Our Film

This weekend, my job is to get the articles from the library having to do with our topic. We chose to make the documentary on the CREHST Museum and the proposed Hanford Reach National Monument Museum and Interpretive Center (I never get all of that right)

There is controversy surrounding the proposed museum being placed on Columbia Point by Native Americans and we discovered last weekend, by the employees at the current museum. We were candidly told that they were told to either compete with the new museum or join. I'm hoping in our interviews we can get these same comments but we are wondering if it was more off-the-cuff comments that would hold more reservation in being said in a recorded interview. We spent quite a few hours at the museum last weekend to decide on a topic and I'm glad we found one that all of us have taken an interest in.

Article List:
1/21/2003- pg B1- Richland Cultural Center in Limbo
2/19/2003-B1-Committee evaluates locations for Reach Center
5/21/2003-B3- Board to seek interpretive center plan manager
6/24/2003-B1-Columbia Point proposed for Reach Center Most partners....
6/24/2003-B1-Columbia Point proposed for Reach Center Neighbors sick of....
6/25/2003-B1-Tribes oppose Reach center site
7/9/2003 A1-Center looses Tribal support
7/10/2003-B3-Richland Parks to discuss closing Columbia point south....
8/5/2003-B1-Richland district agrees to work on Reach center
9/9/2003-Hanford Reach center moves ahead
12/5/2003-B2-Hanford Reach center to be dedicated today
12/6/2003-A1-Historical center dedicated
12/16/2003-B3-Architect hire near for Reach center
3/20/2004-F17-Hanford Reach center to strengthen economy
6/22/2004-B2-Board approves governing body for Columbia Point South
7/15/2004-A10-Columbia point plan worth second look
10/01/2004-A1-Plans for reach center released
2/26/2005-F22-Reach visitor center a dynamic partnership by area...

If anyone is thinking of using newspaper articles to research their documentary topic, all you have to do is call the Tri-City Herald and tell the librarian there what you are researching. She will then print out a list or articles with their title, date, and location in the paper that you can view at the MidColumbia Library.