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The Evergreen

Oregon Public Broadcasting

OPB’s weekly podcast creates an audio portrait of the Pacific Northwest. We tell the stories of the people, places, communities and cultures that make up this region. It’s a podcast about the place YOU live, the places you love, and the geography you feel connected to.

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27:44

What the horsewomen of the Hen Party found in Eastern...

The Evergreen ·

2024/09/30

For some 30 years in the early 20th century, Oregonian Jean Birnie led a trailblazing group of horsewomen called the Hen Party on annual horse packing trips in northeastern Oregon’s Wallowa Mountains. Inspired by their legacy, a group of Hen Party descendents retraced the steps of their foremothers on an adventure into the Wallowas of their own, almost a century later.OPB “Oregon Field Guide” producer Jule Gilfillan went along to document their journey. She

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39:02

What to do with the bounty of Oregon’s harvest

The Evergreen ·

2024/09/23

It’s that time of year when many Oregonians are enjoying an abundance of garden produce. Evergreen host Jenn Chávez learned about making blackberry jam and got some advice on what to do with her own garden peppers from Heather Arndt Anderson, the food writer and culinary historian behind OPB’s Superabundant newsletter. OPB’s Crystal Ligori offers us a window into the history of Oregon’s fish canning industry as well as its future. And we get to

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18:51

Disaster 101: What do you need in your emergency kit?

The Evergreen ·

2024/09/16

On today’s episode, we’re preparing for disasters. Whether it’s extreme heat, wildfires or a looming earthquake – we know how unpredictable disasters in the Pacific Northwest can be. What are some things we can have prepared in an emergency like this? OPB’s lands and environmental policies reporter April Ehrlich, who’s reported on and experienced wildfires, gives us tips on what to include in your emergency kit, what to do if you have to

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21:45

Radical Oregonian Marie Equi’s Legacy Lives On

The Evergreen ·

2024/09/09

Who was the badass woman who became the namesake for Portland’s only lesbian bar? Dr. Marie Equi was born in 1872 and came to Oregon at the age of 20. She became known as a radical and lived an extraordinary life. She was a fierce advocate for women’s rights and reproductive freedom as well as an activist for workers’ rights. She staged a one-woman anti-war protest during World War I. She was also a physician and lived openly as a lesbian. You can watch the

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21:56

How the Pacific Northwest is shaping coffee culture

The Evergreen ·

2024/09/02

When people think of the Pacific Northwest, along with gray skies and evergreen trees, coffee often comes to mind. That’s because some of the most iconic modern coffee brands — Starbucks, Stumptown, Dutch Bros — all call our region home. For a place that doesn’t even grow coffee, we’ve had an outsized influence on the global coffee culture and are continuing to shape its future. Crystal Ligori tells us the story.Watch Crystal’s documentary

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44:17

Hush: The State of Oregon v. Jesse Lee Johnson

The Evergreen ·

2024/08/26

On March 20,1998, police in Salem, Oregon, discovered the body of a 28-year-old Harriet Thompson inside her apartment. Within a week, they arrested Jesse Johnson for murder. Johnson drifted west after a troubled childhood in Arkansas and a stint in prison there. In Salem, he was known around town as a homeless drug user. A random encounter with Thompson the week before she was killed changed Johnson’s life forever.This week The Evergreen listeners get a special sneak

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55:45

Music across boundaries, music as home: Diaspora...

The Evergreen ·

2024/08/19

American country music, sometimes described as ‘three chords and the truth,’ can be a great vehicle for storytelling. And many songs share a nostalgia for a certain idea of home. But for those whose ancestors have traveled long distances, home can often be a messy concept. A few years ago, three Oregon musicians and artists started getting together to play and share music, informally calling themselves Diaspora Songs. They are all lovers of country and folk music, as

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21:35

Music and spiders woven together with web science....

The Evergreen ·

2024/08/12

What if a spider could play the harp?OK, sure, there aren’t spider virtuosos in little tuxedos out there performing harp concerts. But there IS a harp-like musical instrument inspired by a spider’s web, complete with a mechanical spider perched in the middle, and it was dreamt up in Oregon. It’s meant to simulate how spiders use vibrations in their webs to understand the world around them. Scientists at Oregon State University wanted to explore how these

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15:24

Pig-N-Ford tradition endures in Tillamook County

The Evergreen ·

2024/08/05

You may be familiar with ferris wheels, funnel cakes, quilting competitions, and demolition derbies. But the Tillamook County Fair has a unique event you’ve probably never heard of: Pig-N Ford races. Racers hold piglets while driving around a dirt track on stripped down Ford Model T cars (sounds cute, right?) The tradition has endured for close to 100 years and some families have been racing for generations. OPB Oregon Field Guide producer Ian McCluskey takes us to

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27:10

Can honey make computers faster and cleaner?

The Evergreen ·

2024/07/29

Honey may be one of the weirder things you’ll see in a science lab. But researchers at Washington State University Vancouver say honey is key to what they’re working on: faster, cleaner computers.OPB’s science reporter Jes Burns learned about their research - including the effort to make computer chips work more like human brains - and gives us an inside look. You can check out Jes’s full coverage of this story in her recent episode of “All

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27:15

How abandoned veteran remains in Oregon funeral homes...

