Thank you Heather for your excellent presentation last night in Portland! Your ability to tie our history in with our current issues is amazing. I’m also glad you enjoyed the Columbia River Gorge and the waterfalls. Please come back soon!
Thank you Heather for your excellent presentation last night in Portland! Your ability to tie our history in with our current issues is amazing. I’m also glad you enjoyed the Columbia River Gorge and the waterfalls. Please come back soon!
Thank you Karen for welcoming our weary time traveler to Oregon. Mom was a candy striper for 35 years before getting her RN at Longview. She worked at the hospital in Astoria when she wasn’t on the Anne B fishing salmon. A big thank you and your splendid steadfastness in the ongoing Covid crises.
Thank you for your kind words and support for nurses. I am so impressed with your mom. Nursing can be challenging and requires a lot of stamina, but she was also salmon fishing out of Astoria! Wow, what a strong and dedicated woman.
She was my heart. Born in a barn near Fallon Mt. On the banks of the Yellowstone. We sent her off the docks on the Columbia with the outgoing tide on a bed of a thousand roses.
Yes indeed, excellent presentation last night! Though I'm in Portland, I was watching the livestream along with at least 700 other ticket-holders. We don't usually get snow in April, really!!
I attended with my wife, Suzame. Let's just say I'll never read Letters from an American the same way again. HCR's lecture tied together all the issues she's raised here and more. Today's edition is more resonant because of seeing and hearing the professor in person last night.
Listening to her podcasts had given me a sense of her personality, but I had no idea how she could rivet the attention of hundreds, gathered in the ornate splendor of the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. Of course Heather's brilliance shone through. But damn, she is funny. Self-deprecating, too. And make no mistake, she loves this community!
It was great. But I miscalculated when I said several years ago. My husband said it was more like 8 years. So I looked it up and it was 12 years ago😹. The older I get the faster time seems to go. But the concert was amazing. It was Neil alone, no band, just him and his guitars and harmonica. It seems like it was yesterday. I keep hoping he will come back. But I don’t know if he is still touring.
Checked around — no tour dates announced for this year. But his website is excellent. A study in nostalgia. Recommend the streaming documentary with Crazy Horse. "Barn: A Band, A Brotherhood, A Barn." https://neilyoungarchives.com/movie-night/subscriber-features
Speaking of nostalgia...when I was in college, my roommate and I found out when "Harvest" was being released. It was February 1972, the year we graduated. We bought it at a record store (remember those!) the first day it was available. A masterpiece then, and just as good today.
Thank you for the link. I will check it out. I love Harvest and had the record also. Now of course it’s on my play list. Speaking more of nostalgia.. I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and saw Neil and Crazy Horse several times at the Fillmore an Winterland, Also when he was with Crosby Stills Nash as well as many other great bands. My husband tells me to quit bragging about it, but I was just in the right place at the right time.
If you have Amazon Prime there are several Neil Young movies on it. Neil Young Journeys and Heart of Gold are 2 of them that I love, if you haven’t already seen them.
Very cool. The technology seemed to work very well. A friend and I had hoped to go in person, but due to concerns about covid, we opted for the virtual experience--a good thing too, because my friend had to have surgery last week and is still recovering. We texted our enthusiastic reactions to the presentation instead. OHS also had a presentation a few weeks ago from Dr. Timothy Snyder. That was excellent as well.
There were 577 when I logged on. When I registered, it looked like a pretty well filled hall, but I didn’t want to have to deal with parking, so I watched from the com fort of home.
I need to become an OHS member; I totally missed the Timothy Snyder presentation.
Yes, we need to have an Oregon meetup; this summer, perhaps. I know that Michelle lives in Newberg, and I have another friend here in town that would be "all in" for that.
I sure wish I'd been able to talk my wife into a mid-week outing to go up and hear the Professor in person. We watched on the livestream, and it was incredible.
I don't know; per the email I got with my virtual ticket, I should get a recording of the lecture that will be available for two days. Here's more on the Hatfield Lecture Series, and you might ask them if there's a way to get the recording:
Thank you Heather for your excellent presentation last night in Portland! Your ability to tie our history in with our current issues is amazing. I’m also glad you enjoyed the Columbia River Gorge and the waterfalls. Please come back soon!
Thank you Karen for welcoming our weary time traveler to Oregon. Mom was a candy striper for 35 years before getting her RN at Longview. She worked at the hospital in Astoria when she wasn’t on the Anne B fishing salmon. A big thank you and your splendid steadfastness in the ongoing Covid crises.
Thank you for your kind words and support for nurses. I am so impressed with your mom. Nursing can be challenging and requires a lot of stamina, but she was also salmon fishing out of Astoria! Wow, what a strong and dedicated woman.
