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Episode 1: A Japanese Pioneer in Oregon
Episode 1: A Japanese Pioneer in Oregon
Episode 1: A Japanese Pioneer in Oregon
Episode 2: Cultivating Community
Episode 1: A Japanese Pioneer in Oregon
Episode 1: A Japanese Pioneer in Oregon
Episode 3: Road to Minidoka
Episode 1: A Japanese Pioneer in Oregon
Episode 4: Relocation to Idaho
Episode 4: Relocation to Idaho
Episode 1: A Japanese Pioneer in Oregon
Episode 4: Relocation to Idaho
Episode 5: Coming Home: Life After Internment
Episode 5: Coming Home: Life After Internment
Episode 5: Coming Home: Life After Internment
Episode 6: Reparations and Moving Forward
Episode 5: Coming Home: Life After Internment
Episode 5: Coming Home: Life After Internment
Episode 7: Spirits and Speakeasies
Episode 5: Coming Home: Life After Internment
Episode 7: Spirits and Speakeasies
Episode 8: Currents of Change
Episode 5: Coming Home: Life After Internment
Episode 7: Spirits and Speakeasies
Creating "Voices of Gresham"
Read about host Stephanie Vallance's journey through the annals of local history and the museum archives. Voices of Gresham is a production almost 50 years in the making.
Press Coverage
“Voices of Gresham” podcast puts the ‘story in history’
Chris Keizur, Gresham Outlook 7/26/2024
On a hot summer day, Japanese Americans, many of whom had settled in the Gresham area, were told they were being relocated.
They had been kept over the summer at the Portland Assembly Center, not knowing of the furious construction that had been going on in the high desert of Idaho.
“We were told to pack up and hop on a train.”
Debut episode of ‘Voices of Gresham’ explores the pioneer ‘Western Empress’
Chris Keizur, Portland Tribune 7/10/2024; also published on KOIN, 7/12/2024
Gresham has a long history of commemorating important figures/families from its early history by naming roads and landmarks after them: Powell, Roberts, Eastman, Cleveland.
But for decades a prominent woman whose role in the city’s early development was no less influential was all but forgotten. Miyo Iwakoshi does not have her name enshrined on any local street signs. In fact, for decades she was buried in an unmarked grave, leaving behind a mystery for local historians to unspool with her family killed or dispersed to the far corners of the world.
History Podcast to Amplify 'Voices of Gresham'
Chris Keizur, Gresham Outlook 6/24/2024
A new podcast is launching this weekend that amplifies the many voices of local residents through the decades.
“Voices of Gresham” is a lively, one-of-a-kind podcast based on oral history recollections of Gresham residents past and present.
Using interviews conducted in the last 40-plus years, hosts Stephanie Vallance and Melissa Bevency explore themes including farming, nightlife and the Japanese American experience. Read more...
Gresham Historical Society to launch podcast celebrating ‘Voices of Gresham’
Chris Keizur, Gresham Outlook 4/1/2024
Local history buffs will get to explore East Multnomah County’s past through a series of oral histories that will be shared via a new platform.
The Gresham Historical Society is leveraging an $18,000 grant, courtesy the Oregon Heritage Commission, to launch “Voices of Gresham” podcast, which will share unique perspectives of the many people who have called this town home.
