by Diana Flowers | Jul 23, 2024 | History, Sports
Compared with other big cities, Portland isn’t exactly known for its profusion of sports teams. Yes, we have the Trail Blazers and two big name soccer teams, the Timbers and the Thorns, but we don’t have a football team or a major league baseball team. However, the...
by Diana Flowers | Feb 18, 2024 | History
There are two things I’m always down for: a good museum and learning more about the best state in the union—Oregon! So it should come as no surprise that I love the Oregon Historical Society. The first time I visited this lovely and well-curated museum in the heart of...
by Diana Flowers | Apr 10, 2023 | Architecture, Entertainment, Food & Drink, History, Lodging, Oregon Wine, Southern Oregon, Things To Do, Travel
Over the past few decades, Jacksonville, Oregon has steadily been making a name for itself as a premier destination for wine lovers. But long before this, it was one of the first gold rush towns in Oregon. When gold deposits were found in 1851 and 1852, speculators...
by Danielle Denham | Sep 8, 2021 | Featured, History, Photos
Since the advent of creating images with a camera and light-sensitive film, humans have had the predilection to document the beauty around them. At the turn of the 20th Century, photographers like Edward S. Curtis, Peter Britt, and Benjamin Gifford were turning their...
by Danielle Denham | Nov 21, 2019 | Eugene, Featured, Interesting, News, Photography, Photos, Portland
I love historic film images, both for their quality and for a glimpse of life forgotten. There are some amazing archival photos of Oregon out there, and these are some of my favorites. 1. Stumptown So many trees were cut down in Portland's early days that it came to...