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Our Mission
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Owners Kim & Ginny Billings Lewis founded Main Street Tours / Reservations / Concierge in 2005 as an extension of decades of love and appreciation for the rare quality of life we all share who are able to call the Southern Oregon region 'home'.
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Our mission is to provide the best quality services that revolve around a person's vist to our region. Whether it is unique lodging, dining, theatre, outdoor activities and tours, we work with families, alumni groups, corporate and association retreats, couples and even single retirees looking to find adventure in the Pacific Northwest.
Ginny's family were original Ashland homesteaders who still 150 years later live on and run the Billings Farm & Ranch on the north side of Ashland. Ginny's Great Grandfather co-founded the Ashland Chataqua Movement and building which later was built upon for the current walls of the Elizabethan Outdoor Theatre of the Oregon Shakespeare Theatre. Her father John Billings at 97 years old still lives at Billings Farm where he was raised.
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Our Staff
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M. Kim Lewis :
Co-owner & occasional guide decided after graduation from University of the South, Sewanee, TN where he learned to explore and study amidst the Appalachian Mountain Range campus of 10, 000 acres of native timber, streams and waterfalls. From the East Coast he decided he would "Go West Young Man", where he met his Oregon bride and is " still living happily ever after ". Kim is a published national travel writer having been a contributing writer to
the San Francisco Chronicle - Southern Oregon Travel Treasures, Ottaway Newspapers - ' O' - Cirque Du Soleil , Attitude DIgest- Chicago, Il.
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Ginny Billings Lewis :
Co-owner, is a legal assistant by trade, yet gave into Kim's wild, entrepreneurial side and keeps tabs on the books to makes sure the boat still floats for the company. She and Kim have raised two children. Their Simpson University graduate daughter, Leah, serves in Romania in Christian Children's Relief work for Youth With a Mission. Her blog can be seen at leahinromainia.blogspot.com. Their son, Chris, is completing studies in business and communications at Oregon State University.
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Michael Steele : Tour Guide, is a three decade member of Ashland who teaches at Head Start, loves to wind surf, snow board and moutain bike. His claim to fame is having played tennis in LA with the John Wayne family. He won't tell us who won.
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Charlie Neumann : Tour Guide, grew up in Ashland and returned after a corporate career in California. He and his wife raise Doberman pinscher dogs because he says, "they are so sweet." Charlie's claim to fame was playing the trombone and French horn as a high schooler in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival orchestral band.
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Kate Ferrara : Office and Marketing, came to Southern Oregon from the Bay area to complete her Southern Oregon University studies and is now completing her MS in Teaching. She just can't stay away from our beautiful region and works seasonally part time in marketing for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
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B J. Matzen : our Professional Birding Guide lives in Klamath Falls and as a native Oregonian got his B. S. degree at OSU in Animal Science , Fish and Game, then went to Willamatte University for his Law Degree. He's been past president of Klamath Wingwatchers, Inc and Klamath Basin Audibon Society/. He practices law for Klamath County towns as well as water rights properties and has a vast understanding of the regions natural resources. Says B. J., " I work so I can bird". We appreciate him being on our team.
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Reilly Lewis: Company Mascot and Guard, virtually 'lives the Life of Reilly' across from the Billings Farm, where he visits his cousin animals regularly. He chases balls voraciously, and we tell him he's helping bring in water birds that cannot swim yet...
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