Sharon Bywater
As It Was ContributorSharon Bywater of Ashland, Oregon grew up in Southern California. She taught English literature and writing at Syracuse University in New York, where she also wrote and edited adult literacy books and published freelance articles in local media. Later, she lived in Washington, D.C., where she worked as an international telecommunications policy advisor at the U.S. Department of Commerce. She has Master’s degrees in English and Communications Management. Her husband, Peter Krasilovsky, is a media analyst. Sharon plays the recorder and volunteers for the Southern Oregon Historical Society. She enjoys the wonderful Oregon outdoors, as well as theater, and musical concerts.
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Spelunker Becomes Father of the Lava Beds Monument
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An automobile trip along the Oregon South Coast required stamina and optimism in the early days. Wes Hartman of Jacksonville remembered driving to the…
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In the movie, four boys are walking across a railroad bridge, one of them on hands and knees. The bridge has no railings and drops off about 100 feet to…
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In 1946, while cleaning out an old building to house the Yreka office of the California Highway Department, an employee found a battered old account book.…
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George Geil had time in 1910 to carry on a flourishing courtship while paving Ashland’s streets and plaza.One afternoon, he took a break from his job…
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An early barber in Jacksonville, Ore., George Schumpf, cut hair for 24 years from the time he opened his shop in a wooden building on California Street in…
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Life was never easy for African Americans in early Oregon, and George Fletcher’s life had its ups and downs. Fletcher rode in many Oregon rodeos,…
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The development of radio and television in Southern Oregon was largely due to the efforts of William Smullin, who in the 1930s launched successful radio…
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Cholera plagued early Southern Oregon settlers from the mid to late 1800s. Caused by drinking water or food contaminated by the feces of an infected…
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Native American families living in the South Umpqua Valley have been picking mountain huckleberries for generations. A member of the Cow Creek Band of the…
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Chris Kenney was born in Jacksonville in 1883, a descendent of William T’vault, a Jacksonville pioneer who supported the Confederacy during the Civil War.…
