Celebrating Our 16th Year of Offering Unique & Special Classes & Workshops Through Portland State University!

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CLASS DESCRIPTIONS
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Historic Old Vancouver: Native American Heritage & Pioneer Military History --- 1 Credit

Graduate: CI 810 -- Undergraduate: CI 410     INSTRUCTOR: Michael P. Jones, M.S.     Fee: $135

DATES, TIMES,  AND MEETING PLACES:
Tuesday January 6
                     Research Library at "Deep Creek Lodge" 25580 Rebman Road, Deep Creek (near Boring), OR;
Saturday January 10 (10 a.m.-5:30 p.m.)
                     meet outside Baja Fresh at Mall 205, S.E. 102nd & Washington Streets, Portland, Oregon.

The City of Washington State's Vancouver has long been a focal point of not only the history of the Northwest, but of the once-vast Old Oregon Country that stretched from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, and from San Francisco Bay north to Alaska. Possessing a rich heritage representing a diverse number of cultures and lifestyles -- Native American to Hawaiian, to Hudson Bay Company and American fur trade, and to the Oregon Trail and pioneer settlement, as well as early-day military history that evolved into the era of the first flying machines to the shipyards of world wars -- and has continued into contemporary times. This class probes the way of life of the Native Americans in this locale, the history of the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Vancouver, the Oregon Trail, the development of Officer's Row, Pearson Air Park, and the Kaiser Shipyards, through unique interpretative tours that take the participant directly to these important sites where history was made and is now being preserved. Visit Fort Vancouver, the First Apple Tree memorial, Officers Row, and the new General O.O. Howard Museum, as well as other places of living history and museums. Reacquaint yourself to the special heritage of historic Vancouver.

EXPLORING OLD TOWN: CHINATOWN, SKIDMORE FOUNTAIN, JAPANESE TOWN UNDERFOOT ---1 Credit

Graduate: CI 810 -- Undergraduate: CI 410      INSTRUCTOR: Michael P. Jones, M.S.      Fee: $145

DATES, TIMES, & MEETING PLACES:
Tuesday January 20 (6-9 p.m.)
                     Research Library at "Deep Creek Lodge", 25580 E. Rebman Road, Deep Creek, Oregon;
Saturday January 24 (10-5:30 p.m.)
                     at the ticket booth at the MAX Lightrail Station, 1101 N.E. 99th Ave, Portland, OR.
                      -- just behind the Gateway Fred Meyer Store at 102nd & Halsey

At the turn-of-the-century, the infamy of shanghaiing in Portland's lower waterfront area earned it the reputation of being the "Worst Port in the World". Aided by tunnels that "snaked" their way beneath the cast-iron and brick buildings that graced the cobblestone streets with their Victorian charm, this was a part of the city to stay out of if you were a sailor, a logger, a rancher, a cowboy, or a sheepherder who chose to frequent the bootlegging joints, houses of prostitution, gambling parlors, opium dens, and nickel beer saloons that were secretly equipped with trap doors and "knockout" drops. And, yet, there were other sides to this area that became known as the Old North End. These included the elegant New Market Theatre that featured everything from operas to Shakespearean plays, to orchestras performing the classics, as well as the beautiful Skidmore Fountain that helped to anchor the southern portion of this place known for its stories of darkness and shadows associated with the secret catacombs that stretched from the docks to as far west as Northwest 23rd Avenue. This class explores the history of shanghaiing in what is now called Old Town, as well as Skidmore Fountain, today's Chinatown, and yesterday's Japanese Town. This class will assist participants in gathering new classroom resources to assist in expanding inter-disciplinary units and curriculums for the study of Portland's early maritime and ethnic history.

