Amy Couture
As It Was ContributorAmy Couture is originally from Loomis, California and Astoria, Oregon. She has a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Oregon, a master’s in teacher education from Eastern Oregon University, and a master’s in history from Minnesota State University, Mankato. In graduate school, she focused on 19th-century social and labor history. Her master’s thesis examined the origins of the labor union movement among Cornish hard rock miners in California’s gold country in the 1860s. Before moving to Ashland in 2010, Amy taught fifth grade and coached cross country in Stebbins, Alaska. She also taught history and education classes at Clatsop Community College and Treasure Valley Community College. She is the author of 14 historical vignettes in the book, Astorians: Eccentric and Extraordinary. Her husband, Patrick, is the assistant principal of Talent Middle School and they live in Ashland with their two young sons.
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For more than 120 years, the Ashland, Ore., City Council has protected the city’s water supply in the 14,000-acre Ashland Creek watershed despite early…
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Pioneer Abel Helman built Ashland, Oregon’s Flouring Mill in 1854, the same year his wife, Martha, gave birth to their son, John. One day after lunch,…
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George Barnum stopped for coffee in the wee hours of March 7, 1922, in Dunsmuir, Calif., on his way home to Medford, Ore., from San Francisco. At the…
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In Ashland’s Lithia Park, a ditch leaves Ashland Creek just above the playground and runs straight to the hill above the Lower Duck Pond. A crude dirt…
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Anderson Creek, which enters Bear Creek at the south end of today’s Phoenix, Ore., was named for Eli Knighton Anderson and his brother, two of the first…
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The Klamath Falls Evening Herald’s coverage of the Mexican Revolution reported in 1913 that Pancho Villa’s army was seizing foreign-owned farms and…
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Seven-year-old Trudy Meadows of Yreka was living in rural Siskiyou County during the December 1964 flood, one of the worst in California’s recorded…
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As a boy in 1853, Orsen Stearns was one of the first pioneers to settle near today’s Phoenix, Ore. Thirteen years later he started his own ranch south of…
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In 1898, Ashland resident Thaddeus Powell, 28 years old, married and with a new baby at home, was feeling restless. He told his wife, Laura, that he was…
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A family farm on the hill above Ashland’s North Mountain Park has changed a lot in the last century. The first owners came to Ashland in the 1880s and ran…
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As It Was - Episode 2265 Ashland’s North Mountain Park includes 20 acres of ball fields, 17 acres of natural area, and a restored, turn-of-the-century…
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As It Was - Episode 2260 It has been eight years since the Rogue Valley’s “Eat Only Local Challenge” got underway with participants trying to consume only…