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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">1. Application deadline approaches for Oregon Heritage Fellowships<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'">2. Exchange explores Dayton’s Diamonds<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'">5. Archaeology lecture series digs into Oregon’s history in Eugene, Oct. 11, 18, 25<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'">6. Thomas J. Connolly honored with 2013 Earl Chiles Award<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">APPLICATION DEADLINE APPROACHES FOR OREGON HERITAGE FELLOWSHIPS<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Oregon Heritage encourages full-time undergraduate and graduate students of an Oregon university or college to apply for an Oregon Heritage Fellowship. The application deadline is Oct. 25. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Eligibility includes an Oregon-related research topic in history, geography, archaeology, cultural heritage or historic preservation. Fellowship recipients will present their research process and findings at the 2014 Oregon Heritage Conference. Visit Oregon Heritage for a </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><A title="2014 Oregon Heritage Fellowship Application" href="http://www.oregon.gov/oprd/HCD/FINASST/docs/2014_Oregon_Heritage_Fellowship_App.pdf" target=_blank><FONT color=#0000ff>2014 Application Form</FONT></A> </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">and an <A href="about:Over%20the%20last%20four%20years,%20this%20block%20has%20seen%20some%20significant%20facade%20improvements,%20thanks%20in%20part%20to%20the%20Diamonds%20in%20the%20Rough%20grant%20offered%20by%20the%20Oregon%20State%20Historic%20Preservation%20Office."><FONT color=#0000ff>Oregon Heritage Fellowships Flyer</FONT></A>. Email </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><A href="mailto:cara.kaser@state.or.us"><FONT color=#0000ff face="Times New Roman">Cara Kaser</FONT></A><FONT face="Times New Roman"> or call (503) 986-0670 for further information.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'">EXCHANGE EXPLORES DAYTON’S DIAMONDS<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Over the last four years, downtown Dayton has seen some significant facade improvements. Learn about the people and collaborative efforts, including a <A title="Diamonds in the Rought Grant information" href="http://www.oregon.gov/oprd/HCD/FINASST/Pages/grants.aspx#Preserving_OR_Diamonds_Grant" target=_blank><FONT color=#0000ff>Diamonds in the Rough grant</FONT></A> from the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office, that have made this downtown story a success on <A href="http://oregonheritage.wordpress.com/2013/10/10/daytons-diamonds/"><FONT color=#0000ff>Oregon Heritage Exchange</FONT></A>.</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'">SALEM PIONEER CEMETERY LATEST NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES LISTING<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'">The Salem Pioneer Cemetery is among Oregon’s latest entries in the National Register of Historic Places.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'">The historic Odd Fellows Rural Cemetery in Salem, established in 1854 by Chemeketa Lodge No. 1, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, is among the very oldest fraternal society burial grounds in Oregon. Located on South Commercial Street, next to the historical alignment of the territorial road, the cemetery rises upslope toward the west to a point overlooking the Willamette Valley to the east.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'">The cemetery grew to 17.05 acres by 1890 and serves today as the city’s only example of a cemetery in the Rural Cemetery tradition. It is the final resting place of Samuel R. Thurston, Oregon’s first delegate to the Congress of the United States. It is also the burial ground of many other significant figures in early Oregon government as well as the founding of the capital city’s educational, social and commercial institutions. The Salem Pioneer Cemetery Association, organized in 1949, changed the cemetery’s name before disbanding in 1954.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The cemetery is under the on-going stewardship of the City of Salem and the Friends of Pioneer Cemetery and remains an active burial ground for the descendants of original plot owners. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'">Oregon’s State Advisory Committee on Historic Preservation recommended the cemetery’s nomination during their June 2013 meeting. The cemetery and its adjacent neighbor, City View Cemetery, make up a significant scenic and historical open space in south Salem.