Silverton

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Several years ago, I developed a friendship with a man from Silverton.

From that friendship, I got the vibes that something was strange about Silverton, Oregon.

Later, through my contacts, I found out that Anton LaVey's church had set up their Oregon headquarters in Silverton.

I suspect this was because Silverton had some occult activity already there.

About twenty-five to thirty miles southeast of Silverton, or is Mill City and Gates.

The area between this is wooded and has beautiful falls and a large park.

Now the threads of this story return to Portland.

We're recording this with me sitting here in the place I lived the longest, and that would be Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, specifically the small town of Mount Joy.

It's a population of about 8,300, which is probably not too far off of Silverton, Oregon.

So I live here.

My wife's family is from the area.

Michael Convery, let's talk about what's happening in Marion County.

It's down in Silverton.

We've got a serious accident.

It's on Abiqua.

It's in a pan-in crash with a rollover.

In fact, Life Flight has been activated for assistance on this crash.

This is down, again, in the Silverton area in Marion County.

I-5 southbound as you leave downtown looks pretty good up into the Teutiger Curves.

And then there is the vissers, which are in the Belgian endive section of the book.

are originally from the Netherlands and they live in Silverton, Oregon, and they are growing.

It's super cool to see this very small amount of space where they are, you know, forcing and growing the Belgian endive.

And that's a lot of the Belgian endive that we get in, at least on the West coast is from them.

Yes.

The owner of the independent bookstore Books and Time in Silverton, Oregon.

Which might seem like a mundane topic compared to, you know, trauma survival.

It might, but from a sociological perspective, independent bookstores serve a really critical function.