[Heritage] Oregon Heritage News 2007-05-29

[Heritage Info]

In this issue:
1. Presentations slated for Portland, Boardman
2. Workshops set for finishes, cemetery care
3. Commission seeks proposals to improve training
4.  Flora School event will be June 2


PRESENTATIONS SLATED FOR PORTLAND, BOARDMAN

Heritage presentations will take place at 7 p.m. June 6 in Portland and
Boardman.

In Portland, Michael Munk will present "The Portland Red Guide: Sites
and Stories from Our Radical Past" in the  Eliot Chapel, First Unitarian
Church, 1011 SW 12th Ave., Portland. The presentation is sponsored by
the  Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission. For additional information,
contact encanto at ochcom.org.

In Boardman, quilt historian and author Mary Bywater Cross will talk
about  "Quilts of the Oregon Trail" at the Boardman Library, 200 S. Main
St., Boardman. The talk is sponsored by Libraries of Eastern Oregon @
Oregon Trail Library District.  For more information, contact
541-481-2665


WORKSHOPS SET FOR FINISHES, CEMETERY CARE

Astoria and Portland will be the site of workshops during June.

The Lower Columbia Preservation Society will sponsor a workshop titled
*Faux Finishes*  at 1 p.m. June 9 at Clatsop Community College,
Fertig Hall, Room #20.  Josh Brown of All Style Painting will give
instruction in wood graining and  marbling techniques.  Several other
finishes will be demonstrated and  there will be a question and answer
session to address house  restoration problems - solutions
utilizing faux finishes.

For further information call 503-440-9651. The Lower Columbia
Preservation Society is anon-profit organization whose mission is to
*preserve, protect, and promote the historic architecture in the
Lower Columbia region.*  For updates,visit the LCPS website at
http://www.lcpsweb.org 

A monument repair workshop will take place from 10 a.m.-noon June 16 at
Lone Fir Cemetery, SE 20th and Morrison,  in Portland. A work party will
follow at 1 p.m. for more information, visit
http://www.friendsoflonefircemetery.org/


COMMISSION SEEKS PROPOSALS TO IMPROVE TRAINING

The National Historical Publications and Records Commission seeks
proposals designed to improve the training and education of
professionals in the archival and historical publishing communities.
Projects in this category can be for curriculum development for
professional education; for basic and advanced institutes; research
seminars; and projects to survey and plan. We encourage projects that
identify necessary skills sets, develop curriculum standards and course
outlines, and create and operate educational programs. Surveys, focus
groups, and other activities to understand these professions and their
educational and training needs are also eligible.

This is a new grant category but continues the NHPRC tradition of
awarding grants for professional development purposes. They have
included the Society of American Archivists National Forum on Archival
Continuing Education; the annual Historical Editing Institute; an
institute on electronic records for archives managers; Archival Research
Fellowships Programs; and the Archives Leadership Institute, among
others. For more information, visit
http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/announcement/development.html


FLORA SCHOOL EVENT WILL BE JUNE 2

Flora School Days will be from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. June 2 in the
northeastern Oregon community. The event includes demonstrations of old
time skills and activities (weaving, spinning, wood cookstove use and
more); entertainment by cowboy poets, old time musicians, story tellers;
plow bee with horses and mules; tours of the school, and walking and
wagon tours of the town. There will also be a Dutch oven lunch and pie
social.

The two-story Flora School schoolhouse, built in 1915, closed its doors
in 1975. Located 35 miles north of Enterprise, the building was added to
the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. For more information
on School Days, contact floraschool at tds.net 
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