On the beach, the Stamper clan engaged in a “friendly” game of touch football with the union loggers, which ended in a free-for-all slugfest in the water. Resentment by union loggers boiled over in a picnic shot at Fogarty Beach. The shed is gone, but remains a vantage point to see the old Stamper home. The movie opens with Leeland (Sarrazin) being ferried across the Siletz River from a boat shed along the Siletz Highway (OR 229). Today it is used as a five bedroom vacation rental operated by Oregon Beach Vacations. The shell was left standing, and later completed as a real house. Art Director Philip Jeffries designed the Stamper family home, in what he called “bastard Victorian without gingerbread.” Scenes were filmed south of Lincoln City near Fogarty Beach, Newport, and along the Siletz River around Kernville. SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION (1970) Based on Ken Kesey’s novel about the Stamper family of independent loggers, the cast includes Henry Fonda as Henry Stamper Paul Newman as his brother, Hank Richard Jaeckel as Joe Ben and Michael Sarrazin as Leeland Stamper. The film locations include the Scout Cabin in Mingus Park, Coos Bay, and Hall Lake, across from Tugman State Park, south of Reedsport. “Jett” is played by Kiri Goodson of Coos Bay, who has performed locally since she was three years old. The tribal watchman is played by Roger Willie, a noted Navajo educator, artist, and actor. ![]() Chase, from Coos Bay, uses her own life, local actors, and her hometown as the backdrop to tell the story of Jett, a 10-year-old, blond-haired Native American girl who has a special connection with nature as she embarks on a spiritual journey. Writer and director Barri Chase says The Watchman’s Canoe examines ramifications of bullying, forgiveness, and perseverance. THE WATCHMAN’S CANOE (2017) A spiritual watchman is one who can see and hear what others do not and who protects those whom he watches. Most of these movies are available for rent or purchase on Amazon, or streaming on Prime, Hulu, or Netflix. Let’s see for ourselves as we go on location. What makes the Oregon Coast so attractive to moviemakers? Perhaps movie magic is in the ocean, the beaches, the rural setting, and the ruggedly independent spirit of those who live on the coast. The latest story to be told is The Watchman’s Canoe, released in 2017. The first, released in 1909, was The Fisherman’s Bride, shot in Astoria. Kesey considered it his magnum opus.For more than a century, moviemakers have come to the Oregon Coast to shoot their films. (It is arguably the greatest book ever written about rain.) Initial reviews were mixed but the book was a commercial success and it now frequently ranks on lists of the greatest American novels. Kesey's second novel, the mad, sordid, soggy, yet frequently beautiful Pacific Northwest epic of a logging family wrestling with industrial disputes, obstinacy, love, and rain. We don't need communes we need (belongs to you and me) communities". Photographer's name spelled "Hank Krangler" on rear flap of jacket, two line author bio.) Presentation copy inscribed by Kesey to "Mitch" and with a typed postcard quoting Woody Guthrie from Kesey to Harrison Brown at Stanford: ". (Publisher's logo on half title not variant with logo on second half-title, no priority. ![]() § First edition, first issue text and jacket. ![]() In dust jacket, with couple of chips at top of archival protected cover. Appears to be boldly signed by author with multi-colored ink on bookplate (4.25 inch by 2.75 inch) affixed to front free endpaper. Only minor, if not trivial additional signs of age/wear/previous use to book and dust jacket. Dust jacket has two closed tears of 5/8 inch each and a 3/16 inch by 3/16 inch chip to top edge of front panel a 1 inch closed tear, a 1/2 inch closed tear and a number of light and very light hairline creases to bottom one inch of front panel a 1.25 inch and a 3/8 inch closed tear to top edge of rear panel and additional moderate, if not minor rubbing/wear to front panel and to spine, corners, edge and fore-edge folds. Book has minor, if not trivial spotting to light-green top edge of block. No additional edition or printing indicated, Near fine hardback in good plus, if not very good dust jacket ($7.50) with "Photo on back of jacket by Hank Krangler" stated on rear flap. "Published in 1964" stated and wiith Viking logo on half title page.
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