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Mount St. Helens: 40 Years of Change, featuring Christine Colasurdo

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[Christine Colasurdo will discuss Mount St. Helens: 40 Years of Change, on October 7, 2017, at 2 p.m. at the Cannon Beach Library, 131 N. Hemlock Street,, Cannon Beach, Oregon.

Remember the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens? Christine Colasurdo will share rare images of Mount St. Helens and take us on a journey of discovery through the volcano’s blast Zone. This talk is for people who have never visited the volcano, as well as for those who knew Spirit Lake when it was shaded by 500-year-old fir trees. Your stories and memories of the eruption are welcome after Christine’s presentation.

The event is free and open to the public.

Christine is the author of Return to Spirit Lake.

Return to Spirit Lake: Life and Landscape at Mount St. Helens, by Christine Colasurdo

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Return to Spirit LakeChristine Colasurdo is the author of a new book, Return to Spirit Lake: Life and Landscape at Mount St. Helens, a nature/memoir published by Radiolarian Press.

In Return to Spirit Lake, author Christine Colasurdo revisits the landscape of her childhood — Mount St. Helens’ blast zone — to piece together how the May 1980 eruption affected the places she loved, including the lodge where she worked during the summer of 1979 and her family’s cabin. Selected as a “Washington Reads” book in 2005, Return to Spirit Lake has been recommended as “mandatory reading” by The Oregonian for anyone interested in the volcano.

Buy Return to Spirit Lake: Life and Landscape at Mount St. Helens

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