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Contributors
Andrew P. Duffin teaches American West, Pacific Northwest, and environmental history at Washington State University in Pullman. He has published in Pacific Northwest Quarterly (Fall 2004) and has an article forthcoming in Agricultural History (Spring 2005).
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G. Thomas Edwards is Professor of History Emeritus at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon and taught at Whitman for thirty-four years, specializing in Civil War and western history. He co-edited Experiences in a Promised Land (University of Washington Press, 1986) and is the author of Sowing Good Seeds: The Northwest Suffrage Campaigns of Susan B. Anthony (Oregon Historical Society Press, 1990). He is currently preparing an essay entitled "Wallula's Three Economies in the Nineteenth Century" for publication.
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Ken Lomax is the Lead Visitor Services Representative at the Oregon Historical Society. His interest in Northwest maritime history stems from his grandfather, Alfred L. Lomax, who wrote extensively on the subject. He often answers the question posed by museum visitors: Whatever happened to the Battleship Oregon?
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David L. Nicandri has been director of the Washington State Historical Society since July 1987. He graduated from SUNY at Plattburgh and holds a master's degree in history from the University of Idaho and an honorary doctorate from Gonzaga University. Nicandri formerly served as the chief curator of the Washington State Capital Museum and was adjunct faculty at Evergreen State College. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including a history of Territorial Governor Isaac I. Stevens Indian Treaty Tour, and the editor of Columbia, the magazine of the Washington State Historical Society. He is currently working on a book about Lewis and Clark on the Snake and Columbia rivers.
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George Venn is Professor of English and Writer-in-Residence Emeritus at Eastern Oregon University, La Grande. Poet, editor, literary historian, regionalist, translator, and critic, he is the author of four books, including Marking the Magic Circle (1987), recently recognized by the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission's Literary Oregon: 100 Books 1800–2000. For his service as General Editor of the Oregon Literature Series (1993–1994), he was presented the Stewart Holbrook Award in 1995. Currently, he is working on "Keeping the Swarm," a collection of personal essays, and "The Lie That Told the Truth," a historical narrative on C.E.S. Wood, Chief Joseph, and the "Chief Joseph Surrender Speech."
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John Wendeborn has spent a half century in the music world as a jazz trombonist, music critic, and producer of what he calls "jazz cabaret" shows. He worked as the public relations representative for the Mt. Hood Festival of Jazz from 1986 to 1995 and has produced a variety of jazz-inflected events, all benefits for different entities. He drove and then owned a taxicab at Broadway DeLuxe Cab between 1952 and 1956. |
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