When An Oregon Town Disappeared: How Vanport Was Lost
Jeannie Yandel talks to Shawn Daley, chief innovation officer and assistant professor of education at Concordia University in Oregon, about the lost town of Vanport, Oregon.
It was destroyed in 1948 when a dike broke on the Columbia River during a flood. Nearly 60 years later, some people saw a reflection in the Hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans' 9th Ward, which was heavily damaged when a dike on the Mississippi River broke.
See a video about the disaster from Multnomah County Records Management and Archives:
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Jeannie Yandel
Special Projects Editor
Jeannie Yandel is a special projects editor focusing on podcasts and broadcast shows. She created and co-hosted the KUOW podcast Battle Tactics For Your Sexist Workplace and ran and edited KUOW's podcast about local curiosity, SoundQs. She also co-created and co-hosted KUOW's YouTube interview series, Are We Going To Be OK?. Previously, she was senior producer for The Conversation and KUOW Presents, and was Executive Producer for The Record.
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