Old Bright is a podcast made by Carson Ellis and Alix Jo Ryan. It is an ongoing collection of conversations that document findings, musings and curiosities on and around an Oregon pioneer homestead. The name is borrowed from a loyal ox who died on the Oregon Trail in 1852.

Alix and Carson are curious people who are definitely not historians.

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Carson Ellis is an author and illustrator of books for kids. She’s also the mom of two boys and the unlikely steward of a historic Oregon farmstead.

www.carsonellis.com

Alix Jo Ryan is an artist and gardener. She also spends lots of time asking questions and hanging out with kids and her grandparents.

www.alixryan.com

 
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Our theme music is “The Willamette Shore” by Chad Crouch.

The Robbins-Melcher-Shatz farm is located on Atfalati-Kalapuya and Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde land. The US government gifted this land to European-American settlers in the form of land claims during the mid 19th century, inherently and violently displacing its original stewards.