October 16, 2003
(Updated) Share Your Observations Of Life In Oregon With President Jefferson
Note: This post has been updated. Any and all updates appear at the end of the original post.
Surely there are enough people in the local weblog world to be able to contribute something to this endeavor found via OregonLive earlier this evening:
In 1803 President Jefferson's instructions to Lewis and Clark included recording impressions of the West's climate and geography, and the languages and customs of its people.
During the bicentennial of the explorers' Voyage of Discovery The Council for the Humanities wants Oregonians to do the same thing.
If we were writing to Jefferson now, 200 years later, how would we describe Oregon?
Kathleen Holt, editor of Oregon Humanities magazine, will publish selected responses regarding what we would want Jefferson to know and understand about Oregon and the people who live here today.
The invitation (pdf) to join what they are calling the Corps of Rediscovery, which includes excerpts from Jefferson's letter to Meriwether Lewis, says in part:
We invite you to write down your own impressions and observations of this land and its people and to submit them for inclusion in the next issue of Oregon Humanities magazine. Your submissions can take the form of journals, letters, essays, even drawings and photographs. We hope to compile a collection of observations and viewpoints as vivid, diverse and rich as our region itself.
Submissions can be sent to Kathleen Holt at Oregon Humanities (a publication of Oregon Council for the Humanities), 812 SW Washington Street, Suite 225, Portland, OR 97205, or emailed to Holt directly.
Update
As you can see in the comments here, there is some confusion as to the deadline for submissions. The PDF invitation avaiilable on the Council website indicates an October 15 deadline, which of coruse would make this item irrelevant. But the AP story I found was dated October 16 and lists a deadline of October 31.
I have email in to Kathleen Holt to clear this up.
Update
"Sorry for the confusion," writes Holt. "We extended the deadline in order to get more submissions." So interested parties do indeed have until October 31 to get something in.
Comments (1)
alan on 17 Oct 2003
It sounded cool until I read that submissions were being accepted until October 15th.