Newport author to speak at the library

WEST LINN – Newport author Michele Longo Eder will speak at the West Linn Public Library on Monday, May 23, at 6:30 PM. This event is free and open to the public and refreshments will be served.

Salt In Our Blood: The Memoir of a Fisherman’s Wife is a personal account from the perspective of a fisherman’s wife, born from a journal that she started keeping in 2000. Eder writes about what the workday is like for a commercial fisherman and his family, and what it takes to actually harvest the bounty of the ocean. She also writes about the devastating loss of her son at sea in December 2001.

Eder is a native of upstate New York and after graduating from The Johns Hopkins University in 1976 she moved to Portland to attend law school at Lewis & Clark. She and her husband live in Newport, where she has practiced law for almost 30 years, in addition to being an active partner in the family fishing business. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the North Pacific Research Board, and, as a two-term Presidential appointee, is a Commissioner with the U.S. Arctic Research Commission. When she isn’t working she reads, writes, cooks, plays tennis and bridge, and works in her garden.