May 2011 Lifestyles

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Supplement of the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin M uses Bard o f t he

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The Valley's people, wine & food.

Transcript of May 2011 Lifestyles

Page 1: May 2011 Lifestyles

Supplement of the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin

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Something Big is Coming to the Walla Walla Valley

The Best is about to be UnveiledThe highest resale and residual value of all

manufactured vehicles is almost here

Stay tuned for a very special preview during the Balloon Stampede Nite Glow on Saturday May 14 2011

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Tasting Room HoursMonday - Saturday 10 am - 4pmSunday 11am - 4pmOther times and private appointments available 866-486-7828

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The 125th Annual Awards Banquet

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Tickets are $42 per person

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10ensp reaL cooks Learn how Gina Medica makes her fantastic flan

14ensp Brix amp mortar LrsquoEcole No 41 graduates to a new label

24ensp muses of the Bard Lifestyles teams with Shakespeare Walla Walla to celebrate the Power House Theatrersquos inaugural gala

30ensp the presidentrsquos piLot A veteran at the stick Larry Adams has served his country in many cockpits including Marine Onersquos

34ensp art at Large The Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival is set to begin

38ensp secret gardens Donald Smithrsquos irises are a gardenerrsquos dream come true

42ensp ponderings No matter how Walla Wallans come to be here itrsquos home

44ensp canrsquot-miss events

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Editorrsquos CommEntsensp enspby RickenspDoyle

Union-Bulletincom

P L E A S E L i k E U S

P L E A S E F O L L OW U S

Play is important in Walla Walla the play will truly be the thing when Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo at the newly restored Power House Theatre this month Lifestyles is teaming up with SWW for an inaugural event that will offer guests food fashion and merriment in the Elizabethan manner May 18 Check out our cover spread for a preview of the event

Winston Churchill may have described golf best when he said it ldquois a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purposerdquo

So if you are going to pursue the sport it makes sense to get the best coaching possible Al Mundle who spent 57 years helping others improve their games thought he had put tinkering with other peoplersquos grip stance and swing away for good But that was before Terri Hanson convinced him to offer some pointers to her son Jake who was heading into his final year on the links for the Walla Walla High School Blue Devils

Jim Buchan shows you how this relationship has worked

Work to a lot of people can be repetitious drudgery Larry Adams never had that problem Whether he was flying into enemy fire in vietnam or piloting a helicopter for the president each day challenged his skills and preparation Adams recounts some of those adventures for Lifestyles

Skill and preparation are necessary ingredients for cooking Gina Medica tells how she learned to make culinary creations from Cuba Her specialty is a flan dessert

Dr Donald Smithrsquos specialty is creating an eye-catching garden of colorful flowers The iris is a primary element of his palette Check out his creations in Secret Gardens

Columnist Catie Mcintyre Walker explains how the original palette for the LrsquoEcole No 41 wine labels came from a childrsquos watercolor As the winery has matured it has decided it was time to update the labels

These are only some of the delights awaiting you in the following pages Enjoy

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you donrsquot have to be a seasoned chef to make an impact with food Every

day in kitchens across the country real Cooks create extraordinary meals

for some very special guests mdash their friends and family

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Gina Medica holds Osito her Yorkie

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 11

Born in Miami and then raised in Central Los Angeles by her Cuban-born parents Medica learned her craft by observing her mother work in the kitchen Of all Medicarsquos culinary creations it is her Cuban flan dessert that receives the most requests

ldquoEveryone in the family would always request it especially my nieces and nephewrdquo Medica says sitting at her dining room table the freshly presented flan resting in front of her ldquoMy bro can easily eat half of itrdquo

And the flan does not remain uneaten for long as i sit down with the Walla Walla businesswoman and her daughter Elizabeth to discuss and taste this delicacy Minutes after we begin our conversation nephew Nick arrives and quickly wolfs down two servings

irsquove already finished my first and am working on my second when we begin our conversation

LifEStyLES With both of your parents being Havana natives did you eat Cuban food exclusively

MEDiCa No but in the early days Thanksgiving was pretty different My mom would fix the turkey but shersquod serve it with black beans and white rice Wersquod be ldquoAh mom canrsquot we have regular Thanksgiving food like mashed potatoes and yamsrdquo Those came later as we lived in the States longer

LifEStyLES So the food changed as you kids grew older

MEDiCa Well my mom was always pretty good at American food but sometimes it wasnrsquot all the way like she made American spaghetti but she put chicken in it it was good but my brother would always complain that it didnrsquot have meatballs Now he misses the chicken

LifEStyLES How many kids do you have in the family

MEDiCa i have an older brother and a younger sister irsquom the middle one We didnrsquot have a normal childhood in the sense that my mom was a hairstylist at home and on Saturday mornings customers would start arriving at 8 And she had one of those big old hair dryers

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Open Daily 10 am to 5 pm1979 JB George Road bull Walla Walla Washington

5095205166 bull wwwsaviahcellarscom

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that you put over someonersquos head mdash we called it ldquoFidel Castrordquo mdash and yoursquod have these customers yelling at the top of their voice while they were under it So i never got to sleep in

LifEStyLES it sounds like your mother was quite a lady

MEDiCa i recently found some of her original recipes you know in her own handwriting One of them is for croquetta which was really good you take chicken with corned beef and grind them up bread it and then fry it itrsquos really goodrdquo

LifEStyLES Why do you like the flan so much

MEDiCa Because everyone in the family always requested it i make it a little different The way i make it it is a little more creamy because i use cream cheese itrsquos more like a custard Many times in Mexican restaurants the flan will be more jello-y This is almost like cheesecake

LifEStyLES is it strictly for dessert

MEDiCa yes itrsquos for special occasions

LifEStyLES Like birthdays and parties

MEDiCa yes itrsquos not light you canrsquot have too much or your stomach will start to ache

LifEStyLES Does it take a long time to prepare

MEDiCa Not really Making the caramel sauce takes the most time and you canrsquot take your eyes off it or it might burn

LifEStyLES Tastes like it didnrsquot burn

MEDiCa No i had lots of help My daughter Elizabeth (and she glances over at her youngest child) helped me a lot

andrew hoLt writes about food people and all things Walla Walla for Walla Walla lifestyles magazine He can be reached at bruindrew86gmailcom

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1 can evaporated milk1 can sweetened condensed milk1 cup whole or two percent milk6 eggs1 to 2 teaspoons vanilla extract14 teaspoon salt4 ounces cream cheese

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1 to 1frac12 cup sugar

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Place the sugar in a saucepan on medium heat and stir until granules of sugar have liquified and the mixture takes on a caramel color

Pour the mixture into a mold coating the sides This must be done quickly because the mixture will harden also use oven mittens so you donrsquot burn your hands

Put aside

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Preheat oven to 350 degreesIn a blender mix the sweetened condensed

milk frac12 can of evaporated milk and the milk eggs cream cheese salt and vanilla and blend on low

Pour out half the mixture into a bowl and pour in the remaining evaporated milk and blend

Pour contents of blender and bowl into mold and stir Cover with aluminum foil Crimp the edges of the foil around the mold to keep moisture out

Put the mold in a big cake pan and pour enough water around the mold for it to come part-way up the sides of the mold (we call that ldquobantildeo Mariacuteardquo) and bake for one hour plus 15 to 20 minutes

Use a knife to test done-ness mdash the knife should come out clean

When the flan is done baking let it rest and cool then place it in the refrigerator for 24 hours

The next day dip the mold in warm water before flipping the flan into a serving dish

Makes 12 servings

R EC IP E

food ltcontinued from pg 11

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Spring Release May 6th 7th 8thWinemaker Dinner

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The old Frenchtown schoolhouse built in 1915 with the stately bell tower still stands it has been a historic fixture in the Walla Walla valley that many of us have grown up with even if we never attended classes there One can still stride up the long sidewalk to the large heavy carved doors with a feeling of reverence and trepidation mdash as if it were the first day of school mdash while imagining generations of children playing on the manicured grounds

in the 1970s the old schoolhouse classrooms found themselves empty of childrenrsquos laughter But in 1983 Jean and Baker Ferguson breathed new life into the old building founding what would become one of the premier wineries in Washington LrsquoEcole No 41

The name was historically im-portant in two ways ldquoLrsquoEcolerdquo French for ldquothe schoolrdquo recognized the French men and women who settled the area and ldquo41rdquo was the numerical designation of the school district

The Fergusonsrsquo first crush of 1983 was resting in the barrel when the following year they asked their elementary school-aged family members to draw an image that would best reflect the new project

