Kernan Turner
As It Was Editor & CoordinatorKernan Turner is the Southern Oregon Historical Society’s volunteer editor and coordinator of the As It Was series broadcast daily by Jefferson Public Radio. A University of Oregon journalism graduate, Turner was a reporter for the Coos Bay World and managing editor of the Democrat-Herald in Albany before joining the Associated Press in Portland in 1967. Turner spent 35 years with the AP. His assignments included the World Desk in New York City and 27 years as a foreign correspondent and bureau chief, living and working in Mexico and Central America, South America, the Caribbean and the Iberian Peninsula. His final assignment was as chief of Iberian Services in Madrid, Spain. He retired in Ashland, his birthplace, in 2002, with his wife, Betzabé “Mina” Turner, an Oregon certified court interpreter. He and his wife are active boosters of Ashland’s Sister City connection with Guanajuato, Mexico.
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Crayfish Threaten Rare Crater Lake Mudpuppies
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There was a time when electrified railways ran through downtown Medford and connected Medford with Jacksonville. Those tracks are long gone today.A…
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For 60 years thousands of Southern Oregonians have celebrated the arrival of spring at the annual Pear Blossom Festival in Medford, Ore.The festival began…
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Born between 1814 and 1818 as a slave in Kentucky, Letitia Carson died in 1888 on her own Southern Oregon ranch with a two-story house, smokehouse,…
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A major business property owner, Charles W. Palm, was a familiar figure in Medford, Ore., often seen downtown with his wife, Callie, and their two cocker…
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The National Register of Historic Places has listed a road system in Crater Lake National Park as worthy of preservation. The Army Corps of Engineers…
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The Oregon Geographic Names Board will meet in 2020 to consider the naming or renaming of geographic features, including eight in Southern…
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On Jan. 5, 1919, the Medford Mail-Tribune published a reflective piece after the U.S. Supreme Court voted 5-4 to allow enforcement of the 18th Amendment,…
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Scientists have yet to name a rare mushroom discovered in the spring of 2018 in the Southern Oregon Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument.Biologist Scot…
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Oregon geologic hazard experts reacted swiftly to the news in December that the White Island volcanic eruption in New Zealand had resulted in multiple…
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The Medford High School released classes for a week on Monday, Oct. 6, 1919, to allow students to pick apples in the orchards surrounding the Southern…
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A Hudson’s Bay Company retiree, Sam Strictland, planted the first cultivated filbert tree in Oregon in 1857 in Scottsburg near the mouth of the Umpqua…