Welcome to my 12 year old daughter, Ella. She’s written this lovely post about a trip we took last week – she wrote it all and took all the pictures!

Last Friday, my mother and I visited Agrarian Ales, a small, family-oriented brewery and restaurant located just north of Eugene, Oregon. We were given a farm tour before they opened by a farmer named Maia. She showed us around the hop yards, greenhouse, growing fields, and outdoor seating area.

Read the whole post and see all the lovely pictures on the blog!

Last week I was lucky enough to share the story of the Fred Eckhardt Papers at a History Pub at the McMenamins Kennedy School. Since I heard from lots of people (from all over the country) that they were sad to miss it (you know, because they were all over the country), I thought I’d post my slides and talk notes.

Also included are details about being an archivist, information about the topics represented in the collection, and my thoughts about the importance of saving local history (and keeping it saved locally).

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This is part 2 of 4 of an examination of the final years of Linus Pauling’s life.

In February 1992, Linus Pauling announced publicly that he had cancer. His critics responded with sentiments that were, at times, distinctly unsympathetic. In their view, since Pauling had been advocating vitamin C as a preventative treatment for cancer for years, his diagnosis undermined those decades of work. Pauling retorted that most elderly men develop hyperplasia or cancer in their prostates, often by age 70. Pauling believed it was quite likely, although not provable, that his high intake of vitamin C delayed the inevitable by decades.

Read the whole post on the Pauling blog.

As we surged toward the 3rd anniversary of the founding of the Oregon Hops and Brewing Archives, I pondered a way to share the amazing work we’ve done over the past three years with all our friends, donors, advocates, and all the others who just think this is a pretty cool thing we came up with.

August 1st running through October 31st, be looking for daily postings on The Brewstorian, but also some reposting on Twitter and Facebook.

And please share – we have all these amazing friends and collections because that’s exactly what’s happened for the past three years. People have gotten excited, shared and saved, and now we have a rocking archive of local beer history.

Pauling posing at lower campus, Oregon Agricultural College, ca. 1917.

In 1917, at sixteen years of age, Linus Pauling wrote in his personal diary that he was beginning a personal history. “My children and grandchildren will without doubt hear of the events in my life with the same relish with which I read the scattered fragments written by my granddad,” he considered.

By the time of his death, some seventy-seven years later, Pauling had more than fulfilled this prophecy. After an extraordinarily full life filled with political activism, scientific research, and persistent controversy, Pauling’s achievements were remembered not only by his children, grandchildren and many friends, but also by an untold legion of people whom Pauling himself never met.

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The images below are taken from a 1727 edition of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim’s first two books, translated into French as La Philosophie Occulte de Henr. Corn. Agrippa. With these images, Agrippa hopes to instill in the reader an understanding of the invisible forces that actuate matter in reality as we know it, and the means by which these forces can be predicted and manipulated.

Read the whole post at http://osurarebooks.tumblr.com/post/148005039786/agrippa-and-his-invisible-forces.

Post contributed by Matt McConnell, graduate student in OSU’s History of Science program and SCARC student assistant

Nuestras Voces y Herencia is a grant funded project dedicated to gathering and preserving the life stories of Yamhill County’s Latino/a community. The Yamhill County Cultural Coalition and the Yamhill County Historical Society & Museum are partnering with the OMA and Unidos Bridging Community to share the stories gathered. On July 18, 2016, our project’s granting agency, the Yamhill County Cultural Trust, hosted a “Thank You Party” for all the grantees and the Voces project was delighted to attend!

Read the rest of the post at http://wpmu.library.oregonstate.edu/oregon-multicultural-archives/2016/07/23/voces-project/.

This past spring, Thomas Brennan, a photographer and the chair of Art and Art History at the University of Vermont, paid us a visit to capture his own set of images of Pauling’s models. Brennan’s research concerns the history of symbolic representation in the history of science with three-dimensional modelling, work which has taken him to institutions and repositories including the Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge, the Museum of the History of Science at Oxford, the Museum of Science in London, and the M.I.T. Museums.

Brennan’s photographs of Pauling’s models were captured using a low-light technique that he has used in the past for a project that he calls “Collecting Shadows.”

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In 2010, Oren Eckhaus, a photographer based in New York City, visited our facility to photograph several of the molecular models that remain extant in the Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers. He did so in support of Jane Nisselson’s documentary-in-progress, “Unseen Beauty: The Molecule Imagined,” which she was researching with support from the OSU Libraries Resident Scholar Program.

Read the rest on the Pauling Blog.