Download or read book Fruit of the Sixties written by Suzi Prozanski and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fruit of the Sixties" tells about the founding of a counterculture festival near Eugene, Oregon, in 1969. Over the next four decades, the Oregon Country Fair became a connection point for activists and change-agents around the region.
Download or read book Welcome to the Oregon Country Fair written by Oregon Country Fair and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Brigadoon of the Sixties written by Suzi Prozanski and published by . This book was released on 2019-06 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brigadoon of the Sixties: Revelry and Kerfuffles at the Oregon Country Fair takes a step back in time to tell the weirdly wild stories of people who co-created the Oregon Country Fair in the 1980s and 1990s. It continues the story started with the founding of the fair in 1969 and recounted in Fruit of the Sixties, also written by the author. Like its predecessor, Brigadoon of the Sixties recounts the genesis of many cherished fair traditions. Chapters detail the lives and antics of wacky vaudevillians, talented crafters, marching musicians, and a variety pack of volunteers and fair leaders who pull the fair together every year in consensus-driven community.
Download or read book Oregon Country Fair written by Christopher S. Schmitt and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Country Fair written by Sandy Blackman and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-15 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scott and Sandy Blackman have been attending the Oregon Country Fair since 1972, when it was called the Oregon Renaissance Fair. This book highlights the Fair from their point of view as visitors. The book includes other photographers' images and their recollections. The Blackmans interviewed Fair Family members, staff, and vendors. They consulted Suzi Prozanski's book, "Fruit of the Sixties: The Founding of the Oregon Country Fair," reviewed the organization's historical materials from Fair Family News, The Peach Pit, the Fair's displays at the Elder's Still Living Room, and the History Gallery. Using these resources, they compiled a short summary of the Fair's evolution over five decades, but they state they have only skimmed the surface. For a more in-depth history of the first ten years, they recommend you read Suzi Prozanski's book.
Download or read book The Oregon Trail written by Rinker Buck and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new American journey.
Download or read book The Perfect Sound written by Garrett Hongo and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poet’s audio obsession, from collecting his earliest vinyl to his quest for the ideal vacuum tubes. A captivating book that “ingeniously mixes personal memoir with cultural history and offers us an indispensable guide for the search of acoustic truth” (Yunte Huang, author of Charlie Chan). Garrett Hongo’s passion for audio dates back to the Empire 398 turntable his father paired with a Dynakit tube amplifier in their modest tract home in Los Angeles in the early 1960s. But his adult quest begins in the CD-changer era, as he seeks out speakers and amps both powerful and refined enough to honor the top notes of the greatest opera sopranos. In recounting this search, he describes a journey of identity where meaning, fulfillment, and even liberation were often most available to him through music and its astonishingly varied delivery systems. Hongo writes about the sound of surf being his first music as a kid in Hawai‘i, about doo-wop and soul reaching out to him while growing up among Black and Asian classmates in L.A., about Rilke and Joni Mitchell as the twin poets of his adolescence, and about feeling the pulse of John Coltrane’s jazz and the rhythmic chords of Billy Joel’s piano from his car radio while driving the freeways as a young man trying to become a poet. Journeying further, he visits devoted collectors of decades-old audio gear as well as designers of the latest tube equipment, listens to sublime arias performed at La Scala, hears a ghostly lute at the grave of English Romantic poet John Keats in Rome, drinks in wisdom from blues musicians and a diversity of poetic elders while turning his ear toward the memory-rich strains of the music that has shaped him: Hawaiian steel guitar and canefield songs; Bach and the Band; Mingus, Puccini, and Duke Ellington. And in the decades-long process of perfecting his stereo setup, Hongo also discovers his own now-celebrated poetic voice.
Download or read book Hippie Chick written by Ilene English and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Hippie Chick, a rebellious teenager finds her mother dead in the bathroom. To save her from living alone with a difficult father, her older sister sends her a one-way plane ticket to leave New Jersey. Landing in San Francisco, she is thrust into a lifestyle way beyond what she is ready for, and that challenges all previous notions of how one behaves. It is 1963, and we are brought along as Ilene becomes immersed in the unfolding of the sixties during the earliest days of sexual freedom, psychedelic drugs, the jazz scene, and rock ’n’ roll. This is a deeply personal story of how one young woman manages to survive and even to thrive in the face of the whirlwind of experiences coming at her. It is filled with a rich tapestry of moments that run the gamut from the sublime to the ridiculous, and everything in between.