Clackamas County PIONEER Heritage CEMETERIES ---1 Credit

Graduate: CI 810 -- Undergraduate: CI 410        INSTRUCTOR: Michael P. Jones, M.S.        Fee: $135

DATES, TIMES, AND MEETING PLACES:
Tuesday January 27,
                    Research Library at "Deep Creek Lodge", 25580 Rebman Road, Deep Creek (near Boring), OR;
Saturday January 31 (10 a.m.-5:30 p.m.)
                    meet outside Baja Fresh at Mall 205, S.E. 102nd & Washington Streets, Portland, Oregon.

The final resting places of the pioneers of the Willamette Valley's Clackamas County, represents a history of the fur traders and the American Mountain Men, the early day missionaries, Oregon Trail emigrants, and early-day settlers who came and staked their claims to this land that was reportedly theirs under the guise of "Manifest Destiny". With both elaborate and relative simple monuments accented with carved poetic inscriptions, they tell a silent story about the "New Garden of Eden" that deserves to be told before they are completely forgotten. They were starry-eyed gold-seekers, farmers, loggers, steamboat captains, wanderers, merchants, missionaries, and others, whose roles in history were either dramatic or seemingly non-existent. This class explores some of the final resting places of these "Prairie Schooner" settlers and homesteaders. You will venture to some of the most important, but-little-known, pioneer cemeteries, where history was changed by the actions of those who dared to alter their lives and relocate to the Old Oregon Country. This unique interpretive experience allows you to take a good, hard look at Clackamas County's extraordinary history.

East Portland Sacred Landscapes: Heritage Buttes & NATURAL Areas --- 1 Credit

Graduate:  CI 810 -- Undergraduate: CI 410        Instructor: Michael P. Jones, M.S.        Fee: $130

DATES, TIMES, & MEETING PLACES:
Tuesday February 3 (6-9 p.m.)
                    Research Library at "Deep Creek Lodge", 25580 E. Rebman Road, Deep Creek, Oregon;
Saturday February 7 (10-5:30 p.m.)
                    at Mall 205, in the parking lot outside of Baja Fresh, S.E. 102nd & Washington St., Portland, Oregon.

East Portland's "sacred landscapes" encompass a number of special buttes and significant natural areas that represent a wealth of Native American heritage whose cultural history has been left out of the history books and ignored by the majority of the naturalists today. These traditional cultural and religious sites are located in special places which still possess the rich history of traditional indigenous cultural practices --- religious and ceremonial practices, medicine-gathering, and mythology. This class explores these sites and how the indigenous way-of-life related to the natural landscape over the past 10,000-plus years. Participants in the class will visit a selection of these cultural and natural sites, including Indian Rock, Oak Bottom, Powell Butte, Kelly Butte, Mount Tabor, Mount Scott, and Beggar Tick Marsh, and others, including traveling sections of several historic trails first followed by native populations, then the fur traders, and, still later, the Oregon Trail emigrants and Willamette Valley homesteaders. Studied also will be the laws that protect archaeological and cultural sites; the politics of protecting sacred sites; methodology used in evaluating natural sites for cultural heritage, such as wetlands, riparian areas, rock outcroppings, meadows, etc. Learn how to integrate this information back into the classroom learning environment and how to strengthen your science curriculum with historical and anthropological activities. A unique opportunity to gather information for developing teaching units and strengthening classroom curriculums. winter habitats: Mount Hood¹s old growth, wetlands, meadows, and wild rivers

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Graduate:  CI 810 -- Undergraduate:  CI 410         Instructor: Michael P. Jones, M.S.         Fee: Call For Info

DATES, TIMES, AND MEETING PLACES:
Tuesday February 17
                    Research Library at "Deep Creek Lodge", 25580 Rebman Road, Deep Creek (near Boring), OR;
Saturday February 21 (10 a.m.-5:30 p.m.)
                     meet at Stage Stop Road Interpretative Center, 24525 E. Stage Stop Road, Welches, Oregon.

