Joseph Oregon is the Perfect Place for Quilt Lovers

If you love and appreciate quilts, you will feel right at home at the Mountain View Motel & RV Park where most of the log framed beds are covered with quilts.

25th Annual Wallowa Mountain Quilters Guild Show Coming Up

To further feed your quilt passion, Joseph's annual quilt show takes place on June 9 and 10, the same weekend as the Oregon Mountain Cruise car show (June 10). We have found that our guests appreciate the scheduling of both on the same weekend for couples where the women don't want to look at cars all day and men don't care to admire quilts for hours.

The theme for this year’s 25th Annual Wallowa Mountain Quilters Guild Show will be The Oregon Trail, with more than 150 quilts for you to feast your eyes on at the Joseph Charter School at 400 East Williams Avenue, Joseph, Oregon. Yes, it is possible to purchase handmade quilts the show.

Hours are Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Admission is $3.50 for adults; children 12 and under free.

See Wallowa Mountain Quilters' Guild for info on the show, and if you have quilts to share or sell, get the online entry form in by May 25.

The Wallowa Mountain Quilters' Guild was formed in 1991 by a small group of local quilt enthusiasts. Their mission is to promote and preserve the ancient art of quilting, share information about modern quilting methods, and provide venues for quilters to learn from each other and display their quilting accomplishments.

Getting There: Joseph Charter School is 2.4 miles from the Mountain View Motel & RV Park. Go right (south) toward Joseph on Hwy-82. Drive through downtown Joseph and turn left on E. Walker Ave. Turn right at the 3rd cross street onto N. East St., then left onto E. Williams Ave. Bear left again to stay on E. Williams and drive to the school.

The Wildest Race on Earth in Enterprise OR

Wild Horse Race. Photo by Angelica Ursula Dietrick, by permission of Mountain High Broncs & Bulls

See one of the wildest races on earth at the Wallowa County Fairgrounds in Enterprise, Oregon, during the 14th Annual Mountain High Broncs & Bulls Rodeo coming up June 17. Wild Horse Racing is on the schedule with more familiar rodeo events like mutton busting, and bronc and bull riding. Wild Horse Racing has its roots back in the old cowboy days, when wild horses had to be captured and trained from herds that roamed the open range.

 

Teams of three men work together to subdue a horse so it can be saddled and ridden to the finish line. When the horses come out of the chutes, the shankman of each team holds the horse in a position that allows the mugger to move up the shank and grab the horse by the halter. The rider then sets the saddle on the horse, cinches it, mounts, and rides to the finish line. The process usually takes 30 to 40 seconds in arena races, but for some teams it may take the entire two-minute time limit.

The Wild Horse Race was a common part of early day rodeos, when ranch hands would team up to compete against other ranches. The event dwindled to a handful of local races by the late Sixties and it looked like wild horse racing might die out as a rodeo event. But in the early Seventies a group of cowboys at Cheyenne Frontier Days organized to revive the sport. The category was officially reborn in 1981, when the Professional Wild Horse Racers held their first National Finals at the NILE Indoor Arena in Billings, Montana. Today the Professional Wild Horse Racing Association has a well-staffed office in Madras, Oregon.

Getting to the Rodeo: The Wallowa County Fairgrounds at 668 NW 1st St. is an 8-minute drive from Mountain View Motel & RV Park. Follow OR-82 north and west through Enterprise. Turn north on (right) NW 1st St. for .3 mile and see fairgrounds on your left.