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THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE July 7, 2018August 26, 2020 by Jean Anderson

ANCESTORS (A RACY STORY)

Many people I know can point to their family tree and tell of their famous ancestors. I have a famous ancestor too. His name was Zev. He was a race horse.

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THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE July 6, 2018August 26, 2020 by Jean Anderson

MOTHER (GRACE MAY ZEVELY, 1895-1970)

I thought my mother was beautiful -- beautiful from face to feet.  She was five feet, ten inches tall, and she stood straight as if she were proud of her height.

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THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE July 5, 2018August 26, 2020 by Jean Anderson

OUR FATHER (A. M. ZEVELY, 1885-1975)

My father’s story is one of triumph over adversity--that is, until he was in his mid-forties and got hit by the Depression.

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THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE July 4, 2018June 21, 2021 by Jean Anderson

MAY FAMILY

CATEGORY: THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE PHOTO: LEVI AND EMMA MAY AND FAMILY (MOTHER AT LOWER RIGHT) BACK ROW:  EVERETT, HARVEY, CLARA.  MIDDLE ROW:  LEVI AND EMMA. FRONT ROW:  WALLACE, LULA AND GRACE. Emma and Levi May were my mother’s parents. …

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EARLY CHILDHOOD June 30, 2018June 21, 2021 by Jean Anderson

TYGH VALLEY

There was a house.  It was a small white house with a porch across the front. 

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EARLY CHILDHOOD June 29, 2018June 21, 2021 by Jean Anderson

DAYVILLE ON THE HILL

In Dayville, we lived in a house on a hill.  It had a porch across the front that looked down on the town.  It was in this house that Mary and I found a box of matches. 

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EARLY CHILDHOOD June 28, 2018June 2, 2020 by Jean Anderson

RUNNING AWAY IN DAYVILLE (1932)

CATEGORY: EARLY CHILDHOOD PHOTO: WE SAT ON THE BRIDGE During the summers, when our father was not teaching, he worked at various jobs.  When we lived at Dayville he worked at a service station.  It had a room with a…

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EARLY CHILDHOOD June 27, 2018July 25, 2019 by Jean Anderson

THE DOLL

CATEGORY: EARLY CHILDHOOD PHOTO: RUBBER DOLL FROM THE 1930's Somewhere in the mountains above Dayville, we lived near a saw mill where there were gigantic hills of saw dust.  It was a place where we lived in the summer time…

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EARLY CHILDHOOD June 26, 2018June 21, 2021 by Jean Anderson

MEMORIES OF SILVIES

CATEGORY: EARLY CHILDHOODPHOTO: OLD SILVIES SCHOOL HOUSE OLD SILVIES SCHOOL As the Depression got worse, our father moved to smaller and smaller schools.  The last of these was a one room school at Silvies, a tiny town in a wondrously…

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GRASS VALLEY May 31, 2018June 21, 2021 by Jean Anderson

GRASS VALLEY: THE RANCH

When I was five, we moved to Grass Valley in Sherman County.  Grass Valley was both the name of the town and the meadow-like valley in which it nestled.  Besides the town, the only other man-built thing in the valley…

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GRASS VALLEY May 30, 2018September 13, 2020 by Jean Anderson

GRASS VALLEY: THE TOWN

CATEGORY: GRASS VALLEYPHOTOS: GRASS VALLEY MAIN STREET (HIGHWAY 97) GRASS VALLEY FROM THE NORTH HILL GRASS VALLEY, MAIN STREET: CITY PARK AND ROAD TO OUR HOUSE ON LEFT   GRASS VALLEY FROM THE NORTH HILL The town of Grass Valley…

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GRASS VALLEY May 29, 2018September 13, 2020 by Jean Anderson

THE SHAPE OF THINGS: THE RANCH

CATEGORY: GRASS VALLEY RANCH PLAN I love farms and ranches.  I like to figure out how they are laid out and why, assuming there is a reason why people place things in a certain way.  Once when my husband, Bob…

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GRASS VALLEY May 28, 2018September 13, 2020 by Jean Anderson

THE SHAPE OF THINGS: THE RANCH HOUSE

CATEGORY: GRASS VALLEY PHOTO: RANCH HOUSE FIRST FLOOR PLAN RANCH HOUSE PLAN I said the main entry to the house at the ranch was on the south.  This was not the dignified formal entry which nobody used.  That was on…

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GRASS VALLEY May 28, 2018September 13, 2020 by Jean Anderson

THE SHAPE OF THINGS FOR KIDS

CATEGORY: GRASS VALLEYPHOTO: COOK STOVE SIMILAR TO GRANDMOTHER'S My intent, when I started writing about “the shape of things” was to describe how the ranch was laid out, and adhere strictly to geometry but memories do creep in.  It is…

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GRASS VALLEY May 28, 2018January 24, 2019 by Jean Anderson

THE LAND WHERE SUMMER IS — Written 1975

High over there beyond those several states of hills is a place I went back to in September.

