#oregonhistory — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #oregonhistory, aggregated by home.social.
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New-to-me, from High Country News: How community organizers are amplifying Oregon’s Black music history. “The online repository contains over 13,000 items from 180 sources. There’s music, of course — live recordings, out-of-circulation albums, unreleased demos — plus film, newsprint, posters, handbills and oral histories. This massive collection is the backbone of the archive, but it […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/21/high-country-news-how-community-organizers-are-amplifying-oregons-black-music-history/ -
KOIN: Rare 360-degree photos of Oregon life in 1900s now online. “Long before the creation of iPhones and the panorama feature, photographers like June D. Drake used cameras like the Cirkut to record 360 degree images of life in Oregon in the 1900s.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/06/koin-rare-360-degree-photos-of-oregon-life-in-1900s-now-online/
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Jack London first saw Ernest Darling, better known as Nature Man, on the streets of San Francisco and scampering in the hills outside of Oakland. Darling wanted a world in which people could be wild and natural, naked and healthy. What drives some people to attempt a return to nature in a rapidly modernizing world?
A new episode of #MossbacksNW is now live! https://www.kcts9.org/show/mossbacks-northwest/episodes
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#introduction Hi! I’m Karl, aka Woke-Ass Messiah. Most people call me WAM or just Woke. I am a #modularsynth user and performer affiliated most strongly with #EarthModularSociety 🛸 and #GoldenShrimpGuild :gsg_shrimp: I’m also a #radioDJ and #recordcollector if you can believe that. I live in #eugeneoregon so I love all that outdoorsy stuff like #cycling and #camping and #fishing 🏔️ I like #oregonhistory #cloudydays #backyardchickens #castironcooking #creativenonfiction and probably lots more?