A Postcard’s 60-Year Journey
From Northeast Oregon Now, Aug. 15, 2013 Michael Kane This is the story of a humble postcard’s journey from Hermiston to The Dalles to Coeur d’Alene to Florida – and likely many parts unknown – before arriving back in Hermiston 60 years later. Oh yeah – and Frank Harkenrider’s involved. I don’t know the complete history of this remarkable postcard – I only came upon it toward the back
William Clark, Celebrity Explorer, Names Hat Rock
Paddling down the Columbia River on a clear and frosty day in 1805, William Clark saw a round rock, with a flat top and vertical sides. The handsome rock stood seven stories above the surrounding landscape. Struck by the sight, he noted an outcropping “resembling a hat” in his journal entry of Oct. 19. On his hand-drawn map, he placed a dot and labeled it “Hat Rock.” Hat Rock,
Janis Paige – From Miss Damsite to Hollywood Icon
From McNary Dam to the #MeToo Movement, a Hollywood Icon Endures Hollywood came to celebrate the groundbreaking of McNary Dam in 1947. In April 1947 Janis Paige was crowned “Miss Damsite” and appeared at the ground-breaking ceremony for the dam on the Columbia River at Umatilla, alongside Oregon Gov. Earl Snell and Cornelia Morton McNary, Sen. Charles McNary's widow. In 1941, Congress approved dam construction and a groundbreaking
