The Friends of Warrenton Community Library invite you to attend “Library After Dark” — a monthly local and PNW author talk series. The featured author is Peter Marsh on Saturday, October 12th at 4:00pm. Peter will share more about his research and writing process, read excerpts from his work and answer audience questions.
Peter Marsh was born and raised in Greenwich in SE London. He has lived in Oregon for over 50 years and began sailing a 20’ micro cruiser he designed and built on the Columbia River in 1981, followed by longer summer voyages including Olympia to Glacier Bay and back twice, crossing Lake Superior, and down the Oregon Coast.
Peter began reporting about yachts and commercial craft for the Freshwater News boating paper and in the 1990s, became acquainted with Larry Barber, the last marine editor of the Oregonian who had been the leading reporter covering WWII ship building in the region. When Barber died, his widow gave Peter her husband’s archives, but it was another 20 years before he finally began to seriously study them with the goal of producing a book to mark the 75th anniversary of the end of the war in 2020. Liberty Factory: The Untold Story of Henry Kaiser’s Oregon Shipyards is the first book to review the region’s forgotten history of wartime shipbuilding, which employed over 180,000 people.
Author talk starts at 4:00pm; refreshments and mingling at 5:00pm.
This event is free to attend and is sponsored by the Friends of Warrenton Community Library.
