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• How Much Do You Really Know About Oregon’s History?

  • When
    12 Feb 2026
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    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Willamette Heritage Center, Dye House, 1313 Mill St Salem Oregon, 97301

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  Thursday, February 12, 2026

  As Oregon celebrates its 167th birthday, how much do you really know about your state's history? Join Willamette Heritage Center Curator Kylie Pine for an interactive trivia program designed to test your knowledge of Oregon's history. 

  
  

  Speaker: 

  Kylie Pine, Curator and Collections Manager

  Willamette Heritage Center

  
  

  
  

  Kylie Pine oversees collections care and exhibit development at the Willamette Heritage Center, where she brings history to life through thoughtful curation and community engagement. A proud graduate of the Salem-Keizer School District and Willamette University, she earned her master’s degree in museum studies from the University of Washington.

  
  

  She has taught anthropology at Western Oregon University and served on the board of the Oregon State Hospital Museum of Mental Health. Her award-winning work—recognized by the Oregon Heritage Commission—includes exhibits on:

  • Textile and mill history
  • Rail heritage and Southern Pacific section housing
  • Oregon Trail and pioneer life
  • Japanese American incarceration and resilience
  • Historic homes and Salem’s early families

  Rooted in her hometown of Salem, Kylie feels privileged to preserve and share her deep knowledge of Willamette Valley history with enthusiasm and heart.

  
  

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• Animals in Our Lives and Literature

  • When
    26 Feb 2026
  •  
    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Willamette Heritage Center, Dye House, 1313 Mill St Salem Oregon, 97301

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  Thursday, February 26, 2026

  Welcome to our 10th Annual Salem Reads Program!  Presented in partnership with the Salem Public Library Foundation and Salem Reads: One Book One Community.  The book selection this year is Remarkably Bright Creatures, by Shelby Van Pelt.

  
  

  Speaker: 

  Emily Plec, 

  Professor of Communication

  Western Oregon University

  
  

  
  

  Where do our ideas about other animals come from? How do our personal experiences and media consumption shape our perceptions of the more than human world? And how are our relationships with nonhumans impacted by the stories we hear and tell-about ourselves and about them? In this talk, we'll explore the ways that narratives (including those told by non-human narrators) can offer us what one famous theorist called 'equipment for living' in a society and in an era increasingly marked by fear, alienation, isolation and disconnection.  Participants will learn about the current state of animal studies in communication and have opportunities to share their own experiences and perspectives on the topic.

  
  

  Emily Plec (PhD, University of Utah, MA, University of New Mexico) is professor of Communication at Western Oregon University, where she teaches courses in rhetoric, media, sport, intercultural, environmental and animal communication.  Editor of Perspectives on Human-Animal Communication: Internatural Communication (Routledge, 2013), Plec advocates for a Communication discipline that considers a meaningful interaction to be a more-than-human enterprise.  Her scholarship on humans focuses on communication and social justice with emphases on: the rhetoric on racism in sports, the discourse of women leaders, the labor rights of farmworkers, prison communication and death penalty discourse, and environmental communication pedagogy and practice.

  Program Sponsors:

  Jan & Les Margosian

  Event Details:

  Doors open at 11:30

  Program starts at 12:00

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