An-author great event at the library
The Oregon Legacy literary series returns to Lincoln City’s Driftwood Public Library, with presentations each Sunday throughout February.
Presented by Friends of Driftwood Public Library, the series opens on Feb. 4 with a visit from Lucy Jane Bledsoe. Her recently released novel, “Tell the Rest,” was described in Kirkus Reviews as a "satisfyingly nuanced story [that] tackles sexuality and spiritual abuse, offering connection and redemption." Bledsoe also published a young adult novel in 2022, “No Stopping Us Now.” The novel is based on her own story of love, sisterhood and activism in the mid-1970s, when she fought to bring her hometown into compliance with the new Title IX law so she could play basketball.
On Feb. 11, Emme Lund will visit Lincoln City. Lund, who lives and writes in Portland, has an MFA from Mills College. Her work has appeared in Electric Literature, TIME Magazine, The Rumpus, Romper, the Portland Mercury and Autostraddle. In 2019, she was awarded an Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship in Fiction. Her debut novel, 2022’s “The Boy with a Bird in His Chest,” was longlisted for the First Novel Prize from the Center For Fiction, was a finalist for an Oregon Book Award and was named a best book of the year by Buzzfeed and The Portland Mercury.
Oregon Legacy continues on Feb. 18 with a visit from Sarah L. Sanderson, a writer, speaker and teacher who believes in the life-giving freedom found in radical honesty. Her work has appeared at PBS NewsHour, Blackpast, Christianity Today, Fathom, The Unmooring, Christ and Pop Culture, The Other Journal, Motherly, Relief and Stark and Main.
Sanderson studied English and philosophy at Wheaton College, and holds a Master in Teaching degree from Seattle University and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction from Seattle Pacific University. As a creative writing teacher, she has worked with every age, from preschool through adults. Her first book, “The Place We Make: Breaking the Legacy of Legalized Hate,” was published last August.
The series finishes on Feb. 25 with a visit from Jerry Sutherland, who began researching Oregon history in 2012 after his father asked him to look up something about Calvin Tibbets at the Oregon Historical Society. The thrill he experienced in discovering new information about historical events and people led to future visits, trips to archives across the United States and Canada, and the publishing of “Calvin Tibbets: Oregon's First Pioneer” in August 2016.
In 2014, Sutherland learned that Bayocean — the sandspit that separates Tillamook Bay from the Pacific Ocean — had once hosted a thriving resort. His surprise at having never seen any evidence of its existence while hiking there prompted him to learn more. Increasing interest from book publishers prompted Sutherland to start writing “Bayocean: Atlantis of Oregon” in 2019. It was published last February.
Each presentation begins at 3 pm. The library is located on the second floor of the City Hall building at 801 SW Hwy. 101 in Lincoln City. For more information, go to driftwoodlib.org.