Dennis M. Powers
As It Was ContributorDennis M. Powers was a business law attorney with different real estate and business ventures before teaching as a full professor and later professor emeritus at Southern Oregon University in Ashland. He is a graduate of the University of Colorado (b.a.), the University of Denver Law School (j.d.), and Harvard Business School (m.b.a.). He loves researching history. Powers is the author of 18 books, including five about the sea, a long-time interest.The Raging Sea (2005) is about the crushing 1964 Crescent City tsunami; Treasure Ship (2006): the discovery of a gold-bearing, 1865 paddle-wheeler that sank off Northern California; Sentinel Of The Seas (2007): the most remote, dangerous, and expensive lighthouse in the country; Taking The Sea (2009): the tales of the old ship salvagers; and Tales Of The Seven Seas (2010): the stories of a charismatic, adventurous sea captain. Powers resides in Ashland, Oregon.
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Trail Leads to Mysterious Stone Woman of Crater Lake -
Dam Removal Creates New Gold Rush – and Laws
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Trail Leads to Mysterious Stone Woman of Crater Lake
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Dam Removal Creates New Gold Rush – and Laws
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Blackstone founder Craig Black and his wife, Michelle, started their audio book business in their living room in Medford, Ore., in 1987. They later moved…
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An Ashland High School graduate who was the 1996 Oregon High School golf champion, Jason Allred, went on to play on the Professional Golfers’ Association…
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The author P.K. Hallinan stayed awake one night questioning what he wanted to do with his life. Hallinan, who lives near the Siskiyou Pass in the…
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Here’s a close-at-hand Halloween ghost story: Some say the Plunkett Center at the entrance to Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Ore., is…
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Brothers Col. Frank and Dr. C.J. Ray were very successful and wealthy entrepreneurs in the Rogue Valley in the early 1900s. In addition to running…
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For a time, many transients in the late 1920s headed for the jail house in Gold Hill. The “occasional hobo,” as the homeless were called in that time’s…
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Built in the 1880s, Gold Hill’s suspension bridge crossed the Rogue River from Sixth Street. It had wire-webbed sides and wooden floorboards placed over…
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The high, sandstone Payne Cliffs overlook the Fern Valley across Interstate 5 from Phoenix, Ore. Named after a pioneer family, the cliffs are part of the…
