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1. Legacy Journal
2. Legacy Journal: Billy and the Bike: A Memoire of Deschutes Country
3. Legacy Journal: Memory Lane
4. Legacy Journal: Water, Swimming, and going with the Tide.
5. Legacy Journal: Haying in the upper John Day River Valley
6. Legacy Journal: Mother’s Day, Tessa’s 4th BD, and the Lilacs are Blooming in Highland Pk
7. Legacy Journal:  the Professional Specialists v the Gentlemen PolyMaths: Having it All?
8. Legacy Journal: May Day Musings: Muddling through the Maize
9. Legacy Journal:  Wednesday Leanings
10. Legacy Journal: Sunday Big Sur International Marathon
11. Legacy Journal: Saturday Prep
12. Legacy Journal: Fremont in Oregon
13. Legacy Journal: Saturday West timeline, first Native American “fossil” and Tracktown.
14. Legacy Journal: Hooray of the train.
15. Legacy Journal: Steve Chu of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
16. Legacy Journal: Klamath in Triplicate-- 1846 Carson, Fremont and Gillespie
17. Legacy Journal:Ranch Memoires
18. Legacy Journal: Mustang- Myths, Mascots and Machines
19. Legacy Journal: Darwin’s Man at Harvard: Asa Grey, Botony : collectioning and writing.
20. Legacy Journal:  Saturday Science Session
21. Legacy Journal: Rochester Rites of Spring: Squash, Squash, and more Squash
22. Legacy Journal: Saturday Style and Substance
23. Legacy Journal: Friday Final Edition:  Philanthropy, mandates, and Spring in the Rockies
24. Legacy Journal: Tuesday Lessions: Maps, Tall Tales, Western Trails
25. Legacy Journal:  Mellow Monday
26. Legacy Journal:  Spring, Easter, and NCAA MBB
27. Legacy Journal: Race, Coals to Newcastte, and Wednesday Technology
28. Legacy Journal: Economic Moral Hazard
29. Legacy Journal: Happy St. Patrick’s Day and Go Green
30. Legacy Journal: Sunday Shoot Out

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[ Tuesday, May 13, 2008 11:36 ]

Legacy Journal: Haying in the upper John Day River Valley

Section:

Environment

Summary:

“Hay is the foundation of civilization in the northern climes"---- futurist, physicist, and Templeton Award winner Freeman Dyson





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Going Green at Sixteen by Doug Fisk, May 2008

For the Fisks and the Forrests mid-July in the fifies was a time for three generations to gather and Go Green.

On working cattle ranches in the upper John Day Valley of eastern Oregon, haying season was and is serious business and a heck of a lot of fun.

The Forrest ranch is 4,000 acre spread located just up river to the east of the pioneer village of Prairie City.  In its “hayday” “the ranch” was a cow and calf operation that shipped 1200 lb, lean and meaty 2year old grass fat steers to the Portland market or to a buyer from Safeway markets.  The deal was usually make on a handshake,

One square mile of the ranch was green irrigated wild natural meadow grass that was mowed, sun dryed, winnow raked into rows, bucked up in bunches, and piled into loose two story high mounds using an overshot stacker. It was kind of a 2 weeks blitzkrieg that was hopefully free of thundershowers.  The harvest result became winter fodder and the only feed for the herd of carefully bred Herefords.  Home grown, individually selected, broad beamed cows, their gestating calves to be, range bulls imported from Red Bluff, CA, this year’s weaners, and last year’s yearlings were all the beneficiaries of open field winter feedings that were hand pitched daily from a low-rider hay wagon.  It was a cycle that was self sustaining, season driven and largely powered by machines that had replaced the preWWII one, two, and four horse powered teams hitched to primative iron wheeled implements.

Now, rubber shod Ford tractors were fitted with mowing machines and blades that were carefully sharped daily, a canvas canopyed WWII jeep pulled the winnow rack, and the power hay bucks, pickup victims of road kill that were rescued, repaired and given new life in the winter shop. darted about the field like hounds fetching rabbits.  A big green stationary John Deere diesel was outfitted with a long ponderosa pine fork received the catch for stacking.

