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CULTURE & HERITAGE
CELEBRATING THE HISTORY
OF EASTERN OREGON
SEPTEMBER 22�29, 2021
Celebrate harvest (and apple
butter!) at the Heritage Station
Festival
happens
Saturday,
Sept. 25
By Jennifer Colton
Go! Magazine
P
ENDLETON — The harvest
season is arriving at Heritage
Station Museum in Pendleton,
and it’s bringing a festival with it.
On Saturday, Sept. 25,
Heritage Harvest will celebrate
the sights, tastes and smells of
fall from noon to 3 p.m.
“Whenever I think of fall, it’s
pumpkins, it’s apples and it’s
that apple cider smell,” said
Shannon Gruenhagen, Heritage
Station marketing and tour
coordinator. “Apple butter is
something I grew up with. I love
it, and (making it) is something
families can do together.”
The museum is located at
108 SW Frazer Ave.
Demonstrations in making —
and tasting — apple butter will
Ben Lonergan/East Oregonian
Shannon Gruenhagen, marketing and tour coordinator for Heritage Sta-
tion Museum in Pendleton, empties a butter churn Saturday, Aug. 7, 2021, as
Thomas Deibele, 9, looks on during Pioneer Day at the museum.
be one of the main activities at
the Heritage Harvest. The free
event also includes a scavenger
hunt and the opportunity to
make stained “glass” leaves
with contact and tissue paper.
Families will be able to learn
how to make and sample the
apple butter, and all completed
scavenger hunt forms can
be entered to win a family
membership to Heritage Station
and other prizes.
Gruenhagen said the goal is
to reach every generation and
keep bringing people in to the
museum to see what it off ers.
“So many people don’t realize
what’s here,” she said. “This is
somewhere you can come more
than once.”
Heritage Harvest is the fourth
event for Heritage Station in
2021, and this year the Umatilla
County Historical Society’s
museum has made an eff ort
to off er more events to bring
people into the facility.
“When COVID shut us down,
everything we had planned for
the future went away,” she said.
“We’re starting to see people
coming back now, and it’s been
really nice.”
Heritage Station has two
other festivals planned this
year, and both are returning
events: Heritage Haunt and
Heritage Lights.
This year’s Heritage Haunt
is scheduled for 3-5:30 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 30, during the
Pendleton Downtown Trick-or-
Treat event, and Heritage Lights
will run in the evenings on Fridays
and Saturdays for the fi rst three
weekends in December.
The museum is looking for
volunteers for those events
and for other needs around the
property. Anyone interested
in volunteering can pick up an
application at Heritage Station.
Gruenhagen said there are many
ways to help out: volunteering
at events, being a docent or
working in the Community Thrift
Shop. Volunteers must be in high
school or older.
Find more information at
www.heritagestationmuseum.
org/events. Heritage Station’s
regular admission is $5 adults,
$4 seniors (age 62 and older), $2
students, and free for museum
members and children age 5
and younger.
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for a trip back in time
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for their continued support
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Open Tues-Sat
10am-4pm
IN PENDLETON
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