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PHOTOS The Gut Function 4 Junction Junction City Nights Waypoint Father’s Day Car Show
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62nd Annual
BOHEMIA MINING DAYS July 17 - 18
A Passport to Culinary Adventures in the Grove HOW TO PLAY - Pick up a Passport to Culinary Adventures at participating restaurants and other locations around town. Purchase one or all of the BMD Specials at participating eateries. Collect a unique BMD stamp at each location and affix it to your passport.
Ore Cart Teams Check - In July 17 @ 4 p.m. July 18 @ 1 p.m. Ore Cart Main Street Processions July 17 @ 6 p.m. July 18 @ 2 p.m. Ore Cart Time Trials July 17 @ 6:30 p.m. Ore Cart Championship July 18 @ 2:30 p.m.
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www.BohemiaMiningDays.org or call 541.942.5064
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SUNDAY, JULY 18
Grand Miners Parade Route: 10th St. to Main to gateway
Vendor Set-Up Venue Opens Vendor Booths Open
10am
11am
826 W. Main St.
American Legion BINGO Begins 826 W. Main St.
Calvary Creek Band
Noon
60’s, 70’s, 80’s pop covers — Main Stage
Buck & Elizabeth Patsy Cline Tribute — Main Stage
2pm
3pm
Annie Mae Rhodes Band Bluegrass, country, & gospel — Main Stage
5pm
Route: Proceeds North on 5th St. to Main St. to 8th St. to Washington back to staging area
Men from S.U.R.F.
Bob Dylan Tribute — Main Stage
Jay the Magician Illusion Show Main Stage
Haywire Duo Country — Main Stage
6pm
Ore Cart Time Trials Begin Classic 60’-era beach & car songs — Main Stage
Route: Proceeds North on 5th St. to Main St. to 8th St. to Washington back to staging area
Ore Cart Championship Begins
Staging area: Washington Ave. between 5th & 6th St.
2106 Band
Bloomers & Ore Carts Parade Begins Buck & Elizabeth
4pm
Kiddie & Ore Carts Parade Line-up
Alternative rock- — Main Stage
Main St. closes to traffic Bloomers & Ore Carts Parade Line-up Staging area: Washington Ave. between 5th & 6th St.
Ore Cart Teams Check - In
Kiddie & Ore Carts Parade Begins
Ore Cart Teams Check - In Cascade Home Center, 6th & Washington Ave.
Main Stage
Main St. closes to traffic
Elvis Presley Tribute — Main Stage Opal Center for Arts & Education — 517 E. Main St.
1pm
Opal Center for Arts & Education — 517 E. Main St.
Cascade Home Center, 6th & Washington Ave.
David “Elvis” Lomond * Historical Films
* Historical Films Jay the Magician Illusion Show
Venue Opens Vendor Booths Open American Legion BINGO Begins
7pm
Awards Ceremony All American City Square Main Stage
Venue Closes Main Street reopens to traffic * Historical Films at Opal Center for Arts & Education
The Bohemia Gold Mines - This is the story of how the gold was discovered,
Event ~ Parking ~ Available
Venue Closes
9pm
who the major players were, and how it affected Cottage Grove (aired on OPB). The Morelock Films: A Snapshot in Time - Local movie theater owner’s newsreels provide a window into Cottage Grove in the 1930s and 1940s. The films depict what the town looked like at that time and what Grovers did. Note: Rainier Amusements cancelled all their small town carnivals this summer due to the shortage of affordable local labor to set up and tear down rides.
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Willamalane Partners with NASA GLOBE Program To learn more about our earth, we need to pertaining to the area’s weather and cloud engage science from a global perspective. This coverage. The data the children collect is summer, Willamalane Park and Recreation intrinsic to the NASA GLOBE program and District in Springfield is participating in part of a larger effort to make local science NASA’s GLOBE program in order to offer data available to people around the world local children the “opportunity to meaningfully through its widely available GLOBE app. contribute to our understanding of the Earth Said Johanna, “The idea of the program and global environment.” is that people all over the country are doing GLOBE stands for “Global Learning and this. Satellites up in the sky are taking pictures Observations to Benefit the Environment,” and looking down; people on the ground are taking the program means to educate and enable the pictures looking up, and the scientists are seeing next generation of citizen scientists. how well those two relate to each other: if According to an announcement shared the satellite readings reflect what people are by Willamalane Community Engagement & actually seeing. JUNE 22nd, DORRIS RANCH, SPRINGFIELD — At Public Relations Supervisor, Whitney Hoshaw, “The cool thing is that the app gives you the Willamalane’s Discovery Camp, children learn that there the parks district is joining 13 other organizadates and times of when the satellites are going is more to the weather than what meets the eye. tions from across the United States to share in to be flying overhead. If you enter data within this year’s specially-curated, NASA-sourced curriculum. 15 minutes of a satellite flying overhead, NASA will send you a report of Stated Whitney’s announcement: “Two of Willamalane’s prowhat the satellite saw.” grams will participate in the NASA GLOBE program this summer: Johanna went on to say that she looks forward to scheduling a Zoom Willamalane’s Discovery Camp at Dorris Ranch and Willamalane’s call later this summer where the camp children can engage in a question free Summer Playground Program. and answer session with a real NASA scientist. “In both programs, campers will gain valuable STEM learning While Willamalane’s Discovery Camp is already full for the summer, opportunities designed to bridge their learning with real-world application. its Summer Playground Program is free and will remain open to children Each week campers will learn about clouds and cloud formations and entering 1st through 5th grade through August 19th. See details below. record their own observations. Campers will input data through an app —Free For All News and NASA scientists will use that information to complete their studies THE SUMMER PLAYGROUND PROGRAM and compare the observations with satellite data. * is a FREE drop-in program & registration is now open. Register once online, “As part of the experience, campers will be able to collaborate with or at the playground at your first drop-off. NASA scientists and other campers participating in the pilot, learning not * will feature the NASA GLOBE curriculum only about their local data, but also gaining perspectives related to data * runs Monday – Thursday, June 28th through August 19th being collected by camps across the United States. Campers will learn from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. team-building skills as they work together to make a difference in their * 30 spots available daily at each site, for kids entering grades 1 – 5 * free lunches provided by FOOD For Lane County own communities, developing a sense of environmental stewardship as * available at multiple park locations they actively engage in the process of citizen science.” ——— Free For All News met with Willamalane Recreation Coordinator, Visit Willamalane online for updated information about Johanna Henry, at the Dorris Ranch Discovery Camp to learn more about available programming and schedules: what NASA’s GLOBE program is all about. Upon your writer’s arrival https://www.willamalane.org/classes_and_programs/youth/ at the camp, children were grouped together sharing their observations summer_playground_program.php
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The Strange Case of Opal Whiteley
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One hundred and one years ago, the twenty-twoanimals, wild and domestic, she made it her year-old Cottage Grove prodigy, Opal Irene Whiteley, business to befriend. Opal’s study of nature was rocketed to national and international fame by publishso precocious that, when she joined Christian ing the diary she wrote as a child entitled THE STORY Endeavor (a then-popular youth ministry), she of OPAL - The Journal of an Understanding Heart. soon gave well-attended lectures about the plants Not many cases of literary celebrity, followed by a and animals of Oregon. furious dismissal, are stranger. These lectures caught the attention of Elbert To the present day, the book that brought Opal Bede, a writer for the Cottage Grove Sentinel and notoriety has both fans and detractors. This is because The Oregonian, who praised her in a series of many believe it authentic while others believe (or articles. On leaving high school early, Opal briefly strongly suspect) it is an elaborate literary hoax. A attended the University of Oregon before going to third category maintains that while the diary is the Hollywood to pursue a position in the fledgling authentic product of a childish hand, Opal may have movie industry. The movie career did not pan out, touched it up before The Atlantic, managed by editorbut Opal managed to find wealthy benefactors who in-chief Ellery Sedgwick, serialized its first 70,000 supplied funds for her to self-publish The Fairyland words in six installments prior to it appearing in book Around Us. This project failed to gain traction as form. well, primarily because the printer found Opal a Opal visited Sedgwick’s office in New York, difficult partner with which to work. But, having initially to submit a different book she’d written and a handful of copies already in hand, Opal began illustrated called The Fairyland Around Us. Both sending them out in hopes of finding a potential a serious study and a hymn to the natural world, publisher. ABOVE: This photo, taken by Sedgwick did not like this book. On learning that In 1919, Opal made her fateful journey to Bachrach, shows Opal Whiteley Opal had kept a childhood diary, however, Sedgwick New York to seek publication for The Fairyland reconstructing her diary (Project Gutenberg/https://www.gutenberg.org/ was intrigued. Opal told Sedgwick she began her Around Us. She had no luck until she met Sedgwick, files/43818/43818-h/43818-h.htm). diary at age six and continued through her teenage who said: “About Opal Whiteley herself there BELOW: This mural of Opal Whiteley can be viewed at 7 th and years. It still existed, she said, but it had been torn to was something to attract even a man of business— Main St. in Cottage Grove. It was shreds by her sister. something very young and eager and fluttering like painted by Connie Huston and The number of paper pieces was in the thousands a bird in a thicket.” Howard Tharpe in 2001. and were stored in a hatbox in Los Angeles. Sedgwick When The Story of Opal appeared, it was a had the hatbox shipped to New York and put Opal up bestseller, but the follow-up reaction was swift at his mother-in-law’s while the young author pieced and savage. A host of opinions derided it as fake, her diary back together. mawkish, overly sentimental, and insipid. Within There are photographs from this period showing a a year, it went from being a bestseller to a joke. dark-haired, dark-eyed Opal surrounded by sheets of Ellery Sedgwick abandoned Opal, and she eventualpaper with block-printed lettering. The contents of the ly moved to England, where for a while, she was diary describe a girl’s outdoor adventures in a rustic feted and supported by patrons who still admired setting. Calling herself Francoise, the narrator makes her diary. friends among whatever she finds, including toads, Opal claimed to be the offspring of French mice, trees, and even yellow jackets, whom she royalty throughout her life: the daughter of Henri describes as the world’s first papermakers. of Orleans, who had somehow passed her over to the There are some unintentionally funny moments in Whiteley’s to raise. Among mistreated children— the book, such as when Francoise notes that a local especially sensitive, imaginative ones—indulging in couple was happy the Angels brought them a baby “real soon”— the orphan fantasy had great appeal. Most grow out of it. Opal, in all only five months after marrying. And Francoise spends a lot of time probability autistic, did not. hunting for