Old Timer's Tales of Oregon: An Oral History

By: John M. Taylor and Joy Talor

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Synopsis: In this book the authors gather five oral histories of "old timers" from the Grants Pass area of southern Oregon. The subjects are a logger (William Raymond Young), a naturalist (Mary Paetzel), a postal worker (Ethyle and Ed Lester), a violin-maker (Victor Gardener), and a jeweler (Bob Buckmaster). The question-answer format preserves the sense of the interview process. These stories include much more than what you might imagine from the professions mentioned above. For example, William Raymond Young had experiences as a fire fighter, miner, factory worker, and netter of salmon. He mentions hogs being raised near the hotel at Bybee Springs, going to San Francisco with the intent of making it to Alaska to get on a whaling ship, and encountering a porcupine.