Oregon

Every year hundreds of thousands visit the International Rose Test Garden each year in Portland, Oregon. This famous Oregon site is home to more than 8,000 roses received from all over the United States and the rest of the globe since World War I.

Common salt has played an important role in history. For the men of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, salt was very desirable to season their meat. They established a saltworks about 15 miles from where they spent the winter of 1805-1806 at hastily constructed Fort Clatsop. You can visit their saltworks ...

Melodrama and vaudeville are alive and well in Coquille, Oregon. For 37 years the local residents of the city of Coquille, Oregon, and the surrounding South Coast area of Oregon have put on lively and highly entertaining performances of the melodramas of the late 19th and early part of the 20th ...

The annual pilgrimage to world-famous Schreiner's Iris Gardens is a ritual for many families in northern Oregon, including my own. At Schreiner's you can view hundreds of varieties of Iris as you stroll through ten acres of gardens.

Oregon welcomes a slew of Olympic winners back home.

Come visit this month's featured inn = Santiam River Resort in Sweet Home, Oregon.

What are the holidays without the tangy goodness of cranberries from Oregon?

Sue Barton reviews the books in Oregn Author, Kay Allenbaugh's "Chocolate for Women" series. Included in this review is Chocolate for a Woman's Blessing, which was contributed to by Suite101.com's Mary Alward.

Ninth in a series of interviews with Contributing Editors from Oregon. Highlighted is General Military editor, Dennis Morehouse.

Finally! Miss Oregon, Katie Harman, is the first Miss America from Oregon.