by Tracy Alexander | Oct 22, 2025
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...
by Tracy Alexander | Sep 25, 2025
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...
by Tracy Alexander | Sep 25, 2025
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...
by Tracy Alexander | Sep 10, 2025
By LeeAnn O’Neill First published in the September, 2025 Homesteader Mexican Laborers Pick Potatoes, 1943. Photo courtesy of the Oregon Historical Society September 15th marks the beginning of Hispanic and Latino Heritage Month, which invites us to explore and honor...
by Glenn Voelz | Aug 19, 2025
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,...
