Welcome To Oregon: An Oregon Historical Variety Show

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

Lifelong Oregonian Marcus Axford takes you on a journey through the beginning of Oregon's history, from native cultures and pioneering explorers all the way up to the minting of a state.

This show is part of the Oregon Voices Network, for more shows, content, and all the socials head to www.oregonvoices.net!

Sources:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gray_(sea_captain)

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

https://www.opb.org/artsandlife/series/brokentreaties/oregon-tribes-oral-history-broken-treaties/

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Northwest-Coast-Indian

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

https://pacificu.libguides.com/c.php?g=1050460&p=7794169

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

https://www.npr.org/2007/10/08/15040888/coming-to-america-who-was-first#:~:text=Bettmann%2FCorbis-,Columbus%20gets%20the%20credit%20for%20being,to%20land%20on%20these%20shores.

https://www.worldhistory.org/Leif_Erikson/#:~:text=Leif%20Erikson%20(also%20spelled%20Leif,1000%20CE.

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

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

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

Hey guys! Check out the trailer for our new show we are producing about Oregon's history, lore and much more! From the coast through the mountains to the high desert, forgotten towns, urban legends, cryptids, folklore, everything you could possibly imagine. We are here to tell the stories of people and places both well known and lost to time.