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Summary
In 1993, the New Yorker published Calvin Trillin's memorable article on the eccentric Flavel family of Astoria, the descendants of Captain George Flavel, whose ornate Queen-Anne-style mansion is a tourist draw today. With Trillin's gracious consent, "First Family of Astoria" is reprinted in Part One ofAstorians, Eccentric and Extraordinary,making its first appearance in book form.Part Two carries on the theme with portraits of fifty-five other notable Astorians. Five Oregon writers have captured the essence and the flavor of vivid personalities that include the notorious shanghaier Bridget Grant; the charming scoundrel Mayor Francis Clay Harley; the elusive English "barmaid" Jane Barnes, the first white woman in the Pacific Northwest; and Rolf Klep, who believed he could create a major maritime museum in an economically depressed town--and made it happen.In biology, it is said that the richest life forms reside at the edge of the ecosystem. Astoria epitomizes edges--the edge of the country, the edge of a great river, the edge of the Pacific Ocean, and the edge of our American culture. This book celebrates the larger-than-life quality that has appeared with regularity in the town's two-hundred-year history. As Steve Forrester, publisher of theDaily Astorian,notes in the book's introduction: "Extraordinary people are not necessarily eccentric. But eccentrics are driven to do extraordinary things." Contributors include M. J. Cody, Amy Hoffman Couture, John E. Goodenberger, Nancy Ricker Hoffman, Liisa Penner, and Calvin Trillin.
Author Notes
Calvin Trillin attended public schools in Kansas City and went on to Yale University and graduated in 1957; he later served as a Fellow of the University. He was born on December 5, 1935. He worked as a reporter for Time magazine before joining the staff of The New Yorker in 1963. His reporting for The New Yorker on the racial integration of the University of Georgia was published in his first book, An Education in Georgia. Family, travel and food are also themes in Trillin's work. Three of his books American Fried; Alice, Let's Eat; and Third Helpings; were individually published and are also collected in the 1994 compendium The Tummy Trilogy. He has also written a collection of short stories Barnett Frummer Is An Unbloomed Flower (1969) and three comic novels, Runestruck (1977), Floater (1980), and Tepper Isn't Going Out (2001). Among his recent work, is Dogfight: The 2012 Presidential Campaign in Verse. He was awarded the Thurber Prize for American Humor for Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff, in 2012.
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Table of Contents
Introduction | p. 7 |
Part I The Magnificent Flavels | p. 11 |
First Family of AstoriaCalvin Trillin | |
Part 2 Other Notable Astorians | p. 45 |
Coboway | p. 45 |
Donald McTavish | p. 52 |
Jane Barnes | p. 55 |
Robert Shortess | p. 59 |
John McClure | p. 63 |
Alexander Lattie | p. 66 |
John Shively | p. 69 |
Solomon and Celiast Smith | p. 72 |
Truman Powers | p. 75 |
William H. Gray | p. 77 |
Cyrus Olney | p. 81 |
Jennie Michel | p. 84 |
Adam Van Dusen | p. 88 |
J. G. Hustler | p. 91 |
P. W. Gillette | p. 95 |
Bridget Grant | p. 98 |
Cleveland Rockwell | p. 102 |
Charlotte Smith | p. 107 |
Marshall J. Kinney | p. 109 |
Alfred Kinney | p. 112 |
Narcissa Kinney | p. 114 |
Charles William Fulton | p. 115 |
August Erickson | p. 118 |
Jack Williams | p. 121 |
Frank I. Dunbar | p. 123 |
Herman Wise | p. 126 |
John A. Buchanan | p. 128 |
Minnie Hill | p. 130 |
Joseph Riippa | p. 132 |
Rose Ingleton | p. 134 |
Melville T. Wire | p. 136 |
Maria Raunio | p. 138 |
Polly McKean Bell | p. 141 |
Sam Schnitzer | p. 143 |
Anna Bay | p. 147 |
John E. Wicks | p. 151 |
Fritz Elfving | p. 154 |
Francis Clay Harley | p. 158 |
Lem Dever | p. 160 |
David James Ferguson | p. 164 |
May Miller | p. 166 |
Joe Dyer | p. 168 |
Rolf Klep | p. 172 |
Burnby Bell | p. 176 |
Emil Richard ôDicöNivala | p. 119 |
Helmi Huttunen Mellin | p. 183 |
Edward Harvey | p. 187 |
Edgar Quinn | p. 189 |
Sam Churchill | p. 190 |
Wally Palmberg | p. 193 |
Charles Haddix | p. 196 |
Svenson Sisters | p. 198 |
Michael Foster | p. 202 |
Liisa Penner | p. 206 |
Robert Adams | p. 210 |
About the Authors | p. 217 |
Index | p. 219 |