Local History Talk with Author Michael Leamy

The Lewis & Clark National Park Association is pleased to announce an opportunity to meet author Michael Leamy on August 10, 2025, at 2pm, in the Netul River Room of the Visitor Center at Lewis and Clark National Historical Park. Admission to the park is free for this event.

Between the Dates, Echoes from the Silent City that is Greenwood explores the history of the Lower Columbia River area, drawing from records over a century old, to tell the history of the area through the stories of the ones who made that history. Some were prominent, others were more obscure. All now lie at historic Greenwood Cemetery, south of Astoria, Oregon.

Greenwood is a historic pioneer cemetery established in 1891. It occupies a part of a donation land claim whose documentation was signed by President Ulysses S. Grant. The 30-acre cemetery lies on a knoll overlooking Young's Bay, and gives a panoramic view of the valley and surrounding hills, with views of the mouth of the Columbia River and the Pacific Ocean.

Michael Leamy was raised in rural Oregon as a farm boy where he accumulated a plethora of idea seeds to crunch into story form. He has been a teacher in public schools, private schools, and home schools. He has been a steamfitter, plumber, farmer and cemetery sexton. He and his wife Lynda have been caregivers for Greenwood Cemetery for over forty years. Michael sees Greenwood as “the archive of the life stories of thousands of people who lived, labored, and died in the Pacific Northwest.” He has captured many of these stories in this book, calling Greenwood the resting place for “heroes and scoundrels, victims and victimized, the prominent and the obscure.”

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, call 503-861-4451 or email lcnpa@lewisandclarknpa.org.