"I think it's beautiful. I like being in it," says Angela Jennings. "I love the stairs."
Comfortable, well assembled space, where even the stairway is remarkable. While not the typical description for a book shrine, Multnomah County's Central Library is just that kind of place.
The Pumpkin Patch on the island of Sauvie in Portland, Oregon celebrated its 16th season in 2014. In 1998 the founder of the maze, Craig Easterly, brought the idea of the MAiZE to the island's famous Pumpkin Patch and it has been a tradition ever since. In total, over 500,000 people have attended the annual event at the farm and come to se the giant maze of corn and the fields of The Pumpkin Patch.
One of Portland’s oldest cultural organizations is also one of its most interesting.
The Portland Museum of Contemporary Craft is a must see for any art lover looking to spend a few hours seeing some of the best current craftwork in the Northwest or internationally.
With five different displays per year, exhibits are switched out about once every three to four months, giving even locals something to stop and see when visiting downtown Portland.
During the day many people will come and sit on the chairs and benches in the museum to read, or just take in the artwork.
Cities like Amsterdam and Leipzig may compete for the title, but Portland, Oregon, claims the prize itself: the City of Books.
Proudly anchoring the west end of the tony Pearl District, it has grown and flourished along with Portland: when Walter Powell opened his shop in 1971, this was Skid Row. Now this landmark is considered the biggest, best and greatest bookstore in the world.
I had 45 minutes to get the kids to a friend’s birthday party at one of those corporate pizza, arcade, bowling places, and we hadn’t bought a gift for the special birthday girl.
What I found, in my search for the appropriate gift, was a wonderful place to take a break, get a unique gift and pet a llama.
Rain Dance Marketplace started as an art fair on a farm outside of Newberg. The fair continued to grow, so the organizer, Celia Austin, decided to take it one step further and make a marketplace out of the show.
Take a deep breath.
That is Red Ridge Farm’s specialty.
We all know that travelling on vacation can be more work than, well, being at work at times. Connecting flights, rental cars, strange towns to navigate and depending on how busy your itinerary, travelling can create more stress than it relieves.
Located in the center of downtown Salem at Court and Liberty streets, this historic building is a shopping center, a home for several cafes and restaurants and hosts many community gatherings in its conference rooms.
There are many people I know that have avoided Earth Science classes, equating it with a class in trigonometry.
I have to be honest and say that when tasked with writing about the Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks & Minerals, I was less than enthused. After all, I get to travel around the state and see any number of exciting attractions, rocks and minerals seems like a step down from carousels, Sea Lion Caves and historic theaters.
Whether it’s Michael Jackson, or a guy with two pupils, meeting reproductions of Hollywood celebrities and freaks of nature are next door in the historic bay front of Newport.
The two attractions, The Wax Works and Ripley’s Believe It Or Not!, are along the Bay Boulevard, and offer something unique from the normal Oregon coast experience. The two are even connected with a tchotchke type of tourist store with gift items, and an arcade in the same building. It’s easy to visit both, with parking on up the hill behind the second floor.
On a hillside west of the entrance to Champoeg State Heritage Area, above the banks of the Willamette River, stands the home of Robert Newell. A central figure in Oregon statehood and first Speaker of the House, he resided at Champoeg for nineteen years beginning in 1843.
