A crew of historic preservation students spent the past two weeks working on a century-old, women-owned commercial building in Astoria, Oregon. The project, funded by the TAWANI Foundation, is part of an effort to get more women involved in the preservation trades. Joanne Rideout reports. Photo: Students get a lesson in period window restoration as…
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On the next Story Told, Michael McCusker sings a dead bird’s song in telling an abridged history of the North Coast Times Eagle. Additionally “My Mother in Hot Summer,” “Cabbages in the Garden,” “The Sage,” “Picking Pears,” “The City of Sorrows,” and “The Soft Rain” all by Walt Curtis of unofficial Oregon poet laureate fame.
Wings over Willapa.
What do Richard Donner, Mac’s Dad, the Flavel House garden & grounds, and Witches all have in common? Somehow, Mac & Alana manage to chat about all of them on the big show this week.
Friday, July 16th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts: INDIE Award Winning Novelist Alan E. Rose with “As If Death Summoned” at KALA’s First Person: Authors Talk in Astoria. Singer/songwriter/musician Leigh Jones as Eugenia Riot, performs at Pickled Fish and the Shelburne Pub on the Long Beach Peninsula,…
On the next Story Told, all about the Bastille, featuring from Catherine Bridget Snow “Liberty and the Bastille,” and from Michael McCusker “The First and Eternal Freedom.”
A biography of Ahmad Rashad – a Portland native, a University of Oregon football star, an NFL-Pro Bowler, and a sports broadcasting icon.
A biography of Charles Jordan – Portland’s first Black city commissioner, and a longtime director of Portland City Parks.
A biography of Lyllye Reynolds-Parker – an educator and one of Eugene’s most important civil rights champions.
Summer birding with Madeline.
Mac & Alana welcome Vince Huntington, retired Physical Therapist and Medical Administrator, to chat about his career in Montana, Alaska, and Oregon and his more recent volunteer work. Mac geeks out on a wild-west melee, Alana’s daughter is on an anti-smoking crusade, and we all wonder why Richard Dawson was kissing everyone on the Family…
Friday, July 9th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! host Carol Newman speaks with: Jim Fitzgerald, large format film photographer & carbon transfer printer with a solo show @ Lightbox Photographic Gallery in Astoria; plus Members Showcase Exhibit. Proprietor Jane Brumfield and featured painter Ruth Hunter in a solo show of abstracted…
On the next Story Told, “Democracy Begins at Home,” by Michael McCusker. Additionally, from Annette Gordon-Reed, “Between Juneteenth and the 4ᵗʰ of July.” Finally Dr. Robert Brake exclaims “So Much for the Heros.”
On the next Story Told, Michael McCusker prepares for 2021’s liberty month beginning with a screed written on the first American terrorists titled “Sons of Liberty.” Additionally, a ponderance on “The Assumption of Freedom,” and to conclude, Dr. Robert Brake claims “We Have No Right to Vote.”
On the next Story Told, Michael McCusker focusses on a war forgotten in American history, sandwiched between WWII and Vietnam, in “Total War Fatigue.” Additionally, by Dr. Robert Brake, “War & Peace,” and in lieu of Juneteenth now being recognized as a federal holiday, Michele Norris asks “Here come the Juneteenth nicknacks. Where are the lesson plans?”
Today’s topic of Conversation is Historic Preservation.
Friday, July 2nd at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! host Carol Newman speaks with: Coaster Theatre Executive Director Patrick Lathrop directs Shakesperience Sixty Second Shakespeare and Katherine Lacaze directs Mystery Hour The Case of the Coaster Clambake at the Cannon Beach Park all summer. Visual Artist Bette Lu Krause and Singer/Songwriter/Musician…
Hermit Thrush.
Friday, June 25th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! host Carol Newman speaks with: Dr. Mark Ross Clark, Professor of Music and Theatre and Artistic Director of the Astoria Apprentice Artist Program; on the 2021 Virtual & Phenomenal program and the Final Astoria Concert. Artist, writer and fourth generation Astorian Ali…
Memorial Day special, May 2021.
Mac & Alana spend some time talking about the Stonewall Riots, this week in local history, and Bruno the Seaside Lifeguard Dog. Plus, Mac gets distracted by the word “produce.”
Killdeer.
Linda and Merianne celebrate summer produce and share cookbook pet peeves.
It’s prom time! Steve Wright, Seaside City Councilor and President of the Seaside History Museum, is on hand to talk about the museum and the 100th anniversary of the Prom.
Friday, June 18th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! host Carol Newman speaks with: Liberty Theatre Executive director Jennifer Crockett on the North Coast Performing Arts Alliance, 45th Parallel Universe Orchestra and A Block Party. Sarah Buckmaster, Astoria Visual Arts & Astoria Writers Guild newest Writer in Residence, on her work in progress,…
On the next Story Told, Michael McCusker presents a program balancing between the Magna Carta and Juneteenth, featuring, from Kenneth C. Davis “Juneteenth Is for Everyone.”
A biography of Grafton Tyler Brown – the first Black professional painter in the Pacific Northwest.