Alice Mullaly
As It Was ContributorAlice Mullaly was raised in the same Central Point home where she lives today with her husband, Larry. A graduate of Crater High School, Oregon State, and Stanford universities, she taught mathematics for 42 years in high schools in Nyack, New York.; Mill Valley, California, and at Hedrick Junior High School in Medford. She retired from Southern Oregon University where she trained new mathematics teachers. Mullaly鈥檚 husband was also a teacher as are her two daughters. Her husband is a Southern Pacific Railroad historian, and both of them enjoy hunting for 鈥渢he story鈥� in primary sources. Alice鈥檚 mother was an early member of the Southern Oregon Historical Society, and Alice has been an SOHS volunteer for nearly 30 years. She enjoys the puzzles people bring to the Research Library, the source of many of her 鈥淎s It Was鈥� stories.
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The life of Oscar 鈥淪horty鈥� Minnick serves as an example of what makes a person important to a community.Minnick came from Missouri to Central Point, Ore.,鈥�
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The establishment of the Crater National Forest on July 1, 1908, influenced national forest policy foryears to come.The first park supervisor, C.J. Buck,鈥�
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In 1862, Travis Meadows was a young Confederate sharpshooter at the siege of Vicksburg. He settled behind a piece of boilerplate with a hole just large鈥�
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Southern Oregon pioneer William Bybee eagerly shared his cure for common digestive troubles based on a woman鈥檚 home remedy.He was working in the Applegate鈥�
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Blue whales were on the brink of extinction in 1978, when organizations that included Oregonians to Protect Whales and Greenpeace sponsored an Oregon鈥�
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The Beebe sisters Fern Dow and Sadie Koehler grew up outside of Central Point, Ore., and had many stories to tell of their early years. One had to do with鈥�
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Six social activists from Philadelphia with Shaker backgrounds founded Alpha Farm in the Coast Range west of Eugene, Ore. The group bought a 280-acre farm鈥�
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In property sales, the company that issues an abstract guarantees the title is free and clear. Usually the abstract companies retain these documents in鈥�
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Low water resulting from an 1889 drought in the Rogue Valley reduced water in the streams and curtailed mining operations. But by the second week of鈥�
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When A. G. Rockfellow obtained patents for his self-adjusting gate in the 1870s, the people of Ashland, Ore., were not surprised. He鈥檇 been experimenting鈥�
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In April 1911, a paving crew worker in Ashland, Ore., 20-year-old George Gabriel Geil, fell in love with 23-year-old Lorena Belletta Mingus, who was鈥�
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The rather destructive pranks of the 1800s鈥� Halloween revelers, like hoisting buggies on top of barns, tipping over outhouses and putting gates in the鈥