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A review and newsletter from the Columbia River Maritime Museum, Astoria, Oregon

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From the Wheelhouse Afterguard Donald Magnusen, Chairman Thomas V. Dukich, Vice Chairman Prudence M . Miller , Secretary Capt. Rod Leland , Immediate Past President Ward Cook, Treasurer W. Louis Larson, Advisor Shelley Wendt, Advisor Cheri Folk, Advisor Jerry L. Ostermiller, President Board of Trustees George F. Beall Dennis Bjork Peter Brix* Richard T. Carruthers * Fred Fields Walter Gadsby, Jr. Alan C. Goudy * W. Dennis Hall E .H. (Ted) Halton, Jr. Jonathan Harms John Hart Don M. Haskell Senator Mark Hatfield * Senator Betsy Johnson Dr. Russell Keizer S. Kenneth Kim James McClaskey John McGowan * Ken M. Novack Roger Qualman Hugh Seppa Jim Servino June Spence Willis Van Dusen * Samuel Wheeler Bill Wyatt

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With the start of the New Year it is worthwhile to reflect on the past season at the Museum and highlight our direction for the coming year. This year our annual attendance reached 101,662 visitors, a new record. This represents a 17 percent increase in visitors to our museum, and is astonishing as many museums throughout the nation have actually suffered noticeable declines in visitors during the same time period. We should all take pride that our institution is stronger than ever.

We welcomed contemporary artist Melinda Hannigan into our galleries for an exclusive one artist show that ran from October through December. This was a resounding success that received many positive comments from our visitors. Melinda is off to Ireland this spring to find new inspiration for her maritime painting. We wish her the best of luck in her travels.

Our galleries feature a new exhibit scheduled to run throughout the following year entitled: The Art of the Decoy.

This exhibit focuses on an area of Columbia River history that has not been featuredin our galleries until now. For those of you who find joy watching the sun come up over the river on cold fall mornings, watching wave after wave of ducks and geese flying overhead, be sure to make plans to visit the Museum and take

a look. The color photography is simply breathtaking and the hand-carved decoys represent the highest levels of Columbia River Estuary folk art.

Looking ahead, the Museum will be making dramatic and exciting changes to the campus grounds in 2006. Our landscaping and parking expansion will tum all of the Museum's waterfront property into an attractive and very supportive visitors' facility. The parking lot expansion will add 50 additional parking spaces and include generous space for tour buses and recreation vehicles. The landscaping will include appropriate maritime artifacts as well as the handsome green plantings we have long been waiting for.

Finally, I should point out some changes in the Museum's administrative structure. As the Museum continues to grow some position descriptions have been updated to better reflect our increasing stature as a nationally recognized museum.

The title of the President of the Board has been upgraded to Chairman of the Board, and Executive Director has been changed to Museum President; these changes are consistent with the best Maritime Museums across the country.

Best regards,

cJ1 Jerry Ostermiller President

On the Cover: A special thank you to Michael Mathers for the beautiful image of a Columbia River duck shack at dawn.

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To watch a video of the exhibit, as seen on Portland's Channel 2 News go to the link below. http://www.katu.com /outdoor/story. asp?ID=81435

The Art of the Decoy Exhibit Opens The Columbia River Maritime Museum is proud to present a new exhibit of duck decoys, skiffs, and photographs of the spectacular lower Columbia River estuary. This exhibit, a first by the Columbia River Maritime Museum, features some of the finest hand carved and painted Pacific Northwest decoys ever to be exhibited on the West Coast.

With a history of extraordinary craftsmanship, Astoria area carvers are considered to have produced some of the finest American carved decoys .

