Culture/History

Culture/History

The Women Behind the Fleet

The Newport Fishermen’s Wives Association supports the local fishing community, offering help with both physical and emotional needs when times are tough. STORY BY CHERYL D. WANNER When the Mary B II capsized while crossing the Yaquina bar on January 8, 2019, the community of Newport rallied around the widows […]

Culture/History, News

Cultural Site Returned to Clatsop-Nehalem Confederated Tribes

The North Coast Land Conservancy recently transferred ownership of historical tribal lands at Neawanna Point Habitat Reserve—18.6 acres of saltmarsh and Sitka spruce forest on the Necanicum Estuary at the north end of Seaside—to the Clatsop-Nehalem Confederated Tribes. Known to the Clatsop people as Ne-ah-coxie, or “place of little pines,” […]

Art, Culture/History

Coastal Books Bonanza: Lighthouses, Highway 101 & Pacific Islands

These recently published books, by Oregon authors, cover lighthouses, the building of Highway 101, and faraway Pacific Islands. 1. RAINBOWNESIA South coast resident Michael Kew debuted his new book, Rainbownesia: A Kaleidoscopic Arc Across Odd Oceania, last December. Kew’s second book (his first was Crossings) takes readers on a 225-page […]