LBCC Sponsors Free Lecture Series “The World of Ideas”
The free lecture series “The World of Ideas” will be held at the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library on Tuesdays from 12:10 to 1 p.m. through the month of July. On July 12, Ron Lansing will present "The Land, The Law, and Nimrod O'Kelly.” Lansing will tell the story of an 1847 Oregon pioneer, Benton County land claimant and Oregon's first reported murderer. He went to and came down from the gallows three times in the streets of Marysville - now Corvallis - and proceeded to turn himself in to the Portland State Penitentiary. On July 19, David Lewis will present “Canoe Restoration at the Grand Ronde Reservation,” a presentation on the Grand Ronde Tribe’s restoration of canoes and the ceremony associated with canoes. In March 2011, the tribe installed a Canoe Exhibition at the Mission Mill in Salem that featured a canoe from a cultural site in Tangent, Oregon. Lewis’ presentation will address the cultural restoration process, which the Grand Ronde is engaged in and the rec...