Lola Yale and Sheri Solomon

00:04 My name is Sherry Lee scally Solomon this year. I am 56 years old. Today's date is the 7th of August 2011. We are at the Pasco Library here in the Tri-Cities and I'm going to be interviewing my mother and here you go.

00:19 My name is Lola Riley. Scally Yale.

00:24 And may this year I turned 76 today is August 7th of 2011 were in the Tri-Cities and this is my oldest daughter of seven children speaking to me today.

00:40 All right. So let's start mom. I want to try with a little bit of foundation about who you are and about the first day of your life. If you want to talk about that my mother never wrote match in any of the baby books, but the little bit that she rode in me. She said in the morning of May 25th.

00:59 I baked two rhubarb pies and that afternoon. I went to the back bedroom and was delivered if my third daughter.

01:07 No, I didn't know this till later on in life that she never put a name on a birth certificate when the doctor came out to Trowbridge came out to the house to deliver me. So it was later on that. I realized that she'd given me a name that created problems because later on you wanted to go to Germany and to get a passport and what happened what happened? Because you have your birth certificate. Well, I got my when I have I have a birth certificate but the neighbors name was blank. It said I was a girl and I faked it when I went to Mazatlan Mexico. I talked to the guy when he had a look at the birth certificate and he did look to see that there was no name on it. So I got through mainly I got back home, but I wanted to take this trip to my father's people in England and took over to Switzerland and France. And so I thought the passport I could just tell them who I was so at first I got some

02:05 I had to prove finally I had to prove that. I was Lola Riley. I had to call and call the school high school the whole school system in Walla Walla Washington State and they could prove that I was had been a student's here through there from all the school years until I left for college that there was a Lola Riley then that wasn't enough. I had to prove that. I was married and the mother of the seven children. So I went to Yakima to get my marriage certificate of your father and I so that could prove that I was escali Lola Riley Skelly and then that wasn't enough I was standing too since your father died at 46.

02:56 I had to prove that I was now married to Bob Yale and he was standing there right with me and I had your sister my fourth daughter Lori and two of her children with me that we're grandbabies. They still wouldn't at the passport place in The Dalles, Oregon. They still wouldn't just let me do this. So I had to go and find the marriage certificate I had to write for it and I can't remember what city it was to get Bob's in my marriage certificate. So I find it could prove the Mary's the passport was sale of Riley Scali Yale song Mother you didn't treat me good when you didn't name you then I asked her. Where did you find the name Lola cuz I'm I have four sisters and two brothers and she never would tell me where she found the name Lola so mother I thank you. And finally that wasn't all I get the passport information, but did not get to me.

03:56 Quickly enough so that when I got ready to take this trip, it was 5 days before I called one of our state was he a legislature Morris's office in Morrison knew your father and I had said I'm 5 days from getting on a flight to fly over to England into Europe and so by knowing my first husband he find all the information and next thing I know the passport arrive by mail and I finally caught it. So that's a lesson to you people. I kept all your birth certificates. You were all given name. Yeah that you would not have a problem. Like I do know you grew up in a farm outside of Walla Walla and how far was it from town? It was 7 Mi and because of this they had a little local school you and talk about your first day of school is a one-room schoolhouse my father thought that well, let's get you go.

04:56 To a school that's closer. My two older sisters went his helper was wondering school from where you know about for my tell my father being a farmer. He thought I would save gas. That's the safe time to take time to Children. There was no school buses at that time. So my father told the little school system. It was called Sudbury school. Well, they were ready to close their school and their had to have 18 students and I would have been I would have made the 18th. So my dad said, oh, I've got one more child that can go school. I had barely turned five and so I went to school that first that time when I was barely five in the mid-1950s, I was 35 or not 1935 when I was born 1940 just before the War years and so I

05:46 I never felt like I was younger than anyone else there was another boy that was in the first grade with me and they had those old school Des and I would sit at the front and he was right behind me. The next grades were maybe second graders. And then my older sisters were across the room and bigger school desks. And so it was really I was really not prepared to go to school nowadays is preschool and all this that I was right off the farm a little quiet little soul and oh I was scared to death, but I had to write on a bicycle as a passenger my or mild sister for miles and sat on the back of her bicycle and she was my sister was that say 5 years older than me cheap pedals.

