When Knitting Was a Manly Art

A couple rounds on the Aran, but nothing else to report so a few Oregon links.

First, a link to prove Oregon has “Culture” Klingon Karaoke

Next, our love for nature Mill Ends Park

And lastly, our need for entertainment Whorehouse Meadows and our need for truth.

In the early days, female entrepreneurs from Vale would set up facilities under canvas in an accessible but secluded meadow a mile east of Fish Lake. There they would meet the cattle and sheepherders as they arrived at the slopes of Steens Mountain. In the 1960’s the Bureau of Land Management issued a recreation map and in deference to the moralist, substituted a namby-pamby name, Naughty Girl Meadow. The United States Geological Survey advance sheet followed suit but in 1971 the Oregon Geographic Names Board took strong objection to the change and brought their argument before the federal arbiters. After ten years the old name was restored in 1981.

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