Download or read book Things I Learned from 18 Years Camping at the Oregon Country Fair written by Kirsten Anderberg and published by . This book was released on 2013-06-07 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is written to help people who are going to the Oregon Country Fair, (OCF) outside of Eugene, OR, in July every year. Often the fair is confusing to those who have not been to it, and the organization of the parking, camping, pass structure, etc. can be overwhelming. This book simplifies the basics of the fair for both day trippers and those planning on camping inside the fair as part of the fair family. Author Kirsten Anderberg has performed at the OCF for nearly 2 decades (often as the memorable Mother Zosima character and often as a single mother herself) and offers advice about what to bring to the fair, how to navigate some of its rough edges, etc. Sections of this book include advice on surviving heat, rain and mosquitoes as well as information about bathrooms, parking, camping, food, children at the fair, alter-abled access, dogs, and more. Includes a small section by K. Anderberg about her own fair experiences.
Download or read book Hippies Indians and the Fight for Red Power written by Sherry L. Smith and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-05-03 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains how, and why, hippies, Quakers, Black Panthers, movie stars, housewives, and labor unions, to name a few, supported Indian demands for greater political power and separate cultural existence in the modern United States.
Download or read book The Oregon State Fair written by Steven Robert Heine and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007-08-15 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the first Oregon State Fair was held on four acres along the Clackamas River in the Gladstone/Oregon City area in 1861, the fair has been the focal point of Oregon culture--a place to see and be seen and to compete against the best in the state. It has been a place of victory and a place of discovery for nearly 150 years. For many generations of Oregonians, the fair was a chance for families and friends to reunite and share the excitement of this grand, uniquely Oregon event. Today the fair's popularity continues and, for 12 days each year, transforms the fairgrounds in Salem into the fifth largest city in the state.
Download or read book Calling All Musicians written by Lightning Source and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has taken forty years of living, loving, sorrow, laughter and thirty extra pounds to make me feel like a woman; having a really great muse doesnat hurt either. Inspiration is highly underrated. I used to think body image was everything; now I know it is self image that dictates who we are. This book of poetry was inspired by a most unusual muse: a man I have never even met. I see myself in my muse as easily as I see the blue in my eyes. I know this man on a soul level. I know most people wonat believe that, but that doesnat mean it isnat true. Faith and free will are amazing gifts. Imagination is not only for children. I never understood when people would say, aI just know, a until I heard his music. Yes, he is a musician. Something in his music just makes me feel like I know him. I am a tiny speck in this beautiful universe, and that suits me just fine because there are six billion other tiny specks just waiting to be bumped into. As for the title, well, I have faith most of you will figure it out. I grow weary explaining my poetry to people as they have forgotten how to believe. This is a love story, my love story.
Download or read book Along the Long Tom River written by David Turner and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical view of the Long Tom River and its valley near Eugene, Oregon
Download or read book Oregon Surfing North Coast written by Scott and Sandy Blackman and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surfing culture began in Portland, Seaside, Cannon Beach, and Pacific City in the early 1960s. Influenced by surf music and a few California surfers, a handful of skin divers and adolescent boys yearned to engage in the sport. In the beginning, surfing was illegal along the beachfronts of Seaside and Cannon Beach. Answering the siren call, locals took to the beaches, while others from around Oregon, Washington, and California found their way to isolated spots along the Northern Oregon coast. The early surfers were not intimidated by their lack of knowledge, poor equipment, or the unpredictable waves. Instead, surfing caught on in the cold waters of Oregon. Experience the early days of Oregon surfing through the pioneer surfers' stories and vintage photographs.
Download or read book Thunder Go North written by Melissa C. Darby and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This manuscript is a fresh look at determining the location of the 1579 landing site of Sir Francis Drake on the northwest coast of North America to repair his ship, the Golden Hind. This landing location has long been debated and was claimed by California, especially with the finding of the brass plate thought to be an artifact of Drake's landing located on a hill overlooking San Francisco Bay. Although the brass plate was supposedly authenticated in 1938, by 1977 it was proven to be a hoax, yet no re-examination of the landing question or associated data was completed"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Oregon Blue Book written by Oregon. Office of the Secretary of State and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Break Free of Dogma written by Brian Hines and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-09 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 2004 the Church of the Churchless blog has been inspiring, entertaining, and educating people who view themselves as spiritual but not religious, an ever-expanding group of truth-seekers. The 93 churchless "sermons" in this book have been selected from the early years of the blog, 2004-06. By turns provocative, heartfelt, challenging, humorous, and philosophical, these blog posts reflect the author's struggle to come to grips with the dogmatism he embraced during 35 years of religiosity. While feeling good about becoming more open-minded, his attempts to salvage the positive aspects of spirituality make for fascinating reading, as do dialogues with visitors to the Church of the Churchless blog.
