StoryHelix

Welcome to StoryHelix! Intertwining stories past, present, and not yet imagined, told by folks in Lane County, Oregon.Wordcrafters in Eugene began this project with the idea of making our area a braver, safer, more beautiful, and more equitable place to live. We believe, as Chinua Achebe put it, that stories create people, create stories. Meaning, the stories we tell ourselves and other people make us who we are. Because of this, we also believe that if we are to move into a better imagined future, a reckoning with our past and current stories is needed. As Alice Walker said, “Healing begins where the wound was made.”The StoryHelix project invites us to trace our "EUGeneology" and examine what stories we have inherited, and what stories we will pass down.You can read more about the project, about Wordcrafters in Eugene, about our sponsors and community partners, and send in your own Lane County, Oregon stories at StoryHelix.Wordcrafters.Org. Thanks for listening!

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Emma Jones

July 01, 2022 • StoryHelix, Emma Jones, Wordcrafters in Eugene, Leah Velez, Intro and Outro Music by Otis McDonald • Season 1 • Episode 12

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Emma Jones talks about a picnic in the rose garden with the person featured in the previous episode.

You can read more about the project, about Wordcrafters in Eugene, about our sponsors and community partners, and send in your own Lane County, Oregon stories at StoryHelix.Wordcrafters.Org.

Thanks for listening!

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You're listening to StoryHelix:
intertwining stories past, present, and not yet

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imagined in Lane County, Oregon.
What's up, earthlings? I'm Leah Velez

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and I'll be your host. The
story we're about to hear was recorded at

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Oakshire Brewing Company in the Whiteaker neighborhood
of Eugene, Oregon in early 2022. Let's open

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up our ear nuggets, and give it
a listen.

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One of my strongest memories was a first kiss at a local
park in the kind of midsummer,

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early, early spring, midsummer.
The roses were in bloom and it was

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spectacular out. The clouds were,
yeah, not seen in the sky.

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It was blue sky and beautiful. And
we had a picnic and a beautiful setup

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and snacks and pillows and blankets and
it was still kind of cold, because of

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the spring and it was beautiful.
It was at the Owen Rose Garden, which

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is in the Whiteaker neighborhood. And
it's beautiful in the springtime. There's tons

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of volunteers that maintain it through
the year. It stays gorgeous. Um.

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There weren't many people there. There
were some, but we were getting cold

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so we bundled up really tight and
the air smelled like roses a little bit

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and there was a cherry tree, like a giant cherry tree. I heard

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the voices of like distant chatter and
people walking by. It's by the river,

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so you can hear the river, and you can hear the
trees and light breeze, you know,

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it's a very peaceful place. I was nervous, of course, because it was

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the first... well it was the third
or fourth, fifth date? I

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can't remember. Um. The third. Yeah,
we hadn't spent too much time together at

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that point, so I was a
little nervous and probably a little hungry. And so

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the picnic was pretty exciting.
Lots of different treats like dates and blueberries

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and bread and cheese and all the
things that a picnic would have. The

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memory is extremely fond and it was, you know, a defining moment where

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something new had happened in this town
that I hadn't experienced before. We had

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lived in a small town prior to
it and had been there for a long

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time and this was, you know, kind of a way to spread my

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wings and this was, you know, finding a partner that I loved.

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I knew that I loved, and I
wanted to be with. That was it

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was a defining moment where I knew
that we had mutual attraction, mutual

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connection and also could have fun together.

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Thanks for listening. You can find us wherever you listen to your podcasts. If you've got your own Lane County

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story to tell, we'd love to
hear it

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at StoryHelix.Wordcrafters.org.

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