When my daughter was almost six, I thought it would be a good idea to take her kayaking down Oregon’s Tualatin River.
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Edited by Mark Jannot. Photo by Brown W. Cannon III.
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A Glimpse of Eden
In the love letters he wrote to his sweetheart, my grandfather extolled the joys of fighting in World War I. In one 1918 note from Paris, he wrote, “The beauty here is punctuated by the boom of long range shells (one just went off in the front of the hotel), but no one seems to mind, unless they are actually hit.”
The Washington Post Magazine
Edited by David Rowell. Photo by Michael Grimm.
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Bad Dirt
Gilmanton, New Hampshire, population 3,000, is where novelist Grace Metalious wrote Peyton Place—and also where I spent every summer of my childhood. Local rumor holds that, in fact, Grace did not write the book.
Salon
Edited by Laura Miller. Photo by Larry Smith.
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Drive Thru Church
Pray Here Ministries’ Rick Schneberger offers absolution in a gravel parking lot on the strip mall fringes of Portland.
DoubleTake
Edited by Rob Odom. Illustration by Charles Anderson.
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Bounding Ambition
In 1974, in the waning days of the Nixon administration, I attempted to become the pogo stick jumping champion of the world.
Northwest Magazine
Edited by Barry Johnson.
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