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.Brooks Historical will celebrate caneberries with our annual Depot Day event on June 29, 2024 from 9 am to 3 pm, featuring loganberries and Marionberries.  A grant from the Oregon Raspberry and Blackberry Commission funded our berry exhibit in the museum, and will provide free admission.

Our celebration includes berry themed games for example, “berry toss” (like corn hole), and pie pan disc golf. Contests such as best berry pie, and a pie eating contest will carry out the theme. There will be Prizes!  Come hungry and plan to purchase berry cobbler with topping as a special treat. Watch Facebook for details.

Check out these artificial blackberries made by our dedicated exhibits team, the project in process, and the finished crate of berries. Wow! Good enough to eat!

S.T.E.A.M.’d Up for Kids  May 18

This unique family event offers an array of exciting activities. Brooks Historical will offer art activities; using vegetables to make printed designs, and our popular 9 patch quilt made by pasting fabric squares on paper. You are welcome to volunteer, we would love some extra hands!

The Historical Society will be offering old fashioned sack lunches for $5: Peanut butter & jelly sandwich, fruit, carrot sticks, juice and a cookie.

Admission is FREE for children 12 and under, $10 for adults and those over age 12.  Free parking.
Other events on campus include miniature train rides and a scavenger hunt, hands-on craft building and a Steam Traction Engine transporting guests in a wagon.

On the left,

the proud creator of a 9 patch design!

On the right,

Concentration helps create a fabulous print with onions!