fairies, as in this passage: Opal became irreparably delusional and obsessed about her “I went to look for the fairies. I went to the near woods. I hid genealogy living while living in England. Experiencing the Nazi behind trees and made little runs to big logs. I walked on the logs Blitz bombardment during World War II cannot have been theraand I went among the ferns. I did tiptoe among the ferns. I looked peutic. After being discovered by British authorities in a hovel, looks about. I did touch fern-fronds and I did have feels of their near-starving, Opal was persuaded to admit herself to the Napsbury gentle movements. I came to a big root. I hid in it. I did so to wait mental institution in 1948. She would spend the rest of her life there, waits for the fairies that come among the big trees.” dying on February 16, 1992. Despite the dreamy and idyllic character of the prose, it is not a As for the diary, one of Opal’s biographers, Benjamin Hoff, happy story. supports the authenticity of the diary by pointing out that it’s a lot It is apparent the people Francoise considers her foster parents of trouble to compose a document of nearly a quarter-million words regularly thrashed her for the crime of inattention to whatever chore and then tear it up in hopes of getting it published. More evidence is they wanted to be done. The person Opal calls “the mamma” liked to in the determination that the crayons used to compose it on butcher shove her under a bed for an indeterminate period of time before paper were proven to have been manufactured before World War I. dragging her back out to beat her. We will likely never know for sure if Opal’s diary is the work of As with anything pertaining to Opal’s life, her birth and a child genius or a clever ruse perpetrated by an ambitious young background are clouded with confusion and speculation. Family author. It doesn’t matter. members said Opal was the eldest child of Charles and Mary What matters is that, however the diary was created, The Elizabeth Whiteley, born in Washington State on December 11, Story of Opal exerts kind of a mystic sway over readers that can’t 1897. The family lived in a series of logging camps, typically in be denied, not even a century later. And however sad were the poverty. They followed the jobs Charles worked before moving to circumstances of Opal’s life and her experience with literary the southern Willamette Valley where they settled outside Cottage fame, her book will long be enjoyed by people who don’t reject Grove near a farm Mary’s father owned. In Opal’s diary, Mary is sentimentality, who can imagine a world hidden from the senses, the woman she calls “the mamma.” and who still want to believe there are kindly fairies all around us. Around the time Opal began composing her diary, she was rapidly earning a reputation as an amateur naturalist. In high school, —Mike Bonner she was two years ahead of her class. A sympathetic teacher named Lily Black recognized Opal’s abilities and arranged for books to Mike Bonner of Eugene is the author of MAVO—High School in be lent to her from the Oregon State Library’s new interlibrary loan the 1960s, Freshman Year, a comic memoir of a Portland, Oregon USA adolescence. His current project is a book about basketball cards for service. middle school readers. Opal’s reading helped inform her choices in the names of the
LANE COUNTY: Art & Poetry
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PHOTOGRAPHY By: Kimberly Starr
Kimberly Starr has lived in Oregon for 21 years. She has always had a passion for photography and finds herself drawn to everyday objects that, when shot with a macro lens and a unique perspective, reveal interesting patterns that make seemingly forgettable, boring objects suddenly intriguing to observe.
Photography by Kimberly Starr Dahlia photographs © Rachel McLain
A PRAYER IN THE SILENCE OF ISOLATION—TO SPIRIT By: Adam Levon Brown
Harbinger of silent dawn; martyr of beasts and broken galaxies Bring me Boethius in handmade stars, swept among the dirt of past lives Bring me the Titans encapsulated within supernova truth Bring me Alexandria Cradled in the silk of mortality
Bring me destiny wrapped in double helix tapestry
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Do not bring me saints, for my eyes bleed like Chrysanthemums who sit staring at lightning Do not bring me your broken halo, for I have my own, resting upon the gates of an inescapable dream
Do not bring me carnality, for bodies are vessels hiding behind the Maya in circles of Niagara emptiness Face the trembling of the memories, assembling themselves into dreams, while they scrape their iron nails of nightmarish banshee upon the walls of your once hallowed solace Let us sit within time, grasping for cosmos with fingers of clay Let us sit inside the Trinity, praying for cracked Thunder Let us stay, Let us stay for one more fractured raindrop, tasted for the finite and swallowed for creation’s final whimper
OUROBOROS
By: Jack Cooper
By: Sarah Glass
Suddenly given the powers of the sun the fire leaped from the human encampment into the brush turning spring’s promise into summer’s disavowal burning so hot it sterilized the soil lifetimes in the making As if it were the sun itself the fire evaporated all surrounding darkness destroying its own creations in a selfish spectacle of its newfound glory My Tokyo sister died of cancer as if the cancer wanted her out of the way wanted to take her place wanted to live more than she did
Adam Levon Brown is an awardwinning poet, mental health advocate/ sufferer, and published artist. He is the author of six poetry books. He has had his work translated in Spanish, Albanian, Arabic, and Afrikanns. He won the 2019 Blue Nib Chapbook Award, and has been shortlisted for the Erbacce Prize for Poetry three times. Adam’s book of poetry, Break, can be found online at https:// www.amazon.com/Breakillness-Adam-Levon-Brown/ dp/195043303X. For more information about Adam and his work, visit https:// adamlevonbrownpoetry.com/ novelist-book.
