"stories" are the flesh on the bones of antiquity... so, Violet, if you enjoy the recollection as much as we enjoy the sharing, please do. ron (my 30s recollections are in another state) At 12:57 AM 03/05/2000 -0800, you wrote: >Violet, please allow us the pleasure of reading about your early days, those >spent growing up in what now seems to many of us like "old time" Wasco Co. Tell >us what it was like to be there in the 30s, for example...please? Can you >describe for us what it was like to attend Dufur school? The little snippets you >share about your youth are as close as many of us will ever get to having an >idea what the area was like when our ancestors were there. No doubt, you also >heard tales about your parents, aunts, uncles & grand-whatevers who actually >lived there during the time that they probably knew our ancestors. Most of us >didn't start this "hobby"/obsession until our elders of that era had passed on, >so your great memory and input here is very valuable. > >If anyone else has any similar stories to share, those are most welcome on this >list. In my opinion, the stories are the *real* genealogy. Names & dates are >good to know, but the stories are what keep me doing this. That includes any >kind of true accounts about your own experiences or those of ancestors in >similar communities and times. If we are to truly know our ancestors, we must >first know how they lived in each era. > >My grandpa & great grandpa both also had brands in Wasco Co., although they >weren't anything near so nice & easy to figure out as "OM" -- One used a >rendition of his initials, along with a "swallow forth" and a few other things I >can't quite picture; the other used symbols alone. I'll post them on the website >in the future. I believe my mother rescued these brand descriptions out of the >county court files. Is that right, Mom? :-) > >Yes, my mother is a subscriber to this list, although she's been keeping a >rather low profile (pun intended) lately due to taking a nasty tumble about 6 >weeks ago. Anyway, you should all know that it's entirely her fault you have to >put up with me on this list, since she's the one who lit the genealogy fire >under me for many years until finally, it was just too hot to keep sittin' on >it. Thanks, Mom. It's the best "hobby" anyone ever enticed me to try, and it's >obviously a keeper. I was lucky to have someone else start the ball rolling >before she passed some of it to me. Mom compiled a lot of the goodies that I've >posted and will be posting to the website, and she did all that before the day >of the computer, so it was done "the old fashioned way" without so much as an >easy way to erase the typos. > >Please keep those news clippings coming, Chris! Anyone with anything to share, >feel free to jump right in there. Oh, and one other thing...congratulations to >all you lurkers who managed to come out of hiding this week! Now that we've >broken through the ice and nobody lost their head in a battle, I think we can >all feel pretty safe about posting here...don't you??? Please, keep 'em coming! > >-- >Cheri >puny@mail.com >--->>>^<<<--- >Wasco Co., OR GenWeb site--> http://www.historysavers.com/orwasco/ > > > >==== ORWASCO Mailing List ==== >This is a friendly list. Therefore, NO FLAMING or rude behavior in any form >will be tolerated. Offenders will be cheerfully removed from the list on their >FIRST offense! Play nice, so we can all have FUN... > >============================== >Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: >Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. >http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ > >