FIRST TUESDAY LAUREATE WRITERS SERIES
7:00 PM SEPT. 1 BLUE HERON COFFEEHOUSE
Richie Swanson will read “Salvaging,” a short story.
When fire destroys an Oregon coast town in 1936, a teenage switchboard operator transforms her life, thanks to an ancient Indian and a ceremonial rock on the beach.
Richie will sell and sign copies of his novel about the U.S. invasion of Yakama homelands 1855-6, First Territory, $20 cash only, please. His novel The Mississippi Behind Us is forthcoming from Sunstone Press, set on the river 1819-1827.
Open mic after Richie’s reading.