Jack Cooper is author of the poetry collection Across My Silence (World Audience, Inc., 2007). His poetry, flash fiction, essays, and/or miniplays have appeared in Connecticut River Review, Bryant Literary Review, bosque, The Briar Cliff Review, Rattle, Slant, Slab, The Main Street Rag, North American Review, and others. Recent awards include Grand Prize Winner in Crosswinds Poetry Journal's 2016 Poetry Contest. His poetry has also been selected for Ted Kooser's “American Life in Poetry” and “Every Day Poems.” Cooper is contributing editor of the online literary journal MacQueen’s Quintely, www.macqueensquinterly.com.
The two of us developed within a common space <OVUM> from common experience and motion <SPERM/>. We are something like fraternal twins: the germ within the Cosmic Egg, Hope come to term within Misery’s womb, What were the terms? surviving with a little humor. Of motifs related to kindred and kismet, we have delighted and despaired the compass entire by degrees: classmates, admirers, lovers— opportunists, egoists, estranged— antagonists, icons of valiance, ourselves. Like twins, we are known to preoccupy ourselves with social obligations and birthright. Like two snakes entwined to depict the Ouroboros, we alternatingly symbolize eternity and that which cannot be sustained. It is true, we carry within us a unique tome of genetic code specific to us only, a derivative of our lives, likely psychic in origin, that codes not for <CORP O REAL> phenomena, but for blueprints delineating our shared <ETHER REAL/> realities, the descriptions of which translate perfectly into computer code, certain yogic poses, poetry.
Sarah Glass lives in Springfield, Oregon
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On Thursday, April 1st at 2:48am, Officers of the Springfield Police Department observed a confirmed stolen U-Haul van traveling west on the I-105 freeway from Mohawk Blvd. As Officers attempted a traffic stop with the vehicle on the freeway near Pioneer Pkwy, the vehicle accelerated, and a pursuit was initiated. The driver continued west on the freeway until exiting at Coburg Rd. The driver then turned around and got back on the freeway headed eastbound back toward Springfield. Additional officers were prepared and set up with spike strips. As the stolen vehicle reached I-5, spike strips were successfully deployed and began to deflate tires on the vehicle. The stolen vehicle took the northbound onramp to I-5 and spun out. The vehicle was facing the wrong way and began to take off again attempting to travel southbound on I-5 in the northbound lanes. Given the concern for any oncoming traffic, a pursuit intervention technique (PIT maneuver) was authorized, and officers attempted to disable the vehicle. The PIT maneuver was not initially successful, and the damaged vehicle continued southbound in the northbound lanes. Fortunately, there was very little traffic on the freeway at the time and all vehicles were yielding. LCSO Deputies were responding to the incident from the south and were able to assist in limiting approaching vehicle traffic. The driver attempted to exit the freeway at the Glenwood exit but was unable to navigate the turn and a second PIT attempt was made. The vehicle subsequently suffered additional damage. Just south of the exit, the driver stopped the vehicle and immediately ran on foot from pursuing officers. A Springfield Police K-9 Officer was
TWO SUSPECT ARRESTED FOR TRESPASS & DAMAGE TO ATV AT SHOP — 06/12/21; 1:00AM Eugene Police Department – Case #21-08824 Suspect #1: Male, age 35; Charges: Criminal Trespass (2nd Degree), Criminal Mischief (2nd Degree), two counts of Carry Concealed Weapon (brass knuckles & two suspected spring-assisted knives) Suspect #2: Male, age 25; Charges: Criminal Trespass (2nd Degree), Criminal Mischief (2nd Degree), Parole Violation
On June 12, at about 1 a.m., Eugene Police officers were dispatched to Valley Powersports, 1041 Hwy. 99N, for a theft in progress. Two men were reported to be in the back of the shop going through a side-by-side vehicle. As officers were arriving, a sergeant spotted two suspects jumping a fence and running southeast toward the railroad tracks. EPD Drone Team and K9 resources responded along with patrol officers. An officer came across the two suspects and stopped them at 1006 Bethel Drive. One of the suspects, a 35-year-old male, had warrants for his arrest, and the other, a 25-year-old male, had an attempt to locate from an unrelated case. After an investigation, during which damage to ATVs at the stores was found, both were arrested. The 35-year-old suspect was lodged at Lane County Jail on charges of Criminal Trespass in the Second Degree, Criminal Mischief in the Second Degree, and two counts of Carry Concealed Weapon (concealed brass knuckles, and two suspected spring assisted knives). The 25-year-old suspect was lodged on charges of Criminal Trespass in the Second Degree, Criminal Mischief in the Second Degree, and Parole Violation. Free For All News has removed suspects’ names from the above police reports.
