The repurposing and reuse of buildings in Portland have their roots in the earliest days of the city, but it was not until after World …

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Rex Amos is an Oregon artist and writer best known for his assemblage and precise collage work using the Chine collé method, which uses both …

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Dick Bogle was a multi-talented Oregonian and humanitarian who dedicated his adult life to service in the Portland area. The great-grandson of Northwest pioneers, Bogle …

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Novelist and poet Richard Brautigan was raised largely in Eugene and attended South Eugene High School. He featured Oregon scenes and landscapes in his international …

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Dick Fosbury changed the high jump forever when he won a gold medal at the 1968 Olympic Games using a new style of his own …

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Richard Henderson Wiley, one of Oregon’s most successful commercial artists, is best known by millions of people for his illustrations of the Dick and Jane …

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Richard L. Kohnstamm was the president and area operator of Timberline Lodge and Ski Area from 1955 until 1992, when he turned the operation over …

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Richard L. Wendt, of Klamath Falls, was a founder of JELD-WEN, Inc., one of Oregon’s biggest companies. By the 1990s, the company was the largest …

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When he was elected to the United States Senate in 1954, Richard Neuberger had been at the center of journalistic excellence in the Pacific Northwest …

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In 1840, after more than a decade in the Rocky Mountain fur trade, Robert Newell headed to the Oregon Country. Getting there, he led the …

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