Cascade Geographic
Society's
WINTER 2001 Classes
(Graduate & Undergraduate cooperative Education
Classes through Portland State University)
Payment Notice: Please
note regarding payment for classes: make out one check (to P.S.U.) or pay with
your credit card. You need to do this separately for each class. Check or credit
card must be processed through Cascade Geographic Society, and must be received
prior to the second class date . Payments not received by then may delay
official registration and credit/grade. Please call (503) 622-4798 (Michael) or
(503) 658-6233 (Nita) for information or registration.
Important Notice:
Participants must be prepared to begin on time and bring the following: sack
lunch & snacks; $10 for museum fees, if needed; extra money in case of
emergencies; proper dress and shoes to fit the weather conditions & season.
Optional: camera & film.
CLASSES:
Exploring Historic Troutdale, Wood
Village, & Fairview (Jan 16)
Sacred Landscapes: Heritage Buttes & Natural Areas of East Portland (Jan
17)
Historic Ethnic Communities of Old Town (Jan
23)
Aurora Colony, Champoeg, & French Prairie Heritage Sites (Jan
24)
Exploring Historic Silverton, Silver Creek Falls, & New Oregon Gardens (Jan
30)
Ghosts of the Steamboats: Exploring the Willamette River's Forgotten
Heritage (Jan 31)
Shanghai tunnels of Old Portland (Feb 20)
Oregon Trail Settlements & Paths:
Heritage Sites From Mt. Hood To Oregon City (Feb 21)
Lighthouses, Winter Storms, & Maritime
Folklore of Long Beach Peninsula (Feb 27)
Heritage Landmarks, Forts, & Houses of
Long Beach Peninsula (Feb 28)
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DETAILED CLASS INFORMATION
Exploring Historic
Troutdale, Wood Village, & Fairview
[New as of Jan, 16, 2001]--- 1
Credit
Graduate -- CRN: K3211B; CI:
810/Undergraduate -- CRN: K3211B; CI: 410
Instructor: Michael P. Jones, M.S. Fee: $120
Dates, Times, & Meeting Places: Jan. 16 (Tues.), 6-9 p.m. -- Rockwood
Library, 17917 S.E. Stark, Portland, OR.; and Jan. 20 (Sat.), 10-5:30 p.m.,
parking lot in front of Mikasa at Columbia Gorge Outlet Stores, Troutdale, OR.
(Cost includes all materials, entrance, & tour fees!)
The Oregon Trail emigrants began
settling three areas near the Columbia River in East Multnomah County beginning
in the 1850's. In 1855, Fairview became one of the newest towns in the Oregon
Territory. In 1880, a
short distance to the west, a portion of land at the mouth of the Sandy River
became known as Troutdale. However, it wasn't until 1951 that the area between
these two towns, Wood Village, officially was incorporated. All three towns have
a rich multi-cultural history that is awaiting exploration. Beginning with the
area's first inhabitants -- the Native Americans -- participants will learn
about this fascinating area that was utilized by indigenous people for over
10,000-plus years, then the coming of the Euro-Americans, the fur traders and
Mountain Men, the missionaries, and then the Oregon Trail emigrants and
early-day settlers. This class explores the history of Old Troutdale, Fairview,
and Wood Village from their Native American Heritage to the Lewis and Clark
Expedition, to the Steamboat era and poor farm, and even the role of Salmon
fishing. The participants in this class will visit important historical sites
and natural areas which will allow educators an opportunity to gather
information for developing teaching units and strengthening their curriculums.
Sacred
Landscapes: Heritage Buttes & Natural Areas of East Portland
[New as of Jan, 17, 2001]--- 1
credit
Graduate -- CRN: K3216B; CI: 810/Undergraduate -- CRN: K3216B; CI: 410
Instructor: Michael P. Jones, M.S. Fee: $115
Dates, Times, & Meeting Places: Jan. 17 (Wed.), 6-9 p.m. - Midland Library,
805 S.E. 122nd, Portland, OR.; and Jan. 21 (Sun.), 10-5:30
p.m. - parking lot of Home Depot at Mall 205, S.E. 102nd & Washington,
Portland, OR.
