The OCHCOM is proud to sponsor
The Dream Burns Away
At the edge of the dream
there’s a curl of smoke and flame.
It’s a love letter sent
long ago. The lovers
are lost in the phantom of time.
Nothing remains,
except ashes and the rain.
Walt Curtis
Written 40 years ago,
recreated from memory
after the fire—because
he can’t find the original copy.
May 30, 2010
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Exhibition and Events – Spring 2010
Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission
in cooperation with
U.S. Forest Service
Forestry Commission Scotland
World Forestry Center
cordially invites you to a
special work-in-progress screening of the documentary
Finding David Douglas
7 pm, Thursday, April 8, 2010
World Forestry Center—Miller Hall
Oregon Zoo stop on blue and red light rail lines
8-9:30 pm Brief audience Q & A followed by Reception
david.douglas.screening@gmail.com for further information.
Tickets will be sold at Miller Hall the evening of the event only if still available.
Afternoon Program—Free
2-3:30 pm—talks by two visiting members of the Production Team:
Botanist Dr. Gordon Mason, Sheffield, England, Winston Churchill Fellow
“Following in the Footsteps of David Douglas"
Syd House, Conservator, Forestry Commission Scotland, Perth & Argyll Conservancy
“Out of Oregon, The Story of Reforesting Scotland & the Contributions of the Pacific Northwest and the Trees Discovered by David Douglas in 1825-1834”
A tri-national production—Scotland, England, and the U.S.—Finding David Douglas establishes David Douglas in the United Kingdom while focusing on his second and third visits to North America in the 1820s and ’30s. During his time here, Douglas documented hundreds of botanical species and is credited with more than 200 scientific discoveries, including wild iris, red current, Brown’s peony, ponderosa pine, and Douglas fir, fittingly named for him. Douglas-credited species are staples in gardens throughout the world, and Scottish forests today are largely made up by offspring of the very trees he brought home.
The film transports viewers to England and Scotland; treks through locations in California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia; sweeps across the high Canadian Rockies to York Factory on the shores of Hudson Bay; and reaches Douglas’s mysterious final destination on the Big Island of Hawaii. It brings to life his years exploring the Pacific Northwest, and details his relations with people from the Hudson’s Bay Company and the many tribes he visited. David Douglas emerges as a thorough-going scientist, an insightful author, and hardy adventurer, far exceeding the requirements of his work.
Viewers will learn about a major figure in scientific history and be inspired by the Grass Man’s relentless efforts to bring the verdure of our then distant region into the world’s botanical treasury.
Lois Leonard is director of Finding David Douglas, a project of Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission. We welcome to this screening forester Syd House of Scotland and botanist Gordon Mason of England, lead members of the production team. Primary film sponsors are the U.S. Forest Service and Forestry Commission Scotland. OCHC thanks World Forestry Center for its efforts and collaboration.
Exhibition and Events – Fall 2009
“Dorothea Lange in Oregon: 1939 Farm Security Administration Photos
”Exhibition free to the public at Littman Gallery, Smith Center, Room 250
Tuesday - Friday Noon – 4 pm Saturday 10 am – 2 pm
For further information or new developments – more is in the offing:
Website: www.ochcom.org
Email: encanto@ochcom.org
