MICRO MOTORCYCLES Pocket motorbikes hit North Portland. See MASTERS OF THE MINI-MOTO / Page 3 OPEN STUDIO TOURS Portrait of an artist. See / PAGE 1 FINALLY! AN ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT CALENDAR Get the scoop on what to do in North Portland. Sauvie Island, St. Johns, North Portland See / PAGE 8&9 Volume 4 Issue 10 October 2004 FREE Harvest Fair Continues Historic Tradition Henry Miller Chief Ghoul In Charge of Scream at the Beach. A Howling Good Time Fourth annual Scream at the Beach offers a wickedly good time for all ages By Michael Scarbo Halloween has become synonymous with slasher movies and ill-fitting costumes of cartoon characters hastily bought at the The Russell Street Regulars pick and strum classic old-time ballads at the Harvest Fair main stage. local Wal-Mart. Whatever happened to the fantasy, the imagination, the fun and, most By Dave Johnson garb pumped forges and hammered iron In the Oregon History section, “The importantly, the frights? into tools. Josephine Ingraham, a descendant Traveling Museum of Oregon Prehistory” Look no further than Henry Miller’s The Sauvie Island Harvest Fair occurred of Clatsop Chief Coboway, sewed a display displayed ancient tools. This exhibit, (yes, that’s his real name) “Scream at the this September in the apple orchards and nearby fields of Howell Territorial Park. Co- Beach.” of dentalia shells onto a leather shirt. In the assembled by retired Oregon State sponsored by Kruger’s Farm Market and In 2001, Miller unearthed his sprawling Crafts Area, Bonnie Donalds offered bonnets Archaeologist Dr. Leland Gilsen, includes a Metro, the fair offered a bounty of popular wonderment of creepy castles, Egyptian for sale, along with examples of costumes she demonstration of flint-knapping obsidian events, crafts, food booths, and old-time tombs, and macabre theaters at North custom-makes for kids. Visitors could watch (creating arrow and spear points), and music to get folks dancing under the new Portland’s Jantzen Beach SuperCenter. This moon. Barbara Curran, winner of the Blue Ribbon replicas of petroglyphic rock art that is year Scream at the Beach isn’t just a haunted The festival was divided into themed at this year’s Oregon State Fair, spinning found along the Columbia. house; it’s a complex of five “haunts,” games zones. In the Pioneer Camp, folks in authentic yarn on her wheel. See HARVEST / Page 14 and entertainment and food, stretched out over three buildings that blur the line between haunted house and full-blown amusement park. North Portland Artist Readies Miller’s creation is a sharp contrast to the modern images of haunted houses: black for Open Studio Tour plastic walls and men with powdered faces and cheap, glow-in-the-dark fangs. “Scream By Dave Johnson at the Beach” is a world of handcrafted Dawn Phelps McConnell emphasizes McConnell’s Fine Arts Studio, which ghouls and goblins, with original murals, the fun in functional. Step into her cozy opened in 1999, features three areas of work: and trained actors (both living and dead) Portland bungalow just south of Lombard painted pots, refurbished furniture, and mingling freely about the grounds. It’s a and you’ll find hand-painted garden pots pastel paintings. creepy, surreal landscape where patrons can with life-size faces that suggest an animated What brings her the greatest joy is her step outside of themselves and celebrate the conversation between Picasso, Gauguin and found or commissioned furniture pieces and season in style. “This is truly a work of art,” Miller says Matisse. See ARTIST / Page 12 of this year’s incarnation while hard at work on the final stages. PRSRT Std Construction of the project began in July, US POSTAGE but planning efforts initiated last November PAID when Miller set about securing the skills Permit No. 88 GRESHAM, OR See SCREAM / Page 12 Dawn Phelps McConnell at work in her studio. JOctoberune 2004 I N & A B O U T Page 2 12 IN & ABOUT COMMUNITY NEWS About the New In & About FOR CIRCULATION, C ALL Revitalization! By Cornelius Swart From the new Safeway at the west end of for North Portland. The Calendar is a 503-287-3880 Lombard, to the new Fred Meyer superstore comprehensive look at all the fun things WWW .INANDABOUTNEWS .C OM Harvest at the east end, down the rebuilt Interstate Ave to see, do and get involved with west of This is our Harvest issue. It’s a special to the explosion of vibrant small businesses time of year when we reap the fruits of our PUBLISHED BY Williams Ave. labor and begin to cool off and wind