Maryann Mason
As It Was ContributorMaryann Mason, who lives in Ashland, has taught history and English in the U.S. Midwest and Northwest, and Bolivia. She has written history spots for local public radio, interviewed mystery writers for RVTV Noir, and edited personal and family histories. Her poetry has appeared in Sweet Annie & Sweet Pea Review (1999), Rain Magazine (2007), and The Third Reader, an online Journal of Literary Fiction and Poetry. In 2008 she published her first chapbook, Ravelings. She organized a History Day for Southern Oregon, and as an English/history teacher she assigned the National History Day project to her students every year for many years.
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In 1852 Isaac and Elizabeth Hill left Sweetwater, Tenn., for Oregon, with three daughters and three sons, 500 head of cattle and 12 oxen.After reaching…
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Picard, Calif., doesn’t exist today, but in the late 1800’s, it was a small town in California’s Butte Valley south of Klamath Falls. Elizabeth Reed Brent…
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Before she died in 1948 in Talent, Ore., Susan Haines Clayton had become one of, and maybe the last, Union Civil War nurses still alive. She was born in…
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Political conflict is not new in America -- or Jackson County, for that matter.After the Confederate’s successful attack on Fort Sumter in 1861 touched…
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Northwest forests once attracted government scientists investigating tree-damaging insect infestations. In 1899, Dr. A.D. Hopkins studied a huge area of…
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When the Rogue River Indian War erupted in 1855, the U.S. military had 350 men assigned to the vast Oregon and Washington territories. A militia called…
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On April 18, 1906, Grants Pass, Ore., purchased rights of way and rails and unloaded a trainload of equipment for building a railroad to Crescent City.…
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When he decided to travel to Oregon from Ohio in 1845, Alonzo A. Skinner was already a member of the bar, and a prosecuting attorney. He became the first…
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James DeMoss and his wife Elizabeth were part of an 1862 wagon train. They were musicians who traveled the world with their five children, playing 41…
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Beginning in August 1918, the flu spread to all parts of the United States in just six weeks. By the time the epidemic ended, more than 50,000 of the 20…
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Back in the days when a bridegroom was expected to have at least $1,000 in the bank and a job that paid $100 a month, Bill Bowerman was coaching at…
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Schools have always had a concern about the clothing students wear, some sending boys home for not having a belt on their trousers and reprimanding girls…