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.
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.
Ec