The $100 prize went to an 8-year-old cousin whose watercolor interpretation of the old schoolhouse became the template for a wine label it became an iconic label known to wine lovers around the world

in 1989 the second generation of the family Jean and Bakerrsquos daughter and son-

in-law Megan and Martin (Marty) Clubb became the new proprietors of the winery Marty became the general manager and winemaker and would lead the small artisan winery to new heights mdash it would eventually produce more than 30000 cases annually

At the same time the Washington state wine industry was booming and would soon become the nationrsquos second-largest wine producer The area would become one of the premium wine-producing regions in the United States

Marty also became a pioneer in the

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Washington state wine industry as he became a founder and activist in many of the wine industryrsquos foundations and alliances The family-owned winery also partnered with some of the most prestigious vineyards in the state LrsquoEcole No 41 has been honored nine consecutive years by Wine amp Spirits magazine as ldquoWinery of the yearrdquo becoming the second Washington winery inducted into the Hall of Fame

There is a third-generation that has grown up around the winery and will eventually become caretakers of this legacy Meganrsquos and Martyrsquos children Jeanrsquos and Bakerrsquos grandchildren rebecca and riley Clubb had their own meaningful influence on the label with their childhood drawings on the labelrsquos chalkboard image

riley is a 2009 graduate of Whitman College and is employed at the winery rebecca is enrolled in Washington State Universityrsquos wine management program and expected to graduate in 2012

The winery will soon celebrate its 30th birthday The wines produced at the old schoolhouse are refined with true varietal character and can stand up against many coveted wines from France mdash and they have Now that LrsquoEcole is a top player in the world of wine the whimsical label on its bottles is no longer truly indicative of the sophisticated gold and dark-red liquids behind the glass

ldquoLooking to the future we wanted our label to reflect the winery we have becomerdquo says Marty Clubb

This year the winery will unveil a new label it will still depict the iconic schoolhouse but with deeper colors and a new texture There will be a distinct difference among the labels depending on the vineyards used Wines produced from Columbia valley vineyards will have a soft charcoal-colored background label and the labels for the wines produced from Walla Walla vineyards will be more sepia-toned

Another distinctive change will be the de-emphasizing of the ldquoNo 41rdquo as generations of wine lovers have often referred to the winery as ldquoLrsquoEcolerdquo

The new label will be a timeless reminder of the past as well as a welcome to future generations

catie mcintyre waLker blogs at wildwallawallawinewomanblogspotcom and be reached at wildwallawallawinewomancom

Named Best Tasting Room

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Winery of the Year 9 consecutive years

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it was 1954 the year he graduated from the University of Oregon and two female students from the university were interested in learning some of the finer points of the game

ldquoit was probably the worst lesson anybody has ever givenrdquo Mundle exclaimed shaking his head in dismay ldquoThese two young ladies were looking for some help and i worked with them for an hour-and-a-half And at the end of that time i said lsquoi have done such a poor job i will pay you for the time i have put you through this torturersquordquo

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 17

Painful as it was the lesson learned proved to be a career-launching moment for Mundle who dedicated himself to his trade and spent a lifetime in the golf business successfully working up and down the i-5 corridor as course operator teacher and player

Fifty-seven years after that first teaching debacle Mundle now 79 years old is retired and living in Walla Walla He and his wife Ann relocated here last summer determined to give up teaching golf and spend more time playing the game they both love

ldquoAfter all of these years of teaching i feel that this is the time to lay it asiderdquo Mundle said ldquoi will still do a little studying of the golf swing and methods and i will be involved with some of the other local professionals in some cracker-barrel sessions when they get together to discuss teaching methods problems and how to solve them

ldquoBut i really came here not to teach but to play some golfrdquo

That was the plan anyway before he was introduced to Walla Walla High School senior Jake Hanson who was looking for a little extra help with his game heading into his final year on the links as a Blue Devil

Terri Hanson Jakersquos mother was aware of Mundlersquos reputation as a teaching professional and heard through the grapevine he was living in Walla Walla

ldquoBeing the mom i am i called him one dayrdquo Terri remembered ldquoi told him that Jakersquos golf game was at a standstill i asked him to take a look at Jake and he agreed to come and meet us and get a feel for where Jake was at

ldquoHe did and before you knew it they were putting on our hardwood floors The next day they agreed to get together at Wine valley mdash they were there for four hours and it has been an amazing connection right from the beginning

ldquoAl is an amazing Christian man who is so well-respected in his fieldrdquo Terri added ldquoAnd he just demands respect irsquom seeing my son of 17 all of a sudden growing uprdquo

Mundle concedes he is intrigued by Hansonrsquos character and potential And

Under the watchful eye of Al Mundle Jake Hanson hits an iron shot

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Hanson holds his new mentor in high esteem

ldquoirsquove learned a tremendous amountrdquo Hanson said ldquoHe has a way of getting through to me in a positive way He got through to me that i am so much better than i thought i could be He has more confidence in me than i have in myself

ldquoHe has one of the best golf swings i have ever seen and he is still working on his own gamerdquo

Mundle said Hanson reminds him of former University of Oregon player Ben Crane who now plays on the PGA Tour Crane has been playing professionally since 2007 and earned nearly $3 million on the tour in 2010

ldquoi was Benrsquos swing coach at Oregon and Jake is somewhat similarrdquo Mundle said ldquoBen worked harder than anybody on the whole golf team He would put in as much

time as three or four others combined and Jake is very much the same way Hersquos very dedicatedrdquo

However Mundle insists that helping Hanson with his game is a one-time situation

After playing just six rounds of golf last year Mundle is determined that he and Ann will spend a lot more time on the golf course as they get acquainted with their new hometown

ldquoThatrsquos an all-time lowrdquo he said of the six rounds played in 2010 ldquoMostly it was the move and all mdash a new house putting in lawn fencing shelving in the garage mdash all the little things of getting settled

ldquoBut this was a good move for us We love it here We enjoy the weather and the people you can walk down the street and people look you in the eye and say lsquoHellorsquo i love that friendlinessrdquo

Mundle grew up in Eugene and graduated from University High School in 1950 He knew he said from the time he was in the seventh grade he wanted to make golf his lifersquos work

ldquoyou might say that i had a little parental directionrdquo Mundle said ldquoMy dad went to the University of St Andrews in Scotland and he played golf at the St Andrews Old Course And my mother also played golfrdquo

After high school Mundle enrolled at the University of Oregon and played three years of varsity golf during an era when there was no such thing as a golf scholarship

ldquoThe only thing we ever received was a half-a-dozen golf balls if we went into a tournamentrdquo Mundle recalled ldquoWhen i went to the NCAA Championships in Texas my senior year i was given a new

people ltcontinued from pg 17

Walla Walla LifestyLes 19

pair of golf shoes but that was itldquoWe bought all of our own gear mdash

clubs bags rain gear everything itrsquos a whole different ball game today They have everythingrdquo

At the end of his sophomore year at Oregon Mundle had it in his mind to ldquotest my golf on the PGA Tourrdquo he said But his father an English professor at the university discouraged him

ldquoHe said lsquoGet your education first then you can do whatever you wantrsquordquo Mundle said ldquoit was just as well i saved a lot of wear and tear mdash and money i was an Ok player but not of that caliberrdquo

Mundle still has fond memories of his collegiate playing career however

ldquoi played three years for the university mdash you werenrsquot allowed to play as freshmen mdash and Oregon always had fine golf teamsrdquo Mundle said ldquoit was mostly match

play then and i was there during the time that the school went seven straight years without losing a (team) dual matchrdquo

During his senior year Mundle qualified for the NCAA Championships in Houston From a field of about 160 players Mundle made it as far as the quarterfinal round

He graduated in 1954 with a degree in history which he said he never really used

ldquoMy dad was in the top one percent of his class at St Andrewsrdquo Mundle said ldquoMy mother was also in the top part of her class and my older brother Pete was in the top of his class And then i came alongrdquo

His first golf job was as an assistant pro at his home course the Laurelwood Golf Course a position he accepted shortly after graduating from UO This was when and where the infamous first golf lesson

occurredA two-year stint in the US Army took

Mundle away from his profession in 1955-56 But he managed to keep his golf game sharp as a member of the Fort knox golf team and in 1956 he was the runner-up in the Second Army tournament and he placed 13th in the All-Army tournament

Then it was back to the Willamette valley where he came into his own in the Portland area under head professionals Eddie Hogan at riverside Country Club and Bunny Mason at Columbia Edgewater

ldquoThose two people were very influential in my professional liferdquo Mundle said

ldquoEddie was a very fine teacher of the total golf operation and service was No 1 i learned how to run the pro shop how

Jake Hanson takes a few pointers on chipping from his instructor and mentor Al Mundle

