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Chinese Oregon Speaker Series at St. Helens Public Library
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 8, 2016
CHINESE OREGON SPEAKER SERIES AT ST. HELENS PUBLIC LIBRARY
The St. Helens Public Library will host Archaeologist Don Hann for his presentation “Re-imagining Historic Chinese Mining Landscapes” on Thursday, September 22 at 7 p.m. inside the Auditorium. This event is part of the Oregon Historical Society’s Chinese Oregon Speaker Series and is a free presentation that is open to the public.
Chinese miners adapted a range of techniques to recover gold from various settings, and those techniques left distinctive footprints on the landscape. With remote sensing, we are beginning to see how the Chinese prospered decades after other miners left the gold fields.
Hann has studied mining sites from the upper John Day valley, in northeast Oregon and near Baker City, Sumpter, and Granite, and in southwest Oregon around Jacksonville and Medford. Hann has been an archaeologist on the Malheur National Forest from 1992 to the present and is a board member of the Grant County Historical Museum.
This event is hosted by the St. Helens Public Library as part of the Oregon Historical Society’s 2016 Chinese Oregon Speaker Series. For more information about the series and for a list of upcoming programs statewide, visit www.ohs.org.
The St. Helens Public Library is located at 375 S. 18th Street, St. Helens.
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For further information regarding this St. Helens Public Library event, please contact Library Director Margaret Jeffries at 503-397-4544 or margaretj@ci.st-helens.or.us.
