The Heslin House, located in Fairview, OR, beside the Columbia River, is an impressive example of Western Farmhouse architecture. The home was purchased by the Fairview-Rockwood-Wilkes Historical Society in 1991, and now stands as a historic house museum.
The house offers guided tours. The website offers a brief history of the home as well as visitor information.
The Sedona Historical Society operates the Sedona Heritage Museum. The museum's exhibits focus on the lifestyles and works of the people who pioneered the community, from 1876 to the present.
The museum offers exhibits, tours, research library access, educational programs, and occasional recreational and educational events (including living history events).
NAACP Chairman of the Board Julian Bond talks about the views of Martin Luther King, Jr., and his emphasis on improving conditions for the working class as a whole. Bond criticizes current abuses and denials of civil rights and quality-of-life issues, and considers the 2003 U.S. Supreme Court cases on affirmative action.
Professor Paul L. Penfield, Jr., follows the history and development of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since the department's founding in 1913. He discusses the contributions of the program to science and technology at large and the possible development of the program in future.
Professor, geologist, and former astronaut on the Apollo mission Harrison H. Schmitt talks about his experiences as a member of the Apollo mission to the moon, and also discusses the possibilities of mining the moon in future for the energy source helium-3. His presentation includes film footage of the Apollo mission.
Economist and author Dr. Julianne Malveaux delivers the keynote address for MIT's Annual Breakfast Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., contrasting the values and goals of the civil rights movement with enduring direct and indirect abuses and denials of civil rights.
Professors John W. Dower and Charles S. Maier contrast previous U.S. foreign policy events and relations with the current situation in Iraq, focusing on the U.S. occupation of Japan following World War II and the Marshall Plan designed to stop the spread of Communism in Western Europe.
Professors William J. Mitchell follows the architectural development of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) throughout its history. He focuses particularly on developments in the last decade, but also discusses development prior to the present day.
The Museum of the Oregon Territory provides visitors with changing exhibits on the Oregon Territory, Clackamas County, and historic Oregon City. Recognized as the official end of the Oregon Trail, Oregon City was Oregon's first capital and a major industrial and political center in the West. Highlights include 15,000 year-old petroglyphs and artifacts from Willamette Valley Native American communities. The museum is also home to the Clackamas County Historical Society’s extensive collection and library, where guests can research land claim documents, marriage returns, Civil War records, and historical photographs.
The museum offers exhibits and a research library.
From the PBS Video website:
"In the summer of 1950 Wytheville, VA realized the nation's worst medical fears. An outbreak of Infantile Paralysis, commonly known as Polio, swept through a small town of 5,500 in which 40 percent of residents had not yet reached their eighteenth birthday. Highly contagious, just in time for summer vacation, the devastating neurodegenerative disease had chosen its next target."
This full-length documentary traces the progress of the mid-20th-century polio scare, the campaign to find a cure, and the development of two vaccines.