Nora Hawkins

ENTERPRISE — This is women’s month at the Josephy Center. The art exhibit, which runs until April 2, features the work of local and regional women artists. The gallery is open from noon to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday.

Josephy’s Tuesday Talks in March will relate to the exhibit theme: “Feminine Visions: Embracing Strength and Adventure,” according to a press release rom the center. On Tuesday, March 5, Nora Hawkins will speak about her adventures in Antarctica. Later in the month, Tuesday, March 19, Robin Pace will talk about white-water rafting on March 19, plus a concert is in the works for March 22.

Nora Hawkins went to Smith College in Massachusetts, and moved home to Wallowa County to take an active role in her family ranch on Bear Creek. Since that time, she has been a firefighter, a journalist and a cheesemaker in a creamery. She has worked as a wrangler and guide into the Wallowa mountains, brewed at Terminal Gravity, worked in Alaska and several seasons in Antarctica, modeled, and volunteered as an EMT and for Search and Rescue.

An avid world traveler, Hawkins has been to all seven continents and worked on five of them, yet always came home with no desire to live elsewhere. She now lives in Wallowa and is a mother of two young girls. She is a licensed homebirth midwife and lactation specialist with a private practice that serves Wallowa and Union counties — and she continues to help run her family ranch.

Tuesday Talks run from noon to 1 p.m. at the Josephy Center, 403 N. Main St. Joseph, and are free and open to the public.