The Human Beat - July 14th, 2025

July 14, 2025 00:29:00
The Human Beat - July 14th, 2025
The Human Beat
The Human Beat - July 14th, 2025

Jul 14 2025 | 00:29:00

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Show Notes

Astoria’s population has hovered around 10,000 for a very long time. But it grew to 25 thousand during WW II. I wondered where all those thousands of extra people lived so I headed to the Clatsop County Historical Society at the Heritage Museum. I talked with Liisa Penner and Julie Burpee to learn about that, and other bits of local history. Liisa is something of a local legend for her knowledge of our past. and I asked her how she came to that…

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