(Cost includes all material fees!)
The landscape that makes up East Portland
contains a number of special buttes and natural areas which represent a wealth
of Native American history ignored by both historians and naturalists, who look
upon these "greenspaces" as having little or no multi-cultural
educational value. These are heritage sites that represent traditional Native
American cultural and religious practices, not to mention oral history.
Participants will explore these special places and learn of the indigenous
way-of-life, cultural practices, and oral traditions of these First People and
their natural landscape of the past 10,000-plus years. Participants will visit a
variety of these cultural and natural sites, including Indian Rock, Oak Bottom,
Powell Butte, Kelly Butte, Mount Tabor, Mount Scott, and Beggar Tick Marsh, in
addition to traveling sections of several historic indigenous trails. Also
examined will be the laws that protect archaeological,
cultural, and historical sites; the politics of protecting sacred sites; and
methods to evaluate natural sites for cultural heritage, such as wetlands,
riparian areas, rock outcroppings, meadows, etc. Integrating this information
back into the classroom learning environment and how to strengthen your science
curriculums with history, geography, public-speaking and literature is also a
focus of this course.
Historic Ethnic
Communities of Old Town
[New as of Jan, 23, 2001]--- 1
credit
Graduate -- CRN: K3217B; CI: 810/Undergraduate -- CRN: K3217B; CI: 410
Instructor: Michael P. Jones, M.S. Fee: $135
Dates, Times, & Meeting Places: Jan. 23 (Tues.), 6-9 p.m. -- Rockwood
Library, 17917 S.E. Stark, Portland, OR.; and Jan. 27 (Sat.), 10-5:30 p.m. --
meet in front of the ticket machine at the MAX Gateway Light rail Station,
located behind Fred Meyer at S.E. 102nd & Halsey, Portland, OR.
(Cost includes all material, entrance fees, & complimentary lunch!)
Historically, from 1850 to 1941, Portland's
Old Town and adjacent waterfront areas earned a reputation for being the
"Worst Port in the World" for its shanghai trade. An estimated 1,500
unsuspecting victims each year, who were primarily sailors, loggers, river-men,
cowboys, ranch-hands, sheepherders, and drifters, found themselves being dropped
through trap doors, locked up in underground cells, and then taken through
tunnels that "snaked" their way beneath the cast-iron and brick
buildings that graced the cobblestone streets with their Victorian charm. Long
known as the "Old North End", or "White Chapel" because of
the ever-present violence, this was a part of the "City of Roses" that
most citizens were warned to stay out of. However, the area had another side to
it which most people were either unaware of or paid little attention to; ethnic
communities. Here, sandwiched in between those visible places of vice --
bootlegging joints, speak-easys, bordellos, gambling parlors, opium dens, and
nickel beer saloons -- was Japantown, Chinatown, and Gypsytown. This class
examines and explores not only the shanghai history of Old Town, but also the
other shocking histories that have been largely ignored: the Japanese from the
1880's up to their internment during World War II; the Chinese with their
development of Old Chinatown to the violence that forced the establishment of
New Chinatown; and the Gypsies who, after working the shipyards during the war,
found themselves aggressively targeted by new city ordinances that discriminated
against them. This class will assist participants in gathering new classroom
resources to help with expanding inter-disciplinary units and curriculums for
the study of Portland's little-known early maritime and ethnic history.
Aurora Colony,
Champoeg, & French Prairie Heritage Sites
[New as of Jan, 24, 2001]--- 1
credit
Graduate -- CRN: K3182B; CI: 810/Undergraduate -- CRN: K3182B; CI: 410
Instructor: Michael P. Jones, M.S. Fee: $120
Dates, Times, & Meeting Places: Jan. 24 (Wed.), 6-9 p.m. -- Rockwood
Library, 17917 S.E. Stark, Portland, OR.; and Jan. 28 (Sun.), 10-5:30 p.m. --
meet outside the Carnegie Art Center, 606 John Adams, Oregon City, OR.