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Oregon Outdoor Family: Vesuvius Gold Mine
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Vesuvius Gold Mine - Abandoned Oregon Gold Mine We pored over the map of lost gold mines in Oregon, four heads bent together, deciding which abandoned mine to try and locate. Decision made, we set out, first by vehicle and then on foot. What would we find, if anything? Hiking on an old spur road, through a tunnel of green underbrush and trees, we all stopped. The green was broken by a river of orange, which turned dipped foliage rusty. Our eyes followed the water up the hill, and lit on a mine entrance straight from the movies. Vesuvius. Its name was a whisper was on our lips, and we breathed the name as though we were one: Vesuvius. NOTE: ***Vesuvius Mine is located on private property. Contact the Bohemia Mine Owners Association to learn more about visiting Bohemia Mine and other mines in the Bohemia Mountain area. In addition, visit the Gold Mining Museum in Cottage Grove for a close-up look at mining relics, including ore carts and actual Bohemia gold! *** Bohemia Saddle — We came up the mountain from the East side, where Musick Mine is located. We stopped at the saddle to play for a minute, and to look around. Bohemia Saddle is between Bohemia Mountain and Fairview Peak, and is a park managed by Lane County Parks. The sign is the only clue that it’s a park, though. There are no picnic benches, trash cans, or toilets. Next, we drove down the south side of the saddle, toward what we hoped would be Vesuvius mine, which was dubiously marked on the map. Just below the saddle, near a switchback curve in the road, is this old assay office. It was standing the last time I was here, maybe 15 years ago. Now, nothing left but the roof. old Panning — What’s a trip to find lost gold mines if you can’t also pan a little? I don’t know, but we dipped our pan for a few minutes so we wouldn’t have to find out! Note that many areas along Bohemia’s streams are still private claims. Don’t even get your pan out of the car if there’s a “No Trespassing” sign or claim sign posted. At the tip of the switchback was a creek, and a tiny spur road. We suspected this might be the old road into Vesuvius, so we parked here and got everyone out of the van. My husband spent a few minutes showing our son how to swirl the water in a gold pan to clear dirt and debris. They didn’t find anything except dirt and debris. Finally, we set out down the old road, into that vast green tunnel. The walking was pretty easy. The road is gated, but at the time of our visit there were no signs posted about trespassing. We’ve since learned that this is indeed private property. It’s best to get permission first! The Bohemia Gold Miners Association can help you determine where you’re allowed to explore and what is off limits.
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Environmental Geology, the heavy metals may be naturally occurring, but also may be pollution from the process used to extract gold when the mines were active. Whatever turned the water orange, we stayed away from it, and didn’t touch the water beyond poking sticks into it. Each of us explored around the area a little. The highest point of the saddle is a fun viewpoint for kids. Scrambling up the backside The mine is at the edge of a is safe and not very steep, and it’s just a steep hill. We found some short climb anyway. old boards and part of a tin roof below the road, but not much else. The slag pile trailed far down the hill, out of sight. My husband hiked further down the road by himself, but he didn’t find any remnants of the town that was located here, nor of the huge two-story bunkhouse that is famously shown in photographs. (Later, at home, I discovered that the town was located below the slag pile, not on the road where the entrance is located.)
Our camera flashes weren’t powerful enough to fully penetrate the mine entrance, which goes back about 15 to 20 feet before ending in rubble. Some portions of the mine entrance were visibly weakened. We did NOT go into the mine, not even a few feet. It just isn’t safe, especially with children. But it’s fascinating to see how big the timbers are, and how they’ve stood sturdy for 120 years.
Vesuvius Gold Mine — After maybe a third of a mile, there it was: Vesuvius. We hadn’t known if it still existed at all. Maybe there was nothing left to find. As we broke through the underbrush into a small clearing, the very first thing we noticed was a bright orange creek. A few more footsteps forward and we saw the entrance. It’s constructed from huge beams of timber, probably milled on site from Douglas fir trees. It juts out from the hillside a few feet, kind of like a porch on the front of a house. Inside, it tunnels straight into the heart of the mountain, at one time more than 7000 feet, but is now blasted shut about 20 feet inside the entrance. The creek seeping from the mine entrance is hard to ignore. The color is a shocking bright orange and all of the foliage touching the water is dead. As lore describes, the acidic water ate through the miners’ copper air pipes within a few hours, making maintenance of the mines a full-time, and expensive, job. A paper by the Forest Service suggests the orange color of the water is due to iron and other heavy metals that leach from acidic mine drainage. According to a study published in
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History of Vesuvius Mine — While most mines on Bohemia were located on the east side of the mountain, Vesuvius is on the west side, and was opened in 1897. They struck it rich in 1901. By 1903, they’d built 10 miles of road, some of which are still in use. By 1908 a small city thrived there with a mill, an 1800-foot tramway, assay office, saw mill, bunkhouse, store, and post office. In 1921, it boasted over 7000 feet of tunnel. 1921 was also the year that the mine owner, FJ Hard, died. He was shortly followed by his son, leaving just his wife and daughter to manage the mine. Remember, it was 1921, and women largely didn’t have a part in such matters. The mine went dormant, the equipment stolen, the buildings burned, and the tunnels collapsed. In 1960, Ray Nelson bought the mine, but it has never produced gold again as far as I can find.
