Today’s Observer should have carried this story but, look though I might, it wasn’t there:

Getting here there, and back again…
Always a challenge in Pacific County!

Transportation will be the topic under discussion at the Wednesday, May 1st History Forum — the final Forum until next September.  “We’ll be looking at the challenges that Pacific County has faced from the very beginning,” says historian Sydney Stevens.  “Our isolation, relatively small population, topography, and climatehave all had a bearing on how our transportation methods developed.”

Three seemingly disparate topics will be presented — aspects of transportation from the earlies times, as well as proposals for future innovations using old methods.  Steve Rogers, President of the Pacific County Historical Society will talk about the “Great Canal Project,” proposed as early as 1875 by (then) Captain Ulysses S. Grant, to connect the Columbia River with Puget Sound — and, according to some,  still being discussed.

Jerry Bowman of the Northwest Carriage Museum in Raymond will talk about horses — their importance as well as the challenges they presented in the early days of settlement — both here and nation-wide.  He will accompany his talk with a slide presentation.

And, combining the “old” with the “new,” Jim Sayce, Manager of the Port of Willapa Harbor, will discuss ferries on Willapa Bay — both those of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as an exciting proposal for a pedestrian-bicycle ferry which is currently under discussion in the County.

The History Forum meets at the Oysterville Schoolhouse from 10 a.m. until 12 noon and is open to the public.  All are encouraged to participate and bring information and/or artifacts pertaining to the discussion at hand.

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(The lost was found… in my drafts folder.  Fingers crossed that it can be posted on the online version of the Chinook Observer.)