About Timberline Lodge and Mt. Hood Recreation between 1937 and 1946
Presented
by Sarah Baker Munro
President
Franklin Roosevelt dedicated Timberline Lodge on September 28, 1937 as “a new
adjunct of our National Forests, but also as a place to play for generations of
Americans in the days to come.” This talk will focus on developing recreation
in the Mt. Hood National Forest resulting from New Deal projects – Timberline
Lodge, Silcox Hut and the Magic Mile Chairlift, the Timberline Trail, and
Zigzag Ranger District. Illustrations include these developments and images of
badminton, golf, horseback riding, and hiking and scenery in the Forest dating
from 1937 to 1946. Some images have been locked away for generations.
About
the Speaker:
Sarah
Baker Munro has been active with Friends of Timberline since 1975. She co-wrote
a catalog of the lodge published in 1977 and authored Timberline Lodge: The
History, Art, and Craft of an American Icon, published by Timber Press in
2009. She wrote a history on Timberline that was published by Arcadia Press in
2016. In 2004, Sarah co-sponsored a symposium at the Portland Art Museum on
Labor Arts and curated an exhibit on the New Deal in Oregon at the Oregon
Historical Society.
Sarah graduated from Pitzer College in Anthropology and Art History and
completed an MA in Folklore at the University of California at Berkeley. She is
currently the Director of the Hoover-Minthorn House Museum in Newberg, the
boyhood home of Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States.