Willamette Falls History Series on DVD
Now available: "Friends, Fish and $1.09 an Hour"
This moving companion piece to our 2006 documentary movie on millwork during the 60-year run of Crown Zellerbach International, West Linn Division, finishes the stories begun by 17 career mill employees in "Grindstones, Boomsticks, Tattletales and Nips--the people and the stories of Crown Zellerbach..."
No Northwest mill family's library is complete without this poignant record of workers and their jobs at the end of the Industrial age.
Our first Falls History DVD
In Their Own Words - Oral Histories of pulp and papermaking in West Linn, Oregon
History of the Mills at Willamette Falls
Thanks to the Kinsman Foundation, we were able to produce a second oral history DVD on mill work at Crown Zellerbach, West Linn, from 1928-1986. "Friends, Fish, and $1.09 an Hour" contains 'the rest of the stories' of mill work, including fish stories, Christmas parties and reminiscences about the West Linn Inn. Both documentaries are in Oregon libraries and have aired on cable access television and the Oregon Public Broadcasting public affairs channel.
Locks Funding Update
The Oregon Transportation Commission approved a $418,000 Oregon Department of Transportation grant to maintain and operate Willamette Falls locks and canal five days a week during the 2006 and 2007 boating seasons.
$100,000 of the grant, which was from Federal transportation enhancement funds dedicated to historic transportation facilities, came from public and private interests who participated in the Locks Funding Task Force facilitated by Oregon Solutions and convened by former Sen. Verne Duncan.
An agreement for locks preservation, maintenance, operations and funding sources were in place before October 1, 2007. Lock Fest on September 22, 2007 featured the signing ceremony for that final agreement.