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Marion Forks
Deep in the Douglas-fir forests of the Cascades, Marion Forks is a small community and stopping place on State Highway 22, sixty-seven miles east …
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Marionberry
The blackberry cultivar, Marion, often called "marionberry" by consumers and marketers, is the most widely planted trailing blackberry in the world. More than 90 percent of the worldwide …
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Mark A. Bell (1825–1897)
Marcus "Mark" A. Bell was a visible and enterprising leader in Portland’s early Black community. His enduring commitment to "equality under the law for …
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Mark O. Hatfield (1922-2011)
As an Oregon legislator, secretary of state, governor, and United States senator, Mark O. Hatfield played a major role in Oregon and national politics and …
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Mark Rothko (1903-1970)
In 1933, at the height of the Great Depression, Mark Rothko and his wife Edith Sachar hitchhiked across the United States from New York City …
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Mark Sponenburgh (1918-2012)
Mark Sponenburgh was an Oregon sculptor, art historian, educator, art collector, and philanthropist who traveled widely, living for extended periods in Egypt, England, France, and …
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Martha Ferguson McKeown (1903-1974)
Author, historian, teacher, Martha McKeown, a third-generation Oregonian and descendant of covered wagon pioneers, was born in Astoria in 1903. In 1911, her family moved …
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Martina Gangle Curl (1906 - 1994)
Martina Gangle Curl was a painter, printmaker, and woodcarver who created figuratively based works in an emerging Northwest modernist style. A long-time dedicated labor and …
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Mary Anna Cooke Thompson (1825 - 1919)
Honored in her lifetime as one of Oregon's pioneer doctors, Mary Anna Cooke Thompson practiced medicine in Portland for over forty years and was recognized …
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Mary Barnard (1909-2001)
Mary Barnard—poet, translator, and classicist—was one of the Northwest's most celebrated and versatile writers of the twentieth century. At a time when few poets from …
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