Citadel of the Spirit:

Oregon’s Sesquicentennial Anthology

Table of Contents

  1. The Oregon Centennial Anthology - Arthur Kreisman
  2. Citadel of the Spirit: An Introduction - Matt Love
  3. The Land Owns Us - Gina Ochsner
  4. A Key to the Rains of Benton County - Kathleen Dean Moore
  5. Its Great Vigor - A Letter on the Origin of the Himalayan Blackberry by Luther Burbank
  6. The Logic of Wildflowers - Michael Strelow
  7. Meet on the Summit - A Public Call to Form a Mountaineering Club by the Mazamas
  8. Break Every Yoke - A Report on the Women’s Suffrage Movement in Oregon by Abigail Scott Duniway
  9. The KKK in Oregon - Eckard Toy Jr.
  10. Is Attracting the Dissatisfied People of the East - A Newspaper Advertisement Place by the Oregon Land Company God-given Sermonettes - A Memoir of Oregon’s State Parks by Samuel Boardman
  11. From the Dust - Karl Love
  12. This Peaceful Beautiful Land - A Guide to Oregon by the Federal Writers Project
  13. Discovering People’s Art in Oregon - David Horowitz
  14. An Audience so Typically Elizabethan - A Memoir on the Founding of the Oregon Shakespearean Festival by Angus Bowmer
  15. A Coastal Boyhood in Wartime Oregon - Thomas Edwards
  16. It Made You Feel Like Magellan  - A Sketch by Ben Hur Lampman
  17. Made in Oregon Lust - Anonymous
  18. The People of Oregon are Sorry - An Apology for Forced Sterilization by Governor John Kitzhaber
  19. “Fire!” - An Essay by Stewart Holbrook
  20. Collecting Oregon’s History - Katrine Barber
  21. Our Man of The Mountain: Oregon’s Glen Coffield and the Grundtvig Folk School - Kim Stafford
  22. We Urge You Not to Return - A Message to Returning Japanese-Americans from the Hood River Post of the American Legion
  23. Reading a Geography - Kaia Sand
  24. This Quasi-Bohemian Reed Subculture - A Letter to Reed Magazine by Ehrick Wheeler
  25. This Man-bear, This Two-headed Creature - A Vignette by Don Berry
  26. Portland Baseball - Erick Mertz
  27. That’s When I Saw It - A Bigfoot Sighting by Dr. Matthew Johnson
  28. One Hundred Years at a Time - Barbara Drake
  29. May Not Permit Any Person - A Law Regulating Dispensing Fuel
  30. The Professor in the Lighthouse - Bob Armstrong
  31. The Free and Uninterrupted Use Thereof - A Brief Documentary History of Oregon’s Publicly-owned Ocean Beaches Compiled by Matt Love
  32. Landmarks and Legacies - Travis Champ
  33. The Surfer is Balanced - A Constitution and Creed by the Kahuna Surf Club
  34. My Kind of Wrath - Niki Price
  35. There Has Been a Great Decrease - A Report on Oregon Fisheries by the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition Exploitation Committee
  36. No More Indians’ Salmon - An Essay on Columbia River Dams by Richard Neuberger
  37. Cosmic Spawning - Walt Curtis
  38. To Live as Anachronisms - An Essay on Celilo Falls by H.L. Davis
  39. I Voted to Stay as a Remaining Member - A Klamath Termination Oral History by Delphine Jackson
  40. A False Abundance - Melissa Madenski
  41. A Single Throw of the Dice - An Essay on Oregon for the Curious by Ralph Friedman
  42. Foul Strangers in Oregon’s Paradise - A Television Documentary on Pollution by KGW TV
  43. The Stone Oregon Era - Matt Love
  44. Letters to Beaverton - Dennis Jones
  45. Authorized as a Safety Valve - A Speech Explaining the Need for a Rock Festival by Governor Tom McCall
  46. Then Go Home - News and Commentary on the James G. Blaine Society
  47. TriMet Summer - Steve Anderson
  48. Preserve and Conserve - Statewide Planning Goals Implemented by Oregon
  49. Woody’s Wife Heard the Word ‘Tilth’ - The History of Oregon Tilth by Sunbow Farm
  50. My Oregon Sporting Life - Bill Rhoades
  51. The World They Have Left Behind - A Feature Article on an Oregon Commune by John Stickney and John Olson
  52. The Fifth Wave - A Feature Article on an Oregon Commune by Rick Rubin
  53. Mainstreaming Cannabis - Alicia Williamson
  54. We are NOT “Ecology Freaks” - A Letter Protesting a Proposed Nuclear Power Plant by Goodwin Harding
  55. A Shining Moment on Mt. Hood - Joe Kurmaskie
  56. Lake Electric - Miri Goldade
  57. Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, August 17, 1991 - Henk Pander
  58. Typical of Our Loggers - A Column on Sometimes a Great Notion (the film) by Grace Castle
  59. Hornswoggling - Ken Babbs
  60. How it All Came Together - A History of the Oregon Media Referendum by Ken Kesey
