Offbeat Oregon History podcast
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Early Portland man’s wake worked — he woke right up
Two boys, asked to watch over the deceased on a dark and windy night in the 1890s, got the fright of their young lives...
Oregon marked its first 100 years with a $2.6 million party
Centennial bash in 1959 was a huge event...
State’s worst plane crash is also its most mysterious
West Coast Airlines Flight 956 was a brand-new DC-9; the airline literally bought it on Monday and crashed it on Saturday....
Abigail Scott Duniway's party on the Oregon Trail (WPA oral-history interview with Jean Slauson)
When WPA writer Sara B. Wrenn interviewed Miss Jean Slauson of Lake Grove in January 1939, Miss Slauson gave Ms. Wrenn a hand-written treatise to transcribe, written by her great-aunt, Harriet Scott P
Heaven’s Gate UFO cult started at Waldport hotel
Two decades later, the cult, now named Heaven's Gate, would make national headlines...
Oregon's contribution to space program nothing to sneeze at
An Oregon astronaut holds the record for time spent in space. Another peformed the first unscheduled spacewalk....
The rowdy-but-golden past of almost-ghost-town Granite
Not long ago, the former gold-mining Blue Mountain boomtown was an incorporated city of one...
Klamath Falls airport had unusual run of bad luck
In the past 75 years, there have been only four lethal commercial-airliner crashes in Oregon...
The everyday life of a pioneer woman (WPA oral-history transcript)
When WPA writer Sara B. Wrenn interviewed Miss Jean Slauson of Lake Grove in January 1939, Miss Slauson gave Ms. Wrenn a hand-written treatise to transcribe
Albany woman should be in Swindlers Hall of Fame
Talented actress could dilate a pupil at will, dislocate joints, fake broken ribs and get her gums to bleed on demand....
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