Salem Easter Traditions – Egg Hunts, Parades, Sunrise Services
Cowboy Jeff Bright, Bunny Dean Davis, and Egg Michael Linger at the 1976 Donald Easter Parade. Willamette Heritage Center 2004.025.0028 "Here comes [...]
April 2017
The Zwicker Family and the Fluff Rug Industry
Recycling was just a part of good business at the Zwicker Family's Salem Fluff Rug and Mattress Factory Advertisement for the Salem Fluff Rug [...]
March 2017
Honeymoon By Carriage: 1852 Journal of Esther Bell McMillan Hanna
Read the manuscript edited by David Duniway here. An Unpublished Project David Cushing Duniway (1912-1993) Photo Source: WHC [...]
Oakes Family Quilt
Albert and Pearl Oakes 40th Anniversary QuiltWillamette Heritage Center 2016.095.0001 Operation quilt rescue began with a vigilant thrift shop volunteer on the [...]
Flax and Linen Collections
Flax Cultivation and Linen Production WHC Collections 1998.010.0027 For at least 36,000 years, humans have been utilizing the flax plant (genus [...]
Armchair Research – The Property Hunt
It started simply enough, a visit to the Willamette Heritage Center’s research library, from two friends (and tenants) of an older home in the [...]
Salem Mayors Oral History Project
Salem Mayors Sue Harris Miller Addressing Crowd at City hall c. 1983. Al Jones Collection, WHC 2007.001.0270 The history of Salem's [...]
February 2017
James Carlton Nelson Papers
A recently acquired collection of papers belonging to longtime Salem educator James Carlton Nelson have yielded a few unexpected surprises. The papers consisting of [...]
Year of the Big Snow in Salem was 1937
The “Big Snow” hit Salem 80 years ago This past week we marked the 80th anniversary of Salem’s record-setting single snow fall day. From [...]
Hop Vine Scratch Newspaper, 1925
Newspaper for Hops Pickers The Hop Vine Scratch was a newspaper produced by the Health and Recreation Service of the Lake Brook Hops Ranch [...]