Offbeat Oregon History podcast
A daily podcast of true Oregon stories from the wilder side of the Beaver State. Tales of heroes and rascals, of shipwrecks and lost gold, of shanghaied sailors and skid-road bordellos and pirates and robbers and buried treasure ... From the archives of the Offbeat ...
A daily podcast of true Oregon stories from the wilder side of the Beaver State. Tales of heroes and rascals, of shipwrecks and lost gold, of shanghaied sailors and skid-road bordellos and pirates and robbers and buried treasure ... From the archives of the Offbeat Oregon History syndicated newspaper column.
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The day whale meat rained down on the town of Florence
The highway engineer in charge of getting rid of a ...
The highway engineer in charge of getting rid of a big stinky dead whale on the beach miscalculated the amount of dynamite he would need. The result was a spectacular event that has become a true Oregon legend.
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First youth symphony in U.S. came out of Oregon's high desert
Every youth orchestra in America can trace its ancestry back ...
Every youth orchestra in America can trace its ancestry back to the tiny, dusty town of Burns in Eastern Oregon, and to one gifted, visionary violin teacher named Mary Dodge, founder of the Sagebrush Symphony.
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Oregon’s most notorious shanghai artist: “Bunco” Kelley
He was Portland's most notorious bad guy, with his fingers ...
He was Portland's most notorious bad guy, with his fingers in everything from shanghaiing sailors to smuggling opium. But ironically, when he was finally sent to prison, it was for a murder he clearly didn't commit.
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“Christmas ship” could have used some navigation help from Santa
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer's shiny nose would have been the ...
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer's shiny nose would have been the only light showing on the Oregon Coast after the Pearl Harbor attack; unable to see its position, the ship piled onto the beach at full steam.
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Vaudeville's famous “Klondike Kate” became an Oregon legend
After injuries to her knee, ankle and heart, she needed ...
After injuries to her knee, ankle and heart, she needed to get away from show business and from an ex-boyfriend. So she retreated to the high desert near Brothers, and became a homesteader ... and looked fabulous doing it.
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Pirates were defeated in Yaquina Bay Oyster War
The oysters belonged to the Siletz Indians and their employees, ...
The oysters belonged to the Siletz Indians and their employees, but Richard Hillyer was determined to take them anyway. We don't know much about the final battle, but we do know the outcome, and it must have been a doozie.
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Truck bombs doomed the cause of newspapers’ striking unions
But the strike enabled Oregon Journal's trustees to sell the ...
But the strike enabled Oregon Journal's trustees to sell the paper, in defiance of its former owner's direct bequest, to the owners of the Oregonian; the result was an outsider-owned daily-newspaper monopoly that continues to this day.
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Space-age whalers helped grow fur coats, put a man on the moon
Few people know a small whaling venture was launched in ...
Few people know a small whaling venture was launched in Astoria in 1961 — seeking whale oil for the space program and whale meat to feed to hungry minks.
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NASA's “Moon Trees” have roots in an Oregon forest fire
Astronaut Stuart Roosa had a special relationship with the U.S. ...
Astronaut Stuart Roosa had a special relationship with the U.S. Forest Service, and when it was his turn to go to the moon, he proposed a science experiment. You can see the results towering over Peavy Hall at Oregon State University today.
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One man's cheating heart likely cost Portland its local newspaper
Was the shooting of Donald Newhouse the action of a ...
Was the shooting of Donald Newhouse the action of a Union thug, related to the strike at the Oregonian and Journal? Or was it a cuckolded husband taking revenge in a case of mistaken identity?
