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Siuslaw Public
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Library Tidings by Kevin Mittge features news about
upcoming Siuslaw Public Library programs for adults
and children, new books and videos, and other library
news of interest to the community.
them identity and community, immigra-
tion and trade, security and global power.
“The Heartland”
And food.
by Kristin L. Hoganson
To read it is to be inoculated against us-
When Kristin L. Hoganson arrived in
ing
the word “heartland” unironically ever
Champaign, Ill., after teaching at Harvard,
studying at Yale and living in the D.C. again.
metro area with various stints overseas,
“The Oregon Coast Highway”
she expected to find her new home, well,
with Laura Wilt
isolated. Even provincial. After all, she had
Author
Laura
Wilt will be at the library
landed in the American heartland, a place
where the nation’s identity exists in its pris- on Saturday, June 22, at 1 p.m., to discuss
her latest book, “Images of America: Ore-
tine from.
gon Coast Highway.” Wilt is a librarian in
Or so we have been taught to believe.
Struck by the gap between reputation Oregon’s Department of Transportation
and reality, she determined to get to the who will tell the story of the construction
bottom of history and myth. The deeper of this amazing, iconic highway.
By the time the final links in the Oregon
she dug into the making of the modern
Coast
Highway were made in 1936, the
heartland, the wider her story became as
she realized that she’d uncovered an un- highway stretched 394 miles from Astoria
heralded crossroads of people, commerce to the border of California. It had taken 12
years to complete the construction over
and ideas.
But the really interesting thing, Ho- stretches of rugged headlands and thick
ganson found, was that over the course of forests.
Early travel along the coast was difficult;
American history, even as the region’s con-
nections with the rest of the planet became what roads existed were generally unim-
increasingly dense and intricate, the idea proved and often completely impassable
of the rural Midwest as a steadfast heart- during the rainy winter months. In many
land became a stronger and more stub- cases, the beaches themselves served as
the only means of transporting freight and
bornly immovable myth.
In enshrining a symbolic heart, the passengers. When Maj. Henry Bowlby, the
American people have repressed the kinds first Oregon State Highway engineer, out-
of stories that Hoganson tells, of sweeping lined a proposed system of state highways
in 1914, he presented the vision of a coast-
breadth, depth and soul.
In “The Heartland,” Hoganson drills al highway to the Oregon State Highway
deep into the center of the country, only Commission.
The eventual construction of this high-
to find a global story in the resulting core
way
opened access to the Willamette Val-
sample. Deftly navigating the disconnect
between history and myth, she tracks both ley and beyond for many formerly isolated
the backstory of this region and the evolu- coastal communities. It also signaled an
tion of the idea of an unalloyed heart at the economic shift that included the promo-
tion of tourism and the accommodation
center of the land.
A provocative and highly original work of the flood of visitors anxious to take ad-
of historical scholarship, “The Heartland” vantage of the spectacular vistas along the
addresses pressing preoccupations, among Oregon coast.
Book Review
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