Offbeat Oregon History podcast

Offbeat Oregon History podcast


Latest Episodes

Lost-cabin treasure tales tantalize gold seekers
November 01, 2024

LOST OR ABANDONED cabins pop up so often in legends of missing gold mines and buried treasure that they are almost a cliché.

‘Christmas Ship’ could have used Santa’s help to navigate
October 31, 2024

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer's shiny nose would have been the only light showing on the Oregon Coast after the Pearl Harbor attack...

Legendary Oregon wrestler got pinned by a real-estate dream
October 30, 2024

Olympic gold medalist and OSU legend Robin Reed might have been the best wrestler of all time...

Six picnickers fell victim to Japanese balloon bomb
October 29, 2024

Lunching in the woods after church during World War II, hundreds of miles from the sea, Elyse Mitchell and four kids from church were killed in the blast....

The legendary Tabitha Brown of Forest Grove, founder of Pacific University (go Boxers) (Part 2 of 2; WPA oral-history interview with Mrs. H.A. Lewis)
October 28, 2024

WPA writer Sara B. Wrenn's 1939 oral history interview with Mrs. H.A. Lewis, granddaughter of the legendary Tabitha Moffat Brown...

Truck bombings doomed newspaper unions’ cause
October 25, 2024

But the strike enabled Oregon Journal's trustees to sell the paper, in defiance of its former owner's direct bequest, to the owners of the Oregonian...

His cheating heart cost Oregon journalism dearly
October 24, 2024

Was the shooting of Donald Newhouse the action of a union thug, related to the strike at the Oregonian and Journal? Or...

The wreck of the U.S.S. Shark: Navy’s loss was Cannon Beach’s gain
October 23, 2024

The captain's desperate haste to get out to sea, combined with a terrible decision to cross the bar on the ebb, resulted in disaster...

U.S.S. Shark doomed by skipper’s fear of desertion
October 22, 2024

As sailors melted away to take advantage of the opportunities in the new Oregon country, their captain sweated bullets; they could not be replaced. But...

The legendary Tabitha Brown of Forest Grove, founder of Pacific University (go Boxers) (Part 1 of 2; WPA oral-history interview with Mrs. H.A. Lewis)
October 21, 2024

WPA writer Sara B. Wrenn's 1939 oral history interview with Mrs. H.A. Lewis, granddaughter of the legendary Tabitha Moffat Brown...