The Roxy Theater owners, Gene and Mae Childers, opened for business in 1932 on East Main in Medford, Ore. The modern and luxurious theater had comfortable, overstuffed seats, the latest RCA sound equipment and a 25-foot neon sign.

The devastating Japanese earthquake of March 11, 2001, killed nearly 20,000 people and hurled an 8 to 10-foot tsunami across the Pacific into Oregon and California ports, causing damage, one death and washing some people out to sea.

A short-lived turn-of-the-century column in the Rogue River Courier , titled “Aunt Josie’s Chat,” provided readers with household hints, advice for raising children, remedies for common annoyances, and detailed recipes for making yeast.

On Oct. 4, 1937, A. R. Mansfield and his wife, Shirley, were working in the garden of their home in Butte Falls, Ore., while their two-year-old daughter, Shirley, was napping. When a fire broke out in the cottage, flames at the door turned back Mrs. Mansfield, and her mother was unable to gain entrance through a window of the room where the daughter slept.

It has been said that American Indians and grizzly bears shared dominion of the West Coast before the arrival of Euro-American emigrants in the 19 th century.

In 1910, The National Forest Ranger at Odessa, on Klamath Lake’s Pelican Bay, was W. F. Neff. Most rangers were more isolated, but Neff had regular launch service and telephone lines. His wife was the postmaster and the area social organizer.

Indigenous people have gathered berries and medicinal plants, hunted, fished and socialized since time immemorial on Huckleberry Mountain just west of present-day Crater Lake National Park.

Drinking, gambling, fighting and cruel practical jokes entertained miners in Southern Oregon’s boom towns of Browntown, Althouse, and Waldo.

On New Year’s Day in 1882 in Jacksonville, Ore., 17-year-old Amalia “Molly” Britt received a special present from her older brother Emil. It was an imposing cookbook with the long title “Common Sense in The Kitchen; Treatise on the Art of Cooking Every Variety of Food in Common Use in a Palatable and Digestible Manner at a Reasonable Cost.”

In the 1860’s, a band of Indians gave George Green Brown a bad time at his trading post on the South Fork of the Salmon River. He had opened the post just below Cecilville during the California Gold Rush when he was 24 years old.