A historical novel about the travels of a team of journalists up the Oregon Coast Highway during its construction in 1926, and their stalking by the woman's former fiancé as he tried to overtake them.

Kidnapped, On Oregon's Coast Highway (1926)

Literature & Fiction

Blakely, Joe R.

Genre Fiction

CraneDance Publications

in 1938, residents of Eugene, Oregon, faced 25% unemployment. In spite of that, the community rose up and built Civic Stadium, the town’s biggest WPA project. This book tells the story of how Civic was built and how it impacted the community of Eugene. From the heroics of the first muddy football game, to glimpses of the popular Lumbermen’s baseball teams, to the expulsion of baseball by disgruntled College Hill residents, and to Eugene’s only baseball team in the Pacific Coast League, Eugene’s Civic Stadium, From Muddy Football Games to Professional Baseball not only covers the history of Civic Stadium, but the evolution of professional baseball in Eugene. Now, Civic Stadium faces an uncertain future.

Eugene's Civic Stadium: From Muddy Football Games to Professional Baseball

Sports & Outdoors

Miscellaneous

In the 1930's basketball was a different game. After each goal was another center jump. It slowed the game tilting the outcome to the school with the tallest players. Still, one of Oregon's smallest schools went to the state playoffs anyway. With just eight players, the smallest team in the tournament, at Willamette University, in Salem, Oregon, in 1937, Bellfountain took on and defeated the largest schools in the state. It is a story of coaching and inspiration. They did the impossible and lifted the spirits of a depression weary Oregon.

The Bellfountain Giant Killers: The Story of a Small Oregon High School and its Miraculous Championship Season

Basketball

This book chronicles the building of the Oregon coast highway. Many black and white illustrations.

Lifting Oregon Out of the Mud: Building the Oregon Coast Highway

History

Americas

Jack Mayfield was a prominent real estate broker, and an elected official to Greenville's City Council. When he heard his beloved Giants were leaving town he couldn't believe it. A group of investors now wanted the stadium's property, the very stadium that Jack's grandfather had led the city to build, back in the 1930s. Jack had one month to put together another team and save the stadium.

Crisis in Greenville: A Novel About A Threatened Baseball Stadium and a Team of Rejects

Blakely blakel, Joe R

Birds hold a special place in the hearts of people worldwide. We marvel at their brilliant colors, take joy in their multitude of sounds and yearn for their freedom of flight. But humans also create stories to explain birds' actions and traits, and those fantasy stories pale in comparison to birds' true capacities. The stories here all include amazing true facts, in an effort to help people learn real information about birds. Written by a 30 year college ornithology instructor, Dan Gleason helps readers of all ages and abilities learn more interesting details about birds.

Looking for Yellowheads: Bird Stories and Some Answers to...Why?

Science & Math

Gleason, Dan

Nature & Ecology

In the 1920s, a wooden railroad was built in the Coast Range mountains of Oregon to transport lumber and logs to market. This fictional story tells the community’s story of its efforts to become early entrepreneurs as they create a transportation system to bring their product—lumber—to market. Railroad workers begin receiving shares of stock in lieu of wages; their confidence remains unshaken. But, rumors force desperate measures by those who know secrets. Amidst the growing economic uncertainty of 1929, a railroad built on wooden rails holds the promise of wealth for a whole community. The completion of the last half-mile of track, however, will change them all.

The Longest Wooden Railroad: A Season of Embers

Hascall, Mr David C

John Jay Chapman (1862-1933) was one of America's greatest essayists. He wrote a number of essays about what colleges ought to be and what they should not be. This book includes five of those essays, including two not available in the Collected Works of Chapman. Alan Contreras, a noted expert on U.S. colleges, provides an introduction to Chapman's philosophy of higher education.

The Mind On Edge: An Introduction to John Jay Chapman's Philosophy of Higher Education

Education & Teaching

Contreras, Alan L.

Higher & Continuing Education

College and State discusses the ways that governments, particularly states, authorize colleges to operate and oversee colleges. Chapters include college licensure, diploma mills, religious exemptions, financial aid, the role of accreditors and the federal government and questions of quality and access. Includes extensive citations to court cases covering college authorization, religious colleges and diploma mills.

College and State: Resources and Philosophies

The late poet Reginald Shepherd corresponded for two years before his death with nature writer  Alan Contreras.  Song After All offers a new window into Shepherd’s thoughts on writing, music, love and, ultimately, dealing with cancer. Wry, funny, painful, illuminating and glorious, this unique compilation of 120 personal messages, plus blog posts, poetic commentary and essays is a moving and entertaining memorial.  Also contains essays by Shepherd's partner Robert Philen and by Evan Eisenberg, and includes the complete text of Fernando Pessoa's poem Antinous, written in English in 1918 and rarely published in the U.S.  All royalties from sales of this book benefit the Creative Writing program at the University of Oregon, where Shepherd was scheduled to speak shortly before he died.

Song After All: The Letters of Reginald Shepherd and Alan Contreras

PESSOA, FERNANDO

Shepherd, Reginald

Eisenberg, Evan

Philen, Robert

Essays & Correspondence

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