Baskets, Books and Quilts

Episode Highlights:

Baskets, Books and Quilts preserve human stories and culture, each in their own way. These are just some of the many artifacts of society that can speak to us, if we know how to listen.  Join Double R back “live” at the Senior Fair as he dialogues with three community members who are intimately involved in historic preservation and conserving the past for future generations.  

• Cynthia Farlow, Siletz Tribal Arts and Heritage Society
• Bob Portwood, Bookseller and co-owner of 1000’s of books
• Jim Kyes, Lutheran Pastor and curved cake baker (Krumkake)

Transcript

jana 0:06

Welcome to the Double R Show, the podcast that features everything about North Lincoln County. The Double R Show, directed and produced by Paul Robertson and hosted by the voice of Lincoln City, Roger Robertson.

RR 0:30

Welcome to the Double R Show. Double R here along with Son Paul, and uh we're gonna have a Duke's mixture of programming today. Yeah, absolutely. Let's do it. And uh we will have an opportunity to talk to somebody that really has had a profound impact on the Sluts tribe and the Sluts community.

Son Paul 0:48

Yeah, Cynthia Farlow, right? Off the off the top of the list here for our uh double R show this week. And who else we got?

RR 0:54

Uh we got uh Bob Portwood. We're gonna talk about books, books, and lots of books.

Son Paul 0:58

Yeah, Robert's Bookshop and uh Bob's Beach Books and Ocean Link and the Nelscott districts.

RR 1:03

And last but not least, we're gonna go to St. Peter the Fishman Lutheran Church because they know how to quilt. Okay. Let's uh fold it together. Let's fold it together. That more coming up right after this. Light Ranger.

Chinook Winds 1:18

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RR 2:16

Sophia Farlow from Stas. And Stars is what, Synthia?

Cynthia Farlow 2:21

Stas is Solette's Tribal Arts and Heritage Society, and we're a nonprofit board fundraising for a cultural center for the Solitz tribe.

RR 2:32

So you are in the process of just raising money, uh developing the actual building. Where are you?

Cynthia Farlow 2:40

Well, where we're at right now is that we have met our commitment for the three-to-one match with our memorandum of agreement with the Solitz tribe, with tribal council. We're happy to say that.

RR 3:06

Who is it gonna be open to? Anybody and everybody, or is it just tribal members?

Cynthia Farlow 3:11

I believe when just like the powwow, when people come up for the powwow, everyone's welcome. It'll be part of a museum to hold our artifacts. Right now we have a repository where a lot of our baskets and things are being held.

RR 3:28

I had the fortune to attend the groundbreaking ceremony, and that that was a an interesting presentation. I I felt like it was almost at a uh religious experience, not not that it was a religious, but but it felt so special.

Cynthia Farlow 3:48

Well, Roger, it really was, and it was a culmination of work from people that have volunteered, they've had the vision. David Hatch uh had the vision for STAS, and he was the first chairman, and then Gloria Ingle became the chairman and carried the ball. We've been working on it since 2011.

RR 4:14

2011.

Cynthia Farlow 4:15

Yes, I've been making it.

RR 4:17

Ah, that's a lot of commitment.

Cynthia Farlow 4:18

That's a lot of commitment. And on our website right now, we're listing all of our former board members that have worked on it. We're listing all of our volunteers that have put in hours on it. Teresa Simmons was uh one of my favorites. Yes, she really got us out there as far as public relations, and she would call me and she'd say, you know, Cynthia, I need a necklace. I'm gonna be going to the chamber. So there's a lot of people put their hearts into it.

RR 4:51

So as of today, where where are you as of today?

Cynthia Farlow 4:57

Well, today we're actually waiting on the owner, so to speak, the tribe, and the planning department, and the contractors. So we're like everyone else, you know, seeing what their next move is. We had to get the road in first. Sure. And as far as getting the soil ready and doing those different things.

RR 5:23

So how big a facility will you actually be building, Cynthia?

Cynthia Farlow 5:28

Well, I've looked at the plants so many times. I would say it's about three or four thousand square foot.

RR 5:34

That's a good size building.

Cynthia Farlow 5:36

It is, and that would have the museum, the the extension of the community center, a place to go, that's what it's called, a place for the people.

RR 5:48

Of everything that will be in that building that you've been able to see and look at and dream about anything in particular that sticks in your mind, in your heart that says this this has to be.

