The first issue of its newsletter was her manifesto for the cause of historic preservation and a call for historic understanding. When OHA incorporated as a nonprofit, Bagwell became chair of the Board. She was already a Montclarion columnist at the time. In 1981, she helped found the Oakland Heritage Alliance. She wrote scripts for multimedia presentations at local museums and began to write weekly columns for the Montclarion featuring a photo of a historic building in Oakland with a short description in every article. She first became interested in Oakland history when she conducted an oral history with Inez Pardee (of the Pardee family). Her interest in preservation began with the Camron-Stanford House (in the Lakeside neighborhood near Lake Merritt). Bagwell launched Oakland’s historic preservation movement and was one of the founders of the Oakland Heritage Alliance. īeth Bagwell (born Elizabeth Loverde) (1938 – May 13, 2006) was a historian, historic preservationist and author. inaugural issue of the Oakland Heritage Alliance newsletter, 1981. The Oakland of today is the result of what Oaklanders of yesterday built or demolished, fostered or neglected. The environment we live in today has been given to us from the past: the buildings that remain, the layout of the streets, the ethnic character of our neighborhoods, the forgotten creeks, and the lake that still forms the centerpiece of our city. “OHA cares about the Oakland of yesterday because we care about the Oakland of tomorrow.
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