Our friends at The Mt Adams Institute are presenting this special Sense of Place event. Jerry Franklin will reflect on the path that led him into the woods—from an early fascination with trees to the research that helped overturn long-standing assumptions about old-growth forests. He’ll revisit the pivotal decades when science, policy, and public debate collided in the Northwest. From the emergence of New Forestry to the controversy surrounding the Northern Spotted Owl, and the political moment that produced the landmark Northwest Forest Plan. And he'll consider the present and future of Pacific Northwest forests, and his own evolving views on how we might steward them in an era of climate change, wildfire, and shifting public expectations.

Join us for this rare opportunity with renowned forest ecologist, Jerry Franklin, as he considers what we’ve learned, what remains uncertain, and where forest stewardship may need to go next.

Banished from Olympus by Zeus, the three Fates have spent thousands of years among mortals and are now quietly running the universe from a modern office building. Spinning, measuring, and snipping the strings of every human life. But when eldest sister Atropos loses her enchanted scissors and meets Mickey, the building's overnight security guard, the rules she's followed for millennia start to bend. Can the fabric of the universe survive a flaw?

String is a musical about fate, love, and the imperfections that make us human, and we want you to be part of it. Come audition!

Juliana Smithton is a brilliant neurologist on the verge of a major professional breakthrough when her life takes a disorienting turn. During a lecture to colleagues at an exclusive beach resort, she glimpses an enigmatic young woman in a yellow bikini amid a sea of business suits. Step by step, a mystery unravels as contradictory evidence, blurred truths, and fragmented memories collide in a cottage on the windswept shores of Cape Cod.

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