Maureen Flanagan Battistella
As It Was ContributorMaureen is on the Sociology/Anthropology faculty at Southern Oregon University. Her research interests are the Southern Oregon wine industry, heritage agriculture, and the “culture of kitchens.” She has a Rutgers University master’s in library and information science, which prepared her for a career in technology services, medical education and a lifetime of learning, thinking, and writing. She lives in Ashland.
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Just because trees grew here once doesn't mean they'll grow back just like they were before. Forests can be tricky things to create, and it takes more… -
A Contemporary HeritageFrom Peter Britt, who grew grapes in Jacksonville in 1855 to the establishment of the Rogue Valley Vintners in 2018, Southern…
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We probably all have farming in our family backgrounds. Once upon a time, more than 80 percent of the American population was involved in agriculture.…
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The back-to-the-land movement of the 1970s did a lot to populate the hills and hollers of our region. Thalia Truesdell was one of the people who came…
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Dr. Jim Shames has been a frequent guest of The Exchange, since he's Jackson County's chief medical officer. But we did not realize what a backstory he…
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The voice may sound familiar: Diana Coogle delivered audio essays on JPR News for years. Now she's back to talk about her own life story, as it involves a…
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The arboretum of 40 trees established at the Southern Oregon Experiment Station in 1961 was a joint project of the Siskiyou District of the Oregon…
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Maybe a third of a million people came to California for the gold rush of 1849, and easily thousands more have come to the West since. Many of them had…
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By 1910, Ashland, Ore., was primed for growth, with a population topping 5,000, a clean water supply, sewage systems and a hospital. Landed families were…
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Chris Bratt is all about the trees. He has plenty of experience using wood products from his days as a carpenter and contractor. And he's perfectly happy…
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Elevators were a big deal in large cities after the turn of the century, but Southern Oregon buildings tended to sprawl rather than stack.Early elevators…
