traditions
tiv e ,” says M ichelle Fujii, pro
gram artistic co-director.
T he au d ien ce will be encour
aged to participate and kids will
be invited to jo in p erfo rm ers on
stage to learn an O bon dance.
A pre-show exhibit in the lobby
will open at I p.m. with families
trying their hand at folding origami
(paper art) and discovering the
diversity in Obon traditions that
exist in both Japan and America.
A dvance tick ets are a v a il
able at the PCPA Box O ffice, by
v isitin g p o rtla n d ta ik o .o rg or
calling 5O3-79O-ARTS.
the vicinity o f Arch Cape and
descriptions o f the S hark's vary
ing armament.
He also helped provide the
broader context to the story
why the Shark was in the Pacific
Northwest and why a U.S. Navy
vessel was connected to Fort
Vancouver, the British Hudson s
Bay C om pany's headquarters and
depot.
In addition, park curato rT essa
Langford and museum technician
Heidi Pierson prepared images
and maps from the p ark 's collec
tion to help illustrate the program.
"The History D etectives had a
really fun time filming at one o f
o u r local treasu res, the Fort
V an co u v er N ational H istoric
Site," noted Renato Rodriguez,
researcherand associate producer
for Oregon Public Broadcasting
and the History Detectives.
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Instead, Moore opted for a ers" vote this year.
Moore readily acknow ledges
symbol o f gratitude to his fans
as he approaches the 20th anni this a film for Democrats.
"T h is film , really is n 't for
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