Oregon City, OR
date.
size.
2018
6'H, Base: 3'6" diameter
location.
Deschutes Historical Museum, Northwest Idaho Avenue, Bend, OR, USA
price.
Permanent sculpture, not for sale
description.
Shovels, aluminum wind chimes, stone.
The sculpture honoring famed early Bend resident Kate Rockwell, better known as Klondike Kate, and other creative and independent women of the region and installed outside the Deschutes Historical Museum.
Klondike Kate, who made her name as a vaudeville singer and dancer in Canada’s Yukon Territory during the Klondike gold rush, moved to a High Desert homestead in 1912. She then moved to Bend in 1917, and became a popular figure around town, earning the nickname “Aunt Kate.”
As one of the region’s first rock hounds, Klondike Kate used her collection to build a rock chimney at her home on Franklin Avenue. The home was demolished in 1985 and the chimney rocks were later recovered and kept by the Deschutes Historical Museum.
