Lifelong Oregonian Marcus Axford kicks off October with our very first cryptid, and not just any cryptid either, the legendary Bigfoot.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ape_Canyon#Legend

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigfoot

https://www.oregonlive.com/history/2018/01/1924_bigfoot_battle_on_mt_st_h.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_black_bear#Reproduction_and_development

https://wildlifeinformer.com/animals-with-big-feet/

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/blog/ostrich-fact-sheet/

Boo! Did we startle you? Where here is another frightening surprise, back to back episodes of Welcome To Oregon!

This week, lifelong Oregonian Marcus Axford takes to the skies to tell the history of Oregon's aviation, or at least part of it, and the brave men and women who defied gravity.

Sources:

http://www.mythencyclopedia.com/Be-Ca/Birds-in-Mythology.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icarus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_aviation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_Oregon_Beechcraft_Bonanza_crash

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Department_of_Aviation

http://offbeatoregon.com/1207sp-heroic-final-flight-of-jim-wright-howard-hughes-racer-plane.html

https://phys.org/news/2020-01-trolley-dilemma-sacrifice-person-culture.html#:~:text=The%20%22Trolley%20Dilemma'%20is%20an,is%20heading%20straight%20for%20them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_H-4_Hercules

Join lifelong Oregonian Marcus Axford through the hallowed halls of education, enjoy learning about the people and places that made Oregon's education system the way it is today.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Blair_(inventor)

https://ourworldindata.org/literacy#:~:text=Over%20the%20course%20of%20the,better%20educated%20than%20ever%20before.

https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/15495277

https://shineonsalem.org/lucy-anna-lee-an-orphan-daughter/

https://www.ghosttowns.com/states/or/zena.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Oregon_University

https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/western_oregon_university/

Join lifelong Oregonian Marcus Axford on a journey into the not so distant past to pay tribute to one of the worst disasters we have ever faced in our history.

Sources:

- (Wyatt Tofte story) ⁠https://www.ktvu.com/news/oregon-teen-remembered-as-a-hero-died-trying-to-save-grandmother-family-says⁠

-https://wildfiretoday.com/2020/09/10/wildfires-have-burned-over-800-square-miles-in-oregon/

-https://www.weather.gov/safety/wind-mountain-valley#:~:text=Santa%20Ana%20Winds%20occur%20when,mountain%20passages%20in%20Southern%20California.

-https://nhmu.utah.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/Wildfire%20FAQs.pdf

-https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2020/09/16/oregon-wildfires-update-beachie-creek-fire-man-survives-sheltering-river/5799768002/

-https://wildfiretoday.com/tag/almeda-drive-fire/#:~:text=Oregon%20fires%20have%20burned%20about%20a%20million%20acres&text=in%20the%20state-,Devastation%20from%20the%20Almeda%20Drive%20Fire%20in%20the%20area%20of,have%20burned%20in%20western%20Oregon.

-https://www.ijpr.org/disasters-and-accidents/2022-05-09/2020-phoenix-arsonist-sentenced-almeda-fire-remains-unsolved

-https://www.oregoncoast.org/blog/reflecting-on-echo-mountain-fire/

-https://www.fs.usda.gov/detailfull/willamette/fire/?cid=fseprd835648&width=full

-https://www.fs.usda.gov/detailfull/willamette/fire/?cid=fseprd835368&width=full

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiam_Fire

-https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2020/09/oregon-wildfire-deaths-list-of-lives-lost-in-historic-2020-fires.html

-https://www.wweek.com/news/state/2020/09/15/at-least-13-of-the-oregon-blazes-that-fed-the-beachie-creek-fire-were-started-by-downed-power-lines/#:~:text=16.,but%20provide%20no%20further%20details.

-https://ashland.news/two-years-later-almeda-fire-remains-under-investigation/#:~:text=Ashland%20Fire%20and%20Rescue%2C%20in,crime%2C%20the%20news%20release%20continues.

