When times were harder

We're coming up to the Oregon sesquicentennial in another couple years. I attended the SOVA marketing symposium at Seven Feathers Casino in Canyonville last year and there was a presentation by the local historical society. One of the things they talked about was how it took something like one or two weeks just to make the trip from Grants Pass to Canyonville. It now takes about an hour on Interstate 5. On the Oregon Coast, there wasn't any way to make the journey at all. In fact, it couldn't be done until the 1930's when Highway 101 was built.

Even those of us who like to grumble about the soft lives our children lead have a hard time comparing our travails to those faced by Oregon's real pioneers.