By Kylie Pine - Special to Salem Reporter
Kylie Pine is the curator of the Willamette Heritage Center. She regularly shares historical photos with Salem Reporter and invites readers to share what they may know. Contact her at [email protected] or 503-585-7012.
SALEM HISTORY: The legendary scones of the Oregon State Fair
As the state fair runs this week, Willamette Heritage Center curator Kylie Pine dug up archival photos of one of the fair's main food attractions in the 1950s.
LOCAL HISTORY: Salem’s unlikely undertaker-turned-poet
Portrait of Winfield Taylor Rigdon (1849-1942), Salem undertaker turned poet and lyricist. Portrait printed in his 1927 book of poems “Truth in Pleasant Rymes” (Willamette Heritage Center collections 91.27.1) This summer at the Willamette Heritage Center we are celebrating music…