Fort Clatsop Bookstore Hosts Peter Marsh for Liberty Ships Presentation

ASTORIA, OR – The Lewis & Clark National Park Association is pleased to announce a guest author event: Liberty Ships with Peter Marsh. This free event will take place on May 4, 2025, at 2 PM in the Netul River Room of the Visitor Center at Lewis and Clark National Historical Park.

Nautical/outdoor journalist and author Peter Marsh of Liberty Factory - The Untold Story of Henry Kaiser's Oregon Shipyards will speak about the WWII Kaiser shipyards on the Columbia and Willamette Rivers, beginning with 2025 being the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day or V-E Day on May 8, 1945. Autographed books and historical cards will also be available.

Peter Marsh was born in Greenwich, in the heart of Britain’s maritime heritage, and was soon smitten with a love of small boats and sailing. These adventures gave him the raw material for articles in regional boating magazines, his first published works. Success in this field led him into a career as a freelance journalist and he widened his scope to cover all aspects of local maritime interest from fishing to commercial shipping. in 1996 he inherited a substantial archive of papers and photographs from Larry Barber, the retired marine editor of the local newspaper, The Oregonian. A visit to the D-Day beaches in Normandy led him to look more closely at Barber’s wartime material. Peter has spent the last several years sorting, collating and editing the material, while also researching the background, and this book is the result.

This event is sponsored by the Lewis & Clark National Park Association (LCNPA) and hosted at Lewis and Clark National Historical Park. The Fort Clatsop Bookstore is a program of the LCNPA, a nonprofit 501c3 supporting education at the park since 1963. The bookstore is located inside the visitor center at 92343 Fort Clatsop Road, Astoria, OR 97103 and online at FortClatsopBookstore.com & LewisAndClarkNPA.org

For more information, please contact Cynthia Thompson at 503-861-4451 or via email at cthompson@lewisandclarknpa.org.