Columbia Gorge Genealogical Society: July Workshop Highlights

Our July Personal Journaling class was wildly successful.
Twenty one participants and facilitator Sandy Bisset spent the day putting
together a tool box for recording and documenting their own personal histories
using photographs, artwork, and lists as well as other memory jogs to create a
personal journal that can be both informational and fun to create. Guest
speaker, Sally Zuck McBain, introduced us to her book, Soul Portraits,
which describes a process for recording important information about
ourselves, for ourselves, our descendants, and primarily for our care givers if
we are incapacitated. We had a cross section of community members and genealogy
members from throughout the Gorge, including two participants from Condon.
Barbara Pashek got everyone registered and name tagged, Mary Davis and Brick
Wall entertained us with the raffle ticket sale, and Teddy Parkinson recorded
the event in pictures. Everyone wrote detailed evaluations which will help in
fine tuning the class so it will be even more successful the next time around.

2024 Program Schedule

January 6, 2024 - America's Extension Service - Resources for Genealogy - Georga Foster
February - Original Courthouse History Forums- Members are encouraged to attend.
March - Darrelll Jabin - Oregons Traveling Historian- March 23, 2024
June 10, 2024 - Hood River Museum Meetup - 1:00pm
July/August - Summer Break
September 14, 2024 - Solutions To Geneaogical Research In Todays Economy
October 5, 2024 - Thomas MacEntee LIVE
Nov. 9, 2024 - FamilySearch Workshop -LDS LIbrary
December- No Program- Merry Christmas

Pioneers of The West

Header Photo: Helen Lundeberg created this painting while employed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a New Deal program that employed artists during the Great Depression. Like other WPA artists, Lundeberg depicted a hopeful view of the United States during a time of turmoil and uncertainty by showing a dreamlike image of western expansion. The group of pioneers, with their backs to the viewer, follows an ox-drawn wagon into a valley. The monumental figures appear strong and assured in their forward progress. Rising mountains melt into the sun. Lundeberg's style of mixing fantastic images with reality is evident in the background: The pink, rolling mountains blend into the orange, pink, and bluish haze of the sky; it is difficult to determine where the mountains end and the sky begins. The careful use of space and dreamlike elements in Pioneers of the West is representative of Lundeberg's postsurrealist style. This movement, derived from surrealism, purposely combined fantasy with reality and was predominantly found on the West Coast. (Helen Lundeberg, Pioneers of the West, 1934, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the General Services Administration, 1985.8.27) GSA: Information and images created or owned by the GSA unless otherwise indicated, are considered in the public domain. They may be distributed or copied as permitted by applicable law.