December 2010
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Oh snap, thanks Poppytalk!
Google Alerts brought an exciting link my way this morning: I was included in Poppytalk’s 2010 Most Influential (Part 5), an end-of-the-year round up of people, projects and objects.
Thanks Poppytalk! And thanks, Will Bryant. I know you had something to do with this :)
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Tea and cookies at Field Work with Fort Port
The other night we painted an open sign for Field Work and hung it on the front door. In honor of the latest oral history to display on the marquee, we offered up tea and cookies to anyone who was interested in stopping in to say hello.
We had a few takers; the always lovely Kaia Sand, a gentleman geographer, and our friend Aaron Rayburn, who stayed for a while to chat. Aaron edits a blog...
Watch“Portland is the city where young people go to retire!”
“In Portland you can put a bird on something and call it art!”
I’ve never been so excited about a series premiere before.
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Mapping America — Census Bureau 2005-9 American... →
Really good. Time suck.
“Of course, there were empty fields around the city. Wild berries abounded. We...”
– Fred Granata, from Polina Olsen’s book The Immigrants’ Children: Jewish and Italian Memories of Old South Portland.
Currently in the window at Field Work.
Fred Granata (1931- ) is a Portland attorney and local Italian history expert. His parents grew up in South Portland.
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