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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Georgia Curran Scott Lind was born in California, grew up in Washington State, and moved at age 51 to Southern Oregon in 1969. A trained nutritionist, she…
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Nearly a dozen vineyards were located near Jacksonville, Ore., in the early 1900s when Prohibition put an end to most winemaking in the region. French…
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In the 1890s and early 1900s, Halloween sprouted merry pranksters. Among their tricks were removing gates from their hinges, reversing street signs, and…
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One of the first wine makers in Oregon, Peter Britt, began growing table grapes on a slope where Britt Music Festival audiences now picnic. He created his…
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When he came to Southern Oregon in the early 1840s looking for adventure, Isaac Boyle purchased a horse and a string of mules with the idea of entering…
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The first superintendent to serve full-time at Crater Lake National Park, Alex Sparrow, took the job in 1917. He had been a U.S. Army engineer for 24…
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Max Muller was a merchant, postmaster and politician who was instrumental in the development of Jacksonville, Ore., during the late 1800s. Although not as…
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Nationally known historian and photographer Frances Fuller Victor first visited Crater Lake in 1873. She was accompanied by Oliver Cromwell Applegate, a…
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One of the early colorful characters of Jacksonville, Ore., was Zany Ganung. Born Mary Ross in 1818, she moved from Ohio to Southern Oregon in 1853 with…
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In 1880, Rutherford B. Hayes visited Jacksonville, Ore., on an unprecedented tour of the West Coast. He stayed at the U.S. Hotel owned by Madame Jeanne…
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Millie Perkins had never studied acting when she was selected for the title role in the 1959 film version of “The Diary of Anne Frank.” Perkins’ sensitive…
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Nearly 40 years ago the Southern Oregon Historical Society placed a historic marker on old Hwy 99 commemorating the Siskiyou Mountain Wagon Road.Some six…