You Better Go See Geri
Born into an Odawa family in Michigan in 1932, Frances “Geri” Roossien lived a life that was both ordinary and instructive. As a child, she...
White Poplar, Black Locust
Growing up in one of the West’s last company lumber towns, a small community called Hilt on the California-Oregon border, Louise Wagenknecht witnessed the dying...
Astoria
The rest of the country is just beginning to discover Astoria, Oregon, that historic gem of a town at the mouth of the Columbia River...
Shadows on the Klamath
In 1973, Louise Wagenknecht was just another college graduate, but unlike many, she wanted to go home, back to the Klamath Mountains where she was...
The Ground at My Feet
Oregon Book Award Finalist Ann Stinson grew up on her family’s tree farm in southwestern Washington state, on a ridge above the Cowlitz River. After...
The Northwest Gardens of Lord & Schryver
Lord & Schryver, the first landscape architecture firm founded and operated by women in the Pacific Northwest, designed more than two hundred gardens in Oregon...
An Old Man Remembering Birds
In a series of short, engaging essays, Michael Baughman reflects on his lifelong fascination with birds—on his deck in southern Oregon, at the end of...
All the Leavings
Oregon Book Award Finalist In All the Leavings, Laurie Easter deftly navigates both the rugged terrain of the human heart and life on the edge...