Writings
As a writer, she engaged readers of novels, travelogues, biographies, and much more – she probably would have a book in every section of the library if her work were still in print today.
The legend of Art Lacey’s B-17G Bomber is one of the history books. According to Lacey’s daughter, Punky Lacey Scott, the story began at Art Lacey’s 34th birthday party in 1947. Lacey announced his idea to put a bomber atop his gas station, and one of his friends told him that he could never do it.
Ghost towns occur when a community forms around the production, excavation, or otherwise manufacture of resources, but those resources dry up or become obsolete. Some ghost towns arise when a natural disaster strikes and destroys the town. Sometimes, these ghost towns are preserved to share history with visitors from far away or to be celebrated by curious locals. Fortunately, a few ghost towns near Salem also happen to be visitor-friendly and welcoming, such as Oregon State Parks.
Without ever receiving a single rejection, Mrs. Cleary became the writer children all over the world loved to read.
The legend of the golden stool begins when the supreme god, Nyame, decided to bring all the local tribes of the Ashanti regions together under one chief. Nyame sent a magician/healer, Anotchi, to the chiefs and along with him followed a dark cloud. In the midst of the cloud, all could clearly see a golden stool. When Anotchi instructed the stool to fall from the cloud and land before he who would be king, the stool landed before chief Osai Tutu, making him the first king of the unified kingdom and solidifying the stool as a sacred object to be protected at all cost.
Though Portland was host to much lively activity and trade, young Hazel Hall couldn’t take part in any of it. Being confined to a wheelchair from the age of twelve, she sat in the upper room of her home watching life in its myriad of shapes and sizes parade before her.
In 1937 the town of Valsetz was still owned by its originators, Cobbs & Mitchell Lumber. Dorothy Ann Hobson was a precocious youngster who, at the age of 9, announced that she was going to edit a newspaper for Valsetz.
It is no secret to my family that I have a deep affection for American cars. The contemporary aluminum, fiberglass, or plastic American-made cars are not the vehicles that catch my eye, but I gape open-mouthed at those beautiful classics of steel and chrome of yesteryear. Nothing can turn my frown upside down as quick as seeing a muscle car or a vintage pickup truck driving down the road. The memory card in my cell phone is filled with pictures of gleaming classic trucks and the curvaceous or angled vehicles that have been known to stop my heart mid-beat from time to time
The Roaring River empties into Crabtree Creek near Larwood Bridge - it's the only river to flow into a creek; an oddity in U.S. geography that was featured in Ripley's Believe it or Not.
Aurora and Independence both have historic districts full of structures listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Tami Richards 