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THE DIVERSE SOUNDS of America’s early music styles are celebrated at the South Coast Clambake Music Festival, held March 13–15, 2020. The Festival promotes and perpetuates some of America’s most beloved original music, such as Dixieland, blues, zydeco, big band, swing, bluegrass, doo-wop, and ’50s rock with a full slate […]
Florence—like the Italian city of the same name—is an inspirational location. For evidence of this fact, look no further than the best-selling science-fiction book of all time, Dune, by Frank Herbert. Back in 1959, Herbert was on assignment to write an article about the Oregon dunes. He became so mesmerized […]
Story by Cheryl D. Wanner In 1788, Captain Robert Gray sailed his sloop, Lady Washington, into what is now Tillamook Bay and made the first recorded white contact with the indigenous people of the area. Gray wrote of friendly trade between his crew and the local inhabitants which took […]
