Various profiles and snapshots that make up smaller, one-time stories.
A paramedic assists Gary Nummerdor from DeSoto, Wisconsin inscribe a name from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Nummerdor collected names from a munitions unit for a friend back home who served in their unit.
Anthony Barriere, right, blows bubbles from a bubble gun to bring in carnival pedestrians looking for souvenirs and toys at the Oregon State Fair.Virginia Goeke stands outside of the line to get inside Donald Trump's La Crosse town hall event Aug. 29. Goeke traveled from Viroqua to spread an abortion abolitionist message to Trump event attendees.
Tim Walz takes a selfie with La Crosse rally attendees on Nov. 4, the day before Election Day.
Senator JD Vance arrives at the La Crosse Center for a final ‘get out the vote’ rally Nov. 4.
Erik Brakstad, left, Thurman Miller, center, and Paul Tuomi discuss scheduling assembly stages on Thomas Dambo's troll sculpture in Portland, Oregon. Brakstad, Miller, and Tuomi are all volunteers who saw opportunities to bring their skills and appreciation for Nordic culture into one project.Lt. Cmdr. Brian Vaught walks around to inspect his F-18 Super Hornet in the Colgan Air Services hangar at La Crosse Regional Airport on Dec. 11, 2023.(From left to right) Cat Sandoval, Kari Coleman, Jocelyn Stevens, Mark Luterra , Andrew Still and Sarah Kleeger pose for a crew portrait at Adaptive Seeds in Sweet Home, Oregon.Greyson Faith, center, offers a seashell wish at the Portlandia Mermaid Parade. Parade-goers made wishes into seashells and threw them in to the Willamette River for good luck.Michael James uses his pedal board, exchanges picks and strums along for his performance with Explosions in the Sky in Portland. The band uses three guitars, percussion, keyboard and synthesizers, but sometimes James switches to use a bass guitar like he is here.John Wade from Cleveland, Ohio, has a boost of confidence right before the start signal in the National Veterans Wheelchair Games at the Portland International Raceway. The National Veterans Wheelchair Games brought in about 460 veterans to compete in all kinds of sporting events.Sarah Kleeger drives over dried out bean pods with her truck in a process called “threshing” in Sweet Home, Oregon. This step in the bean harvest removes the beans from their pods efficiently without breaking any beans.
Vendors throughout the Elephant Garlic Festival were selling garlic in different forms, like jars of habanero pickled garlic, parmesan garlic popcorn and garlic-infused olive oil, which caught the eyes of Emma and Kevin Reichenthaler.Nick Maier measures a wood panel for the interior of the miniature house that a giant troll sculpture will be peeking into in Southwest Portland. Maier works in his own woodshop and jumped at the opportunity to help with an art installation from artist Thomas Dambo.
