Please help us.
We can only save as much Donner Summit history as we can gather. If you have stories, artifacts, documents, pictures, or other materials, let us know and we'll be happy to make copies, take what you've written, sit down with you and record memories, or do whatever it takes to save our history. People have been passing on history to us as you can see below. None of those stories would have been possible or will be possible without the donations of materials from the public.
**The postcard above was found by Linda and Leroy Waddle of the Palisades in a bundle of old postcards.
**We ran the story of the first house in Kingvale in our November '08 issue by Lois Shane
**Johnny Ellis and the Dartmouth Outing Club were in our April, 09 newsletter using materials donated by the DOC and Susy Struble of the DOC on Lake Mary.
**Lake Mary reminiscences by Pat Malberg was in our May issue using a story and pictures donated by Pat Malberg.
**Dennis Jones and Soda Springs was in our February, 09 issue.
**We are working on stories
******about the Reynolds cabin in Soda Springs using materials donated by the Reynolds family.
******Sugar Bowl's first year (70th anniversary) will be in a Fall, '09 newsletter. It will use many sources including Sugar Bowl donated pictures.
Historical Society immediate needs
Your stories, documents, pictures - we'll send someone to you.
Someone to create a web gallery for published pictures
Someone to maintain indices for newsletter articles and photos
pictures of the aircraft beacon on Beacon Hill (now Soda Sprgs ski hill)
publicity person------- grant writer---------- computer
office assistant work: cataloging voluminous materials.