SIUSLAW NEWS | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2018 | 5A
OCCO concert to celebrate
American immigrants
The Oregon Coast Chamber
Orchestra (OCCO) will open
the 2018-19 concert season
with a fall program featuring
works by immigrants to Amer-
ica and children of those immi-
grants.
The new citizen artists took
full advantage of the opportu-
nities presented by an accept-
ing America to celebrate the
human spirit through music
and song.
Simultaneously, America’s
growing global cultural pres-
ence enabled them to reach a
world population eager to em-
brace their talents and devo-
tion. Selections from orchestral
composers Sergei Rachmani-
noff, Eric Korngold, Victor
Herbert, Persy Grainger and
Igor Stravinsky make up the
first half of the program, while
popular favorites from Leroy
Anderson, Pete Rugolo, Henry
Mancini and brothers George
and Ira Gershwin complete the
second half.
The audience will be invited
to sing along with Irving Ber-
lin's “God Bless America” to
bring the concert to an end.
Performances are Sunday,
Nov. 11, at 2 p.m., at the Reed-
sport; Church of God, Reed-
sport, Friday, Nov. 16, at 7 p.m.
at the Yachats Community
Presbyterian Church, Yachats;
and Sunday, Nov. 18, at 2 p.m.
at the Presbyterian Church of
the Siuslaw in Florence.
Tickets are $10 for adults,
students and children under 10
are free. Visit OCCOrchestra.
org for more details.
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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 community.
Library Tidings by
Kevin Mittge
Book Review
“Lincoln’s Last Trial”
by Dan Abrams
At the end of the summer
of 1859, 22-year-old Peachy
Quinn Harrison went on tri-
al for murder in Springfield,
Ill. Abraham Lincoln, who
had been involved in more
than 3,000 cases — including
more than 25 murder trials —
during his two-decades-long
career, was hired to defend
him.
This was to be his last great
case as a lawyer.
What normally would have
been a local case took on mo-
mentous meaning. Lincoln’s
debates with Senator Stephen
Douglas the previous fall had
gained him a national fol-
lowing, transforming the lit-
tle-known, self-taught lawyer
into a respected politician.
He was being urged to make
a dark-horse run for the pres-
idency in 1860. Taking this
case involved great risk.
His reputation was untar-
nished, but should he lose this
trial, should Harrison be con-
victed of murder, the spotlight
now focused so brightly on
him might be dimmed.
He had won his most recent
murder trial with a daring and
dramatic maneuver that had
become a local legend, but
another had ended with his
client dangling from the end
of a rope.
The case posed painful
personal challenges for Lin-
coln. The murder victim had
trained for the law in his of-
fice, and Lincoln had been his
friend and his mentor.
His accused killer, the
young man Lincoln would
defend, was the son of a close
friend and loyal supporter.
And to win this trial he would
have to form an unholy alle-
giance with a longtime enemy,
a revivalist preacher he had
twice run against for political
office — and who had bitterly
slandered Lincoln as an “infi-
del … too lacking in faith to
be elected.”
“Lincoln’s Last Trial” cap-
tures the presidential hope-
ful’s dramatic courtroom con-
frontations in vivid detail as
he fights for his client — but
also for his own blossoming
political future. It is a moment
in history that shines a light
on our legal system, as in this
case Lincoln fought a legal
battle that remains incredibly
relevant today.
Dr. James Brau to Speak
Dr. James Brau from the
University of Oregon will be
speaking this Friday, Nov. 9 at
1 p.m., the topic being: “Re-
port on a Journey to the Be-
ginning of Time.”
He will discuss the activi-
ties of U of O physicists at the
Large Hadron Collider in Ge-
neva, Switzerland. With that
instrument the elusive Higgs
boson was discovered.
What is the Higgs boson?
What role does it play in the
universe today and in the Big
Bang?
These and other questions
will be addressed in this pro-
gram which is targeted to the
non-scientific, general public.
The library is pleased to
co-sponsor this program with
the Adult Continuing Educa-
tion Series at Lane Communi-
ty College.
Hang-It All —
View and Vote
We encourage the commu-
nity to visit the library this
month and view our Hang-
It All art display, featuring a
wide variety of artist work,
from photography to pottery
to wood sculpture to water-
color to block prints.
You can vote for your fa-
vorite work each day you visit
the library and at the end of
the month the People’s Choice
Award will be announced for
the winning entry.
That entry will be on dis-
play the entire month of De-
cember.
Florence Garden Club to host presentation on Monarch butterfles
On Wednesday, Nov. 14,
the Florence Garden Club will
present “The Elkton Commu-
nity Education Center Butterfly
Program and What’s Happen-
ing with Monarchs” with guest
speaker Barbara Slott, the vol-
unteer butterfly steward at the
Elkton Community Education
Center (ECEC).
Slott has a master’s degree in
wildlife biology and has been
interested in the natural world
since childhood.
This program will be held
at 1 p.m. at the Presbyterian
Church of the Siuslaw, located
at 3996 Highway 101.
The public is invited to this
free presentation.
Barbara Slott of the Elkton
Community Education
Center Butterfly Program
will be the guest speaker
on Nov. 14.
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