06:33 And the sad part was I remembered years later. We went back to the school to take a picture. And when we drove in the head with a fire they get before after we have you sitting I was standing in the the trees are still there and one room school is really something cuz there's a pot belly stove in it. And here is he's a little Rose of a different size school desk but to go out to the bathroom. There was a boy out house and a girl out house and their little steps going up to it. So that was really something to go out and walk that distance to the end of the lot that in the winter time and everything everything in the winter time, and then there was a shed over to the side and it was where they some of them could tie up their ponies that could ride a horse to school. This was rare when I was going up mostly used for City kids. They didn't even know that I went to run room Schoolhouse. Tell us a different one year is that it's one year and then the school bus system came so that my dad didn't

07:33 How to take us to school so they'll just yesterday you were telling me that your father would also go around and buy up old buildings as they were becoming condemned or as people moved or whatever and you told a really funny story about about right, Crepes hotel. That's all right. There is there was a Farmstead there are set was empty and my father saved all this of the boards and things to build things like nowadays that you put Rustic Lumber on the side of your house. No doubt of this was he needed these Lumber and he went any time any business that have big crates and this one was about all maybe 15 10 feet long and by 10 ft wide and he just acted up there and with wood all around it. And that was where this was my stage this was where I wanted to plan all my theatrical Productions. I made some stairs going up and anybody that come by or come out to visit us on the pharmacy. I never went to the city. That was 7 my wife very often if I was just strictly on that farm till I started to go to school in there.

08:33 I would have them put you on the stage and Santana want you to sing this song or something like that. And I just had this love I didn't want to go up on the stage and sing a song. I didn't want to go up and do a reading but I wanted to direct them to because you had two siblings older and then you had two brothers and then it two more sisters younger. So they there was always somebody I could get up there to do tonight and it was about that time that we had our instruments are musical instruments so they could get up later and tell me about one day my dad. We were typical Farm people because nobody had any money if we had to pay a bill sometimes to a doctor we would just have a butcher to get with artificial we would give him a ham or something and that was pay the doctor bill, but one time my father came home from town he gone to the pawn shop and he brought home three instruments. He brought home a c Melody saxophone to my oldest sister and I was seven at the time and he

09:33 At home by trombone for my neck sister. That's three older years older than me and then he brought home a trumpet cuz he said Lola. I've looked at your lip. And you got a thin upper-lip you bake a good trumpet player and it was the best that he could have gotten for me cuz I have such a love of music We Are musical family my father played the sousaphone. He played other instruments and he also was a great singer in my mother was a good pianist. So we had our own built-in. You still have the pit right? I still have that trumpet Man of Steel play it up until I think we were I was in high school you would get up on the on the holidays and you would Pocatello and I think I only had maybe five at the elementary school for 5 year, but I would when it was like the Fourth of July or something like that or I play America the Beautiful or Star Spangled Banner used Al you stand there with your hands over your heart Sunrise. We did that and I kept and find me about when I was thirty-three. I think that's when I stopped.

10:33 Turning cartwheels in I stopped trying the trumpet. You've got to play it to play a trumpet. You got to keep the lip and it was a good amount of your truck and I hit sold. Ukulele and and then I I have a ukelin to that was for my father's people and a symbol. So what about that out when we get to Pocatello, you know, you've gotten married you had a couple of kids with moved a bunch of times but only move twice and Pocatello, but the house remember most is 1210 Willard right across the street from the big church that the LDS church located baseball diamond. Because when you talk about the stages about you doing Road shows and how you would adapt the songs and and direct and even jumping off the stage when you were here until I I was racing them Methodist Church, and I was always doing music with them. I played my trumpet even in high school and college

11:33 The choir the method is liar and sell when I married your father. He said I want to take it to a church. I went to when I was going to Boy Scouts. He wasn't a member of it and that's when I learned about the LDS church the world knows him at as the Mormon church and I didn't know that my goodness they singing they dance and they have played their instruments and they write what they call roadshows. There are like 20 minute Musical musical. I can't tell you how many little many musicals I've written and so they would always have court incorporate singing and dancing. It was just what I had been doing in the back fields at the farm because I would find a song that I just love your son. Remember the Beatles song Yellow Submarine only you change the lyrics you know that one. How did it go something we all live in the yellow stuff that you think it's like girls with curly hair.

