When Mount St. Helens spectacularly blew its top on May 18, 1980 -- one of the largest volcanic eruptions of the Twentieth Century -- Portland's skyline changed forever. The "massive mudflows, floods and other land-changing forces" unleashed by the eruption, in the words of Oregonian reporter Les Zaitz, killed 57 people and left ash falling from the sky as far away as the Dakotas. More than 200 square miles of forest were left gray and lifeless, destruction not entirely healed almost three decades later. Memorialize the day with a museum-quality 13" x 19" poster, printed on Epson Ultra Premium Luster paper with archival ink.
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