LBCC Valley Writers Series Hosts Ted Cox
May 18, 2010
Contact: Lucette Wood, 541-917-4620
The Valley Writers Series at Linn-Benton Community College will host a reading by Oregon author Ted Cox on Wednesday, May 26 at noon in the LBCC Forum, F-115, 6500 Pacific Blvd. SW, Albany.
Cox will present his newest work, Murray Loop, an absorbing five-generation story of a family who in desperation leave Scotland in 1841 seeking a better life on the American continent.
Cox’s book profiles the conflict between the Territorial Act of 1848, which acknowledged Indian possession of land, and the Donation Land Act of 1850, which opened the land to settlement by whites.
A native of Eugene, Oregon, Cox graduated from Oregon State University in 1975 with a master’s in education. From 1969 to 1973, he served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Africa and Central America. During 1975 and 1976 he taught at LBCC. Since 1977, Cox has owned and operated the Old World Deli in downtown Corvallis. His other writing includes the book The Toledo Incident of 1925.
Professor of sociology at Oregon State University, Richard Mitchell Jr. writes of Murray Loop: “The people that came before us, Europeans by and large, were men and women that knew how to pass down their identities, their sense of purpose of who they were. Today for the most part, we don’t have this kind of family memories recorded that help make the connection between the environment and ourselves. Murray Loop is so lasting, so meaningful and so precious for all of us. This book shares with us a way of life that is fast receding. This is an unembellished, straightforward story based on oral interviews, diaries and family artifacts.”
Valley Writers Series is free and open to the public. For questions about this event or suggestions for future events, contact Jane White at whitej@linnbenton.edu or Lucette Wood at woodl@linnbenton.edu.
Contact: Lucette Wood, 541-917-4620
The Valley Writers Series at Linn-Benton Community College will host a reading by Oregon author Ted Cox on Wednesday, May 26 at noon in the LBCC Forum, F-115, 6500 Pacific Blvd. SW, Albany.
Cox will present his newest work, Murray Loop, an absorbing five-generation story of a family who in desperation leave Scotland in 1841 seeking a better life on the American continent.
Cox’s book profiles the conflict between the Territorial Act of 1848, which acknowledged Indian possession of land, and the Donation Land Act of 1850, which opened the land to settlement by whites.
A native of Eugene, Oregon, Cox graduated from Oregon State University in 1975 with a master’s in education. From 1969 to 1973, he served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Africa and Central America. During 1975 and 1976 he taught at LBCC. Since 1977, Cox has owned and operated the Old World Deli in downtown Corvallis. His other writing includes the book The Toledo Incident of 1925.
Professor of sociology at Oregon State University, Richard Mitchell Jr. writes of Murray Loop: “The people that came before us, Europeans by and large, were men and women that knew how to pass down their identities, their sense of purpose of who they were. Today for the most part, we don’t have this kind of family memories recorded that help make the connection between the environment and ourselves. Murray Loop is so lasting, so meaningful and so precious for all of us. This book shares with us a way of life that is fast receding. This is an unembellished, straightforward story based on oral interviews, diaries and family artifacts.”
Valley Writers Series is free and open to the public. For questions about this event or suggestions for future events, contact Jane White at whitej@linnbenton.edu or Lucette Wood at woodl@linnbenton.edu.
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