12:33 Go along with what the road Show Theme was sand and soul that and you've you had usually maybe 30 to 40 to 50 teenagers that were in the but they called the road chose and they would travel around different places in the cities where we lived in so that was where I kept going with my music and then even playing baseball on the women's softball teams. How old are you on your my one hip when we lived in Moses Lake Washington that you were that's a maybe a year-and-a-half. I played shortstop or I played first base and when I was so I got my parents could never afford a ball glove for me. So to this day I have these crooked ugly hands because every knuckle was bent damage because you can't play shortstop and pick up grounders without a mitt. I was so glad when I finally got married that I'm going to go down and get me the best baseball mitt there is because I even played baseball in

13:33 Basketball in college and that was when when you did basketball at my age back then they thought the girls were not strong enough and they would stop them at the stones out of Courts passport until you couldn't go over that line and you can go just play half-court. And so I just love the running. I just love the running in the South were always evolving as I remember that you taught us had a little baseball league there in Pocatello, Idaho and the singing groups and it wasn't just singing in church. You also took the chicken the nursing homes. I'll never forget that you're traveling with him and it wasn't the Christmas times. It was many times and seen the different people and Performing. How did you how do we get him involved in that? I think mainly because when I was little I knew my great-grandmother, she live to be 90 to Louise Louise words Weber and I would go to see her and she had a pump organ that I was too tiny to reach the you have to pump it with your feet, but I

14:33 Right so hard and so this love of music and also the love of elderly she lived to be 92 and I was I wrote in my journal of the day that she had died when and I remembered her and then I remembered my grandmother as you children were born you 7 that grandmother had no one to care for cuz my mother had died early and she was in a nursing home for 18 19 years and I just it just broke my heart. I could never be there to see her. So wherever he lived your children were old enough Paul and Patty and and we didn't have David done yet and Lori and I play the piano and we'd go to different nursing homes. And then I had two women singing group at church. We had 20 or 30 women and we would go regularly to the nursing homes to call them assisted living or retirement homes. They were called Nursing Home San so but that was part of my life was sharing music with them living animal.

15:33 Okay, what time is flying with you a lot more to do but on this thing working with the community and doing things with the community. Let's get a couple of more moves and a couple more children and that take up some of his likeness of the town that you first went to do in your first married and where I was born. But we move back there later when Dad got transferred back there and it was also when I was at college and so I wasn't there but I would get a lot of newspaper clippings in the mail and not going to lie. I'm fixing to talk about what was going on because you were very very active in the community if that's still so active that you were nominated and you received the women of Achievement Award. And so tell me some of the things that you did there in the town was like about the first thing I thought I did was that when I started out when you were a brand new little girl the one school system gave me a container full of theatrical makeup. And that was the first time I Splash lime green makeup on their face as a witch and I had long hair and I ratted that out so that it just wild and then I had

16:33 Eyeshadow and I had gone to every school system and every city. I moved 21 time with your children and every school system. I would go to tell stories and what you can say library here when I was doing my hair and I tell stories and I think songs with him and so that was in the headlines on the front page of the paper here with this woman her husband works for the sugar company and here I miss the switch on the cover and ivory makeup and I'll just say yes, and that I remember the one the last time before we move that area there then a snowstorm and some ice had formed and it was Halloween and I was all dressed up in my bright orange cape and all this makeup in this hair wonderful beautiful hair and I pulled into the front of Pub elementary school to let some of your sisters off cuz I had children and every school age bracket right direct and

17:27 I said stop the car and then the woman behind me didn't wasn't able to stop and she's hit my car and I got out in my witch costume and it was enough damage on my car. I had to go to the police station. So I went down there full regalia and nowadays. We see people like that all the time, but they were shocked. I walked in there and I said well if I had been watching closer, I would have flown a little high with my bro and she wouldn't have hit me and that's all that was something that was tradition because it started with the makeup and that was one of the things was with the witch and all the schools in the end and it was a drought and then one time they said we need something on the walls of our gym for the lunch room for this children and was at same school that I had that accident with and so I spent a summer on the scaffolding painting all children all around the walls doing different things that were just fun and cute and I

18:27 Start in the morning when it was still not too hot because it would get hot there and it was like 5 in the morning and I work for 2 or 3 hours and on this Gap siding and painting and I think just donated my time until that was one of the things that they did that and then other things that I can't really recall a lot that when there were three of us up for this award a woman is cheap by The Ward and and I I did with it. So I was so impressed you and Dad gave cooking and food storage lot of food store and it was a sign on the front of the window is closed for business and tell us about when the neighbors constantly needing to go places and it was so hectic one day. I found a sign closed and it's just come back later. I put in the front window and some people came up and this woman, you know,

