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The blind ferryman from Tillamook who could 'see' just fine — and an IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT ...
A special weekend episode to announce a live history show on Friday, May 29, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Polk County Fairgrounds in Rickreall! It's a fun…
15 hours ago
Minor politician became opium king of West Coast (1 of series of 6 related episodes)
ONE OF THE most significant events in the history of the world took place in 1892, when a corrupt political hack named James Lotan managed to land a …
1 day, 15 hours ago
When the last geyser in Pacific Northwest went still in Lakeview
Oregon’s last geothermal water-blaster, Old Perpetual, erupted for the last time sometime in the spring of 2009; a few dozen years ago, the state had…
2 days, 15 hours ago
Fossil Lake: Oregon’s answer to the LaBrea Tar Pits
Discovered (sort of) by Oregon's first governor, the dry lakebed in south-central Oregon's Lake County is a gold mine of Ice Age fossils, from tiny r…
3 days, 15 hours ago
Town destroyed by its founder’s favorite garden shrub
Gorse reminded Irishman Lord George Bennett of home, so he planted it when he founded the Oregon seaside town of Bandon; years later, the gorse destr…
4 days, 15 hours ago
Steam excursion train line is now a new bike path
Until the 1980s, you could ride the "Blue Goose" up the Row River past where "Stand By Me" was shot, near Cottage Grove.. Today, it's a 15.6-mile bik…
5 days, 15 hours ago
How Sheriff Bentley arrested legendary outlaw Hank Vaughan — and an IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT ...
A special weekend episode to announce a live history show on Friday, May 29, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Polk County Fairgrounds in Rickreall! It's a fun…
1 week ago
World champion hired to humiliate town bully
All through the summer of 1973, there was one song on the radio everywhere that you just couldn’t get away from: Jim Croce’s smash hit, “Bad, Bad Ler…
1 week, 1 day ago
Oregon Indian prince was Japan’s intro to the West
In his short 11-month stay on the island nation, he taught 14 Imperial diplomats to speak English, and impressed them with his gentility and respectf…
1 week, 2 days ago
An unrecognized Indian prince’s quest to see Japan
Young Ranald MacDonald didn't know he was the grandson of Concomly, Chief of the Chinook Tribe. But before anyone could tell him, he'd run away to se…
1 week, 3 days ago