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Dry town’s sting on secret drugstore pub went badly
Forest Grove drugstore responded to city's ban on recreational alcohol by adopting the 'marijuana dispensary' model for medicinal booze, and opening a blind pig in the back. The city fathers were not…
Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Oregon’s second largest city built in six months
BY EARLY 1941, the U.S. Army knew it was about to get sucked into at least one of the wars that were already raging around the world. The Selective Service and Training Act had passed the previous fa…
Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Mt. Hood: so mellow, you forget it’s a real volcano
Back when the Mazama Club formed, with membership open only to those who had climbed old Wy’East, standing on top of the mountain meant more than it does today. Just 35 years earlier, fire had been b…
Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Did Oregon miss a chance to catch the Zodiac Killer?
At the scene of a notorious double-murder of young lovers Larry Peyton and Beverly Allan, police paid little attention to Edward W. Edwards and soon eliminated him as a suspect. But if they'd dug a l…
Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago
A town’s friendship with its wartime attacker
Twenty years after he tried to light the surrounding forests on fire, Japanese pilot Nobuo Fujita returned to Brookings as an honored guest and presented the town with his family's Samurai sword. (Br…
Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Nobuo Fujita, the flying Samurai who attacked Oregon
After World War II started, submariner and pilot Nobuo Fujita hatched an idea: Use his tiny, rickety submarine-launched seaplane to attack an enemy 5,000 miles away from the nearest aircraft carrier.…
Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Finn on KPNW's Wake Up Call: Silverton's nationally-famous Bobbie the Wonder Dog
A recording of a June 2024 on-air conversation with Bill Lundun and Gerry Snyder of the Wake Up Call on Eugene's KPNW Radio AM 1120. Topic: 'Bobbie the Wonder Dog's' 2,500-mile odyssey. Lost in Illin…
Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Colorful sea-captain was like an 1800s Han Solo
THERE WAS NO reason why the U.S. Marshal should spend the night on board the cramped, smelly little freight schooner he was in charge of. After all, the ship was anchored in a semi-civilized town — S…
Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Plain-talking preacher made lawmakers squirm
“Uncle Joab” was the most famous preacher in the West for a reason ... and that reason was pretty much exactly why the pioneer lawmakers found him to be such a lousy fit for the job of Chaplain of th…
Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago
“Uncle Joab” was West’s most famous preacher
When the Legislature of the new state of Oregon started looking for someone to serve as the state's first Chaplain of the Legislature, Uncle Joab's name naturally came readily to mind. But it wouldn'…
Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago