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Article: A treasure-trove of trash.(General News)(An archaeological dig helps tell the story of John Day's Chinatown)
- Article from:
- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- July 23, 2006
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Byline: Greg Bolt The Register-Guard
JOHN DAY - They emerge from the dirt as fragments of porcelain and glass or rusty bits of metal, dull to the eye but wrapped in the patina of history.
They once were teacups or opium tins or markers used in games, but to University of Oregon archaeologist Julie Schablitsky and her colleagues, they are parts of a story. For six hot, painstaking days this summer they carefully dug through several feet of earth and stones in a John Day park, looking for relics left by turn-of-the-century Chinese miners and laborers who for a time called Eastern Oregon their home.
"What we're trying to do is give the voiceless a ...
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