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Offbeat Oregon History podcast

Offbeat Oregon History podcast

著者： www.offbeatoregon.com (finn @ offbeatoregon.com)
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A daily (5-day-a-week) podcast feed of true Oregon stories -- of heroes and rascals, of shipwrecks and lost gold. Stories of shanghaied sailors and Skid Road bordellos and pirates and robbers and unsolved mysteries. An exploding whale, a couple shockingly scary cults, a 19th-century serial killer, several very naughty ladies, a handful of solid-brass con artists and some of the dumbest bad guys in the history of the universe. From the archives of the Offbeat Oregon History syndicated newspaper column. Source citations are included with the text version on the Web site at https://offbeatoregon.com.Creative Commons CC-BY-SA 4.0 世界 旅行記・解説 日次 社会科学
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  • The Maddest Man in Town: A story of a wake that 'worked' — the deceased woke right up!

    The Maddest Man in Town: A story of a wake that 'worked' — the deceased woke right up!
    2026/10/30
    'Are ya religious? If ya are I won’t tell this story. Awright, I guess it won’t hurt ya none to hear it. It’s about old man Donovan. He was as good a Catholic as I ever knew, until he got mad once. Then he was mad for 17 years — the maddest man in town. Ye-up, ding-blasted mad and powerful mizzur’ble. Considering all in all, I reckon his being mad so long set a record of sorts for the whole danged county....' (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/2509a0908b.wpa-writers-project+SB-wakeworks-707.032.html)
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    12 分
  • WPA writers captured a snapshot of early Oregon

    WPA writers captured a snapshot of early Oregon
    2026/10/29
    IN 1935, IN the depths of the Great Depression, the U.S. Congress passed what’s sometimes called the “Second New Deal.” It was a $4.88 billion investment into getting Americans through the Depression. The philosophy behind this new New Deal push was to let unemployed workers earn their way by putting their existing skills to use, rather than treating them like charity cases or giving them make-work jobs raking leaves or doing litter patrols. One category of skilled workers who are often unemployed during hard times is writers and artists. So a comparatively tiny sliver of the WPA’s funds went toward “Federal Project Number One,” a group that included the Federal Writers’ Project, Federal Art Project, Federal Music Project, and Federal Theatre Project. In Oregon, the Federal Writers’ Project was especially interesting, because in 1938 — when most of its work was done — there were actual Oregon Trail pioneers still alive. (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/2509a0908b.wpa-writers-project+SB-wakeworks-707.032.html)
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    9 分
  • Rabies epidemic was like a war in Eastern Oregon

    Rabies epidemic was like a war in Eastern Oregon
    2026/10/28
    State health officials scoffed at the idea of hydrophobia in Oregon — until people started dying. It was the start of a decade of attacks by mad coyotes, when folks carried shotguns everywhere and nature seemed to be in open revolt. (Central and Eastern Oregon; 1910s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1303b-rabies-epidemic-eastern-oregon-mad-coyotes.html)
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    8 分
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