If You Go If you go, get permission first! Contact the Bohemia Mine Owners Association for information. They may suggest a better adventure. It’s best to drive a high clearance vehicle. We made the trip just fine in our minivan, but the roads aren’t highly maintained and there were places we had to hike into because our van couldn’t go any further. Take water and food…there are no amenities on Bohemia Mountain, and the nearest gas station is 40 miles away. It’s remote, and you could easily spend the whole day (or three, as we did) and not see another car. There’s no cell phone access. You’re alone and being prepared is your best defense. We saw a disabled car pulled to the side of the road, a thick black fluid trailing down the road. We didn’t see the driver, but I’ll bet he hiked a few miles before finding help.
Bohemia Gold Mining Museum — Bohemia Mountain is about two hours from Eugene, so visiting Vesuvius and other nearby mines like the Musick Gold Mine is a pretty easy day trip. Also, I highly recommend visiting the Bohemia Gold Mining Museum in Cottage Grove. It’s dedicated to the Bohemia Mining District’s history, and the volunteer docents are very well acquainted with the mines and stories of the past. —Heather Hicks To read more adventures by Oregon Outdoor Family, you can visit https://www.oregonoutdoorfamily.com/
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Professor Popinjay’s Podium: How can I get my children to go to sleep?
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Professor Popinjay’s Podium Professor Popinjay’s Podium Alejandro Bjørnson asks: Dear Professor Popinjay, How can I get my children to go to sleep at night so I can have time to read a book, attend to my hygiene, and possibly eat a hot meal? If you have children, you haven't slept a wink since their conception. Humans only get sleep during work or class time. Children never sleep, not with a new world before them to immolate and barf on. Parents don't have time to sleep. They have to mop up after the kids. Perhaps you don't have children and fancy yourself some kind of Slumber Lord. If our sleepy brains were functioning, we might have something clever to say to that. Instead, let us discover some tips on breaking this vicious cycle. 1) Children Don't Actually Need Sleep - Just kidding. Everyone needs sleep. The only reason children need it is so you can contemplate your plan of attack once they wake. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of goldfish crackers found beneath your couch cushions. According to people who don't have children, nine to 11 hours of sleep is best for tiny humans. The rest of us know that four to six hours would be a miracle! Ideally, 14 to 16 hours would be divine, and 22 to 23 hours of sleep would be preferable but probably excessive.
“There is no sweeter sleep than the sleep we get when we’re supposed to be awake somewhere else…” 2) Waking up is VERY Necessary - Never sleeping is a concerning behavior, but never waking up is even worse. Prepare children for the real world. Wake them up, and have them get ready for school several hours before they need to be there, even on the weekends and randomly throughout summer. Once in the car, they will sleep like Odysseus on the Isle of Circe. There is no sweeter sleep than the sleep we get when we're supposed to be awake somewhere else. My logic is undeniable. 3) Take a Page from Pavlov! - Routines are important. No one wants to be tossed into bed the minute they finish their dinner. Okay, I'd love it, but I weigh 17.5 stone, so I'm not being tossed without an Archimedean device. Once you start tossing children they don't want to stop. Best to have a routine that doesn't involve tossing. Establish a complex ritual with drums, incense and chanting. Gradually these steps can be reduced until the simple droning of a didgeridoo will cause the children to fall asleep and somnambulate to bed. That or they'll start salivating. I forget how Pavlovian responses work.
4) Melatonin for their sins! Research shows that YouTube and games where you match like-colored candies literally suck melatonin out of your children’s face! If bedtime is imminent, stop matching candies and unsubscribe from PewDiePie. PewDiePie is a melatonin vampire and he'll say anything to coax you into sending him your melatonin in nondescript packages. Consult the pediatrician about feeding your children two ephahs of extra strength melatonin. Mix it with their nightly peanut butter spoon. And be aware of the MacGuyver-esque ingenuity of newfangled children. Most can fashion a WiFi capable screen from a toaster and a jelly sandwich. They have the screens! Find them! 5) Stress Not the Little Children - As bed-time looms, have the children put down the foam swords and cardboard armor. What kid can sleep when, minutes ago, they were genuinely concerned about the dread Malgor of Dul'Bor'Ed casting a majik water ball at them? No kid. That’s who! Instead, calm board games that don't inspire knockdown drag-out fist fights may be more appropriate. So mainly no Monopoly. Or perhaps play some calming music and have your children do some interpretive dancing.
