During this program at Central Library, guest speakers and audience
members joined us on statehood day, February 14, 2009, and shared
why Oregon is their special Valentine.
Barbara Drake is eternally grateful to her parents for moving from
Kansas to Oregon in 1941. She is the author of several books of
poetry, of Writing Poetry, a college creative writing textbook
widely used and in print for the past 24 years, and of Peace at
Heart: an Oregon Country Life.