ALFHAM Western Regional Conference

This year it was in Forest Grove, Oregon, and was a lot of fun.

We visited the 1854 Alvin T. Smith house.

And I got much too excited about their
ORIGINAL WALLPAPER.

We also explored the old train depot (home to the Friends of Historic Forest Grove), as well as taking tours further afield. The sessions were great: I got to hear Linda from the High Desert Museum talk about engaging audiences, and Eileen from Talbott & Co. discuss research on the brig Euphemia and the sorts of goods it carried between San Francisco and Hawaii. I also demonstrated straw-plaiting, with no fatalities (though it precluded seeing Peggy's Victorian fly-fishing program).