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I Love Portland: The Dave Knows T-Shirt!

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You guys, we made a t-shirt!

I Love Portland t-shirt

By we, I mean my lovely wife Heather created the design and our friends at Astoria Screen Printing printed the shirts.

And we’re selling this limited run (we only have two dozen) for cheap – $18 each (plus $3 shipping).

The Port and Company shirts are heavyweight (6.1 ounce) 100% cotton (preshrunk) in Dill Green. The graphic is dark green – the proof above is a pretty darn good representation of the final product.

To order, select your size below and click Buy Now (you can change quantities on the next screen) – thanks for supporting Dave Knows Portland!

SOLD OUT!

I hearty thanks to all the buyers – new design coming soon!

Stumptown Stories: The Stormy Petrel of Portland (23-August-2011)

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Dr. Marie EquiThe Stumptown Stories series, geared to everyone who loves this city we live in, takes place most Tuesdays at Jack London bar (basement of the Rialto, SW 4th and Alder). Free to get in, but must be 21 or over – there’s a full bar!

This Tuesday, August 23, 2011, the topic is The Stormy Petrel of Portland: The story of Dr. Marie Equi.

Among the many fascinating people in Portland’s Progressive Era history, Dr. Marie Equi stands out. She was a suffragist, an advocate for labor rights, and a vocal political agitator against World War I, imperialism, and profiteering. As a medical doctor, she treated women and children in the Portland working-class neighborhoods—often for free—and was one of the few Portland physicians to provide birth control and abortions. She was also openly gay—a fact that came up in her indictment by the federal government for “sedition” for her anti-war activities when the U.S. prosecutor called her an “unsexed woman.”

The presenter is Portland Community College instructor Heather Mayer, who is currently working on her dissertation: Beyond the Rebel Girl: Women and the Industrial Workers of the World in the Pacific Northwest, 1905-1924.

Doors open at 5pm, presentation begins at 7:30pm.

August 21, 2017: Total Solar Eclipse To Pass Through Oregon

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August 21, 2017 Total Solar EclipseOn Monday, August 21, 2017 a total solar eclipse will cross the contiguous United States of America for the first time since 1979 (though a total eclipse was visible from Hawaii in 1991).

First landfall will occur on the Oregon coast, with the central path a few miles north of Depoe Bay. The northern limit will be just south of Cape Lookout and the southern limit will be a couple miles south of Waldport.

While the 1979 eclipse was only visible in the Pacific Northwest, Montana, and North Dakota, the 2017 eclipse will pass exclusively through U.S. states as it travels from the Pacific to the Atlantic: Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, South Carolina, and then out to sea.

Make your travel plans now! April 8, 2024 will be your subsequent opportunity to see a total eclipse from the states, but that one won’t come anywhere near Oregon. After the eclipse of August 21, 2017 you’ll have to wait until August 12, 2045 if you want to see an eclipse without leaving the state!

August 20, 1845: Oregon Provisional Government Creates Clark County

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On August 20, 1845 the recently established Oregon Provisional Government created Clark County on the north side the Columbia River.

Actually the huge area was called the Vancouver District at first. It consisted of all the land south of Alaska, north of the Columbia, and from the Rockies to the Pacific Ocean.

In 1849 the district was renamed Clark County in honor of William Clark of Lewis and Clark, and encompassed all of present-day Washington for a time.

Nowadays Clark County is bounded on the north by the Lewis River, east by the Cascades and Skamania County, and on the west by the Columbia river and Cowlitz County.