This Is Folklore
Everything in John Fish’s hat shop, This is Folklore, was either made 100 years ago or yesterday. It’s hard to tell the difference.
Everything in John Fish’s hat shop, This is Folklore, was either made 100 years ago or yesterday. It’s hard to tell the difference.
NFL star Joey Harrington spearheads the Harrington Family Foundation, an organization that provides college scholarships to promising youth in Oregon.
written by Anna Bird | photos by Bruce Ely After turning 50 and working in the shoe industry for eighteen years, John Tawney learned that his 19-year-old daughter had cancer. When she was halfway through her chemotherapy treatments, he thought, “Was this it? Selling shoes—is this what life was all about?” He sat down that night and figured out what he wanted from life and a career. He wanted to make a difference. He had a passion for consumer products. He wanted to challenge himself to do something new, and he wanted to work with great people. The umbrella motivation was to spread empathy, to start conversations that would establish common ground, encourage people to stand for progress and walk in someone else’s shoes. The metaphors kept pouring in, and the next move was obvious. In November 2015, Common Ground Footwear launched with four designs based on social issues: gender equality,…
Jake Zivin has the best seat in the house at Providence Park as the play-by-play announcer for the Portland Timbers soccer team.
Nearly 1,000 Oregon companies have shifted away from creating profits as their primary goal and joined the growing benefit movement.
The Green Springs Inn, 18 winding miles southeast of Ashland, attracts locals, tourists and travelers with a touch of adventure in their souls.
A nonprofit organization, Salem Harvest collects leftover crops from farms to distribute to those in need.
Axiology may just change the world of cosmetics with its line of organic, vegan lipstick.
Portland’s Fair-Haired Dumbell, a crowd-funded office building, is in the works at the intersection of Burnside Street and the Willamette River.
Writer Tricia Louvar researches the conversation around the state of bees, talking with honey producers, backyard beekeepers and scientists.