Annual Chili Feed and Raffle Fundraiser

Annual Chili Feed and Raffle Fundraiser

The Annual Chili Feed and Raffle takes place at the Deschutes Historical Museum over the weekend closest to Veteran’s Day and is the Deschutes County Historical Society’s largest annual fundraiser. The 2025 event will be our 42nd anniversary of the Annual Chili Feed...
Annual Chili Feed and Raffle Fundraiser

Annual Chili Feed and Raffle Fundraiser

The Annual Chili Feed and Raffle takes place at the Deschutes Historical Museum over the weekend closest to Veteran’s Day and is the Deschutes County Historical Society’s largest annual fundraiser. The 2025 event will be our 42nd anniversary of the Annual Chili Feed...
The Civilian Conservation Corps in Central Oregon

The Civilian Conservation Corps in Central Oregon

First published in the July, 2025 Homesteader newsletter Amid the depths of the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt formulated a bold plan for putting millions of unemployed Americans to work on the nation’s public lands. Between 1933 and 1942,...
History Pub: The Lands Everyone Wanted with Jeff Kitchens

History Pub: The Lands Everyone Wanted with Jeff Kitchens

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...