The Evergreen ·

2024/07/22

Carolyn Arntson and Denise Hatch have spent the past few years sorting through thousands of old cardboard boxes abandoned at Oregon funeral homes with one goal in mind: to find the remains of veterans, and get them interred at Willamette National Cemetery. OPB general assignment reporter Joni Auden Land has been following these women on their journey and tells us how the two sifted through boxes of ashes to finally give Oregon veterans a proper burial.For more Evergreen

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29:25

Marking Pride with intergenerational conversations...

The Evergreen ·

2024/07/15

June is officially Pride month, but queer celebrations spill over into July – Portland Pride is this weekend. And of course, queer visibility shouldn’t be limited to one month of the year; it’s important all the time. Pride is about celebrating queer communities and it’s also a chance to learn about queer history. We bring you two intergenerational conversations about the importance of history, and combating queer erasure with friendship and resilience

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32:20

Is there a cult in Ashland?

The Evergreen ·

2024/07/08

Oregon has a unique history with cults — remember Rajneeshpuram, the inspiration for the docuseries Wild Wild Country? A spiritual group known as TwinRay is based in Ashland, Oregon. The leaders dress in all white and charge thousands of dollars for online classes. Are they a cult? OPB reporter Leah Sottile fills us in on the details. You can read her recent article on TwinRay here.For more Evergreen episodes and to share your voice with us, visit our showpage. Follow

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28:14

At Work With a taffy maker, a rural mail carrier and...

The Evergreen ·

2024/07/01

Hi! It’s Jenn Chávez, host of The Evergreen. When I’m walking around, I often wonder about the lives of people I see at work, in different professions. What made them want to have that job in the first place? Is it hard? Do they see themselves doing that forever?Lucky for me, I have the perfect job to ask people those questions. For our latest “At Work With” episode, where we talk to a Pacific Northwesterners with cool jobs and ask them your

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23:55

Water rights in much of Oregon are still based on...

The Evergreen ·

2024/06/24

Water rights are super confusing. In the face of ongoing drought, farms, homes, wildlife and commercial users like golf courses and resorts are all competing for this precious resource. OPB’s Central Oregon Bureau Chief Emily Cureton Cook joins us to help shed some light on the situation and what changes could be on the horizon.For more coverage on Oregon’s struggle with drought and water usage, check out Emily’s deep dive here. For more Evergreen episodes

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24:55

Oregon had a goal to graduate all high school...

The Evergreen ·

2024/06/17

Last week, we introduced you to OPB’s Class of 2025 project, where we are following a class of kindergarteners on their journey all the way through high school. The idea stems from a goal Oregon set more than a decade ago – a 100% high school graduation rate by 2025. As the Class of 2025 has grown, so has Oregon. That once tall order of a 100% high school graduation rate is no longer the goal. Oregon’s new governor Tina Kotek has another goal in mind: 90% high

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A window into the Class of 2025, and what keeps...

The Evergreen ·

2024/06/10

Over a decade ago, former Oregon governor John Kitzhaber announced an aspirational goal to improve the state’s low-ranking high school graduation rate. His mission: a 100% graduation by 2025.If successful, Oregon would catapult its rock-bottom national ranking to the top. It was a very ambitious goal. And so back in 2012 - when ‘Call Me Maybe’ was the song you heard everywhere - OPB set out on a very ambitious goal too. We decided to document the stories of a

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32:18

Remembering Rip City icon Bill Walton

The Evergreen ·

2024/06/03

NBA Hall-of-Famer, Portland Trail Blazers legend and Northwest icon Bill Walton died recently at the age of 71. He’s known as one of the most beloved Blazers of all time, credited with leading the team to its first NBA Championship in 1977. He’s also remembered as a freewheeling sportscaster, a devoted Deadhead, a young activist, a bike-lover and so much more. It’s clear from the many remembrances of him since his death how much he meant to fans across the

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30:17

At Portland’s largest outdoor homeless shelter,...

The Evergreen ·

2024/05/27

The U.S. Supreme Court is currently considering a case out of Grants Pass that asks whether cities can punish people for living outdoors if there’s not enough shelter space for them to go to instead. Clinton Triangle, a large, low-barrier, outdoor shelter in Southeast Portland, is supposed to be the city’s model for how to serve chronically homeless Portlanders, and allow the city to enforce its camping ban policy. We visited the shelter with OPB’s Portland

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How homelessness in Grants Pass made it to the...

The Evergreen ·

2024/05/20

A case currently before the U.S. Supreme Court centers around this question: can cities punish people for living outdoors if there’s no other place for them to go? The court’s ruling, which is expected as early as June, could change homelessness policy nationwide — and it all started in Grants Pass, Oregon. Street Roots Newspaper reporter Jeremiah Hayden spent time in Grants Pass & covered oral arguments in Grants Pass v. Johnson in Washington, DC. He joins

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