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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Calibri>Last Sunday’s Oregonian had the attached article by Matt Love<FONT
size=2><FONT size=3> </FONT><SPAN class=203334715-22102008><FONT
face=Arial><FONT face=Calibri size=3> (cut and paste
below)</FONT> </FONT></SPAN></FONT>regarding the OREGON CENTENNIAL
ANTHOLOGY. Matt’s reflections about how Oregon has changed since 1959 are worth
reading.<o:p></o:p></FONT></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal>Because Hood River County Library is one of the few libraries
in the Northwest that still owns this anthology, we are getting inquiries. But
everyone can have access since Matt Love has put this work on the web for all to
find--- another indicator of how much has changed in just 50 years.
<o:p></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal>In 2009 as Oregon commemorates its 150<SUP>th</SUP>
anniversary, the Oregon Library Association is celebrating by inviting all
Oregonians to read and discuss the same books. ‘Stubborn Twig’ by Lauren
Kessler is the selection for adult readers. <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Visit <A
href="http://www.oregonreads2009.org">www.oregonreads2009.org</A> to learn
more.<o:p></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; COLOR: #548dd4; FONT-FAMILY: Papyrus">June<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: #1f497d">June Knudson,
Director<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: #1f497d">Hood River
County Library<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: #1f497d">541.387.7062<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: #1f497d"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: #1f497d">Co-chair,
Oregon Reads 2009 Committee<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: #1f497d"><STRONG><A
href="http://www.oregonreads2009.org">www.oregonreads2009.org</A></STRONG><SPAN
class=203334715-22102008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2> </FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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class=203334715-22102008></SPAN></SPAN> </P>
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class=203334715-22102008><STRONG>>>>>>>>></STRONG></SPAN></SPAN></P><SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>Lost Northwest
Book: "Oregon Centennial Anthology"<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-line-height-alt: 9.65pt; mso-outline-level: 4"><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>Posted by
</FONT></SPAN></B><A href="http://blog.oregonlive.com/books/about.html"><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Matt Love, special to The Oregonian
</SPAN></B></A><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT
color=#000000>October 17, 2008 10:55AM<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 9.65pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>Categories:
</FONT></SPAN><A
href="http://blog.oregonlive.com/books/books_subject_stories/"><SPAN
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<P class=MsoNormal
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style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>Not too long
ago, as Oregon's sesquicentennial drew closer, I wondered: Was an anthology
published for the state's centennial? Surely, I thought, such a book exists,
even though I'd never encountered one in all my years of literary sleuthing
across the state. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 9.65pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>With the help
of a friend, I began an investigation, and soon received a letter in response to
a phone message I'd left. I excerpt part of the letter here:
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 9.65pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><I><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt"><FONT
color=#000000>Dear Matt: </FONT></SPAN></I><I><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><BR></SPAN></I><I><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt"><FONT
color=#000000>Thanks for the telephone call. The centennial anthology was
Governor Hatfield's idea. He came to me, knowing something, I suppose, of my
reputation. Why we turned the project into a contest, I don't recall. I have no
idea how many copies the state printed. I put it together and sent it to Salem.
And that was about it. How did you ever find it? </FONT></SPAN></I><I><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><BR></SPAN></I><FONT
color=#000000><I><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">Arthur
Kreisman </SPAN></I><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 9.65pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><A
name=more></A><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT
color=#000000>In 1959 the State of Oregon published the "Oregon Centennial
Anthology: A Collection of Prize-winning Short Stories and Poems." The 64-page
pamphlet was edited by Kreisman, an English professor at Southern Oregon
College. The anthology contains six short stories and six poems and was the
product of a contest open to college students and the general public. William
Stafford, who later became Oregon's Poet Laureate, won both the open poetry and
short story competitions. Winners received $250, second prize earned $200 and
third place netted $150. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 9.65pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>I also learned
that exactly 18 copies of the "Oregon Centennial Anthology" reside in libraries
across the Pacific Northwest (although many of the copies cannot be checked out
for general circulation), and there isn't one copy for sale, at least the last
time I checked online. I may have obtained the last one, which is great for me,
but terrible for Oregon literary and history junkies.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 9.65pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>In his
excellent introduction to the anthology, Kreisman wrote, "One hundred years is
not a very long time, as human history goes, and it is considerably less than
that since Oregon was largely frontier country, a new land, opening its arms to
new people who had come to build lives for themselves, and in the process built
a state. The next hundred years will see such growth in Oregon as is undreamt of
by most of us today." <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 9.65pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>The message of
the first Oregon Trail to America was: "Nature is here. A rich landscape. Go.
Take it. It will last forever. Start your life over." When the state celebrated
its centennial in 1959, the message was exactly the same and manifest, at least
to me, in the "Oregon Centennial Anthology." <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 9.65pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>What intrigued
me after reading it (and watching the View-Master reels of Oregon's Centennial
Exposition) was realizing that the modern Oregon we all know and love today did
not exist in 1959. It was all trees and fish and farms and white men that
dominated the narrative. Virtually all other stories were either marginalized or
unimagined. Oregon changed for the better in the 1970s, but Oregon in 1959 was
much closer to 1900 than it was to 2000, and that's fascinating to consider when
reading the poems of stories in the "Oregon Centennial Anthology" -- if you have
an opportunity to read them. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 9.65pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>We're all so
busy and rushed these days that I wanted to make it as easy as possible for
everyone to read the "Oregon Centennial Anthology." I have scanned the pamphlet,
which was printed at taxpayer expense and rests in the public domain, and
created a PDF file of it that can be easily downloaded for free from my Web site
(</FONT></SPAN><A href="http://www.nestuccaspitpress.com/"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">www.nestuccaspitpress.com</SPAN></A><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>). It's not
quite the same as a handsome reprint, but this Oregon literary artifact has been
lost long enough<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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