Ray Atkeson’s Winter
Oregon photographer Ray Atkeson chronicled the rise of winter sports culture in Oregon.
Think Oregon
The Faces of Portland’s Hawthorne Boulevard
1859 photographer Joni Kabana and her students took to the streets to photograph the denizens of Hawthorne Boulevard.
2012 Pendleton Round-Up: Raina Stinson’s Gallery
Here are Raina’s images:
Deschutes River Recordings: Singing for a Cause
Two of Oregon’s finest exports, Deschutes Brewery Beer and Portland indie music, have joined forces to help preserve stream flows in the Deschutes River through a recently launched project called “Deschutes River Recordings.” Watch the video and learn more about the project.
Top 5: Cheryl Strayed
Author Cheryl Strayed latest is a memoir about losing and finding yourself on the Pacfic Crest Trail.
Butte Creek Mill: In-Grained in Tradition
“I have always wanted to own a historical building,” says Butte Creek Mill owner and operator, Bob Russell, as he strolls through his water-driven mill in Eagle Point. The retired sales manager from Portland crossed over the battered metal threshold of the once-dilapidated mill in 2005 and knew he was home. Russell, who is also mayor of Eagle Point, and his wife, Debbie, together run the Butte Creek Mill, mercantile, and adjacent antiques store seven days a week.
SeQuential Fuels the Next Generation
In Eugene, two royal blue and goldenrod yellow SeQuential Biofuels stations stand out among a sea of Shell, 76 and Chevron gas stations. The latter group is of the typical gas-and-go variety with unleaded outside and trans-fat snacks on the inside. The other sells biodiesel, yerba mate and organic produce under a green roof.
Macs to the People
During Lorrain Kerwood’s first year at Lane Community College, she bought a new computer, only to have it crash. She remembers approaching the problem with relentless drive. “I tried to fix it myself, but instead of pulling out the main power supply,” she says, “I managed to damage my hard drive. I turned to the Internet and found regular people, just like myself, who gave me everything I needed to know about how to repair my computer,” Kerwood recalls.
Behind the Scenes of the Editor’s Letter Photoshoot
We were working on the ‘Haunted Oregon’ piece for the September/October issue of the magazine. Because of the inexplicable oddity called The Oregon Vortex, we had to include that as part of this bewitching feature. This is a place in Southern Oregon where gravity seems to bend and mass can grow and shrink by merely crossing a threshold. Just about anyone with a scientific theory has failed to explain this phenomenon. Old Albert Einstein even left it with no satisfactory understanding. No kidding. Anyway, it was then, that Guy Olson, our design assistant, spoke up. “There’s a place like that here,” he said sheepishly. What? In more than a decade here, I had never heard of a Central Oregon vortex. Of course this couldn’t be true. Guy is a, well, guy, who shaves his head and face in with different outcomes every week, to our, and, I imagine, to his…
