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Courtesy photo/Gwen Trice
A Oregon Heritage Grant received by the Maxville Heritage Interpretive Center will be used to help organize its archival material. |
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Maxville project receives expert help, heritage grant
Wallowa County Chieftain
The Maxville Heritage Interpretive Center (MHIC) project, spearheaded by Gwen Trice of Enterprise, got some expert help recently from two representatives of the Tamastslikt Institute in Pendleton.
Tamastslikt Institute collection curator Randall Melton and development officer John Chess, traveled to Enterprise Nov. 6 to appraise archive materials and offer technical assistance support, as well as contributing $100 toward materials for archives and storage.
They expressed approval of MHIC resource materials and the developing Interpretive programs that feed into its growing collections. The experts also approved Maxville Heritage's website design and functionality.
MHIC also received word that it one of the local recipients of the Oregon Heritage Grant from the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department's Oregon Heritage Commission, under the umbrella of the Friends of the Joseph Branch.
The $2,666 matching grant will be used to organize, categorize, and safely store a large number of existing and incoming historic records for the interpretive center. Matching funds awarded by the city of Wallowa to MHIC were used for the grant.
The archive grant includes photo media, voice and video media, and textual records. According to Trice, critically needed equipment, hardware, software and materials will be purchased, while donated professional services will be used to complete project activities.
Another local Oregon Heritage Grant was Wallowa Land Trust, which will receive $10,000 to expand its Farms and Ranchlands program with a special focus on Century Farms.
This August Maxville Heritage Interpretive Center celebrated its first gathering at the Maxville townsite, which is owned by Forest Capital Partners.
MHIC's Historical Reenactment program is under development, with a 12-week program planned for the summer of 2010 in Wallowa and Union counties.
MHIC was founded in 2008, to collect, preserve, educate, interpret and publicly display the rich history of the multicultural logging community of Maxville in Wallowa County, and similar communities in the Pacific Northwest. The Maxville Heritage Interpretive Center is a fully organized charitable organization, with its 501(C)(3) tax-exempt status is pending approval.
Charitable donations can be made to the Maxville Project through the Friends of the Wallowa County Museum and are tax deductible.
For more information: call 541-426-3545; e-mail: (info@maxvilleheritage.org); or visit (www.maxvilleheritage.org).
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