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Archaeologist to speak on Middle Village-Station Camp Delve into the relationship
ogy of the Paciic Northwest between publishers, authors
CANNON BEACH — The Can-
and has a number of projects
non Beach History Center &
Museum will welcome spe-
cial guest speaker Douglas
Wilson at 7 p.m. Wednesday,
July 20. Wilson will give a
presentation regarding his
most recent archaeological
work at Middle Village-Sta-
tion Camp, a section of the
Lewis and Clark National
Historical Park near Chi-
nook, Washington.
Middle Village is a con-
tact-period Chinook Indian
village in the estuarine zone
near the mouth of the Co-
lumbia River. This site con-
tains abundant fur trade-era
goods and well-preserved
architectural features associ-
ated with at least three plank
structures. Early fur traders
and explorers described the
village. It was later used as
Lewis and Clark’s Station
Camp during the Corps of
Discovery’s expedition.
Middle Village contains an
abundance of wealth items
and a dearth of productive
tools and debris within a
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Archaeologist Douglas Wilson will speak about the rich history
of Middle Village-Station Camp.
traditional Chinook summer
village. The archaeologi-
cal excavations of the site
suggest the intensity and
context of interaction be-
tween the Chinook and the
Euro-American fur traders.
Wilson serves as the
historical archaeologist to
the Partnerships Program in
Paciic West Region of the
National Park Service and is
the director of the Northwest
Cultural Resources Institute,
a partnership program at
Fort Vancouver National
Historic Site in Vancouver,
Washington. His research
interests include the colonial
archaeology of the North-
west, cultural identity, labor
history, and public archae-
ology and cultural resources
management.
Wilson continues to ex-
plore the historical archaeol-
at Fort Vancouver National
Historical Site. One of the
projects is synthesizing
research on the Fort Vancou-
ver Village, a multicultural
community that formed the
heart of the British fur-trade
headquarters post. Archae-
ological research has been
driven by the program’s
Public Archaeology Field
School, which has sampled
houses and landscape from
the village to explore the
nature of cultural identity,
technological change, glo-
balization, and public inter-
pretation. Wilson’s research
has appeared in the Journal
of Community Archaeology
& Heritage, Columbia Mag-
azine and more.
This program is a free
event open to the public.
The Cannon Beach History
Center & Museum is located
at 1387 S. Spruce St. For
more information, visit
www.cbhistory.org, or call
503-436-9301.
Pigs on the Wing
brings Pink Floyd
psychedelic sounds
ASTORIA — KCRX 102.3
FM welcomes Port-
land-based Pink Floyd tribute
band Pigs on the Wing back
to the Astoria Event Center
for a concert of classic Pink
Floyd tunes at 9 p.m. Friday,
July 15.
Doors open at 8 p.m., and
all ages are welcome. Advance
tickets are $15 and available
through Brown Paper Tickets.
Tickets at the door will be $20.
The event center is located at
255 Ninth St.
Imagine the energy and
electric intensity of “Dark
Side of the Moon”-era Pink
Floyd — in an intimate
theater or rock club envi-
ronment. Pigs on the Wing
has been delivering just that
spellbinding experience to
wide-ranging audiences since
2006.
Pigs on the Wing brings
an intense, high-energy
experience to the table that is
both true to the original and
unapologetic in its interpre-
tation, something that the
band members believe has
set the group apart from
the other tributes from the
beginning. Since its inception
as a one-off performance of
“Dark Side of the Moon”
to the band’s current tour-
ing production, which has
included live renditions of
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Pink Floyd tribute band Pigs on the Wing will perform July 15
at the Astoria Event Center.
the infamous “Wizard of Oz”
sync, full performances of
multiple Floyd albums, and
music from every era of Pink
Floyd’s career, Pigs on the
Wing heavily emphasizes the
rock dynamics and psyche-
delic intensity of 1970s-era
Floyd.
None are bigger Floyd
fans than the members of
Pigs on the Wing themselves.
As vocalist Keeley St. Clair
put it in an interview in Or-
egon Music News, “I think I
can speak for everyone in the
band in saying that we take
good care to be stewards of
the music that we admire so
much as a band ... It’s a big
responsibility to play such
well-loved music.”
Hofman Center
hosts Hawthorne
Books publisher,
author July 16
MANZANITA — The Man-
zanita Writers’ Series will
sponsor the special event
“Inside the Publisher/Au-
thor Relationship,” with an
author reading and conver-
sation between author Me-
gan Kruse and Hawthorne
Books publisher Rhonda
Hughes at 7 p.m. July 16
at the Hoffman Center for
the Arts. Kruse will also
conduct a writing workshop
during the day.
“Call Me Home” is
Kruse’s debut novel,
released from Hawthorne
Books in March 2015, with
an introduction by Elizabeth
Gilbert. The book won the
2015 Rainbow Award for
Gay Contemporary Fiction.
Kruse will read from her
novel. Then she and Hughes
will talk about how to get
published and the editing
process that follows — an
inside view into the pub-
lisher/author relationship.
Kruse grew up in the
Paciic Northwest and
currently lives in Olympia,
Washington. She studied
creative writing at Oberlin
College and earned her
Master of Fine Arts at the
University of Montana. Her
work has appeared widely
in journals and antholo-
gies. She teaches iction at
Eastern Oregon Universi-
ty’s Low-Residency MFA
program, Hugo House and
Gotham Writers Workshop.
She was one of the Nation-
al Book Foundation’s “5
Under 35” for 2015.
Hughes is the publish-
er at Hawthorne Books
in Portland. Now in its
14th year, Hawthorne has
published literary iction
and noniction to consistent
critical acclaim and numer-
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Olympia, Washington, author
Megan Kruse, pictured, will
speak with Hawthorne Books
publisher Rhonda Hughes on
July 16 at the Hofman Cen-
ter.
ous awards. Film options
and publishing rights to
Hawthorne’s works have
been sold worldwide. “If we
specialize in anything, it’s
in inding superb writing
which might be overlooked
by larger houses, and giving
it the attention it deserves.”
The Manzanita Writers’
Series has hosted other
Hawthorne authors includ-
ing Lidia Yuknavitch, Ariel
Gore and Karen Karbo.
Prior to founding
Hawthorne, Hughes had an
extensive career in book
production and printing.
She holds a Master of Arts
in English literature and
completed the Yale Publish-
ing Course.
There will be no Open
Mic session for this special
event. Admission for the
evening reading is $7.
Kruse will present a
writing workshop during
the day on “Crafting Emo-
tion.” Students will learn
how to use object potential,
transcendent details and
other tools to create work
that resonates deeply with
readers. The workshop is
useful to all genres.
The workshop will be
held from 1 to 3:30 p.m.
The fee is $30; register on-
line at hoffmanblog.org.