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Oregon Humanities is a journal of ideas and perspectives published twice a year by the Oregon Council for the Humanities. Each issue includes essays and articles that explore a particular theme from a variety of perspectives, broadening the ways in which readers think about a subject and providing a basis for further thoughtful discussion.
Spring/Summer 2006
Contribute to Posts on the Theme of On Principle
The Fall/Winter 2006 issue of Oregon Humanities will focus on OCH's new public reading and discussion program, On Principle: Community Conversations, which will be held in several Oregon communities beginning in fall 2006. We are looking for 500-word Posts submissions that use the humanities to reflect on five core principles of American democracy: individual freedom, equality, economic opportunity, civic engagement, and justice. What do these principles mean to you? Which of these principles do you hold most dear? How do such principles work in your daily life? What tensions or conflicts exist among these principles? Please send your submissions by July 28, 2006, to Posts, Oregon Council for Humanities, 812 SW Washington St., Suite 225, Portland, OR 97205 or by e-mail.
Land
- The Place We Call Home
- by William G. Robbins
- Oregon's historic commitment to the greater public good
- Mountain
- by Lara Florez
- I know that you are not supposed to love what you do not own.
- Every Hill Has a Story
- by Gail Wells
- A geologist explains why Oregon looks the way it does.
- Placer, Bench, Point of Rock
- by Debra Gwartney
- Melding the literary and the scientific languages of land
- Gallery: An Artist-Farmer Exchange
- Images from the exhibition Sustaining Change on the American Farm
- Shoulders
- by Mark Blaine
- The road is a fiercely public space, shared land where we express ourselves.
- Harshness and Harvest
- by Gail Wells
- An Oregon farmer discusses the changing agrarian landscape.
- Edges
- by Todd Schwartz
- Fences symbolize both the barrier and the connection between Us and Them.
- A Square Foot of Beauty
- by Kenneth I. Helphand
- What World War I trench gardens meant to the soldiers who created them
- Yard
- by Lucy Burningham
- In my stepfather's mind, the color green became a symbol of control.
- A City Sows Its Seeds
- by Kristin Kaye
- The Diggable City and the urban agriculture movement in Portland
- Parking Strip
- by Dan DeWeese
- Step across the walk and let your freak flag fly.
- Landing
- by Kathleen Dean Moore
- Alienation from the land has allowed us to wage war against the water, the air, the fertile soil.
- Moss
- by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Learning to see mosses is more like listening than looking.
Departments
- Field Work:
- Everybody Talks: A partnership to help connect the ivory tower with the reading public
- By Caroline Cummins
- From Rats to World Relief: A professor uncovers the legacy of Esther Pohl Lovejoy
- By Dean Gorman
- The Nonprofit That Roared
- By Kristy Athens
Posts: Readers Write about Land
Resources: Land
Croppings: Lightning Bolt Banner by Roy Lichtenstein