<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span><font size="3">I remember our doing Maypoles when I was in Grade school, I am the guy that when the musicians say to clap along with the beat there is always that one guy who is half a beat off so the Maypole thing was always a trial for me and since being runt of my class I had to play a girls part I always caused confusion to the oncoming person. We did ours in boy girl teams, boys going one way and girls in the other. I think that had </font>something<font size="3"> to do with dropping the tradition as about sixth grade my class became almost all male.</font></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><font size="3">But I got in on a discussion on face book a while back on Maypoles and most of the crowd thought I had to be a LOT older than I am to have done one of them. I guess when I was growing up you had to set your clock back ten years when you got to Cottage Grove.</font></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><font size="3">Les C</font></span></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div> <div style="font-family:
'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [or-roots] an interesting book<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>
<div id="yiv2072744397"><style type="text/css">#yiv2072744397 p {margin:0;}</style><div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Just to add to the wonderful story behind this story, Beverly Cleary is still alive, and living in south California - she will return to Yamhill and the Pike at some point - and the story itself is quite true. Yamhill was, and is, a great place to grow up, and there are reminders of characters from Beverly's other books in Portland as well. If you've never gotten to wind a maypole, she can show you how to do that!<div>'lyn<br><br></div></div></div></div><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>