(Cost includes all material & entrance fees!)
The settlements of the Aurora
Colony, Champoeg, and French Prairie held the "key" to Euro-American
control of the fertile Willamette Valley, not to mention the entire Northwest.
This class explores the history of the cultural uses of the Willamette River
landscapes by Native Americans, the role of the French-Canadian trappers and
their Indian wives, and later by Oregon Trail emigrants and other American
homesteaders. Studied will be the Aurora Colony (a German religious commune),
Champoeg (where Oregon's First Provisional Government was founded during what
became known as the "Wolf Meetings"), and the French Prairie Area,
examining their fascinating past by visiting these special places of Old Oregon,
which holds some ideal heritage educational sources for the study and
exploration of the rich history of the Old Oregon Country. This class will
explore the well-known and little-known history of these unique frontier
villages that played a significant role in the development of pioneer
agriculture and cottage industries that became the economic foundation in what
was then known as the "New Eden". Studied will be the unique way of
life, traditions, religious beliefs, cultural practices, architecture, and
folklore surrounding these special places of history by visiting and exploring
them first hand. A unique opportunity to gather information for developing
teaching units and strengthening classroom curriculums.
Exploring Historic
Silverton, Silver Creek Falls, & New Oregon Gardens
[New as of Jan, 30, 2001]--- 1
credit
Graduate -- CRN: K3215B; CI: 810/Undergraduate -- CRN:
K3215B; CI: 410
Instructor: Michael P. Jones, M.S. Fee: $120
Dates, Times, & Meeting Places: Jan. 30 (Tues.), 6-9 p.m. -- Rockwood
Library, 17917 S.E. Stark, Portland, OR.; and Feb. 3 (Sat.), 10-5:30 p.m. --
meet outside the Carnegie Art Center, 606 John Adams, Oregon City, OR.
(Cost includes all material & entrance fees!)
Silverton and the nearby Silver Creek
Falls are located along an ancient Native American trail and have a rich
multi-cultural heritage that has been rarely recognized. From its beginnings as
cultural and religious sites utilized by indigenous people for over 10,000 years
before the coming of the Euro-Americans, to its later-day Hudson's Bay Bompany,
Oregon Trail, and gold rush history, this area of settlement, agriculture, and
timber became a "key" in the link between the Willamette Valley and
California. When this crude path became designated as a Territorial Road,
overland stages arrived and established a route that crossed over Waldo Hills to
Lebanon, Brownsville, Coburg, and Eugene, eventually passing through a
"gap" in the Calapooya Mountains and then reaching to destinations far
beyond. Today, another history is being made by the New Oregon Gardens, which
features 150 acres of native vegetation and some unique natural landscapes.
Participants in this class will visit important historical sites and natural
areas in Silverton, which will allow educators an opportunity to gather
information for developing teaching units and strengthening their curriculums.
Ghosts
of the Steamboats: Exploring the Willamette River's Forgotten Heritage
[New as of Jan, 31, 2001]--- 1
credit
Graduate -- CRN: K3214B; CI: 810/Undergraduate -- CRN: K3214B; CI: 410
Instructor: Michael P. Jones, M.S. Fee: $115
Dates, Times, & Meeting Places: Jan. 31 (Wed.), 6-9 p.m. -- Midland Library,
805 S.E. 122nd, Portland, OR.; and Feb. 4 (Sun.), 10-5:30 p.m. --
meet outside in front of the Carnegie Art Center, 606 John Adams, Oregon City,
OR. (Cost includes all material & entrance fees!)
