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Oral History of the Grande Ronde
The Grande Ronde Valley in Union County, Oregon - rural, spacious, nestled in the bowl of the Blue Mountains. The story of its history since its settling, through the two World Wars, the Great Depression until today is told through the voices of its longtime residents.
The Union County, Oregon History Project was sponsored by the Meyer Memorial Trust to collect oral history and related items of 179 citizens of the Grande Ronde Valley. The director, Dr. Eugene Smith, donated the collection to Eastern Oregon University in March 2007 for the purpose of creating an online database to share with those interested in the rich heritage of rural eastern Oregon. Additional funding and financial support for the Oral History of the Grande Ronde came from Pierce Library at Eastern Oregon University, the Eastern Oregon Foundation, and the Union County Cultural Coalition. Supplementing this database, are 35 more interviews from citizens in the Grande Ronde Valley hailing from North Powder, Union, Imbler, Summerville, Cove, Elgin, and La Grande. These latter additions were gathered in 1978 and have been housed in the Archive at Eastern Oregon University. Welcome to the Grande Ronde Valley!Copyright Restrictions: PLEASE NOTE these interviews and related materials are provided for research purposes only. All uses of these interviews and related materials are covered by copyright agreement between the interviewees and the Union County, Oregon History Project and Eastern Oregon University. All the literary rights in these manuscripts, including the right to publish, are reserved to Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, unless otherwise noted. No part of these materials may be quoted or duplicated for publication without the permission of the Library Director at Eastern Oregon University. The narrators are speaking from their personal experience. Please respect their stories.
This project is in partial fulfillment of Digital Libraries ILS 655 S70 at Southern Connecticut State University under the professorship of Dr. Yan Liu.
Questions/comments? Sharon Porter at Pierce Library at Eastern Oregon University
sporter@eou.edu
Last modified on: April 20, 2007