by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 11, 2025 | Alvin Josephy, American Indian history, Chief Joseph, Indian country, Indian history, Indians, John F. Kennedy, Pacific Northwest, Peace Corps, portland art museum
I got news of the new exhibit at the Portland Art Museum from two friends. The show is “Psychedelic Rock Posters and Fashion of the 1960s,” and, knowing my work with Indians and relationship to the late Alvin Josephy, they sent images of an exhibit text around a book...
by Rich Wandschneider | Dec 1, 2023 | Gandhi, Israel, JFK, John F. Kennedy, Kennedy, King assassination, martin luther king
My recent scrape with death—for those who hadn’t heard, I rolled my car in the Wallowa River canyon on Sunday on the way back from a fine Portland Thanksgiving—and the crazy recess in the war in Israel/Gaza have me thinking about fortune and history, about being in a...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jan 18, 2022 | John F. Kennedy, MLK
My friend Tony Robinson, a retired pastor with deep roots in Wallowa County, recounted his church and civil rights journeys in a blogpost yesterday, as answers to a grandson’s queries. The history begins with memories of growing up in suburban Washington D.C., and...
by Rich Wandschneider | Apr 12, 2013 | Alvin Josephy, American Heritage, American Heritage Book of Indians, American Indians, de Oviedo, John F. Kennedy
Alvin Josephy knew the people who had taken over American Heritage Magazinein 1954 and turned it into a profitable hard cover edition of well written and researched articles on American history. He wrote several articles for them, including the piece on “Chief Joseph...