The exhibit features works from the best known and most talented folk art carvers of the area, including Charles Bergman, Frank Bay, Jim Jensen, John North, Charles Pice and Jim Titus. None of these have achieved greater recognition and acclaim than the works of Charles Bergman. Though a capable shipwright at the George and Barker yards in Astoria, it was Mr. Bergman's expert craftsmanship and artistry in creating decoys that would become respected and coveted by collecThe QuarterDeck, Vol. 32 No . 1

tors throughout the Pacific Northwest. Bill and Kim Carter have generously loaned the Museum one of the most complete collections of Astoria decoys to be found in the nation.

To accompany the graceful form of these truly exceptional carvings is the photographic works of photographer Michael Mathers. For the past two years Michael has spent countless days in the Lower Columbia estuary in order to capture the beauty of the local landscape, all but invisible to those not out on the Columbia River. Michael has been granted a trusted role in going along to photograph the hunt with local hunters, and brings back truly moving images of what duck hunting means to these dedicated sportsmen today.

These beautiful and powerful color images of duck hunting form a spectacular setting to showcase the art of decoy carving, creating a truly captivating experience for visitors to the Columbia River Maritime Museum.

The Art of the Decoy is made possible by the generous support of: Oregon Duck Hunter's Association Bill Carter Michael Mathers Thomas J. Lekas Tom McAllister Margaret Thompson Mathewson Worth Mathewson Bayshore Animal Hospital Bill Antilla Ducks Unlimited Inland Electric Robert Jarvis Dick Matthews

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Memorial Day Parade in Knappton, 1918.

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Written by Abbie Laine and Wahkiakum Community Foundation's Appelo Archives Center.

This material comes from Carlton Appelo 's historical collection. Carlton, a native of Deep River, Washington, has written several books on local history and passionately collects and preserves Western Wahkiakum County history. Over the course of his 84 years, he has added genealogies, oral histories, photographs, biographies, census records, and obituaries to his historical collection. In order to maintain its preservation as well as make this collection accessible to the public, he is leasing it to the non-profit Wahkiakum Community Foundation. On staff at the Appelo Archives Center are Donna Klint, Maia Wise, Doug Wise, Amanda Dotson, Carl Fredrickson, and Abbie Laine. It will soon be open to the public. Contact information: Wahkiakum Community Foundation's Appelo Archives Center, 1056 SR4, Naselle, WA, 98638. Phone 360.484-7103. Email appeloarchives@ hotmail.com.

As you drive across the Astoria Bridge toward the forested hills of Washington, you might notice cormorants perched in the river atop rotted wooden posts with their wings spread out like two crooked elbows - drying off from a fish-dive. You tum your blinker on to tum east at the stoplight. Focused on the road ahead and your ultimate destination ofNaselle or South Bend, you don't give the birds or their roost much thought. Or then again, maybe you do, and you find yourself wondering about the pilings that speckle the

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What was this stretch of shoreline like before the asphalt replaced the river as highway? Where the blank pilings stand, there also stands a story. So what do they have to say?

I cannot begin to imagine all the lives that were touched in some way by this short stretch of riverbank, but I can paint a picture of the structures that were here.

As the various buildings and communities take shape in your mind's eye, may the people that lived in and around them fill your view as you drive the highway along the Columbia. And as the past is imagined, may these desolate wooden posts become part of a view much improved.

The pilings They held up buildings: canneries, mills, houses, and towns. They were a newlywed couple's first home, a fishing job for Finnish brothers just learning the language, a front porch for a grandma to rock her grandbabies on, and a kitchen filled with the warmth of baking bread for a cold and wet fisherman to return to after a day on the river. Above these pilings, men made good livings in canneries and sawmills, parades marched through main streets, pupils were taught in schoolrooms, and busy moms balanced children on one hip and groceries on the other at

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the general stores. Houses were built by husbands and then decorated by wives, children rode tricycles on the docks, and friendships were forged at church meetings in neighbors' homes. If you were traveling this stretch of the river in 1901 aboard a ferry, the thriving and bustling communities you would have passed - perhaps with a wave to a fisherman on the docks - were supported by these now deteriorating pieces of wood. The girlfriends that today would drive past these to a cafe in Astoria for a visit over coffee

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Knappton girls on the Knappton - Naselle plank road. Identified are: Grandma Erp with her daughter, Lorena Chadwick, and granddaughters Margaret and Eleanore Chadwick.

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would, a hundred years ago, have been waiting on their docks for a ferry to take them.

Knappton 1868 - 1943 Originally founded by Jabez Burrell Knapp, this town was first known as Cementville. Alas, the rock for cement lasted but a short while, and the town turned to a different industry. A sawmill went up in cement-making's stead, and Cementville became Knappton. The mill was a success, and the town grew. Thirty houses, a school, boarding house, post office, hotel, mess hall, and a general store were supported by its 112 residents in 1870. Much fun and recreation was had by all with tennis courts, a gymnasium and a dance hall, and when the fun turned to work, it wasn't only the men who were making money. Many women started small businesses from their homes to provide poultry and dairy products for the locals and laundry services for the traveling sailors. People got around town on streets of wooden planks, and, as in the rest of the towns you will read about, traveled

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to and from the towns upriver and down on ferries. In the town's later years, buggy and car transportation was improved with a plank road connecting Naselle to Knappton, and a taxi service was run between the two towns.

The Knappton Mill caught fire on July 12, 1941, and quickly destroyed much of the town. Over a thousand pilings were left behind, and the highway that cuts through them dissects the foundation of this not so long ago town.

Frankfort 1886 - 1947 Two dreamers named Frank had everything they needed for a successful and thriving town: big hopes and pure speculation. The rumor that the Great Northern Railroad might build a northern terminus here was enough for Frank Bourn and Frank Scott to start putting together a town. Long before the railroad substantiated their hopes, the two men were running ads in The Oregonian and in papers in the East promoting the town to investors as an "embryonic commercial citadel." People from Norway, Germany, North Dakota, and the eastern states responded to this investment opportunity and began buying land. The town was platted for 1,226

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Gust Brandt Home in Frankfort, circa 1906.

Photo courtesy of J.B. Brandt.

lots, and was laid out rather optimistically with many streets and lots extending over the river, on swampy ground, or over the edge of a steep bluff. Remarkably, many of the lots were sold. Homes and a school were built, and three saloons, a two-story

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hotel, a general store, and a real estate office comprised Frankfort's "downtown."

An ambitious journalist, indeed, ran the Frankfort Chronicle newspaper from a back room of the hotel.

People can only survive on hope for so long, and when the railroad showed up on the other side of the river, people started leaving. A sawmill was built, but most of the residents that remained fished for the various canneries that maintained fish receiving stations there. The quarter mile of crescent-shaped bay that Frankfort was built on was accessible only by boat, and it remained entirely dependent on ferries and a mailboat until the very end. In 1947, the mail delivery and regular boat service stopped, and by 1964, its very last citizen (Ole Lovick - a Norwegian fisherman) passed away.

Altoona 1901 - 1957 This town began as a fish receiving station built by William Hume in 1890.

It grew with the boom of the canning industry and opened its first post office

Edwin Ulfers in wheelchair in front of the Frankfort hotel and newspaper office.

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Altoona banquet, Sept 17, 1916. Pictured are Mrs. Larson, Thora, Augusta Holmes, Miss Heath, Mr. Hamilton, Munson, and Powell.

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in 1901. Three years later, the Altoona Packing Company began canning salmon.

For several years, Altoona was home to a large group of Chinese men who worked in the cannery and boarded in the nearby "China House."

Eventually the town of Altoona grew to include a cold storage plant, general store, school (with as many as 22 students), hotel, dance hall, and saloon.

There was also a dairy that operated 3 ½ miles northwest of Altoona, and Helge

Saari was the town's milkman until 1942, delivering milk when the tide would allow.

As canning salmon became less profitable, Altoona Packing Co. changed over to fish oil reduction, and then closed completely in 1950. The town was accessible only by boat until 1943, when it finally received its first road.

Brookfield 1874 - 1954 Brookfield began with a small cannery building called Brookfield Fishery Premises that was built by T.S. Jewett and Joe Megler. In a romantic sort of way, Joe Megler named the Fishery and the resulting town after his sweetheart's home town.

She was quite the catch from Brookfield, Massachusettes, and he was smitten with her. They married, and he built her a mansion here. He was quite the catch himself: a popular Senator in the Washington State Legislature from 1889-1911, and a remarkable enough man to have the Ferry Landing (present-day rest area) named after him.

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The ferry Julia B. made the run from Brookfield to Astoria, circa 1911. Shown docked at A storia.

Chinese cannery workers. Nine years after the cannery was built, Joe Megler began recruiting fishermen from a Yugoslavian island to come to Brookfield and work. Counting on their skill as fishermen and their ability to live remotely, Joe brought sixteen families from Komiza,

Launch Altoona No. 2 in front of the Altoona cannery getting ready to unload 16 tons of fish, circa 1917.

Yugoslavia, to Brookfield. Their presence was a delightful addition to many in the area, as they were very, very good at making homemade wine. It rapidly became famous up and down the lower Columbia River, and they built quite a number of stills to accommodate the lively trade.

Brookfield grew to include a "chuck house" that was the center for dances and community parties, and it also had a school and post office. For many years Brookfield was accessible only by boat, and it wasn't until its dying days that it received its much sought-after road. In 1931, a fire destroyed the cannery, and a fish receiving station was built in its stead.

The town never recovered, and the post office closed in 1954. In 1958, Crown Zellerbach Logging burned the remaining homes to prevent accidental fires.

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Brookfield home built

by J.G. Megler for his bride. Shown here in a state of decay.

Carlton Appelo has spent more than three decades documenting the history and culture of his native Wahkiakum County and the lower Columbia River shores.

He has written books about the following southwestern Washington areas: Knappton (1964 and 1975), Frankfort (1965), Broolifield (1966), Pillar Rock (1969), Altoona (1972), Deep River (1978), and Cottardi Station (1980) and A Pioneer Scrapbook of the Columbia River North-Shore Communities: Wahkiakum and Pacific Counties, Washington (1986). Copies of these can be found in the Columbia River Maritime Museum Library.

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From the Archives In a continuation of our series we have selected an article that we feel would be of interest to our readers from the Museum s Library. This article is reprinted.from The Bumble Bee, published by the Columbia River Packers Association in January of 1948.

Fishing Vessel Picks up Depth Charge at Sea

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Fishing off the Columbia River has other hazards than winds and waves.

The crew of the Jimmy Boy was dragging the "Astoria Canyon" at 80 fathoms in Mid-November. Skipper Leonard Fletcher, was directing the hoisting of the big trawl. Fish were cascading on the deck when there was a heavy thump, and one of the crew members remarked "We've got an oil barrel."

A veteran of naval service work-

ing alongside of him took one look and shouted: "Oil barrel, hell. That's a depth charge."

There was a hectic moment or two while everybody tried to pin down the rolling, banging, ash can with its 300 lbs of TNT. Finally it was lashed securely to the rail and a debate started to determine whether the dangerous catch would be dropped overboard or brought in. Finally it was decided not to drop it where it would be fished up again by their boat or some other fishing craft. A radio call was sent to the Coast Guard and the can cushioned in net was delivered to the Coast Guard Station at Point Adams.There it was turned over to Lt. Don Winslow mine ' disposal officer for the 13th Naval District. Lt. Winslow examined the charge and said that it had been set for 100 feet but had failed to explode and that it had undoubtedly been dropped when Japanese subs were lying off the Columbia in 1942 to prey on American shipping.

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Pictured at the top is the barnacle-encrusted instrument of death and the hole it made in the hard packed sand when exploded. The concussion was felt 10 miles away.

