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Buster Keaton brought Hollywood to Cottage Grove (Part 2 of 2)
And then there was the climactic scene, which is the main thing people talk about in South Lane County when this movie comes up. It was literally a t…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Buster Keaton brought Hollywood to Cottage Grove (Part 1 of 2)
IF A COTTAGE Grove logger had been bonked on the head in January 1926, and woke up six months later, he would have scarcely recognized his home town.…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Prohibition sting ended with a deadly gunfight
IF YOU LOOK UP Prohibition Agent Glenn H. Price on the “Fallen Agents” page at www.atf.gov, you’ll get a very brief account of his death: “Prohibitio…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Town’s emergency wood money is still legal tender
IN EARLY FEBRUARY of 1933, the mayor and city council of North Bend had a big problem on their hands. It was, of course, the depths of the Great Depr…
3 months ago
Bunny-massacre parties were big social events
Imagine, for a moment, that you’re passing through a little Harney County town when you see, in a used-car lot, a DMC DeLorean that someone has modif…
3 months ago
Corvallis man found cows make lousy boat engines
The “Genius of Corvallis” hoped his cattle-powered riverboat would give the upper-Willamette sternwheelers a run for their money; and so it did, so l…
3 months ago
Alcoholic shipmate drank snake-preserving whiskey
Stranded for the winter on Sauvie Island, the members of Nathaniel Wyeth's trading post struggled to get enough to eat. But for some of them, the gre…
3 months ago
Schemers’ plans to exploit Multnomah Falls failed
Original owners of the falls tried for years to log it, but the steamship and railroad moguls were making a lot of money on excursion trips, so they …
3 months ago
Shanghai tunnels mostly a myth...or are they?
In the glory days of Portland shanghaiing, sailors were 'helped back aboard ship' on the city streets; there was no need for a tunnel to sneak them d…
3 months, 1 week ago
Tarzan fans are grateful for gold miner’s failure
Had Edgar Rice Burroughs and his brothers been successful with their Snake River gold dredge, Ed likely would never have had the time or inspiration …
3 months, 1 week ago