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SUMMARY:Oregon Folklife Residency: Clair Kehrberg
DESCRIPTION: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. \nCrossroads Carnegie Art Center\, the friends organization for NHOTIC\, reached out to the Oregon Folklife Network to develop a plan to bring Oregon Cultural Keepers to Eastern Oregon to share their traditions in 2026 as part of the Oregon 250 Celebrations. \nFrom September 24 to September 26\, NHOTIC welcomes Clair Kehrberg of John Day\, a master leatherworker\, gear\, and saddle maker. She will demonstrate the techniques she has learned and highlight her unique leatherworking style with smaller leather pieces such as purses\, bags\, jewelry\, and decorative items. \nEvent Accessibility: \n\nWheelchair-accessible venue\nAccessible parking\nService animals welcome
URL:https://www.oregon250.org/event/oregon-folklife-residency-clair-kehrberg/
LOCATION:National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center\, 22267 OR Hwy-86\, Baker City\, 97814\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center":MAILTO:ginger@crossroads-arts.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261004T103000
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SUMMARY:St. Paul Mission Historical Society 50th Anniversary Celebration
DESCRIPTION: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 historic Matthew O. C. Murphy House will conclude the event. \nThe St. Paul Mission Historical Society\, founded in 1976\, preserves the history and traditions of Marion County’s French Prairie area. It owns and maintains two historic houses and hosts thousands of digital images on its website. \nEvent Accessibility: \n\nWheelchair-accessible venue\nAccessible parking
URL:https://www.oregon250.org/event/st-paul-mission-historical-society-50th-anniversary-celebration/
LOCATION:St. Paul\, Oregon\, Fire Hall\, 4233 Church Ave NE\, St. Paul\, 97137\, United States
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SUMMARY:Community Conversation: To What Do We Pledge?
DESCRIPTION: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. \nWhile 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: “We mutually pledge to each other our Lives\, our Fortunes\, and our sacred Honor.” \nWhen we talk about the founding\, we often think of it as a severing from a distant power and a proclamation of individual rights. And yet\, buried in that big individualistic origin story\, there is a pledge of support\, solidarity\, and mutual aid. Today\, as we witness political violence\, hostility\, and polarization\, this conversation invites us to explore what it means for us to be bound to one another and to ask ourselves: is there any idea\, any value\, any dream for the future that we care about enough to tie ourselves to one another to protect or pursue it? \nEvent Accessibility: \n\nWheelchair-accessible venue\nService animals welcome
URL:https://www.oregon250.org/event/community-conversation-to-what-do-we-pledge/
LOCATION:Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education\, 724 NW Davis Street\, Portland\, 97209\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education":MAILTO:agilbreath@ojmche.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261004T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261004T133000
DTSTAMP:20260623T221015Z
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SUMMARY:Public Tour of How We Show Up Exhibition
DESCRIPTION: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. \nHow We Show Up narrates the need to build a better future by including morally difficult histories\, such as Jewish participation in settler colonialism\, silence during Japanese incarceration\, tensions around Chinese immigration\, and debates over Israel. \nEvent Accessibility: \n\nWheelchair-accessible venue\nService animals welcome
URL:https://www.oregon250.org/event/public-tour-of-how-we-show-up-exhibition-2/
LOCATION:Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education\, 724 NW Davis Street\, Portland\, 97209\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education":MAILTO:agilbreath@ojmche.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261004T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261004T150000
DTSTAMP:20260623T220835Z
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SUMMARY:Public Tour of One Nation Exhibit
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe exhibition repeatedly returns to the idea of E Pluribus Unum\, meaning “Out of many\, one.” Nothing is settled. Instead\, democracy is an ongoing aspiration and shared responsibility. \nEvent Accessibility: \n\nWheelchair-accessible venue\nService animals welcome
URL:https://www.oregon250.org/event/public-tour-of-one-nation-exhibit-2/
LOCATION:Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education\, 724 NW Davis Street\, Portland\, 97209\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education":MAILTO:agilbreath@ojmche.org
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SUMMARY:The Nisei Paradox: Japanese American Draft Resisters during World War II
