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  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

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,

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

Russell Lee was an American photojournalist who in 1936 went to work for the federal Farm Security Administration documentation project. The FSA built a remarkable collection of 80,000 photographs of America during the Depression because they hired great photographers—Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, Russell Lee, Carl Mydans and Gordon Parks, who crossed the U.S. to produce a “visual encyclopedia of American life.” Lee is responsible for

During its history as a military base, the U.S. Army Depot near Hermiston, Oregon stored, maintained, and demilitarized ammunition. Now closed and transferred to community ownership for economic development, the depot is located on 19,729 acres in Umatilla and Morrow Counties in northeastern Oregon, approximately three miles south of the Columbia River and 180 miles east of Portland. Although explored by the Spanish and English as

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