6) Disco Balls Are Not Nightlights Don't use lasers and fog machines in the kids bedroom. Instead of wadded up newspapers, clean sheets make comfortable bedding for human children. Speak in a low-toned voice like Barry White and avoid accusation and sarcasm like Faye Dunaway. Create an atmosphere of peace. Save your epic Carpe Diem speech for morning. 7. Saunas are Relaxing but your Children Shouldn't Sleep in One - Saunas are great for clearing your pores and opening your bronchial tubes but you really shouldn’t sleep in one and neither should your children. A standard bedroom can reach up to a million degrees Celsius in the summer without proper ventilation. Drop an egg on your child’s forehead. If it instantly turns into a Denver omelette, the room is too hot. Don’t mummify the kids either. Swaddling is great if you’re born in a cave on the outskirts of Bethlehem, but hopefully, your house has better climate control. Not too many animals in bed either. A puppy or a kitty is fine, but keep the sheep, donkey, and camels outside. 8) Monsters Should Be Afraid of You - Children are scared. Of Course! They're puny defenseless irrational weaklings. PATHETIC!! But I suppose they should be humored. The last time one of my brood complained of a monster, I grabbed a baseball bat and asked mom to escort all the children from the room and close the door. I then enacted a violent fight with the "monster" with yelling, screaming, and some feigned thrashing about the room. I finished with a series of fatal blows and then a very long uncertain silence for suspense. "Okay!" I eventually yelled to the children outside the door. "The deed is done. You can come in." When the door opened there I stood panting, shirt torn, the room disheveled… I mean more so than usual. The children were so pleased! They would sleep soundly tonight. The monsters would not return this day, nor any day hence. 9) Try Misdirection! - If the word "bedtime" is even whispered behind closed doors the children will go ballistic. Instead try focusing on a magical breathing method that will lull the children into… You know what? This is stupid. There's some helpful advice hidden in this list but ultimately there are always going to be good nights and there are going to be fight nights. Some nights you'll have the energy to contest the kids' tactics. Other nights, you'll pass out while they run amok. You'll wake up to an overflowing toilet and a special dessert made just for you which you'll have to scrape off the wall. Feeling like a failure in the midst of this struggle will be ever-present, and you'll take full disadvantage. All things worth doing require sacrifice. You were appointed to this task with full knowledge that you would fail AND succeed. So don't beat yourself up if bedtime doesn't just happen. Just lovingly help the kiddos to feel the consequences of their choices, and lead by example (This includes the example of how to be when we fail, when we don't have all the answers, and when someone, even our own children, encroaches on our boundaries). Imparting these lessons is worth a few nights of missed sleep. Train up the child in the way they should go and when they are old, they will not depart from it. They're not old right now. And they're not on a train. They're in a bounce house. Let them bounce for a while and they'll tucker out, I promise. 10. Most Joking Aside, do be Aware of Sleep Disorders Because if they don't immediately fall asleep every night without fail there must be a medical problem, right? If you do have concerns, talk to an actual doctor… a MEDICAL doctor. They'll likely first ask if you've read this article but they may also recommend a sleep specialist (Slumber Lords, I calls 'em) who can further assist your children in the fight to sleep tight at night.
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CrosScan is a word search/crossword puzzle hybrid. A CrosScan puzzle consists of a letter block and a list of clues. Answers to the clues are found in the letter block. Each puzzle has a theme, and every answer fits into this theme. When all the words are found and circled, the leftover letters spell out a short quote relating to the theme. For maximum enjoyment, we strongly recommend that you read the instructions be fore beginning.
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Visually scan the letter block to discover words. Words can be read backward, forward, up, down, or diagonally. It’s a good idea to look for diagonal words first. NOTE: DO NOT start with Clue #1, #2, etc. That is the hard way. 2. When you find a word, count the number of letters. Then, look at the word list and find the clues which have that same number indicated in parentheses. 3. Determine which clue corresponds to the word you found. Once you have located the clue, write the matching word in the blank space provided to the right of it for future reference. Do not circle a word in the letter block if you can’t find a clue to match it. HINT: Each puzzle contains a “star” in which words coming from all eight directions meet at one central letter.
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Drying cloth (5) ______________________ Business apparel (5) __________________ Hawaiian greeting (5) ________________ Short wave, maybe (5) ________________ Brooklyn’s _____ Island(5) ___________ Easter or Treasure (6)________________ Elephant appendages (6) ______________ Pacific atoll (6) _______________________ Copa (6) _____________________________ Hand moisturizer (6) _________________ Clam skeletons (6) ___________________ Fun footwear (7) _____________________ Flintstones kids (7) __________________ Sat. & Sun. (7) _______________________
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Brain Games Answers CrosScan Answers: Puzzle # - The Beach
HIDDEN QUOTE: “In shells we hear the sea.”
