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welcome to offbeat oregon offbeat oregon history orhistory heroes and rascals shipwrecks and lost gold welcome to offbeat oregon history a public history resource for the state we love here s what you ll find here a weekly newspaper column published in about a dozen oregon community newspapers an archive of columns we ve published since 2008 with pictures arranged by date of first publication a daily podcast 7 to 12 minutes long optimized for mobile device listening via itunes stitcher or the podcatcher of your choice an active facebook page and twitter feed to help stay in touch enjoy and if you have any comments on stories suggestions for column topics or other feedback or if you re coming by the osu campus and have time for a cup of coffee with a fellow history dork drop me a note at fj offbeatoregon dot com any time stuff to read get the podcast socialize do other stuff about pulp lit productions offbeat oregon is a division of pulp lit productions a boutique publishing house that specializes in classics from the pulp magazine era roughly 1910 to 1941 for more information or to check out our catalog please see pulp lit com background photo of willamette falls in oregon city as seen from a flying drone was made by mrgadget51 in early summer 2017 via wikimedia commons cc by sa a public history resource for the state we love hello and welcome to the official offbeat oregon history hub page this page is the central hub of offbeat oregon history the monthly syndicated newspaper column the daily podcast and all the other cool things from this page you can reach everything we do with one or two clicks if you re a longtime visitor to this website you ve probably noticed some changes i hope you like this new approach better it s centered around a huge text only spreadsheet click the directory of articles button at the top right hand side of this page or click here this table lists all 615 articles by title publication date topic date and county when it is finished will be fully searchable by keyword too the late jim wright flies a low pass over cottage grove state airport in his immaculate reproduction of the hughes h 1 racer click the photo for the story of this heroic man and his amazing airplane currently i am still in the process of going through the directory and adding the hashtags by now all the articles have at least a few hashtags but there are still hundreds more that need a more complete set or that need their tags tweaked to be more useful if you can t find an article with a hashtag search try a google search these are surprisingly effective at finding individual offbeat oregon articles i will be updating this introductory splash page from time to time with new images from columns i especially like if you click these photos they ll take you straight to the stories they were drawn from editor s note in reader view some phone browsers truncate the story here algorithmically assuming that the second column is advertising most browsers do not recognize this page as mobile device friendly it is designed to be browsed on any device without reflowing by taking advantage of the double tap to zoom function if the story ends here on your device you may have to exit reader view sometimes labeled make this page mobile friendly mode to continue reading we apologize for the inconvenience jump to top of next column this steamship was one of a fleet of two steamers owned and operated by william dunbar and nat blum two highly respected portland businesssmen who used them in the early 1890s to operate an industrial scale drug smuggling operation bringing tons of opium and thousands of undocumented chinese workers into the country their sheer audacity was only matched by their incompetence and it all ended up in a spectacular monthlong court case involving the president of the oregon republican party himself click the photo above to read the whole story offbeat oregon started out in 2008 as a syndication service providing local enough copy for non ap member community newspapers around the state of oregon that they could use in a pinch if a regular story fell through we still provide that service which is why each month s new column is embargoed for 60 days that s the time during which member newspapers have exclusive rights but offbeat oregon has expanded from those business to business roots to include a daily 5 day a week podcast feed social media presence and of course this website a screen shot from paul linnman and doug brazil s tv news package on the famous 1970 exploding whale incident this is linnman doing a stand up with the whale ots over the shoulder click the photo to read more about this legendary oregon event thanks again for stopping by and if you have any ideas for great oregon stories we can tuck into i would love to hear from you drop me a line at finn at offbeatoregon dot com or ping me offbeatoregon on twitter now go fill up the rest of your day with good stuff finn 2008 2023 by finn j d john 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