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Oregon Experience: The Logger’s Daughter
Documentary
recounts
family history
G w en Trice, like many girls
growing up in La G rande during
the 1970s liked skiing, hiking, the
Mary T yler M oore Show and
boys. But as the only A frican-
A m erican kid in her class, she
always felt a little different.
Years later, living in Seattle,
she was still an outsider — only
this tim e it was her rural back
ground that branded her as differ
ent.
The next episode o f Oregon
Public B roadcasting's O regon
E x p e r ie n c e , "T h e L o g g e r's
D aughter," te lls the story o f
Trice’s exploration o f her family's
past and how she found a com
munity that em braced her. It's a
"family" she never knew she had.
Large tim ber harvests require
many workers, and logging camps
were once com mon in the Oregon
woods. But few of those cam ps
housed whole families — the fact
that M axville did made the town
distinctive.
M axville was built in 1923, al
most overnight, by the Bowman-
H icks L um ber Com pany near
W allow a in eastern Oregon.
The M axville w orkers came
mostly from out-of-state, trans
ported by the com pany directly
from the deep South. But what
made Maxville unique was that 50
to 60 o f its citizens were African-
American.
It was hom e to the only segre
gated school in Oregon. Its black
residents lived in a group o f
houses across the tracks from the
w hite residents. Y et conflicts
across racial lines were few and
friendships many.
M axville was officially closed
in the early 1930s, though a few
loggers and their families stayed
on for another dozen years. And
m ost o f w hat happened there
during its short existence is not
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Some o f
Oregon's early
settlers were
black loggers
who worked the
forests o f
eastern Oregon.
widely known.
Enter Gwendolyn Trice. A bl ack
w om an from La Grande, G w en
never knew m uch ab o u t her
father's early years in Oregon.
She only recently learned that he
had left A rkansas in the 1920s
with his father to live and w ork in
this place called M axville.
A couple o f years ago, Gw en
set out with a tape recorder and a
video cam era to learn more about
M axville. Her gathering o f oral
histories took some unexpected
turns as she becam e im m ersed in
a much w ider com m unity. The
story o f that com m unity, its his
tory and its people is revealed in
"The Logger's Daughter."
An original production, the
docum entary airs on O PB-TV on
M onday, Feb. 9 at 9 p.m. and
repeats on W ednesday, Feb. 11
at 3 a.m.; Sunday, Feb. 15 at 10:30
p.m .;andT uesday,Feb. 17 at4:30
a.m. The docum entary can also
be seen online after Feb. 9 by
visiting opb.org.
Oregon Experience is an excit
ing new history series on OPB-
TV that brings to life fascinating
stories that help us understand
who we are and that reinforce our
shared identity as Oregonians.
The series, co-produced by the
Oregon Historical Society and
Oregon Public Broadcasting takes
advantage o f the extensive film,
video and stills from the archives
o f both organizations, and draws
upon the expertise o f OHS re
searchers and historians.
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A historic photo shows
students at a segre
gated school near
Wallowa in eastern
Oregon. The school
served children o f black
timber workers who
were transported to
Oregon from the South
to work in the forests.
Racism
in Oregon
Oregon Public Broad
casting will broadcast
the 1991 docum entary
“ L ocal C o lo r” w hich
c h ro n ic le s the little -
known history of racism
in Oregon and the mov
ing story of people, both
black and w hite who
worked for civil rights.
This historic documen
tary preserves stories
that might otherwise be
lost and forgotten. It will
air for Black H istory
Month on Thursday, Feb.
5 at 9 p.m.
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Artist Auctions King Portrait
A portrait o f Dr. M artin Luther King
Jr. by renowned performance artist David
G aribaldi has gone to auction on E-Bay
to benefit a local volunteering group.
The portrait was created during half
time o f the Portland Trail Blazers vs.
M ilwaukee Bucks game on the national
M artin Luther King holiday on Jan. 19.
Created in a matter of minutes, this 6-
foot tall canvas came alive with oil paints
splashing around, as David painted with
both hands in rhythm to music and the
image o f Dr. King began to appear.
All proceeds o f this auction benefit
Hands on G reater Portland, a non-profit
dedicated to connecting people in the
greater Portland com m unity with mean
ingful volunteer opportunities.
To learn more about the artist, visit his
web site garibaldiarts.com .
T erry F amily
SPINAC0HJMN
Performance artist David Garibaldi and the portrait o f Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. he created during a recent Trail
Blazer game is going on the auction block for charity.
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