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WEDNESDAY EDITION
❘ OCTOBER 12, 2016 ❘
Siuslaw News
Coast Life
SECTION B
SENIOR NEWS
CALENDAR
INSIDE — 8B
Arts & Humanities Month
CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK
Community
members gather
in Old Town for
the Wine Walk on
Oct. 8
PHOTOS BY MARK BRENNAN AND CHANTELLE MEYER/SIUSLAW NEWS
T
he Florence area celebrated October as Arts and
Humanities month with multiple gallery shows,
art exhibits and creativity-fueled events the
weekend of Oct. 7 to 9. Including the sixth annual
Chowder Fest and Wine Walk, the Great Glass Float
Give-Away, the third annual demARTS at Siuslaw Public
Library, Florence First Friday, the Second Saturday
Gallery Tour and the Dancing with Sea Lions auction, it
was a very busy weekend honoring public art, commu-
nity spaces and family events.
Dancing with Sea
Lions Auction
on Oct. 8 at the
Florence Events
Center
Chowder Fest
and Great Glass
Float Give-Away
Oct. 9
demARTS on
Oct. 8
at Siuslaw
Public Library
The Salmon Poem
by Juliana Underwood
I hesitate to be unkind
But the salmon has a one-track mind
Once every season, full of fire
He swims upstream higher and higher
Up rocks and rills, up stream and hills
Up higher Cascades, up glassy glades
Through canyons steep and waters deep
Up stones and rocks, up dams and locks
From day to night, from dark to light
Until at last on one bright dawn
He gets there just in time to spawn
Now having done his salmon duty
And having wooed his salmon cutie
And weary from his trip downtown
In quiet waters he will drown
Pondering with his dying bubble
Just why is sex so darn much trouble?
Salmon season rekindles memories
B Y M ARK B RENNAN
Siuslaw News
Area poet shares award-winning work
s the fall leaves
change colors and the
fishing boats pass by her
house on the Siuslaw River
near Mapleton, Juliana
Underwood, 87, is reminded
of why she loves living on
the river.
“The view is always
changing. Sometimes it’s
cloudy one minute and then
all of a sudden the sun
comes out,” she said.
The beauty of the sur-
rounding hills is stunning
this time of year and the
crisp, fresh air draws
Underwood’s memories
back to a journey she took
in 2002, when she entered a
A
Juliana
Underwood
lives on the
Siuslaw River,
where she gets
a birds-eye
view of salmon
activity.
poetry contest and — to her
surprise — won.
“I was taking a trip on a
Rocky Mountain train tour
and they had a poetry con-
test and somehow I won,”
she said.
The winning entry is sim-
ply titled, “The Salmon
Poem.”
“I had never written poet-
ry before and I was sur-
prised to win,” Underwood
said after reading aloud her
winning entry.
“This time of year the
trees are so full of color, and
the boats on the river are so
lovely,” she said. “I just
love living here.”