SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 2017
No summer break for LCC
programs in Florence
Learn more about the region
and yourself this summer as a
student in Lane Community
College Florence Center’s
Continuing Education pro-
gram.
Take a memoir writing class
or get moving with one of the
health and fitness classes this
summer; go river clamming
with a local guide or learn
about the raptors of the Pacific
Northwest; take a tour of the
vast book collection featuring
beautiful illuminated and gold-
leafed books from the early
12th century now housed at
Mount Angel Abbey or head
down to Elkton and Roseburg
for lessons on pioneer history,
butterflies and wine.
Registration for these and
other summer programming is
now underway.
For more information and to
register, visit www.lanecc.edu/
ce or call 541-997-8444, ext.
4825.
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News about
the Siuslaw
Public Library
Library Tidings,
a regular feature
of the Siuslaw News,
features news about
upcoming Siuslaw
Public Library pro-
grams for adults and
children, new books
and videos, and
other library news of
interest to the com-
munity.
Library Tidings by
Kevin Mittge
Adult Services
Librarian
Siuslaw Public Library
(541) 997-3134
Book Review
“Forty Autumns”
By Nina Willner
Growing up in a provincial
country village outside of Berlin,
Hannah was encouraged by her
schoolteacher father to learn
about life beyond their small
town and to follow her dreams.
But at the end of World War
II, the Soviets took control of the
eastern part of Germany and
established a repressive commu-
nist satellite state — East
Germany — which used brutal
force and a massive wall to cut
off East from West.
Determined to live free,
Hanna made a dangerous escape
to West Germany. But the price
of freedom — leaving behind
her parents, her eight siblings,
and her home — was heartbreak-
ing. Uprooted, Hanna eventually
moved to America, where she
settled down with her husband, a
U.S. Army officer, and had chil-
dren of her own, but she never
forgot her parents and siblings
trapped on the other side of the
Berlin Wall.
Throughout the Cold War, the
West knew little about East
Germany, except that it was a
bleak authoritarian state ruled by
a communist dictator, controlled
by a ruthless secret police, and
that it was a staging ground for
Soviet aggression into the West.
Growing up near Washington,
D.C., Hanna’s daughter Nina
Willner, became the first female
U.S. Army intelligence officer to
lead sensitive intelligence col-
lection operations in East Berlin
at the height of the Cold War.
Though separated by only a
few miles, American Nina and
her German relatives — a large
family that included her aunt
Heidi and cousin Cordula, a
member of the East German
Olympic training team — were
kept apart for more than four
decades by a bitter political war.
“Forty Autumns: A Family’s
Story of Courage and Survival
on Both Sides of the Berlin
Wall,” brings into focus these
resolute women who fought to
preserve what matters most —
three generations whose lives
embodied one nation's birth and
demise.
This is a personal look at a
tenuous era that divided a city, a
nation, and the world — and
continues to haunt us today.
Pete Seeger: the Man
and the Music
On Thursday, July 29, at 6 p.m.,
the library will present Pete
Seeger: the Man and The Music.
Musical duo Hank & Claire
take listeners back in time with
their banjo and 12-string guitar
as they sketch the line from folk
legend Pete Seeger’s passion for
social justice issues; labor, war,
civil rights and the environment-
to the music he inspired.
Learn the back stories and
sing along with songs like
“Where Have All the Flowers
Gone?” and “Turn, Turn, Turn.”
Pacific Northwest duo Hank
Payne and Claire Favro-with
their guitars, psalteries, banjo
and dulcimer-celebrate the lega-
cy of live acoustic music-mak-
ing.
Whether interpreting a con-
temporary or standard song, dig-
ging into traditional or com-
posed mountain music, or shar-
ing award-winning original
tunes, the duo sing terrific sto-
ries with rich harmonies.
Cuba in Transition:
A photographic journey
Don’t forget that on Saturday,
June 24, at 1 p.m., Vicki Sieber-
Benson and Bill Benson will be
presenting their photographs of a
recent trip to Cuba.
Don’t miss this opportunity to
learn about this enigmatic nation
and people.
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A group of more than 50
attendees were entertained by
writer and speaker Loren
Spivack during a barbecue on
Saturday sponsored by the
Republican Club of Florence
and Florence Liberty Alliance.
Spivack has appeared as a
guest on CNN, the Glenn
Beck Program and NBC News
and others, and is the author
of three political parody
books. He was joined by can-
didates JoRae Perkins (U.S.
District
4
House
of
Representatives) and Teri
Grier (Oregon House District
9).
In addition to hamburgers
COURTESY PHOTO
Guest speaker Loren Spivack spoke at the Republican Club of Florence and Florence
Liberty Alliance barbecue on Saturday.
and hot dogs, the group
enjoyed homemade potluck
dishes and a flag-decorated
American pie. The Elks RV
Park provided the venue for
the event.
Heritage Players
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On Friday, June 30, at 7
p.m., the Siuslaw Pioneer
Museum will present the
return of the John Quay
Heritage Players, at this
month’s “Storytime,” held at
the museum.
The Heritage Players were
started in 1995 by then
Museum Director John Quay
and have performed intermit-
tently since then.
The goal of the players is
to historically reflect the area
from a diversity of view-
points. The presentation is
shared through personal
monologues of early settlers
and dramatizations of fact-
based incidents.
The Players hope to edu-
cate as well as entertain and
there is no charge for the
presentation.
A group of new actors as
well as some old faces have
come together to once again
bring the Siuslaw Pioneer
experience to life at the
museum.
The public is encouraged
to come and meet local his-
torical figures Christina and
William Kyle, Clara Gamble
Harding, Elizabeth Knowles,
Harvey Hanson, Elizabeth
Holverstott Morris and
Indian Dan.
Light refreshmens will be
served before the show.
For more information on
The
Siuslaw
Pioneer
Museum, call 541-997-7884.
1749 Highway 101 • 541-997-1200
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