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Salem Pioneer Cemetery is among 23 Oregon cemeteries presently listed in the National Register. The National Park Service maintains the National Register under the authority of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'">Visit <A href="http://www.oregon.gov/oprd/HCD/NATREG/pages/nrhp_recent_nominations.aspx"><FONT color=#0000ff>Oregon Heritage</FONT></A> online for further information about the National Register and recent Oregon listings. </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">OREGON ARCHIVES MONTH ACTIVITIES TAKE PLACE AT OSU<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">From 4 – 6 p.m., Oct. 11, browse a special collection of primary sources on the Limited Test Ban Treaty (LTBT) at the Special Collections & Archives Research Center, and then <SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic">listen to a</SPAN> round table discussion of the history of the LTBT and explore its impact from social, military, and environmental perspectives. Round table participants include Tim Naftali, National Security Fellow at the New America Foundation and former Director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, as well as three leading scholars in the field, all from the OSU School of History, Philosophy and Religion: Jacob Darwin Hamblin, Christopher McKnight Nichols and Joseph Orosco. Event attendees can also tour the new exhibit titled, “<SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic">Activism in Action! Voices from the Collections.” <o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">On Oct. 19, the Oregon Hops and Brewing Archives will come to life through an <A href="http://scarc.library.oregonstate.edu/brew-crawl-map-2013.pdf"><FONT color=#0000ff>Archives Brewery Crawl</FONT></A>.</SPAN><FONT face="Times New Roman"> </FONT><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">OSU libraries recently created the Oregon Hops and Brewing Archives to capture and preserve Oregon’s rich beer history. The archive provides access to the story of hops production and the craft brewing industry in our state. It is a collecting initiative, documentary history, and community archiving project that cuts across the agricultural, scientific, farm labor and cultural components of hops and brewing history. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">For further information about these and other month-long Archives Month activities at OSU, visit the <A href="http://scarc.library.oregonstate.edu/archivesmonth.html"><FONT color=#0000ff>Special Collections and Archive online</FONT></A>, email <A href="mailto:tiah.edmunson-mortion@oregonstate.edu"><FONT color=#0000ff>Tiah Edmunson</FONT></A> or call (541) 737-7387.</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'">ARCHAEOLOGY LECTURE SERIES DIGS INTO OREGON’S HISTORY IN EUGENE, OCT. 11, 18, 25<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'">The University of Oregon (UO) Museum of Natural and Cultural History’s 20th annual ARCHAEOLOGY LECTURE SERIES will at begin Oct. 11 as part of the statewide Oregon Archaeology Celebration. Mark Tveskov of Southern Oregon University presents "Archaeological Perspectives on the Rogue River War" in this first of three fascinating talks about historical archaeology in Oregon.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'">Chelsea Rose of Southern Oregon University will present "A Portrait of the Past - Archaeological Views on the Life of Peter Britt" on Oct. 18, and Scott Williams, of the Washington State Department of Transportation, will give a lecture titled "Shipwrecks, Legends, and Lost Treasures - Historical Archaeology on the Oregon Coast" on Oct. 25.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'">All lectures will take place at 5:30 p.m. in Room 110 of the Knight Law Center, on the UO campus. For further information, <A href="http://natural-history.uoregon.edu/dig-oregons-heritage"><FONT color=#0000ff>dig Oregon’s heritage</FONT></A> online.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'">THOMAS J. CONNOLLY HONORED WITH 2013 EARL CHILES AWARD<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'">The High Desert Museum has chosen Dr. Thomas J. Connolly, Research Director at University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History and State Museum of Anthropology, to receive the 2013 Earle A. Chiles Award. Connolly will receive the award at a banquet held in Portland on Dec. 4. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'">The award honors Connolly’s work leading teams of archaeologists who conduct cultural resource management studies for state agencies as well as utility companies, federal agencies and municipalities. Connolly has fostered multiple successful collaborations between tribal governments and diverse organizations involved in road building, water control, construction and timber and grazing management. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'">The Chiles Award honors those who promote conflict resolution and thoughtful management of the natural and cultural resources of the Intermountain West. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'">“Two things made Dr. Connolly a worthy choice,” said High Desert Museum President Janeanne Upp. “His holistic, far-reaching perspective on the native cultures of the west and his kind, diplomatic approach to these major projects with multiple stakeholders. He fits in perfectly with a long line of Chiles Award winners.”<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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