19:27 It would look at the sign and she said to her friend always got to come back when they're opened because you can't believe all the things that she has in this house. And you know, I had collected all these antiques. I didn't look at it as antiques. They were just leftovers from people of our fit my family's because the whatever whatever we didn't I couldn't go out and buy new things and there were just saw it antiques all over she's always got to come back when they're open it it was it was such a standing joke for years and that was a place where we pressed our first cider. Remember that to me. We can't believe Moses Lake go without talking about chickens to feed all these children and one time we heard there was a poultry shop a bit shop farm farm. Yeah, they're old leg pants and there they couldn't produce enough and there's Chasity couldn't use them for fried chicken really, but you could use a lot for boiled you can make lot of chicken noodles.

20:27 And saw your father heard about it. And so we had to drive about 25 miles. It was over to Othello Washington and we decide on the way over that we would get about two hundred and we've had just a regular four-door sedan car and we decide will just put them in the trunk but the one guy from church decided I'd like to get some chicken. Maybe I'll get about 50 and on the way over he says no, I think I'll get a hundred to we found out he's never been around a farm. He never been around animals never been around chickens know this chick has work just ready for you to fill out an app and yelling and screaming and shouting us why I called chickens being raised on. All right, we had to get him in the corners and your dad had a strangle them all and then we put him in the trunk of the car and we ended up with

21:17 200 dead chickens in the trunk of the car. We got back to her house and talk the in Moses Lake and it was on a hillside so that the lower part we could work on these chickens and I had to take the wheelbarrow and go up to the back of the car and then load up the chickens and bring them down. So I told you this wasn't Springtime or fall. It was really hot. Summer has decided the best way we were going to skin all those chickens and Salvage only the breast and some of the Lakes so you're two older brothers. They weren't too bad. They just loved it to see us got two chickens and pull out to enter else and they could find the eggs that had not yet formed shells on them until they had all these soft eggs. All right. But you girls would stay at the house. And I said you were going to stay in the house. You can't stand the chickens. You're going to clean so you clean collard greens at work lately. I told Dad called and that your dad would call you but I have to keep going back. I'm getting chickens in his like they were multiplying in the car. I could not believe they never got.

22:17 Your dad called you and say okay Sherry Karen and Margie Lori. I think I need your help. That's all we would dump all the internals. They were in big garbage bags where we going to take him. It's on a weekend and there was no place like they have. All right. So you went around to state parks. You went around to places and filled up their beings with chicken enchiladas chicken guts out for weeks afterwards not if you be able to put some in threesome, we had him all Frozen these the chicken breasts and the and the legs because I could just do them up for super for like I said when I make homemade little to remember thought using 6 eggs and smell mommy forgot. I was raised on a farm and butchering with this comment to me. And so this was all that was some summertime without us ready. We got to keep moving and we really did move.

23:17 Optimal just like we moved them down to the Tri-Cities and we dip train Kennewick. And this is a place where we thought we would never ever moved him. It's no reason ever to know because I never once we get the holiday only came out to the rest stop in Kennewick to get gas and it was 113 degrees outside and you turned and we were all sweating and we thought this is the worst but can we were in the house and you kids had shoulder shoulder head. So you told us something at that point. What did you talk to all you girls got out of the restroom and little boys they were fast and quick and we're all sitting on the lawn there and it was in the highlands here and we're heading out to Oregon to get back to Utah. I said to your children. I remember him fall in my arms and said, okay. Don't worry with a hundred thirteen. Remember you chill it. We will never have a reason to live in this city. We will never have a reason. All right. Let me tell you when your father said we were transferred here how many years later it?

24:17 Just caught me off-guard and then it ends up not only did all seven of you children find your spouse's in the Tri-Cities when your father died and I remarried I found Bob here in the Tri-Cities. So it was so prophetic and you never let me forget it and move back here. You know, this isn't this is home now, it's home, but there was never a sugar Factor here in Kennewick. So they're okay now we went to get to the meat of the store that went over here in the year 2004 the time in

24:49 I have 15 minutes of my life in 2004. You were involved in something that was very important that you were able to work with the community and work with many many people and I want you talk about how you got involved with this Kennewick Centennial and I'll just keep on seeing you question for the star talk to Mom when we said we would never live here again. It was ironic because in an 2003 it was coming up to the hundred year that Kennewick is actually a city and that would be two thousand four so they barely come about.