Continued on pg 20 gt

20 Walla Walla LifestyLes

people ltcontinued from pg 19

to market and merchandise mdash everything from how to run the club service program to the electric cart program to basically running the golf course

ldquoBunny was also a very fine operator of a golf shop and i also learned a lot about teaching from Bunny Sometimes you go along in life and there are certain mentors who help you along the way Anybody who says they made it by themselves is not being honest with themselves We have all had someone who has given us a little boost along the wayrdquo

Mundle took his first head professional job in 1965 at Overlake Golf and Country Club in Bellevue where he remained until 1981 At that point he returned to Eugene and was the head pro at the Eugene Country Club for three years followed by a six-year stint at the Bear Creek Country Club in Seattle

He also spent a short time at a golf course in Cottage Grove Ore before moving back to Eugene for a third time in 1993 to become the director of golf instruction at the river ridge Golf Course He remained at river ridge until his retirement last summer During his time there he helped out as the swing coach at UO under then-head coach Steve Nosler

Through it all Mundle served as president of the Washington PGA and the Pacific Northwest PGA and was a member of several National PGA committees As a player he participated in the Oregon Washington and Pacific Northwest opens as well as the Washington and Oregon PGA events One of his highlights was winning the Oregon Senior PGA Match-Play Championships in Bend in 1993

ldquoi felt i had an obligation to participaterdquo Mundle said ldquoi played a lot of golf including many many pro-ams and i won a couple of assistant championshipsrdquo

in addition to Crane Mundle also helped shape the careers of Jeff Quinney and Eric Johnson both of whom are from the Eugene area

Quinney won the United States Amateur championship in 2000 and represented the US in the Walker Cup in 2001 He has appeared in 128 PGA Tour events since 2007 placing second twice and third twice

Johnson played several years on the Asian Tour and one on the Nationwide Tour He is now a head professional at a

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course in San rafael CalifldquoAnd there have been some others mdash

Brian Henninger Mike Gove a few others mdash who have called and wanted to discus their swingrdquo Mundle said ldquoNothing on a regular basis just one or two sessionsrdquo

is Hanson his next mdash and perhaps his last mdash prodigy

Thatrsquos a tricky question since Hanson came to golf late after a budding baseball career was derailed by a shoulder injury He was a first-team all-Big Nine Conference golf selection as a junior but has yet to qualify for state and his summer resume is thin because of his baseball background

Hansonrsquos original plan was to attend Walla Walla Community College and play golf for the Warriors with the hope of earning an NCAA Division i scholarship But he has since decided to enroll in Arizona State Universityrsquos Professional Golf Management program and try out for the ASU golf team as a walk on

ldquoMore than anything i think it came down to him evaluating his goalsrdquo said Jakersquos father Gary Hanson ldquoitrsquos everyonersquos dream to play on the PGA Tour but realistically he wants to be a golf pro and teach He loves

the gamerdquoAnd a degree in the PGM program

will provide Jake with the educational background he needs to be successful in any form of business his father added

Though his chances of making the ASU varsity team seem unlikely the PGM program provides a club golf team that participates in a series of tournaments throughout the year and gives Hanson a second playing option

And keeping your options open is optimum at this point Mundle said

ldquoi think his driving force at this time mdash and also his folks mdash is to get his education And then he can do whatever he wants if he doesnrsquot go into (the golfing business) immediately he will always have it as a backuprdquo

Sounds an awful lot like the advice Thomas Mundle offered his son back in the spring of 1952 when Al Mundle wanted to leave school after his sophomore year and test his wings on the PGA Tour And as we now know all these years later staying in school worked out pretty well for Al

Jim Buchan is a sports writer for the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin He can be reached at jimbuchanwwubcom

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Join us for a night of wonder with elizabethan-inspired food fashion and merriment to celebrate the opening of walla wallarsquos power house theatre and prepare for a four-day run of seattle shakespeare companyrsquos ldquothe merry wives of windsorrdquo

walla walla lifestyles will present a fashion show with wicked and wistful gowns twisted braided hair and smoldering makeup designs designers include red eden designs autumnlin design and others

semi-formal attire creative masks encouraged this exclusive evening will enchant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fashion

to purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewallawallacom

530 - 9 pm May 18 2011

The Power H o use The at reS i x t h amp R o se Wa l l a Wa l l a

T H E A T R EPOWER HOUSE

My director Terry Edward Moore told me his only direction from the artistic director was that it be ldquoperiodrdquo that is to say authentic to the time

ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo is the only one of Shakespearersquos plays that is set in his own time so it was decided to present it as if the actors were people of the time doing what would be a contemporary (to the late 16th century) play

i started to research the clothing of the time how it was constructed and what kinds of fabrics were available at the time mdash linens homespuns woolens for the common people and silks damasks velvets and furs for the upper classes i discovered that Elizabethan society was strictly regulated in terms of social classes and upward mobility was a little-known concept Once a yeoman always a yeoman i also discovered the set of rules and regulations called ldquosumptuary lawsrdquo which specifically dictated what types of fabrics trims furs and even what colors each class was allowed to wear

Since there are three distinct classes represented in ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo mdash merchant class soldiers and servants mdash i tried to give each class its own color palette based on these laws The overall palette of the show is based on colors actually in use at the time

The availability of dyes was limited (except for the nobility) so the palette consists of many shades of yellows and browns russets black some greens and blue-grays and of course wheat-colored unbleached linen i turned to the Dutch painter Brueghel for inspiration on how the common people looked and dressed

i also researched what kinds of dyes were used and where they came from Dyes were created from all sorts of different things such as walnut shell crushed beetles and all kinds of roots i found a website that sells these authentic dyestuffs so irsquom using the real thing to dye some of the linen pieces and will coordinate the contemporary fabrics to these authentic colors

Nearly every piece will need something done to it mdash altered in some way to fit the actor re-trimmed rigged invisibly for quick changes etc mdash so there is a lot of labor involved Also hats were a hugely important part of Elizabethan fashion all the way down to the poorest serf

Certain styles of hats were often associated with certain professions mdash eg doctors scholars mdash so there are a number of hats to build as well as headpieces for the women No self-respecting woman went about with her head uncovered

Putting together a show like this is like putting together a giant jigsaw puzzle and the pieces are the costumes that irsquove borrowed and rented from other theater companies in the Seattle area such as Seattle repertory Seattle Opera and the University of Washington as well as pieces from Oregon Shakespeare Festival i design the show and then go out into the world and try to find pieces that approximate my designs and palette as closely as possible (usually with some reworking first) The pieces that i cant find and dont want to compromise on i build from scratch

deane middLeton is a theatre costume professional who works in the Seattle area She has done costumes for Issaquahrsquos Village Theater as well as several productions of the Seattle Shakespeare Company

ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 29

ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo was the only one of Shakespearersquos works set in his own time the 1600s and features Sir John Falstaff It also deals primarily with english middle-class life A hilarious bawdy comedy filled with insight into the life and times of Shakespeare ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo will delight people of all ages

About the play

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But thatrsquos exactly what longtime Walla Walla resident Larry Adams did for four years He was one of a select group of pilots for Marine One the helicopter counterpart of the presidential airplane Air Force One from 1970 to 1974

30 Walla Walla LifestyLes

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 31

Long before Adams became the Walla Walla Airport manager he was transporting heads of state foreign dignitaries famous (and now infamous) Cabinet members the executive staff and President richard M Nixon during one of the nationrsquos most turbulent times the withdrawal from vietnam and the Watergate scandal

But to Adams a native of Northern idaho all that swirled around the Nixon presidency was the least of his concerns His job was to transport the president safely to Andrews Air Force Base or Camp David or fly any short flight required Safety always at a premium End of story

Many times Adams ferried President Nixon and his staff on short flights far away from home Air Force One might fly President Nixon to a summit or a meeting with a foreign head of state but Marine One and Adams were always nearby to shuttle the chief executive on short flights or to whisk him away from sudden danger

Pretty heady stuff for a fourth-grade teacher who had never thought about flying until a Marine recruiter offered him the opportunity Although Adams had watched planes take off and land at a nearby air base as a child he had never given serious thought to flying it was more a need for a bigger paycheck than passion that brought Adams to his destiny

He liked teaching but it just wasnrsquot paying the bills So Adams turned to the military and the Gi Bill After being unimpressed by other recruiters Adams took a liking to the fellow from the Marines for as Adams recalls the recruiter took an interest in him After about an hour of talking the recruiter suggested Adams might have the potential to be a pilot

Having easily passed some preliminary tests Adams was sent to flight school in Pensacola Fla and a stellar career was ready to take off He performed well in all the aircraft he piloted but he showed a special skill for helicopters

