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| Shepperd's Dell Falls and Bridge Shepperd's Dell State Natural Area. Oregon. April 18, 2014 https://sites.google.com/site/recreatingthehcrh/historic-columbia-river-highway/shepperds-dell/shepperds-dell-trail |
Heading into the final week or so of the website rebuild (www.RecreatingTheHCRH.org), I am finding myself in a position where I need to pass the crowdfunding hat around again to see this work through to the end. (https://www.gofundme.com/f/recreatingthehcrh)
Due to the Covid-19 shutdowns, I ended up having a
lot more time to work on the website than I originally expected, and I was able
to accomplish a lot more with a lot less income over the last couple months.
Because of this, instead of just repairing the site, I was able to add a
significant amount of new content as I worked through the pages, and the site
is a lot larger, more detailed and, hopefully, a bit easier to navigate than it
ever has been before.
Since the fundraiser started, I’ve put in 577 hours,
averaging 47 hours per week, and repairing, updating, and/or creating over 800
web pages full of history, maps, photos and information on the Columbia River
Highway. I truly hope this is becoming, as highway expert Kirk J. Poole
suggested, “the encyclopedia of the highway” and “the most seminal work” on the
CRH “in the past 50 years.”
Now that the world seems to be
slowly resuming, it is time for me to wrap this phase of the project up as
quickly as possible. Moving ahead, after the rebuild is done, there will still
be new content being added to the site on a regular basis, more photos, current
and past, more stories and histories to be explored, more field work to be done
and, hopefully, a lot more video being produced. However, that will be
part-time work on the side for me, not full-time work as the site rebuild has
been.
So, to everyone who has been able
to contribute so far, I thank you very much. The work done so far would not
have been possible without your support, and for those who haven’t yet, if you
enjoy the content on the Recreating the HCRH Facebook Page (https://www.facebook.com/RecreatingTheHCRH)
and / or the website, I’d ask you to consider throwing a few bucks towards
supporting this work. Every little bit helps a lot!
Please check out the website, and
I’d love to hear any feedback. It is complete from Seaside to Lindsey Creek now
and, for a few more days, a bit more hit and miss after that. You can go directly to the site and explore (www.RecreatingTheHCRH.org) or go to
the progress spreadsheet and click the links to see the recently repaired and
updated pages (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JRWxizJp1E6rxhj8Ak4o9BX4F4ugiNIPNzlyJcuYlRM/edit?usp=sharing).
And, once again, here is the link
to the crowdfunding campaign:
Thanks to everyone for all of your
support and participation in this project!
