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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

  • February 2026 History Pub: A Big Man from a Small Place: Robert Sawyer, the Bend Bulletin, and the Columbia River

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

    Robert Sawyer, publisher and editor of the Bend Bulletin, played a key role in regional and national politics from 1917 to 1953 as a conservative activist for environmental conservation and irrigated agriculture. With no love for the New Deal, he participated in national policy debates, injecting his central Oregon viewpoint.  One of his most effective campaigns was part of a regional and national contest over control […]

    $5