The machine operators were mostly family high schoolers who gathered from around the state to bunk out at Uncle Orrin’s ranch, help in the kitchen, feast and put on weight around Auntie Christina’s huge table, man the equipment, and shoot some spirited pool in the basement after the evening chores were finished.  Teen age cousin John was an only child, so he particularly benefited from the kid gathering.

One memorable summer, Jimmy Howard , a towny, and I were the designated power hay buck jockys.  We had a spirited racing competition.  Our cockpit perches were open ai, the wind and bugs were in your face, and your saddle like seats were unbelted.  The game was to see who could deliver the most hay to the stacker from soggy and slippery ditch banks and from the far fences bordering the fields. The hazards included the ignomy of getting stuck in the mud or running a fork down a gopher hole.  The competition continued after dinner around the green felt pool table in ranch house basement with Uncle Orrin quietly and approvingly looking on.
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His ancient fiddle and his player piano was by that time mute and unused upstairs in the parlor where Strawberry Mountain to the south was framed in a picture window.

The times, they do change.  The ranch was a major part of my uncle’s life.  He had passed on college to inherit the property from Grandpa Clyde.  That was the verbal bargain they made made many years prior and he had no regrets.  However, were he alive, he would have been saddened, if not despirited, by recent news.  The ranch has been sold by the third generation to the Consolidated Indian Tribes of the Warms Springs, now the largest private land owner in the state.

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[ Saturday, May 10, 2008 08:22 ]

Legacy Journal: Mother’s Day, Tessa’s 4th BD, and the Lilacs are Blooming in Highland Pk

Section:

Arts and Culture

Summary:

Erika Little, daughter Tessa, live in the Lilac Festival, Highland neighborhood so this May weekend is to be a perfect Trifecta trice celebrated



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* First, Tessa Little is now officially four years old.  The California Princess has made the Rochester transition in style and is preping for KG in the Brighton School District in the Fall of 2009.  Meanwhile, she is continues to play the role of Emma's younger sister, best friend and student, cat tormentor, and non-stop asker of questions about how stuff works. 

** The Lilac Festival around the corner in Highland Park is in full bloom and the weekend music is swinging.  The opening parade with Strong Drum and Bugle Corps from the upstate region, is now history.

*** Meanwhile, Erika Little has earned the title Mother of the Year.  Relocating cross country from California, finding and updating the perfect house, guiding the kids, working at the URMC, in a Clinical Research Unit, and hosting guests and visitors is only part of the Little story of the past eight months.

The truth is, Mom’s tend to be the world’s most passionate warriors and best truth tellers.

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[ Sunday, April 27, 2008 08:09 ]

Legacy Journal: Sunday Big Sur International Marathon

Section:

Sports

Summary:



The ultimate in spring time weekend warrior events in California includes The Big Sur International Marathon.  The Triathlon tribal gathering at Wild Flower, and the DamFast open water swim at Lake Berryessa would be other examples.



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:  The start is at 0700 at Ranger Station on Hiway 1 high above the foggy Pacific Ocean.  The finish is at Camel Village at the entrance to Carmel Valley just south of Carmel-by-the-Sea.

This is Mission Ranch, Junipero Serra, and Clint Eastwood country.  The vaqueros and the Padres are not running today.

::  Damon Fisk is bib# 3888.  If the support crew does its job and the knees hold up, he should finish before the 6 hour closing time at 1300 PDT.

:::  Meanwhile, Bill Clinton has been entertaining the locals in Junction City, Oregon 3 weeks before the state mail-in primary.  The results may be interesting.

This weekend, Barak is hanging out closer to home.  His exercise plans may include some Chicago hoops with his brother-in-law, the new MBB Beaver coach at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon.  To the best of our knowledge, Obama has not used up his NCAA eligibility.

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[ Friday, April 11, 2008 12:25 ]

Legacy Journal: Mustang- Myths, Mascots and Machines

Section:

Essays

Summary:




“The air of heaven is that which blows between a horse’s ears.” --- An Arab Proverb.

“Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances ... The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action ...” ----- D.H. Lawrence

“There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.”
------ Winston Churchill

: “The most beautiful, the most spirited and the most inspiring creature ever to print foot on the grasses of America.”
------- J.Frank Dobie- Texan Folklorist, of the Mustangs

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:  The mustang is a feral horse with Spanish roots that has ranged the western part of the North American continent for more than 500 years.  In the north western Spanish empire in the New World, Native American tribes valued the trained “Big Dogs” and acquired them as the opportunity presented itself. Failing that, they did domesticate the feral fall out and leavings.  The horse has evolved and adapted to the conditions of the west: dry deserts, rocky and steep terrain, harsh winters, and scant grass and browse.
Today, BML land in Harney County and the Steens Mountain south east of Burns, Oregon is the home of the Kiger Mustang, the model for the animated movie Spirit of Cimarron.

::  The mustang is the mascot of SMU, UCDavis, Cal State at SLO, and the former Malin, H.S. , Oregon state “B” champions in football and basketball.

:::  Ford Mustang automobile, the Mustang fighter aircraft, and various power speed boats are example of compact high performance machines. 

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[ Saturday, March 29, 2008 06:29 ]

Legacy Journal: Saturday Style and Substance

Section:

Almanac

Summary:

“ It is we who are trouble.  The earth is OK.” ---- Bad news. Good News.



* Somalia is unraveling, East Africa is in tribal turmoil, Tibet is troubled, diesel fuel and rice are up, the dollar is down, and global warming is starving the eco-tourist’s long suffering friend, the migrating grey whales. 

The good news comes from the NCAA MBB tournament site in Detroit is that the number 10 seeded Davidson College Wildcats, Stephen Curry, and Coach Mc blindsided the Badgers of Wisconsin.





** Daniel Boone is part of the North Carolina heroic story.





*** Meanwhile, for an MIT chemistry professor, all is worry and woe on the energy war frontiers as reported from the Aspen Institute and National Geographic conference in Colorado.  The whine is “ we need funding to do the research that will save the World from ourselves.” UofR will be hosting alum Stephen Chu from California at an energy big picture update on 17 April.





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[ Friday, February 22, 2008 10:28 ]

Legacy Journal:  Fisk Family Friday

Section:

Events & Meetings

Summary:

On the move and on the go.

* Toronto, Canada

* Park City, Utah

* Hawaii

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: The Littles of Rochester are off in the snow for a well earned weekend in Toronto.  Emma and Tess are on “winter break”, have done their bit by saving the Brighton school district some money, contributed to energy conservation bu reducing fuel space heating bills, and aided in saving the planet from carbon dioxide pollution and the fear of AGW.

::  Damon and Rebecca are back home in The City’s Marina District following their adventure in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah.

:::  Tiffany has recently celebrated her birthday Hawaiian style in Kailua- Kona on the west coast of the Big Island

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[ Monday, February 18, 2008 08:44 ]

Legacy Journal: Abe Lincoln Legacy

Section:

Feature

Summary:



“Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals."--- President Abe Lincoln

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The first Fisk’s to settle in the Oregon Territory were part of a group who followed the Gold Trail to Canyonville and what is now Grant County in eastern part of the state.  They were true pioneers who left Carroll County, Illinois, 1 May 1852, at a time Lincoln was living , prospering, and practicing law railroad in Springfield, He was circuit rider, an Illinois legislator, and U.S. congressman.  Abe’s friend, Ed Baker, Black Hawk War volunteer , fellow lawyer, loyalist in helping delivery 35% of California vote for the new President.  Late, Baker became Oregon’s first U.S. Senator, and the only member of Congress to be fatally wounded during the Civil War. He was eulogized in the Federal Capitol building rotunda with Lincoln in attendance.

It is no accident that the original Oregon Fisks were Whig Republicans, supported Lincoln, put “Union on the state flag voted for Grant, and hated Prohibition. Taxes on alcohol served in small town saloons were the primary source of revenue for early local government services including law enforcement and city water.

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