Nestucca Spit Press Meditations – Page 25

April 16, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 25-The End

April 7, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Chapter 24—A Sophomore Date

April 5, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 23-Kissers III

April 4, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 22-Kissers II

April 2, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 21-Kissers I

March 31, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 20-The Rivalry

March 28, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 19-Tennis Team II

March 27, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 18-Tennis Team I

March 22, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 16-Senior Skip Day

March 18, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 15-Dump Run

March 18, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 14-Journalism

March 16, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 13-The Promenade

March 16, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 12-Coin Flip

March 15, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 11-Creative Writing

March 14, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 10-Rum Night

March 14, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 9-The Little Red Book

March 14, 2020

Nestucca Spit Press Writing Curriculum

March 11, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 8-Bus Ride

March 8, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 7-Calligraphy

March 6, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 6-The Legend of Don Harrison

March 6, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 5-Big Jim Ritacco

March 4, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 4-Football

March 1, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 3-Portland Trail Blazers

March 1, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 2-Hackey Sack

February 27, 2020

Pioneer Pride: Part 1-Mill Town

February 27, 2020

Pioneer Pride: An Oregon City Memoir..an Introduction

February 27, 2020

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NEVER STOP PRE

The Enduring Inspiration of America's Greatest Sports Legend

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"Never stop Pre. When he's no longer relevant in Oregon, Oregon is dead."

On May 31, 1975, Coos Bay, Oregon native Steve Prefontaine died in an automobile accident. At the time of his death, he held 14 American records in distance running.

Pre was 24 years old and already a legend in Oregon and the world of track of field.

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The Old Crow

Book Club

In December of 2020, author Matt Love moved to Portland to care for his elderly father.

Returning to the Rose City jolted Love after 23 years residing on the Oregon Coast. In the Sellwood neighborhood where he lived, Love met a homeless man named Mark. They formed a friendship over literature and the unforeseen magical discoveries in street libraries. They created The Old Crow Book Club, and yes, sometimes that involved drinking Old Crow on a sidewalk.

The club also included several other Sellwood homeless men and women cut from John Steinbeck's Cannery Row cloth.

In due course, Love learned the members' stories of homelessness and how they survived. He wondered what happened to his beloved state of Oregon and attempted to help Mark get off the streets only to run up against the seemingly futile policies to address the crisis.

Along the way, he had the best conversations about books in his life and wrote The Old Crow Book Club, where he recounts his interactions with the homeless people in his neighborhood and offers some suggestions how to alleviate what he considers the greatest man-made American humanitarian disaster of his adult life.

The Old Crow Book Club is available for purchase here and select independent bookstores in Oregon.

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Choice Cuts

of Oregon Fiction

Choice Cuts of Oregon Fiction by Matt Love contains 20 stories, all set in Oregon. The cast of characters includes a depressed Santa Claus, Steve Prefontaine, Jack Ramsay's fast break offense, socialist squirrels, a clearcut, a dead deer, a junior high football team, a high school tennis player, a dissipated teacher, a man who evolves into a beaver, a homeless vet, a jilted preacher, a double date to a prom, rural degenerates, a wily caterer, and much more.

The publication of the collection culminates a quarter century of the author's writing about Oregon and rambling around the state.

Choice Cuts is available for purchase here, through Amazon, or select independent bookstores in Oregon.

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The Savage

of State Street

Nestucca Spit Press is proud to present The Savage of State Street: The Thieving and Literary Lives of Smoky Epley. He is the greatest unheralded writer in Oregon history and also one of its more mediocre, colorful and persistent thieves.

In 1973, Oregon State University Press published Men in Exile: An Anthology of Creative Writing by Inmates of the Oregon State Penitentiary. Twenty-two of Smoky Epley's pieces appeared in the book.

Smoky spent most of his adult life in state and federal prisons for robbery. In 2008, during one of his brief stints of freedom, Smoky became friends with Matt Love, an Oregon author and publisher. They met after Love discovered Men in Exile and wrote a newspaper column about the landmark book. Smoky read the column and reached out.

He returned to prison in 2009 after forging a check. Upon his release in 2011, Love encouraged Smoky to write a memoir. He completed half of Auto before dying in February of 2013.

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Sonny the husky discovers a homeless encampment destroying a creek in a Portland city park. She alerts her owner and a park ranger and inspires a community clean-up of the damaged riparian area. Neighborhood citizens and residents of the encampment join Sonny to restore a tiny part of a watershed and later celebrate their collaboration.

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Pioneer Pride: Part 25-The End

Pioneer Pride: Chapter 24—A Sophomore Date

Pioneer Pride: Part 23-Kissers III

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Pioneer Pride: Part 22-Kissers II

Pioneer Pride: Part 21-Kissers I

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Pioneer Pride: Part 20-The Rivalry

Pioneer Pride: Part 19-Tennis Team II

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Pioneer Pride: Part 18-Tennis Team I

Pioneer Pride: Part 17-Scenes

Pioneer Pride: Part 16-Senior Skip Day

Pioneer Pride: Part 15-Dump Run

Pioneer Pride: Part 14-Journalism

Pioneer Pride: Part 13-The Promenade

Pioneer Pride: Part 12-Coin Flip

Pioneer Pride: Part 11-Creative Writing

Pioneer Pride: Part 10-Rum Night

Pioneer Pride: Part 9-The Little Red Book

Nestucca Spit Press Writing Curriculum

Pioneer Pride: Part 8-Bus Ride

Pioneer Pride: Part 7-Calligraphy

Pioneer Pride: Part 6-The Legend of Don Harrison

Pioneer Pride: Part 5-Big Jim Ritacco

Pioneer Pride: Part 4-Football

Pioneer Pride: Part 3-Portland Trail Blazers

Pioneer Pride: Part 2-Hackey Sack

Pioneer Pride: Part 1-Mill Town

Pioneer Pride: Preface

Pioneer Pride: An Oregon City Memoir..an Introduction

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