Tag: Oregon
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Famous Celebrities from Oregon
As a child of hippie parents, I know all too well the stories of how the extremely creative, musical, and peace-loving young people of the 1960s went West in search of a better life. The Gold Rush of the mid-1800s was very different in that the people heading West then were doing so to claim…
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Why is the Oregon Trail Important?
As a child of the 1980s who went to a progressive, wealthy school district (I was not wealthy), we had the opportunity to utilize and play with some of the first computers tailored for educational use. They were the original Macintosh personal computers, and our elementary school had thirty-five of them. Each week, a classroom…