Detroit Dam Turns 60 This Summer
This article appeared in the Statesman Journal Sunday, April 7, 2013. Imagine. It is Wednesday June 10, 1953 and the sun is threatening a very [...]
April 2013
March 2013
Parsonage circa 1930
Before the Parsonage was moved to our site, it stood approximately where the William G. Paulus Administrative building for the Salem-Keizer School District stands today [...]
February 2013
The Prune Bear
Make sure to tune into KBOO radio, Portland 90.7, tomorrow, February 22, 2013 at 11:30am for the 100 Tacks program on the Great [...]
Ray L. Farmer Hardware Store, Salem
R.L. Farmer Hardware Store at the NE corner of Court and Commercial Streets in downtown Salem. Photos from Willamette Heritage Center Collections. [...]
November 2012
Salem Thinking Globally in 1957
While trolling the newspapers (T2011.001.005) on an unrelated project we came across this very interesting story of a global thinking in Salem in 1957. Spurred [...]
Jefferson Barbers
This excerpt is from an article that was first published in the Oregon Statesman. We located it in a series of undated clippings in the [...]
Pauline Looney
Ruth Sather Collection, 1986.015.0055 In a collection of materials from Jefferson, comes this photo and an unsourced typewritten description of Pauline Looney: Pauline Looney--was an excellent [...]
September 2012
Salem in 1912
In honor of Theater Outreach's production of The Music Man, set in 1912 fictional River City, Iowa, we decided it would be interesting [...]
Celebrities in Salem
We came across this list of famous people who visited or were connected with Salem in some way. There were no citations with it and [...]
August 2012
Related to Salem School History
Sometimes when I am going through files I come across something that would be really helpful in the right circumstances. This type-written document with no [...]