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Offbeat Oregon History podcast

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The last-minute choice that made aviation legend Jim Wright a true hero (Part 3 of 3)

July 03, 2026 9:00am 11 min

“The plane started to swerve away from the boardwalk, flipped perpendicular to the ground, and crashed into a small hill near the river, wing first,” wrote Ian Chen. “Later my family figured that the pilot swerved away s...

Aviator Jim Wright's day of triumph: A new world record at Reno Air Races (Part 2 of 3)

July 02, 2026 9:00am 10 min

BY THE SPRING of 2002, the plane was finally nearly ready, and Wright was starting to think about getting it into the air. Finally, in mid-June, surrounded by a small group of admiring aviators and the entire newsroom st...

The heroic final flight of Cottage Grove's Jim Wright: Part 1 of 3

July 01, 2026 9:00am 11 min

He’d spent thousands of hours re-creating history’s most mysterious aircraft. Something had gone wrong, and he was about to crash it. When he did, somebody would die. Who that would be was up to him. (Cottage Grove, Lane...

Trail Blazers’ fate hung on an extra-long bathroom break: Part 2 of 2

June 30, 2026 9:00am 8 min

THE PORTLAND TRAIL Blazers, in the summer of 1970, were nothing more than a gleam in the eye of the promoter who’d been banging the “NBA in Portland” drum for the previous 16 years. And it probably would have stayed that...

Trail Blazers came to Portland thanks to amazing promoter: Part 1 of 2

June 29, 2026 9:00am 8 min

Before 1970, Oregon was home to exactly zero major-league teams from any of these sports. But after 1970, it was home to one: The Portland Trail Blazers, a basketball team that took just over five years to build a team t...

Lola Baldwin's life mission: Battle human trafficking in Portland

June 26, 2026 9:00am 12 min

“We notice,” Lola Green Baldwin said to the Portland City Council, “that there was $5,030 used this year for the dog pound, and an additional thousand is asked for 1908.” Would the Council consider, she asked, allocating...

First policewoman was a municipal Rescuer — like Bianca

June 25, 2026 9:00am 11 min

BY THE TIME Walt Disney Productions released “The Rescuers” in 1977, the idea of a “Rescue Aid Society” dedicated to the eradication of kidnapping felt quaint, old-fashioned, and fun. But not many years earlier, when mem...

Did ‘Vortex I’ prevent riots in downtown Portland?

June 24, 2026 9:00am 9 min

On that tense late-August weekend, tens of thousands of young people enjoyed themselves at McIver Park, while the much-dreaded riots failed to materialize. Was there a connection? Many voters thought so. (McIver Park, Cl...

McCall expected ‘Vortex I’ to cost him re-election

June 23, 2026 9:00am 8 min

When McCall green-lighted the plan to distract potential street rioters with a week-long music festival, he fully expected to lose his job for it — whether it worked or not. (Salem, Marion County; 1970s) (For text and pi...

Riot at PSU set the stage for ‘Governor’s Pot Party’

June 22, 2026 9:00am 9 min

To Governor Tom McCall, it looked like Portland was about to explode, and there was nothing he could do to prevent it ... until two long-haired young people came to his chief of staff with a very unusual plan. (Portland,...

Yachter’s treasure caught FBI’s interest too late

June 19, 2026 9:00am 11 min

DAWN WAS JUST breaking, and Tom McAdams had just barely crawled into bed, when he got the alarm. A 50-foot sailboat was washing ashore near Waldport. McAdams had been up all night escorting a leaking fishing boat into p...

Portland's Vaudeville mayor made city famous as well as notorious

June 18, 2026 9:00am 10 min

Adorably boisterous and hearty, Mayor George Baker was the life of every party. But if you were a supporter of organized labor or an anti-war activist, he and his “Mayor's Secret Police” goons were not your friends. (Por...

When The Oregonian newspaper burgled a candidate’s home

June 17, 2026 9:00am 8 min

Will Daly had earned the sworn enmity of the newspaper's publisher, Henry Pittock, by exposing his plan to steal city water for his lush West Hills estate. But Pittock evened the score with a midnight visit to Daly's res...

How Stewart Holbrook became Oregon's great storyteller (Part 2 of 2)

June 16, 2026 9:00am 10 min

'Hols' Holbrook picked Portland for his new home because it had the best library, in his opinion, on the West Coast. Plus, it was smack in the middle of logging country. Upon arrival, he got a job as an associate editor ...

Stewart Holbrook: The literary spirit of mid-century Oregon (Part 1 of 2)

June 15, 2026 9:00am 7 min

NINETY-EIGHT YEARS ago, in a logging camp deep in the forests of British Columbia, a logger in a funny hat walked up to a big stump, an ax in his hand. Taking off the hat — it was a battered bowler, an old-fashioned dand...

How a national mythology was made from massacre

June 12, 2026 9:00am 15 min

After the missionaries at Waiilatpu were wiped out by a military expedition of the Cayuse tribe, a crafty missionary named Spalding fabricated a wild, patriotic whopper of a phony story about them, and sold it to the nat...

Marcus Whitman: The man behind the myths and the massacre

June 11, 2026 9:00am 13 min

JUST ABOUT EVERYONE remembers, from third-grade civics class, the story of Paul Revere’s midnight ride. And most people have since learned that his ride was a bit less dramatic than was portrayed in the famous poem about...

Portland home of world’s only working P.T. boat

June 10, 2026 9:00am 8 min

Twenty years ago, PT-658 was a weatherbeaten hulk, rotting away at a pier in San Francisco Bay. Today, it's a priceless piece of American history that you'll occasionally see on the waters of Portland Harbor. (Portland, ...

After logger’s murder, bordello madam vanished

June 09, 2026 9:00am 9 min

Shortly after Charles Lyons' body was found, the owner of the 'bawdy house' in which he'd been partying skipped town and was never heard from again. Could she have been his murderer? Or was she an unknown killer's second...

Cayuse tribe’s amazing ponies are now very rare

June 08, 2026 9:00am 9 min

Legendary “Cayuse pony” breed gave Indians far more endurance and speed than settlers' mounts, a fact that cost gambler and horseman Joe Crabb most of his ready cash on “The Day Pendleton Went Bankrupt” (Pendleton, Umati...

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