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<div align="center"><span style="font-size: 24px;"><strong>Wear your hats to <a href="http://clackamascountyhistoricalsociety.art.officelive.com/MuseumoftheOregonTerritory.aspx" style="color: rgb(65, 105, 225); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;">MOOT</a> Saturday!</strong></span><br><span style="font-size: 24px;"><strong>
Free admission, millinery program </strong></span></div>
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<em><span style="font-size: 18px;"> It launches Hats Off! - a new exhibit also<br>
opening at <a href="http://clackamascountyhistoricalsociety.art.officelive.com/StevensCrawfordHouse.aspx" style="color: rgb(65, 105, 225); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;">Stevens Crawford House</a></span></em><a href="http://clackamascountyhistoricalsociety.art.officelive.com/StevensCrawfordHouse.aspx"><br></a>
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Don your favorite hat for the <a href="http://clackamascountyhistoricalsociety.art.officelive.com/default.aspx" style="color: rgb(65, 105, 225); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;">Clackamas County Historical Society's</a><a href="http://clackamascountyhistoricalsociety.art.officelive.com/default.aspx"> </a>1 p.m. Saturday, March 5, program featuring Astoria-based hat expert<a href="http://clackamascountyhistoricalsociety.art.officelive.com/Events.aspx" style="color: rgb(65, 105, 225); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;"> LaRee Johnson</a> who will make a free presentation on ladies' headgear in history.<br>
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<img alt="" src="http://gallery.mailchimp.com/6c7f6b659014bacb7b9f51944/images/Deepwood_LaRee.png" style="border-width: 0pt; border-style: solid; margin: 4px; height: auto; line-height: 100%; outline: medium none; text-decoration: none; display: inline;" vspace="4" width="77" align="left" border="0" height="117" hspace="4">MOOT is open for free 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 5, thanks to the sponsorship of <a href="http://www.danielsons.net/id58.html" style="color: rgb(65, 105, 225); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;">Danielson's Hilltop Mall</a>,
Oregon City. Johnson will discuss hats as a mirror to women’s history.
She’ll also discuss how to preserve and protect vintage hats. Her
appearance corresponds with Women’s History Month in March.<br>
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Also on Saturday, March 5, Hats Off! - a new exhibit of hat wear - opens at the Stevens Crawford House, 603 Sixth St., Oregon City.<a href="http://clackamascountyhistoricalsociety.art.officelive.com/StevensCrawfordHouse.aspx" style="color: rgb(65, 105, 225); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;"><img alt="" src="http://gallery.mailchimp.com/6c7f6b659014bacb7b9f51944/images/IMG_9578.JPG" style="border-style: solid; margin: 4px; width: 251px; height: 372px; line-height: 100%; outline: medium none; text-decoration: none; display: inline;" vspace="4" align="right" border="1" hspace="4"></a>
Nearly 100 women's, men's and children's hats dating from the 1700s to
the 1970s will be on display. Admission is $5 to the hat exhibit; SCH is
open noon to 4 p.m. Thursday - Saturday.<br>
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Mertie Crawford (1872-1968), daughter of the Stevens Crawford House’s
original owners, spent her life in the historic home and collected
men's, women's and children's hats and other relics of the past. She had
more than 250 hats as well as clothing, shoes and accessories. The hats
on display are part of her collection.<br>
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March’s free admission to MOOT is made possible by the generous sponsorship of Danielson's Hilltop Mall<a href="http://www.danielsons.net/" style="color: rgb(65, 105, 225); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;"></a>.
CCHS is seeking other community partners to sponsor a program days at
the museum. Contact Executive Director Lisa Christopher, 503-655-5574 or
info@clackamashistory.org, for information on how your business can be a
part of CCHS programming.<br>
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CCHS, 211 Tumwater Drive, Oregon City, is a nonprofit institution
established in 1952. It is dedicated to providing historical information
and maintaining two museum buildings (Museum of the Oregon Territory
and the Stevens Crawford House) with ongoing and special occasion
exhibits open to the public on a limited schedule. Call 503-655-5574 or
contact our website, <a href="http://www.clackamashistory.org" style="color: rgb(65, 105, 225); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;">www.clackamashistory.org</a>, or <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Clackamas-County-Historical-Society/167262573289928?ref=ts" style="color: rgb(65, 105, 225); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;">Facebook </a>page for information.<br>
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Always check the website’s<a href="http://clackamascountyhistoricalsociety.art.officelive.com/Events.aspx" style="color: rgb(65, 105, 225); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;"> CCHS Calendar</a> page for the current month’s information schedule.<br>
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<br><br><font style="font-size: 10pt;" face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b>Lisa M. Christopher</b><b><br>
</b><i>Executive Director</i><br>
<i>Clackamas County Historical Society</i><i><br>
</i>PO Box 2211</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt;">211 Tumwater Drive<br>
Oregon City, Oregon 97045<br>
503-975-6393</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><a href="http://www.clackamashistory.org/" target="_blank">www.clackamashistory.org</a></div>
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</div></span></font><div align="center"><span style="font-style: italic;">"The further back
you look, the further forward you can see." </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Winston Churchill</span><br><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></div><br><br><br> </body>
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