A Rose Festival Retrospective: Collins Gallery
For you a rose in Portland grows: A Rose Festival retrospective
Portland’s love of the rose goes back to the late 1880s, with the first Rose Show in Georgiana Pittock’s backyard. These events evolved, and in 1907, Portland celebrated the first annual Rose Festival. Explore the history of Portland’s most prominent annual celebration through an exhibit curated by the City of Portland Archives and with featured items contributed by the Rose Festival Foundation.
Dates: May 25th-June 30th
A Rose Festival Retrospective: Collins Gallery
For you a rose in Portland grows: A Rose Festival retrospective
Portland’s love of the rose goes back to the late 1880s, with the first Rose Show in Georgiana Pittock’s backyard. These events evolved, and in 1907, Portland celebrated the first annual Rose Festival. Explore the history of Portland’s most prominent annual celebration through an exhibit curated by the City of Portland Archives and with featured items contributed by the Rose Festival Foundation.
Dates: May 25th-June 30th
A Rose Festival Retrospective: Collins Gallery
For you a rose in Portland grows: A Rose Festival retrospective
Portland’s love of the rose goes back to the late 1880s, with the first Rose Show in Georgiana Pittock’s backyard. These events evolved, and in 1907, Portland celebrated the first annual Rose Festival. Explore the history of Portland’s most prominent annual celebration through an exhibit curated by the City of Portland Archives and with featured items contributed by the Rose Festival Foundation.
Dates: May 25th-June 30th
A Rose Festival Retrospective: Collins Gallery
For you a rose in Portland grows: A Rose Festival retrospective
Portland’s love of the rose goes back to the late 1880s, with the first Rose Show in Georgiana Pittock’s backyard. These events evolved, and in 1907, Portland celebrated the first annual Rose Festival. Explore the history of Portland’s most prominent annual celebration through an exhibit curated by the City of Portland Archives and with featured items contributed by the Rose Festival Foundation.
Dates: May 25th-June 30th
A Rose Festival Retrospective: Collins Gallery
For you a rose in Portland grows: A Rose Festival retrospective
Portland’s love of the rose goes back to the late 1880s, with the first Rose Show in Georgiana Pittock’s backyard. These events evolved, and in 1907, Portland celebrated the first annual Rose Festival. Explore the history of Portland’s most prominent annual celebration through an exhibit curated by the City of Portland Archives and with featured items contributed by the Rose Festival Foundation.
Dates: May 25th-June 30th
A Rose Festival Retrospective: Collins Gallery
For you a rose in Portland grows: A Rose Festival retrospective
Portland’s love of the rose goes back to the late 1880s, with the first Rose Show in Georgiana Pittock’s backyard. These events evolved, and in 1907, Portland celebrated the first annual Rose Festival. Explore the history of Portland’s most prominent annual celebration through an exhibit curated by the City of Portland Archives and with featured items contributed by the Rose Festival Foundation.
Dates: May 25th-June 30th
A Rose Festival Retrospective: Collins Gallery
For you a rose in Portland grows: A Rose Festival retrospective
Portland’s love of the rose goes back to the late 1880s, with the first Rose Show in Georgiana Pittock’s backyard. These events evolved, and in 1907, Portland celebrated the first annual Rose Festival. Explore the history of Portland’s most prominent annual celebration through an exhibit curated by the City of Portland Archives and with featured items contributed by the Rose Festival Foundation.
Dates: May 25th-June 30th
A Rose Festival Retrospective: Collins Gallery
For you a rose in Portland grows: A Rose Festival retrospective
Portland’s love of the rose goes back to the late 1880s, with the first Rose Show in Georgiana Pittock’s backyard. These events evolved, and in 1907, Portland celebrated the first annual Rose Festival. Explore the history of Portland’s most prominent annual celebration through an exhibit curated by the City of Portland Archives and with featured items contributed by the Rose Festival Foundation.
Dates: May 25th-June 30th
A Rose Festival Retrospective: Collins Gallery
For you a rose in Portland grows: A Rose Festival retrospective
Portland’s love of the rose goes back to the late 1880s, with the first Rose Show in Georgiana Pittock’s backyard. These events evolved, and in 1907, Portland celebrated the first annual Rose Festival. Explore the history of Portland’s most prominent annual celebration through an exhibit curated by the City of Portland Archives and with featured items contributed by the Rose Festival Foundation.
Dates: May 25th-June 30th
A Rose Festival Retrospective: Collins Gallery
For you a rose in Portland grows: A Rose Festival retrospective
Portland’s love of the rose goes back to the late 1880s, with the first Rose Show in Georgiana Pittock’s backyard. These events evolved, and in 1907, Portland celebrated the first annual Rose Festival. Explore the history of Portland’s most prominent annual celebration through an exhibit curated by the City of Portland Archives and with featured items contributed by the Rose Festival Foundation.
