Category: Media

Category: Media

Professional Credentials

 

Personal Statement

I am a multimedia artist specializing in moving imagery and instructional
technology. I consider myself an amateur historian focusing on the heritage
and history of my community, the Silverton Country, as well as the history
of multimedia technology and its impact on society.Areas of Specialization:
Digital motion picture production, editing and animation. I am skilled in
all aspects of digital and analog graphic art, moving imagery and audio
techniques. I am especially interested in acoustic audio recording
techniques, late 19th century political cartoons and early motion picture
hard and software. I am also well versed in analog to digital conversion of
various media, including but not limited to Optical Character Recognition
(OCR), phonographic audio restoration, photographic scanning, and film
transfer. I am a frequent lecturer on a variety of topics, from antique
phonographics to Martian lava tube caves.

Professional Associations

  • Northwest History Network

Selected Positions, Projects, and Publications

  • Coordinator – The Davenport Project
  • GeerCrest Farm & Historical Society – Board of Directors
  • CONTACT: Cultures of the Imagination – Board of Directors
  • Silverton Planning Commission – Commissioner
  • Silverton Grange No. 748 – Lecturer
  • “Cartoons by Davenport” – Researcher and editor for this annotated edition of Hearst cartoonist Homer Davenport’s 1898 book
  • “Silverton” – Author/Compiler of Arcadia Publishing’s book on Silverton fortheir “Images of America” series

Contact Information:
503-779-9378
http://gus.2020oregon.net
The Davenport Project

The OPB program Think Out Loud is going to have a show on the OHS library closure Tuesday, March 24, from 9-10 a.m., at 91.5 fm. 

NHN board member James Hillegas did talk to Julie Sabatier of TOL, and gave her our perspective on the situation. Please listen, call, and email during the show. Sometimes they read emails out loud, or even call to follow up. 
Some things that we had discussed trying to emphasize on the show was that the Oregon Historical Society executive director and board need to work with community stakeholders, openly and publicly, to find a sustainable solution for the library — which is a unique, vast resource important not only to historians, but many other people doing research about Oregon and the region. The collections are held in the public trust, and must be accessible and protected by trained archivists and librarians. 

Floyd McKay at Crosscut covered the March 13 rally in support of the OHS Research Library and Staff:

Last week closed with nearly all of the research librarians and archivists at the 110-year-old Oregon Historical Society picking up their personal effects and exiting into the crisp March air. The newly unemployed staff were greeted by almost 100 Oregon historians and friends of the archives in a hastily organized protest across from the library in the Portland Park Blocks.

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Lacking a secure public funding source, the library over the years has lost out on private funding as Portland’s pioneer families dispersed and many of the businesses they owned were picked up by out-of-state corporations with little interest in Oregon’s history. Glitzier, more-popular cultural attractions, particularly a rejuvenated Oregon Art Museum and an expanded theater scene became the places for new Oregonians to invest and be seen. Traditional state support of OHS was halted several years ago, and, gradually, services of the Historical Society were cast aside to save the core of the institution.

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The shaky backing for the research function has already prompted its backers to begin thinking of other options, primarily partnership or even transfer to a major state university. OHS is two blocks from Portland State University, and there is also a large library and history program at the University of Oregon. The century-old Oregon Historical Quarterly is also an OHS function, but has its own endowment, which might keep it at the Society.

Read the full story here.