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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>The next time you travel HWY 20 through Foster, Oregon,
stop at The Point Restaurant (at Riggs Hill Road & HWY 20, just east of
Foster Dam). The food is good, and the prices are
modest.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Now, as you look across HWY 20 (to the north), you will
see what is left of the land I called home 1943-1948 and Foster Lake. That
was part of the Jeremiah Shea homestead that was claimed in the
1860's.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>The road is now nice, smooth, blacktop today. It was
tar and gravel when we lived there in the 40's, but what was it like when my
great grandfather, Canada Montgomery, drove his freight wagon past this
site?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I'm sure there was no restaurant any where near there
then, and I'm darn sure you wouldn't make much of a meal with the onions Mr.
Shea sold. (Grandma Houk told me that they stopped to buy onions from Mr.
Shea.)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>So, stop at The Point Restaurant, at least have a cup of
coffee, and look toward the highway. See that wagon? That's my
paternal grandmother and her father going back to Central Oregon... with
onions they bought from Mr. Shea... across the road.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Cecil</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Cecil Houk, ET1 USN Ret.<BR>PO Box 530833<BR>San Diego CA
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