Maryann Mason
As It Was ContributorMaryann Mason, who lives in Ashland, has taught history and English in the U.S. Midwest and Northwest, and Bolivia. She has written history spots for local public radio, interviewed mystery writers for RVTV Noir, and edited personal and family histories. Her poetry has appeared in Sweet Annie & Sweet Pea Review (1999), Rain Magazine (2007), and The Third Reader, an online Journal of Literary Fiction and Poetry. In 2008 she published her first chapbook, Ravelings. She organized a History Day for Southern Oregon, and as an English/history teacher she assigned the National History Day project to her students every year for many years.
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Woman Writer Mines Goldmines for Colorful Stories
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The land around Kennett, Calif., was once home to some 250 Wintu Indian villages, but by 1835 their numbers had been decimated by disease and war. After…
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A Forest Service employee who led pack trains in the Butte Falls region in 1953, Gordon Jesse Walker, liked to tell stories about fighting forest fires.…
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The December 1902 Medford Mail newspaper featured an article touting the superiority of Talent over Ashland, Ore.The article describes Talent as a place…
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One of the Rogue Valley’s most famous residents is Don Maddox, son of a sharecropper and a country music legend at age 96.The Oakland Tribune told how…
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A master mule packer for the Rogue River Forest Service for 31 years, Gordon Jesse Walker, was known for bragging at demonstrations of his work for local…
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A Forest Service employee who wrote about his work in the 1950s, Gordon Jesse Walker, tells this story about a stray bullet:A logger who had been blasting…
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Medford Mayor Dr. E.B. Pickel, proud of his new 1919 Packard convertible with luxurious black leather upholstery, took some visiting Portland doctors on a…
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Travel writer James Mason Hutchings, known as the “Father of Yosemite,” complained about Southern Oregon roads when he visited in 1855. He wrote in his…
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James Mason Hutchings, born in Towcester, England, in 1820, was a son of a carpenter and expected to become one, too. But at age 23, George Catlin’s…