25:26 Oh, what was it? Because it was a railroad town with Pasco and all of this in Kennewick was just kind of where they had a farm. That's the strawberries. Yeah, and they had the cemetery over here. They wanted to do something special to all these years that I've been playing my trumpet and doing all these little midi music Halls. This was payment important. I'm so the community with a committee and they said we think we would like some Mormon church to go ahead and be charged of the the musical now, there was no boundaries. There was no guidelines or nothing and so they talk to

26:04 00 Fred Dixon and he was used to be an actor that performed back in New York and they thought well since he still doing acting here and and he's a member of our church that he would like to maybe be in charge of this and and Fred said told them now he wouldn't but he would find somebody and that's how I came about that. They knew I was approached and said now we don't know what they expect we don't know where this is going to be held or anything. So I met with the mayor and we had a committee of Civic workers and they told they started to say all we've got all this history. I have never read so much history about a community every place I had lived I always was interested in and what brought the people to these areas selfies 21 places I've lived and then this place all I said, we cannot start this just 100 years ago.

27:02 In 1904 we started in 1804 because reading all this I learned about Lewis and Clark Lewis and Captain Lewis Clark and and they had come through here.

27:18 With the Three Rivers this area did come through here and they had purposely stopped.

27:26 Either coming or going at what island is it will run in Clover Island and I started reading about him and that was exactly one hundred years before can I book was made a city and we know panowyk is an Indian name and it means winter Gathering Place because the Indians knew they would never live here in the winter. They they would in the winter. They would come down here in the winter time in the summer. Nobody would want to be with and the winds and salt when I started reading all of this and learning more about it. This was in May so in June Bob and I decided to take a drive we did the back way backwards journey of Lewis and Clark to St. Louis, Missouri. We wanted to go meet some of his cousins for the first time. So we went through all the high spots of where Lewis and Clark had stopped and what they did and such so on that way I started to write and I thought

28:26 Those two captains Lois & Clark, they're going to sing and I wrote their their song on the way traveling. I thought they have got to thinking later the woman that interviewed as for the article for the paper said yes, and the two men never fought and argued why they traveled and they sang in harmony. Yes, so I thought okay. I got that song written about their they're who they were and where they were coming from and then I let me got home then I started riding the information and more and I thought oh, I wanted authentic little Indian girl to play Sacagawea and we knew that we would call her Sacagawea because our park out here is called Sacagawea, but why we were traveling on their Journey Sakura's you Sacagawea was called many many names they pronounce it different, but we call our second to it. So I went out to one of the events that they were holding Frontier event.

29:26 Rendezvous and they had all of these different Indian tribes coming into Sacajawea Park for this special every pretty lovely tall Indian girl. I would go up to her and identify who I was and say I'm looking and trying to find a person to play this part and do your thing. I couldn't find one singer out of that group and sell as I kept riding. I kept taking both somebody else is going to have to do the casting it ended up that I did all the casting. I see somebody on the street and this one down. I thought oh my word this man looks like he could play this band Rosencrantz that he came here and put the first irrigation system to to working right? And yes, he did put you above so many people and then they ended up but everytime I report back to the mayor of how many times could you put back many times as many meetings, but that first I see who I've got 25 people then I went back and says, I think I got 75 when I ended up funny. I had 554 people involved.

30:26 In this music hall and what made it good? I contacted 54 churches within the boundary of Kennewick and talk to him to their pastors to see have you got a choir. I want these cars to come over. He added up that there was maybe two hundred that step forward of choir members. So we had a chorus of about two hundred of these 554 but we had first person people like Lewis and Clark they sang they sang a duet together Sacagawea all I can think about this little sixteen-year-old baby. She'd been taken from her original Indian tribe and Lewis and Clark and promised her. I will take you back to the tribe. If you go with us, she had this little baby Pompeii on the back her back here was a sixteen-year-old girls. All right distal Indian girl. She's right. I knew where she sagging my church choir her mother say so I gave second the way up.

