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SOHS Magazine V1 , No 2, 1995 'fHE • ACCLAIMED • BOOK • FROM • THE •PREss LAND IN COMMON avishly illustrated with memorable photographs from a century of life in Jackson County, LAND IN CoMMON: An Illustrated L History of Jackson County, Oregon will delight young and old, newcomers and native Oregonians alike. From the American Indians who once inhabited the Rogue Valley to the orchard barons who found "gold" in the valley's fertile earth to the World War II soldiers who turned the Agate Desert into a sprawling city, LAND IN CoMMON will open your eyes to the women and men whose roots still run deep throughout this land. To order your copy of LAND IN COMMON, contact the Southern Oregon Historical Society, 106 N. Central Ave., Medford, OR 97501-5926, tele. (503) 773- 6536, FAX (503) 776-7994. HERiTAGEVol. I, No.2 • THE MAGAZINE OF THE SOUTHERN OREG ON HISTORICAL SOCIETY • Fa ll 1995 FEATURES Marion E. Carl with Barrett Tillman. " Flying High with a Southern Oregon War Hero." An excerpt from the autobiography, Pushing the Envelope. 4 Natalie Brown. "For the Record: Press Photography and Local History." Mail Tribune pictures document daily life in the Rogue Valley. 6 Molly Kerr. "What's Past is Prologue: The Bard Celebrates Sixty Years in Ashland." A retrospective of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. 14 Above: Aviation hero Marion Carl, no w retired in Roseburg, gave his all at Guadalcanal. [see page 4.] Doug Foster. "Refuge Reclaimed: The Birth, Death, and Revival of the Cover: Preserved for posterity, thi s photo in spired First National Waterfowl Refuge." After hanging in the balance, this memories of loved ones on the homefront. [see page 40. ] historic preserve finds new life. 22 DEPARTMENTS 2 EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK "Remembering Ginger, 1911-1995". A photo essay bids a fond Karla K. Powell. farewell to Southern Oregon's Ginger Rogers. 27 3 GUEST EDITORIAL jay Mullen. Kay Atwood. "Claiming the Land." Rogue Valley settlers 9 THEN AND NOW transformed the wilderness and brought certain change. 28 Medford's Central Fire Hall. 10 OREGON PIONEER john Beeson. jeff Lalande. "When Southern Oregon was a 'Little Kansas': 19 SIGNPOSTS The Populist Movement of the 1890s." The People's party Oregon Caves. threatened politics as usual in jackson County. 32 20 EXHIBIT FEATURE Eagle Point Historical Society. 39 CALENDAR 40 OUR OWN VOICES Virginia Fredenburg Younger recalls hard times on the home front during World War II. 42 LANDMARKS The 1883 jackson County Courthouse. John Beeson was an unsung hero in his time for his selfless work on behalf of the Indians in 45 COLLECTIONS HIGHLIGHTS southern Oregon. See page 10 to learn of hi s role as a pacifier. Antique portable desks. Southern Oregon Historical Society Janie Stewart, Talent Society's History Stores, and invitations to Southern Oregon Heritage is produced using Board of Trustees Samuel Whitford, Medford programs and special events. Administrative, Quark XPress on Macintosh computers and .is Lana McGraw Boldt, Ashland, President Lois Wilson, Eagle Point membership, and editorial offices are at the printed by Ram Offset Lithographers, White City. Jon Deason, Medford, First Vice President Administrative Staff Soutl1em Oregon History Center, 106 N. Central Copyright 01995 by Southern Oregon Mmy Barker, Grants Pass, Second Vice President Samuel J. Wegner, Executive Director Ave., Medford, OR 97501-5926. Back issues of Historical Society, ISSN # 1082-2003. All Anne Billeter, Medford, Secretary Brad Linder, Historic Resources Director Sowhem Oregon Heritage and Oregon rights reserved. No part of this publication Ali ce Mullaly, Central Point, Treasurer Carol Bruce-Fritz, Programs Director Heritage are available for $5.95 each. may be printed or electroni cally duplicated \rem A.mold, Medford Maureen Smith, Finance Director Staff: Samuel J. Wegner, Executive Editor; Karla without the written permission of the Judith Barr, Medford Patty O'Neil , Public Relations K. Powell, Managing Editor; Tracy Calvert· Southern Oregon Hi storical Society. Robert Bowers, Central Point & Marketing Coordinator Jantz, Arl Director and Production Manager; and Cheryl Breeden, Medford Susan Cox-Smith, Membership Coordinator Michael Leonard, Photographer and Production James Kuntz, Medford SOUTHERN Southem Oregon Heritage is published quarterly Assistant. d!.