By: Ethan Seltzer Professor, Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning, Portland State University
The great thing about history is that it has already happened. We may not agree about what it means, how things happened, why they happened, or even what the outcomes were, but time once passed does not pass again. At least we [...]
By: Jack McGowan, Former Executive Director of SOLV
I am not a native born Oregonian. My wife Jan is a fifth generation and I’m proud to say that we added one more to the list with the birth of our son, Travis, some 21+ years ago.
As I write this, I just shake my head as to [...]
By Mark Frischmuth, Founder of DemocracyLab.org
“Where should we be on our 2059 bicentennial?” This is the question asked by Mark Hatfield, one of the great citizens of our state, in this blog’s inaugural post.
The answer isn’t in Senator Hatfield’s head. It’s not in mine, or in yours. The answer belongs to all [...]
By Lauren Kessler, Oregon Author
I am a first-generation Oregon pioneer. I came across the Oregon Trail - or rather, the late 20th century version of the Oregon Trail (Interstate 80) — in a late 20th century Conestoga wagon (a Dodge van) packed with all my worldly goods. These goods did not include hand-made quilts and [...]
By Ted Kulongoski, Oregon Governor
I love the idea of an Imagine Oregon blog - because our 150th birthday party should be as much about figuring out where we’re heading as it is remembering where we’ve been. So in a future blog, I’m going to write about some of things I imagine for Oregon’s [...]
By Tracy Barry
KGW-TV Portland, Oregon
I’ve been planning a birthday party for our youngest daughter Grace.
She wants balloons. Done. Crafts and cake. Easy. Then we got to the guest list. Is it really possible for a child of 6 to have so many “best” friends? I don’t blame her though, since it’s your friends that make [...]
By Antone Minthorn, Member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation
My name is Antone Minthorn and I am a member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. I am of the Cayuse/Nez Perce and Umatilla nation. I was born on the Umatilla Indian Reservation on January 27, 1935. Actually I was [...]
By James Cloutier, Oregon Artist
When I was ten years old, living in Portland where I was born, I knew I wanted to be an artist and a professional baseball player when I grew up. That was 71 years ago.
Today I am an artist and the closest I came to achieving the second goal was to [...]
Written By: Laural Porter / KGW-TV
When my husband and four children and I moved to Oregon, we felt like we were following the Oregon Trail!
Our car had broken down in the middle of nowhere and we were stranded waiting for a tow truck. Once our van was hooked up to the tow truck, it was [...]
By Mark O. Hatfield
Fifty years ago today, I took the oath as the 29th governor of Oregon, standing “at the threshold of the second century of statehood in Oregon.”
I was proud to serve as governor of Oregon’s Centennial celebration that year. Some of us may have grown beards for that celebration, attended the Oregon [...]
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