Mike Munk, a retired professor who led walking tours of sites that were part of Portland, Oregon’s radical history, died this week at age 87.

We had to good fortune of taking part in one of his downtown Portland tours back in 2010, when we were visiting old friends Ed and Alice Beechert who were then living in the Portland area.

Ed Beechert retired from the University of Hawaii in 1989. Back in the early 1970s, he joined the University of Hawaii’s Ethnic Studies Program in its first year, and hired me as his teaching assistant. We remained friends until his death in 2014, and our wives were colleagues in the University of Hawaii’s Pregnancy, Birth Control, and Abortion Project in the early 1970s.

Here’s a little video I pieced together after walking through downtown Portland with Professor Munk.

If you enjoy Portland, I would recommend Munk’s guide book, “Portland Red Guide Sites & Stories of Our Radical Past.”