Jim Long
As It Was ContributorDr. James S. Long was an As It Was contributor right up until his passing in January of 2016. He met editor Kernan Turner when Kernan spoke to the Roseburg writers’ club about contributing to JPR's As Is Was series. Kernan inspired Jim to look for historically-important stories in the northern part of the State of Jefferson. As a retired professor, Jim felt compelled to seek out stories that related to his interests in the natural and social sciences. His contributions to As It Was ranged from Father Wilbur of the Wilbur Academy in the mid-1800s, to the recovery of the whitetail deer at the old Dunning Ranch, to the story of Nick Botner’s private orchard near Yoncalla created to preserve over 3,000 heritage apple varieties.
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Film Documents Loggers Felling Redwood Trees
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Film Documents Loggers Felling Redwood Trees -
Model Railroad Club Draws Fans to Chiloquin, Ore.
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On five acres along Elk Creek near Tiller, Ore., a sharp eye can spot more than 50 varieties of camellias, a plant native to Japan, Korea, and China that…
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Nineteen-year-old John Lucian Gardner of Eugene joined the Oregon Mounted Volunteers in 1855 to fight against the Indians of Southern Oregon. He died in…
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When a small warplane rose from a Japanese submarine and dropped incendiary bombs near Brookings, Ore., during World War II, it failed to ignite any…
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Churches played an important role in establishing schools in the West. One of Southern Oregon’s earliest church affiliated schools was the Wilbur Academy,…
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Since the 1920's, Oakridge, Ore., had been recognized as the heart of the surrounding timber empire. That ended by 1992 when the community’s two sawmills…
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During contentious times in the early 1990’s, conversations between an environmentalist in the Applegate River watershed and a logger revealed common…
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During the Great Depression, the Civilian Conservation Corps, known by its initials as the CCC, built the Glide Ranger Station to house the staff of the…
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In 1867, George Nurse founded Linkville, Ore., named after the river that links the Klamath Lakes. City boosters got the name changed to Klamath Falls in…
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Douglas County volunteers formed an organization named Sane Orderly Development and registered it with the Oregon Secretary of State as a non-profit…
