Background

Products

Type: Oral history videos
Features: Extensive histories on local residents including Grace Biggs, the Jenkins Family, and the McNutt Family.
Teacher Participants: Jacquelyn Smith
Community Partners: Crow-Applegate-Lorane and Eugene residents

Type: Website, oral histories
Features: Extensive pictures and background information about the Downtown Eugene memorial that commemorates Japanese American internees. Includes video interviews with several local individuals.
Teacher Participants: Brian Gulka, Shane Mast
Community Partners: Eugene Japanese American Art Memorial Committee

Type: Oral histories, website
Features: A celebration of the multicultural pioneers of the Lane County region, featuring oral histories, videos and a map of historic landmarks.
Teacher Participants: Crystal Barnes, Pam Huling, Lynne Lockhart, Shirley Madathil, Karen Olson
Community Partners: Doug Card, Nancy Gowins, Mark Harris, Willie Mims

Type: Printed walking tour brochure
Features: Self-guided tour of historic buildings and scenes in the popular Oregon Coast town.
Teacher Participants: Marsha Klosterman, Julie Rassmann
Community Partners: City of Florence, Siuslaw Middle School

Type: Website
Features: Information covering all aspects of the Mohawk Valley in Oregon, including oral histories, videos, photographs and newspaper articles.
Teacher Participants: Anne Clairmont, Gina Clark
Community Partners: Marcola, Oregon community members

Type: Oral history videos
Features: Extensive histories on the incorporation of bicycling in the Lane County area.
Teacher Participants: Fred Merwin and Jesse Sherman

Type: Living history exhibit with supporting website
Features: Information about the pioneer cabin exhibit located at the Dorris Ranch Living History Farm. Includes construction photos, videos and teaching resources.
Teacher Participants: Patty Sage, John Lovdokken, Marian French, Randy Gill, Heather Klym, Mary Larsen, Janet Nelson, Carrie Poole, Helen Quade, Georgann Squire, Audrey Stepp, Marsha Sundquist
Community Partners: Dorris Ranch Living History Farm

Type: Living history exhibit
Features: The Northwest-style Native American plank house built at Dorris Ranch completes the last of three eras used for living history instruction by the local park service, Willamalane. The 16-foot by 20-foot structure is made from poles and rough-cut cedar planks and replicates the style of building used by natives in the Willamette Valley for thousands of years. The plank house is used by staff at the park as a learning facility to educate the students and the community at large about the lives of native people to our area. It goes along with a small cabin that simulates the trapper era of Oregon History (roughly 1800-1840) and the larger log cabin that depicts homestead life (roughly 1840-1900).
Teacher Participants: Merri Sue Clark, Marian French, John Lovdokken, and Stephanie Lovdokken.
Community Partners: Dorris Ranch Living History Farm

Type: Hands-on history museum with supporting website
Features: Model covered wagon and canvas lodging tent, historical artifacts and realia, oral histories, photos, print material from the late 1800s, instructional activity boxes. In addition, modern technology in the form of cameras, computers, scanners, printers, GPS devices, and a metal detector for the implementation of many lessons and activities.
Teacher Participants: Connie Eastburn, Vern Eastburn, Tom Lindskog, Brenda Moyer, Jeremi Reed, Tony Wynn, Marilyn Rhinevault

Type: Printed walking tour brochure
Features: Self-guided tour with 15 stops located throughout downtown Oakridge.
Teacher Participants: Bridgett DeBoer, Lynne Lockhart, and Cailey Sokolowski
Museum Partner: Oakridge Pioneer Museum

Type: Printed walking tour brochure and companion audio guide
Features: Self-guided tour with 20 stops located throughout downtown Junction City.
Teacher Participants: Mary Jo Huisman, Linda Lund, Michelle Marshall
Community Partners: Junction City Historical Society: Kitty and Carl Goodin, Linda VanOrden, Jamie Hooper