31:26 I think that's about the Indian tribe that she was supposed to be defined the Indian chief that but come out of the Walla Walla onions and he was yellow up and I was asking some of the people that were in the committee and Sheet when girls hit my father's things and he's part Indian and he was from Arizona. Well, we paid his way to get up here and he sang with the big full headdress that I got in from the Boy Scout committee down here. They let us borrow it and because you didn't want you not only research research that you did the artwork for it. You did this the program the setting and all the way up to the fundraising which is very unusual me. I had never does you have a good summer. I I could not let go of some of this because people were on busy schedules and so the phone

32:26 I would take a couple little children with me that would sing a song that I had just written for the to talk about downtown historic Kennewick cuz that's what I wanted to do with Kennewick. And so I would have them go with me to this fundraising. I don't I can't tell you how many groups I went to and they would seem, the style when we will take you down to his storage Kennewick downtown and so is because the ABC streets we got the money to put this production on I didn't even know where was going to be held we had to decide that and finally approached the mayor and I said, what about the Colosseum and I went in there and post them on the we did it two nights on May 13th and May 20th of 2004 is it can hold six thousand people. I believe our Coliseum could that was before it had a name now. It's got the Toyota Center, but so all of this.

33:26 I didn't know I was told to write the script select the music so I wrote the script 3/4 of the lyrics and songs and then I had to do the casting and then it came down to the rehearsal time. We rehearse separately and I put a person in charge of each group has a rehearsal but I had to go to check each group. Nothing but these groups you had the Kennewick alumni alumni. They did one part of the song. Yes, and that was the one where we had the oldest person. He was a retired Sheriff of our area. He was 18 on it that time it was Barbara up as he loved that he did that segments that was novelty songs from three different family groups. And now you got to remember this isn't the Coliseum and we had chairs lined up there. We had Antica car club came and they were sitting in their cars in and on the floor there and then we had dancers coming up the the

34:26 Miles there and then also because the wind is so bad. I gave Sacagawea and her mother another song to do two ways to ways they call the winds keewaydin and that is the Northwest winds. Right and I did it to that song and it was so wonderful hit match this downtown downtown and it matched the ones with the the other ones that they sang we say why can't we communicate remember that so I'll wait Abby got through. It was such a big event for this community. You had some people riding original poetry original song you and Bob 552 people 554. That's what I figure it out and it was the best thing because the the churches were contacted and they came forth and they sang a special arrangement of How Great Thou Art all of them knew the church is all knew this guy.

35:26 But I had to get permission from a man in St. Louis at had given written a good arrangement and he gave us permission to make 3300 copies of that his arrangement. So we were legal that we didn't do anything wrong, but you copied it and gave it gave it to her all that and they are practice on their own and they practice on their own if we're about ready to stop right now. This was what was interested when I went to each group and we practiced in schoolyards we practice in church as we practiced any place. It was space. They said know how do we know what we're going to do? Where are we going to be I said, don't worry when I write something. I visualize the all the entrances of everybody the exits the lighting I can just see it when I put the words on paper all of this comes to me that I can see this so I didn't give him a layout. This is where you sit this is the number of shares. This is here entrance.

36:26 This is your music that's cute. So that you will come into that and we had to do this first production. Never never. Could we get the Coliseum to rehearse in advance? We did get it two hours before the production because the sound equipment man had to come and set up their sound so it made sure that everybody was on board with it. And then for the first time these first person people that came and stood as the Indian chief or stood his bed and Rosencrantz are some of this other little first pioneer is here. They had never walked up to that microphone. They just knew where their chair was and we had people spotting all through the whole thing, but it was successful. But so many said, we're Hockley do this, but it turned out that they got the picture and it worked out and it was one of the biggest events at the city of Kennewick only work if you had an aerator or a person in charge

37:26 Who could actually go with the flow who could who knew the whole gamut who knew it from start to finish who was the narrator month? Well that was hard because I had selected two or three people to do it and they weren't free and finally the one one man gentlemen. Mr. Dixon. He says Lola you're the only one that knows this and because they have never had rehearsal in the Coliseum that holds six or eight thousand people.