Remnant-traces of the
once-great steamboats still occupy portions of the changing landscape of the
Willamette River. From the quiet landings to the bustling cities and towns to
the out-of-the-way places identified by stacks of cordwood where paddle-wheelers
and side-wheelers purchased their fuel, this history is still here awaiting
discovery. In the past, these riverboats would blow their whistles to signal
their stop at a host of landings where they would deliver mail, take aboard
passengers, and pick up or distribute needed supplies to isolated farms,
communities, and towns, as well as to haul aboard agricultural goods destined
for the marketplace. This class will take you back to those times when these
flat-bottomed vessels would "blow for the landing" in what was then
known as the "New Eden", and escort participants to the remnants of a
fascinating history just waiting to be rediscovered. This educational excursion
will take the participants to the former sites of steamboat landings, the places
where they were constructed, and to the settlements that were not only built by
the steamboat traffic but depended upon them for their survival. This class will
allow participants to develop some unique sources to enhance their learning
units and curriculums by integrating history, science, storytelling, and
literature.
Shanghai
tunnels of Old Portland: Exploring A Hidden & Infamous Waterfront
History
[New as of July, 24,
2000]--- 1 credit
Graduate -- CRN: K3181B; CI: 810/Undergraduate -- CRN:
K3181B; CI: 410
Instructor: Michael P. Jones, M.S. Fee: $130
Dates. Times, & Meeting Places: Tues., Feb. 20 (6-9 p.m.) -- Rockwood
Library, 17917 S.E. Stark, Portland, OR.; and Feb. 24 (Sat.), 10-5:30 p.m. --
parking lot in front of Home Depot at Mall 205, S.E. 102nd & Washington,
Portland, OR. (Cost includes all material, entrance fees, & complimentary
dinner!)
"Portland
Underground" has an infamous history that has survived the passage of time
and the progress of change. Solidly-constructed tunnels, fashioned out of stone
and brick and built during the time buildings were constructed, still
"snake" their presence beneath the streets of Old Portland, and
represent an important and shocking piece of the history of the West Coast
shanghai trade that earned the "City of Roses" the dubious reputation
of being "the worst port in the world". This class reveals a hidden
and little-known, but very intriguing, history of maritime trade in "human cargo" through a series of explorations of this "Underground"
that is made up of silent cells, trap doors, and catacombs that link darkened
basements and historic landmarks with the past that has not yet found its way
into the history books. This class allows you to explore 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 learned first hand about
the "darkness and shadows" of this river town that hid its corruption
well. Individuals who frequented places of vice, such as saloons, gambling
parlors, opium dens, and other establishments of lesser reputations, would be
given "knock-out drops" or find themselves dropped through trap doors
into basements, where they were held hostage in make-shift cells, until,
finally, they were taken through tunnels out to the wharfs and sold to sea
captains bound for the Orient. So many were sold for "blood money"
that Portland became the "Shanghai Capital of the World". Participants
will venture into the remnants of the "Underground" that have
survived, along with their oral history, and experience a unique piece of the
past. You'll never view the history of Portland and the West Coast the same as
you explore this "skullduggerry" that also included bootlegging, white
slavery, and opium smuggling. An ideal way to enrich your curriculums and study
units in this course that takes you into "Underground".
Oregon
Trail Settlements & Paths: Heritage Sites From Mt. Hood To Oregon City
[New as of Feb, 21, 2001]--- 1
credit
Graduate -- CRN: K3210B; CI: 810/Undergraduate -- CRN:
K3210B; CI: 410
Instructor: Michael P. Jones, M.S. Fee: $115
Dates, Times, & Meeting Places: Feb. 21 (Wed.), 6-9 p.m. - Midland Library,
805 S.E. 122nd, Portland, OR.; and Feb 25 (Sun.),
10-5:30 p.m. - "Stage Stop Road Interpretative Center", 24525 E.
Welches Rd., Village of Welches, OR.
(Cost includes all material fees!)
The rich heritage of trails
from Mt. Hood to Oregon City resembles a frayed rope that dates back over 11,000
years, first utilized by the Native Americans, then the fur traders, the Oregon
Trail emigrants, and early-day settlers. These important historic paths extend
from the Mountain's western foothills into the Willamette Valley and far beyond.
