Letters from Fiddler's Greene
In November of 2025, Oregon held its second official Weaving Event. The following is a partial transcript from one of the speeches, given by Dave Greene, The Distributist. The full transcript can be found on their SubStack.
When I received an invitation from the organizers to speak at this dinner, I couldn't resist accepting even though the timing couldn't have been worse, personally and politically.
As everyone probably suspects, this is an inconvenient time to give a speech about politics. Our meeting is taking place just before one of the more major elections in our lifetimes that will fundamentally change our relationship with politics as it exists for the next four years, so the last thing you want to do is make broad pronouncements about the future direction of culture and political organization.
Still, I knew that I wanted to speak to you today, not just because it was an opportunity to hang out with the wonderful West Coast Basketweavers or to talk again with my old friend J. Burden, but also because I was looking for an opportunity to return to Portland, Oregon and see it through new eyes.
