The Balm Grove Tavern. Photo: Chas Hundley COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION ORGANIZATION – 13 The first ever CPO 13 Potluck meeting was attended by about a dozen community members. At an event with food and Balm Grove slated to be the hot topic, this was a meager attendance. Per usual, we[Read More…]
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Column | Gales Creek Gatherings: Chick day, Garden Club, and Strawberry Festival
Sharon Hundley CHICK DAY!!! You’ve undoubtedly seen calendars with certain holidays printed in red. As a child, I would sit down with the newly acquired calendar, and after perusing the beautiful pictures, I would take note of all the “Red Letter Days”. Nowhere did I ever see Chick Day marked in red. It[Read More…]
Column | The Diaries of Esther Lilly Hundley: March 1930
Esther Lilly Hundley Sat Mar 1 – Clear & a frost. We did our usual Sat. work. Afternoon Charley, Dick, 7 Gladie & I all went to F.G. There was a sale at Smith’s Barn. We got home at 4:30. Billie & Elsie came after supper. Sun Mar 2 –[Read More…]
Column | On the Farm: Garden Starts, Oregon Legislature
Photo by Max LaMonte. Picture is taken from the tallest tree on our hillside. Garden Starts, aka Baby Plants Seeds need heat to germinate. Baby plants need less heat to grow, but they do need as much light as possible. Everything growing so far is hardy, meaning it can stand[Read More…]
Column | Gales Creek Gatherings: Gardening, church, and food
Sharon Hundley SEED TO SUPPER Planning and planting your garden, soil sampling and amending, container gardening, mulching, watering and weeding, gardening for health, cooking from your garden, and others are class topics in this 6 week course happening at Gales Creek Church which began February 22. Seed to Supper is a free[Read More…]
Column | The Diaries of Esther Lilly Hundley: February 1930
Esther Lilly Hundley Cast of characters Esther Lilly Hundley & Charles Hundley (written as Charley/Chas), the author of the diaries and her husband. Bill (written as Billie) and Elsie, Esther and Charles’ firstborn and his wife. Ted and Thelma, Esther and Charles’ second-born and as of April 13, 1929, Ted’s[Read More…]
Column | The Diaries of Esther Lilly Hundley: January 1930
Esther Lilly Hundley Cast of characters Esther Lilly Hundley & Charles Hundley (written as Charley/Chas), the author of the diaries and her husband. Bill (written as Billie) and Elsie, Esther and Charles’ firstborn and his wife. Ted and Thelma, Esther and Charles’ second-born and as of April 13, 1929, Ted’s[Read More…]
Column | On the Farm: Seeds, Okra, Seed Swaps
Photo by Max LaMonte. Picture is taken from the tallest tree on our hillside. It’s time to order seeds again I am going to repeat some of the material from last year’s column about seeds, because I want my neighbors in Gales Creek and Banks to have seed buying information[Read More…]
Column | Gales Creek Gatherings: Sharon Boge, Book Review
Sharon Hundley SHE SHOWED UP! Reporting happenings in Gales Creek or involving someone affiliated with our town is one of my greatest pleasures. And although it is no pleasure to write a memorial for a friend, it is indeed my honor to try to pen my impressions and thoughts of the[Read More…]
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