Karl Marlantes is the best-selling author of Matterhorn, What It Is Like to Go to War and his latest novel, Deep River. He grew up in Seaside, commercial fishing with his grandfather and attended Seaside schools. Marlantes graduated from Yale University and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University before serving as a Marine in Vietnam.
Deep River is a family epic of three Finnish brothers who in the early 1900's are forced to flee Finland to the United States, settling among other Finns in a logging community in southern Washington. The novel explores the place of immigrants in pioneering the industries and labor unions that came to define the Lower Columbia region.
A conversation with filmmaker and historian Ron Craig on the subject of history and the empowering nature of knowing one’s history.
Donna Quinn interviews Judi Lampi, the Scandinavian Heritage Park Committee Chair, about Astoria's deep history with the Fins and the Scandinavians.
In partnership with the Harbor, Coast Community Radio presents “16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence”. Day 8: Housing and domestic violence FMI: harbornw.org/