Up until 1965 fixed-wing airplanes were the staple of all military air combat But the military had been gearing up for a big change The helicopter was to become a major part of combat The Pentagon had been developing helicopters that would do much more than transport troops to bases Now they would assist in bombing

raids ground attacks and the evacuation of the injured from the point of combat This new breed of helicopters would also possess the ability to fight back and not be lame ducks as before the new H34 would tote machine guns on each side

These cutting-edge aircraft would travel at unprecedented speeds with newly discovered agility Gifted pilots were needed not those who merely possessed superior technical skills but those who also had the composure to fly straight into

enemy fire in the dead of night picking up injured soldiers or aiding air attacks

Adams was one of those pilots and he would be one of two squadron leaders for ldquoOperation Starliterdquo mdash the first major assault using helicopters The Marines were going straight into a North vietnamese regimental stronghold No one knew what to expect

ldquoWe lost a lot that first time inrdquo says Adams ldquoTwo crew chiefs were killed

Continued on pg 32 gt

In this newspaper clipping Larry Adams poses on the steps of the helicopter dubbed Marine One which he piloted for President Richard M Nixon

32 Walla Walla LifestyLes

people ltcontinued from pg 31

four pilots were medevaced out because of their wounds i donrsquot think there was one helicopter that didnrsquot have a bunch of holes in it The one i flew in we got a lot of rounds in it Amazingly no one was hurt but when we got back the helicopter was so shot-up you couldnrsquot fly it anymore We lost 50 percent of our helicopters that dayrdquo

in the next 13 months Adams would fly many more missions often heading straight into anti-aircraft fire to pick up injured or killed soldiers He says he would see the flares signifying where the copter was supposed to land but frequently hersquod have to veer off because ground communication would say ldquoThe artillery is too hotrdquo Then there would be a window maybe two minutes maybe five when the helicopter could drop in and pick up the injured often being shot at as it waited for its passengers

Adams knew the best way to survive was to keep his focus ldquoin the daylight when you start your run in and yoursquore getting shot at Everything went to black and white for me i didnrsquot notice the green trees or the green rice paddies until we got out of there and then it would come back

to me i donrsquot know what that was i just didnrsquot see the colors irsquove talked to some other pilots and they described the same thingrdquo

in his two tours of duty in vietnam Adams would fly 880 combat missions in several types of helicopters and fixed-wing airplanes He received numerous medals including two Navy commendations for performance under combat conditions

Then the call came to fly for the president Before Adams could tote the commander in chief around in Marine One a thorough background check had to be done So thorough was the check that Adams said a friend from his hometown sent him a card that read ldquoAre you in some kind of trouble Jesus therersquos been a bunch of people around here with the dark grey suits and the skinny little ties Theyrsquore asking all these embarrassing questions about you like did you have drinking problem Did you have a gambling problem Do you know what Larryrsquos sexual preference wasrdquo

Adams chuckles ldquoit was pretty funnyrdquoAdams passed the grade and soon

he was flying President Nixon and his family to Camp David or picking up vice

President Spiro Agnew at the Pentagon or taking Secretary of State Henry kissinger or Secretary of Defense Alexander Haig to a classified meeting Although his flights varied from transporting foreign heads of state to flying members of the press the majority involved the president the vice president kissinger and Haig

The pilots did not speak to their travelers unless spoken to says Adams President Nixon usually looked in and asked them how they were kissinger never spoke Haig was good for a pat on the shoulder now and then but it was Agnew who conversed the most says Adams

Adams remembers ldquoOne time we picked him up at the Pentagon and we had taken off and had hit top altitude He usually would come up and look into the cockpit but this time he patted me on the shoulder and asked lsquoWell howrsquos it going today guysrsquordquo Adams replied ldquoNot bad sir and how about yourselfrdquo

Agnew answered ldquoMan they are really after my assrdquo He was talking about the press Adams says ldquoTwo weeks later he resignedrdquo

Adams recalls that his encounters with Agnew as defying the public perception

Adams far right gives instructions before a mission in Vietnam

Walla Walla LifestyLes 33

that Agnew was arrogant ldquoHe was always one of the nicest guys He was straightforward He looked like he had just stepped off the cover of Gentlemenrsquos Quarterly all the time He was very proper in the way he dressed but he had a sense of humor as wellrdquo

There were other humorous moments Adams recalls a certain reporter from CBS who had been a major thorn in President Nixonrsquos side was late for takeoff from the South Lawn of the White House one morning Just as Marine One was about to leave without him he came running across the lawn hollering and waving his arms The Secret Service agent supervising the flight told Adams to ldquojust gordquo The wind from the propellers whipped the reporterrsquos toupee right off his head and instead of continuing his run toward Marine One he reversed his field and tried feverishly to retrieve his toupee snagged in the hedges

ldquoEveryone got a pretty good chuckle out of thatrdquo

Of course there were somber times At one point Adams flew Cabinet members John Ehrlichman and Hr Haldeman to Camp David for a meeting with the president After only 15 minutes the two men returned and Marine One headed home Adams says it was a quiet flight He found out later the two men had been fired by President Nixon for their parts in the Watergate scandal

Whisking the president away from danger was a major part of being a pilot of Marine One Stationed across the river from the Capitol pilots awakened by an emergency alert had to be up in the air in five minutes This exercise was practiced often though never needed during Adamsrsquo tenure

One night however they thought it was The operator at the White House mistakenly hit the ldquoAlertrdquo button Marine One was in the air in five minutes

Although ground control had not spotted any enemy aircraft the operation was under way As Marine One closed in on the White House the operator at fault tried to alert everyone of his mistake but unfortunately used a poor choice of words to call off the operation

Adams chuckles as he says ldquoThe fella said lsquoThis is not an exercisersquo He was moved to another post i thinkrdquo

All levity aside the position required

the same kind of focus demanded of Adams in vietnam though it came in a different form

ldquoThere were three things the way you operated the aircraft and they were in this order safety comfort and speed Safety never gave in to comfort or speedrdquo says Adams ldquoOur job was just concentrating on doing our job it could have been anybody mdash we would do it the same way it could have been Fred Flintstone

ldquoThe difference between flying for the White House and in vietnam was we were flying a premier aircraft We had to keep it impeccably clean everything was scripted We had to have the lsquoopen-the-door timersquo down to two to four seconds in vietnam it was the stress of performing medevacs under fire or dropping troops under heavy artillery For Marine One it was the stress of doing the job rightrdquo

Also the stress of being away from onersquos family 200 days of the year wore on a Marine One pilot in 1974 after four years on the job the toll became too much and Adams stepped down

He would stay with the Marines for eight more years retiring in August 1982

By then he had received 44 Air Medals including the Joint Service Commendation and the Presidential Service Badge in his 20 years of service Adams flew seven different helicopters and five different fixed-wing planes

What makes an elite military pilot ldquoPilots who donrsquot have any misgivingsrdquo says Adams ldquoTheyrsquore totally prepared they know their aircraftrdquo

When talking about his colleagues on Marine One he adds ldquoNone were boasters They might brag about a great landing but they did not brag in spite of someone elserdquo

What did Adams love most about his flying days ldquoi enjoyed flying with the latest technology and the pristine quality of Marine One i loved the process of building my skills i could have flown another 40 years and i would still be learning thingsrdquo

is it any surprise his favorite hobby now is fly fishing

andrew hoLt writes about food people and all things Walla Walla for Walla Walla lifestyles magazine He can be reached at bruindrew86gmailcom

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it is astonishing in many ways mdash that we are presented with two weeks of top-drawer music performed by top-drawer musi-cians that there are so many ways to encounter the music (many of them free) and that a rural community has provided the incu-

bator for such a cultural undertaking to name but a fewGranted we are not your average rural community having two

colleges a university a symphony a choral society a community band and music in the schools but letrsquos face it wersquore not exactly a cosmopolitan center of culture like New york either The Cham-ber Music Festival mdash and our continued support of it through some tough times mdash puts us in a category all our own

ldquoi saw what was special about this community the first time i visited in 2007rdquo Artistic Director Timothy Christie says ldquoi have

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A young artistic composer pays close attention as Tim Christie uses his violin to interpret the boys piece of artwork into music on June 11 2009 Meanwhile other children work on their works of art in preparation for the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival quintets interpretations

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worked hard to start this event and to my great joy it has taken on an iden-tity of its own i hire the musicians and choose the music but the town its people and its environs make the festivalrdquo

