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SOHS Magazine V1, No 4, 1995 $5.95 DEPARTMENTS ******** ******** ******** 2 EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK ******** ******** 3 GUEST EDITORIAL ******** 10 THEN AND NOW VOL. 1, NO. 4 WINTER/SPRING 1995 11 OREGON PIONEER FEATURES / 14 OREGON COMMUNITY 23 OUR OWN VOICES George Kramer. "The Pacific Highway in Oregon." Today, the "old road" is little more than a memory of the days when the Pacific 4 29 LANDMARKS Highway in Oregon reigned as the "Gateway to the Northwest." 37 SNAPSHOTS 38 SIGNPOSTS Patricia Parish Kuhn. "The Promise of French Prairie." Despite gold fever, epidemics, and prejudice, Catholic education in 43 EXHIBIT FEATURE Oregon has enriched the entire state from Portland to Jacksonville. 18 44 FICTION 46 BOOK REVIEW Elizabeth V. Hallett. "Civilian Public Service Camp #56." During A CONFERENCE World War 11, many conscientious objectors were interned in 24 47 CALENDAR Give it your best! Oregon as threats to America's wartime national security. Meet the faces of battlefield A Poster View of World War II warriors and homefront heros. Share in the experi­ Channing C. Hardy. "Bright Lights, Small Town: Rural Electrification in Oregon." It took more than seven decades to complete Oregon's World War II posters graphically illustrate one of the most significant times ences of a global war effort. complex network of power plants and transmission lines. 30 in American history-when citizens were warned that "loose lips sink Examine U.S. policies for ships" and told to "give 'til it hurts." The Southern Oregon Historical addressing the realities of Society has one of the largest collections of wartime posters in the both war and peace. Shelley Eriksen. "A Room of One's Own: A Woman's History." Northwest. Opening this spring, Give it your best! contains more than fifty Honoring women's place in history acknowledges the vitality of posters, as well as a selection of artifacts from the American homefront. WWII Remembered multiple cultures in the human experience, past and present. 34 Give it your best! also explores the impact propaganda campaigns had on popular beliefs and opinions at the time and how wartime images and arti­ May 20-21, 1995 facts continue to shape contemporary impressions of World War II. Gerald T. Latham. "75 Years in the Making." The Chamber of Southern Oregon Medford/Jackson County has been instrumental in southern 40 Runs May 1 through September 15, 1995 tr��SOUTHERN State College Oregon's ongoing growth and development. 1111 OREGON Jacksonville Museum of Southern Oregon History II I I HISTORICAL Ashland, Oregon 205 N. Fifth Street, Jacksonville •Tele. 503-773-6536 .!!!L SOCIETY Cover, As a maverick physician and vocal activist during the early-twentieth century, Dr. Featured topics include: Marie Diana Equi embraced controversial causes and fought for her beliefs in the tradi­ War Office issuances, devel­ tion of a true Oregon pioneer [see article, page 36]. Right, Tinted postcards like these illustrated scenic wonders along the Pacific Highway opment of training camps, in Oregon during its early years [see article, page 4]. homefront efforts and pro­ grams, and the internment of Japanese Americans and conscientious objectors. Southern Oregon Historical Society Administrative Staff Staff: Samuel J. Wegner, Exec111ive Editor; Ironically duplicated without the written permis­ Board of Trustees Samuel J. Wegner, Executive Director Robert C. Kenneth, Managing Editor; Natalie sion of the Southern Oregon Historical Society. Lana McGraw Boldt, Ashland, President Brad Linder, Historic Resources Director Brown, Art Director and Production Manager; Preregistration is required. Correction Jon Deason, Medford, First Vice President Carol Bruce-Fritz, Programs Director and Michael Leonard, Production Assista/I/. Some factual errors and/or conceptual misrepre­ Mruy Barker, Grants Pass, Second Vice Maureen Smith, Finance Director Thanks to: Kimberly Barta, Susan Cox-Smith, sentations were inadvertently introduced during *** President Susan Cox-Smith, Membership Coordinator Sharon Goodwin, Carol Harbison, Gene the editing of "Sailors on Horseback: 1841 Marjorie Nichols, Ashland, Secretary Oregon Heritage is published quarterly by the Landsmann, Greg Mann, Shannon Payne, Expedition of Southern Oregon" by Robert For more information, Janie Stewart, Talent, Treasurer Southern Oregon Historical Society as a mem­ Elisabeth Walt on Potter, Brenda Rasmussen, Heilman (Oregon Heritage Fall 1994). We sin­ Vern Arnold, Medford bership benefit. Other benefits include month­ Jim Schuette, Susan Sey!, Bill Snowman, Jacque cerely apologize for the inaccuracies. call 503-773-6536. Judith Barr, Medford ly newsletter ArtiFACTS, discounts at the Sundstrand, Mikki Tint, Linda Verekamp. Anne Billeter, Medford Society's History Stores, and invitations to ENEMY