Christopher Shockey
As It Was ContributorChristopher Shockey lives on a 40-acre hillside homestead in the Applegate Valley of Southern Oregon, where before on-line streaming, JPR Classics and News was the only radio station he and his family could capture. It played from atop the refrigerator all day, and he heard Carol Barrett and Hank Henry鈥檚 As It Was each morning. Shockey has been a long-time JPR contributor and enjoys supporting the Southern Oregon Historical Society and JPR by digging up regional stories. His days are a chaotic combination of parenting, day job, and dealing with whatever the climate and a homestead in the forest flings his way. Every day is different. Christopher can be found with his wife Kirsten, watering, mucking stalls, preserving harvests, making cheese, cleaning, dancing on the porch, planting trees, chopping firewood, hiking, reading, or writing. At the end of the day they go to bed exhausted and knowing life is good.
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Iowa Slough Once Known as Dead Man鈥檚 Slough -
Iowa Slough Once Known as Dead Man鈥檚 Slough
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Deer are probably the most common garden invaders in the mythical State of 老夫子传媒 today, but 100 years ago in Bandon, Ore., gardeners had a domestic鈥�
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The headline in the Lake County Examiner on March 26, 1914, proclaimed, 鈥淢urderer Caught.鈥� The alleged murderer was E. C. Illingsworth, who had survived鈥�
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Iowa Slough is about 15 minutes by boat from the mouth of the Coquille River in Oregon and about half way between the towns of Coquille and Bandon. Years鈥�
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One of his generation鈥檚 most radical union leaders, Utah-born William 鈥淏ig Bill鈥� Hayward filled the halls with Socialists and workers for a series of鈥�
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In 1908, neighbors eager to educate their children in the Green Springs area about 20 miles east of Ashland Ore., worked together to build a one-room鈥�
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In his report in 1876, the U.S. Internal Revenue Commissioner described moonshiners as 鈥渦nlettered men of desperate character, armed and ready to resist鈥�
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Traveling between the Oregon towns of Eagle Point and Butte Falls today is a scenic 30-minute drive along Butte Falls Highway. A century ago the route was鈥�
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Starting out at age 17 as a horse trader, James Everett Henry spent a lifetime building a lumber empire, buying forests in his native New Hampshire,鈥�
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Early Christmas advertising in Southern Oregon and Northern California is nothing new; it has been around since the late 1800s when some ads popped up鈥�
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He was visiting relatives in Medford when G. H. Smith heard a familiar sound outside their home. It was his brand new 1919 Dodge Roadster starting up and鈥�
