Parsonage Gets a Makeover
This article was published in the Statesman Journal, Sunday, May 5, 2013. By Kylie Pine and Sara Beringer This winter the Methodist Parsonage at the [...]
May 2013
April 2013
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 [...]
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 [...]