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As It Was episodes
- As It Was: Mount Mazama Takes Name from Obsolete Word for Mountain GoatCrater Lake National Park features a deep blue lake inside the volcanic caldera of Mount Mazama, which blew its top about 7,700 years ago. The mountain was 12,140 feet high, its summit a mile higher than the surface of the lake today.2 min
- As It Was: National Register Lists Pearsoll Peak Lookout as Historic PlaceIn the early 1900s, the Siskiyou National Forest had more than 70 forest lookout stations on Southwest Oregon mountaintops. Pearsoll Peak is the only one of them to make the National Register of Historic Places.2 min
- As It Was: Gold Miner’s 100-Year-Old Sourdough Still Going StrongA sourdough created at least 100 years ago by Scott Valley, Calif., gold miner is still alive and leavening delicious bread and flapjacks.2 min
- As It Was: Medford, Ore., Aviators Offer Early Flights from Gore FieldIn 1919, three World War I aviators from Medford, Ore., Seely Hall, Floyd Hart, and Frank Farrell, formed an aviation corporation, the Medford Aeroplane, Co., and sold $100-shares to stockholders. Their goal was to sell rides to Rogue Valley residents.2 min
- As It Was: Zane Grey Models Book’s Main Character after Agness ToughThe Western writer Zane Grey saw something in Claude Bardon worthy of a main character in a book.2 min
- As It Was: Ranch Women Survive in Difficult CircumstancesThe Brown girls, Jennie, Mary and Emogene, were born in Oregon in the 1860s. They grew up shifting summer and winter between the family’s two properties, spending winters on a gold claim on Sterling Creek out of Jacksonville, and summers on a large cattle ranch east of Eagle Point.2 min
- As It Was: Illinois Valley Garden Club Helps Protect Precious BotanicalsEight Illinois Valley women organized the Friday Afternoon Garden Club in 1927, changing the name later to the Illinois Valley Garden Club.2 min
- As It Was: Surging Klamath River Carries Steer into OceanWhen he was born, Bahamas was weak and not expected to survive. He was an unremarkable crossed Angus-Jersey steer on a farm two miles upriver from Klamath, Calif. With bottle feeding and tender care he grew strong, gentle, beloved -- and lived to inspire a community.2 min
- As It Was: In the Early 1900s, Farm Fun Was Homemade and MemorableGrowing up in rural Oregon communities in the early 1900s was a combination of hard farm and ranch work, a few months of school and lots of good times. For the Charley family in Brownsboro, chores always came first -- and there were plenty of them.2 min
- As It Was: Siskiyou County, Calif, Has 100 One-Room Schools in 1800sBy 1900, the United States had some 210,000 one-room schools, at least 100 of them in Siskiyou County, Calif.2 min
About As It Was
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Colorful vignettes dedicated to the regional history of Southern Oregon and Northern California. As It Was is an all volunteer effort -- produced by Raymond Scully and narrated by Shirley Patton in…
partnership with writers from the Southern Oregon Historical Society.If you have a writing background and would like to submit an As It Was essay for consideration, email your written piece to [email protected] collection of As It Was essays is available in a high-quality paperback book at the JPR Online Store. Each episode is also available below.