Focus on Hanley Farm – August 2019

Summer Sundays at Hanley Farm—Have you been looking for ways to spend a Sunday afternoon? Look no further! Every Sunday, the farm is open from noon to 4:00pm for family fun, afternoon picnicking and children’s heritage games, docent-led house tours, and self-guided farm and garden tours enhanced with brochures about the plantings and the Hanley Family. Admittance is always FREE! Hanley House Tours: 1:00-3:00pm, $5/adults, $3/SOHS Members & Children, 12 years and younger.

 First Tuesday Pub Talk—Anne Billeter, Past President of the Rogue Valley Genealogical Society, shares her storytelling talents and research skills at the August 6 First Tuesdays Pub Talk on “Sarah Ann: A Jackson County Mystery.” There are no names on a gravestone in the Jacksonville Cemetery, just the single word, “Mother.” Who was she? Could she have been Sarah Ann? If so, what was her story? Why did she keep disappearing, or did she? Join Anne at the Four Daughters Irish Pub in Medford; Anne will take you on the research trail for the story of Sarah Ann, a Jackson County 1850’s pioneer. August 6, 7:00pm, 126 W. Main, Medford. First Tuesdays Pub Talks are free and last about an hour, with ample time for questions and discussion afterwards.

Windows in Time—The Chinook Salmon Migrations to the Upper Klamath River—Retired biologist, John Hamilton, provides the history of Chinook salmon migrations upstream from dams on the Klamath River. John published a report “that updated the historical record of Chinook salmon migration past the current barrier at Iron Gate Dam.” That report, “The Persistence and Characteristics of Chinook Salmon Migrations to the Upper Klamath River Prior to Exclusion by Dams,” gives a glimpse of the character of the historical runs. Learn more on August 7 at the Medford Medford Library, and Wednesday, August 14 at the Ashland Library, noon-1:00pm.