McMenamins History Pubs: Uncover Oregon’s People and Places

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McMenamins History Pub invites you to explore Oregon and Pacific Northwest history.

Enjoy an evening with local experts, scholars, first-person experiencers and historians who dive into topics from Lewis and Clark to shipwrecks, hop growing to women pioneers and beyond.

McMenamins History Pub is like attending a college lecture with a stiff drink and full menu of tasty food.

Here are the upcoming events.

Upcoming McMenamins History Pub Events

Oregon Moonshine: Bootleggers, Busts and Brawls

Author Bruce Haney chronicles the history of Oregon moonshine. Hear about how outlaw moonshiners engaged in car chases, shootouts, and even attempted an assassination to protect their hidden distilleries and way of life.

This event is at 7 p.m. on Monday, January 12, at Edgefield, 2126 SW Halsey St. in Troutdale.

Tickets are $5 in advance. All ages are welcome.

Andrew Carnegie Libraries of Oregon

Oregon’s traveling historian Darrell Jabin shares how these libraries came to be, and stories of community efforts to open them.

This event is at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, January 14, at Grand Lodge, 3505 Pacific Ave. in Forest Grove.

Tickets are $5 in advance. All ages are welcome.

Amache: An American Injustice

Amache: An American Injustice tells the story of the unjust incarceration of 120,000 innocent Japanese Americans during WWII. The documentary screening is followed by a discussion and Q&A with director Josh Banyard, Executive Director of JAMO Hanako Wakatsuki-Chong, former Executive Director Lynn Fuchigami of JAMO, and John Hasegawa, head of Mt. Hood Community College Ceramics Department.

The event is at 7 p.m. on Monday, January 26, at Kennedy School in 5736 NE 33rd Ave.

Tickets are $5 in advance. All ages are welcome.

A Man Called York

Oregon Black Pioneers Executive Director Zachary Stocks shares a detailed biography of York, an enslaved man who took part in the Lewis and Clark Expedition from 1803-1806.

The event is at 7 p.m. on Monday, February 9, at Edgefield, 2126 SW Halsey St. in Troutdale.

Tickets are $5 in advance. All ages are welcome.

First Fruits: The Lewellings and the Birth of the Pacific Coast Fruit Industry

Author Linda Ziedrich tells to story of the Pacific coast fruit industry and how the Lewelling brothers hauled a wagonload of fruit trees to Oregon from Iowa in 1847.

The event is at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, February 11, at Grand Lodge, 3505 Pacific Ave. in Forest Grove.

Tickets are $5 in advance. All ages are welcome.

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