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Award-winning ‘Salt In Our Blood’ author to speak at library
Local Oregon Coast author
and attorney, Michele Longo
Eder, originally from the East
Coast, moved to Oregon in the
1970s to attend law school after
reading “Sometimes a Great
Notion.”
She never looked back. Her
award-winning book, “Salt in
Our Blood: The Memoir of a
Fisherman's Wife” is a memoir
about Eder’s experiences bal-
ancing her law career, family
and life as a commercial fisher-
man’s wife and partner.
Against the backdrop of this
bustling life, Eder writes about
her family’s devotion to each
other, the harshness of com-
mercial fishing and the tragic
loss at sea of their oldest son,
Ben.
Eder will be in Florence at
the Siuslaw Public Library to
talk about her touching memoir
on Tuesday, April 21, at 2 p.m.
in the library’s Bromley Room.
Michele Longo and commer-
cial fisherman Bob Eder began
dating shortly after the two
met. Their courtship was short
and Eder once told her secre-
tary, “This fishing life is crazy.
No matter what I do or say,
don't ever let me marry this
guy.”
In six months they were mar-
ried. Together they have raised
two sons, all sharing in the
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unpredictable and dangerous
life of commercial fishing.
In 2001, one of their fishing
vessels, F/V Nesika, capsized
off the Newport coast, tragical-
ly taking the life of the four
crewmembers including their
oldest son, Ben.
In “Salt in Our Blood,” Eder
describes the triumphs and
despairs of her commercial
fishing family’s experiences in
clear and poignant language.
This stirring memoir won the
2009 WILLA Literary Award in
the creative nonfiction catego-
ry.
Given to women writing
about the West, the WILLA
Award recognized the book as a
testament to the Eder family’s
strength and resilience against
both the elements of nature and
personal grief and loss.
Michele Longo Eder is cur-
rently a member of the NOAA
Marine Fisheries Advisory
Committee and serves as a
member of the Board of
Trustees of Oregon State
University.
She and her husband Bob
Eder co-own the F/V Timmy
Boy, a 60-foot steel vessel.
Based out of Newport, Ore.,
Bob and his crew fish primarily
for Dungeness crab and sable-
fish (a groundfish found in
deep water).
Their vessel also engages in
collaborative scientific ocean
research with state and federal
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This book talk is free and
open to the general public and
co-sponsored by Siuslaw
Public Library and Book Ends,
a local book club.
Join in this opportunity to
hear the author’s firsthand
account about the triumphs and
tragedies of an Oregon Coast
commercial fishing family.
Copies of this moving mem-
oir will be available for pur-
chase after the program.
For more information about
the program, visit the Siuslaw
Public Library in person, call
541-997-3132, or visit the
library’s website at www.sius
lawlibrary.org.
Health Fair
to host 5K
Fun Run
The annual Community
Health Fair 5K Fun Run and
Walk will take place Sunday,
April 19. It starts and ends at
the Florence Events Center,
following a familiar route
through Old Town, out
Rhododendron Drive and
back.
Day-of-race registration
begins at 7:30 a.m. and the
5K starts at 9 a.m. However,
participants can pre-register
by email at florenceorheath-
fair @gmail.com.
Entry forms are also avail-
able at Coastal Fitness. The
$20 entry fee helps benefit
the Friends of Florence can-
cer van.
Each registrant receives a
commemorative t-shirt, rib-
bon and refreshments after
the event.
In addition, businesses and
civic groups are encouraged
to enter.
The largest group regis-
tered together under the same
organizational name will
receive a plaque recognizing
their achievement and appre-
ciation for their contribution
in advertising and publicity.
The annual Community
Health Fair takes place
Friday, Saturday and Sunday,
April 17, 18 and 19, at the
Florence Events Center.
The annual Community
Health Fair is presented by
the Florence Seventh-day
Adventist Church and under-
written by Korando Dental
Group.
For more information, call
541-999-2052.
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