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Tall Ships in Rainer

Lady Washington under sail on Columbia River

Some times on May Day I join the masses in the streets. Other times I escape the city, and wind up doing things like watching Tall Ships sail on the Columbia. Lady Washington and the Hawaiian Chieftain were visiting Rainier Oregon. I “missed” their mock canon battle, but enjoyed a sunny, quiet day watching the [...]

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Wheatland Ferry Road Trip

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This weekend I did a “shakedown” cruise of my “hybridized” bicycle – a 20 mile round trip between Keiser and Willamette Mission State Park, which is just south of the Wheatland Ferry. Pretty much in the middle of the Willamette Valley – just North of Salem. Willamette Mission State Park has several miles of bike [...]

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Egypt and nonviolence

Tte fall of  Mubarak in  Egypt on Feb. 11 got me motivated to do my part. By the evening of the 11th  I’d scrounged a studio from PCM and talked Tom Hastings from PSU into talking about non-violence and the movement in Eqypt. Tom is a great scholar on nonviolence, and I value his insight. [...]

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Wreck of the Emily G. Reed now on YouTube

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The Oregon Coast is a ship graveyard, from the New Carissa (1999) to the Beeswax Wreck (>1800′s). As a child I enjoyed visiting the wreck of the Peter Iredale, just south of the Columbia River at Ft. Stevens. (1906). So when the news reported that the wreck of the Emily G. Reed had been uncovered [...]

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Run to the Rogue 2010

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We’ve completed another R2R, in which the Siletz tribe honors our ancestors by running / walking from Siletz, Oregon to Oaks Flats on the Illinois River. This relay, in which different members of the tribe (and friends!) carry an eagle staff mile by mile for over 50 hours down the coast, commemorates the forced removal [...]

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Culture Camp 2010 – Clams!

I dropped in at the Siletz 2010 Culture Camp. (hard to pass up fry bread – especially my sisters…).  Anyway, as I wandered through the different tables where people were learning some of the ancient arts of basketry, flint-knapping and other such skills, I came across a table of youth shucking clams . Turns out [...]

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Rocky Mountains

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I stopped in Denver on a trip back east last month, managed to get some video of the Rockies with the Kodak 9 video camera. Here’s the video – shot out the window at 36366 feet! Click on the map below for a larger map of where I took this shot from.

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Clown Plane

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I shot this at the 2009 Oregon International Airshow. Great Act. But I can’t believe how many the YouTube comments this video has gathered DON”T GET THAT THIS IS AN AIRSHOW CLOWN ACT – it’s amazing flying meant to look “out of control”!

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They didn’t completely manage to kill the electric car!

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On July 5, 2008 I celebrated our eventual independence from the oil companies by going to EV Awareness Day 2008 at Pioneer Square, in Portland. The Oregon Electric Vehicle Association. I took some pictures, and created this video for The City Lights Show – on cable access PCM channels.

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“Burma Shave” style protest on Burnside Bridge

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Portland patriots protesting the War Tax on Income Tax Day (2004) on the Burnside Bridge in downtown Portland. Music by Sam Turton.

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