Medford Public Library

A few days before his death, Angus Bowmer finally finished a two chapbook series entitled “Shreds and Patches.” These books were written primarily for his festival actors as a passing on of his thoughts and knowledge about the Ashland Elizabethan Stage. Long out of print and almost lost to history, these chapbooks have been recently uncovered.…

With little-known stories and 40 images, Ashland historian Peter Finkle will share the incredible backstory of Ashland's 1916 Butler-Perozzi Fountain in Lithia Park. Join us to discover how our humble Lithia Park fountain's tale includes European royalty, a 500-year-old Palazzo in Florence, Italy, an early 1900s Ashland creamery and much more. Peter Finkle shares Ashland…

Roguelands, an effort to sell 5-acre planted and irrigated orchards in the Agate Desert, required the building of the first large-scale irrigation system in Southern Oregon in the early 1900s. How it was done and what resulted is the focus of this presentation by Alice Mullaly. Plan or scam, Rogueland’s consequences set the scene for…