On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Ray Saintonge wrote:
Geoff Burling wrote:
Well, I've been trying to remedy that with at least the entries concerning cites in the state of Oregon. (I'd say about 30-40% of those contain more than just census material; the latest I've worked on was [[Jacksonville, Oregon]], which now has details of an archeological excavation of the now-gone Chinatown of this city.
Don't forget Fossil, Oregon which is the only place that I know of where the local authorities actually encourage visitors to dig in its fossil beds.
Well, I'm going to need to take a little time to verify that. IIRC, the nearest fossil beds are U.S. National Monuments.
And I could always start cribbing material from this book a friend gave me several years ago: _Mysterious Places of the West_ by Salvatore M. Trento. (I think of it as that book where the author never missed an excuse to include one of his female "Student researchers" in his pictures. ;-) That would broaden the scope of a few articles.
Another good source of local things to write about is the AAA Tourbooks.
I've actually been using their magazine _Via_ to good effect. Not so much as a source of information, but to remind myself of details to include in Wikipedia, & verifying details that I tend to get wrong (e.g., misremembering dates & places).
One of these days I'm gonna have to leave the early history of Christianity alone long enough to write proper articles on Champoeg (where local government for the Orgon Territories started, & the first state park), & Neakahnie Mountain (where a legendary treasure is said to be buried, but the curious carvings have been more plausibly explained as the work of Sir Frnacis Drake).
And then there's the article on Wanker's Corner I'm sure the non-USonians would enjoy reading. (The tavern there was quite popular with the Australian tourists.)
Geoff