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www.TheCreswellChronicle.com: Off Beat Oregon History
Pieces of 1926 Hollywood train-wreck still in Row River
Film writer Tim Dirks introduces it as "an imaginative masterpiece of dead-pan ‘Stone-Face' Buster Keaton comedy, generally regarded as one of the greatest of all silent comedies (and Keaton's own favorite) – and undoubtedly the best train film ever made."
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Ashland's Shakespeare won title match with boxing event
Virtually every Oregonian knows about the Ashland festival. But did you know that the first Shakespeare plays, held in 1935, went toe-to-toe with a couple boxing matches in a fight for the audience's attention — and won?
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Oregon's highways were the envy of the West
Oregon was the first state west of the Mississippi to build a paved road from one of its borders all the way to the other — Highway 99, all 347 miles of it. The work was done in 1923.
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Company town was soggy, but home
There was a town in western Oregon that got an average of 10 feet of rainfall a year. This was actually more than any other town in the country, anywhere.
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Oregon's 100-Year Party
his coming Saturday, Feb. 14, 2009, the state of Oregon will celebrate its sesquicentennial. It will have been precisely 150 years since Oregon officially became a state, in a hasty effort to settle the question of whether slaves would be allowed here on the eve of the Civil War.
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