Mount Hood is comprised of special watersheds that represent unique "living classrooms" for inter-disciplinary study. The Mountain's Old-Growth Forests and Wild Rivers are not only "public treasures" that possess rich Native American heritage, but are also an important part of the history of the fur traders, the Oregon Trail emigrants, and early-day settlers and resort builders. These natural features serve as wildlife habitat and encompass important natural landscapes that are "living laboratories" for exploring. The Mountain's Old-Growth, the riparian zones of its Rivers, its Beaver Dams, its Huckleberry areas, Rock Outcroppings, Canyons, and Meadows, all which possess a unique history of cultural uses of these natural areas.

Western-Bound Indian & Pioneer Trails From Mount Hood-Oregon City --- 1 Credit

Graduate: CI 810 -- Undergraduate:CI 410        INSTRUCTOR: Michael P. Jones, M.S.        Fee: $130

DATES, TIMES, AND MEETING PLACES:
Tuesday February 24 (6-9 p.m.)
                    meet in the Research Library at "Deep Creek Lodge", 25580 E. Rebman Road, Deep Creek, Oregon;
Saturday February 28 (10 a.m.-5:30 p.m.)
                     meet at Stage Stop Road Interpretative Center, 24525 E. Welches Road, Welches, Oregon.

Explore the Oregon Trail from the westside foothills of Mt. Hood to Oregon City in the "New Eden" - the Willamette Valley. Follow both the well-known and little-known paths of the American Indians, the fur traders, the "overland" pioneers, and the early-day homesteaders by visiting campsites, stream crossings, pioneer settlements, former villages, graveyards, natural areas utilized by indigenous people, and other special places of history. This unique interpretative tour will take you on the old wagon roads on both the north and south side of the Sandy River, allowing the participants to view firsthand the places where this great historical migration traversed through the rugged landscape, as well as the still-to-be-acknowledged routes where the emigrants also traveled. Visit sites at such places as the Village of Old Salmon, Marmot, Sleepy Hollow, Alder Creek, Cherryville, Bull Run, Sandy, Damascus, Boring, Eagle Creek, Carver, and Oregon City. An excellent way to learn about history and how to incorporate this information back into your classroom.

Portland's infamous shanghai tunnels --- 1 Credit

Graduate:  CI 810 -- Undergraduate: CI 410        INSTRUCTOR: Michael P. Jones, M.S.        Fee: $145

DATES, TIMES, AND MEETING PLACES:
Tuesday March 9 (6-9 p.m.)
                    meet in the Research Library at "Deep Creek Lodge", 25580 E. Rebman Road, Deep Creek, Oregon; Saturday March 13 (10-5:30 p.m.)
                     meet outside the cinemas at Mall 205, S.E. 102nd & Washington Streets, Portland, Oregon.

Tunnels, utilized during the days of shanghaiing, "snake" their way beneath the streets of Downtown Portland¹s waterfront, and represent a unique puzzle about the infamous history of the "City of Roses". This class studies this shocking story that is revealed through a series of explorations of catacombs and darkened basements which represent the remnants of a little-told history of human rights violations at their absolute worst. From the 1850's to as late as the 1940's, unsuspecting victims -- most with little or no ties to their families, such as sailors, loggers, sheepherders, cowboys, ranchhands, and other working stiffs -- learned first hand about the "darkness and shadows" of this river town that was wide-open for its corruption. Many of these individuals who frequented such places as saloons, gambling parlors, opium dens, and places of lesser reputations, would find themselves dropped through trapdoors into basements, where they were held hostage in make-shift cells for a period of time, until they were finally taken through tunnels to the wharfs and sold to sea captains ready to "set sail" for the Orient. Once out to sea, they soon realized that they were just another one of the 1500-per-year victims who were sold for "blood money" and made Portland the "Shanghai Capital of the World". This class explores Portland¹s little-known underground, taking you into shanghai tunnels and accompanying historic buildings that have survived along with the stories. Portland and the history of the Northwest will never be viewed the same as you explore this "skullduggerry" when the city was "wide open" and bootlegging, white slavery operations, and police and political corruption were everyday occurrences, but rarely spoken about openly. Enrich yourself and your study units with this fascinating course that takes you into the "underground".

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