COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL April 6, 2016
11A
Row River Nature Park hosts a
Pond Party
TEXT AND PHOTOS BY JON
STINNETT
The Cottage Grove Sentinel
S
uperb spring weather,
combined with the recent
stocking by the Oregon De-
partment of Fish and Wildlife
of 1500 hatchery-raised rain-
bow trout, made the pond at
Row River Nature Park in Cot-
tage Grove a local hotspot last
week.
Fishermen
and
women
crowded the banks at the pond
throughout the week, particu-
larly in the evenings, though
mornings were also a busy time.
As is often the case with hatch-
ery-raised fi sh, those hoping to
catch their dinner sometimes
cycled through several bait op-
tions to fi nd the one that worked
most that day, and fl y anglers
joined those with spinning and
other tackle in trying to fi ll a
stringer. The ospreys perched
overhead, however, showcased
their own fi shing technique,
diving headlong toward the lake
and, with a splash that sounded
like a fi fth-grader being thrown
into the water, pouncing on the
unwary fi sh below.
According to Katherine Nor-
dholm with ODFW, the pond
will be stocked with an addi-
tional 2000 fi sh this week in an-
ticipation of the Family Fishing
event set to take place there this
Saturday, April 9. More infor-
mation is available by contact-
ing the Springfi eld ODFW of-
fi ce at 541-726-3515.
Persistence and skill paid off for these fi shermen, who each left the
pond with a limit of fi ve hatchery-raised trout.
While popular with humans, the nature park
is also the home to many nesting pairs of
geese and ducks like this mallard drake.
Family fi shing
event
Saturday, April 9,
beginning at 9:30 a.m.
Enter to win 4 tickets to
WILDLIFE SAFARI.*
Canine friends accompanied many anglers.
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all over the state and talking
to doddering pioneers and Na-
tive Americans, saving dozens
of stories from the early 1800s
from vanishing forever.
After Henry had squandered
with hopeful recklessness all his
Navy money, Fuller Victor took
a job writing for Hubert Howe
Bancroft. Bancroft blithely ap-
propriated all her unpublished
research and put her to work as
a contract writer, creating what
should have been her life’s mas-
terwork to be published under
his name. She resented it bitter-
ly, but it was, in a real sense, the
price of her life; she and Henry
were now separated, and she had
to support herself somehow.
Fuller Victor lived just long
enough to still be alive when
Oregon’s historical community
belatedly realized what a trea-
sure she had given it. In 1899
she was named an honorary
founding member of the Oregon
Historical Society, and the Or-
egonian conferred the title of
“Mother of Oregon History”
upon her in 1901. She died the
following year.
Bethenia Owens-
Adair, M.D.
First female physician in the
West Coast states, 1840-1926
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Bethenia Owens-Adair’s life
story is straight out of a Hora-
tio Alger novel. Married at 14
to an amazingly lazy man, she
tolerated him for four years be-
fore taking their two-year-old
son and moving out. Then, after
returning to school, Bethenia
worked her way up from noth-
ing, taking whatever grueling
piecework jobs she could get
and saving every nickel she
could. After half a dozen years
of this, she had enough money
tucked away to start a dressmak-
ing and millinery business in
Roseburg. By the time her son
was ready for college, she was
making enough money to send
him off to the University of Cal-
ifornia at Berkeley.
She was now a successful
businesswoman, and most peo-
ple in her position would have
stopped there. Not Bethenia. In
1870, she headed east to a col-
lege of “Eclectic Medicine.” A
year later, she was Dr. Bethenia
Owens.
Again, she had reached a po-
sition where most people would
have stopped. Again, she didn’t.
Eclectic medicine was not main-
stream, but it had been the only
program she could get into as a
woman. To her, it was a step-
ping-stone to a “real” medical
degree. After some trouble, she
found a place at the University
of Michigan, and in 1880 ma-
triculated as, you might say, a
double doctor.
Owens-Adair’s legacy today
is tainted by her enthusiasm, as
a physician, for eugenics and
forced sterilization. It’s entirely
possible that without her ad-
vocacy, Oregon wouldn’t have
had a forced-sterilization pro-
gram for Gov. John Kitzhaber to
apologize for in 2002. But while
we shouldn’t minimize the harm
that was done, eugenics was a
respected and mainstream be-
lief back in the Edwardian era,
especially for physicians, and
it’s not really fair to judge her
by our modern standard.
We’ll continue this round-up
of great women of Oregon his-
tory in next week’s column.
(Sources: Aldrich, Myrna.
“Oregon’s First Woman Law-
yer,” With Her Own Wings, ed.
Krebs, Helen. Portland: Beat-
tie, 1948; Friedman, Ralph.
In Search of Western Oregon.
Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton, 1990;
Martin, Jim. A Bit of a Blue:
The Life and Work of Frances
Fuller Victor. Salem: Deep Well
Pub., 1992)
Finn J.D. John teaches at
Oregon State University and
writes about odd tidbits of Or-
egon history. For details, see
http://fi nnjohn.com. To contact
him or suggest a topic: fi nn2@
offbeatoregon.com or 541-357-
2222.
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