Adam Kuby has stuck a 23-foot needle into the ground down by the Willamette River and hopes to plant more, choosing locations where he figures the city’s “chi,” or vital energy, needs some help. An artist who arrived from New York four years ago, Kuby says the acupuncture project is an attempt to get people to see the city in a holistic way.
Teetotaling lumberman Simon Benson, hoping his workers would show up reasonably sober, gave the city the ubiquitous “Benson Bubbler” brass drinking fountains a century or so back, promoting pure water. Portland's beer consumption…
