Herb Rothschild Jr.: More on class and race
Reader unhappiness with last week’s column prompted some searching conversations. I’m pleased. When I get no pushback, I worry that, like MSNBC, I’m simply reinforcing your current opinions.My focus...
View ArticleHerb Rothschild Jr.: Reframing the issue of gun violence
Few of us support gun violence at home; huge numbers of us support it abroad. Our efforts to curtail domestic violence of all sorts will be severely hampered so long as we celebrate war and honor those...
View ArticleHerb Rothschild Jr.: One degree of Blake Farenthold
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is a parlor game created in 1994 by three college students. Premised on the notion that any two humans are no more than six acquaintances apart, and also that Kevin Bacon...
View ArticleHerb Rothschild Jr.: Let’s talk about money
We need to talk about money. That’s the way I ended my last column. Few of the people with whom I associate talk about money. People with a great deal of money talk about money, but it makes most...
View ArticleLinkville residents endured disastrous winter of 1889-90
Residents of the tiny town of Linkville, Oregon, suffered a double hardship in the winter of 1889/90. First a disastrous fire wiped out the business district of the community that would later be...
View ArticleAs It Was: Prospect Hotel's long, distinguished history
In 1883, Squire Stanford Aiken arrived in Deskins, Oregon, seeking a town with a good school and good roads. Although he found neither, he set out to create what was lacking. And he renamed the town...
View ArticleHistoric Chateau greets Oregon Caves visitors
Motorists who brave the narrow, winding, two-lane road to the Oregon Caves are greeted upon arrival by the sight of a six-story, bark-clad lodge perched over a canyon that drains the stream flowing...
View ArticleAs It Was: Modern highway follows the historic Siskiyou Trail
Motorists zipping north on Interstate 5 pass through Siskiyou County, over the Siskiyou Summit, at an elevation of 4,310 feet, and cruise into Oregon, going at least 55 mph. Few realize that they are...
View ArticleCharles Lindbergh landed in the Rogue Valley
In 1927, Charles A. Lindbergh made history by flying non-stop from New York to Paris. A year later he was on the West Coast and actually stopped in Medford. It is not known what aircraft he was flying...
View ArticleTouVelle used his success to help others
Frank TouVelle [too-VELL] had compassion for troubled boys. He invested both his energy and his money in his efforts to encourage them to turn their lives around — usually through learning a trade or...
View ArticleStudents left high school with teaching certificates
Her parents paid tuition of $9 a year for Eula Benson Foley, born in Central Point in 1906, to attend the two-room Howard Grade School in Medford. Benson Foley remembered going to school when the...
View ArticleGordon Voorhies: Rogue Valley orchardist
Had Gordon Voorhies not married Helen Strong Burrell from Portland, Voorhies would not be remembered today as someone who greatly influenced the development of Rogue Valley's fruit and fruit packing...
View ArticleGold Ray Dam harnessed Rogue River's energy
Two brothers, Col. Frank and Dr. C.R. Ray, needed a power plant for their nearby gold mine. The brothers chose the Tolo area for the power plant's site, about four miles above the city of Gold Hill....
View ArticleDollarhide Bridge more than 100 years old
Built 104 years ago, the Dollarhide Bridge on the Old Siskiyou Highway was one of the first two bridges constructed in 1914 by the new Oregon Department of Transportation. The bridge is named after the...
View ArticleAuto courts in Southern Oregon, 90 years ago
Southern Oregon was a great place for vacationing by auto in 1928. Auto camps abounded from the Siskiyou Mountains to Crater Lake.Most provided camping space or cabins for one or two dollars a day, and...
View ArticleAs It Was: Forensic scientists led authorities to the D'Autremont brothers
The botched train robbery at Tunnel 13 in the Siskiyou Mountains on Oct. 11, 1923, left four people dead and mangled car remains. To authorities, it was maddening that the crime couldn’t be solved. It...
View ArticleAs It Was: Mrs. Potter Palmer visits Medford
On Oct.1, 1907, two front-page stories in the Medford Daily Tribune heralded great things for the Southern Oregon pear industry. A railcar of Comice pears from Bear Creek Orchard sold at a world record...
View ArticleAs It Was: Mario Lanza lost weight in Shady Cove
During the 1940s and ‘50s Mario Lanza became the most famous operatic tenor of the time. Lanza admired tenor Enrico Caruso and in 1951 he played the role of Caruso in the movie titled “The Great...
View ArticleChris Honoré: Above all — the tax bill
Ostensibly we have a representative government. We hold elections with the intention of sending men and women of two parties to Washington who will represent the will of their constituents.But if we...
View ArticleChris Honoré: Of talismanic significance and breathtaking beauty
I have this image that with the election of Donald Trump, environmentalists from coast to coast tried to absorb what his presidency would mean to our planet, to the conservation movement. Many I’m sure...
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