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orhistory.com Oregon History With BallsIf you are interested in, passionate about, or geeked out on Oregon History, then we are glad you found this site. We are too. We hope you come to really enjoy this site.

At orhistory.com we are hoping to enable your cravings and carnal desires for all things Oregon. Listen in to Kick Ass Oregon History, our irreverent take on the great shit you didn’t know about The Beaver State. Join us for one of our Live Oregon History Events (there is usually locavore beer and spirits involved). Come along on one of our walking or bus tours. Links will abound and appear to multiply.  You will read quality, unpublished prose that will contribute to your jonseing for the Beaver State.

This site is like one tasty taquito. Instead of filling your stomach, it just tends to accentuate your ravenous hunger. That’s us. We are that taquito. We aim to fulfill that initial impulse, but hope you will leave here on your own search, visiting sites around the state, reading books, talking to people.

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A local history organization with an upbeat, mildly profane name. - Kristi Turnquist, The Oregonian, “The Hot List,” 3/15/2012

Lighthearted but deeply informative, a reference source that’s pitch-perfectly calibrated to a certain laidback-but-wonky Portland aesthetic.  - Alison Hallett, The Portland Mercury, “Pump Up The Volume; The Many Sounds of Portland’s Podcasters,” 7/19/2012

They do a great podcast. (Kick Ass Oregon History) should be world famous. – Cort Weber, The Cort and Fatboy Show, 11/14/2012

Y’all put on some of the finest of nerdy Portland happenings. - A Satisfied Ass Kicker! 6/4/2012

If that guy would have been a college professor I probably would have finished. He was funny as hell, and knows how to tell a tale.  - A Bigfoot Night Attendee, 6/19/2012

I can assure you that Doug is *exceedingly* objective and rational…he just manages to pull it off with a liberal application of F-bombs, interspersed between cans of PBR and bong hits. Doug puts the “cad” in “academic.” - An Ass Kicker’s FB post, 7/5/2012

 

 

 

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The Great Flood of 1894 – 6/18/2013 – 7:30pm – Our 2 Year Anniversary at The Jack London Bar!!!

Please join us on June 18th, at 7:30pm for our 2nd Year Anniversary Party at The Jack London Bar! Oh, and we’ll be talking about The Great Flood of 1894 – when the Willamette flooded to an all time height – and crazy pictures such as the one above were shot all over downtown! (Yes! [...]
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Kick Ass Oregon History on KBOO Radio… talking Tom McCall and Comics!

Today we got a chance to chat about Oregon’s Favorite Son, Gov. Tom McCall! Sarah Mirk of Bitch Magazine fame had a chance to chat about her Tom McCall & The Vortex comic from Know Your City, and  Resident Historian Doug Kenck-Crispin dropped The Straight Shit on The Gov, and Tours!  You can listen to the [...]
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Take a Kick Ass Tour of some Oregon History!!

Hey there Ass Kicker! Did you know that we do live tours? That’s right!   We have  been doing a tour that is sponsored by our friends at Know Your City called “Seedy, Seemy, Sinful Portland.”  I like to call it “All of Portland’s Naughty Bits!,” and I think you get the idea. Shanghaing, card rooms [...]
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Top Ten Most Awesome Historical Portland Quotes

So here and there in our humble little broadcasts, we have identified some quite memorable characters or lines that we have come across in the Beaver State’s History. We thought it might be a good idea to post these musings in a centrally located place, to allow others to ponder their significance, or even add [...]
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Event Review: 4/20/2013 History of Marijuana in Oregon Bus Tour

The following review was penned by our Kick Ass Embedded Reprter (for the evening, at least), William Reagan. What a long, strange trip its….oh whatever At risk of stating the obvious, Portland loves it some weed. I don’t know if it’s the city’s unspoken look-the-other-way attitude toward public consumption, the favorable Northwest growing conditions, the intense [...]
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