I recently found a tiny pamphlet printed in a tiny font about ferns titled Ferns to Know in Oregon<\/i> that was written in the mid 1950s by an unnamed Oregon State University Extension agent and ardent fernologist. It contains some of the most delightful and knowledgeable nature writing about Oregon I have ever read. I had no idea ferns were part of such magical historical and literary lore! I had no idea that American POWs in the Korean War were fed ferns. I knew nothing of spores! I couldn’t name a single fern and now I can name seven. I even identified a fern (licorice) growing from the side of a 40-year old RV. This tiny pamphlet opened my eyes to the larger world of something beautiful and ubiquitous around me. It also has inspired me to produce a similar pamphlet of design and tone called Things to Know About Coastal Oregon<\/i> that I will distribute free around Coastal Oregon in the usual and unlikeliest of fern and non-fern places and classify it as Nestucca Spit Press’ next publication. Yes, the reader may have to use a magnifying glass to read the text and consider the illustrations I will include, but that makes it all the more fun. I will begin brainstorming my list of Things to Know About Coastal Oregon<\/i> here:<\/p>\n
Things to Know About Coastal Oregon:<\/p>\n
Clearcuts<\/p>\n
Nestucca Spit<\/p>\n
Ferns<\/p>\n
Mushrooms<\/p>\n
Rain<\/p>\n
Sometimes a Great Notion<\/i><\/p>\n
Conde McCullough’s Bridges<\/p>\n
Zane Gray on the Rogue River<\/p>\n
Clark Gable on the Oregon Coast<\/p>\n
Oregon Tavern Age Country<\/p>\n
Tom McCall<\/p>\n
Heckletooth 3<\/i><\/p>\n
Brownsmead<\/p>\n
Seal Rock<\/i><\/p>\n
Coffee Girl<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Bastendorf Beach<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n RV Parks<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n South Jetty on the Columbia River<\/p>\n Camp Angel<\/p>\n Animal Welfare Thrift Stores<\/p>\n Rock Haus<\/p>\n Port Orford Radio Station<\/p>\n Saddle Mountain<\/p>\n Matt Kramer Memorial<\/p>\n Highway 420<\/p>\n Mt. Hebo<\/p>\n Godfather’s Books<\/p>\n Keyhole Limpets<\/p>\n Driftwood Forts<\/p>\n Slab Creek Road<\/p>\n Carpenterville Road<\/p>\n Jack London in Port Orford<\/p>\n WPA Guide to Oregon<\/p>\n Steve Prefontaine Memorial Museum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I recently found a tiny pamphlet printed in a tiny font about ferns titled Ferns to Know in Oregon that was written in the mid 1950s by an unnamed Oregon State University Extension agent and ardent fernologist. It contains some of the most delightful and knowledgeable nature writing about Oregon I have ever read. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,74],"tags":[9,52,13,106,105],"class_list":["post-3386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","category-oregon-coast_history","tag-nestucca-spit-press","tag-oregon","tag-oregon-coast","tag-oregon-coast-travel","tag-oregon-travel","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3386"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3389,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3386\/revisions\/3389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}