Astoria (Oregon)
LogsLogging truck on the main street through Astoria
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I was a kid who would look on maps and see that Astoria on the other coast, on the Pacific, and who wanted to go there. It was a port city, downstream from Portland, and I imagined ships in addition to bricks like the Astoria I was growing up in, on the Atlantic.
This year I went to that other Astoria.
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Down below is the town, a riverfront harbor city hit hard by the recession, dog-eared home of the Scandinavian Midsummer Festival. There are a few brick warehouses near the docks but, unlike the Astoria of my eastern provenance, the buildings are mostly paint-starved wood.
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SuomiAstoria’s Suomi Hall
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There is also the inescapable bridge.
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