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June 17, 2018

More News on the Maya

We’ve been watching a recent PBS called Expeditions Unknown which features some recent discoveries in the Guatemalan biosphere reserve. We visited the reserve along with many other Mayan sites on our tour in March 2016, although they were only beginning to talk about El Mirador then. It’s really exciting to see...

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June 6, 2018

Peter Rugg, the Missing Man

One of our oldest American ghost stories The short story discussion group at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute in Eugene is reading the story “Peter Rugg, the Missing Man” by William Austin (1778-1841) for discussion on Thursday, June 7th, 2018.  “The time to which Rugg’s career dates back is that...

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May 26, 2018

Prefontaine Classic

It was a beautiful day for the Prefontaine Classic at Historic Hayward Field, with cool breezes wafting through the sun-warmed air. We sat in the old East Grandstand for the last time last night. After this season, the whole track complex will be taken apart and redone. Before that happens,...

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