IN THE DECADES before the First World War, an organization called Chautauqua arose that was something like a summer camp for grown-ups....

The highway engineer in charge of getting rid of a big stinky dead whale on the beach miscalculated the amount of dynamite he would need....

After finding a battered lifeboat washed up on shore from a fatal shipwreck, Joel Munson made it his life's mission to use it to start a life-saving service....

When a sailing ship found itself in trouble in the legendary graveyard of ships, there was nothing left to do but count the bodies. But every now and then...

WPA writer Sara B. Wrenn's oral history interview with Frances Looney Cornell...

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

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

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

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....

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