The beauty of chamber music is its intimacy mdash smaller ensembles performing for smaller audiences it has been referred to as ldquothe music of friendsrdquo which seems so apt at this festival Free open rehearsals are held around town that provide not only a musical atmosphere in which to enjoy a latte or the ambiance of the kirkman House but which give a richer look into the machinations of a working ensemble

As one enthusiastic fan puts it ldquoi am not a musician and itrsquos fascinat-ing to watch these rehearsals to see the interactions of the musicians as they work out the snags make wry remarks and relate to each other in a whole different way than during a for-mal performance i get a glimpse into their personalities and what makes them tickrdquo

The festival supplies a generous of-fering of venues with free concerts for children and families relaxed evening programs at wineries and full concerts at the Foundry Chism Hall and Day-tonrsquos Liberty Theater

if you are lucky enough to live near the musiciansrsquo lodgings while they are in town you may also be treated to an ad hoc front-porch concert as the ensembles continue their rehearsals in more private settings The festival is about all of these ways mdash planned and accidental mdash to experience the enchantment of chamber music

it is also about historic continuity and the connection between past and present mdash relishing the existing canon while expanding the genre with con-temporary forms and voices

How is this accomplished in part by the annual commission of a new piece of music for the festival Chris-tie is committed to contributing to the broader chamber music repertoire and to providing the audience with the richest possible experience

Continued on pg 36 gt

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ldquoFor classical music to be relevant there must be a conversation between the music of our time and the music of the pastrdquo he says

By commissioning a work for the festi-val each year Christie creates such a con-versation

This year the commission was given to John David Earnest Four festival commis-sions have preceded his and he is the sec-ond ldquolocalrdquo composer to be tapped add-ing another layer of relationship between community and event (in 2009 Whitman College professor David Glenn was given the nod)

As visiting adjunct professor of music at Whitman Earnest resides here for six weeks every semester His ldquoSecond Sym-phonyrdquo was written for and performed by the Walla Walla Symphony in October 2001

The challenge for the yearly commis-sionee is to compose a piece on demand within specific constraints of time place and instrumentation while expressing hisher own voice as an artist

Earnest has created ldquoCommedia Gal-leryrdquo a set of three movements for flute

viola and harp based on stock characters from the Commedia dellrsquoArte a popu-lar theatrical form that was influential in Europe for over 300 years Commedia characters improvised dialogue around set scenarios generally involving the struggles of young lovers to overcome hindrances to their romance and each character even-tually came to have a consistent set of at-tributes in speech mannerisms and cos-tume

Earnestrsquos ldquoGalleryrdquo gives us Arlecchi-no (Harlequin) an acrobatic and devious jester Pierrot the classic sad clown and finally Scaramouche a dandy and a brag-gart who is a coward at heart

in anticipation of this yearrsquos festival i am reminded of the scene in ldquoThe Music Manrdquo in which the town awaits the ar-rival of the Wells Fargo Wagon Potentially heaped with gifts and surprises it prom-ises connection to the larger world The WWCMF brings us all ldquosomethinrsquo specialrdquo mdash an enrichment of our community and our culture

margaret Jamison is an artist and writer living in Walla Walla Contact her at artjamisongmailcom

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Smith has gardened for years at his home at 38 Mulberry Court in College Place He used to grow vegetables and flowers now he is strictly focusing on flowers mdash with fabulous results roses delphiniums and lots of irises line the fence

ldquoirises mdash irsquove always enjoyed themrdquo he says ldquoThey take a little bit of weeding and watering but not much morerdquo itrsquos the gardenerrsquos dream mdash low maintenance with a big return

A retired orthopedic surgeon Smith has in the past gardened more extensively than he does now But he has enough plants to keep him busy His new project is planting more of the reblooming iris These are still hardy but you get twice the reward they bloom in the spring then again in the fall

ldquoTheyrsquore easy to grow and spectacular for a short time iris take less care than a lot of thingsrdquo Smith says

His secret for gardening is simple and therersquos no getting around it ldquoTime and workrdquo he laughs

Hersquos getting ready to start in the garden ldquoi need to clean out the leaves and the old foliage of the irisrdquo

in addition to the basic cleaning and maintenance Smith just decides how many plants to keep Bulb flowers are hardy and they multiply on their own

ldquoAfter five years you usually have to separate the bulbs when they get too thick i donrsquot have room to add more i put in the new re-blooming onesrdquo he explains ldquoi may add more and a few other thingsrdquo

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itrsquos an odd location since it can only be seen as yoursquore leaving town but it always makes me smile This valley my adopted home is indeed a great place to be

i recently finished reading the great Western writer Wallace Stegnerrsquos book ldquoThe Sound of Mountain Waterrdquo One of his essays traces his nomadic childhood which left him feeling rootless and without a place that he felt he could call home

i identify with his feeling of not belonging i was born to a single woman from Massachusetts in a New york City hospital i stayed a scant few days before being placed with an adoption agency Born in a place i had no familial connection to i was immediately deprived of my biological family Most of my childhood was spent in suburban Cleveland Ohio Moves to upstate New york New England and Pennsylvania brought me no closer to calling any place home i loved living in the western Massachusetts town of Stockbridge but the multigenerational denizens of the town left few openings for newcomers like me i lived in central Pennsylvania for several decades but felt detached from the deep roots that most people had in the area

When we came west (for my husband a homecoming to his Oregon roots for me a new experience) i noticed that even in long-established towns like Walla Walla there is ample room for newcomers who want to be

part of the community And most folks who choose to come here donrsquot seem to want to change the valley they prefer to embrace it

While the occasional newbie whines about the lack of Whole Foods or Nordstrom they soon discover our farmers markets the wide variety of local shops and boutiques and our world-class restaurants They fall in love with our charming downtowns the small-town friendliness of the people and our kid-friendly environment Then therersquos the holiday parade the fair the ever-present Blue Mountains the parks the museums the wineries mdash really whatrsquos not to like The communities of our valley represent America at its best

irsquom a newspaper junkie i love to read everything from news to sports to classifieds mdash even the obituaries The obits are a fascinating window on our valley Many of the people chronicled were born here some lived all their lives here inextricably bound to this place But a number of people came here from other places often far away and have made a mark on our area Which makes me wonder mdash is a place any less of a hometown because you choose it or is it based primarily on the happenstance of your birth it seems that therersquos room for both paths to calling this wonderful valley home

itrsquos also our strength because collectively as a community we bring both deep familial and cultural traditions as well as the fresh perspective of newcomers to our area irsquom glad mdash after decades of searching mdash that i finally found my hometown a place that feels just right

diane reed can be reached at ladybookearthlinknet Between columns and when the spirit moves her she blogs at wwwponderingsbydianereedblogspotcom from her home overlooking the pond at lions Park in College Place

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Maymay 1The annual Kennel Club Dog Show Walla Walla County Fairgrounds De-tails 509-558-3854

The Walla Walla University Drama Department pres-ents a performance of ldquoMy Fair ladyrdquo 2 pm matinee Details 509-527-2656

The Walla Walla Choral Society presents ldquoJubilate Deordquo 3 pm May 1 Walla Walla University Church College Place Details 509-386-2445

The Walla Walla Valley Farmers Market opens local produce artisans and an outdoor concert 9 am-1 pm Saturdays and Sundays through Oct 30 Crawford Park Fourth ave and Main St Details gowallawallafarmersmar-ketcom or 509-520-3647

through may 22Enjoy the annual Senior art Thesis Exhibition Sheehan Gallery Whitman College Details 509-527-5249

through JuLy 31The Tamaacutestslikt Cultural In-stitute hosts the traveling OMSI exhibit ldquoamazing Feats of agingrdquo explor-ing the mysteries of why animals and humans age Details 541-966-9748

may 4The YWCa leadership luncheon ldquoMatters that Matterrdquo is informational and inspirational with guest speakers Kristine Van Raden and Molly Da-vis Noon Marcus Whit-man Hotel Details 509-525-2570

Walla Walla Wine Works hosts music on Wednes-days downtown Details 509-522-1261

may 5First Thursday Concert at St Pauls Episcopal Church 323 Catherine Street Walla Walla 1215-1250 pm will feature the Steel Drum Band from Walla Walla Uni-versity directed by Brandon Beck Details 529-1083

