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Citadel of the Spirit Oregons Sesquicentennial Anthology
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Matt Love
William Hall
, May 19, 2012
Hollywood came to Lincoln County a few years ago to film a picture in Depoe Bay starring Charlize Theron. I don’t think the “Burning Plain” made any significant cultural impact, and as far as I can tell, there are no memorable stories circulating about interactions between the cast and crew and local residents. That’s not surprising, given the wall of security that surrounds any film production today. But Hollywood, and the larger world, were very different places forty years ago. That becomes abundantly clear in Matt Love’s newest book, “Sometimes a Great Movie.” This concluding volume in Love’s Newport Trilogy takes us back to the summer of 1970 when Paul Newman and Henry Fonda came to Lincoln County to film Ken Kesey’s sprawling novel about a coastal logging family, “Sometimes A Great Notion.” It was the story of a single memorable encounter between Newman and the community��"it involves a tavern, a pool table and a chainsaw��"that set Love on the path of chronicling the tale of the making of this film. But was that enough reason to write about “an obscure, forgotten and mediocre forty-one year old film that most people had never seen, would never see, or had simply forgotten about?” No, the real motive was Matt’s devotion to Kesey and his greatest work. While the movie sank without making much of a ripple in the collective consciousness, it’s clear that the making of SGN was a memorable event in the lives of many Lincoln County residents, and Love did a great job of tracking many of them down, and they proved more than willing to share their memories and their photographs of the event. He conducted seventy-five interviews, and there are eight oral histories between these covers that add a lot of color and flavor to this work. While this isn’t a work of film criticism, Love lays out a pretty compelling argument that star/director Newman never really “got” the Oregon Coast or SGN; he made a conventional film when he could have made a great one, in every sense of the word. Still, it’s a story worth telling, and it’s a story well worth reading.
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Love & the Green Lady
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Matt Love
William Hall
, July 15, 2011
Matt Love’s latest book, “Love and the Green Lady,” is a wonderful tribute to the Yaquina Bay Bridge on her 75th birthday. It’s a wonderful book, but it defies easy categorization. It’s a fun, funky mix of history, literary essay, photo essay and personal memoir with a bit of poetry added for extra seasoning. Love moved to South Beach in 2008 when he took a teaching job at Newport High School, which made him a daily commuter over the bridge. He quickly fell in love with the iconic span that he’s dubbed “the green lady.” There are several recurring themes throughout the 200-plus pages of this volume that help to give it unity. Matt calls the bridge “Oregon’s crown jewel of socialism” (it was a product of the New Deal building spree that also gave over Timberline Lodge and other public projects of lasting utility and beauty) and wonders if we as a society have the capacity to create something as functional and beautiful today. His passion for teaching also shines through; we hear and see how he’s used the bridge to engage his students in seeing, thinking, and expressing themselves. It’s a great book, and it was printed in Newport too! Get a copy--you won’t be disappointed.
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Gimme Refuge The Education of a Caretaker
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Matt Love
William Hall
, March 27, 2010
Matt Love fled Portland in the late nineteen-nineties, burned out on teaching and seeking a path to a writing life. This book tells the story of his funny, sad, moving, passionate journey that not only led him to find his author’s voice but eventually brought him back to the classroom. Love left the city behind and became the first resident caretaker at the Nestucca Bay National Wildlife Refuge in South Tillamook County. He also took a post as teacher at the Nestucca Valley School, a private institution with no standardized tests or grades and a commitment to producing well-rounded human beings. Both engagements proved to be beautiful fits. The narrative moves back and forth from the refuge to the classroom. In the refuge, Matt poured his physical and psychic energies into healing the scarred land that had once been a dairy farm. In the classroom, he brought all the creativity and passion he could muster to what he thought would be the final chapter of his teaching career. Matt Love has produced several wonderful books about one of Oregon’s golden eras, the 1960s and 1970s, but as he showed in his volume, “Super Sunday in Newport,” he also has a gift for memoir. That talent also shines in this book.
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