- ... that the Goodpasture Covered Bridge (pictured), spanning the McKenzie River near Vida, Oregon, is decorated for the Christmas season?
- ... that the Willamette Law Review offices are housed in a former Carnegie library re-dedicated in a ceremony featuring U.S. Supreme Court judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
- ... that Loyal B. Stearns served in the Oregon House of Representatives after his father served there, but before his father served in the Oregon State Senate?
- ... that while building a wagon road along Union Creek, Francis M. Smith and John M. Corbell rediscovered Crater Lake, the deepest lake in the United States and one of the clearest in the world?