Historian & Archivist
Wallowa County, Oregon
👋 Hello! Ta'c léehyen! Grüezi!
I'm a historian living in wal’áwa in northeast Oregon. I'm currently working with local nonprofits to organize their collections, learning weyíiletpuutimt (the downriver dialect of the Nez Perce language), and working on a book about the history of Paradise, Oregon, and the Shumaker Grade.
I've always been a storyteller, but my stories are those of a white man raised in the urban Pacific Northwest, a gay man, and an Iraq war Marine Corps veteran. I struggle with PTSD and severe dissociation. My experiences have led me to complicated questions about stories, culture, community, connection, language, and resilience.
Check out my research notebook for notes, book reviews, field trip reports, and fun archive finds.
I believe knowledge should be free, sources should be cited and shared, and code should be open source. You can find some of my work on GitHub.
Please reach out if you have questions about northeast Oregon or southeast Washington history, especially if you're looking for hard-to-find sources. I may not have your answer but I bet I know somebody who does.
Also, I make mistakes all the time, like everyone -- if you find any inaccuracies in my work, please tell me!
This boutique Wallowa County press publishes and promotes authors writing about northeast Oregon.
Interactive websites exploring the history and ecology of Wallowa County, Oregon.
Preserving thirty-five years of powwow programs, meeting minutes, newspaper articles, and photographs for discovery and download.
Preserving the stories of Wallowa County.
Simple archive management for small collections.
GraphletDB is an extensible property graph database written in JSON-LD.
My pandemic project to curate a collection of more than 1,500 free-to-read ebooks of all genres.
Consumer hardware prototypes from my past life as an electrical engineer and software developer.