She was my heart. Born in a barn near Fallon Mt. On the banks of the Yellowstone. We sent her off the docks on the Columbia with the outgoing tide on a bed of a thousand roses.
What an incredible and giving life she lived. And what a touching and beautiful send off.🌹💖
Beautiful!!! For a beautiful life!
Wasn't that wonderful?! (and then Heather followed me back on Twitter overnight... I'm fangirling big time)!
Yes indeed, excellent presentation last night! Though I'm in Portland, I was watching the livestream along with at least 700 other ticket-holders. We don't usually get snow in April, really!!
I attended with my wife, Suzame. Let's just say I'll never read Letters from an American the same way again. HCR's lecture tied together all the issues she's raised here and more. Today's edition is more resonant because of seeing and hearing the professor in person last night.
Listening to her podcasts had given me a sense of her personality, but I had no idea how she could rivet the attention of hundreds, gathered in the ornate splendor of the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. Of course Heather's brilliance shone through. But damn, she is funny. Self-deprecating, too. And make no mistake, she loves this community!
To see the concert hall: https://www.portland5.com/sites/default/files/styles/carousel-large/public/carousel/SchnitzerHall-InteriorBalcony-JasonQuigley-780x400.jpg?itok=BX5TfaHk
Yes, I loved her quick trip through history and her humor. I would love to listen to it again and see it shared widely
I totally agree Michael. Heather is amazing, and The Arlene Schnitzer is a beautiful concert hall. I saw Neil Young there several years ago.
How did I miss Neil Young? Must have been fantastic.
It was great. But I miscalculated when I said several years ago. My husband said it was more like 8 years. So I looked it up and it was 12 years ago😹. The older I get the faster time seems to go. But the concert was amazing. It was Neil alone, no band, just him and his guitars and harmonica. It seems like it was yesterday. I keep hoping he will come back. But I don’t know if he is still touring.
Checked around — no tour dates announced for this year. But his website is excellent. A study in nostalgia. Recommend the streaming documentary with Crazy Horse. "Barn: A Band, A Brotherhood, A Barn." https://neilyoungarchives.com/movie-night/subscriber-features
Speaking of nostalgia...when I was in college, my roommate and I found out when "Harvest" was being released. It was February 1972, the year we graduated. We bought it at a record store (remember those!) the first day it was available. A masterpiece then, and just as good today.
Thank you for the link. I will check it out. I love Harvest and had the record also. Now of course it’s on my play list. Speaking more of nostalgia.. I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and saw Neil and Crazy Horse several times at the Fillmore an Winterland, Also when he was with Crosby Stills Nash as well as many other great bands. My husband tells me to quit bragging about it, but I was just in the right place at the right time.
Great memories. I played the “Everbody Knows This Is Nowhere” album so many times that I swear every lyric and note are hard-wired in me.
If you have Amazon Prime there are several Neil Young movies on it. Neil Young Journeys and Heart of Gold are 2 of them that I love, if you haven’t already seen them.
Same here. As soon as I started reading the name of the song on your post, it became the song in my head.
When I logged on, I was number 702! I was late, and had to call to get my link. The very nice lady at the OHS was also an "Ally".
Very cool. The technology seemed to work very well. A friend and I had hoped to go in person, but due to concerns about covid, we opted for the virtual experience--a good thing too, because my friend had to have surgery last week and is still recovering. We texted our enthusiastic reactions to the presentation instead. OHS also had a presentation a few weeks ago from Dr. Timothy Snyder. That was excellent as well.
I chickened out at the last minute due to Covid concerns, too - and I'm so pleased they provided the livestream.
When/if Covid is over we should have an HCR meetup!
Can those of us in The Couve be included?!
Of course!
There were 577 when I logged on. When I registered, it looked like a pretty well filled hall, but I didn’t want to have to deal with parking, so I watched from the com fort of home.
Oh, I would have loved to hear his presentation! I follow him on Substack and have read his books. I think I will join OHS also.
I need to become an OHS member; I totally missed the Timothy Snyder presentation.
Yes, we need to have an Oregon meetup; this summer, perhaps. I know that Michelle lives in Newberg, and I have another friend here in town that would be "all in" for that.
I would be all in for an Oregon meetup too!
I sure wish I'd been able to talk my wife into a mid-week outing to go up and hear the Professor in person. We watched on the livestream, and it was incredible.
Is the lecture available online?
I don't know; per the email I got with my virtual ticket, I should get a recording of the lecture that will be available for two days. Here's more on the Hatfield Lecture Series, and you might ask them if there's a way to get the recording:
https://www.ohs.org/events/hatfield-historians-forum.cfm