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Welcome to
Oregon's rich cultural heritage
Our mission:
The Oregon
Cultural Heritage Commission discovers, celebrates
and commemorates
Oregon's diverse
literary and
cultural legacy, raising awareness through
media, memorials, and public events.
The
formation in 1988 of the OCHC reflected the interests of
several Oregonians in the literary and cultural history of our state
and region.
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Portland Mayor
Bud
Clark's edict
inaugurated the group
formally, and IRS not-for-profit status was granted OCHC in 1993. For
nearly a decade the group has been working on projects commensurate
with its mission statement.
OCHC believes in
the
importance
of cultural memory, assuring the
past a
place in the present. As
our culture continues making critical choices about the
wide-ranging
issues of the day, it is vital that we bring the wisdom and
experience of our forbears into the discussion.
Our cultural understanding
perhaps
best serves us as a touchstone, as a
road map of where we've already been and gone; why we have, for
example,
our unique public beach law, our environmental orientation, our
excellent public libraries. It can also help us identify where we've
misstepped, and how our creative figures recorded the experience for
future reference.
All
contents © 2016 OCHC unless otherwise noted.
Note: Many pages on this site are high
resolution .pdf files. Please allow them time to load. Thanks for
your interest.
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