We have settled into Fort Yamhill State Heritage Site once again. We were here in 2013, and 2014 also. This park is about 20 miles west of Salem on highway 22 in the Grand Ronde valley. Once again Dr Dave Brauner and his archeology students from Oregon State University will be here looking for the history of this place. Continue reading A Step Up
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We’re Having a Wild Spring:
Judy and I agreed to take over a vacant position at the Port Orford Lifesaving Service/Coast Guard Station Museum for most of the month of April. Continue reading We’re Having a Wild Spring:
Company Comin’:
It is August and we are in our last month as Camp Hosts at Yamhill State Heritage Site this year. Several of our friends have already stopped by on their way back from the annual Church Campout. Everything went very well. We had just enough parking space for their RV’s and everyone got to tour the archeological digs that are going on. A couple of friends have over-nighted on our couch, and friends with RV’s can over night at the Spirit Mountain Casino. Of course you are on your own with your new Coyote Card. Continue reading Company Comin’:
Contest:
I am declaring a contest. This will be to celebrate the completion of Golanth, the Bronze Dragon. He is a recumbent tandem bicycle. We are daily getting him outfitted and ready for serious riding. I mounted a new bicycle computer on his stem today. And a new blindingly bright flashing tail-light on his butt. While we were downtown Portland today visiting my Neurologist for my Parkinsonism, we went over to the east side and ordered a new set of panniers custom built just for Golanth. Continue reading Contest:
Honor The Flag
Today, as part of our volunteer duties here at Fort Yamhill State Heritage Area, we greeted sixteen visitors. With the visitors help we raised and lowered the flag six times today. Each time we told them about the history of our special 31 star flag. It represents the US Flag that was in use when the US Army Fourth Infantry built Fort Yamhill on this hillside overlooking the Grand Ronde Valley. Each time I played the bugle and demonstrated the bugle calls appropriate to that moment in history in 1856. California had just become a state in 1851, Oregon wouldn’t become a state for three more years in 1859. Fort Yamhill was a frontier fort set between the natives and the settlers trying to keep the peace. Continue reading Honor The Flag