During the same month and well into December fishing craft in this area encountered other hazards in the shape of Japanese mines which had drifted across the ocean on the Japanese current.

Lt. Winslow exploded a number which drifted on local beaches and Coast Guard vessels destroyed others at sea by means of gunfire.

Fishermen believe that the Zaremba 11, which disappeared in the late fall while after tuna, struck one of these mines and was entirely destroyed. No trace of the craft or its crew members has ever been discovered although an intensive search was made over a period of several weeks.

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The Museum is always on the lookout for tour guides to entertain, inform, and inspire visitors to learn more about our exhibits. John Rekart, Celia Tippit, and Lightship keeper Gene Mellott all became qualified Museum tour guides this past year. Please call Cynthia Svensson at 325-2323 if you are interested in joining the docent crew.

No one was more pleased than the Lightship volunteers when the Columbia returned in all her glory last year. Not one of the keepers drifted away during the absence of the ship. We are also happy to welcome former volunteer John Gilliland back to serve aboard her. A new volunteer, Steve Swenson, is also a very welcome addition to the Lightship crew.

New volunteer, Steve Johnson has found his niche here at the Museum answering phones on those occasions when an extra hand is an absolute necessity.

Susan Orr is our new Tuesday volunteer in the Museum Store. The Store Crew held its second annual meeting at the Flavel House over tea and plum pudding last December. One very interesting item of new business on the agenda was the possibility of a CRMM Volunteer Cookbook. If you have a great local recipe and would like to share it with a volunteer or staff member, it may find a home in this new endeavor.

You might also email it to our volunteer coordinator, Cynthia Svensson, at svensson@crmm.org.

Two former staff members have joined the Volunteer Crew this past year. Miss Cheryl Cochran has manned the front desk and helped with educational programs and cruise ships, as well. Shelley Wendt has returned as a member of our board of directors, special administrative projects aid, and cruise ship greeter. New volunteers Jim and Carel McCafferty have also helped with cruise ship greeting and Carel

is now on the mailing crew that helped get this Quarterdeck out.

If you have an interest in learning about the many cargo ships that pass the Museum each day, stop by the Volunteer office and have a look at the new fullcolor Guide to Merchant Shipping on the Columbia River created by volunteer Terry Shumaker. Docents and members, alike, will enjoy the beautiful photos and succinct information.

Our many wonderful longtime volunteers were honored at a Robinson Crusoe theme dinner in the Kern Room last August. Dave Bennett, Ben Cadman, Bob Chamberlin, Thorne Hilts, Gene Mellott, Larry Nordholm, Al Olson, Earl Philpott, Fred Schott, Frances Burham, Jeanne Clifford, Kenny Ginn, Doris Hay, Charlotte Jackson, Carol Moore, Capt. Thron Riggs, and Bill Williams each put in over 100 hours for the year. Francis Burham, Gene Mellott, Larry Nordholm, and Yvonne Starr were awarded pins for 300 hours of cumulative service. Dave Bennett, Bob Chopping, and Captain Rod Leland were honored for 1000 hours of cumulative service by having their names added to the brass and wood plaque on the wall by the theater. Bob Chamberlin and Kenny Ginn were both awarded 2000 hour brass name tag additions to honor their service.

Outstanding service awards went to Doris Hay, who recently retired, Larry Nordholm, Sheila Parsons, Captain Thron Riggs, and John Svensson. A Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously honored Walt McManis, who in the course of his life gave the Museum 3254 hours of service. Talk about a life well spent! I can't think of a better way to be remembered. Thank you, Walt. Thank you volunteers, one and all.

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Museum Store Your Columbia River Maritime Museum Store boasts one of the best places to find that perfect gift for a family member who loves the sea, is perhaps a fisher person or who dreams of long voyages to far away exotic destinations.

We have always brought you the very best of merchandise and the largest selection of maritime titles on the West Coast, bar none. This year we are working hard to bring you a service many of you have asked for, we are going online.