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GRASS VALLEY May 27, 2018June 21, 2021 by Jean Anderson

FARMING WITH HORSES

When we first moved to Grass Valley, Grandfather and Uncle Wallace didn’t yet have a tractor.  All the farming was done with horses.  They had a team of draft horses named Blacky and Bessie.

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GRASS VALLEY May 26, 2018June 21, 2021 by Jean Anderson

FIRST MOVIE

CATEGORY: GRASS VALLEYPHOTO: COWBOY WITH TRAIN There was a movie theater in Grass Valley.  Mother took us to our first movie.  I was six years old.  There were cowboys riding horses up on the stage right inside the theater!  What…

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GRASS VALLEY May 25, 2018November 21, 2021 by Jean Anderson

THE PIANO

Shortly after we moved into our house in Grass Valley, my mother acquired a piano. 

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GRASS VALLEY May 25, 2018November 21, 2021 by Jean Anderson

WARBLER

We had a pet hen named Warbler. This hen liked to sing to the piano. 

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GRASS VALLEY May 25, 2018June 21, 2021 by Jean Anderson

MOTHER AND RELIGION

CATEGORY: GRASS VALLEYPHOTO: OLD METHODIST CHURCH IN GRASS VALLEY Mary told me once, emphatically, that we never went to Sunday School.  She and I do not have the same recollections.  I certainly went to Sunday School at both the Methodist…

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GRASS VALLEY May 24, 2018June 21, 2021 by Jean Anderson

JUMPING

CATEGORY: GRASS VALLEYPHOTO: THE COW BARN AFTER 1980 For some reason known only to God and my Guardian Angel, between the ages of five and seven, I liked to jump from high places. This peculiar pastime started with climbing onto…

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GRASS VALLEY May 23, 2018June 21, 2021 by Jean Anderson

SMALLPOX AND CORN CHIPS

CATEGORY: GRASS VALLEYPHOTO: 1930'S CORN CHIPS CAN When I was about eight years old, I “came down” with smallpox.  I cannot remember how this happened.  It must have been in the same way that I got whooping cough and scarlet…

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GRASS VALLEY May 22, 2018June 21, 2021 by Jean Anderson

GRASS VALLEY HALLOWEEN

CATEGORY: GRASS VALLEYPHOTO: THE OLD EWE Halloween!  The very word still brings back a secret little thrill of excitement--not for Halloween itself, but for the day after.  That was when we found out what the big boys had been doing…

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GRASS VALLEY May 21, 2018June 21, 2021 by Jean Anderson

LIPSTICK

CATEGORY: GRASS VALLEYPHOTO: AD FOR TANGEE LIPSTICK In our childhood years the emphasis for women and young ladies was not on physical beauty.  “Pretty is as pretty does” we were told.  So you can imagine our surprise when one day…

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GRASS VALLEY May 20, 2018June 22, 2021 by Jean Anderson

RUBY PETTIS

CATEGORY: GRASS VALLEYPHOTOS: THE OLD SHERARS HOTEL INDIAN FISHING PLATFORMS AT SHERARS FALLS Whenever mother got the chance, she liked to take us and whatever children were at our house (we all rode in the rumble seat) and drive over…

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GRASS VALLEY May 19, 2018June 22, 2021 by Jean Anderson

CHARM

CATEGORY: GRASS VALLEYPHOTO: MARY AND JEAN AT TIME OF BIRTHDAY PARTY. (MARY'S HAIR WAS SHORT BECAUSE SHE WAS ALWAYS CUTTING IT) When I was seven and Mary was eight years old, Mary and I were invited to a birthday party…

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GRASS VALLEY May 18, 2018June 22, 2021 by Jean Anderson

JAMES

CATEGORY: GRASS VALLEY PHOTOS: 1) JEAN, JAMES AND MARY 2) WE THREE GIRLS AND SOME OF OUR FRIENDS. HARRY STANDING LEFT. JAMES KNEELING RIGHT. 3) THE GRASS VALLEY SCHOOL WITH BOARD WALK James Hartley was a part of our family…

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GRASS VALLEY May 18, 2018November 21, 2021 by Jean Anderson

BEAR SPRINGS

In the summer time when the huckleberries were ripe in the mountains, mother would pack a tent and take us into the mountains.

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GRASS VALLEY May 17, 2018June 22, 2021 by Jean Anderson

CELILO

Whenever we drove from Grass Valley to The Dalles, we drove past Celilo, an Indian village on the Colombia River.

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GRASS VALLEY May 16, 2018June 22, 2021 by Jean Anderson

COUSIN EVERETT

CATEGORY: GRASS VALLEYPHOTO: GRANDMOTHER AND EVERETT JR. My mother’s brother, our Uncle Everett was one of the most outgoing, hospitable, kind and generous men I have ever known.  In direct contrast, his son, Everett (Everett May, Jr.) was the least…

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