Hop Festival Woodburn History

Hubbard

Oh, Hubbard.  This is one of the seven towns in Oregon that would show up on my credit report should someone decide to run one.  I spent six weeks in a one-bedroom apartment on G Street in an attempt to distance myself from my home town of Woodburn, a mere two miles down the highway.  It didn't work out so well, as I still managed to hang out in the exact same 24-hour coffee shop every night--drinking coffee, chain-smoking cigarettes, and eating rice pilaf with bacon and maple syrup.  1996 was a weird year for me.  One night, soberly driving my way south down 99E in the January fog between Hubbard and my coffee shop in Woodburn, a naked guy jumped in front of my car, bounced off my hood and bumper, then ran off into the barren winter hop fields.  After finally bringing my Subaru Justy to a complete stop, I scanned the surrounding fields to make sure that I hadn't just hallucinated a tall hairy naked man.  After that, the damage to my Justy confirmed that I wasn't crazy.  Having never hit a naked guy with my car before, I decided to continue on to my coffee shop knowing that various police officers from Marion County were sure to be at the same coffee shop.  I hurried inside and sure enough, two Woodburn cops and a Marion County Sheriff's deputy were sharing some marion berry pie. Hubbard Mayor Jim Yonally actually invited me and the wife and the baby into his home so he could autograph our big map of Oregon, which is another first.  Baby Henry even got a little stuffed bear out of the deal which he thoroughly enjoyed all the way from the Mayor's house to the feed store down in Woodburn.  He actually met us on a Sunday, too, and I had to tear him away from working on a car.  In our brief email exchange before we met personally, I observed that he wasn't the first Mayor I had met that liked working on cars and asked him why that might be so.

History of the Peloponnesian War

Islamic history, a very short introduction

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

History of the conquest of Peru, with a preliminary view of the civilization of the Incas

The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire