Events

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Past:

2020

  • June 30, 7-8 PM. Kalama Harbor Lodge (McMenamins) History Pub. PowerPoint presentation about Grace Tibbets and her husband Richard Sorter, a mixed-race couple who became one of Kalama, Washington's pioneer families. Cancelled due to COVID-19.
  • November 20, 7-8 PM. Hotel Oregon (McMenamins) History Pub. Tibbets-Sorter PowerPoint. Cancelled due to COVID-19.

2019

  • October 19, 4:30-5:30 PM. North Portland Library. Pageturners book club. This is the first time addressing people who have read my book and come prepared with questions and comments. I'm really looking forward to it. 
  • March 10, 1-2 PM. Tillamook County Pioneer Museum. PowerPoint presentation titled "Tillamook Pioneer Shipbuilders."
  • February 15, 6-8 PM. Columbia Gorge Discovery Center and Museum. PowerPoint presentation focused on Calvin Tibbets' first trip to Oregon, including Columbia River highlights. Canceled due to weather.
  • January 31, 6-8 PM. Seaside Brewery. History and Hops PowerPoint presentation titled "Clatsop Pioneers Building Ships" hosted by the Seaside Museum.

2018

    2017

    • December 21, 7-8 PM. Fort George Brewery Thursday Night Talk. PowerPoint presentation on Calvin Tibbets' probate case - Clatsop County's first - that was so controversial it had to be settled by Oregon's Supreme Court. Sponsored by the  Clatsop County Historical Society.
    • November 18, 10 AM-2 PM. Tillamook County Pioneer Museum Mook Book Fair. Book signing.  
    • September 2, 2-3 PM. Oregon City Library. PowerPoint presentation on the role Tibbets' played in finishing sections of the Oregon Trail and the long gone Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur school in Oregon City that his daughter was able to attend with funding from his estate. 
    • July 29, 2-4 PM. Tillamook County Pioneer Museum. Book signing.
    • July 28, 1-2 PM. Tillamook County Library PowerPoint presentation on Tibbets' travel routes through the Tillamook area and his relationship with its first American settlers.  
    • July 16, 11 AM-1 PM. Cannon Beach Books. Book signing. 
    • July 15, 3-5 PM. Beach Books. Book signing. 
    • July 15, 1-2 PM. Seaside Public Library. PowerPoint presentation covering all of Calvin Tibbets' time in Oregon.  
    • June 3, 12-3. Oregon City Library's Local Author Fair. Book signing.
    • March 11, 2-3 PM. End of the Oregon Trail Interpretive and Visitor Information CenterPowerPoint presentation on the role Tibbets' played in finishing sections of the Oregon Trail and the long gone Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur school in Oregon City that his daughter was able to attend with funding from his estate. 
    • February 23, 6-7 PM. Seaside Brewing Company's History and Hops. Powerpoint presentation on Clatsop County's first grist mill. Sponsored by the Seaside Museum. 
    • January 15, 1-2 PM. Lewis and Clark National Historical Park In Their Footsteps. PowerPoint presentation on the friendship of Calvin Tibbets and Solomon Smith, first Americans on Clatsop Plains. Feedback from NPS staff

    2016

    • December 15, 7-8 PM. Fort George Brewery Thursday Night Talk. Book reading and signing. Sponsored by the Clatsop County Historical Society.
    • December 4, 12-4 PM. Oregon Historical Society Holiday Cheer book signing. 
    • November 19, 3-4 PM, Astoria Library Book reading and discussion.
    See the Reviews page for newspaper coverage of some of these events.