Ann Staley
Ann Staley, a native of the Keystone State, traveled cross-country in her VW bug during the summer of 1971, picking-up hitch-hikers and delivering them to their destinations. She taught writing, literature, and education at five Oregon school districts, four community colleges, and two public and two private universities. For two decades she taught writing workshops at the Northwest Writing Institute at Lewis & Clark College. She was a co-founding editor of FIREWEED: Poetry of Western Oregon. Ann was an essayist and poet whose book Primary Sources (2011) was nominated for an Oregon Book Award. Ann passed away in February 2022.
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Dead Indian Memorial Road
Dead Indian Road is one of the oldest trans-Cascade travel routes in southern Oregon, connecting Ashland and the Rogue River Valley with the Upper Klamath Basin to the east. The road crosses the headwaters of Dead Indian Creek (now renamed Latgawa Creek) a short distance west of Dead Indian Road’s …
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