The date of the 2016 Oregon Archives Crawl is quickly approaching! This year the Northwest History Network will have a table at the Multnomah County Library location.

Saturday, October 8^th

11:00 AM to 3:00 PM

Start at any of the following locations: City of Portland Archives & Records Center, the Oregon Historical Society or the Multnomah County Library

Free and open to the public

Please follow this link for more information about the event:

https://portlandarchives.wordpress.com/2016/07/05/crawl-2016/

We want YOU to join us for the 2016 Oregon Archives Crawl!

A Walking Tour of the Historic Stokes & Zeller Architecture in the Buckman Neighborhood

NHN Associates and board members Tim Askin, Tibby O’Brien and Khris Soden will conduct a walking tour of the historic Buckman neighborhood with a focus on the area’s historic Stokes & Zeller architecture. Tour attendees will meet at Triumph Coffee (201 SE 12^th Avenue, Portland, OR 97214) at 11:00 am on Saturday, August 13, 2016, for the approximately one hour long walking tour. The tour will end at Marthas Restaurant in Revolution Hall (the former Washington High School – 1300 SE Stark Street, Portland, OR 97214). The walking tour is free and open to NHN Associates and the general public. RSVP requested via email at bryans1212 at q.com, or by phone at 503-747-9652.

Please follow this link for more details about the tour and its presenters: Buckman Walking Tour

Please follow the links below to read microfunding progress reports from the four recipients of the NHN microgrants in 2015.

And please note that the deadline for submission of proposals for the 2016 NHN Microfunding Program was July 1, 2016.

Project:  “Life in the Newberg Boyhood Home of Herbert Hoover:  A Resource”

Microfunding Progress Report

Organization:  Hoover-Minthorn House Museum

Project Director:  Sarah B. Munro

The Hoover-Minthorn House Museum will use their $231 award to develop a resource book for teachers to be used in preparation for class visits to the museum.

Project:  “Commemorating the Events and History of the 1934 Longshore Strike”

Microfunding Progress Report

Organization:  The Bloody Wednesday Project

Project Director:  Ryan Wisnor

The Bloody Wednesday Project will use their $250 award to assist in the costs of drafting a design for a historical marker to bring the history of Bloody Wednesday to the public.

Project:  ”Wage/Working explores income inequality through a traveling jukebox of interviews and stories about working”

Microfunding Progress Report

Organization:  Wage/Working

Project Director:  Laura Hadden

Wage/Working will use their $250 award to fund the installation of the jukebox, which contains oral histories about wage and income inequality, at venues in the Portland area.

Project:  “Portland’s Type Casting Heritage Project, an Oral History”

Microfunding Progress Report

Project Director:  Rebecca Gilbert

The $250 award will be used to fund the purchase of equipment to record oral history interviews to document the era of hot-metal printing in the Portland Metro area.

Please email nhn-board@googlegroups.com if you have suggestions about the program or would like to help out.