Throughout the winter our staff has been laboring to streamline the item selection process so that when our visitors shop online it will be as pleasant an experience as standing inside the store itself. In a few short months members and non-members alike will be able to shop in our store from a distance. Our goal is to have a complete book list, logo items and a good selection of some of the items we have come to be known for, such as our scrimshaw, knives, jewelry and other items handcrafted by local artisans.

The Museum Store website will be easy to find as it will be linked to our Museum's main website. We will be able to process Visa/ MasterCard on a secure site or if you prefer you may call us and make the purchase over the phone or send us a check. Shipping charges will be posted at a flat rate per dollar amount purchased.

No guess work for anyone, I like that. We are very excited about this new change to our Store's services. As the Museum grows so shall we. So, stayed tuned to the Museum's main website for our Grand Opening!

In the meantime here are a few new books to take a look at.

Fins, Finns and Astorians, A Glimpse into Astoria's fabled fishing community and Finnish heritage- a bygone era, by Greg Jacob, PhD. CPH press 2005 pb The QuarterDeck. Vol. 32 No. I

59pgs. $12.00/$10.80 A short concise history of the Scandinavian influence on Astoria's waterfront industry.

Keeping It Living, Traditions of Plant Use and Cultivation on the Northwest Coast of North American, edited by Douglas Deur & Nancy J. Turner, University of Washington Press 2005 cloth 404 pgs. $50.00/$45.00 A comprehensive view on how the Native Americans managed the landscape and cared for the plant communities on which they depended, from the Oregon coast to Southeast Alaska.

I Never Liked Those C-130's Anyway ... , Memories of Twenty Years in the U.S. Coast Guard, by Malcolm Smith, Trafford 2003 pb., 213 pgs. $21.95/19.76 A master story teller's vivid recounting of a colorful career.

Henry & the Buccaneer Bunnies, by Carolyn Crimi Candlewick Press 2005 cloth $15.99/$14.39 A delightful story about a bookworm bunny who saves his pirate father and the ship's crew.

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News and Notes Donald Magnusen congratulates Rod Leland for his service as President of the Museum board and presents him a model of a Grummand Albatross, one of the first fixedwinged craft he flew in the Coast Guard before piloting helicopters.

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On Friday, November 18, 2005, the Columbia River Maritime Museum welcomed Rear Admiral Paul Gillerist as the guest speaker for the 43rd Annual Membership Meeting. RADM Gillerist entertained some 150 guests, more than 25 members of the Board of Trustees ' and Oregon State Senator Betsy Johnson, with his unique perspective on US Naval Policy.

Donald Magnusen, retired Executive Vice President of US Bancorp and Surf Pines community member, was elected to serve as Chairman of the Board of Trustees. "I am both honored and excited to have the opportunity to serve as Chairman of the Board. I look forward to the challenge." Mr. Magnusen is a former Chairman of the Portland Development Commission and former Chairman of the Portland Streetcar Project.

Betsy Johnson led the entire board and membership in thanking Rod Leland for his years of dedication as Board President. Rod Leland will continue to serve on the Executive Board.

Astoria High School graduate Thomas Dulcich was elected as Vice-Chairman of the Board of Trustees. Mr. Dulci ch is a partner in the prominent Portland law firm of Schwabe, Williamson and Wyatt.

Also elected to the Board of Trustees were the following Clatsop County residents: Mr. James Servino, Ms. June Spence, and Mrs. Shelley Wendt.

The Education Department has had some generous benefactors this fall. We would like to acknowledge Quest for Truth's philanthropic donation of $30,000. This organization has been a staunch supporter of our educational endeavors for many years and many programs are successful due to their interest in reaching today's youth.

We would also like to thank the Friends of the Columbia River Maritime Museum for their gift of $3,000. These funds assist us in providing quality family programs at CRMM, as well as outreach programs in the schools.

