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The Oregon Centennial Anthology / Arthur Kriesman

Citadel of the Spirit: An Introduction / Matt Love

The Land Owns Us / Gina Ochsner

A Key to the Rains of Benton County / Kathleen Dean Moore

Its Great Vigor / A Letter on the Origin of the Himalayan Blackberry by Luther Burbank

The Logic of Wildflowers / Michael Strelow

Meet on the Summit / A Public Call to Form a Mountaineering Club by the Mazamas

The KKK in Oregon / Eckard Toy Jr.

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

From the Dust / Karl Love

This Peaceful Beautiful Land / A Guide to Oregon by the Federal Writers Project

Discovering People’s Art in Oregon / David Horowitz

An Audience so Typically Elizabethan / A Memoir on the Founding of the Oregon Shakespearean Festival by Angus Bowmer

A Coastal Boyhood in Wartime Oregon / Thomas Edwards

Made in Oregon Lust / Anonymous

The People of Oregon are Sorry / An Apology for Forced Sterilization by Governor John Kitzhaber

Collecting Oregon’s History / Katrine Barber

Our Man of The Mountain: Oregon’s Glen Coffield and the Grundtvig Folk School / Kim Stafford

We Urge You Not to Return / A Message to Returning Japanese-Americans from the Hood River Post of the American Legion

Reading a Geography / Kaia Sand

This Quasi-Bohemian Reed Subculture / A Letter to Reed Magazine by Ehrick Wheeler

This Man-bear, This Two-headed Creature / A Vignette by Don Berry

Portland Baseball / Erick Mertz

That’s When I Saw It / A Bigfoot Sighting by Dr. Matthew Johnson

One Hundred Years at a Time / Barbara Drake

May Not Permit Any Person / A Law Regulating Dispensing Fuel

The Professor in the Lighthouse / Bob Armstrong

The Free and Uninterrupted Use Thereof / A Brief Documentary History of Oregon’s Publicly-owned Ocean Beaches Compiled by Matt Love

Landmarks and Legacies / Travis Champ

The Surfer is Balanced / A Constitution and Creed by the Kahuna Surf Club

My Kind of Wrath / Niki Price

There Has Been a Great Decrease / A Report on Oregon Fisheries by the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition Exploitation Committee

No More Indians’ Salmon / An Essay on Columbia River Dams by Richard Neuberger

Cosmic Spawning / Walt Curtis

To Live as Anachronisms / An Essay on Celilo Falls by H.L. Davis

I Voted to Stay as a Remaining Member / A Klamath Termination Oral History by Delphine Jackson

A False Abundance / Melissa Madenski

Foul Strangers in Oregon’s Paradise / A Television Documentary on Pollution by KGW TV

The Stone Oregon Era / Matt Love

Letters to Beaverton / Dennis Jones

Authorized as a Safety Valve / A Speech Explaining the Need for a Rock Festival by Governor Tom McCall

Then Go Home / News and Commentary on the James G. Blaine Society

TriMet Summer / Steve Anderson

Preserve and Conserve / Statewide Planning Goals Implemented by Oregon

Woody's Wife Heard the Word ‘Tilth’ / The History of Oregon Tilth by Sunbow Farm

My Oregon Sporting Life / Bill Rhoades

The World They Have Left Behind / A Feature Article on an Oregon Commune by John Stickney and John Olson

Mainstreaming Cannabis / Alicia Williamson

We are NOT “Ecology Freaks” / A Letter Protesting a Proposed Nuclear Power Plant by Goodwin Harding

A Shining Moment on Mt. Hood / Joe Kurmaskie

Lake Electric / Miri Goldade

Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, August 17, 1991 / Henk Pander

Typical of Our Loggers / A Column on Sometimes a Great Notion (the film) by Grace Castle

Hornswoggling / Ken Babbs

How it All Came Together / A History of the Oregon Media Referendum by Ken Kesey

Give Me the Damn Letter / A Memoir on the Birth of the Portland Trail Blazers by Harry Glickman

