Raining. Already about 1/2" since just before sundown, yesterday
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@murphysranch
Hey, now that you have lived near Medford for awhile: do you know where the South Medford High School is? There was no such school 60 years ago! That was our cow pasture.
Steve
I'm meandering through my childhood this morning ... Murphy', the next time that you want to head south a ways ... maybe you want to go to Ashland to visit the Shakespearean Theater or have a picnic at Lithia Park ... take 99 from Rogue River to Gold Hill. You will pass by a little farm where I lived a few years with Goldie the Bantam and Pepper the Dog. Turn towards Jacksonville on Old Stage Road. Remember, I predate the interstate system ... yes, we often traveled thru Central Point on 99, but turn on Old Stage
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Jacksonville -- it must be the oldest settlement in Jackson County. I bet those young 49 'ers all grew up when Jackson was president. Maybe, stop at the museum ... then, leave town on South Stage Road.
A few miles and take a little side trip, a few hundred yards, down Griffin Creek Road. Check to see if Steve is in his classroom at the elementary school or if the teacher has made him sit in the hall. He will be lonely out there in the hall but don't show him any sympathy. No, just ask how it was that he was sent out there so that he can reflect a little more on his transgressions
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Turn north off of South Stage onto Orchard Home Road. You are now on my bus route home because Columbus never made it through to South Stage when I was a kid
. You can't go all the way to Cunningham on the bus, either!
Mrs. Cunningham allowed me to park my bicycle on her front porch because I would otherwise have had to walk nearly a mile to catch the bus. You can walk through the pear trees to the bus stop, but that is only for fun and can use Sunset Road instead
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Anyway, down Cunningham Road ... it'll be really a quiet experience if there is dense fog ... you arrive on South Columbus. Right ... and you will go past South Medford High. The church and house were not on the left side of the road when I was there but the house is
about where ours was. It's a little closer to the willow and the rose garden than our house was. I'm pretty sure that they had to take out the old Apple Tree when they built that house ...
You can get back to South Stage Road by just driving ... past ... and continue to Phoenix and Ashland and the Siskiyous ... I hope that the weather is nice.
Steve
