Articles from the March 7, 2015 edition

Mar 7, 2015

Airships ar Expo By Finn J.D. John In 1904, a sharp-eyed 61-year-old hustler named Lafe Pence stepped off the train in downtown Portland for a meeting of the National Mining Congress. The conference he was attending has been long forgotten. But had the group chosen Seattle or Bakersfield to hold it, the very shape of the hills in Portland would be different today. Pence had the kind of colorful Western background that you’d expect in a man who sets out to literally move mountains. He was born in Indiana just before the Civil War, and moved t...