Each Primary Source Day we have a reading from a particularly interesting historical item. Sometimes it's a historical tidbit that wasn't quite beefy enough to make a full column out of; other times, an especially interesting old newspaper article; frequently it's a short story from one of the frontier literary magazines that thrived in Oregon at the end of the 19th century.

Today it's an interview by WPA Oregon Folklore Project writer Sara B. Wrenn with retired banker and telegrapher Cyrus B. Woodworth, conducted on Dec. 29, 1938. Mr. Woodworth was born in 1861 in Portland, and had lived there for nearly 80 years when this interview was conducted. (For the transcript, see https://www.loc.gov/item/wpalh001962/ )