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The standing-room-only audience at the Historic Ashland Armory prepares for the celebration
Ben Baden raps about Dr. King
Sign language rapping
I should have taken a video of the lady doing the sign language while Ben Baden was doing his Martin Luther King Jr. rap. A single photo can’t capture how entertaining her performance was.
Flag Team and Teen Theatre of Crater High School
The interior of the McCall House takes you back in time just like the exterior.
McCall House Bed and Breakfast at night
We had our annual Christmas party at the McCall House this past week. For more on the history of this lovely place, click here.
Mountain View Cemetery in autumn
If you were buried in Mountain View Cemetery, and you could look out the side of your coffin, this is the last glimpse you would take in as you were lowered into the ground during the first couple weeks of November. Or perhaps this would be the first thing you saw after becoming a zombie. Do zombies rise in the middle of a beautiful, fall day like today when I took this photo? Probably not.
Ashland Springs Hotel in Autumn
Another ultra-wide angle photo today… This time of the Ashland Springs Hotel from down the street near the Ashland Post Office.
Police tape surround Plunkett Center on SOU campus after fire
Yesterday there was an early morning fire in the Plunkett Center (Chappell-Swedenburg House built in 1904) on the corner of Mountain and Siskiyou. Luckily there were no injuries and the building wasn’t lost.
This past weekend we took a trip, for the first time, to visit Butte Creek Mill in Eagle Point, Oregon. I say trip, but it really isn’t that far from Ashland. The weather was fine and the views of snow covered Mt. McLaughlin against a blue, blue sky on the way were fantastic. I didn’t stop for a photo of Mt. McLaughlin though.
Grains have been milled here since 1872, and the owner told me that the water turbine currently in use has been used for about 100 years. The system was interesting to examine–especially since it was actually working and was not just some demo in a museum.
Today’s photo was my random desktop image of the day. I took this picture of Ashland’s most famous hotel back in February on a snowy day in town. I left the shutter on my LX3 open for 8 seconds.
I took a little trip up north on Tuesday to see a Swedish band I had previously seen in Sweden in 2008. If you are interested (I know most of you probably are not) then check out the photos and video I will post here.
The venue was the Wonder Ballroom, located right in the middle of a residential neighborhood–very strange. The building was cool, though, and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
East Main Street in Ashland features many of Ashland’s well-known places such as the Ashland Springs Hotel, Travel Essentials, and the Columbia Hotel. The latter two are in the Enders Building (on the National Register of Historic Places), built in 1910. I believe the Columbia Hotel has been running in this location for over a hundred years now. Also notice the Oregon Shakespeare Festival heraldic banner.