by alongtheriver | Sep 25, 2023 | Uncategorized
On a beautiful autumn day of blue skies and warm sun, a woman dressed in black scuba diving gear slips beneath the river in Portland’s North Reach. School children watch curiously as she prepares her equipment and slowly lowers herself down and disappears. A...
by alongtheriver | Sep 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
The travel journal found in their inner ear – otoliths I know the salmon are return,ing, when the fishing boats gather again, north of the St Johns Bridge. The parking lot beside the boat ramp fills with trucks, trailers, and hopeful fisherfolk. Others stand on...
by alongtheriver | Jun 6, 2023 | Uncategorized
In Oregon, we are proud of our public beach law. Everyone can go to our ocean beaches for free and no one can own the beach or the ocean. It is our collective sunset. The commons were left to us by a governor who knew its importance. In these last years of care and...
by alongtheriver | May 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
For some years, I have taken groups of people for walks along Linnon’s historic waterfront or as close to it as we can get. We wander down dirt roads to places where we can look out at the Portland Harbor. It is spring and there are many boats with people hoping...
by alongtheriver | May 8, 2023 | Uncategorized
Three women come from Seattle to ask community members what they would like to see, when the land along the riv redeveloped, after the federal superfund clean-up. They try to reassure us that it does not simply mean giving multinational corporations, currently...
by alongtheriver | Apr 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
Linton is an unincorporated community in Benton County, located in western Oregon, United States. The community was originally named after its founder, John M. Linton, who settled in the area in the mid-1800s. Linton was established as a station on the Oregon Electric...
