[Heritage] Oregon Heritage News 2011-07-01

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In This Issue:
1. Deadline Approaches for NEH Historical and Cultural Organizations
Grants 
2. Conservation Center Seeks Preservation Needs Program Applicants
3. Champoeg State Heritage Area Hosts OSU Archeological Dig
4. Treasures and Tales Program Offered by Clackamas County Historical
Society
5. “Windows in Time” Begins July with “Music to Our Ears”
6. Historic Ranger Station Opens July 1

DEADLINE APPROACHES FOR NEH HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS
GRANTS 

NEH has posted new application guidelines at www.neh.gov for the
America's Historical and Cultural Organizations grant competition, with
an upcoming deadline of August 17 and future deadline of January 11,
2012. The grants will fund humanities projects intended for broad public
audiences at museums, libraries, historic sites and other historical and
cultural organizations. Grants support interpretive exhibitions, reading
or film discussion series, historic site interpretation, lecture series
and symposia, and digital projects. NEH especially encourages projects
that offer multiple formats and make creative use of new technology to
deliver humanities content. Program officers in the Division of Public
Programs will provide assistance, including discussion of project ideas
or reading draft proposals. Please call the NEH Division of Public
Programs (202) 606-8269 or email publicpgms at neh.gov for further
information.

CONSERVATION CENTER SEEKS PRESERVATION NEEDS ASSESSMENT PROGRAM
APPLICANTS

The Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts is seeking
applicants for its Preservation Needs Assessment program.  Through
funding from the NEH, the Center offers a limited number of subsidized
assessments for $350, including the assessor's travel expenses. The
Center must receive applications by July 15, 2011. To review detailed
information on the Preservation Needs Assessment Program visit
www.ccaha.org . For questions call (215) 545-0613 or email
pso at ccaha.org .

CHAMPOEG STATE HERITAGE AREA TO HOST OSU ARCHEOLOGICAL DIG 
 
Champoeg State Heritage Area will offer guided tours of an
archeological dig beginning at 10 a.m., Wednesdays, Fridays, and
Saturdays through August 3. OSU Professor of Anthropology, Dr. David
Brauner, and 26 of his students are conducting the dig - the fourth
excavation since 2002 - at the Champoeg townsite. Settlers formed
Oregon's first provisional government on this site in an historic vote
on May 2, 1843. The townsite includes the former home Robert Newell,
chief promoter of the town of Champoeg, and speaker of the Provisional
Legislature after the 1843 vote.  According to Brauner, the Newell cabin
is the most intact pre-1855 domestic structure and associated artifacts
in the Willamette Valley.  Tours will begin in the Riverside day use
parking area near the Pioneer Mothers Cabin. 

TREASURES AND TALES PROGRAM OFFERED BY CLACKAMAS COUNTY HISTORICAL
SOCIETY

Visit the Museum of the Oregon Territory for the “Treasures and
Tales” program in July. Learn about the Willamette Falls and what it
means to Native Americans. Grand Ronde Tribal member Greg Arched will
present “Native Americans of Clackamas County and the historic
Willamette Falls in their lives - past and present” at 11:30 a.m.,
1:30 and 3 p.m., July 2. Visitors will see heritage craft demonstrations
in woodworking and basketry during the event. During the same times on
July 6, guests can meet a living history fur trader and hear about his
life experiences from the trail and nearby Hudson By Company’s Fort
Vancouver. For further information about these and future Treasures and
Tales events, visit www.clackamashistory.org, email
info at clackamashistory.org or call (503) 655-5574.

“WINDOWS IN TIME” BEGINS JULY WITH “MUSIC TO OUR EARS”

“Windows in Time”, a lunchtime series featuring well-known writers
and historians that share stories about the people, values and events
that shaped Southern Oregon heritage, continues in July. Join Ed Wight
for his presentation “Music to Our Ears: City Bands in Southern
Oregon” from noon - 1 p.m., July 6 at the Medford Branch Library and
July 13 at the Ashland Branch Library. Visit www.sohs.org or call (541)
773-6536 for additional information.

HISTORIC RANGER STATION OPENS JULY 1

After 50 years of service in the Old Mono National Forest east of the
Sierra Nevada, the old ranger station office relocated to the High
Desert Museum. Today it offers the public a snapshot of the roll forest
rangers and ranger stations played on the Western frontier. From July 1
thru Labor Day, stop by the restored 1933 High Desert Ranger Station and
visit with a ranger to learn about U.S. Forest Service operations during
the mid-20th century. To learn more, call (541) 382-4754 or visit
www.highdesertmuseum.org . 

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