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Pulitzer Prize-winning
journalist comes to Astoria
Oregon Humanities
hosts author Isabel
Wilkerson at Fort
George July 21
ASTORIA — Oregon Human-
ities’ 2016 Think & Drink
series of provocative conver-
sations with Pulitzer Prize–
winning writers will come to
Astoria on Thursday, July 21.
Isabel Wilkerson, author of
“The Warmth of Other Suns:
The Epic Story of America’s
Great Migration” will speak
at 7 p.m. at the Fort George
Lovell Showroom, located
at 426 14th St. Doors open
at 6 p.m.; the event is free
and open to all ages. Wilk-
erson will join Adam Davis,
executive director of Oregon
Humanities.
Wilkerson spent 15 years
researching “The Warmth of
Other Suns,” interviewing
more than 1,200 people to
tell the story of the nearly six
million African Americans
who, between 1915 and 1970,
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Isabel Wilkerson won a Pulit-
zer Prize in 1994.
led the South for northern
and western cities in search of
a better life.
Wilkerson won the Pulitzer
Prize for feature writing for
her work as Chicago bureau
chief of The New York Times
in 1994, making her the irst
black woman in the history
of American journalism to
win a Pulitzer Prize and the
irst African-American to win
for individual reporting. In
her lectures and essays, she
often explores connections
between the Great Migration,
the civil rights movement, and
contemporary issues of race
and power.
The 2016 Think & Drink
series features conversations
with Pulitzer Prize winners
and inalists in Portland,
Bend, Eugene, Astoria and
Ashland. The series is part of
the Pulitzer Prize Centennial
Campires Initiative, a joint
venture of the Pulitzer Prize
Board and the Federation of
State Humanities Councils
in celebration of the 2016
centennial of the prize.
Think & Drink is supported
in part by a grant from the
Oregon Cultural Trust. Com-
munity partners are Literary
Arts, NAACP Portland Branch
1120, Portland Alumnae Chap-
ter, Delta Sigma Theta Soror-
ity, Inc., Self Enhancement
Inc., Astoria Public Library,
and Fort George Brewery.
For more information, visit
prhspeakers.com
Fuel your week with North Coast Food
Web’s Sunday Supper cooking sessions
ASTORIA — “I’d like to
eat healthier and save some
money, but I just don’t have
time.”
“When I get home from
work, I’m too tired to cook.”
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“I never learned, and it
sounds too complicated.”
Sound familiar? The
cooking instructors at North
Coast Food Web understand.
Better yet, they have a fun
way to address the problem.
Sunday Supper is a once-
a-month opportunity to join
others in cooking up scrump-
tious, healthy, economical
entrées to take home, freeze
and pop in the oven at the
end of a long day.
Each of the four or ive
entrées created will feed two
people. If you have more
mouths to feed, class fees
can be adjusted to relect the
number of meals required.
It’s fun, it’s easy and, at an
average of $7.50 per meal
per person, it’s cheap. Class
includes a packet of recipes
and a sit-down meal together
when the work is done.
Join this North Coast
Food Web class from 10 a.m.
to 1:30 p.m. Sunday, July 17
at 577 18th St.
Go to northcoastfoodweb.
org to register, or call Wendy
at 503-468-0921 for more in-
formation. Class size limited
to 10 people.
North Coast Food Web is
a nonproit organization ded-
icated to cultivating healthy
communities and a vibrant
economy through food.
Author shares family history, recipes
SEASIDE — At 7 p.m. Thurs-
day, July 21, the Friends
of the Seaside Library will
host Kathleen Flinn, author
of “Burnt Toast Makes You
Sing Good.” The event will
take place in the Community
Room with book sales and
signings.
The irst line from ”Burnt
Toast Makes You Sing Good”
is “I’m Swedish, which
makes me sexy, and I’m Irish
which makes me want to
talk about it.” Thus begins a
multi-generational memoir
of one family’s culinary heri-
tage, replete with recipes.
Cooking has deined the
Flinn family even before
Kathleen was born. In the
late 1950s, her parents left
Michigan to help her Irish
uncle run an Italian restau-
rant in San Francisco. They
returned to the Midwest and
went to live on a run-down
farm, where the family led
a hand-to-mouth existence.
The Flinn children “never
had new clothes, fancy bikes,
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“Burnt Toast Makes You Sing
Good” by Kathleen Flinn.
or enough money for hot
lunch at school.” However,
between the chickens they
raised and fruits and vege-
tables they grew, the family
never lacked for good food.
In fact, cooking was the con-
duit through which previous
generations of her work-
ing-class family expressed
their love for each other.
“Burnt Toast Makes You
Sing Good” is a humorous
and lavorful tale spanning
three generations. Brimming
with anecdotes about her
Uncle Clarence’s corn-
lake-crusted fried chicken,
Grandpa Charles’s spicy San
Antonio chili, and Grandma
Inez’s birthday-only cinna-
mon rolls, Flinn shows how
meals can be memories and
how cooking can be commu-
nication.
Flinn is the New York
Times bestselling author of
“The Sharper the Knife the
Less You Cry” and “The
Kitchen Counter Cooking
School” which was named a
2012 book of the year. Her
latest book was a inalist for
the IACP Cookbook Awards
as well as the Paciic North-
west Book Award. She lives
in Seattle, Washington.
The Seaside Public
Library is located at 1131
Broadway. For more infor-
mation, call 503-738-6742.
Hear art pop bossanova at KALA
ASTORIA — On Friday, July
15, KALA will present OK
ECHO, an art-pop ensemble
from San Fransisco. Doors
open at 8 p.m.; the show
begins at 8:45 p.m. There is
a $5 cover.
OK ECHO began when
Andrew Boylan posted lyers
at the San Francisco Art
Institute looking for a drum-
mer, and Barry Despenza
responded. A transplant from
Chicago, Despenza didn’t
own a drum set because of his
tendency to travel. Instead, he
offered Boylan his skills as a
cajon player, and the duo took
to the streets as buskers.
The pair was able to
gather large crowds with
their upbeat music, and they
knew it was necessary to
expand their line-up. Boylan
met multi-media artist Jamin
Reyes at a house party and
asked him to play bass for
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OK ECHO will perform art pop July 15 at KALA. notforsale
the group. Reyes had studied
jazz at San Fransisco State
University. Boylan also met
Patti Weiss, a multilingual
neuropsychologist who also
happened to be a violin
player. Together, they create
a pop music that lirts with
bossanova, jazz and funk.
As the leader of the
outit, Boylan composes and
arranges the music. He also
uses the band as a platform
for art and design. Fine art
and items from his clothing
line will be available for sale
at the show, as well as OK
ECHO’s debut CD.