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Oregon Humanities: Spring 2010
From the Director
As a preface to meeting with our federal delegates and asking them to support funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities, I’ve met with some of our board members to determine why the work of Oregon Humanities is important at all times but especially right now. Board members noted that this seems to be a time of political and social divisiveness, as well as economic uncertainty. Given this context, what can we offer?
Oregon Humanities is committed to bringing diverse Oregonians together. Each summer, our Happy Camp gathers urban, rural, high-achieving, and at-risk students to reflect on topics like consumerism, religion, and politics. It’s been a powerful experience for me to see the next generation come together, across their differences, to consider these subjects in such healthy, reflective, and compassionate ways.
Our statewide Conversation Project reaches Oregonians across the state, convening neighbors to discuss the economy, citizenship, the urban/rural divide, land use, the environment, and Iraq. Oregon Humanities also serves as a moderator: last year, we produced responsive programs that helped divided communities discuss issues like censorship and political scandal.
My point here is that in this complex time, the work of Oregon Humanities helps us move forward, provides us with insight, compassion, and understanding. I hope you’ll support us by contacting your delegates when we ask you to do so later this spring and at the end of the summer. In the meantime, enjoy the magazine, enjoy the weather, and be in touch—I love hearing from folks about their experiences with Oregon Humanities!
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- Kathleen Holt
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- McGuire Barber Design
- Graphic design
- Eloise Holland
- Communications Coordinator
- Allison Dubinsky
- Copy editor
- Editorial Advisory Board
- Tom Booth
- Brian Doyle
- Debra Gwartney
- Julia Heydon
- Guy Maynard
- Win McCormack
- Kathleen Dean Moore
- Camela Raymond
- Kate Sage
- Rich Wandschneider
- Dave Weich
Oregon Humanities magazine examines topics of broad public interest from a variety of perspectives and approaches. Recent issues of this publication have focused on stuff, nostalgia, and civility. Through good and thoughtful writing, Oregon Humanities magazine enriches our understanding of important subjects and stimulates conversation and reflection among readers, their friends, families, colleagues, and neighbors.
Contributors
Caroline Cummins
Caroline Cummins is the managing editor of Culinate.com.
Christine Dupres
Christine Dupres is the former director of the Office of Sustainability and Community Engagement at the Native American Youth and Family Center in Portland. She is a freelance writer and an Oregon Humanities board member.
Ellen Santasiero
Ellen Santasiero is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Northwest Review, The Sun, Marlboro Review, Oregon Humanities, and in a recent anthology from the University of Oklahoma Press. She is at work on a memoir.
Karen Karbo
Karen Karbo‘s three novels, as well as her Oregon Book Award–winning memoir, The Stuff of Life, have all been named New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Her most recent book is The Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons from the World’s Most Elegant Woman.
Lisa Radon
Lisa Radon has written about art and design for Portland Spaces (as associate editor), Portland Monthly, Surface Design Journal, SHIFT (Japan), FLAUNT, Hyperallergic, and ultra (ultrapdx.com). She’s written a handful of catalog essays and is working on her first book.
R. Gregory Nokes
R. Gregory Nokes has worked as a reporter and editor for the Associated Press and the Oregonian. His reporting about this incident has resulted in a formal designation of the massacre site as Chinese Massacre Cove. He lives in West Linn.
Rich Wandschneider
Rich Wandschneider was the founding director of Fishtrap, a literary nonprofit in eastern Oregon, and is now building the Alvin Josephy Library of Western History and Culture at Fishtrap. He writes a regular newspaper column and has written for the Oregonian, High Desert Journal, High Country News, and others. He is on the editorial advisory board of this magazine and on the board of directors for Oregon Humanities.
Scott Nadelson
Scott Nadelson’s most recent book is The Cantor’s Daughter. He teaches creative writing at Willamette University.
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