February 14, 2009 By Paul Fattig - Mail Tribune
TALENT — To hear farmer Wellborn Beeson(Photo Inset) tell it, not much was happening on Feb. 14, 1859.
"It rained last night," he wrote in his diary that day. "I went up the (Wagner) creek and brought the cattle down to turn across Bear Creek tomorrow . . .. I went up to Thomases to get Jenny shod."
Old Valentine's Day cards are on display
Today is not only Oregon's birthday, it's also Valentine's Day. So the Talent Historical Society & Museum is offering a display of old valentine cards, many going back to the 1920s or '30s. They range from homemade cards to commercial ones offering what historian Jan Wright describes as "cheeky" humor in vogue at the time.
One is a 1933 homemade card that Lynn Newbry, a former state senator and current society board member, received from his teacher Floy Young while attending elementary school in Talent.
Another was "To my mommy and daddy from April."
"We got that from our youngest daughter," offered Alice Burnette, 93, a Talent resident for some 75 years, who included several of her old cards in the collection. "She did that when she was around the first or second grade. She is in her 60s now."
The high temperature of the day was 44 degrees; the low 36, he noted.
But nearly three months later — May 4 — found him writing about the belated discovery via newspaper delivered by mail that Oregon had become a state on Feb. 14....For Complete Article Click On Link Below
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Talk about a fierce looking dude, look at that guy's eyes.
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