37:55 You're the one because then you can move it on if there was something that doesn't go right. You know, what what's going to do sell not only to start out just as the writer to end up that I had to direct it and passed it and produce It Again by the banners decorations. They had to have to look at these old antique cars of the 30s and 20s and then we put banners that put different tanks of the produce of this area. We had applicate huge Banner through a 5 by 6 feet in my my sister-in-law even Stitch those up for us, but we involve so many people I imagine there was a thousand people before we got through that we're all behind the scenes and on the stage and there's no stage in the Colosseum. So we had to make everything kind of work and we had a brass band thing. I thought if I kept my trumpet lip up I would have joined them.

38:55 And we had all these dancers in the when they were seen keewaydin Keewatin. We had dancers modern dancers that I want is your love that way cuz I wanted to be one day come down the aisles and they had these banners in these flowing fabric to represent the wind because if we did not have the wind in the Tri-Cities, we could not tolerate the hundred and thirteen degrees. It was probably the police Honor Guard you even had the police Honor Guard they came they ate some Washington State they were not just the Tri-Cities we heard that they were going to be in this area and I sent him a letter and they came and we posted the colors one night. It was the Boy Scouts we gathered every boy scout. There was March them up and had him sit sit down and be part of the show. They can wonderful and then the next time of the next night we did we had the vision they were wonderful and they were a big part of the show.

39:56 They were the only ones that we let practice rehearse because they are so precise. They said we can't do this but all these other people and these are all volunteers. Nobody was paid for this big production. Nobody 500. It's amazing that you had that many people involved all of the community networking that you had to do an olive get started in a in May when they ask me and it didn't come through and it came about the May 13th of 2000 on my birthday on your birthday and it was like carrying a child. But this time it carried it 12 months instead of nine months. It was it was starting out from a little farm girl.

40:40 That hardly wear shoes a little stage with with made my own of the stage with his crates and things and did my world my first play when I was nine and they performed it at recess time and cost to me even visualize the costumes every one of these people when they got their script. They had a costume suggestion. They had not only delay outdated so much with faith that it was going to be at be done. But you were able to see the whole picture and tell me by giving people different people be the last again, it was 2 hours and 20 minutes. So we didn't talk about the dancers and it just, you know, I went to the dance studios to go to the high schools high school. I went to their drama department and then took Blaine young people. It was still truly a community event. It was and it wasn't till after the first production that finally the paper said we had not an ID.

41:40 That this would be such an impressive production for our city sold attendance. The next time was much more so weak as we had a dress up the Colosseum either I had the guy called a balloon man, and he dressed at were done with all this was all donated and it was just to me like it was a miracle and like I said, it's 12 months labor of love will thank you so much. You have so much to tell if we have more notes Here. We have more outlines. We have more stories, but that's the best part is it when you can save these you can share them with with your grandchildren with your great-grandchildren because you are just a wealth of information and I'm taking this time today to be able to destroy a little bit. So and the main thing is don't let the stories go in shared. See that's the whole thing with all of your notebooks right with all this is just my notebook so we can do the music but I thought about it something else like that. You know, I just feel like this is such a good project to gather story.

42:40 Send to gather how people are in certain communities. And I think this is why we learn from each other and I have moved so many times how many times mom 21 and this has been since I was married in 1954 because you spent your whole you are at their most of my life, LOL. I was 2 years old and my parents brought me to the farm on Walla Walla and then I left for college when I was 17 because I started to spell bananas 5. So I moved here in 1908. Care to Kennewick. My husband. It said I we will never be left here before. He says will never move back to the Tri-Cities, you know that nicest. Yeah, I know that but he said one day he's we gotta move. He says I'm afraid I'm going to Hell On First with with Dad for years for her for years. And then and then get the camera.

43:40 Dad died and then you lived here 6 years and then we moved away and my husband said I don't I don't think I'll ever want to come back Well when things got rough he had we came back we came back in 1997 and it was just ironic and then they add that was a 1997, but I had done so many musical things and so many are things I do part to work and people are looking at your house cuz they knew you hear from the first time when we dealing with Dad and then before you guys moved up to yell mountain and then coming back so that they had new do me.

44:14 Is a up?

44:20 Happy to another one that or called it 1804 from St. Louis. We set out 45 adventurous men. We did not doubt up the mighty Miss Missouri to its starting place. No rugged mountains. We had to face across the Bitterroot mountains. We did go down Lolo pass to the Snake River below to Coweta with the river with then the Pacific Ocean where we could rest that posting cars and the other one is you want me to sing.

45:01 Keewaydin to win the Northwest reason he waited.