The stories behind these unique and historical thoroughfares provide a rich
multi-cultural history featuring indigenous people, the Mountain Men, the Oregon
Trail and the Barlow Trail, and other pioneer users. This class provides
participants with the opportunity to follow both the well-known and little-known
paths of history by visiting campsites, stream crossings, pioneer settlements,
former villages, graveyards and final resting sites, and natural areas utilized
by the First People. From this "passage" through the Cascade Mountains
to the "New Eden", this unique class will follow the old wagon roads
on both the north and south side of the Sandy River, and view firsthand the
places where Native Americans traveled as well as the great historical migration
of white emigrants who traversed through a rugged and unforgiving landscape of
the Cascades. An ideal way to learn how to integrate history, storytelling,
science, and literature together, and how to incorporate this information back
into your classroom learning environment, as well as to develop new ideas to
enhance curriculums.
Lighthouses,
Winter Storms, & Maritime Folklore of Long Beach Peninsula
[New as of Feb, 27,
2001]--- 1 credit
Graduate -- CRN: K3212B; CI: 810/Undergraduate -- CRN: K3212B;
CI: 410
Instructor: Michael P. Jones, M.S. Fee: $135
Dates, Times, & Meeting Places: Feb. 27 (Tues.), 6-9 p.m. -- Rockwood
Library, 17917 S.E. Stark, Portland, OR.; and March 3 (Sat.), 10-5:30 p.m. --
meet in front of Northwest Maritime Museum, Astoria, OR.
(Cost includes all material & entrance fees!)
The impressive history of the
lighthouses on the Long Beach Peninsula in Washington State represents a rich
heritage worthy of preserving for future generations. This class focuses upon
the oral traditions and folklore of this rich maritime history, on the same
landscape as the winter storms that pound this stretch of land on the Pacific
Ocean near the "mouth" of the Columbia River. Held in a historic
lighthouse keeper's residence and other historical landmarks, participants will
take a step back into time as they explore the 1890 Cape Disappointment
Lighthouse and the 1898 North Head Lighthouse, as the tragedies that led to
their construction are unveiled through historical interpretations, site
visitations, and storytelling. Here, where the sea meets this "Great River
of the West", is what has been long-known as the "Graveyard of
Ships" -- an unforgiving place where thousands of ships have sunk and
hundreds of people have lost their lives. Learn about the ocean-going canoes
Native Americans utilized on these same treacherous waters for fishing, whaling,
and trading long before the coming of the Euro-American explorers, the maritime
fur traders, and Eden-seeking white pioneers. A most unique way to develop
various classroom curriculums and units that blend history, environmental
science, literature, writing, and even public speaking.
Heritage
Landmarks, Forts, & Houses of Long Beach Peninsula
[New as of Feb, 28,
2001]--- 1 credit
Graduate -- CRN: K3213B; CI: 810/Undergraduate -- CRN:
K3213B; CI: 410
Instructor: Michael P. Jones, M.S. Fee: $135
Dates, Times, & Meeting Places: Feb. 28 (Wed.), 6-9 p.m. -- Midland Library,
805 S.E. 122nd, Portland, OR.; and March 4 (Sun.), 10-5:30 p.m. -- meet in
front of Ilwaco Heritage Museum, Ilwacco, OR.
(Cost includes all material & entrance fees!)
Surviving the passage of time, the historical
landmarks, forts, and grand old houses of Washington's Long Beach Peninsula
represent the remnants of a fascinating maritime heritage just waiting to be
explored. With buildings dating back to the time of the Eden-seeking white
emigrants, forts actually located at sites identified by Lewis and Clark's
"Corps of Discovery" during the years 1804-1805, and structures
constructed by the sea for the "keepers of lights" (lighthouses), this
is a history that is fading before us as this new century begins. Participants
will learn about these special buildings by actually visiting them and studying
their architecture firsthand. They will visit Civil War bunkers at Fort Columbia
and Fort Canby, the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center, the Colberg House, the
Oysterville Church and Oysterville School, and many other landmarks scattered
from Ilwaco to Ocean Park. An ideal way to develop new classroom curriculums and
units.