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Footsteps through overgrown grass have worn an irregular path around the north Portland home of Sam Mowry and Cynthia McGean, leading to their backyard garage. This space, originally designed for two cars, has been partitioned and converted into a quirky sound studio, with mustard walls, crimson curtains and audio gear stacked against just about every wall. The founders of Willamette Radio Workshop are preparing for their latest performance, an adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit,” which will be featured in the second annual Tolkien Festival on Saturday afternoon at McMenamins Kennedy School. [More]
St. Charles the Martyr Episcopal Church will host a five-week course entitled “The Best of C.S. Lewis: Part Two.” The course is open to the public and attendees need not have attended part one last year. C.S. Lewis, who died in 1963, was a scholar at Oxford and Cambridge Universities. During World War II he was heard weekly on the BBC radio as a voice of comfort and encouragement. [More]
Images from Billy Boyd’s latest film ‘On A Clear Day’ are now online. The film debuts at the Sundance Film Festival. [More]
Turgon writes: I’d like to note the passing of Guy Davenport, a distinguished writer and teacher at the University of Kentucky? He was a student of Tolkien’s, and in the Tributes section of Green Books we have his brief recollections of Tolkien. [More]
