Good Morning it’s Thursday February 11th, and this is The Wenatchee World’s podcast, Slices of Wenatchee. We’re excited to bring you a closer look at one of our top stories and other announcements every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. 

Today --- Have you seen vintage aircrafts flying over Wenatchee lately? If you did, then you saw the production of an upcoming feature film.

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And before we begin, have you fallen in love in the Wenatchee Valley or North Central Washington? Well, for Valentine’s Day, The Wenatchee World wants to know where you have experienced love, heartbreak or any variety of romance for our first interactive Locations of Love map!

If you have a memory or declaration of love you want to share, share your name, memory and location at wwrld.us/lol. Make sure you submit today to be included in our map. And please keep it appropriate!

Now our feature story…

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You may have noticed vintage aircrafts in the skies over Wenatchee over the past few weeks. If you did, then you saw the production of an upcoming feature film on the aviator Jesse Brown.

The film, which is called “Devotion,” takes place during the Korean War, where Brown saw combat. 

Filmmakers decided that the landscape around the Wenatchee area closely resembled Korea during that time.

According to Deadline.com, the film stars Jonathan Majors as Jesse Brown. He’s also starred in “Da Five Bloods” and “Lovecraft Country.” Costaring is Glenn Powell, who’s been in “Hidden Figures” and “Top Gun: Maverick” and, pop star Joe Jonas.

Filmmakers used 11 planes for the film, including Bearcats, Corsairs, Skyraiders and MiGs.

Brown’s story is a remarkable one, according to Deadline, as he overcame poverty and racial segregation in the South to earn a college degree, then his pilot’s wings, to become an aviator by age 23.

He was the first black man to be trained by the U.S. Navy as a naval aviator and the first black aviator to see combat.

Brown flew 20 combat missions in his F4U Corsair before being shot down on a remote mountaintop on December 4th 1950. According to Deadline, he was supporting ground troops at the Battle of Chosin Reservoir.

He died of his wounds despite the efforts of wingman Thomas J. Hudner Jr., who intentionally crashed his own aircraft in a rescue attempt.

Next, Did you know that Wenatchee Valley College is hosting a free Zoom webinar on race and the environment in honor of Black History month?

The virtual event —Titled - On Race and the Environment in the Age of the Climate Crisis — features writer and ornithologist J. Drew Lanham. It’s on February 18th starting at 1pm.

Lanham will do a reading and give a talk before opening up a conversation with attendees. The topic of discussion is the many intersections between race and the environment.

Lanham will also work with WVC’s poetry writing students virtually through Zoom.

You may know Lanham as the author of “The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature” or “Sparrow Envy: Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts.”

He’s also a professor of wildlife at Clemson University, where he holds an endowed chair as an alumni distinguished professor and was named an alumni master teacher in 2012. He earned a Ph.D. in forest resources from Clemson.

Members of the Wenatchee Valley College Sustainability Committee — like WVC professor Derek Sheffield and Joan Qazi — will also join in on the 18th. 

If you’re interested in learning more or want to sign up visit wwrld.us/DrewLanham.

Former owner of the Wenatchee Daily World, Rufus Woods, became integrally involved in the 23-year battle for Grand Coulee Dam and the Columbia Basin Irrigation Project. Woods published the first story about the proposal in 1918 in The Wenatchee Daily World, which was followed by hundreds of articles about the project and editorials promoting the concept.

Before we go, we’d like to remember the life of Edward Carr - a loving husband, father, grandfather, brother, and an architect with an unparalleled vision. Ed was born in Wenatchee in 1946. His father was an architect, and Ed remembered drawing next to him on the floor. His father died when he was six, and the family moved to the WSU Tree Fruit Research Center with his step-father, Robert. 

Ed joined the Wenatchee Youth Circus, which traveled around the Pacific NorthWest and lower British Columbia. His job was setting up the high wire and testing the net with a swan dive.

He graduated from Whitman College, with a degree in Philosophy. During his junior year, he was an exchange student at Howard University and joined their debate team. Ed met his wife, Elizabeth, at Whitman. They were inseparable from their first date and married in 1969. Ed earned his Doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Chicago. They then moved to Orcas Island where he trained as a carpenter and built his family's first home. 

In 1985, Ed earned a MA in Architecture from the University of Washington and started his own architecture firm in Seattle - focusing on waterfront homes.

Ed's unique background as a philosopher, carpenter, and native Northwesterner, informed all his work. His houses, found throughout the San Juans and Puget Sound, harmonize with the natural beauty of the landscape and are designed to be filled with light. In a Seattle Times article on his work, Ed said, "I spent a lot of time outdoors in the islands, so I know how the weather works, the microclimates that change the ecology, where the sun hits at different times of the year." 

He was a passionate soccer player and sailor. He taught his sons to ski and hike. He loved a well-made espresso, taking long walks with Elizabeth, painting the landscapes of Walla Walla, gardening with native plants, and joking and drawing with his grandchildren.

Ed was a philosopher and an artist. He was kind, thoughtful, and fiercely intelligent. He had a strong internal compass and never wavered in his principles. He was self-contained, and with his wife, complete. To friends missing him, he would say, "listen to Bach, take a walk, and look for beauty".

Thank you for taking a moment with us today to remember and celebrate Ed’s life.

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