Cynthia Farlow 6:01

I think that when the casino used to have pictures of our family members on the walls, they used to have pictures in the buffet of our family members. I'm looking forward to the casino, I'm not the casino, but for the our building to have pictures of our ancestors. And that's actually who it's going to be built in honor of is our honoring our ancestors.

RR 6:28

That would be special. That would be very special. Yeah, I look forward to seeing that as well. And the timeline, when when do you hope to be ready to open to the public?

Cynthia Farlow 6:42

We'll find out more at the end of October.

RR 6:45

Okay.

Cynthia Farlow 6:46

And we're waiting for that date uh to meet with tribal council. We're very excited, and we'll know more then.

RR 6:54

You had to raise a lot of money for this whole project, correct?

Cynthia Farlow 6:57

Yes, and it was during COVID also. And it was through the help of Gloria Ingall, more or less partnered with, we had a subcontractor that was a campaign uh director, and they raised, I think it was over two million at that time.

RR 7:16

My goodness.

Cynthia Farlow 7:17

Yes, and then Dave Gomberg, a representative Dave Gomberg, and Senator Anderson also put in for grants for with the tribe, also, and that was 1.25 million.

RR 7:33

That's wonderful. Nice to have a representative and a senator that can bring it home.

Cynthia Farlow 7:40

It sure is, and they're wonderful, dedicated people too.

RR 7:44

Yeah, they really are. Again, Cynthia, uh, congratulations. Thank you. I look forward to being able to visit and become educated about the the tribe, the Sluts, Confederated Tribes of Sluts Indians.

Cynthia Farlow 7:58

Thank you. Yes.

RR 7:59

There's so much history.

Cynthia Farlow 8:01

Absolutely, a long history. And you know, I was a um I'm called a terminated Indian because I was on the roll before we terminated the tribe. So I lived through termination. So so anyway, that's a that's a whole nother history. Then we restored. Sure. Now the casino's gonna celebrate its 30th anniversary, and so a lot of good things have happened. But I what I would like to say about our board, we have about 10 members on the board. And they are it is the strongest this board has ever been, and everyone is aligned with our decision making.

LCCC 8:44

Woven Legacies is a special sale of killings, rugs, bags, shoes, jewelry, and home decor made by artesians in Turkey. The sale of these items at the Lincoln City Cultural Center will support the center and also the ongoing care of Julie Reynolds of Oderman. All treasures of Woven Legacies were imported by Julie and her late husband, Senere of Otergmen . Review the entire display today at the Lincoln City Cultural Center and own a treasure destined to become a family heirloom.

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RR 9:30

That's a senior fair with Bob Portwood, and Bob is uh owner of a couple of bookstores in Lincoln City for a long time.

Bob Portwood 9:39

Robert Bookshop for 38 years. Really? And yeah, Bob's Beach Books for gosh, I don't know how long. 15 years.

RR 9:48

And now you got daughters running them for you.

Bob Portwood 9:50

I do have daughters running each one of them and doing a good job.

RR 9:53

That's gonna make you feel pretty good.

Bob Portwood 9:55

It does. Of course, they're pretty nice people.

RR 9:58

Talk a little bit about the distinction between the two different bookstores, Bob.

Bob Portwood 10:02

Oh well, Robert's Bookshop is a large used bookstore. We have probably about 200,000 books on the shelves.

RR 10:12

200,000?

Bob Portwood 10:14

And at least another 50,000 or more in storage ready to go on shelves when we need them. And I'm not sure what the inventory is anymore of Bob's Beach books that my daughter Diana runs, but it's new and used. Worth her emphasis is on new books, uh, the latest publications, and whatever people want. She's really good at real at ordering what they want that's not on the shelf.

RR 10:38

I know she also can get a book, a new book coming out uh almost overnight.

Bob Portwood 10:45

Yep, she stays right on top of it, gets stuff I've never heard of. I don't know how she does it. That sucks up a lot of time.

RR 10:55

Do you read a lot?

Bob Portwood 10:57

I when I have the time, read a book a day or every two days.

RR 11:01

Really?

Bob Portwood 11:02

Yeah, I generally stay up late reading.

RR 11:05

Anything in particular? Subject matter?

