DAR offers essay contest for Wilsonville youth

  • Published: 11/6/2009 1:03:22 PM
Did you know that the First Transcontinental Railroad was completed 140 years ago?

Students in 5th through 8th grade are invited to participate in an essay contest sponsored by the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. This year’s topic asks young writers to describe how they felt on May 10, 1869, when the golden spike was driven at Promontory Summit, Utah, to celebrate the completion of the first transcontinental railroad line.

Entrants should pretend they are either a settler planning to use the train to travel to their new home in the West, an Irish or Chinese worker who helped build the line, or a Native American whose way of life was greatly affected by the railroad.

The contest is open to youth from Wilsonville, Sherwood and Newberg.

For more information, please contact a member of Champoeg Chapter’s American History Committee by e-mailing Lois Humphrey at loishumphrey@hotmail.com, Lois Streimer at lois@streimer.com or Gloria Farris at GloFar27@verizon.net.
 

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