Christopher Shockey
As It Was ContributorChristopher Shockey lives on a 40-acre hillside homestead in the Applegate Valley of Southern Oregon, where before on-line streaming, JPR Classics and News was the only radio station he and his family could capture. It played from atop the refrigerator all day, and he heard Carol Barrett and Hank Henry’s As It Was each morning. Shockey has been a long-time JPR contributor and enjoys supporting the Southern Oregon Historical Society and JPR by digging up regional stories. His days are a chaotic combination of parenting, day job, and dealing with whatever the climate and a homestead in the forest flings his way. Every day is different. Christopher can be found with his wife Kirsten, watering, mucking stalls, preserving harvests, making cheese, cleaning, dancing on the porch, planting trees, chopping firewood, hiking, reading, or writing. At the end of the day they go to bed exhausted and knowing life is good.
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Victor Eugene “Slim” Warrens knew how to run a profitable saloon and he was fond of diamonds. He didn’t take kindly to being robbed. On Saturday night,…
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The front page of the Ashland Tidings on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 1918, caught up with the news that the small Oregon town had longed for. The headline read:…
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As It Was - Episode 2267 Home gardens offer their bounty in September in Northern California and Southern Oregon. The hot summer days and mild evenings…
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As It Was - Episode 2251No one knows for certain the origin of the word “hobo,” although some believe it originated in the Pacific Northwest as a slang…
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As It Was - Episode 2248 Famous for its runs of big Chinook salmon, the Rogue River draws fisherman from around the world anxious to apply their skills.…