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Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Whatever Happened to Caliphobia?

Lori Cronwell
Portland

by Lori Cronwell
Portland, OR
Five year ago I drove across the Oregon border and stopped for gas. The smiling station attendant greeted me with “Welcome to Oregon.” Seeing my California license plates and my PT Cruiser packed to the ceiling, I’m sure he thought, “Just another California refugee.” And that I was.
Yes, I was one of [...]



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Thursday, August 27th, 2009

GOD’S COUNTRY

Jesse M. Pedi
Grants Pass and Medford,Oregon

by Jesse M. Pedi
Medford, OR
Moving to Oregon from Arizona is the best thing we’ve done!! We hit the road about a year ago in a ‘72 Chevy Cheyenne truck with a full size camper and pulling a trailer FULLY loaded down with all of our worldly posessons. My girlfriend, her two daughters, and I left [...]



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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

We loved on first sight

Judy Newman
Eugene

by Judy Newman
Portland, OR
In October of 1965 my sister, who lived in Oregon, had a baby. My parents, my two year old, my ten month old, and myself made a trip out to see the baby. We all loved Oregon so much that in January of 1966 my family moved out, and in June of [...]



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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

Thanks for having us!

Nikki Gakin
PDX

by Nikki Gakin
Sherwood, OR
I moved my family here in 1998. We’ve lived in Seaside, Tigard, and Sherwood. Nike brought me here and I am very thankful. My time in Oregon has been amazing overall. When I leave to go back to the Midwest, I will leave with fond memories and good [...]



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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

Destination: Home

Heather Wales
Portland

by Heather Wales
Portland, OR
I moved to Oregon when I was 16 to live with my older sister. I had come from the hot, pitiless streets of L.A. County, a place of flat, concrete buildings and endless roads where nature had been beaten back mercilessly. In Hillsboro, I [...]



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Friday, June 26th, 2009

Life long Oregonian ……

Leeza Lanson
All Oregon

by Leeza Lanson
Tigard, OR
I have lived in Oregon my entire life of 41 years. I was adopted through the State of Oregon as a newborn. When I found my birth parents at age 27, they both still lived in Oregon as well. I have camped and traveled through most of Oregon (thanks to my adopted [...]



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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

My Oregon

Alice Krausert
SE Portland

by Alice “Granny” Krausert, 90
as told to Lynne Palombo
The “Oral History at ElderPlace” project
Portland, OR
Alice grew up in St. Cloud Minnesota. Her family (husband, Paul and 3 children) followed her parents and siblings to Oregon to work in ship building. The family made the trip from Minnesota about 3 times before staying permanently. Alice did [...]



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Thursday, June 11th, 2009

“Born in Oregon…Covered Wagon to Michigan”

Kyle Haswell
near Umpqua River

by Kyle Haswell
Rochester Hills, MI
This poem was written in 1960 by my father’s only sister who helped as midwife when he was born in Oregon. He lived there only until he was 5 yrs old and then the family came to Michigan on a covered wagon in 1910 or so. He never made it back [...]



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Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

Natives

M.J. Damewood
the Past

by M.J.  Damewood
Portland, OR
We call ourselves Natives. With no clear definition of what makes us so. We’ve been here longer than you. Can remember when that corner used to be this and when that strip mall used to be a meadow. There is a compulsion that motivates our fervent pride. We are the keepers of [...]



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Friday, May 29th, 2009

No Place Like Home

Bobbie McCormick
Coosbay, Oregon

by Bobbie McCormick
Coos Bay, OR
I am a 49 year old mother of 2 and grandmother of 5, I have been clear across the United States and I have lived in many places. The one place I come back to is the Oregon Coast. Its beauty is one that you can only see in fairy tales.
It [...]



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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

Off To Oregon

Elizabeth C. Rust
Roseburg, Or.

Elizabeth C. Rust
Roseburg, OR
Thursday August 30, 1996- the beginning of Labor Day weekend. My son and I are preparing for our journey. We are moving to Oregon.
My Aunt Emma, cousin Diane, her husband Bill and their daughter Destini came down from Roseburg, Oregon, with their [...]



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