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Perched on a stool in his home-based shop, Don Floren grips a surgically sharp carving tool and begins shaping a large block of Oregon alder. Faced with the diminishing availability of Honduras mahogany, his quintessential favorite material, Floren has adopted alder–an abundant local wood that carves and finishes nicely.
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Marquardt has traveled the world as a career officer with the U.S. Foreign Service and currently serves as ambassador to Cameroon and neighboring Equatorial Guinea in western Africa.
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Ramstad channeled her emotions into “A Wish for My Children,” the last poem in her autobiographical collection The Play of Light and Dark, for which she won the 2003 Oregon Book Award.
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Delusional optimists. That’s the moniker opposing counsel gave Brenna Bell and her band of grassroots organizers from Tryon Life Community Farm, a nonprofit organization dedicated to sustainability education. It ended up becoming a badge of honor.
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