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The Barnacles of Kalaloch
Pacific Northwest | February
This narrative explores the role of that ancient animal, the barnacle in the tidepool waters of Kalaloch beach on the Olympic Peninsula. I always loved the strangeness of barnacles and wanted to find their significance.
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Pacific North

The Artist and the Whale Hunter
Neah Bay, Olympic Peninsula | March 2004
Forever shrouded in a thick fog and a light drizzle, as if from a plane you could never know it was there. Neah Bay is a small Makah Indian town at the far end of America, and it has been embroiled in controversy among animal rights activists and environmentalists. I interview a young artist, who continues a Makah tradition despite the world around him.
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Portland, Oregon
Bluegrass in Cascadia
Pacific Northwest | February
An adventure through Portland and its rapidly changing view of itself and the outside world. I wrote this five years before moving to Portland, in the year 2000.
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Umpqua Dunes Genesis
Pacific Northwest | November 2, 2006
| Part III of the oRegon Testament
My camping stove just blew up, and it’s spraying fire all over the campsite.  I’ve hauled Jane back down to the Central Oregon Coast…And I’m supposed to be cooking her a Native Oregon meal. Filled with setbacks and delays, I make a few key finds on the coast of Oregon.
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Foraging Nehalem Valley
Pacific northwest | June 3, 2007 | Part IV of the oRegon Testament
Glowing Mushrooms, deer-meat, stone and a Portland underworld creating a world based on old ways. Part IV of the Oregon Testament gets me closer to my goal of seeing Oregon's native history through my own eyes.
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Chapman Swifts
The Chapman Swifts & the Man from Galveston
Micro update | Pacific Northwest | October 14, 2007
Every autumn in Portland, Oregon, hundreds of people flock in the evening to the Chapman Elementary School, a beautiful small campus in a quaint neighborhood. They come with their floor mats and their wine and their picnic dinners, all to stare at the school's big chimney.
 

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