Happy Fourth!
During a recent demonstration in Eugene, an ICE vehicle was damaged. Demonstrators on social media were sharply critical of the Eugene Police response July 1 to a call from federal agents about a crowd blocking the exit to a federal building parking area. Jaime Adame explains what happened.
Nearly two centuries after his birth on July 4, 1830, Louis Southworth is having a moment. It’s not just his birthday that makes Southworth’s story worth remembering this Independence Day. Southworth, born in Tennessee, was an enslaved person when he first came to the Eugene-Springfield area in 1853. Over the years, he earned the $1,000 (about $38,500 today) needed to buy his freedom — mostly through playing his beloved fiddle. Read more about Southworth and the sculpture of him in Waldport…