US EditionThe Complex History of Oregon Country Fair: Hippies, Camas Fields and Native Belonging
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The complex history of Oregon Country Fair: Hippies, camas fields and Native belonging
The annual Oregon Country Fair is one of the longest-running arts and craft fairs in the United States, as well as one of 28 designated Oregon Heritage Traditions. Each year, the fair attracts tens of thousands of visitors seeking eclectic art forms — as well as echoes of Lane County’s counterculture past.The event started in the fall of 1969 as the Oregon Renaissance Faire in Eugene, not to be confused with the fair that happens in Canby, organ…
On July 9, 1995, The Grateful Dead performed its last concert in Chicago. Just a month later, its leader, Jerry Garcia, died of complications from his diabetes at the age of 53. Despite being inactive during the second half of that decade, it was the second group that raised the most money in the 1990s, only surpassed by the Rolling Stones. This was not the only record hit by that band, created in Palo Alto (California) in 1965: it is estimated …
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