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Updated May 18 at 8:00 PM All autumn leaves and red brick, the town of Rutherford Falls is an idealized but embattled Northeastern backdrop for the new Peacock original comedy series bearing the same name. Also fictional are the Minishonka, the Indigenous nation adjacent to the town. Invented tribal people aside,
Rutherford Falls star and staff writer Jana Schmieding still feels the dynamics of her Oregon youth resonating throughout the new show, created by Ed Helms, Sierra Teller Ornelas and Mike Schur. The similarities exist in how the show’s townsfolk interact with the Minishonka what Schmieding calls a “blissful liberalism” that can translate to “a safe version of erasure and racism.” That dynamic smacks of her experiences growing up in and around Canby and Eugene and how white Oregonians related to her Lakota family and larger Native community.
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Stream: Haley Heynderickx at Laurelthirst Pub Laurelthirst Pub, Portland’s oldest music venue, is getting ready to welcome back guests for the first time in over a year, and they’ve booked one of the city’s favorite folk artists for a livestream that doubles as a reopening fundraiser. It’s been almost three years since Haley Heynderickx released her subtle but resonant debut,
As viewers have come to expect from co-creator Michael Schur,
Rutherford Falls uses sly humor and flawed, lovable characters to tackle serious issues.
Rutherford Falls
Peacock
2021- (US)
The Library of Congress holds one collection with an odd assortment of items that one might evaluate as junk. A button. A pocket knife. A handkerchief. A few newspaper clippings. But the pocket knife is made of silver and ivory, the button bears the initial “L”, and the handkerchief is embroidered with “A. Lincoln”.
These were among the items found in the pockets of Abraham Lincoln on the night he died. Archivists, museum curators, and family historians know that provenance an object’s origin and/or chain of ownership can make even the most ordinary item an important historical artifact.