Thank you for the story about Sheriff Til Taylor. I remember and admired his statute, and as a child, spent time daily at Til Taylor Park. Back then there were two pools in the park _ one for swimming and the other was a lily pond. They were side by side. The park was stocked with games, croquet, baseballs and bats.

Our home was on Clay Street, now Southeast Sixth, approximately where the parking lot of the state employment office now sits. The employment office lot was a double tennis court back then, across the street from the park, and we pulled our sleds there on the ice in winter.

I was born at Memory Lane on Mission Highway. The land was bare then, except for our house that sat approximately where a garage now sits. So many memories of Pendleton, the Blues and playing in the river at Cayuse, Fourth of July picnics at Immigrant Park (Emigrant Springs State Heritage Area) and Bingham Springs. I remember when the bleachers at the Round-Up Grounds burned around 1939. To this day, I miss the mountains and wildflowers in spring, the rolling hills of grain in Eastern Oregon. I also have a share certificate of the Round-Up Association my father purchased in 1934, put safely away.

Best wishes to you, and all — especially in Umatilla County.

Delores Jenkins Wilkerson

Pleasant Grove, Utah