[or-roots] Winding a Maypole

[Dale Harguess]

My great grandmother was born in Cottage Grove.
Dale


On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Leslie Chapman <opera_70 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
> *Subject:* Re: [or-roots] an interesting book
>
> 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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