Remembering the Power of Words
Remembering the Power of Words recounts the personal and professional journey of Avel Gordly, the first African-American woman elected to the Oregon State Senate. The...
No Small Potatoes
In 1960 when twenty-five-year-old Al Reser became president of the potato salad manufacturing business which his parents began in their Oregon farmhouse kitchen ten years...
The Thunder Tree
An engrossing memoir and eloquent portrait of place, The Thunder Tree shows how powerful the relationship between people and the natural world can be. “When...
Up the Capitol Steps
Up the Capitol Steps is a personal and political memoir by Oregon’s first (and only) woman governor, one of only thirty-four women who have served...
Light on the Devils
When Louise Wagenknecht’s family arrived in the remote logging town of Happy Camp in 1962, a boundless optimism reigned. Whites and Indians worked together in...
Catching the Ebb
Bert Bender started fishing Alaska’s Cook Inlet in 1963 with a 30-foot sailboat converted to gas power and with no equipment for pulling in a...
The Wet Engine
“My son Liam was born nine years ago. He looked like a cucumber on steroids. He was fat and bald and round. He looked healthy...
Child of Steens Mountain
For Eileen O'Keeffe McVicker, born in 1927 to an Irish immigrant sheep rancher and a schoolteacher, growing up on a homestead made for "a hard...