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I'm an Oregon history hobbyist, you could say. I was a newspaper guy from about 1990 until 2008, when I went back to grad school chasing a master's. I missed having a regular deadline, and I wanted to build an area of expertise and a body of work I could point to and be proud of -- so I started a weekly series of newspaper articles titled "Offbeat Oregon History."
I research and write one of these articles each week and send it off to every non-AP-member newspaper in the state (and a couple AP members too) to publish or not, as it sees fit. Currently several newspapers run it regularly, including
and probably a couple others that haven't told me they're running it. I do not charge for it; the minute you start cashing checks, everything changes -- it becomes a job rather than a hobby.
The newspapers get the articles exclusively for two months; then I put them up on my Web site at www.offbeatoregon.com.
I got started editing Wikipedia after finding errors in an article one day. I've been having fun with it and slowly learning more about the markup code used.
Hey, don't be a stranger! If you're ever in the Corvallis-Albany area, drop me a note (e-mail below) and let's have a cup of coffee.
This user
participates in WikiProject Oregon. talk | recent changes | stubs |
Wikipedia:Babel | ||||||||||
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I'm an Oregon history hobbyist, you could say. I was a newspaper guy from about 1990 until 2008, when I went back to grad school chasing a master's. I missed having a regular deadline, and I wanted to build an area of expertise and a body of work I could point to and be proud of -- so I started a weekly series of newspaper articles titled "Offbeat Oregon History."
I research and write one of these articles each week and send it off to every non-AP-member newspaper in the state (and a couple AP members too) to publish or not, as it sees fit. Currently several newspapers run it regularly, including
and probably a couple others that haven't told me they're running it. I do not charge for it; the minute you start cashing checks, everything changes -- it becomes a job rather than a hobby.
The newspapers get the articles exclusively for two months; then I put them up on my Web site at www.offbeatoregon.com.
I got started editing Wikipedia after finding errors in an article one day. I've been having fun with it and slowly learning more about the markup code used.
Hey, don't be a stranger! If you're ever in the Corvallis-Albany area, drop me a note (e-mail below) and let's have a cup of coffee.