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“Ireland” may be the first answer that comes to mind when asked where in the world you might be most likely to spot a leprechaun, but Portland, Oregon, is home to its very own population of tiny, pot-o’-gold-loving Irishmen, too. They’ve even got a dedicated area Mill Ends Park to prove it. Here are 11 fun facts about what has been described as “the only leprechaun colony west of Ireland.”
1. Mill Ends Park is the creation of journalist Dick Fagan.
Upon his return home from World War II in 1946, Dick Fagan went back to work as a journalist at the
Rediscovered images of 1970s Old Town capture long-gone era in Portland, power photographer’s social-media fandom
Updated Mar 01, 2021;
Posted Mar 01, 2021
In the 1970s, Patrick F. Smith photographed life on Portland s streets, capturing the city at the beginning of a profound transformation. (Copyright Patrick F. Smith)
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Every day when he took his lunch break from the downtown office-supply store where he worked, Patrick F. Smith would load his camera, make sure he had a handful of quarters in his pocket, and head for Old Town.
This was the mid-1970s, when Portland’s Old Town was still unmistakably old. Many locals called it “Skid Road.” The swank neighboring Pearl District didn’t yet exist.
Pioneering Black journalist Beatrice Morrow Cannady took on Oregon’s Ku Klux Klan, challenged official hypocrisy
Updated Feb 19, 2021;
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Beatrice Morrow Cannady’s profile is on the rise again in her adopted state.
A Northeast Portland affordable-housing complex called The Beatrice Morrow opened in 2018. The following year, Beatrice Morrow Cannady Elementary School in Happy Valley began classes. A Portland city park soon might be known as Cannady Park.
Such recognition, Oregon civic leaders increasingly recognize, was overdue.
Cannady, who died in 1974 at age 84, was one of the most impactful and controversial Black activists in 20th century Portland, but the passage of time allowed her name to slip from collective memory.
Thanks to Tribune, still covering some big stories decades later February 10 2021
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The Legend of C.E.S. Wood, Portland’s Anarchist Founding Father Artist and lawyer, poet and soldier, patrician and anarchist, Portlander Charles Erskine Scott Wood was a jack of all trades and master of quite a few. C.E.S. Wood, photographed by Ansel Adams. By KEITH MOERER In his later years he looked like Zeus, with wild white hair and an untamed beard. Like the Greek god, he had a reputation for womanizing. And, though no deity himself, he was no ordinary mortal. His name was Charles Erskine Scott Wood, and it s unlikely that Portland was ever home to a more colorful or versatile citizen.