Commemorating the life of CW3 Helen Ng Mun Tayne
Gravestone of Helen Ng Mun Tayne taken at Salem Pioneer Cemetery in Spring 2022. A century ago, the first part of April was [...]
April 2022
February 2020
Radio St. Valentine Contest – Clara Virginia Barton
Grebe Synchrophase ad from the October 1924 issue of Radio in the Home magazine. Americanradiohistory.com In February 1925 Cupid delivered a very [...]
May 2016
Memorial Day – Odd Fellows Rural Cemetery
Memorial Day observance at Odd Fellows Rural Cemetery circa 1885. WHC 1995.022.0003 “Cover them over with beautiful flowers, [...]
May 2015
Pioneers’ Sleep Disturbed by Sheep
Century-old cemetery at Salem became center of civic attention when woolly flocks were turned loose this spring to graze among the ancient tombstones. reprinted from [...]
July 2012
Comrade Kinney Mystery, 2012.024.0006
We recently received a transfer of Salem-related materials from the Lane County Historical Society and Museum in Eugene. Among the programs [...]
April 2011
Birth, Death and In-Between
We had a call in today about finding a Death Record for somebody who died in Marion County in 1893. It [...]