down SYD HONDA MEDIA , LLC along Mississippi, North Portland seems to We’ve added a restaurant review (check for the slow introspection of the long, cold be bursting with new investment, ideas and our review of Sal’s, North Portland’s first rainy season ahead. The summer excess is MANAGING EDITOR energy. finally done and, as the stories go, the spirits DONNA ZU C KER We at the In & About would like to be world-class Italian bistro), a new Home & have their last wild romp in the realm of the Garden section, a new section dedicated to a part of that revitalization. We would like living on All Hallows’ Eve. EDITOR you to think of us at the In & About as a community policing, and even a little space Harvest time also connects us to PATRICIA MA C AODHA business in the midst of major remodeling. for non-fiction submissions. Oregon’s vibrant agricultural tradition. We are blessed to be so close to a thriving farming When we’re done we hope the new paper There are still more improvements to CONTRIBUTORS will better inform, entertain and inspire you community on Sauvie Island. The Island is a Vanessa Timmons come. We can’t do it alone. Ultimately this with stories In & About your community. wonderful place to visit with beaches, lakes Dave Johnson community paper is your community paper. and bird sanctuaries. It is also a nearby source Last August I asked a friend who had Dr. Joshua David Tell us a story. Let us know what you think of locally grown and often organic food, not moved into North Portland some years ago Steve Wilson more than a 15-minute drive from many we should cover. In the coming months you Michael Scarbo if they ever went to St. Johns to hang out. of our homes. The Island is a place of rare as readers will have opportunities to help Merlin Douglass They said “No, there’s nothing to do.” simplicity and this is one of the best times of Jerry Rust “What about the Cathedral Park Jazz us shape the new look and feel of the paper. year to take in its bounty. LeAnn Locher Fest, movies at the St. Johns Pub, or wrestling Look for our ads in these pages that bare the So please sit back and relax. Let us tell you a story. We have harvested a feast for Emily Puro at the Sandy Bar,” I said. My friend had never Digital Community header for details. Juanita Downing heard of any of those things. Amazing, but your mind this month. Come reap the fruits If you like what we’re doing, the best way of our labor. Lora Creswick true. to support us and keep us going is simply That’s where we come in. North to shop locally with our advertisers. Their See you in the neighborhood. PHOTOGRA P HERS : Portland is a great place and it’s our job at Cornelius Swart Serena Davidson investment makes this all possible. Don’t the In & About to let everyone know. That’s Publisher Inger Klekacz why in this issue we’re launching the only forget to tell them you saw their ad in the In In & About Arts & Entertainment Calendar exclusively & About. Community News LAYOUT AND DESIGN Jake Pacheco Mailroom on page 7 done by Roosevelt High Schooler “I grew up in St. Johns…I’m glad to know No Body’s Perfect David Lewis to Kou Vou. ONLINE AT : that you are starting this paper. I think it will Department of Omission’s, WWW .INANDABOUTNEWS .C OM On page 12 the ad for In & About, featured be a very good asset to the community.” Errors and Foolish Mistakes. a distribution map that incorrectly marked Georgia McClain – Phone Message E-MAIL the area west of Chautauqua St. and north of In our last issue, in the article En Gardé on IN F O @INANDABOUTNEWS .C OM Lombard Ave. as part of our direct mailing “I’m tickled that you have this online. That’s page 3 about the Fencing Center Salle Trois route. This was incorrect. A corrected map a great advancement already. Very cool.” Armes, we stated that Salle was pronounced MAIL TO : is shown on page 16. IN & ABOUT Bonnie Meltzer “Sah-lay.” The correct pronunciation of Salle is “Sahl.” Community News Cornelius Swart “Congratulations. I got a copy of the PO BOX 3316 Publisher PORTLAND , OREGON 97208 paper today…under your stewardship the In our article about the St. John’s Window journalistic best is clearly yet to come.” project we mistakenly credited a painting AF TER HOURS : Mark Kirchmeier 503-706-7190 “Great paper. Terrific news” Follow-ups From Martha Scofield Last Issue MISSION : TO PROMO T E EXCELLENCE IN NON -FIC T ION , “I am pleased to learn that your newspaper In & About’s own Dave Johnson, taken by surprise PRIN T AND PHO T O JOURNALISM IN T HE SERVICE has been acquired by Mr.