Valley Writers Series Hosts Three Oregon Authors
Oregon authors Charles Goodrich, Marjorie Sandor and George Estreich will give presentations on the meaning of “home” as part of the Valley Writers Series at Linn-Benton Community College on Wednesday, April 18 from Noon to 2 p.m. in the college Fireside Room, second floor Calapooia Center building, 6500 Pacific Blvd. SW, Albany. Each has written a book that meditates extensively on the meanings of “home.” All three authors, in very different ways, set the literal, hands-on, messy aspects of taking care of home against the larger questions implicit in living and making a family in a specific place. Charles Goodrich, in The Practice of Home, provides his account of family, gardening, and building a house. He has made a long career as a professional gardener and writer. He is the author of another volume of poems, Insects of South Corvallis (Cloudbank Books, 2003), and his poems and essays have appeared in Orion, The Sun, Open Spaces, Willow Springs, Zyzzyva and many other magazines. Ma...