  61. Give Me the Damn Letter - A Memoir on the Birth of the Portland Trail Blazers by Harry Glickman
  62. I’ll Meet You by the Giant Microbes - Bart King
  63. It Was a Beautiful Visit - An Essay on Meeting a Mount Angel Abbey Monk by Larry D.B. Smith
  64. Risk in Rep - Charles Deemer
  65. The “Si Se Puede” System - An Educational Philosophy by Colegio Cesar Chavez
  66. An Inspiration For All Those Who Wish to Excel in Life - A Joint Resolution Honoring Steve Prefontaine by the Oregon Legislature
  67. Antaeus Revealed - Doug Winn
  68. Next Year I Think That I Will Train - A Memoir of Running the Hood To Coast Relay by Heidi Swift
  69. Mac Court - Jeff Baker
  70. Perfect Day, Perfect Venue, Perfect Vibe - Concert Notes and a Set List for a Grateful Dead show at the Oregon Country Fair
  71. La-La Land - Kassten Alonso
  72. Beyond the Earth’s Confines - An Invitation to a Meeting by Bo and Peep
  73. The Big Blow - Shelley Washburn
  74. The Waves Hit About Midnight - An Article on the Tsunami that Struck Oregon
  75. Tcha teemanwi, Place Where the Spirits Dwell - Dorothy Blackcrow Mack
  76. We Need to Be Recognized - A Statement in Support of Siletz Tribal Restoration by Sister Francella Mary Griggs
  77. A Huntin’ We Will Go - David Milholland
  78. Paisley Afternoon - Joanna Rose
  79. Gunslingers, Dudes and the Future of Oregon Beef  - Nora Robertson
  80. “Let’er Buck, Show Me Your Tits!” - A Memoir of Attending the Pendleton Round-up by Technogrrrl
  81. My Summer with Ernie and Mo - William G. Robbins
  82. He Was Up - An Eyewitness Account of the First Tree Sit by Ron Huber
  83. The Last Log - Ellen Waterston
  84. The Roads - Amber Nortness
  85. To Preserve a System of Relationships - A Statement in Defense of Wilderness by Barry Lopez
  86. Moving North - Shannon Carson
  87. Fear in Madras - A Report on the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and his Followers by Kirk Braun
  88. An Ale Tale - Brian Doyle
  89. Except Points - An Article on a Civil War Football Game by Steve Brandon
  90. The Mayor’s Ball - Billy Hults
  91. Which Are Very Obscene - An Investigation of “Louie Louie” by the FBI
  92. 721 Main Street - Tom Webb
  93. Oregon State Fair - J. R. Williams
  94. Welcomed, Encouraged and Protected in Oregon - A Joint Resolution Supporting Language Diversity by the Oregon Legislature
  95. Portland’s Most Unusual Church - David Kohl
  96. Setting a Standard for Oregon’ Youth - A Measure Appearing on the Oregon Ballot
  97. Satyricon - Brandon Lieberman
  98. Of This Oregon Heartland - An Article About a Portland Rock Band by Marshall Gooch
  99. Riding Jessica - Haley Church
  100. In Your Wisdom - A Prayer For Understanding in the Klamath Basin Water Crisis by Pastor Tim Herzfeldt-Kamprath
  101. The Battle for Canemah Bluff - David Hedges
  102. She is a Sexy Thing - A Diary Entry by U.S. Senator Bob Packwood
  103. Pussy Fever - Cheryl Strayed
  104. Sauvie Island Heat - Juliana Tobón
  105. Collateral Damage - Evelyn Sharenov
  106. I Shall Not - A Speech in Opposition to the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution by U.S. Senator Wayne Morse
  107. When the War Came Home to Lincoln County - Carla Perry
  108. To the Collection Area - A Procedure for Student Athlete Drug Testing by the Oregon Health Science University
  109. Different Drummers - Kathy Pape
  110. Soft Parade, Hard Nipples - Andrew Rodman
  111. Morgan and the Pig - An Essay on Portland’s Emerging Food Culture by Matthew Stadler
  112. The Hands that Feed You - Erin Ergenbright
  113. No More Than Six Video Lottery Terminals - A Law Regulating State Gambling
  114. What Hath U’ren Wrought? The Oregon System, Then and Now - Peter Wong
  115. I Accept Full Moral Responsibility for My Actions - A Form Requesting Physician-assisted Suicide Required by the State
  116. Stomping Ground - Monica Drake
  117. Room of Forgotten Souls - A Press Release on Returning Ashes to Relatives by the Oregon Department of Human Services
  118. Reconsidering Beavers, Square Dancing and Milk - Joanna Miller
  119. Saving Nestucca Spit: An Epilogue - Matt Love
  120. Future Needs of the People of Oregon - A Speech in Opposition to the Nestucca Spit Highway by State Treasurer Bob Straub
  • Contributors
  • Booknotes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Dear Stewart Holbrook - Matt Love
  • A Final Oregon Poem by William Stafford

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