You’ll see the grocery parking lot where Ramona got stuck in the mud, the park lawn where Henry Huggins hunted nightcrawlers, and the real Portland street that became Klickitat Street, their fictional home. Per the book summary: “Readers can walk the very sidewalks Beverly walked and climb the very school steps that Beverly climbed.
Foster’s talk will include not only Portland locations, but other points of significance in Cleary’s childhood and adult life. Foster, whose latest work, Walking with Ramona (Microcosm Publishing, 2016), explores the streets, schools, characters and neighborhoods of Cleary’s Portland.
On Tues., August 30, we are pleased to host local author Laura O. During a 2011 interview with the Los Angeles Times, at age 95, she said, “I’ve had an exceptionally happy career.” The first book in the series, Henry Huggins, was published back in 1950, and since then, kids around the globe have enjoyed these tales about ordinary kids growing up in an ordinary Portland.Ĭleary celebrated her 100th birthday this past April, and currently lives in California. Since school is starting back up in just a couple weeks, this month’s History Pub at the Old Church in Wilsonville is geared toward kids, including kids-turned-adults, about beloved author and McMinnville native Beverly Cleary’s Oregon. Anyone out there familiar with the Ramona Quimby books? Yeah, we thought so.
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