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Every year, the booksellers at Powell’s submit their Top Fives: their five favorite books that were released in 2023. It’s a list that, when put together, shows just how varied and interesting the book tastes of Powell’s booksellers are. I highly recommend digging into the recommendations — we would never lead you astray — but today...
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Timberline Lodge Images of America
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Sarah Baker Munro
jrcbaker
, January 02, 2017
Part of the series Images of America, Timberline Lodge by Sarah Baker Munro, M.A. from the University of California-Berkeley, features vintage pictures with terrific stories. This collection of memorable photographs and commentary cover the late 19th-century recreational use of the forest through the popular lodge and ski slopes on Mt. Hood. What lights my fire are the primordial forests, 1930's cars, Forest Service maps, lumberjacks and skiers and equipment in the 1930's, a 1936 snowplow, stone masonry, rustic furnishings, animals carvings, Western paintings and murals, ironwork and carvings and rugs and textiles, tunnels dug out of the snow to enter the lodge and the massive stone wall fireplace. The author has taken an active part in Friends of Timberline since it's beginning in 1979, writing Timberline Lodge: The History, Art, and Craft of an American Icon (2009). Her sources include Friends of Timberline Archive; Historic Photo Archive; Mt. Hood Cultural Center & Museum, Oregon Historical Society; Oregon State Library; Oregon State University Libraries; Portland Art Museum; Ray Atkeson Image Archive; US Forest Service, Mt. Hood National Forest; and various public sources and private collections.
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Tough Girl An Olympians Journey
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Carolyn Wood
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, December 29, 2016
Carolyn Wood, whom I knew in the olden days--my stepfather treated her mononucleosis--is fast on her feet and swims at the deep end. "On the way to France [walking the Camino de Santiago to the ninth century cathedral in Spain], I stop first in Louisville to visit my son, now a professional actor, where he's preparing for Long Day's Journey into Night, an apt title for what lies before me." She won a gold medal swimming in the 1960 Olympics. While at the Olympics, she read Battle Cry and On the Beach and saw Diary of Anne Frank and The Young Lions. Later in a literature class at high school, she "loved the sprawl of Moby-Dick . . . recognized Holden Caulfield's alienation and Stephen Crane's experiments in observation." The Sound and the Fury set her "inside someone else's mind as it drifted through thoughts, sensations, and memories." "I was seventeen, a senior in high school, already a world traveler, happy to be out on an adventure. Ahead lay college [the University of Oregon in Eugene] and the ever-unfolding future--teaching English [discussing Holden Caulfield and phonies], a year with the Robert Kennedy family, marriage, motherhood, divorce and complications of coming out, finding a life partner and losing her."
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