About Hiking Oregon’s History
Presented by William L. Sullivan, Author
Join us for a slide show armchair hiker’s tour of Oregon’s most
scenic historic sites. Based on his outdoor guidebook, Hiking Oregon’s
History, the presentation follows Lewis and Clark’s trail across Tillamook
Head and traces Chief Joseph’s trail of tears through Hells Canyon.
Expect tips on dramatic hiking trails to fire lookouts, lighthouses, and gold
mines, too, mixed in with anecdotes about trailside wildflowers and geology.
In short, it’s a glimpse into Oregon’s largest museum -- the great outdoors.
About the Speaker:
William L. Sullivan is the author of a dozen books about
Oregon. Listening for Coyote, the journal of his 1,361-mile solo
backpacking trek across Oregon in 1985, was a finalist for the Oregon Book
Award in creative nonfiction. Since then he has published Exploring
Oregon’s Wild Areas, a historical novel about pioneer Oregon entitled A
Deeper Wild, and five detailed guidebooks in his popular 100 Hikes
series, including 100 Hikes in Northwest Oregon.
A fifth-generation Oregonian, Sullivan grew up in Salem. At
17 he won a scholarship to study at remote Deep Springs College in the
California desert, where his duties included milking cows by hand. He
went on to earn a B.A. in English from Cornell University and an M.A. in German
from the University of Oregon. He and his wife, Janell Sorensen, have bicycled
3000 miles through Europe, studied two years at Heidelberg University in
Germany, and built a log cabin by hand on a roadless stretch of the lower
Siletz River. They live with their two children in Eugene.
