State Divided – Postcard from Barbara Cervone
When the Center Does Not Hold October 3, 2021 New and Recent Posts Late this August, as a red sun descended in the smokey sky above Grants Pass, an hour’s drive to my north, more... Read More
This Land Was Their Land — Barbara Cervone
Postcards from the Rogue Valley “Begin at the beginning,” the King said, very gravely, “and go on till you come to the end: then stop.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland This Land Was Their... Read More
Whites Only: Race in Oregon
There are whiter states in America, but when Oregon entered the Union in 1859, it did so as a “whites-only” state, the only free state to do so. One hundred and fifty years later, Portland... Read More
The Things That Do Not Burn
Living in Ashland, you wouldn’t know there was much of a Latino community here. Salvador, who mows our lawn, laughs and tells me, “We’re invisible to you, but we’re here!” A tourist town, thanks to... Read More
Sharing Food, Building Community
Food is the ingredient that binds us together. — Author unknown Paul Giancarlo remembers reading an article in the Ashland Daily Tidings, a few weeks after Christmas in 2009, about food bank “blues”: how shelves stand... Read More
