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The Stars Have Beckoned Us: Part Four of “Walking the High Desert”

Musings on the stars of the High Desert, from Ellen Waterston’s new book
Avatar photo Ellen Waterston

In the last edition of our excerpts from Ellen Waterston‘s “Walking the High Desert: Encounters with Rural America Along the Oregon Desert Trail,” the author began to describe one wonder of the High Desert Trail: Pine Mountain Observatory. She continues musing on the stars in Part 4, our final installment of the book. But how […]

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Walking the High Desert: A Mountain is Pretty Sure to Figure

One of the “highs” along the Oregon Desert Trail, at 6300 feet, is Pine Mountain.
Avatar photo Ellen Waterston

Part three of our serial excerpts of Ellen Waterston’s new book, “Walking the High Desert: Encounters with Rural America Along the Oregon Desert Trail. In this excerpt, we begin part one of Chapter 4. A Mountain is Pretty Sure to Figure One of the “highs” along the Oregon Desert Trail, at sixty-three hundred feet, is Pine […]

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Banding Together

Musicians in the Central Oregon scene join forces to throw a two-night music festival
Avatar photo Isaac Biehl

There’s an abundance of good music coming out of Central Oregon. You might not always find it if you don’t know where to look (our calendar helps)—but that’s part of the reason local bands are taking matters into their own hands with a new festival hosted at the Volcanic Theatre Pub. Appropriately titled the High […]

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Out to Dry

Can one below-average snowpack year make or break a high desert summer?
Avatar photo K.M. Collins

On the Lower Deschutes River near Warm Springs, Alysia and Elke Littleleaf recall the effects of the drought in 2015, brought on by low snowpack. Warm Springs had to go on emergency rations for home water usage, recalls the pair, owners of Littleleaf Fishing Guides. Alysia also recalls blooms of green and blue algae, black […]

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Museum’s Art of the West Exhibit to Feature 38 Artists

Opening reception for the exhibition and silent auction is July 21
Hayley Jo Murphy

Bend, OR—Art of the West is the High Desert Museum’s annual exhibition and silent auction of fine art depictions of the western U.S. by contemporary artists. This year’s exhibition features 59 works by 38 artists including Charley Griswold, Meg Kahnle, Julie Oriet, Dan Rickards and Craig Zuger, to name a few. The public is invited […]

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High Fiber Arts Symposium

Hayley Jo Murphy

This coming weekend is the Scalehouse’s first interactive High Fiber Arts Symposium, on Friday, May 13 and Saturday, May 14. The mission of the Scalehouse is to create programs and events that promote creative thinking, innovation and collaboration in Bend and this symposium does exactly that! Through a weekend of speakers, panel discussions, workshops and […]

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