Get ready for Hanley Farm’s signature Spring event—the Heritage Plant Sale on April 25 & 26! Every year, plant enthusiasts and agriculture historians arrive early at the Farm in anticipation of selecting a bit of history to plant in their gardens, gracing their landscape with a bit of a bygone era and past spring fragrances. The plant sale is only the beginning of another fabulous series of events at Hanley! And, of course, monthly events such as the First Tuesdays Pub Talks and Windows in Time which will continue throughout the year.

First Tuesdays Pub Talk, March 3: The Station Master’s Wife-: A Scandalous Life Exposed—Autor S.K. DeMarinis shares the fascinating history of her Ashland, Oregon Victorian home, purchased in 1985. To celebrate its first century, DeMarinis began researching the home’s original owners, and as she searched archived newspapers, she learned about the home’s first woman resident. A fascinating story emerged in which Alice witnessed the Railroad District’s linking by rail of California and Oregon in December of 1887, changing everything for this little hamlet, as well as for Alice. From newspaper articles, DeMarinis learned about the scandals that followed Alice from the 1880s to the 1920s, and her “exceptional resourcefulness in the face of upheaval, betrayal, and prejudice.” “The Station Master’s Wife” is a fictionalized story based on the history of very real people, including train robbers, bank robbers, and others who impacted the turn of the century. March 3, 7:00pm, upstairs at the Four Daughters Irish Pub, 126 West Main, Medford. This historical talk, sponsored by the Southern Oregon Historical Society, will last about an hour.

SOHS Windows in Time Series, March 4 & 11: Celebrating Women’s History—Shirley Patton, “As it Was” narrator, and Amy Blossom, Ashland Branch-Jackson County Library, will discuss articles about women’s history and stories aired on Jefferson Public Radio, including articles such as the voting rights Act 19th Amendment. Additional articles include the September, 2018 article written by SOHS Volunteer Alice Mullaly, entitled “Woman Becomes Fire Chief in Butte Falls, OR;” a March 2018 article by Geoffrey Riley, John Baxter and April Ehrlich, “Women Move Beyond ‘Brogrammers’ in Tech History,” chronicling women’s contributions; and others.

March 4 event is at the Medford Library, 205 South Central Avenue, and the Wednesday, March 11 event will be at the Ashland Library, 410 Siskiyou Boulevard, noon–1:00 pm at both locations. Presentations are free and open to the public.