Interested in Neighborhood History

Are you interested in our helping collect and preserve our (your) neighborhood history?

If so, perhaps you could help form a neighborhood history group for the Gulch?

That's the goal of the Neighborhood History Project just getting started in Portland.  The basic idea is to find a way to ensure the preservation of the history of Portland's neighborhoods that survives individual people. There are dozens of small historical groups in Portland. Most of these groups have two things in common:

• Their collections are disorganized boxes of who-knows-what, often stored in someone's garage.

• The best stuff is usually the prized personal property of one of the members.

In short, the collections are inaccessible to scholars and in danger of disappearing forever after the deaths of key members when heirs throw out "that old crap in the garage."

The Neighborhood History Project will help small historical groups organize, preserve, and digitize their collections and to assure that collections are accessible to scholars, both "in person," and via the internet.

If you're interested, contact the group via their web site.

http://neighborhoods.localhistoryproject.com