The Oregon Chapter of the U.S. Lighthouse Society provided us with $250 to be used for teaching about lighthouses.

Their gift enables us to send our Lighthouse Trunk to all teachers free of charge.

TLC Federal Credit Union is a new partner this year. TLC is assisting teachers with bus transportation costs that want to bring their students to the Museum but don't have the funds in their budget. Six teachers from Knappa took advantage of this opportunity in December.

When the request came in lo lhe Columbia River Maritime Museum from Fort Clatsop for a handmade rope for the new flagpole at the reconstruction project, Museum President Jerry Ostermiller knew exactly who to call. Volunteer Kenny Ginn has been helping museum visitors learn how to make rope on the Museum's rope making machine for over fifteen years, donating countless hours of his time. Kenny was honored to be able to help and went straight to work creating 33 feet of handmade sisal braided line for Fort Clatsop.

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In Memoriam

February 18, 2:00 p.m. Cathlapotle and Archaeology ofLewis and Clark and the Fur Trade by Kenneth Ames The presentation looks at the archaeology of Cathlapotle as well as other contactera sites, including State Camp, to discuss what archaeologists have learned about the fur-trade era along the Lower Columbia River. Cathlapotle, located near Vancouver, Washington, was a major Chinookan town and played a major role in the fur-trade and hosted a visit from Lewis and Clark.

March 11, 7:p.m. Shipping Out by Maria Brooks This special presentation will feature the documentary, Shipping Out: The Story ofAmericas Seafaring Women. After viewing, Maria Brooks, the producer and director, will discuss the creation of this documentary. Columbia River Bar Pilot, Captain Deborah Dempsey, and Captain Anne McIntyre, Columbia River Pilot, will share their experiences.

March 31, 2:00 p.m. USCGC Healy

by BMl Elsa Nethercott U.S. Coast Guard Boatswain's Mate 1st Class Nethercott served aboard USCGC Healy for a six month tour. The 420-foot icebreaker was accompanying a German geology crew as they mapped and surveyed the mid-oceanic ridges in the Arctic. This slide presentation will introduce the audience to the Healy and the adventure of serving aboard.

April 22, 2:00 p.m. Mapping the West: 18th and 19th Century Cartography by Robert Hamm Robert Hamm has been collecting historic maps for nearly twenty years. He will trace the development of maps of the Western U.S., illustrating how the political, social, and cultural contexts of the times influenced the mapmakers' art and science.

This program is made possible through the Oregon Council for the Humanities.

It is with great sadness we note the passing of Robley Mangold. Rob was one of the Museum's most ardent supporters. A native of Portland, Oregon, Rob went to work for United Airlines at the ticket counter and worked his way up to become the Vice President of Marketing at his retirement. Working tirelessly for non-profits in the area, Rob was a member of the Columbia Memorial Hospital Foundation and was always a steady hand at the Museum, serving as President of the Board during the Museum's recent capital campaign and expansion. Rob was the only Board President in the Museum's 42 year history asked to serve two consecutive terms.

As a Trustee Emeritus Rob continued to work diligently to ensure the Museum's success, and was consulted regularly for advice and guidance. Perhaps Rob will be remembered most as a true friend, always ready to share a laugh, whom we will truly miss.

It is also with great sadness we note the passing of long time volunteer Walt McManis. Walt had worked in just about every department of the Museum but always seemed happiest visiting and interacting with the Museum visitors. After a career in the Coast Guard, including serving on the Lightship Columbia, Walt taught knot tying or "marlinspike seamanship" in the Museum's Great Hall. Monkey fists, long splices, the carrick bend, or even a double becket hitch, Walt was always ready to teach you how. Walt will be missed by us all.

We also note with sadness the passing of Betty Farmer. Betty was a longtime Museum volunteer, helping wherever she could lend a hand. Our mailing gatherings won't be the same without Betty's welcoming smile.

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