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As It Was

SOHS and Jefferson Public Radio volunteers wrote over 3000 As It Was stories that were produced by JPR and presented five days a week over many years . This page presents links to the full text of many of the stories, plus links to the JPR audio versions.
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Title Author Episode
Drunken Hired Hand Falls Off Horse, Sleeps in Ditch Gail Fiorini-Jenner 2366
Stage Takes Three Days to Reach Oregon Coast from Grants Pass Shirley Nelson (Faces more 2365
Alert Pacific Highway Motorist Assists Police in Capturing Mail Thieves Amy Couture (Back home in Medford, he learns he 2364
Medford Turns All Out for Baseball between the DMITRI SHOCKEY 2363
Mountain Community of Dudley, Ore., Becomes a Memory Alice Mullaly (Dudley Post Office opens in 1909, community fades away with its closure three years later. 2361
Blackstone Audio Grows from Living Room to Large Ashland Complex Dennis Powers (Still ownedfounders, Blackstone may become largest independent audio book company in the country.) 2359
Siskiyou Valley Mines Yield Cinnabar, the Primary Ore of Mercury Gail Fiorini-Jenner 2358
Bureau of Reclamation Rescues Bear Creek Irrigation Crisis Alice Mullaly (Agate Dam about 10 miles northeast of Medford completes the project in 1965-66.) 2357
Robert Vinton Beall Plants Heritage Tree in 1864 Nancy Appling (Black walnut in Central Point, Ore., achieves Oregon Heritage Tree status.) 2356
Sheriff Tires of Insanity Charade, Drags Wife-Killer to the Gallows Diane L. Goeres-Gardner (Charles Fiester of Merlin, Ore., drowns wife in a shallow pool of water in the presence of his young children.) 2355
First-Time Coach Takes Girls to State Championship Dennis Powers 2354
Pinehurst School History Dates Back to 1908 Christopher Shockey 2353
Women Cross Frozen Lake Afoot to Get Mail Todd Kepple 2352
Old Millrace Leaves Traces in Lithia Park Amy Couture 2351
Californian Creates Wildlife Refuge for Injured Animals Dennis Powers 2350
The Snowden School Survives Almost Forty Years Gail Fiorini-Jenner 2349
Polio Rushes through Southern Oregon in 1935 Alice Mullaly 2348
Trappers and Settlers Encounter Five Shasta County Tribes Gail Fiorini-Jenner 2347
Kenneth Ford Founds Roseburg Lumber Company in 1936 Dmitri Shockey 2346
Company Follows Founder's Advice to Change with the Times Jim Long 2345