I’ll Meet You by the Giant Microbes / Bart King

It Was a Beautiful Visit / An Essay on Meeting a Mount Angel Abbey Monk by Larry D.B. Smith

Risk in Rep / Charles Deemer

The “Si Se Puede” System / An Educational Philosophy by Colegio Cesar Chavez

An Inspiration For All Those Who Wish to Excel in Life / A Joint Resolution Honoring Steve Prefontaine by the Oregon Legislature

Antaeus Revealed / Doug Winn

Mac Court / Jeff Baker

Perfect Day, Perfect Venue, Perfect Vibe / Concert Notes and a Set List for a Grateful Dead show at the Oregon Country Fair

La-La Land / Kassten Alonso

Beyond the Earth’s Confines / An Invitation to a Meeting by Bo and Peep

The Big Blow / Shelley Washburn

The Waves Hit About Midnight / An Article on the Tsunami that Struck Oregon

Tcha teemanwi, Place Where the Spirits Dwell / Dorothy Blackcrow Mack

We Need to Be Recognized / A Statement in Support of Siletz Tribal Restoration by Sister Francella Mary Griggs

A Huntin’ We Will Go / David Milholland

Paisley Afternoon / Joanna Rose

Gunslingers, Dudes and the Future of Oregon Beef  / Nora Robertson

“Let’er Buck, Show Me Your Tits!” / A Memoir of Attending the Pendleton Round-up by Technogrrrl

My Summer with Ernie and Mo / William G. Robbins

He Was Up / An Eyewitness Account of the First Tree Sit by Ron Huber

The Last Log / Ellen Waterson

The Roads / Amber Nortness

To Preserve a System of Relationships / A Statement in Defense of Wilderness by Barry Lopez

Moving North / Shannon Carson

Fear in Madras / A Report on the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and his Followers by Kirk Braun

An Ale Tale / Brian Doyle

Except Points / An Article on a Civil War Football Game by Steve Brandon

The Mayor’s Ball / Billy Hults

Which Are Very Obscene / An Investigation of Louie Louie by the FBI

721 Main Street / Tom Webb

Oregon State Fair / J. R. Williams

Welcomed, Encouraged and Protected in Oregon / A Joint Resolution Supporting Language Diversity by the Oregon Legislature

Portland’s Most Unusual Church / David Kohl

Setting a Standard for Oregon’ Youth / A Measure Appearing on the Oregon Ballot

Satyricon / Brandon Lieberman

Of This Oregon Heartland / An Article About a Portland Rock Band by Marshall Gooch

Riding Jessica / Haley Church

 In Your Wisdom / A Prayer For Understanding in the Klamath Basin Water Crisis by Pastor Tim Herzfeldt-Kamprath

The Battle for Canemah Bluff / David Hedges

She is a Sexy Thing / A Diary Entry by U.S. Senator Bob Packwood

Pussy Fever / Cheryl Strayed

Collateral Damage / Evelyn Sharenov

I Shall Not / A Speech in Opposition to the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution by U.S. Senator Wayne Morse

When the War Came Home to Lincoln County / Carla Perry

To the Collection Area / A Procedure for Student Athlete Drug Testing by the Oregon Health Science University

Different Drummers / Kathy Pape

Soft Parade, Hard Nipples / Andrew Rodman

Morgan and the Pig / An Essay on Portland’s Emerging Food Culture by Matthew Stadler

The Hands that Feeds You / Erin Ergenbright

No More Than Six Video Lottery Terminals / A Law Regulating State Gambling

What Hath U'ren Wrought? The Oregon System, Then and Now / Peter Wong

I Accept Full Moral Responsibility for My Actions / A Form Requesting Physician-assisted Suicide Required by the State

Stomping Ground / Monica Drake

Room of Forgotten Souls / A Press Release on Returning Ashes to Relatives by the Oregon Department of Human Services

Reconsidering Beavers, Square Dancing and Milk / Joanna Miller

Saving Nestucca Spit: An Epilogue / Matt Love

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