with Margaret Neuman & Jeanette Burkhardt Date & Time: Nov. 15th, 2023 at 7 pm Location: Columbia Center for the Arts, 215 Cascade Ave, Hood River, OR Lecture Description: Foe or friend? Beavers have a long and complicated history in the Pacific Northwest. In Oregon, the Beaver State, they...
with Lesley Tamura & Adam McCarthy Date & Time: Feb. 21st, 2024 at 7 pm Location: Columbia Center for the Arts, 215 Cascade Ave, Hood River, OR Lecture Description: Washington and Oregon produce more pears than any other states in the U.S. (#1 & #2). And Hood River County grows...
with Kristin Currin & Drew Merritt Date & Time: Dec. 13th, 2023 at 7 pm Location: Columbia Center for the Arts, 215 Cascade Ave, Hood River, OR Lecture Description: Native plants give us a sense of place and a heartfelt connection to nature. They characterize the natural...
with Miles Johnson Date & Time: Jan. 17th, 2024 at 7 pm Location: Columbia Center for the Arts, 215 Cascade Ave, Hood River, OR Lecture Description: In 2015, roughly 250,000 sockeye salmon died in the Columbia and Snake rivers because water temperatures were too hot. Sockeye also sought...
with Chris Donnermeyer Date & Time: March 20th, 2024 at 7 pm Location: Columbia Center for the Arts, 215 Cascade Ave, Hood River, OR Lecture Description: Recent catastrophic fires in Oregon and Washington have been a stark reminder of wildlands fire’s place on the landscape, but also the...
with Christopher Adams Date & Time: April 17th, 2024 at 7 pm Location: Columbia Center for the Arts, 215 Cascade Ave, Hood River, OR Lecture Description: Tree fruit production is a defining characteristic of life in The Gorge. Pear and cherry production is fraught with challenges from...
with Donella Miller Lecture Description: White Sturgeon are North America’s largest fish and can live to 100 years old! These prehistoric fish appeared in the fossil record 200 million ago, but unlike most fish, white sturgeon don’t have scales, they have skin like sandpaper. Their body is...
A longtime friend and his family were visiting us this week. I had been looking forward to this for years. The trip was originally foiled by Covid, but finally got back on the books for this summer. As August rolled around and the date approached, I started scheming on things to do, places to go,...
Jocelyn Akins knows her audience. “Wanna bust your balls all day in the field with me tomorrow slinging frozen beaver?” This is the text I receive. Entirely out of the blue. Entirely unsurprising, given who it’s coming from. Jocelyn Akins (Dr. Akins if we want to get official; Jos, if we want to...
Sense of Place Host & Curator Sarah Fox comes to MAI as the creator/producer of the podcast Hear in the Gorge and as curator/host of the Sense of Place Event Series. Her work has appeared on Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) and has been recognized by the Oregon Heritage...
with Margaret Neuman & Jeanette Burkhardt Date & Time: Nov. 15th, 2023 at 7 pm Location: Columbia Center for the Arts, 215 Cascade Ave, Hood River, OR Lecture Description: Foe or friend? Beavers have a long and complicated history in the Pacific Northwest. In...
with Lesley Tamura & Adam McCarthy Date & Time: Feb. 21st, 2024 at 7 pm Location: Columbia Center for the Arts, 215 Cascade Ave, Hood River, OR Lecture Description: Washington and Oregon produce more pears than any other states in the U.S. (#1 & #2)....
with Kristin Currin & Drew Merritt Date & Time: Dec. 13th, 2023 at 7 pm Location: Columbia Center for the Arts, 215 Cascade Ave, Hood River, OR Lecture Description: Native plants give us a sense of place and a heartfelt connection to nature. They...
with Miles Johnson Date & Time: Jan. 17th, 2024 at 7 pm Location: Columbia Center for the Arts, 215 Cascade Ave, Hood River, OR Lecture Description: In 2015, roughly 250,000 sockeye salmon died in the Columbia and Snake rivers because water temperatures were...
with Chris Donnermeyer Date & Time: March 20th, 2024 at 7 pm Location: Columbia Center for the Arts, 215 Cascade Ave, Hood River, OR Lecture Description: Recent catastrophic fires in Oregon and Washington have been a stark reminder of wildlands fire’s place...
with Christopher Adams Date & Time: April 17th, 2024 at 7 pm Location: Columbia Center for the Arts, 215 Cascade Ave, Hood River, OR Lecture Description: Tree fruit production is a defining characteristic of life in The Gorge. Pear and cherry production is...
with Donella Miller Lecture Description: White Sturgeon are North America’s largest fish and can live to 100 years old! These prehistoric fish appeared in the fossil record 200 million ago, but unlike most fish, white sturgeon don’t have scales, they have skin like...
A longtime friend and his family were visiting us this week. I had been looking forward to this for years. The trip was originally foiled by Covid, but finally got back on the books for this summer. As August rolled around and the date approached, I started scheming...
Jocelyn Akins knows her audience. “Wanna bust your balls all day in the field with me tomorrow slinging frozen beaver?” This is the text I receive. Entirely out of the blue. Entirely unsurprising, given who it’s coming from. Jocelyn Akins (Dr. Akins if we want to get...
Sense of Place Host & Curator Sarah Fox comes to MAI as the creator/producer of the podcast Hear in the Gorge and as curator/host of the Sense of Place Event Series. Her work has appeared on Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) and has been...