Join Cub Scouts Pack 169 for Liberty in Action, an hour of fun hands-on activities celebrating America 250 and our American heritage. Learn about flag presentations, churn butter, participate in a service project honoring our veterans and activity duty military, and more! Everyone is welcome to participate; activities are appropriate for youth in kindergarten through […]

Join the MidCoast Watersheds Council for a place-based event that celebrates our scenic estuaries — locations where rivers meet the sea that are vital habitats to supporting life in all of its forms — in observance of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States! The event will begin with an interpretive walk […]

Springwater Grange #263 is excited to be hosting their annual Springwater Community Fair on Saturday September 19. Come see your neighbor’s best produce, canning, photography, crafts, and more, and participate in events and activities for the whole family. The fair and car show runs from 9am to 3pm at the Grange hall at 24591 S. Springwater […]

The National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center (NHOTIC), with thanks to the James and Marion Miller Foundation, will host an “Oregon Folklife Residency,” a 7-month partnership with the Oregon Folklife Network. Crossroads Carnegie Art Center, the friends organization for NHOTIC, reached out to the Oregon Folklife Network to develop a plan to bring Oregon Cultural […]

The St. Paul Mission Historical Society’s annual meeting will include a complimentary brunch and an opportunity to pick up free copies of Harriet Munnick’s Catholic Church Records of the Pacific Northwest, the Vancouver and St. Paul volumes. Attendees will have time to share stories of their St. Paul connections and ancestors. A tour of the […]

Presented in partnership with Oregon Humanities and community organizer Wendy Willis, this conversation will explore what it means to “mutually pledge” ourselves to one another today. While the opening of the Declaration of Independence gets the fanfare and the fireworks—“When in the course of human events” and all that—the closing clause contains a quiet promise: […]

Join the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education for a free guided tour of How We Show Up exhibition and leave inspired to show up in your community. How We Show Up narrates the need to build a better future by including morally difficult histories, such as Jewish participation in settler colonialism, silence […]

Join the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education for a free guided tour of the One Nation Exhibition that reflects on how a diverse society strives toward unity while confronting social, political, and cultural divisions. The exhibition repeatedly returns to the idea of E Pluribus Unum, meaning “Out of many, one.” Nothing is […]

The Nisei Paradox, a multi-media stage reading created, produced, and performed by a group of judges and attorneys, tells the story of 42 young Japanese Americans who chose to resist the draft and fight injustice through civil disobedience. During WWII, young Japanese Americans (Nisei) incarcerated at the Minidoka Relocation Center in Southeast Idaho, faced a […]