EARS are listening Gary Breeden, Medford Oregon Heritage is produced using Quark programs and special events. Administrative, Cindy Faubion, Gold Hill XPress on Macintosh computers and is printed membership, and editorial offices are at the d�� James Kuntz, Medford by Ram Offset Lithographers, White City. SOUTHERN Southern Oregon History Center, 106 N. Ann Moore, Medford 1111 OREGON Central Ave., Medford, OR 9750 I -5926. Back Copyright ©1995 by Southern OregonHistorical Alice Mullaly, Central Point llll issues of Oregon Heritage are available for Society. ISSN #1076-1780. All rights reserved. No HISTORICAL Samuel Whitford, Medford llll $5.95 each. part of this publication may be printed or elec- SOCIETY Lois Wilson, Eagle Point EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK GUEST EDITORIAL Funding, Fear, and Philistines at the Gate Shared and Competing Historical Visions by Natalie Brown by Candice Goucher hings have not heads the Senate Finance Committee.) And whilethe future of local he Akan-speaking peoples of Ghana associate a popular collective experience been lush for and statewide arts and humanities efforts are in no way guaranteed, proverb with the symbol of sankofa, the image of a bird of resistance, survival, T T and interaction was federallyassist­ Oregonians are traditionally active in voicing their opinions in mat­ looking backwards. Sankofa translates literally as "reach framed in,-relation to ed organizations in ters affecting the state's quality of living. back and take it" and refers both to the idea that it is never too ; recent years, and con­ Politicians and government officials are being barraged with late to go back and remedy a situation and, more specifically, to the dominance stant belt-tightening letters and testimony expounding upon the merits (or drawbacks) an admonishment to use the past. Among the Akan-as with Europeans acquired has caused chronic of continued federal support for various programs and organiza­ many oral societies-the past is perceived to be not only mean­ dming their voyages to bellyaches for count­ tions. This is how it should be. Sadly, however, much of the testi­ ingful, but also necessary in understanding one's present and a "New World." less arts organizations, mony borders on the shrill. Some proponents of government fund­ anticipating any future actions. History is not the sole domain of Examples humanities councils, ing are painting themselves as the helpless victims of tight-fisted dead men in books, but rather it is a living and breathing force abound of history-as­ public broadcasting budget bullies, while some who are opposed to the funding have in the human community. politics and of history stations, and other cul­ engaged in demagoguery that brands many federally funded arts Black History Month (February) dates back to 1926, when that is vulnerable to tural enterprises that and humanities programs as elitist or biased. Dr. Carter G. Woodson, a Harvard Ph.D., initiated Negro the politics of lan­ receive funds from When placed in thoughtful context, the scrutiny focused upon History Week in recognition of African American contributions guage. In 1929, the Uncle Sam. Now, on the heels of the Republican Party's victories federal spending for the arts and humanities encourages not only a to the American past, as well as to the political here-and-now. Its Igbo women of colonial West Africa protested against the threat this past November, organizations that are even marginally depen­ useful evaluation of affected programs, but also a more positive eventual adoption-and sometimes controversial embrace-by of British colonial taxation and the use of African men as agents dent upon assistance from the federal government---either direct­ approach to promoting what these programs do forthe communities late-twentieth-century American communities recalls the sanko­ of the state. The British called the event the "Aba Riot." The Igbo ly or indirectly through partnerships with other concerns-are they claim to serve. Southern Oregon, for example, reaps rich ben­ fa act of reaching back and taking it. Symbolically, Black of southeastern Nigeria, however, call it the "Women's War." As attempting to divine the impact of the new 104th Congress in efits from NEA-funded programs, including: the Artists in Education History Month also represents the historical legacy of peoples of represented by the British terminology, the African women terms of arts and humanities funding. Throughout Oregon and program, sponsoring artists' residencies in classrooms from kinder­ color-mostly ignored and often subordinated by Eurocentric became historically invisible-their actions were presented as around the United States, current wailing and dark prophesying garten through high school; the Oregon Shakespeare Festival; and historians.
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