Underground History is a regular monthly feature on the Jefferson Exchange. The segment spotlights little-known aspects of Oregon's history through the lens of archaeology and is produced in collaboration with the Southern Oregon University Laboratory of Anthropology. SOULA Director Chelsea Rose co-produces the segment.
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Averie FosterArsenic in green dresses? Lead in make-up? Mercury in feather hats? Oh my. The Underground History podcast has recently been chatting with experts on the many ways toxins and dangerous—and sometimes just gross—things can make their way into museums or even our homes. -
This past summer Underground History did something a little different. In order to continue to explore ways in which we can connect our listeners to history and heritage, we decided to bring the show on the road!
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October 11, 2023 marks the 100th anniversary of one of the most infamous crimes in Southern Oregon. This tale has train robbers, rumors of gold, dynamite, and all the intrigue of an old timey wild west crime overlaid on the backdrop of a rapidly modernizing world. Four innocent men brutally lost their lives on that day, and the ensuing manhunt captured the attention of the nation. -
Chelsea Rose interviews Bill, a.k.a. the "Bottle Guy." He is a retired Rangeland Management Specialist with the Oregon BLM and is the primary author of the Historic Glass Bottle Identification & Information Website.
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Rosie Grant dug into the culinary prowess of dead people, but without any actual physical digging. It turns out some people have favorite recipes inscribed on their gravestones when they die. SOU archeologist Chelsea Rose interviews her.
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Underground History has recently featured two individuals that have applied their creative vision to the world of archaeology. We spoke with mixed-media artist Sam Roxas-Chua about his time working with the Southern Oregon University Laboratory of Anthropology’s Oregon Chinese Diaspora Project (OCDP) while he was the artist in residency at the Portland Chinatown Museum (PCM), and musician Stephen O’Malley about his recent event, You Origin, which transformed the Neolithic alignments of Carnac in Brittany into an immersive three-day musical event. While “arteaology” isn’t a word yet, my recent experiences have suggested that maybe it should be.
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Chelsea Rose reports from the field
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We were joined by archivist-turned-TikTok sensation, Rosie Grant, on a recent episode of Underground History to discuss the recent trend of literally taking a signature recipe to the grave.
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As Oregon mourns the recent passing of Portland’s iconic drag queen Darcelle XV, also known as Walter W. Cole, the Exchange remembers Darcelle with a…
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Rosie Grant dug into the culinary prowess of dead people, but without any actual physical digging. It turns out some people have favorite recipes inscribed on their gravestones when they die. SOU archeologist Chelsea Rose interviews her.
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Southern Oregon University Anthropologist and host Chelsea Rose speaks with Dr. Elissa Bullion, the newly appointed physical anthropologist for the Legislative Commission on Indian Services.
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On Sept. 2, 2022 a fire erupted in the Roseburg Forest Products mill in Weed, California. Over the course of this devastating fire, it burned thousands of acres and leveled more than 100 structures. Much of that loss was in Lincoln Heights, a historically Black neighborhood dating to the 1920s.
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Carl Feagans is an archaeologist for the US Forest Service and a frequent critic of amateur or "pseudo" archaeology... including a new Netflix series on ancient societies vanishing (or maybe never existing).
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Peter Boag tells on his book "Pioneering Death: The Violence of Boyhood in Turn-of-the-Century Oregon."
