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WPA writer Sara B. Wrenn's oral history interview with Cora Ayers Jamerson, a 'small, alert gray-haired' widow and retired schoolteacher and apartment-house superintendent, in her neat but cluttered apartment in 1938. Mrs. Jamerson talked about the songs and ballads folks liked to sing in 1880s Portland. Her brother, John Ayers, was, she says, the man who invented the cigar-shaped seagoing log rafts that lumber magnate Simon Benson made famous. (For the transcript, see https://www.loc.gov/item/wpalh001968/ )