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  • Jun 7, 2024 | orartswatch.org | Carolyn Lamberson

    After two decades of creating carefully curated arts, crafts and food markets in the Seattle and Portland metro areas, the organizers behind Urban Craft Uprising are expanding east and west this summer, with a first-ever market in Bend this weekend and another set for Seaside on Aug. 17.

  • May 19, 2024 | orartswatch.org | Carolyn Lamberson

    Kelli D. Palmer, a master basket weaver from the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, learned her skills from her mother. Jacy Sohappy, a member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation, followed her grandmother around constantly, learning how to sew, do beadwork, and make other vital Indigenous arts and crafts.

  • Mar 27, 2024 | orartswatch.org | Carolyn Lamberson

    We’ve all seen the grainy, iconic footage. Shot in 1967, it depicts a large ape-like creature walking through a Northern California forest. The authenticity of that film clip remains up for debate. What isn’t debatable among Indigenous tribes is the existence of such a creature. To English speakers, it is called Sasquatch or Bigfoot. In Chinook, it is Skúkum. Among the Molala people, it is Lipáani, while it is called Kwiiykwiyáy in the language of the Upper Cowlitz.

  • Mar 1, 2024 | orartswatch.org | Carolyn Lamberson

    In 1923, the Bowman-Hicks Lumber Co. of Missouri began a logging operation in remote Wallowa County, just outside of Joseph. They erected a company town – Maxville – which at 400 residents instantly became the largest community in the county. Bowman-Hicks imported laborers and their families from the South and Midwest, including Greeks to build the railroad; other white workers to serve as foremen, drivers, and bridge builders; and Blacks to fell trees and cut and load logs.

  • Nov 18, 2023 | spokesman.com | Carolyn Lamberson

    Since 2013, Ellen Travolta’s Christmas show at the Coeur d’Alene Resort has been a cozy evening of good tidings, a throwback to an era of radio and TV variety shows packed with songs, jokes, stories, and a healthy dose of charm. This year will be the last Travolta Christmas show at the resort. At 84, the longtime Coeur d’Alene resident says she’s ready to pass the baton. “It’s bittersweet,” she said.

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