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A Full Day Literary Event at the Pacific Maritime Heritage Center

For its debut literary event, The Pacific Maritime Heritage Center, located at 333 SE Bay Boulevard, Newport, Oregon, will be hosting nine authors on SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 2024, from 10 AM to 5 PM. Event is free with Museum Admission fee. Donations are always appreciated and will be gratefully accepted.

Museum doors open at 9:30 AM. The first presentation begins promptly at 10 o’clock in the museum’s Doerfler Family Theater, with subsequent authors following in half-hour increments. A brief Q&A will take place after each reading. Light refreshments will be available during breaks, but audience members are encouraged to bring their own brown bag lunches and water bottle. Books by the featured authors will be available for sale and signing. Some of the publications, such as Keynote Speaker Erin Litteken’s Memory Keeper of Kyiv and The Lost Daughters of Ukraine, will be available for advance purchase in the PMHC Museum Store.

The nine authors represent a wide range of writing styles and subjects. They include:

  • Keynote Speaker Erin Litteken (St. Louis): second-generation Ukrainian American who weaves stories she heard from her great-grandmother into historical fiction novels that portray the plight of the Ukrainian people. Author of The Memory Keeper of Kyiv, and The Lost Daughters of Ukraine.

Other featured authors, in alphabetical order:

  • Jess Bondy (Newport) traces her family roots to Russian and Eastern European Jews who emigrated to the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the late 1800s. Bondy recently retired after 30+ years serving as Senior Planner for the Lincoln County Department of Planning and Development. Together, Perry and Bondy will read from The Jew Girls Adventure Series: You Can Call Me Andy, a tale of sleuthing, shenanigans, and romance as they attempt to solve livability challenges in a small town on the Central Oregon Coast.
  • Dr. Candice Goucher (Portland): Professor Emerita of History at Washington State University. Lead scholar on 28 films & author of 15 books on African history, archaeology, and food studies. Goucher will be speaking about her upcoming publication, Picnics, Porcupines, and Photographs: My Grandmother’s Picnic in 1911.
  • Leanne Grabel (Portland): writer, teacher, illustrator, and award-winning spoken word performer presenting her newest project, Old With Jokes, plus a medley from past hits.
  • Amy Leona Havin (Portland): Israeli-born poet, essayist, arts journalist, filmmaker, and performance artist. Staff writer with The Oregonian/OregonLive, Litwatch columnist for Oregon ArtsWatch, and Artistic Director for The Holding Project, which is dedicated to movement language and choreographic creation.
  • Dr. David Lewis (Salem): Assistant Professor of Anthropology & Indigenous studies at Oregon State University and member of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. Ethnohistorical Consultant & Educational Presenter of regional Native history and culture Researcher, scholar, educator, and writer of original histories of the peoples of Oregon and California.
  • Kerry Newberry (Portland): writer and journalist who chases stories about people through the lens of food, wine, farming, and travel. Her feature story on Yaquina Bay Oysters appeared in Travel Oregon. Kerry co-authored, Oregon Food & Wine which is a delicious cookbook inspired by the wineries of Oregon.
  • Carla Perry (Newport) Founder and director of the Writers on The Edge and Nye Beach Writers’ Series. The author of several books of poetry, and the novel, “Riva Beside Me,” which was transformed into a full stage play. Recipient of the Stewart Holbrook Special Oregon Book Award and the Oregon Governor’s Art Award for her outstanding contributions to Oregon’s literary community.
  • Dr. Brian Tissot (Depoe Bay): Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences at Cal Poly Humboldt is a marine ecologist and surfer who has published scientific papers on kelp forest, coral reefs, and deep-sea communities. An avid blogger, “Dr Abalone” writes futuristic science fiction novels that focus on environmental philosophy, resource conflicts, and cutting-edge research. He will speak on his journey from science to science-fiction while writing his Songs of the Universe trilogy.

Event seating in the Doerfler Family Theater will be on a first come, first serve basis. For more information, call 541-265-7509 or email director@oregoncoasthistory.org. Come help us celebrate a great literary adventure.

About the Pacific Maritime Heritage Center

The Pacific Maritime Heritage Center, located in Newport’s Bayfront, is one of two historic properties operated by the nonprofit Lincoln County Historical Society (LCHS). The building features two changing exhibit galleries, three permanent galleries, the 121-seat Doerfler Family Theater, a Museum Store, and panoramic views of Yaquina Bay. The theater also includes an 18-foot screen and a self-serve menu of eighteen custom-made short historic films for visitors. Hours of operation are Tuesday through Sunday, 11 AM to 4 PM. Onsite parking is available. Adults $10; age 13 -18 $5. The admission fee is waived for LCHS Members, Active-Duty military, and for children 12 & under. Family and group rates are available.

Serving the public since 1948, LCHS preserves the collective memory of Lincoln County and includes the Log Cabin Research Library Archive and the 1895 Burrows House located at 545 SW 9th Street in Newport. A sampling of historic images from the LCHS collection can be seen at: oregondigital.org. For more information visit: oregoncoasthistory.org or call 541-265-7509. Follow us on Facebook Pacific Maritime Heritage Center, Instagram @lincolnco.historicalsociety, and Twitter @maritime_center.

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