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Backtrack II Medford Senior High School

Second edition of the folklore book created by Medford Senior High School students. 1980

398 B32 1980 c.1 Library
Why I Go (To The Ashland Growers Market)

Poem by Peter Finkle (click link to read the poem)

LINK Walk Ashland website
Immersive 4-Wall Mural

Exhibit Center mural, with artist Jenna Kesgen, 2010.
NATURE CENTER AT NORTH MOUNTAIN PARK.
A VAST VISION: THE ROGUE VALLEY THROUGH…

LINK Walk Ashland website
Bear Cubs At Play

PUBLIC ART IN NORTH MOUNTAIN PARK.
ARTIST: SARAH MAYER.
INSTALLED IN 2003.
"Cubs at Play” is a lovely, lively small…

LINK Walk Ashland website
The Oregon Caves

Brochure from the Siskiyou National Forest  with photos and map

PAM 979.3 OR 3CA Library
The Anlo Penwell Story and The Second Penwell Boat

Author - Gerald Z. Wollam, dated April 5, 1975.

Photocopy of typed manuscript.

Pam 920 P45 1975 Library
Logan Harrison Taylor

MMT 8-26-2022, Obituary, Rum Creek Fire

Taylor Vertical File Biographies
Donald Rowlett

September 2017, Obituary, Box R Ranch

RO Vertical File Biographies
The Life of Alice Applegate Peil by Florence W. Jones

A 14 page paper written in 1960 for Dr. Frank Haines for his course on History of the Pacific Northwest

Pam 920 P43 1960 Library
Charles Curren Hoover

Obituary July 2022

Hoover Vertical File Biographies
Debbie Saxbury

MMT 6-28-2022, Central Point 4th of July parade Grand Marshal, Dave Carr

SAX Vertical File Biographies
Sara Ann Rennie (Munroe)

MMT 7-10-2022, Obituary

RE Vertical File Biographies
John "Jack" L. Holmes

MMT 7-10-2022, Obituary

Holmes Vertical File Biographies
The Coachman was a Lady, the story of the life of Charley Parkhurst

16 page pamphlet by Mabel Rowe Curtis. Published by the Pajaro Valley Historical Association, Watsonville, California.

Charlie was a noted…

Pam 920 p37 1961 Library
Betty Jo Krug

MMT 7-3-2022, Obituary

KR Vertical File Biographies
Murel Elizabeth O'Grady Wilson

MMT 7-3-2022, Obituary

Wilson Vertical File Biographies
Absalom Francis Giddings

Death Notice, Nov. 10, 1905

GI Vertical File Biographies
Olive Murry

MMT 1-25-1901, Obituary

Mu Vertical File Subjects
Stephen P. Taylor Family

a paper on the history of the Stephen P. Taylor family written for a class on the History of the Pacific Northwest by R.C. Wolgamott, 1959

Pam 920 T39 1959 Library
Rex Bounds

Ashland.news, 6-23-2023, Obituary

BO Vertical File Biographies
A Boy's Life in the Chicago Ghetto, part one of a Memoir

58 page pamphlet by Anthony Netboy of Jacksonville, Oregon

Pam 920 N48 1980 Library
Home Mission Monthly, volume 36, #4 February, 1922

96 page publication of the Women's Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.

Various articles on Native American…

Pam 920 L6 Library
A Boy's Life In Medford, Oregon 1939-1943

By Kenn Lantz, Clackamas, Oregon, revised 2013

6 pages, a portion of a separate paper "Kenn's Life".

Pam 920 L2 Library
Paul Kane The Columbia Wanderer

Sketches, Paintings and Comment, 1846-1847

Edited by Thomas Vaughn

Oregon Historical Society, 1971

Pam 920 K35 1971 Library
The Gold Hill Story by D. Florence Kenny

 163 page booklet on the history of Gold Hill, Copyright 1979, revised 1989.

Includes a brief autobiography of D. Florence Kenny.

Pam 920 K34 1989 Library
Operation Tree's one million, The story of C.C. Hoover

19 page pamphlet describing the life and work of Charles C. Hoover (1890-1971). He promoted the planting of trees in the Rogue Valley and beyond…

Pam 920 H66 1980 Library
Healing Hands, The Story of Susie Jessel

The Lady of Love with the Healing Hands, as told to her daughter Mary Jessel Sanderson. 83 page pamphlet, 2 copies.

Pam 920 J44 1970 Library
Pioneering in Oregon Territory, The Story of Abel Daugherty Helman

13 pages written by Helman's granddaughter Almeda Helman Coder, recalling stories told by Abel Helman and other family members on the period 1850…

Pam 920 H5 Library
The Memoirs of Ross Eliason

autobiography of Ross Eliason, dated February 24, 1958.

a 31 page pamphlet

Pam 920 E45 1958 Library
California-Pacific Utilities Company Annual Report 1965

Power Company report with photo of Oregon Shakespeare Outdoor Theater on the cover

PAM 380.06 Library