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  • November History Pub: Oregon Search and Rescue Presented by Glenn Voelz

    McMenamins Old St Francis School 700 NW Bond St, Bend, Oregon

    Oregon's long tradition of volunteer search and rescue dates to the territorial days, when good Samaritans and mountain men came to aid those in need. On the coast, surfmen of the U.S. Life-Saving Service protected mariners traversing the "Graveyard of the Pacific." In the early twentieth century, outdoor clubs like the Mazamas, the Skyliners, and the Obsidians […]

    $5

  • Holiday Gelatin Salad Show

    Does your family have a weird holiday gelatin salad? Let your freak holiday salad SHINE at the HOLIDAY GELATIN SALAD SHOW Saturday, December 13 at 1 pm. Join the Deschutes Historical Museum in a celebration of weird vintage salad recipes. This Saturday will also complete the last weekend of our Food Drive with KSJJ 102.9 […]

    Free

  • January History Pub: About Bend Beer: A History of Brewing in Central Oregon

    McMenamins Old St Francis School 700 NW Bond St, Bend, Oregon

    With more breweries per capita than any other Oregon city, Bend is a beer Mecca. Prior to Prohibition, the state had a burgeoning brewing industry and plenty of saloons to cater to the needs of the hardy frontiersmen who settled Central Oregon. The teetotaling '20s brought all that to a screeching halt. Fifty years later, […]

    $5

  • March 2026 History Pub

    McMenamins Old St Francis School 700 NW Bond St, Bend, Oregon

    About The Changing Skyline—100 Years of Landscape Change in Central Oregon During the summer of 1920, Frederick William Cleator (1883-1957), a Forest Service recreational planner, surveyed and signposted the Skyline Trail. This trail, first laid out between Crater Lake and Mount Jefferson, was a predecessor to the Pacific Crest Trail, which, decades later, completed Cleator's […]

    $5