Oregon 6

Listen to Oregon 6, a 73-year-old man from Medford, Oregon, United States, who has spent many years in other places in Oregon and Washington State, including Walla Walla. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 73

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 08/09/1952

PLACE OF BIRTH: McChord Air Force Base, Tacoma, Washington

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: Caucasian/White

OCCUPATION: retired high school teacher

EDUCATION: master’s degree

AREAS OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS:

The subject was raised mostly in Medford, Oregon, but, at the time of this recording, had been living in Walla Walla, Washington, for 47 years. He had previously lived in various cities in Washington such as Ellensburg, Spokane, Tacoma, Bainbridge Island, and Suquamish, as well as in cities in Oregon such as Klamath Falls and Independence.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

He moved around often in the Pacific Northwest growing up. Medford was where the largest portion of those formative years were spent, but he spent his youth in several other Pacific Northwest cities.

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RECORDED BY: Nick Torres

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 19/01/2026

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

I love the Pacific Northwest. There isn’t any other place I’d want to live. Uh, I’ve always been very active outdoors: camping, hiking, fishing, bicycling, and all that stuff, and the Northwest provides tremendous amount of that outdoor opportunity. Plus, the, the geology: It, it’s just always been home to me.

Uh, anything on the, uh, east side of the Rockies has too much humidity, so, uh, I like staying over in the Northwest, where you’ve got a nice, uh, range of — you’ve got four seasons; it’s wonderful.

Um, the ocean is nearby. I love and we love going to the ocean, particularly just standing out overlooking the promontories, uh, there. Uh, we like geology. We, uh, travel, camp, in our trailer, and, uh, go on explorations where we can, uh, learn and study a little bit about the geology of the Northwest. But we also like going other places too, but the Northwest is a special place, and, uh, I don’t want to go anywhere else.

Uh, wh-the whole rainforest in the Olympic National Forest is a very special and magical place. It’s almost, uh, it’s Tolkien, uh, in many ways. But one time I was, uh, backpacking in there and a, a group of, a herd of Roosevelt elk: Uh, it was — so it was very quiet hiking in this rainforest, and as a group of Roosevelt elk were, came up and just approached me and the two fellows that I was with, and we just sat there and kind of just communed with them on that level, and that was pretty special. It’s a memory I haven’t gotten rid of.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Nick Torres

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 19/01/2026

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