<div dir="ltr"><div>My great grandmother was born in Cottage Grove.</div><div>Dale</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Leslie Chapman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:opera_70@yahoo.com" target="_blank">opera_70@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="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>
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<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>
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<div style="font-family:"times new roman","new york",times,serif;font-size:12pt"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial"><br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [or-roots] an interesting book<br>
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<div><div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt">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>
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