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Oregon_wildfires

-https://yachatsnews.com/echo-mountain-fire-lawsuit/

-https://www.wweek.com/news/2020/09/09/the-great-grandson-of-enchanted-forest-founder-roger-tofte-is-among-the-first-deaths-attributed-to-the-santiam-fire/

-https://www.oregonlive.com/wildfires/2020/09/residents-recount-terrifying-descent-of-wildfire-into-santiam-canyon-it-was-like-hot-lava.html

-https://www.opb.org/article/2020/09/25/george-atiyehs-death-in-fires-confirmed-by-family-progress-made-on-fire-damaged-road-funding/

Lifelong Oregonian Marcus Axford takes you on a tour of the Oregon State Park system and it's genesis, and giving some insight into the world of camping 100 years ago.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hiram_Holding

https://www.wiredforadventure.com/thomas-hiram-holding/

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/57264788/sarah-j.-helmick

https://kpic.com/outdoors/oregons-eagle-creek-celebrates-a-century-of-camping

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_West

https://www.wweek.com/promotions/2022/06/06/celebrating-100-years-of-oregons-state-parks/

https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/new-hampshire/oldest-campground-tippicanoe-nh/

https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/boardman_samuel/

Lifelong Oregonian Marcus Axford begins the exciting story of Oregon's mining industry, and how everything that glitters isn't always gold.

Sources:

https://www.dcceew.gov.au/parks-heritage/heritage/places/national/wilgie-mia

https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-australia-oceania/wilgie-mia-ancient-mine-where-ochre-runs-red-kangaroo-blood-001425

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining#:~:text=The%20oldest%2Dknown%20mine%20on,make%20the%20red%20pigment%20ochre.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Gold_Rush

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_genocide

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compromise_of_1850

https://jacksonvillereview.com/pioneer-profiles-james-cluggage-james-poole-by-carolyn-kingsnorth/

https://truwe.sohs.org/files/clugage.html

https://www.marysvillejt.com/archivehook/offthehookarchive12.htm#070612

https://www.usgs.gov/centers/national-minerals-information-center/mineral-industry-oregon#:~:text=Oregon%20is%20the%20only%20producer,clay%2C%20diatomite%2C%20and%20perlite.

https://www.ghosttowns.com/states/or/quartzville.html

https://usminedisasters.miningquiz.com/saxsewell/silver_ridge_1976.pdf?fbclid=IwAR3EJ_HWd0lK0jIaWK88Qh_0NCw7wVxHlSAyQ4AX259GtcgxE2erQ3X5-Vk

https://www.americangeosciences.org/critical-issues/faq/what-are-main-mining-methods

Lifelong Oregonian Marcus Axford takes you on a tour up and down the Oregon coast to some of the greatest lighthouses in the states history, and whose absence once put sailors at the mercy of the unforgiving rocks.

Sources:

https://www.greatlighthouses.com/stories/the-history-of-the-lighthouse/#:~:text=The%20first%20lighthouse%20in%20recorded,a%20colossal%20450%20feet%20high.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighthouse_of_Alexandria

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umpqua_River_Light

https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/umpqua_river_lighthouse/#:~:text=The%20U.S.%20Office%20of%20Coast,the%20coast%20beyond%20visual%20range.

https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/heceta-head-lighthouse/

https://www.pbs.org/legendarylighthouses/html/pnworgl.html#:~:text=Named%20for%20Portuguese%20explorer%20Don,in%20order%20to%20save%20money.

https://www.columbian.com/news/2017/nov/02/rue-the-resident-ghost-haunts-heceta-head-house/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tillamook_Rock_Light

https://traveloregon.com/things-to-do/culture-history/historic-sites-oregon-trail/the-mystery-of-terrible-tilly/

Hope and horror collide and the dark deeds of human nature are put on display. Lifelong Oregonian Marcus Axford takes you on a tour into the world of Oregon's mental health care and the history of the Oregon State Hospital.

Sources:

https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/mental-illness-during-middle-ages

https://www.britannica.com/science/psychiatric-hospital

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlem_Royal_Hospital

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Story_Kirkbride

https://www.uphs.upenn.edu/paharc/timeline/1801/tline14.html

https://oshmuseum.org/oregon-hospital-for-the-insane-portland-1861-1883/#:~:text=The%20first%20institution%20in%20Oregon,Oregon%20Hospital%20for%20the%20Insane.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_C._Hawthorne

https://oshmuseum.org/

A terrible murder. A witch's curse. A town destined to burn. Lifelong Oregonian Marcus Axford tells the story of an urban legend with real history behind it.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Trail

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0276872#sec003

https://www.languageconnections.com/blog/magic-witches-around-the-world/

https://davidcorkermurder.tombstonesproject.org/

https://oregontic.com/oregon-historical-markers/joel-perkins/

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Perkins-8958

https://newlafayette.org/lafayette-history/lafayette-fires-setting-record-straight/

https://greenlettucead.com/lafayette-oregon-urban-legend/

https://www.co.yamhill.or.us/content/brief-history-yamhill-county#:~:text=Dayton%20and%20McMinnville%2C%20both%20smaller,small%20but%20rapidly%20growing%20city.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamhill_County_Courthouse