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Welcome to AVA’s monthly calendar of events. Take a peek and plan your stay-cation or your next visit to our region. The city’s most notable annual events include historic home tours, outdoor summer concerts and movies under the stars, and the Northwest Art and Air Festival.
*Note for event organizers: If you’d like to have your event listed on the AVA calendar, head over to our contact page and submit your event to us.
Sponsored by Albany Regional Museum in partnership with Riverside Cemetery, the 14th annual History Through Headstones self-guided tour features docents presenting the historical contributions of local medical practitioners. This event is free to attend. Can’t make it on May 22? No worries! Signage will remain up at Riverside Cemetery following this event with QR codes. Once you scan the QR code with your smart phone, you will have access to a narration of the lives of this year’s subjects.
Photo credit: “Riverside Cemetary Heart of Linn County Genealogy” by Kimberly Richards
What: Get Outdoors Day/Un Día en el Bosque
Free family fun in the forest. Dozens of activities to help get families excited about the outdoors.
When: June 1, 2024, 10 am to 3 pm
Where: Peavy Arboretum, Corvallis, OR
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Speaker, Michael Henich, will share his journey of restoring the famous 1915 Model T Ford touring car that once belonged to the Peacock Family.
Visitors will also get a chance to see the car in person in the parking lot of the Museum following the presentation!
History Bites is free to attend. Admission to exhibits is now fee-based, but always free for members!
Light refreshments will be provided.
Come to the Native American Cultural Encampments summer of 2024, with Deitrich Peters and friends. The public is invited to come learn about Native culture, explore handcrafts and items for sale, watch the Pow-wow style dancing (there is usually one dance where you are invited to participate) and practice traditional skills and crafts. Listen to some beautiful flute playing, enjoy stories, explore the drum and more. Many different tribes are represented at these gatherings.
SCEC will be there with a table showing Kalapuya Ways items of material culture, and presenting different crafts classes and atlatl throwing. Karen Rainsong, our Executive Director, presents this teaching and may also tell a few Kalapuya stories.
On Sunday mid-afternoon there is a big feast where everyone can eat for free. No need to RSVP. Please join the fun!
DATES
June 29th – June 30th Roaring River County Park in Scio
July 19- 21, Waterloo County Park in Lebanon
Aug 23 – 25, Cascadia County Park in Sweethome
Continuing to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Albany General Hospital, Regina Leytem, RN, CPAN, and Kim Sass will team up to offer local stories expressing the ever-changing nursing profession. Individuals from the 1850s to 2024 will be highlighted. Regina has been a nurse for nearly 50 years and currently works in the SAGH peri-operative care unit. Kim is a retired hospital employee and Albany history enthusiast.
History Bites is free to attend. Admission to exhibits is now fee-based, but always free for members!
Light refreshments will be provided.
What is a cultural encampment?
Cultural encampment is a group of Native Americans from different parts of the United States coming together, making village-type settings with tipis and tents. We share our individual cultures and traditional information with the community.
Many moons ago, traveling through an area, you might see groups of tipis or tents for a short time in each area. There were there to gather together, trade or meet family members and to celebrate life by having a big feast as they traveled from one area to another.
Activities
See our schedule on site for daily activities.
Craft classes, materials provided
Pow-Wow style dancing, including a dance where anyone can participate
Shopping at booths
Raffle – Many great prizes to win!
Field activities such as atlatl throwing
Explore nature nearby at the river and park grounds
Lunchtime feast on Sunday, all are welcome
DATES
July 20 and 21, Waterloo County Park, 39510 Gross St, Lebanon, OR
SAVE THE DATE: The 45th Summer Interior Tour of Historic Homes will be held 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, July 27, in Albany, Oregon. Several lovely historic homes will be open for touring, as well as the Monteith House, Albany Regional Museum, and other historic buildings.
More details to come. Tickets will go on sale online in June.
Visitors are asked to please not touch items in the homes and to not take photos or video while inside.
Proceeds from Albany’s Interior Tour of Historic Homes benefit the Monteith House Museum.
Photo by Melinda Martin.
