Bubble Magic
August 15, 2019
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(1982) The Famous Whirling Carousel? Stand back. The Mount St. Helens volcanic bubble? Coming right up.
A bubble cube filled with smoke? No sooner said than done, declared David Minstrel, dipping his wands into his jar of soap. He began building bubble onto bubble into a sudsy concoction like a geodesic dome. He took a quick puff from his cigarett...
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Murder by the Book
August 14, 2019
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(1982) Killers lurk in corners. Innocent Bystanders have a place reserved for them between Hard Boiled Detectives and Soft Boiled Sleuths. Mystery book fans have begun to ferret out Murder by the Book, where they can find a wall-to-wall selection of stories of mayhem and the macabre.
"I can never find enough murder mysteries to read," said proprie...
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Pooh as Philosopher
August 04, 2019
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(1982) According to local author Ben Hoff, Winnie the Pooh is a master of an ancient Chinese philosophy. Hoff's book, "The Tao of Pooh" states that the beloved bear of children's literature, created by A.A. Milne in 1926, has actually been teaching principles of Taoism, a 4,000-year-old philosophy. Hoff describes the characters in the Milne books l...
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Snag Diving
August 03, 2019
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(1977) Although Underwater Services specializes in underwater construction, inspection and salvage, diver Jerry Hiersche enjoys diving for snags in the Columbia River. "The fishermen are a great bunch of guys to work for and I enjoy going back to the same section of the river every year to see what's changing on the bottom. It's good for everyone o...
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Spar Tree Logging
July 28, 2019
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(1977) Few logging outfits use the wooden spar tree anymore. It's considered old-fashioned. Most crews now use steel towers which are mounted on trucks and moved to each site. They can be raised or dismantled in one day and are easily portable to new log landings. A wooden spar tree represents a good deal more work.
First a tree near the site has...
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