1964 Christmas Flood – Keizer
Watery Christmas ‘Not Very Fun’ Capital Journal, Wednesday, December 23, 1964 By William Bebout Written by the editor of the Capital Journal, a resident [...]
December 2014
April 2014
Casebere Standard Kindergarten
1916 Casebere Standard Kindergarten -Â WHC image 2014.011.0001 Â At the 1916 Oregon State Fair, under the sponsorship of the Oregon Congress [...]
March 2014
Bush College or Brush College?
Original Brush College Schoolhouse built in 1860.Photo courtesy of Salem-Keizer School District. In the past few weeks this question has [...]
August 2013
Finding the Civil War Close to Home
This list of ways to experience the Civil War close to home was compiled for the Statesman Journal and published in the Sunday, July 6, [...]
April 2012
The WPA in Oregon: Putting People to Work
In 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt promised Americans a "New Deal." The New Deal was a series of economic programs implemented between 1933 and 1936. They [...]