On the morning of May 18, 1980, the Pacific Northwest woke up expecting another uneasy spring day beneath the shadow of a restless volcano. For weeks, Mount St. Helens had been grumbling. Earthquakes rattled nearby communities. Steam bursts shot from the summit....
Few photographers captured the raw emotion of the Great Depression quite like Dorothea Lange. Armed with a camera and an unshakable sense of compassion, Lange traveled across the American West documenting the lives of struggling families during one of the hardest...
In the early morning hours of August 2, 1873, fire bells rang out across Portland as volunteer firefighters scrambled to battle a blaze that, according to newspaper accounts, raged “among the cottages of the poor and the elegant mansions of the rich.” The fire would...
Hells Canyon is not only a landscape of huge views and hard-earned adventure. Along the Oregon-Idaho border, the Snake River cuts through one of North America’s deepest river gorges, but the canyon’s real depth is found in the human stories held within it. This is the...
Just steps from Bandon’s Old Town and the scenic Port of Bandon, the Bandon Historical Society Museum offers a fascinating journey through the layers of south Oregon coast history. Housed in what was once the city’s temporary government headquarters after the...
