Columbia Gorge Genealogical Society

TECH FEST

PERSONAL JOURNALING WORKSHOP

Saturday August 11, 2012

Columbia Gorge Discovery Center basement classroom

10:30 to 3:00 with no host lunch at the Basalt Rock Café

August is a busy month and many of our tech instructors have other obligations so we decided to make some changes to our planned Technical Workshop. The Personal Journaling Workshop in July was successful and a number of you requested that we have a follow up session and some of you requested that we repeat the first session so we decided to accommodate the two topics with informal round table style sessions that will run at the same time. You can move back and forth between the topics as you choose, or catch one in the morning and one in the afternoon. We are only advertising in-house this month but you are always welcome to bring a friend.

TECH FEST

Mark Adams & Georga Foster, Facilitators

New Gadgets

Portable Scanners, Nook Readers, Notebooks, and more

New Websites

Technical Assistance

PERSONAL JOURNALING

Sandy Bisset, facilitator

Review of July Workshop

Questions and Answers

Sharing

Writers Groups

Bring your writing, your computers, your questions, your gadgets, and your friends. If you have something specific you need help with, let me know and I will try to have someone there to help you.

Sandy Bisset

Program Chairman

541-298-1240

wildflowers@gorge.net

　

　

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.