Lynda Demsher
As It Was ContributorLynda Demsher has been editor of a small-town weekly newspaper, a radio reporter, a daily newspaper reporter and columnist for the Redding Record Searchlight, Redding California. During the 1990s and early 2000s she taught high school English in Redding. She lived in Alturas, California for 15 years where she ran the Adult Education program for the Modoc Joint Union High School District until her retirement. She has been an occasional contributor to the Modoc Record, and a volunteer for Modoc's High Plateau Humane Society and the Friends of the Modoc National Wildlife Refuge, among other non-profit organizations in that small community needing someone to do public relations, ads, marketing, grant writing and photography. She moved to Grants Pass in early 2015 to be closer to family and the coast, where she and her husband keep a fishing boat ready for the salmon run.
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Two cowboys in Modoc County, Calif., hit hard when cattle prices plummeted during The Great Depression, found another way to make a living.The Swain…
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Dave Evans bought a herd of big steers in 1862 at Port Orford. He got them at a bargain price, but faced a difficult challenge of herding them along the…
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Crescent City was an isolated community in 1854, with dense forest all around and its rocky ocean entrance often fogged in. Pack mules traveled over…
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In 1907, a Young People’s Christian Temperance Union meeting in Grants Pass featured speaker Dennis Stovall, who said he had solved the problem of the…
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In 1873, Oregon Superintendent of Indian Affairs Alfred Meacham was nearly killed and scalped during peace talks seeking to end the war with the Modoc…
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The big steel steamship Oregon was sailing from San Francisco to Portland in early March 1905 when fire broke out in the cargo area. The ship with 57…
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In the early 1900s, Redwood groves were considered “the strong box” of Del Norte County, Calif., their grandeur well-recognized in the county. That didn’t…
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Transporting logs to the mill was challenging in the days when ox teams dragged timber to the nearest stream for floating most of the way to the mills.…
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In 1907, an entrepreneur arrived in Crescent City, Calif., with big plans for the Lake Earl lagoon close to the Pacific Ocean 11 miles south of the Oregon…
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One weekend in 1926, a young Talent, Ore., resident, attending school in Tacoma, Wash., told his family that he was going to walk across town to visit…
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As the last of the Fourth of July fireworks sputtered out above the Josephine County Fairgrounds racetrack arena in 1926, spectators leaving the bleachers…
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Northern California’s Crescent City has had its share of turbulent wind and sea weather. It doesn’t normally take the form of hurricanes or cyclones, but…