Events & Opportunities

April 4, 2026

There Was a Time When the Word for Tree Was Landholder

Join Ellen Waterston, author and Oregon Poet Laureate, in contemplating and celebrating all things words—their origins, power, color, meaning, and musicality; their evolution and life span; their exotic configuration into languages. What do the modifications, abuses, and possible losses of words signal about our capacity for relationship to place and one another?

5:00 p.m., Hood River County Library District, Hood River