Dates: May 25th-June 30th
A Rose Festival Retrospective: Collins Gallery
For you a rose in Portland grows: A Rose Festival retrospective
Portland’s love of the rose goes back to the late 1880s, with the first Rose Show in Georgiana Pittock’s backyard. These events evolved, and in 1907, Portland celebrated the first annual Rose Festival. Explore the history of Portland’s most prominent annual celebration through an exhibit curated by the City of Portland Archives and with featured items contributed by the Rose Festival Foundation.
Dates: May 25th-June 30th
A Rose Festival Retrospective: Collins Gallery
For you a rose in Portland grows: A Rose Festival retrospective
Portland’s love of the rose goes back to the late 1880s, with the first Rose Show in Georgiana Pittock’s backyard. These events evolved, and in 1907, Portland celebrated the first annual Rose Festival. Explore the history of Portland’s most prominent annual celebration through an exhibit curated by the City of Portland Archives and with featured items contributed by the Rose Festival Foundation.
Dates: May 25th-June 30th
A Rose Festival Retrospective: Collins Gallery
For you a rose in Portland grows: A Rose Festival retrospective
Portland’s love of the rose goes back to the late 1880s, with the first Rose Show in Georgiana Pittock’s backyard. These events evolved, and in 1907, Portland celebrated the first annual Rose Festival. Explore the history of Portland’s most prominent annual celebration through an exhibit curated by the City of Portland Archives and with featured items contributed by the Rose Festival Foundation.
Dates: May 25th-June 30th
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Notable Women of Portland
Historian Dr. Tracy Prince and her daughter and co-author Zadie Schaffer will present their book, Notable Women of Portland, which uncovered overlooked parts of Portland history -- from 10,000 years of Native American women, pioneer women, women of the Progressive Era, WWI, WWII, post-war women, and women in arts and politics. Many women made their mark and radically changed the Oregon frontier.
Made possible by The National Endowment for the Humanities Fund of The Library Foundation.
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Graphic Novel Club grades 4-5
Kids in grades 4-5 are invited to talk about graphic novels and eat snacks! Every meeting includes a short activity related to this month's book. A limited number of books are available for pick up at the library. Our book for this month will be Garlic and the Vampire.
Graphic Novel Club grades 4-5
Kids in grades 4-5 are invited to talk about graphic novels and eat snacks! Every meeting includes a short activity related to this month's book. A limited number of books are available for pick up at the library. This month we will discuss Swim Team.
Indigenous community resources
The Indigenous Team are library team members who seek to engage the community in multi-generational programs, access to resources, and displays that value elders, youth, storytelling, tradition and activism.
Graphic Novel Club grades 4-5
Kids in grades 4-5 are invited to talk about graphic novels and eat snacks! Every meeting includes a short activity related to this month's book. This month's book will be Allergic by Megan Wagner Lloyd. A limited number of books are available for pick up at the library.
The White Allies Handbook, Q&A with author Lecia Michelle
Lecia Michelle is the author of The White Allies Handbook: 4 Weeks to Join the Racial Justice Fight for Black Women. She is a librarian by trade with experience at universities and public libraries.
Explore these titles curated for the participants of a Portland walking series exploring Afro-ecology, organized by Oregon Walks.
Everybody Reads application for classroom participation
Multnomah County Library invites you to participate in Everybody Reads 2024, the library’s annual community reading project, taking place January through March.
Tortilla, Sope & Gordita Making with Fresh Corn Masa
Compartiremos nuestras recetas favoritas y hablaremos sobre la historia del maíz en las culturas indígenas de América, así como los beneficios para la salud del método tradicional de procesamiento del maíz, la nixtimalización.
Learn how easy it is to make delicious masa creations. This hands-on class includes shaping and cooking tortillas, sopes and gorditas and finishing them with our favorite locally available Mexican ingredients. We share our favorite recipes and talk about the history of corn in Indigenous cultures throughout the Americas, as well as the health benefits of the traditional corn processing method, nixtimalization.
Graphic Novel Club grades 6-8
Middle school students are invited to talk about comics and eat snacks! Every meeting includes a short activity related to this month's book. A limited number of books are available for pick up at the library.
Courage and Compassion Together! This month's action packed book is City of Dragons: The Awakening Storm, by Jaimal Yogis and Vivian Truong! Three years after her dad died mysteriously, Grace is bummed when she moves to Hong Kong with her mom and step-dad Hank. But then a fortune teller gives Grace an egg that hatches into... a dragon!? Pretty soon Grace finds herself living one of the legends her dad used to tell her!