In this 5 minute oral history, Evelyn Bolme gives us a glimpse of the experience of a Native family who lived in Vanport, the largest WWII public housing project in the U.S. -
BUY a print of Peggy Jo Ball Morrill's beautiful "Vanport" painting here: http://www.dballmorrill.com/peg-s-prints-for-sale.html . This story is part of the Vanport Mosaic oral history project facilitated by story midwife Laura Lo Forti, and was produced by Meredith Lawrence, Megan Stahl and Malti Greenberg. To learn more about Vanport and the many silenced histories that surround us, visit vanportmosaic.org and follow us @vanportmosaic IG + FB + Twitter
The Vanport Mosaic is a memory activism platform that amplifies, honors, presents and preserves the many silenced histories that surround us, in order to better understand our present and create a new chapter where we all belong and thrive. www.vanportmosaic.org info@vanportmosaic.org