On The Scene

January, 1973

Neil GoldschmidthizzonerBack in 1845. a pair of New Englanders--Francis W. Pettygrovc of Maine and Asa L. Lovejoy of Massachusetts--flipped a coin to determine what they'd name their new city at the confluence of the Columbia and Willamette rivers. Pettygrove won, and the place was duly christened Portland; Lovejoy's hoped-for Boston, Oregon, was consigned to oblivion. Portland has since muddled along fairly well, but its newly elected mayor, 32-year-old Neil Goldschmidt--who, when he takes offi...