When a Portland police officer’s wife saw a homeless widow and her children living in squalor in Northeast Portland’s Sullivan’s Gulch in 1922, it set into motion an organization that
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The Legend of C.E.S. Wood, Portland’s Anarchist Founding Father Artist and lawyer, poet and soldier, patrician and anarchist, Portlander Charles Erskine Scott Wood was a jack of all trades and master of quite a few. C.E.S. Wood, photographed by Ansel Adams. By KEITH MOERER In his later years he looked like Zeus, with wild white hair and an untamed beard. Like the Greek god, he had a reputation for womanizing. And, though no deity himself, he was no ordinary mortal. His name was Charles Erskine Scott Wood, and it s unlikely that Portland was ever home to a more colorful or versatile citizen.