The Whitman College Visit-ing Writers Reading series presents Whitman Reading 7 pm Kimball Theatre De-tails whitmanedu

may 5-7 12-14Walla Walla High School Drama Department pres-ents ldquoFiddler on the Roofrdquo musical version 7 pm and 2 pm matinee on Saturdays May 7 and 14 Walla Walla High School Performing arts audito-rium Details Tickets can be reserved by calling 509-526-8613 the Wa-Hi box office

may 5-8 19-21a performance of ldquoThe 25th a nnua l Putnam County Spelling Beerdquo 8 pm Harper Joy Theatre Whitman College Details 509-527-5180

may 6-7Music on the weekends at the Backstage Bistro De-tails 509-526-0690

Sapolil Cellars hosts music on Friday and Saturday De-tails 509-520-5258

The Wildfire hosts music every Friday and Saturday Wildhorse Resort amp Casino Pendleton Details 800-654-9453

may 6-8Walla Walla Valley Winer-ies offer an opportunity to taste their new creations during Spring Release Weekend area wineries introduce new wines and winemakers share their creative inspiration Details 509-526-3117

may 6artWalK First Fridays May through December Visit galleries and chat with art-ists 5-8 pm Downtown Walla Walla Visit artwalk-wallawallacom

may 6-8 13-14The little Theatre presents ldquoalice In Wonderlandrdquo adapted from lewis Carroll 8 pm Friday-Saturday 2 pm Sunday little Theatre of Walla Walla Details 509-529-3683

may 7The annual Junior Horse Show brings great riding action to Milton-Freewater Pioneer Posse Grounds Details 541-938-3379

Daytonrsquos annual Street Sale turns a section of Third Street into a giant yard sale benefits churches and com-munity projects Dayton Details 509-382-4825

artist reception and dem-onstration Washington art-ist Dwight Duke exhibits his painting bronze sculptures and gunpowder light pan-els 6-730 pm Reininger Winery Details 509-522-1994

may 8Every Sunday the living History actors portray in-dividuals from the arearsquos past 2 pm Fort Walla Walla Museum Details 509-525-7703

may 13-15The annual Balloon Stam-pede brings as many as 50 hot-air balloons to the Walla Walla County Fairgrounds This colorful festival re-mains a Valley tradition Ear-ly morning flights (weather permitting) arts amp crafts antique autos commercial booths live entertainment and food Balloons light up to music at the Saturday evening Nite Glow Details 509-525-0850

may 14annual adult event cele-brates the characters who populated Pendletonrsquos past Must have reservations Pendleton Underground Tours Details 800-226-6398

may 14-15 may 27-29Walla Walla Drag Strip con-tinues the weekend fun Details wwdragstripcom or 509-200-6287

may 15Walla Walla University Chamber Series featuring Robyn McCabe 730 pm MKW Fine arts auditorium Details 509-527-2571

may 18To celebrate the opening of Walla Wallarsquos Power House Theatre and a four-day run of Seattle Shakespeare Companyrsquos ldquoThe Merry Wives of WindsorrdquoWalla Walla lifestyles will pres-ent a gala event This exclusive evening will en-chant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fash-ion from 530-9 pm at the Power House Theatre Sixth amp Rose Walla Walla To purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewalla-wallacom

may 19-21During Pendletonrsquos Cattle Baron Weekend enjoy an art exhibit by a talented group of women artists ldquoIn the Company of Cowgirlsrdquo Hamleyrsquos Steakhouse Pendleton Visit inthecom-panyofcowgirlscom or call 541-676-5013

may 19-22Whitman College 50th Reunion class of 1961 Whitman College Details 509-527-5952

Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merr y Wives of Windsorrdquo Pow-erhouse Theater Details 509-742-0739

may 21The annual Ducky Derby is a day of family fun all for a good cause Watch the ducks race down Mill Creek to help fund the Exchange Clubrsquos efforts at preventing child abuse and neglect 1130 am-330 pm Race at about 2 pm Walla Walla Community College De-tails 509-527-4300

Walla Walla University Spring Choral Concert 5 pm Walla Walla Univer-sity Church Details 509-527-2571

learn to contra dance an old-fashioned coun-try dance Music by the Wednesday Night Band 7 pm teaching and practice 730 pm regular dance Unity Church of Peace 810

C St Walla Walla Details 541-938-7403

may 22The Whitman College graduating class of 2011 accepts the challenge 11 am Memorial lawn Whitman College Details 509-527-5156

may 26 27 28 29Walla Walla Community College Theatre arts De-partment presents ldquoZoot Suitrdquo by luis Valdez 7 pm each night and Sunday 2 pm matinee W WCC Performing arts Center Details 509-527-4575

may 27-30 Dayton Days has been a Memorial Weekend tradi-tion in Dayton for nearly 100 years Highlights include a Saturday-morning parade on historic Main Street rodeo tour of Dayton and Memorial Day Fun Run De-tails 509-382-4825 or visit historicdaytoncom

may 28-30The Touchet River Roundup mdash the annual Celebration of Sobriety at the fairgrounds focuses on family fun ac-tivities Waitsburg Details 509-526-3602

may 29annual Onion Man Tria-thalon 9 am Bennington lake Details wwmulti-sportscom or call 509-529-9187

may 30Waitsburgrsquos annual Memo-rial Day celebration hosted by veterans for all veterans Details 509-337-6546

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This sculptural cornucopia marks the spot where all of Walla Walla meets the producers and wersquore not talking about the Zero Mostel and Gene Wild-er musical For you GPS fans latitude 4606678 N longitude 11834197 W

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The sculpture tops the farmers market gazebo on the corner of Fourth Avenue North and West Main Street

Contestensprulesif you have the answer e-mail it to rickdoylewwubcom or send it to Where in Walla Walla 112 S 1st Ave PO Box 1358 Walla Walla WA 99362 The names of 10 people with correct answers will be randomly selected and they will receive this great-looking mug as proof of their local knowledge and good taste

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2 Basel cellars estate winery2901 Old Milton Hwy (509) 522-0200 wwwbaselcellarscom

3 Bergevin Lane vineyards 1215 W Poplar St (509) 526-4300 bergevinlanecom

4 Bunchgrass winery151 Bunchgrass lane (509) 540-8963 wwwbunchgrasswinerycom

5 canoe ridge vineyard1102 W Cherry St (509) 527-0885 wwwcanoeridgevineyardcom

6 castillo de feliciana85728 Telephone Pole Road Milton-Freewater OR (541) 558-3656 wwwcastillodefelicianacom

7 don carlo vineyardBy appointment Only (509) 540-5784 wwwdoncarlovineyardcom

8 dunham cellars150 E Boeing ave (509) 529-4685 wwwdunhamcellarscom

9 five star cellars 840 C St (509) 527-8400 wwwfivestarcellarscom

10 forgeron cellars 33 W Birch St (509) 522-9463 wwwforgeroncellarscom

21 sapolil cellars15 E Main St (509) 520-5258 wwwsapolilcellarscom

22 seven hills winery 212 N Third ave (509) 529-7198 wwwsevenhillswinerycom

23 sinclair estate vineyards 109 E Main Ste 100 (509) 876-4300 wwwsinclairestatevineyardscom

24 spring valley vineyard 18 N Second ave (509) 525-1506 wwwspringvalleyvineyardcom

25 suLei cellars355 S Second ave (503) 529-0840 www suleicellarscom

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11 foundry vineyards Corner of 13th ave and abadie St (509) 529-0736 wwwwallawallafoundrycomvineyards

12 fort walla walla cellars 127 E Main St (509) 520-1095 wwwfortwallawallacellarscom

13 glencorrie8052 Old Highway 12 (509) 525-2585 wwwglencorriecom

14 grantwood winery 2428 W Highway 12 (509) 301-0719 (509) 301-9546

15 Lrsquoecole no 41 winery41 lowden School Road and US Hwy 12 (509) 525-0940 wwwlecolecom

16 Long shadows1604 Frenchtown Road (Formerly Ireland Road) (509) 526-0905 wwwlongshadowscom By invitation only Requests accepted on a limited basis Please call to inquire

17 Lowden hills winery1401 W Pine St (509) 527-1040 wwwlowdenhillswinerycom

18 northstar winery 1736 JB George Road (509) 524-4883 wwwnorthstarmerlotcom

19 pepper Bridge winery1704 JB George Road (509) 525-6502 wwwpepperbridgecom

20 robison ranch cellars2839 Robison Ranch Road (509) 301-3480 robisonranchcellarscom

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26 syZygy 405 E Boeing ave (509) 522-0484 wwwsyzygywinescom

27 three rivers winery5641 Old Highway 12 (509) 526-9463 infoThreeRiversWinerycom

28 tertulia cellars1564 Whiteley Road (509) 525-5700 wwwtertuliacellarscom

29 trust cellars 1050 Merlot Drive (509) 529-4511 wwwtrustcellarscom

30 va piano vineyards1793 JB George Road (509) 529-0900 wwwvapianovineyardscom

31 walla walla vintnersVineyard lane off Mill Creek Road (509) 525-4724 wwwwallawallavintnerscom

