Featured Players and their Characters

Cindy English has taken on assorted roles as a History Player. Her most frequent is that of Edith Rehkoph, an early business woman in Grants Pass. Edith Rehkoph evidently loved clothes because she started out selling hats with the opening of a millinery shop which eventually developed into an apparel shop. Cindy makes her own costumes and could probably rival Edith in the millinery trade.

Roger Ramsey's retelling of Josephine County history is a family affair. Depending on the circumstances of his History Player appearance, he becomes his father or grandfather. Sometimes he is just himself as he tells of his family's history in our county and shows all the museum-class items his family has collected over the years. He drives up in his little red car and unloads over 150 years of local artifacts from farming to logging to mining. He has done many presentations for local school children.

Joan Momsen has chosen to recreate the first two-thirds of her mother's life. Beulah Momsen was born in 1908 and passed away in 2006. Joan becomes her mother and tells about her journey from Missouri, to Iowa, to Oklahoma,to Arizona, to Nevada, to California and finally, to Oregon where she spent the last 73 years of her life in Grants Pass.

Joan believes that since we now reside in the 21st Century that the history of the 20th Century is just as interesting as the 19th Century's westward movement and founding of Grants Pass. With this in mind, she becomes Beulah Momsen and tells the 1920-30 version of the westward movement, and finally Beulah's arrival in Oregon.