Dmitri Shockey
As It Was ContributorDmitri Shockey is a high school junior attending Logos Public Charter School. He has spent the past 14 years living in the Applegate valley and regularly listening to JPR, particularly enjoying As It Was stories. Dmitri also attends Rogue Community College part time and after high school hopes to start a career as a foreign correspondent. With both of his parents already contributing to As It Was on a regular basis he started writing in the summer of 2013. Volunteering with As It Was has also given Dmitri a unique opportunity to glimpse what a career in journalism will be like.
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Railroad Baron Throws Axe at Medford Mayor
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French-Canadian Priest X.F. Blanchard may have been about the only man of God that the hard-drinking miners of Waldo were happy to see.When Father…
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In the early 1960s two men decided that Oregon was in need of an outdoor music festival.These men, Sam McKinney and John Trudeau, both worked in rainy…
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In late May 1916, the accidental shooting of a little girl by her brother shook up the little coastal village of Bandon, Ore.Seven-year-old Susie Neathery…
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At a time when newspapers didn’t always let facts get in the way of a good story, the San Francisco Examiner and the Roseburg Review published an…
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There was a time when Jacksonville, Ore., was one of the rowdiest towns in the Rogue Valley. With all the money flowing in from the gold rush, guns and…
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For years Oregon’s summer fires have not only destroyed stands of valuable timber, but also damaged the regional economy. In the 1960's, an average of 414…
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Eight Dollar Mountain has towered over humans for as long as they have lived in Southern Oregon. Only recently known by its name, the Eight Dollar…
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In the early 1960s two men decided that Oregon was in need of an outdoor music festival. These men, Sam McKinney and John Trudeau, both worked in rainy…
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Jackson County, Ore., began paying bounties to predator hunters in April 1910, responding to complaints from farmers that the “varmints” were eating their…
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In 1916, Josephine County received federal money to build an automobile highway between Grants Pass and the Josephine County Caves, known today as the…
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The native Pacific Northwest camas plant has long been associated with Indian tribes from Northern California to British Columbia, with its most diverse…