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Neil Vanderburg: Yeah, but I mean, he had a heart attack or something when he was pretty young, like 45 or something, didn't he?

Donald M. Dickey: Which one? Pete?

Neil Vanderburg: I think so.

Donald M. Dickey: I don't know. Pete was the youngest.

Maxine Dickey: There is another thing that you told me the other day, because Dorothy Johnson, said that [Unintelligible] and that Jack, her son had gone to school there [Berry Creek] and his sister did. Now, Jack's been dead a long time, but his sister, this one sister that she was mentioning is alive and could tell you about that. And I said Dorothy, I don't think so, I had them in school, I had Lucille when I was teaching school in Airlie, and as far as I knew they lived at Airlie.

Donald M. Dickey: The Hauges lived in where Joe Smith's house was.

Maxine Dickey: And Don said, when I said this, he said, she's right, they were there before the Dickeys moved in.

Donald M. Dickey: They weren't there when we were there. But they had been there.

Maxine Dickey: No, they had moved on to Airlie by that time. But they did live in Berry Creek. So this Joe Smith house, that's that house that's still there?

Donald M. Dickey: It's still there and a thousand people had lived in it I guess.

Bob Zybach: But it was always called the Joe Smith place?

Donald M. Dickey: Yeah. Far as I know.

Bob Zybach: Okay. Well, are you ready to take a break then and have some lunch?

Donald M. Dickey: Okay.

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Bob Zybach: Okay, well why don't we start with the story on your dad.

Donald M. Dickey: When I was still in grade school down at Yamhill, why, my dad had a brother that lived at Sheridan, and a sister that lived over at Salem, and there was some other people that were cousins or something or another. Anyway, we all met up at Sheridan at his brother's. And we were going out to the old homestead. His folks' homestead. We got out to the fence, and here was a big apple tree there. And I

Donald M. Dickey: don't remember what my dad said he did, but he said that's the only licking they ever got under the apple tree.

Bob Zybach: Only what?

Donald M. Dickey: That was the only licking he ever got was something he did under the apple tree and he wasn't supposed to.

Bob Zybach: Do you know what it was?

Donald M. Dickey: No, I don't remember now. Story sort of tickled me.

Bob Zybach: Is that apple tree still there?

Donald M. Dickey: I don't think so.

Maxine Dickey: Tell him about the time he ate all the peaches.

Donald M. Dickey: Oh ho. Well, dad and the neighbor down at Yamhill would go over to Carlton, or towards Carlton to pick peaches for canning. They liked a variety called muir, M-U-I-R. They were yellow peaches and they were a good flavor. So he and this neighbor were always competing to see which one could eat the most or pitch the most hay or something or another. So dad came home and he got sick and the neighbor, Bill Hankins, said he didn't wonder it, he said he ate 40 peaches. And what they'd eat was these ones that fell off the tree on the ground. And they were richer than anything. I much doubt if he ate 40 peaches.

Bob Zybach: He ate enough to get sick though.

Donald M. Dickey: That's what the neighbor said.

Bob Zybach: And, when we interrupted before lunch there, we were talking about the people logging in the neighborhood. The different groups of people that were logging, and your dad was one group, or one logger, and Tandy was another logger, and there was a couple contract loggers, two brothers, Burbank.

Donald M. Dickey: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: At lunch we were talking a little bit about the religious affiliations of the people in the community. And the Burbanks.

Donald M. Dickey: Burbanks apparently weren't real religious. In as far as I can remember. They were nice people, but I don't remember them showing up for Sunday school on a Sunday morning.

Bob Zybach: Did most of the community go to the same church?

Donald M. Dickey: Well, there wasn't a church, really. What they had was a Sunday school every now and then over at the local. Berry Creek school. Or if they went to church they went to