[Heritage] Oregon Heritage News 2003-11-10
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Mon Nov 10 16:07:43 PST 2003
In this issue:
1. State Archives adds to online materials
2. Historic site interpretation grants available
3. Japanese American internee to present latest book
4. Washington architecture lecture planned
STATE ARCHIVES ADDS TO ONLINE MATERIALS
The Oregon State Archives has now made more than 490,000 entries to its onl=
ine databases, and plans to have 500,000 available by the end of the year. =
Highlights of the recently added entries include:
Statewide Marriage Returns 1906-1910. There are over 22,000 entries. Thes=
e are records sent to the Archives by the Vital records office this summer.=
Volunteers helped find complete dates for some of these records that did =
not have more than year dates. The marriage returns contain some different=
information than what normally appears on county level records, besides t=
he names of the bride and groom they include occupation, age, and number of=
previous marriages.
State Hospital Death Register, 1883-1936. 8,000 plus entries. Informatio=
n entered online includes name of patient, date of death, and age at death=
. The additional information in the register includes county the patient r=
esided in , date of commitment, type of illness.
Clatsop County Coroner's reports, 1910-1960
Lane County probates, 1933-1937
Josephine County probates, 1922-1944
The URL for the online database index is http://genealogy.state.or.us. If y=
ou want to request copies of any of the records you find in the index you m=
ay e-mail your request to: reference.archives at state.or.us=20
HISTORIC SITE INTERPRETATION GRANTS AVAILABLE
The National Endowment for the Humanities invites proposals for public prog=
rams that use one or more historic sites to address themes and issues centr=
al to American history in its America's Historic Places grant program. Proj=
ects can interpret a single historic site, a series of sites, whole neighbo=
rhoods, communities or towns, or larger geographical regions.
The deadline is February 3, 2004.
For more information, visit the NEH web site: <http://www.neh.gov>
JAPANESE AMERICAN INTERNEE TO PRESENT LATEST BOOK
The Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center invites everyone to a reading by Robert H. =
Kono, author of The Last Fox: A Novel of the 100th/442nd RCT. The reading f=
rom Kono's just published collection of short stories, The River of Time, w=
ill take place at 2 p.m., November 16, at the Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center, =
117 NW 2nd Ave., Portland. The event is free and open to the public.
Kono was a ten-year old boy in the concentration camps of America when the =
young Nisei volunteered to fight in World War Two. He always wanted to writ=
e about them and their heroism. After teaching briefly at the University of=
Oregon, he elected to remain in Eugene with his wife and two sons, and upo=
n retirement began a second career as a novelist and author.
In The River of Time Kono writes about the veterans of the 442nd but grows =
to include the breadth of the Japanese American experience: the Internment =
of Japanese during the war, the veteran experience afterward, the role of f=
amily, the community, and the particular relationship between father and so=
n.
The 17 stories in his collect is composed of works that dramatize the dorma=
nt and unexpressed feelings underlying the Japanese American experience and=
provocatively explore the possibilities inherent in human relationships. T=
he agony of incarceration, loneliness and solitude, dedication to duty, all=
lead to a kind of epiphany that lies just beneath the surface of what is s=
poken about in the Japanese American community, according to event publicit=
y.
WASHINGTON ARCHITECTURE LECTURE PLANNED
The Bosco-Milligan Foundation, in cooperation with City of Vancouver Cultur=
al Services and the Clark County Historic Preservation Commission, will pre=
sent "Architecture Washington Style," an illustrated lecture by Michael Hou=
ser, on November 13, at 7 p.m. at the Washington School for the Deaf, 611 G=
rand Blvd., Vancouver.
Houser, the architectural historian for the Washington Office of Archaeolog=
y and Historic Preservation in Olympia, will provide an overview of archite=
ctural history in Washington, with a particular emphasis on Vancouver and C=
lark County. Sign language interpretation will be provided. For more infor=
mation, or to register for this free program, e-mail Holly Chamberlain, mem=
bership and programs coordinator for the Bosco-Milligan Foundation, at holl=
yc at architecturalheritagecenter.org.
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