~ Elizabeth Manuel, Medford 1111 OREGON by the Southem Oregon Historical Society as a Thanks to: Jacque Sundstrm1d, Nancy McGrew, Medford llll HISTORICAL membership benefit. Other benefits include CaroL Harbison-Sarnuelson, Ann Moore, Medford monthly newsletter ArtiFACTS, discounts at the and Bill Snowman. .!!!!. SOCIETY EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK World War II: Private Battles, Public Record by Karla Powell s worldwide only heightened my appreciatiOn for what the Normandy commemora­ Invasion demanded of its participants; it also opened my eyes A tions of the to the invaluable role of historical societies in recording our 50th anniversary of life experiences. World War II draw to Although I assured Mr. Stillwell that my father would have a close, so, too, do been a superb interview subject, his editorial skills fall just short ours at the Southern of clairvoyant communication with the dead. It was a profound Oregon Historical sadness for me that my father could not bear witness as his World Society. Our popular War II experience was woven into the official fabric of history. World War II exhibit, Yet a deeper sadness was that my father and I had not shared his "Give It Your Best!" experience on a personal level. When I related my regret to Mr. ends in September; Stillwell, he assured me it was all too common; and that he often and in this issue of the is embraced by those he interviews for the simple fact that he magazine we offer two widely different stories of wartime serves as a keeper of their stories. At our own historical society, bravery. On page 4 is an excerpt from the autobiography of we are graced with Matjorie Edens, who has served as the keeper fighter ace Marion Carl, a retired Marine Corps Major General of southern Oregonians' stories for almost twenty years. I, for one, who lives in Roseburg. His insider's view takes will always wonder at the stories within each of us, readers into the heat of battle during the campaign and never will forget the price for not listening. at Guadalcanal. On the homefront, Virginia During the year I spent with the Naval Fredenburg Younger of Medford recalls the quiet I, for one, Institute, the stories I heard time and again were the courage of those whose fate was to will always stories of men and women displaying the purest of anxiously wait - and hope for the best (Our Own courage while facing the surest of evils. Until then, Voices, page 40). wonder at the war for me had always been an abstraction. Now, Courage. I've tossed that word around a lot stories within through these most intense of testaments, it took on in my mind this past year, especially as it relates a distressing reality. With the commemorative to the terrors of war. Like most people who were each of us ... speeches and reenactments of World War II' s 50th not touched directly by it, World War II was no anniversary already fading into the past, we must more than a notion to me, filtered through the stay mindful of the realism of all war. images of Hollywood and Life magazine, or gleaned from the We also would do well to recognize those historians who vague references of my parents. During this past anniversary, zealously record the minutiae, which allows us to appreciate the I had the singular experience of revisiting D-Day through my entirety of world events. father's eyes, via an unexpected encounter with the oral It is far too easy to succumb to romanticization when our historian at the United States Naval Institute in Annapolis. war stories only recall the hero's glory and overlook the under­ Paul Stillwell's enthusiasm over the tattered snapshots my stated truths. There is no denying the noble side of war. Yet we father had sent home (complete with editorial comment on the must recognize that it springs from our impulse to battle those back) led to an entire chapter in his book of first-person dm·k forces of history that we ourselves create. accounts from the sea services. The resulting tribute to "Civilians in Uniforms" - based on an interview with the Karla Powell joined the Society last May. This issue marks her commanding officer of my father's landing ship tank - not debut as the new managing editor of Southern Oregon Heritage. Southern. Oregon Heritage Editorial Guidelines Feat~re:artic!es average 2,5oo;r() 3:oo0 (pre:~ilited) wbrcls. Standarciarticit!s Atithors ~houid ·provide a brief, two- or three-sentmice autobiographical. note at the • range from 1~500 to2:090 "'orcis. Oth~rmaterial, su~h as pot;try\essay~, ~eviews; ~d end of manus~r.jPf:'' ••.. · , ·.· . <·. ..•. > < > .. ·. ··•· s]Jortfictiol1;raiJgefto!llloo. tbl,?.OO words~ Elfctronic~u!Jmission~ .are. ac~~pted.on·•. 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