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CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS AND US

Cultural institutions like new members. They like to get people involved and interested. It’s a good idea, unless you’re like me and had no idea what an institution is. Or what culture is. Now I know, and it’s just in time.

MOUNT HOOD VIEW FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD

The Mount Hood view is so good from the neighborhood that streets are named after it. That’s what you get in a town near a mountain. You could say a town near a mountain range since there’s also a view of Mt. St. Helens and Mt. Adams to the north, Mt. Jefferson to the south […]

FRAGILE MEN CLUB? YOU’RE ALREADY SIGNED UP

Fragile men had no place in Western American history stories about the savage frontier and cruel hardships. Nor in the early industrialization with mighty oil, steel, and railroad barons casting their deepening shadows across the land. Writers found other virtues to extoll other than common frailties. The western frontier needed stories of valor and sacrifice […]

WWII DOCUMENTARIES SHOW TOO MUCH DEATH

WWII documentaries and death usually go hand in hand. That’s what you get watching video about the deadliest war in human history. But the bigger story is for those who lived to tell. Or a blogging veteran, U.S. Army, ’74-’76.

Millennial History Break: WWII-era

    It’s been a long time since history delivered WWII. A long time to learn what happened, too.   But not all are interested in the lessons of WWII, particularly the death camps where those deemed undesirable by the German authorities were warehoused until further notice.   Further notice was death for six million […]