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The SLC’s mission is to provide a unique living laboratory that educates and encourages sustainable practices in daily life, and we believe that understanding the history of this living laboratory is important to achieving our mission.
The eighth presentation in this series is on Salem’s Early Chinese Community, presented by Kimberli Fitzgerald, Historic Preservation Officer, City of Salem.
Inside the Salem Pioneer Cemetery is a relatively unknown shrine that was used by residents of Salem’s Chinatown from the late 1800s through the 1940s. Join Ms. Fitzgerald, archaeologist and historic preservation officer with the City of Salem, to learn about the public archaeology project that uncovered the shrine-one of the few remnants of the city’s early Chinese immigrant history-and how the practice of public archaeology can help amplify the stories of Oregon’s historically marginalized communities.
Ms. Fitzgerald has been a resident of Oregon for almost thirty years. She is an American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) Certified Planner and a Registered Professional Archaeologist (RPA). Currently, she is the Historic Preservation Officer and City Archaeologist for the City of Salem, where she has worked since 2009. Fitzgerald is a co-author of the 2009 Images of America: Hillsboro, the 2011 Images of America: West Salem, and several articles published in the Alliance Review (published by the National Alliance of Preservation Commissions) relating to historic preservation planning. In 2020, she was awarded the third place Mark E. Mack Community Engagement Award by the Society for Historical Archaeology for her work with the community on the project that uncovered Salem’s Chinese funerary table within Salem’s Pioneer Cemetery and reinstated the Qingming celebration.
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