DESCRIPTION: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. \nDuring WWII\, young Japanese Americans (Nisei) incarcerated at the Minidoka Relocation Center in Southeast Idaho\, faced a paradox: fight for a country that had stripped them of their civil liberties\, taken away their freedom\, and placed them and their families behind barbed wire\, not because they were the enemy but because they looked like the enemy; or\, resist the draft because they and their families had been unconstitutionally and unfairly incarcerated. \nEvent Accessibility: \n\nWheelchair-accessible venue\nService animals welcome
URL:https://www.oregon250.org/event/the-nisei-paradox-japanese-american-draft-resisters-during-world-war-ii/
LOCATION:McMenamins Mission Theater\, 1624 NW Glisan St\, Portland\, 97209\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261015T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261017T170000
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SUMMARY:Oregon Folklife Residency: Katie Harris Murphy and Mary Harris
DESCRIPTION: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. \nCrossroads Carnegie Art Center\, the friends organization for NHOTIC\, reached out to the Oregon Folklife Network to develop a plan to bring Oregon Cultural Keepers to Eastern Oregon to share their traditions in 2026 as part of the Oregon 250 Celebrations. \nFrom October 15 to October 17\, NHOTIC will host Oregon Cultural Keeper Katie Harris Murphy and Mary Harris (Pendleton). Katie Harris Murphy Kap Kap Tsonmi is a bead worker\, plateau style dancer\, and traditional artist of the Wallowa Band Nimiipuu\, Cayuse\, Umatilla\, and Karuk tribes. Mary Harris Ipnawasatillup\,is a skilled seamstress and beadworker with a profound love for song and dance. In 2025 Katie\, Mary\, and Sister Anna authored and published their first book\, This Native American Life: Soul of the Dress.  \nEvent Accessibility: \n\nWheelchair-accessible venue\nAccessible parking\nService animals welcome
URL:https://www.oregon250.org/event/oregon-folklife-residency-katie-harris-murphy-and-mary-harris/
LOCATION:National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center\, 22267 OR Hwy-86\, Baker City\, 97814\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center":MAILTO:ginger@crossroads-arts.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261015T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261015T190000
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SUMMARY:A Nation at 250 & Our Shared Future: A Conversation with Dr. Christopher McKnight Nichols
DESCRIPTION:Join SAGE on October 15 in Portland for an evening of reflection and conversation on the responsibilities of citizenship and the work of strengthening democracy in our communities. \nOur speaker\, historian Dr. Christopher McKnight Nichols of The Ohio State University\, will draw on his deep understanding of American history to explore a central question: Where are we in the arc of American democracy — and what does that mean for how we show up as citizens today? \nTo explore this question\, he will highlight three historical times — periods of challenge and uncertainty — to illuminate how earlier generations of Americans responded in pivotal moments\, and what those experiences may reveal about how we move forward today. He will also reflect on how American democracy has influenced democratic ideals around the world\, and what our current moment may signal beyond our borders. \nThe evening will conclude with a conversation with Dr. Nichols focused on practical ways to build trust\, engage across differences\, and strengthen civic life in our communities. \nNichols reminds us that the strength of the nation has always depended on the actions of its citizens — and that citizenship is not a spectator sport. This event invites each of us to consider how we will show up for one another and help carry the promise of democracy forward. \n 
URL:https://www.oregon250.org/event/a-nation-at-250-our-shared-future-a-conversation-with-dr-christopher-mcknight-nichols/
LOCATION:Taborspace\, 5441 SE Belmont St\, Portland\, 97215\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261024T090000
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SUMMARY:104th Annual Umatilla County Potato Show
DESCRIPTION:The Annual Umatilla County Potato Show was started in 1922 as a way to show off the variety of crops that could be profitably produced on the land in Umatilla County and to encourage diversification. The Umatilla County Potato Show was started by the Weston Mountain Potato Growers Association. It became an annual event\, with area growers competing for prizes with the many varieties of table and seed potatoes. \nFarming is no longer what it was in 1922\, but the Umatilla County Potato Show continues to be held in October of each year. It still features locally grown produce — both fresh and canned — but has expanded to include a local arts and crafts fair highlighting handiwork such as quilts\, paintings\, photography\, and baked goods. \nEvent Accessibility: \n\nWheelchair-accessible venue\nService animals welcome\nAccessible parking
URL:https://www.oregon250.org/event/104th-annual-umatilla-county-potato-show/
LOCATION:Memorial Hall\, 208 E Main Street\, Weston\, 97886\, United States
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