By Annie Amsden, Danielle Horn, and JoAnne Hermens :: Our group decided to make podcasts about the Portland Heritage Trees to provide a fun, easy introduction to this little-known aspect of our city life. These podcasts add to the collection created by students in course in 2015. We hope that making local history available inContinue Reading Heritage Tree Podcasts
By Ella Weil, Nick Truman, & John Stedman :: Tree Investigators! is a workbook that can be used in elementary schools, community centers, and in homeschool education with a goal to engage students in first through fifth grade in gaining awareness and appreciation of Portland Park and Recreation’s Heritage Trees. We believe that HeritageContinue Reading Tree Investigators! | Activities designed to experience your neighborhood through trees
By Alecia Giombolini :: How a Short-Lived Portland Anarchist Newspaper Jumpstarted a National Movement The Firebrand was an anarchist-communist newspaper published in Portland, Oregon. The first issue was released on January 27, 1895 and would continue to be published weekly until September 1897 when the newspaper’s three principle publishers were arrested and convicted for “sendingContinue Reading The Firebrand | A Portland Iconoclast