Try something different: Add a bit of historic oompf to your visit by checking out the Masterson Pioneer Homestead, the Northwest Coast Native American
Plank House and the Trapper's Cabin - all part of the park's Historic Village.
The Kwakwaka'wakw (pronounced Kwok-wokie-wok) artist was born in a
plank house in Alert Bay just off Vancouver Island's inside passage.
Believe it or not, the usual fuel was black walnut and the
plank house was made of chestnut.
At least one of the houses was a whare whakiro or dressed
plank house, and there were also various sleeping houses of pole and thatch.
The blast was apparently caused by a faulty electrical circuit and the
Plank House at the airport caught fire according to This Day, a local newspaper.
Other local projects - some done in partnership with other museums - have included history trunks, a Native American
plank house, walking tours and a traveling children's museum.
The recent construction of a Native American
plank house now completes a group of three replica buildings, all funded through the Teaching American History federal grant program.
Together with other volunteers, they have been building a traditional Northwest Coast Native American
plank house at Dorris Ranch.
He was later asked to build a scale model of a cedar
plank house for the UO's Museum of Natural and Cultural History.
The planks created during the demonstration will be used to construct a coastal
plank house for the museum's "Oregon - Where Past is Present" exhibit, which opens in October.
Don Day, a Grand Ronde tribal member and UO anthropology graduate student, demonstrates cedar-working techniques for a traditional coastal
plank house to be included in a new UO Natural History Museum exhibit.