32 walla walla wineworks31 E Main St (509) 522-1261 wwwwallawallawineworkscom

33 whitman cellars1015 W Pine St (509) 529-1142 wwwwhitmancellarscom

34 woodward canyon winery11920 W Hwy 12 lowden (509) 525-4129 wwwwoodwardcanyoncom

35 JLc winery425 B St (509) 301-5148

36 saviah cellars1979 JB George Rd

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10ensp reaL cooks Learn how Gina Medica makes her fantastic flan

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Editorrsquos CommEntsensp enspby RickenspDoyle

Union-Bulletincom

P L E A S E L i k E U S

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Play is important in Walla Walla the play will truly be the thing when Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo at the newly restored Power House Theatre this month Lifestyles is teaming up with SWW for an inaugural event that will offer guests food fashion and merriment in the Elizabethan manner May 18 Check out our cover spread for a preview of the event

Winston Churchill may have described golf best when he said it ldquois a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purposerdquo

So if you are going to pursue the sport it makes sense to get the best coaching possible Al Mundle who spent 57 years helping others improve their games thought he had put tinkering with other peoplersquos grip stance and swing away for good But that was before Terri Hanson convinced him to offer some pointers to her son Jake who was heading into his final year on the links for the Walla Walla High School Blue Devils

Jim Buchan shows you how this relationship has worked

Work to a lot of people can be repetitious drudgery Larry Adams never had that problem Whether he was flying into enemy fire in vietnam or piloting a helicopter for the president each day challenged his skills and preparation Adams recounts some of those adventures for Lifestyles

Skill and preparation are necessary ingredients for cooking Gina Medica tells how she learned to make culinary creations from Cuba Her specialty is a flan dessert

Dr Donald Smithrsquos specialty is creating an eye-catching garden of colorful flowers The iris is a primary element of his palette Check out his creations in Secret Gardens

Columnist Catie Mcintyre Walker explains how the original palette for the LrsquoEcole No 41 wine labels came from a childrsquos watercolor As the winery has matured it has decided it was time to update the labels

These are only some of the delights awaiting you in the following pages Enjoy

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you donrsquot have to be a seasoned chef to make an impact with food Every

day in kitchens across the country real Cooks create extraordinary meals

for some very special guests mdash their friends and family

GinaenspMedica

Gina Medica holds Osito her Yorkie

by andrewenspHoltensp enspphoto by DarrenenspEllisfood

Walla Walla LifestyLes 11

Born in Miami and then raised in Central Los Angeles by her Cuban-born parents Medica learned her craft by observing her mother work in the kitchen Of all Medicarsquos culinary creations it is her Cuban flan dessert that receives the most requests

ldquoEveryone in the family would always request it especially my nieces and nephewrdquo Medica says sitting at her dining room table the freshly presented flan resting in front of her ldquoMy bro can easily eat half of itrdquo

And the flan does not remain uneaten for long as i sit down with the Walla Walla businesswoman and her daughter Elizabeth to discuss and taste this delicacy Minutes after we begin our conversation nephew Nick arrives and quickly wolfs down two servings

irsquove already finished my first and am working on my second when we begin our conversation

LifEStyLES With both of your parents being Havana natives did you eat Cuban food exclusively

MEDiCa No but in the early days Thanksgiving was pretty different My mom would fix the turkey but shersquod serve it with black beans and white rice Wersquod be ldquoAh mom canrsquot we have regular Thanksgiving food like mashed potatoes and yamsrdquo Those came later as we lived in the States longer

LifEStyLES So the food changed as you kids grew older

MEDiCa Well my mom was always pretty good at American food but sometimes it wasnrsquot all the way like she made American spaghetti but she put chicken in it it was good but my brother would always complain that it didnrsquot have meatballs Now he misses the chicken

LifEStyLES How many kids do you have in the family

MEDiCa i have an older brother and a younger sister irsquom the middle one We didnrsquot have a normal childhood in the sense that my mom was a hairstylist at home and on Saturday mornings customers would start arriving at 8 And she had one of those big old hair dryers

Continued on pg 12 gt

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Open Daily 10 am to 5 pm1979 JB George Road bull Walla Walla Washington

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that you put over someonersquos head mdash we called it ldquoFidel Castrordquo mdash and yoursquod have these customers yelling at the top of their voice while they were under it So i never got to sleep in

LifEStyLES it sounds like your mother was quite a lady

MEDiCa i recently found some of her original recipes you know in her own handwriting One of them is for croquetta which was really good you take chicken with corned beef and grind them up bread it and then fry it itrsquos really goodrdquo

LifEStyLES Why do you like the flan so much

MEDiCa Because everyone in the family always requested it i make it a little different The way i make it it is a little more creamy because i use cream cheese itrsquos more like a custard Many times in Mexican restaurants the flan will be more jello-y This is almost like cheesecake

LifEStyLES is it strictly for dessert

MEDiCa yes itrsquos for special occasions

LifEStyLES Like birthdays and parties

MEDiCa yes itrsquos not light you canrsquot have too much or your stomach will start to ache

LifEStyLES Does it take a long time to prepare

MEDiCa Not really Making the caramel sauce takes the most time and you canrsquot take your eyes off it or it might burn

LifEStyLES Tastes like it didnrsquot burn

MEDiCa No i had lots of help My daughter Elizabeth (and she glances over at her youngest child) helped me a lot

andrew hoLt writes about food people and all things Walla Walla for Walla Walla lifestyles magazine He can be reached at bruindrew86gmailcom

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1 can evaporated milk1 can sweetened condensed milk1 cup whole or two percent milk6 eggs1 to 2 teaspoons vanilla extract14 teaspoon salt4 ounces cream cheese

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1 to 1frac12 cup sugar

toenspmakeensptheenspcaramelenspsauce

Place the sugar in a saucepan on medium heat and stir until granules of sugar have liquified and the mixture takes on a caramel color

Pour the mixture into a mold coating the sides This must be done quickly because the mixture will harden also use oven mittens so you donrsquot burn your hands

Put aside

toenspmakeensptheenspflan

Preheat oven to 350 degreesIn a blender mix the sweetened condensed

milk frac12 can of evaporated milk and the milk eggs cream cheese salt and vanilla and blend on low

Pour out half the mixture into a bowl and pour in the remaining evaporated milk and blend

Pour contents of blender and bowl into mold and stir Cover with aluminum foil Crimp the edges of the foil around the mold to keep moisture out

Put the mold in a big cake pan and pour enough water around the mold for it to come part-way up the sides of the mold (we call that ldquobantildeo Mariacuteardquo) and bake for one hour plus 15 to 20 minutes

Use a knife to test done-ness mdash the knife should come out clean

When the flan is done baking let it rest and cool then place it in the refrigerator for 24 hours

The next day dip the mold in warm water before flipping the flan into a serving dish

Makes 12 servings

R EC IP E

food ltcontinued from pg 11

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The old Frenchtown schoolhouse built in 1915 with the stately bell tower still stands it has been a historic fixture in the Walla Walla valley that many of us have grown up with even if we never attended classes there One can still stride up the long sidewalk to the large heavy carved doors with a feeling of reverence and trepidation mdash as if it were the first day of school mdash while imagining generations of children playing on the manicured grounds

in the 1970s the old schoolhouse classrooms found themselves empty of childrenrsquos laughter But in 1983 Jean and Baker Ferguson breathed new life into the old building founding what would become one of the premier wineries in Washington LrsquoEcole No 41

The name was historically im-portant in two ways ldquoLrsquoEcolerdquo French for ldquothe schoolrdquo recognized the French men and women who settled the area and ldquo41rdquo was the numerical designation of the school district

The Fergusonsrsquo first crush of 1983 was resting in the barrel when the following year they asked their elementary school-aged family members to draw an image that would best reflect the new project

The $100 prize went to an 8-year-old cousin whose watercolor interpretation of the old schoolhouse became the template for a wine label it became an iconic label known to wine lovers around the world

in 1989 the second generation of the family Jean and Bakerrsquos daughter and son-

in-law Megan and Martin (Marty) Clubb became the new proprietors of the winery Marty became the general manager and winemaker and would lead the small artisan winery to new heights mdash it would eventually produce more than 30000 cases annually

At the same time the Washington state wine industry was booming and would soon become the nationrsquos second-largest wine producer The area would become one of the premium wine-producing regions in the United States

Marty also became a pioneer in the

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Washington state wine industry as he became a founder and activist in many of the wine industryrsquos foundations and alliances The family-owned winery also partnered with some of the most prestigious vineyards in the state LrsquoEcole No 41 has been honored nine consecutive years by Wine amp Spirits magazine as ldquoWinery of the yearrdquo becoming the second Washington winery inducted into the Hall of Fame

