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SUMMARY:Yes\, No\, Goodbye: The History of the Ouija Board
LOCATION:Downtown Bend Library\n<p>Online Only</p>
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DESCRIPTION:Explore the Ouija Board's history\, mystery\, and spiritualist
  roots..\nhttps://dpl.libnet.info/event/14434976
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>This is an online program.&nbsp\;<strong>R
 egistration is required</strong>.&nbsp\;This event will&nbsp\;<strong>not<
 /strong>&nbsp\;be recorded.</p>\n<p>The Ouija Board has inspired fear\, sp
 arked creativity\, and provided relief for the bereaved for over 125 years
 . Learn more about the history of this mysterious board game and its conne
 ction to the Spiritualism movement that swept through America in the late 
 19th and early 20th centuries.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><span style="text-decoration
 : underline\;"><strong><img src="https://static.libnet.info/frontend-image
 s/editor/dpl/Nate_P.png" width="300" height="400" alt="" /></strong></span
 ></p>\n<p><span style="text-decoration: underline\;"><strong>Presenter Bio
 :&nbsp\;</strong></span></p>\n<p><strong>Nate Pedersen </strong>is an awar
 d-winning writer and historian in North Mankato\, Minnesota. He is the co-
 author of <a href="https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/lydia-kang-md/
 quackery/9780761189817/"><em>QUACKERY: A Brief History of the Worst Ways t
 o Cure Everything</em></a>&nbsp\;(<em>Workman</em>\, 2017)\, <a href="http
 s://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/lydia-kang-md/patient-zero/9781523513
 291/"><em>PATIENT ZERO: A Curious History of the World&rsquo\;s Worst Dise
 ases</em></a>&nbsp\;(<em>Workman\,</em> 2021)\, and <a href="https://www.h
 achettebookgroup.com/titles/lydia-kang-md/pseudoscience/9781523524259/?len
 s=workman-publishing-company"><em>PSEUDOSCIENCE: A Brief History of the Wo
 rst Ways to Explain Everything</em></a> (<em>Workman\,</em> 2025). All thr
 ee books were co-written with <a href="https://lydiakang.com/">Lydia Kang\
 , MD</a>. Their books have been published in 13 languages around the world
 .</p>\n<p>Nate is a Contributing Writer with Fine Books &amp\; Collections
  magazine and his <a href="https://www.natepedersen.com/articles">narrativ
 e nonfiction</a> has appeared in <em>The Believer</em>\, <em>The Guardian<
 /em>\, and <em>Mental Floss</em> amongst others. His academic writing has 
 appeared in <em>Oregon Historical Quarterly</em> and <em>Emerging Civil Wa
 r</em>.</p>\n<p>As collaborative art projects\, Nate edited the Lovecrafti
 an anthologies <a href="https://store.hplhs.org/products/the-starry-wisdom
 -library?srsltid=AfmBOopmxeRLOSDN0s74pGNJxj0OettAG_KXXPE5vQS0wFIBPV1QNyfx"
 ><em>THE STARRY WISDOM LIBRARY: The Catalogue of the Greatest Occult Book 
 Auction of All Time</em></a>\, (<em>PS</em>\, 2014) and its companion<em> 
 <a href="https://store.hplhs.org/products/the-dagon-collection?srsltid=Afm
 BOooOJgAGFDLTUrx_36sMtWC5cMELlTKHhQHDgWUrta6Ub9Ma1gmE">THE DAGON COLLECTIO
 N: An Auction Catalogue of Items Recovered in the Federal Raid on Innsmout
 h\, Mass</a> (PS</em>\, 2024)\, shortlisted for the 2025 World Fantasy Awa
 rd for Best Anthology. Nate also edited <em><a href="https://www.amazon.co
 m/Sisterhood-RPG-Tales-Secret-Histories/dp/1568824645/ref=sr_1_1?crid=KQT0
 1SM476QP&amp\;keywords=sisterhood%20chaosium&amp\;qid=1697327110&amp\;spre
 fix=sisterhood%20chaosium%2Caps%2C108&amp\;sr=8-1">SISTERHOOD: Dark Tales 
 and Secret Histories</a> </em>(<em>Chaosium</em>\, 2021) and contributed a
  story to <em><a href="https://www.chaosium.com/the-leaves-of-a-necronomic
 on/?srsltid=AfmBOoqsLJnGbn1pSCh88a24pWmXJc87CA637NuQtt_Xm7WqK3QUG4AY">THE 
 LEAVES OF A NECRONOMICON</a></em> (<em>Chaosium</em>\, 2022) edited by Jos
 eph S. Pulver\, Sr.</p>\n<p>A native of Minnesota\, Nate has a bachelor&rs
 quo\;s degree in cultural anthropology and a master&rsquo\;s degree in lib
 rary and information studies from the University of Wisconsin &ndash\; Mad
 ison.</p>\n<p>Nate enjoys playing the drums\, biking\, birding\, traveling
  the back roads\, and tracking down historic trees.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Quest
 ions? Contact&nbsp\;<a href="mailto:beccar@dpls.lib.or.us">beccar@dpls.lib
 .or.us</a></p>\nhttps://dpl.libnet.info/event/14434976
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