OLLI-UO Portland Events

Ingredients: The Local Food Movement Takes Root
A documentary film
Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 1:00 p.m.
Open Screening

This documentary film is a seasonal exploration of the local food movement and “a journey that reveals the people behind the movement to bring good food back to the table and health back to our communities.” Ingredients is locally produced by Portland-based Optic Nerve Productions.

An Afternoon with Oregon Author, R. Gregory Nokes
Massacred for Gold, The Chinese in Hells Canyon Wednesday, January 13, 2010, 2:00 p.m.

OLLI Members and their friends are encouraged to read Massacred for Gold, The Chinese in Hells Canyon and join author, R. Gregory Nokes, for an up-close and personal discussion of his work and novel. Hailed as "the first authoritative account of the long-forgotten 1887 massacre of as many as thirty-four Chinese gold miners in Oregon's Hells Canyon, the deepest canyon in North America," this book explores the atrocities of the massacre and its ensuing cover-up. Nokes also "examines the once-substantial presence of Chinese laborers in the interior Pacific Northwest, describing why they came, how their efforts contributed to the region's development, and how often mistreatment and abuse were their only reward."

Nokes has served twenty-five years with The Associated Press and fifteen with The Oregonian. With The AP, Nokes worked as an economist and diplomatic correspondent.