Pamplin Media Group - Poet's home will lure writers to Portland area
Poet's home will lure writers to Portland area An Oregon poet's legacy may help bolster the Portland region's literary luster. A trustee of Carolyn Moore's estate recently endowed her family farm on Walnut Street in Tigard to Portland Community College. The donated estate, valued at $5.5 million, makes it the largest donation ever given to PCC. The home will be used as a writer's retreat, dubbed the Carolyn Moore Writers House. "My aunt Carolyn had a love of learning," Erica Klassen, Moore's niece, said, "so PCC is a great fit for her vision." Included in the Writers House estate is...
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