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2. WORD SCRAMBLE: DREBE BED, BEE, RED, BEER, BRED, DEER, REED, BREED Bonus Words: BREE
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How & Why to Keep a Journal
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“The unexamined life is not worth living.” —Socrates, 399 BCE “People who keep journals have life twice.” —Jessamyn West, 1937,
To See the Dream Why to Keep a Journal Since the invention of writing five thousand years ago, scribes, artists, writers, travelers, kings, poets, politicians, and others have produced personal and private accounts of their thoughts, feelings, and ideas. Oregon writing prodigy, Opal Whiteley, began recording her thoughts and ideas in block-printed lettering at age six. The most famous American child diarist, Anna Green Winslow, composed her pieces with breathtakingly beautiful, ornate handwriting. Her diary took the form of missives to her mother in the early 1770’s. Anna's diary is interesting today for the light it sheds on political agitation in Boston during the run-up to the American Revolution. Legendary novelist, F. Scott Fitzgerald, found a charming and amusing use of his diary. The Thoughtbook he composed at age fourteen recounts his social victories and defeats in the St. Paul, Minnesota youth scene he inhabited. Its descriptions of girls Scott liked (and that liked him) are so timeless they could have been thumbed out on a smartphone yesterday. Slim as it was, he returned to his Thoughtbook again and again for later inspiration. On a darker note, there is the Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, the chronicle of her hidden life in Amsterdam during the World War II Nazi reign of terror. Nobody who reads it can come away doubting the immortality of written words, even ones never intended for an audience. What all these young scribblers have in common is that writing an account of their lives enlarged them as people and enriched their life experiences. They discovered that writing itself answered the why of daily living. A Short History of the Diary/Journal Scholars
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informs us the modern diary debuted during the Renaissance when literate Italians shifted from recording public lives to describing private lives. Leonardo da Vinci's journal featured observations about his fellow Italians, as well as ideas for inventions and artworks. In England, a man named Samuel Pepys assembled an extensive journal, making firsthand comments on events in 1660s London— fires, politics, plagues, daily life, wars, and even spats with his wife were duly set down. Since then, countless people have made contributions to the journaling habit--writers especially, but others as well. Notable diarists include such varied figures as Franz Kafka, Civil War observer Mary Chestnut, poet May Sarton, Alice in Wonderland's Lewis Carroll, adventurer Robert Falcon Scott, and too many others to list. For all, making sense of the world by writing about their experiences was paramount to their understanding of reality. Diary or Journal? A point of confusion revolves around whether the words you are writing for private purposes are a diary or a journal. This confusion stems from the fact that many products are a combination of the two. In general, a diary records the more mundane aspects of your life—thoughts about your friends, activities, love interests, what you ate and drank, the weather, ambitions, and plans for the future. Fitzgerald called his secret record a Thoughtbook, but in truth, he penned a juvenile diary. In short, a diary recounts your days, hopes, and dreams. A journal, by contrast, usually has a more serious purpose. You may be noting your progress on a project or a scientific experiment. Gregor Mendel, "The Father of Genetics," spun detailed notes about tending his pea plants in a journal as he identified the basic principles of heredity. Whatever your goal, it's never too early or late to start setting down your thoughts, feelings, hopes, and dreams, not to mention progress in your employment, philosophy of life, religious beliefs or lack thereof, and your sensibilities about the world. There is a special knowledge to be obtained by reading words you've written in the past—questions answered and memories jogged. The longer and more diligently you write, the greater are the rewards. Writing a diary, journal, or combination of the two transforms you in ways that cannot be measured, only felt.
How to Keep a Diary/Journal In olden times, your sole option in composing a diary or journal was ink and paper, often in a bound book with ruled pages. A popular type for baby-boomer 'tweens and teens back in the day was a book with a handy built-in but easily pick-able strap lock. In this era, there's a host of apps available to help you keep your precious musings, pics, and videos alive. They are all pretty similar, but one thing to focus on is how easily you can upload your stuff to another device. It may be nice to keep your journal in the cloud, but a fast upload to your laptop is better, and a hard copy of your deathless output is like icing on the cake. A couple of cautions about using apps for journaling is that you might be tempted to overdo the pics and videos and neglect the all-important text. It's an internal monologue you're after, not an exercise in cinema verité. The second caution is that any commercial app you use will be mining metadata from your journal and
consequently monetizing it. But if it's a choice between journaling on your phone or not journaling at all, then by all means download an app.
Day One Journal (https://dayoneapp.com/) Most journaling apps allow you to create pages where you can post words, videos, and pictures. Because I'm a tad old-school, Day One's app particularly appeals to me on account of its straightforward design and intuitive screen movement. It's not perfect (the free version limits your photos and the journals you can keep) but a good starting choice. Penzu (https://penzu.com/) The Penzu journaling app is a perfectly functional one and a good choice if security is one of your bugaboos. It has double password protection and heavy-duty encryption. This is a good app should you have nosy roommates with a penchant for snooping through your stuff. Momento (https://momentoapp.com/) This is an app that seamlessly connects to your social network feeds and offers automated updates to your friends. F. Scott Fitzgerald would have loved Momento, as it surely would have made him a magnet for attention in his St. Paul social circle in 1910. Other available apps for smartphone journaling have their plusses and minuses. I suggest trying their free versions and seeing what works. Avoid journal books with daily entries or apps that nag you to write. It's too much pressure. Bear in mind that what you're really after is your own inspired personal record. Final Note Before returning to Oregon in 1975, upon finishing a stint in VISTA, I'd spent the winter reading journals by the famed French author, Anais Nin, borrowed from the Atlanta Public Library. A Spy in the House of Love, Ladders to Fire, and The Four-Chambered Heart hit me with the wallop of a tornado. Here was a woman who saw through the sham. I resolved to begin keeping a journal. The 99-cent notebook I bought at Sears had a red-black cover and 160 pages. I liked it because it was small and sturdy. The Kodak 110 camera I got at the same time cost $29.95. On my way home and ever after, I wrote about and took photographs of the people I met. Although crude by today's standards, those were the tools at hand. Now my old camera and ruled notebook are features on a smartphone. Yet fifty volumes and a million words later, I still keep a journal. However you combine words and pictures for your purelywritten or modern app-driven journal, take the advice of the Nike slogan and Just do it. —Mike Bonner
Mike Bonner of Eugene is the author of MAVO—High School in the 1960s, Freshman Year, a comic memoir of a Portland, Oregon USA adolescence. His current project is a book about basketball cards for middle school readers.
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