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When Dr. Charles Walker served as president of Linfield College in the 1970s, one of his first duties was to visit personally with each of the college’s trustees. In fall 1975, he called on a trustee who had a great interest in the college...  Read More

Motorcycles are charged to power through to a new future, too. Once seen as toys for biker outlaws or reckless youth, the motorcycle culture and industry opened up in the 1960s as manufacturing moved away from British bikes, and other...  Read More

With gas around 31 cents a gallon, a growing nation, and the teenage cruise era hitting all cylinders, the 1960s marked the beginning of steadily increasing traffic on U.S. roadways. The trend has stayed in full gear, seldom slowing over...  Read More

Oregon education is regulated by Division 22, a set of state rules mandating standards such as number of school days, hiring practices and textbook adoption schedules. These requirements can mean a financial strain for some small, rural...  Read More

One-room schoolhouses dotted rural Oregon’s landscape until the early 20th century. Many of Oregon’s smallest school districts still welcome students under one roof, but inside, teachers have traded in the slide rule and primer for gadgets...  Read More

Our world is not the same as it was a half-century ago, and it’s hard to believe that, in another 50 years, our children will be saying the same thing. Here’s just a glimpse of the changes that have happened in key areas of rural lives,...  Read More

The Oregon Community Foundation recently announced its participation in a new multi-year initiative to support parenting education programs in Oregon. As part of the Oregon Parenting Education Collaborative project, 21 grants totaling...  Read More

A snapshot of Oregon’s rural communities in the 1960s would have provided a glimpse of an economy based primarily on Oregon’s rich natural resource base.Fifty years later, that picture has dramatically changed, particularly in communities...  Read More

When the people of the Butte Valley threw a party in August, they were celebrating more than the grand opening of their new community center. Not that the completion of the project wasn’t reason enough for a party—the striking 5,500-square...  Read More

It is hard for me to reconcile that at age 65 I’ve lived about one third of Oregon’s history since Lewis and Clark visited our north coast in 1805. Yet, it is rather easy to look back 50 years to 1961 when I was a freshman in high school....  Read More