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December 2008 Oregon Legacy 2009 The Friends of Driftwood Public Library will present the literary series Oregon Legacy to the community on four Sunday afternoons in January 2009.
The series opens at 3 pm on January 4, with a presentation of readings and commentary on Oregon geology by Ellen Morris Bishop, from Portland. Bishop received her Ph.D. in geology at Oregon State University, following postgraduate study at Scripps Institute of Oceanography in San Diego. She has conducted research, published scientific articles, and taught geology and environmental sciences for Eastern Oregon University, Lewis and Clark College, and Marylhurst University. In previous years she wrote a science column for The Oregonian and served as the science reporter for Vancouver, Washington's The Columbian. Ellen also has substantial training and experience as a professional photographer. She has worked as a photojournalist for several papers throughout the Northwest, and her landscape photos have been used and displayed by the Sierra Club, Oregon Natural Resources Council, and the Nature Conservancy. Her books include In Search of Ancient Oregon and Hiking Oregon's Geology.
On January 11, Steven T. Wax will visit to discuss his book Kafka Comes to America: Fighting for Justice in the War on Terror. Wax is in his sixth term as the Federal Public Defender for the District of Oregon. A cum laude graduate of Colgate University and Harvard Law School, he was a key part of the Brooklyn, N.Y. District Attorney's prosecution of David Berkowitz, a.k.a. "The Son of Sam." Wax and his team are currently representing seven men held as "enemy combatants" in Guantanamo. He has taught at the Northwestern School of Law at Lewis and Clark College, serves as an ethics prosecutor for the Oregon State Bar, and lectures throughout the country.
April Henry is the third author in the 2009 series; she will speak on January 18, 2009. April's first book, Circles of Confusion, was short-listed for the Agatha Award and the Anthony Award, and was nominated for the Pacific Northwest Bookseller's Award. It was also chosen for the Booksense 76 list, and the Oregonian Book Club, and was a Mystery Guild Editor's Choice. It has been translated into Japanese and French. Other books in the Claire Montrose series are Square in the Face, Heart-Shaped Box, and Buried Diamonds. Her newest book, Torched, will be out in March 2009.
The 2009 Oregon Legacy series finishes on January 25 with a presentation by Kathleen Dean Moore. Moore is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and University Writer Laureate at Oregon State University in Corvallis, where she teaches environmental ethics, Native American philosophy, and a field course on the philosophy of nature. She is the author of several critical thinking textbooks and a study of the ethics of forgiveness, Pardons: Justice, Mercy, and the Public Interest (Oxford UP), selected by Choice as an "Outstanding Academic Book" of the year. She publishes about environmental ethics and moral reasoning in academic journals such as Conservation Biology and the Journal of Forestry and in books about the management of forest and ocean resources. She is co-editor of three new anthologies: Rachel Carson: Legacy and Challenge, In the Blast Zone: Catastrophe and Renewal on Mount St. Helens, and How It Is: The Native American Philosophy of V.F. Cordova. Fisteen years ago, Driftwood Public Library completed a move into a new facility at Lincoln Square Civic Center in Lincoln City. To celebrate the library’s new home and to thank the community for all of its support during the transition, the Friends of Driftwood Public Library created a gift for the community. With little resources beyond the income from their occasional book sales, the Friends underwrote the first literary series ever presented in Lincoln County, the Oregon Legacy Series. Each year they have renewed that sponsorship, while adding the Inn at Spanish Head as a hospitality partner. "For twenty-four hours we treat an Oregon author like a hero, as all authors should be treated," remarks Sue Jenkins, series coordinator. All Oregon Legacy presentations are free. Each
presentation begins at 3pm in the Distad Reading Room of the Driftwood Public
Library. The library is located on the second floor of the Lincoln Square Civic
Center at 801 SW Hwy 101 in Lincoln City. For further information about the
Oregon Legacy Series, contact Sue Jenkins at 996-1251 or suej@lincolncity.org.
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