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  • Mischievous Creatures: The Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early American Science with Catherine McNeur

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

    In her new book, Mischievous Creatures, historian Catherine McNeur uncovers the forgotten lives and work of the sisters Margaretta Hare Morris and Elizabeth Carrington Morris, who were at the center of scientific conversations and debates in the nineteenth century. Margaretta, an entomologist, was famous among her peers and the public for her research on 17-year cicadas […]

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  • History Pub: The Lands Everyone Wanted with Jeff Kitchens

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

    The Three Sisters For over 200 years the U.S. has been trying to figure out what to do with its “public” lands. From surveys to sales, grazing to natural gas development, national seashores to national parks, the U.S. has had a very complicated history of land use. Our public lands are the cornerstone of the […]

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  • March History Pub: About the Changing Skyline- 100 Years of Landscape Change in Central Oregon

    McMenamins Old St Francis School 700 NW Bond St, Bend, 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 dream of a recreational trail running from Mexico to Canada. During […]

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