By Kirsten Straus :: Tucked away on the northern edge of the Salem Pioneer Cemetery used to lie a small, cement shrine dedicated to “unknown friend[s].”[1] Unbeknownst to most Salemites, this shrine is some of the last remaining evidence of the Chinese who called Salem home around the turn of the nineteenth century. Recently, theContinue Reading Salem’s Hidden Past: The Chinese Shrine at Salem Pioneer Cemetery
Source: Medium.com. A historian is unearthing records of where Portlanders of color couldn’t legally live Nobody knows how man lots had so-called “restrictive covenants.” Greta Smith wants to start finding out. by Michael Andersen | Nov. 29, 2017 From the 1920s to 1940s, federal maps divided U.S. cities into red (“hazardous”), yellow (“definitely declining”), blue (“still desirable”)Continue Reading A historian is unearthing records of where Portlanders of color couldn’t legally live
Source: The 19th-Century Swill Milk Scandal That Poisoned Infants With Whiskey Runoff – Gastro Obscura Vendors hawked the swill as “Pure Country Milk.” by Tyler Moss IN THE 1850S, NEW YORK City babies were being mysteriously poisoned. Nearly 8,000 babies a year shriveled to death from uncontrollable diarrhea, as reported by The New York Times. Without the luxuryContinue Reading The 19th-Century Swill Milk Scandal That Poisoned Infants With Whiskey Runoff
By Blake Brooks :: Internship work had never really crossed my mind until my senior year, and now, I am kicking myself for not taking advantage of the opportunity sooner. As a history major, finding internships can seem difficult at times, but by chance, I was introduced to the curator of the Washington County MuseumContinue Reading Re-envisioning My Future by Preserving the Past: A Summer Internship at the Washington County Museum
A new OPB documentary explores how the Vietnam War still deeply affects Oregonians, even nearly 50 years after the end of combat operations in Vietnam. David A. Horowitz, History Professor and anti-war activist talks about his experience on Portland State University campus about the Vietnam War, the Kent State shootings, and Vortex I Music Festival. [the bulkContinue Reading ‘The Vietnam War Oregon Remembers,’ An ‘Oregon Experience’ Documentary | OPB Arts & Life
David Peterson del Mar explores a creation myth for a nation of black people still searching for personal and collective terra firma. BY MARK REYNOLDS 8 August 2017 A-F-R-I-C-A Angola Soweto Zimbabwe Tanzania Zambia Mozambique And Botswana So let us speak about the motherland —Stetsasonic, “A.F.R.I.C.A” (1986) There was a time when black American hip-hopContinue Reading You May Be Black or You May Be White But in Africa You’re an American First | PopMatters
By Ella Weil :: Heritage Tree # 324 Arbutus menziesii – Madrone 8018 SE Bush St Heritage tree #324 lives at 8018 SE Bush street, on the border between South Tabor and Foster-Powell neighborhoods. Pat McDaniel found the seedling in 1957 while camping as a child in the Olympic Peninsula and brought it home withContinue Reading Heritage Tree #324 | Foster-Powell Madrone
From Poor Farm to Global Attraction: The History of Portland’s International Rose Test Garden Presented by Kira Lesley and Harry A. Landers Free and open to the public Monday, September 25, 2017 7PM – 9PM Free Family-friendly Researchers Teachers McMenamins Kennedy School 5736 NE 33rd Avenue Portland, Oregon 97211 Get Directions Marking its centennial thisContinue Reading From Poor Farm to Global Attraction: The History of Portland’s International Rose Test Garden
By Annie Amsden :: Aesculus hippocastanum — Common horsechestnut 8710 N Willamette Blvd The Horse Chestnut tree on the corner of North Alta and Willamette Boulevard stands 65 feet tall and casts shadows onto the sidewalk below it. The tree, approximately 150 years old, witnessed the expansion of North Portland. Prior to European settlement in theContinue Reading Heritage Tree #322 | St. Johns’ Horse Chestnut
By Carolee Harrison :: Quercus garryana — Oregon white oak 5559 SE 109th Ave Portland’s 272nd Heritage Tree, an Oregon white oak, is a street tree that shades a residential block in the Lents neighborhood. It also stands on the edge of Johnson Creek’s historic floodplain, where suburban housing, industrial sites, and protected public landsContinue Reading Heritage Tree #272 | Lents’ Oregon White Oak