Moran Prairie Library Hosts WWII Women Welders Talk
Local author Beverly Lionberger Hodgins will discuss Augusta Clawson’s reports from a Portland shipyard.
A regional history talk is scheduled for Thursday, November 12, 2026, at 2 p.m. in the Moran Prairie meeting room. Local author Beverly Lionberger Hodgins will discuss her book about Augusta Clawson and women who welded at Portland’s Swan Island Shipyard during World War II. The shipyard’s women workers helped build 153 tankers between 1942 and 1945. Hodgins draws on Clawson’s diaries, letters and official reports.
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