They were paved over and forgotten for decades. Now a cemetery garden will honor Chinese workers buried in SE Portland
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On a Sunday afternoon, the Lone Fir Cemetery is serene. A handful of people stroll along the black asphalt paths that divide blocks of burial land. A man sitting beneath a towering red cedar leans back against the thick trunk, headphones on. Fresh roses blanket recent gravestones.
But the southwest corner has no trees, nor gravestones or roses. The land was known as the Old Chinese Burial Ground now Block 14 and was used to temporarily bury early Chinese immigrant workers until their remains could be sent to their hometowns.
By Heather Clark
What becomes a legend most? As suggested by the old black-and-white Blackglama fur ads, featuring Lena Horne, Diana Vreeland and Cher, among others, legends are people who have soared beyond fame or celebrity into a more rarefied, inaccessible stratosphere.
Todayâs media-fixated, Kardashian-dominated world is filled with all sorts of legends, from the elevated to the base, but I can think of few poets who fit into this category. The exception is Sylvia Plath, who, with her perfect blond pageboy, wide smile and cinched-waist dresses, looked less like a proper poet and more like Doris Day.
By now, many of us are familiar with the rough outlines of her saga: the shining promise; the death of her adored father when she was 8; the titanic ambition and extraordinary persistence (in 1950, the summer before Plath started college and after more than 50 rejections, Seventeen magazine accepted her short story âAnd Summer Will Not Come Againâ); the attempted su
killings tragic and shocking and vows to hold the killer responsible. the suspect is on his first appointment in afghanistan after several tours in iraq. a live report from kabul just moments for now. and it s a rainy monday in mississippi and alabama, including the park where mitt romney appeared with comedian j jeff foxworthy. he learned to ay all. he likes grits. now he s side by side with the most famous red neck. the fact that you would stand here in this pouring down rain to listen to the next president of the united states [ cheering ] meanwhile, rick santorum is coming off a big win in the kansas caucuses, aiming to symptom newt gingrich from building on his win in georgia on super tuesday. both men are fighting to be the more conservative alternative to front-runner romney. gingrich addresses an energy form in biloxi later this hour. gas prices back up again. the national price of self served regular shot up 3.5 cents over the weekend to $3.80 a gallon. a mon
tearful news conference from an oregon hospital earlier this month claiming a stranger doused her with acid. i have my ups and downs, you know, i think about what happened and i get frustrated and, of course, all the typical questions, why did this happen to me? and then i m ok. i m sorry. that was september 2nd and these are pictures taken before and after she put some sort of drain cleaner on her face. she later admitted to exactly that. in an apparent suicide attempt. david wilson of fox station kptv is live tonight in vancouver, washington. what happened in court, david? well, first of all, it was a very different bethany storro we saw today than what we saw in the tape there. bethany was very quiet as she was ushered in and out of the courtroom. the damage to her face from the drain cleaner very visible. she said very little although reporters fired lots of questions at her. she was flanked by her parents