Bob Portwood 11:08

I I read everything. Science fiction, mysteries, romances, nonfiction, uh everything except true crime, which I find offensive. My particular hate is books on serial killers. Um serial killers. Oh. It just it just offends me. So uh, yes, we have some in stock. We try to stock what people want, even things that we don't like.

RR 11:36

You really gotta swallow sometimes pretty hard, do you not?

Bob Portwood 11:40

Yeah, I I gotta admit that in the the present political climate, there are some things that we reject. We don't like books that attack other people or attack religions, but we do take books that are critical. If the critical analysis of the book is it if it makes sense, if it's an actual discussion of the pluses and minuses, then it has some uh some social value. But if it's simply an attack on another religion or another person, we tend to pass on it.

RR 12:18

When you say tend to pass, it means you don't stock it with it.

Bob Portwood 12:22

We don't we don't buy them.

RR 12:23

Okay.

Bob Portwood 12:24

It's it's a subjective decision. It's your decision though, yeah. Well, myself and uh my daughter Emily, who's the manager and partial owner, if it's a questionable book, we discuss it. Okay, um, and we've rejected a couple of things this past week, but we it's it's hard to explain exactly how we do it. We take some books that uh that we don't like. If again, if if they have some some value. It's hard to explain, but if people bring their books in, and we will tell them why we don't take a book. Okay, there are a few things that I don't take, which my daughter understands but doesn't agree with, like I do not buy Judy Bloom. Uh and there is a particular reason for that. I was reading one of Judy Bloom's books to my daughters when they were much younger, I think probably six or seven or something in that age group that Judy Bloom writes for, and I'm going along in this book, and all of a sudden it says, There is no Santa Claus, but don't tell your parents that you read that here. And I was so angry. It was it was not her job to spoil Christmas for my kids because we enjoy Santa Claus, and Santa Claus still comes for my daughters. Uh-huh. So that that that I wrote off Judy Bloom, despite the fact that she's popular. Diana does stock them at her store. So that's my Judy Bloom story.

RR 13:55

And you're going to stick to it. The bookstores are uh one in Nelscott, one in the Ocean Lake area of Lincoln City.

Bob Portwood 14:02

At South 35th and North 18th.

RR 14:05

Talk about the plane that comes out of the building.

Bob Portwood 14:08

Actually, that is kind of interesting. I watched the state auction site, uh, which many people don't realize we have a state auction site. There's actually, I think, three. But looking at it one day, I saw the nose of an airplane. And I thought, oh, that's interesting. And I showed that to my daughters. Emily shook her head, and Diana said, that's pretty cool. So uh I bit on the airplane, and for whatever reason, they pulled it from the auction. But a couple weeks later, there it was again, and I bit on it and ended up buying it. It was used as a pilot simulator at the Rock Creek campus of the PCC, the college. And I didn't know they had an airport, but they do. And they thought that it was surplus, they were gonna scrap it, but the guy that runs the airport says, let's sell it. So anyway, I ended up buying it, and it cost almost exactly the same amount to move it as it did to purchase it, and again, almost exactly the same amount to put the instruments back in it because they've taken them out, they're pretty expensive. And there's a short video on our webpage, Robertsbookshop.com, which uh shows it putting in place.

RR 15:24

Interesting. Bob Boardwood, owner of two bookstores in Lincoln City. How many times are you asked today how many volumes do you have in this store?

Bob Portwood 15:34

Frequently. Frequently. We had a contest uh a couple years ago. Who could come closest to the uh footage of shelving that we have in the store? And I can't remember the exact number now, but it was over a mile of shelving, and somebody came fairly close to it, actually, surprisingly enough.

RR 15:53

Thank you, Bob. Appreciate you taking time up here at the senior fair talking about Bob's Beach Books and uh Roberts Bookstore.

Bob Portwood 16:01

This is pretty fun. If you haven't been to the Senior Fair, you should come. This is a lot more interesting than I thought it would be.

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RR 16:49

At the senior fair with Pastor Kines from the St. Peter the Fisherman Lutheran Church here in Lincoln City. And Pastor, thanks for being here and thanks for being at Senior Fair.

Jim Kyes 16:59

Oh, yeah, it's a lot of fun. The senior fair is a lot of fun. We do we do a lot of uh uh visiting with people and we have a lot of uh stuff that we sell, stuff that the women make at the church.

RR 17:11

Beautiful, beautiful things, and promoting uh their upcoming uh bazaar, right?

Jim Kyes 17:17

Which is the 7th and 8th of November. November, right.

RR 17:21

It is quite an undertaking that that event because not only do they do bring out all these quilts, the food is wonderful.

Jim Kyes 17:29

Oh yeah, the food's great, but that there's so many quilts there. It's like a giant auditorium just filled with quilts and all these wonderful things that the women make and food. Yes, there's also food for I make krum kaka if you're gonna do it. Really? You know what? It's Scandinovian. Yeah, I give it away for free.

RR 17:47

Krumkaka. My mother used to make room. Yes, I haven't heard that. Kaka maker. I have not heard that in years.

Jim Kyes 17:54

Yep. Yep, we started the tradition of uh I make it there and I and I just give them out for free.

RR 18:00

What fun.

Jim Kyes 18:01

Yeah. What fun. They're they're called a Christmas cookie.

RR 18:05

Yes.

Jim Kyes 18:05

You know, they're they're they're thought of as a cookie, but they look more like an ice cream cone.

RR 18:10

Anybody there making Lepsa?

Jim Kyes 18:12

No. And no ludafisk either. No ludicrist. Ludacris is something, you know, you have to acquire a taste for it. Yeah. As long as you're 15 miles away.

RR 18:25

Okay. The uh St. Peter of the Fisherman Lutheran Church, you do have that annex, a beautiful big building gymnasium annex that uh holds a lot of those events, not only your events, but community events.

Jim Kyes 18:40

Yes, yes. We have the uh elks come in there and they do a big Christmas, they do all their Christmas packaging that they give out to children and that kind of thing. And uh, but most of the stuff that we do is we have the bazaar, we have the rummage sale, and uh we have Oktoberfest that's coming up on the 23rd.

RR 19:03

And what all will be part of that, Pastor?

Jim Kyes 19:06

Well, we we serve we don't serve beer. No, but we you know it wouldn't be a bad thing. We not gonna put it down, but we do have sausage and we do have, you know, sauerkraut and all that stuff for for Oktoberfest.

RR 19:22

And it's it's a good dinner.

Jim Kyes 19:23

Yeah, it's a it's a good dinner, and I would say it's pretty reasonable too.

RR 19:27

Talk a little bit about the St. Peter the Fisherman Lutheran Church, the the aspect of the religion that that uh is is involved.

Jim Kyes 19:37

Well, we would be considered more of a conservative branch of the Lutheran Church in general. The Lutheran Church split apart in like 1971 or 68, right around in there. And it split apart into different fashions, you could say. But we're more of the conservative ones, we believe in inerrancy of scripture, and we still have the book of Concord, which is our doctrinal books, the original ones. You know, like uh Calvin would have the institutes, but I don't think they go by them anymore, but we still go by the Book of Concord. So we're we're that we we preach uh the word of God.

RR 20:25

Do you find the church growing or stagnant or where are you at, Pastor?

Jim Kyes 20:30

Well during the COVID, and you know we had a big fire, we had a lot of our members that had houses that burned down. And we also had, and it was during COVID.

RR 20:44

Yes, yes.

Jim Kyes 20:45

So it was just a double hit. We we didn't hit we didn't even have church for a while. We couldn't. You weren't allowed. Yeah, we weren't allowed to even have church, and that really we used to have a pretty vibrant congregation, you know. There'd be services between 80 and 100 before that time. And then after that time it went quite quite down.

RR 21:11

Demographics of your congregation were primarily seniors?

Jim Kyes 21:14

Yeah, a lot of seniors in our congregation.

RR 21:17

Because this is a really good for for most everybody.

Jim Kyes 21:22

Yeah, I would say we're an older congregation, but we have a lot of new members that are coming in. We just uh baptized a guy just last uh two Sundays ago, and because of the the Charlie Kirk thing that went on, this was shocking to him, and he said, I better just get baptized. So he came into the church and and he was baptized. So now he's coming as a member of our church.

RR 21:48

So interesting.

Jim Kyes 21:51

Very interesting.

RR 21:52

Yeah, it really is. It really is. Okay, the church is is open to the community on a Sunday morning.

Jim Kyes 21:59

Yeah, we have a Sunday school.

RR 22:01

Okay.

