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Sandra Scott Travels

Sandra Scott Travels: Around The World One Restaurant At A Time

May 31, 2019 Contributor
Portland may not be where the food truck culture started, but the food trucks have taken it by storm. One nice thing about a food truck caravan is that everyone can have what they like. I picked gyros, but there was soul food, mac and cheese, hamburgers and more. Some do so well they open up small restaurants.

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Ruth Gruber, The Woman Who Helped Create Safe Haven

May 25, 2019 Contributor
When folks attend the special presentation of “Safe Haven” June 1 or 2 at the American Foundry, they will get an opportunity to experience a fictional snapshot of the life and times of the families as they lived on the refugee encampment Safe Haven for the 18 months it existed. And most importantly embedded in the play is the real life character named Ruth Gruber, played by Polaann Hemulay.

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Sandra Scott Travels: Volcanoes Aren’t Extinct In America

May 24, 2019 Contributor
Sunday, May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted.
I remember the year because in September 1980, when the new school year started, my class had a brand new red textbook. The first chapter dealt with the geography of the United States. One sentence read in essence, “There are no active volcanoes in the coterminous United States.”

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Sandra Scott Travels: Retracing The Trek Along The Oregon Trail

May 17, 2019 Contributor
The Willamette Valley is a 150-mile long valley in Oregon and was the terminus of the Oregon Trail. Some made it, others settled along the way, some branched off and went to California in search of gold. Others died, and some were born on the trail. I have always been fascinated by the Oregon Trail.

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Sandra Scott Travels: Explore Some Of Portland’s Notorious Past

May 3, 2019 Contributor
I spent Easter in Portland, Oregon, with my son, Jim. One of the things I wanted to do was to check out the Shanghai Tunnels so Jim booked the “Underground Walking Tour.” I had read that, in the 1800s, sailors were not eager so sign up to work on a ship headed to far-flung ports so a contractor would get sailors drunk and put them on a ship headed East.

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