[or-roots] Winding a Maypole

[Leslie Chapman]

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 something to do with dropping the tradition as about sixth grade my class became almost all male.

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.

Les C


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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!
'lyn
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