Jim Kyes 22:01

Yeah, so we have some kids that are coming. You betcha. We're not we're not all uh older folks, but we we do have you know Sunday school.

RR 22:12

I look forward to the Oktoberfest and uh to the uh uh bazaar, the Christmas Bazaar. We attend both because I like the food, but I didn't know you were doing krimkaka.

Jim Kyes 22:23

Oh yeah, yeah. A guy that was, I think he was Norwegian, used to come to our church. Okay, and he started the tradition, and I just kept it up. And so for the last three or four years I've been making krimkaka.

RR 22:40

Just so you know, the Swedes make it as well.

Jim Kyes 22:43

Yeah, Swedes, right, right. Swedes like put berries on it. That's right, that kind of thing.

RR 22:48

Yeah, fill it with cream and whatever.

Jim Kyes 22:50

Yeah, yeah. I I buy that real whipped cream and squirt it inside and just give it out like an ice cream cone.

RR 22:58

I love it. Pastor, thanks for being here. Thanks for being at Senior Fair, and and we look forward to your next big events at St. Peter the Fisherman Lutheran Church.

Jim Kyes 23:07

Well, we invite everybody to come and we'll have a really great time.

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RR 24:25

To nominate a uh new business of the year, business of the year, excellence in customer service, beautification, and community impact awards. So a lot of different categories, all to be given awards coming up on the 13th of November. But we need your nomination.

Son Paul 24:44

Yeah, and so how do they submit? They just send something into the chamber?

RR 24:47

Yeah, the chamber of commerce office and uh say that it's for the awards banquet. Uh Lori will make certain it's taken care of.

Son Paul 24:54

Sounds good.

RR 24:55

Uh the Angels Anonymous Festival of the Trees, uh, Big Bash is coming up on December the 6th. Uh, this is the annual Festival of the Trees. The trees this year, I know, are gonna be exquisite. Okay, yeah. They always are. And it is your opportunity to go up and see the trees, to uh go to the angel ball, uh, to bid on the trees, to help angels raise money so we can help people with immediate and basic needs, and those needs are getting bigger and larger all of the time. Lincoln City uh Caregivers Support Group, uh presented by the Alzheimer's Association, is coming up uh first and third Thursdays of each month at the Lincoln City Senior Center. If you like dance, well, dancing with the coastal stars brought to you by Samaritan House Family Center. Uh this is on November the 1st as well, 7 o'clock at the Newport Performing Arts Center. Speaking of music and dance, big band music and dance with the Lincoln City Pops, third Thursday of every month, 7 to 9.30 at the Glennington Beach Community Club. Now, believe it or not, it's gotten darker at night. It has. And we got people out there walking.

Son Paul 26:10

Oh, okay, so time to get the old uh jackets out or the reflective uh jackets out.

RR 26:16

Sponsored by Cert. Okay. Cert team, get those vests on, wear them outside, and especially if you're going across the street to get the mail, Roger Robertson, uh, have something that is reflective and people can see you coming and going.

Son Paul 26:30

Yeah, bring a flashlight too. Just simple stuff you can do.

RR 26:33

And from your side of the table, what do you got there, Mr. Paul?

Son Paul 26:36

Well, you know, we've been uh pretty busy with our uh activities at the Cascade Advisory Collaborative. Uh, you know, we've had a lot of kids' programs, as we talked about last week. Uh that's continuing. We just wrapped up a nice talk at the Pelican. Uh Scott Burns, uh professor uh emeritus out of PSU was there. And uh thanks to uh our own professor Emeritus and uh President Emeritus from Portland State University got him there. That uh so uh yeah, we we've been pretty busy, staying pretty busy.

RR 27:04

Now you also uh you started talking about uh the students that you've uh had up uh in the biosphere, if you will, uh learning firsthand, hands-on type of activity, right?

Son Paul 27:16

Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, that's uh been programming that will continue and uh into the next spring as well. Uh the only thing event-wise that we actually have outstanding uh are a couple Gyotaku printing events. We have uh one uh master class that's actually full up, so uh you know we're we're kind of full up on that one. But there is room for the holiday one for December, so go to cascadehead.org if you want to, you know, do some gift cards, get some stuff together for the family. Something different. It's kind of cool, yeah. Yeah, I think you'd enjoy it. So something different.

RR 27:45

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jana 28:07

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