Joe’s Family Later Settles in the Portland, Oregon Area
Editor’s Note: We return here to the Hart family’s move up to Portland, Oregon. Joe explains that his father took a job with a children’s clinic in Portland, worked there for a couple of decades, and then opened his own practice in a Portland suburb. I asked how Joe ended up in Washington State, and he points out that White Salmon is only about seventy miles east of Portland, along the Columbia River in the spectacular Columbia River Gorge, where the river cuts through the Cascades — a stretch I know from an Amtrak trip westbound. Most of Joe’s family, his sisters, children and grandchildren, still live around Portland, which made the pandemic year especially frustrating.
Transcript
Speakers: WJB — William J. Bowe; JH — Joseph Hart. Transcribed from the recording; punctuation added and obvious mis-hearings corrected.
WJB: Yes. All right. So we’re back, I think, to the move up to Oregon.
JH: Right. And so when we moved up to Portland, he took a job with a children’s clinic in Portland, and worked there for a couple of decades, I suppose, before he left the clinic and opened his own practice with a clinic in a Portland suburb.
WJB: All right. And so how’d you get from probably a childhood in Portland, way up north to Washington State?
JH: Well, actually, where I am now isn’t all that far from Portland. It’s about 70 miles to the east of Portland, following the Columbia River.
WJB: Okay.
JH: Quite a spectacular area geologically because of the river, of course, and the Columbia River Gorge, which is where the river cuts through the Cascade mountain range. It’s —
WJB: Ah, yes.
JH: — pretty impressive.
WJB: I’ve taken that Amtrak —
JH: Ah.
WJB: — westbound along the Columbia. That’s quite a gorgeous stretch, yeah.
JH: Yeah, it is.
WJB: Yeah.
JH: And so most of the family, my sisters, my children, my grandchildren, all live in the Portland area, except for maybe one of my sisters. But anyway, yeah, lots of family in Portland, and so it’s been kind of frustrating during the virus, not to be able to go in and see people like normal.
WJB: Yes.
JH: Really miss them.
WJB: Yeah.
