Jack McGowan

We have Paul Simon to thank for Jack McGowan’s great legacy in Portland. And we’re not talking about one of his lyrics, but a face-to-face, serendipitous conversation on the streets of Manhattan. The McGowan legacy includes Kink radio, Mt. Hood Jazz Festival, Zoo Concerts, Mayor Bud Clark’s administration, PM Magazine, SOLV, the 9/11 Freedom Flights and more. This episode is a Portland history lesson that starts un 1970 and lasts more than three decades. It includes stories about Bud Clark’s night on the town with Tom Brokaw, Mildred Schwab’s flatulent dog, and the quote from fellow Northeast transplant Tom McCall that Jack lives by, and we all should.