There is a third-generation that has grown up around the winery and will eventually become caretakers of this legacy Meganrsquos and Martyrsquos children Jeanrsquos and Bakerrsquos grandchildren rebecca and riley Clubb had their own meaningful influence on the label with their childhood drawings on the labelrsquos chalkboard image

riley is a 2009 graduate of Whitman College and is employed at the winery rebecca is enrolled in Washington State Universityrsquos wine management program and expected to graduate in 2012

The winery will soon celebrate its 30th birthday The wines produced at the old schoolhouse are refined with true varietal character and can stand up against many coveted wines from France mdash and they have Now that LrsquoEcole is a top player in the world of wine the whimsical label on its bottles is no longer truly indicative of the sophisticated gold and dark-red liquids behind the glass

ldquoLooking to the future we wanted our label to reflect the winery we have becomerdquo says Marty Clubb

This year the winery will unveil a new label it will still depict the iconic schoolhouse but with deeper colors and a new texture There will be a distinct difference among the labels depending on the vineyards used Wines produced from Columbia valley vineyards will have a soft charcoal-colored background label and the labels for the wines produced from Walla Walla vineyards will be more sepia-toned

Another distinctive change will be the de-emphasizing of the ldquoNo 41rdquo as generations of wine lovers have often referred to the winery as ldquoLrsquoEcolerdquo

The new label will be a timeless reminder of the past as well as a welcome to future generations

catie mcintyre waLker blogs at wildwallawallawinewomanblogspotcom and be reached at wildwallawallawinewomancom

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it was 1954 the year he graduated from the University of Oregon and two female students from the university were interested in learning some of the finer points of the game

ldquoit was probably the worst lesson anybody has ever givenrdquo Mundle exclaimed shaking his head in dismay ldquoThese two young ladies were looking for some help and i worked with them for an hour-and-a-half And at the end of that time i said lsquoi have done such a poor job i will pay you for the time i have put you through this torturersquordquo

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 17

Painful as it was the lesson learned proved to be a career-launching moment for Mundle who dedicated himself to his trade and spent a lifetime in the golf business successfully working up and down the i-5 corridor as course operator teacher and player

Fifty-seven years after that first teaching debacle Mundle now 79 years old is retired and living in Walla Walla He and his wife Ann relocated here last summer determined to give up teaching golf and spend more time playing the game they both love

ldquoAfter all of these years of teaching i feel that this is the time to lay it asiderdquo Mundle said ldquoi will still do a little studying of the golf swing and methods and i will be involved with some of the other local professionals in some cracker-barrel sessions when they get together to discuss teaching methods problems and how to solve them

ldquoBut i really came here not to teach but to play some golfrdquo

That was the plan anyway before he was introduced to Walla Walla High School senior Jake Hanson who was looking for a little extra help with his game heading into his final year on the links as a Blue Devil

Terri Hanson Jakersquos mother was aware of Mundlersquos reputation as a teaching professional and heard through the grapevine he was living in Walla Walla

ldquoBeing the mom i am i called him one dayrdquo Terri remembered ldquoi told him that Jakersquos golf game was at a standstill i asked him to take a look at Jake and he agreed to come and meet us and get a feel for where Jake was at

ldquoHe did and before you knew it they were putting on our hardwood floors The next day they agreed to get together at Wine valley mdash they were there for four hours and it has been an amazing connection right from the beginning

ldquoAl is an amazing Christian man who is so well-respected in his fieldrdquo Terri added ldquoAnd he just demands respect irsquom seeing my son of 17 all of a sudden growing uprdquo

Mundle concedes he is intrigued by Hansonrsquos character and potential And

Under the watchful eye of Al Mundle Jake Hanson hits an iron shot

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2815 Vista Lane (off Taumarson Rd) $449000

Hilltop Stables with a Beautiful View

18 Walla Walla LifestyLes

Hanson holds his new mentor in high esteem

ldquoirsquove learned a tremendous amountrdquo Hanson said ldquoHe has a way of getting through to me in a positive way He got through to me that i am so much better than i thought i could be He has more confidence in me than i have in myself

ldquoHe has one of the best golf swings i have ever seen and he is still working on his own gamerdquo

Mundle said Hanson reminds him of former University of Oregon player Ben Crane who now plays on the PGA Tour Crane has been playing professionally since 2007 and earned nearly $3 million on the tour in 2010

ldquoi was Benrsquos swing coach at Oregon and Jake is somewhat similarrdquo Mundle said ldquoBen worked harder than anybody on the whole golf team He would put in as much

time as three or four others combined and Jake is very much the same way Hersquos very dedicatedrdquo

However Mundle insists that helping Hanson with his game is a one-time situation

After playing just six rounds of golf last year Mundle is determined that he and Ann will spend a lot more time on the golf course as they get acquainted with their new hometown

ldquoThatrsquos an all-time lowrdquo he said of the six rounds played in 2010 ldquoMostly it was the move and all mdash a new house putting in lawn fencing shelving in the garage mdash all the little things of getting settled

ldquoBut this was a good move for us We love it here We enjoy the weather and the people you can walk down the street and people look you in the eye and say lsquoHellorsquo i love that friendlinessrdquo

Mundle grew up in Eugene and graduated from University High School in 1950 He knew he said from the time he was in the seventh grade he wanted to make golf his lifersquos work

ldquoyou might say that i had a little parental directionrdquo Mundle said ldquoMy dad went to the University of St Andrews in Scotland and he played golf at the St Andrews Old Course And my mother also played golfrdquo

After high school Mundle enrolled at the University of Oregon and played three years of varsity golf during an era when there was no such thing as a golf scholarship

ldquoThe only thing we ever received was a half-a-dozen golf balls if we went into a tournamentrdquo Mundle recalled ldquoWhen i went to the NCAA Championships in Texas my senior year i was given a new

people ltcontinued from pg 17

Walla Walla LifestyLes 19

pair of golf shoes but that was itldquoWe bought all of our own gear mdash

clubs bags rain gear everything itrsquos a whole different ball game today They have everythingrdquo

At the end of his sophomore year at Oregon Mundle had it in his mind to ldquotest my golf on the PGA Tourrdquo he said But his father an English professor at the university discouraged him

ldquoHe said lsquoGet your education first then you can do whatever you wantrsquordquo Mundle said ldquoit was just as well i saved a lot of wear and tear mdash and money i was an Ok player but not of that caliberrdquo

Mundle still has fond memories of his collegiate playing career however

ldquoi played three years for the university mdash you werenrsquot allowed to play as freshmen mdash and Oregon always had fine golf teamsrdquo Mundle said ldquoit was mostly match

play then and i was there during the time that the school went seven straight years without losing a (team) dual matchrdquo

During his senior year Mundle qualified for the NCAA Championships in Houston From a field of about 160 players Mundle made it as far as the quarterfinal round

He graduated in 1954 with a degree in history which he said he never really used

ldquoMy dad was in the top one percent of his class at St Andrewsrdquo Mundle said ldquoMy mother was also in the top part of her class and my older brother Pete was in the top of his class And then i came alongrdquo

His first golf job was as an assistant pro at his home course the Laurelwood Golf Course a position he accepted shortly after graduating from UO This was when and where the infamous first golf lesson

occurredA two-year stint in the US Army took

Mundle away from his profession in 1955-56 But he managed to keep his golf game sharp as a member of the Fort knox golf team and in 1956 he was the runner-up in the Second Army tournament and he placed 13th in the All-Army tournament

Then it was back to the Willamette valley where he came into his own in the Portland area under head professionals Eddie Hogan at riverside Country Club and Bunny Mason at Columbia Edgewater

ldquoThose two people were very influential in my professional liferdquo Mundle said

ldquoEddie was a very fine teacher of the total golf operation and service was No 1 i learned how to run the pro shop how

Jake Hanson takes a few pointers on chipping from his instructor and mentor Al Mundle

Continued on pg 20 gt

20 Walla Walla LifestyLes

people ltcontinued from pg 19

to market and merchandise mdash everything from how to run the club service program to the electric cart program to basically running the golf course

ldquoBunny was also a very fine operator of a golf shop and i also learned a lot about teaching from Bunny Sometimes you go along in life and there are certain mentors who help you along the way Anybody who says they made it by themselves is not being honest with themselves We have all had someone who has given us a little boost along the wayrdquo

Mundle took his first head professional job in 1965 at Overlake Golf and Country Club in Bellevue where he remained until 1981 At that point he returned to Eugene and was the head pro at the Eugene Country Club for three years followed by a six-year stint at the Bear Creek Country Club in Seattle

He also spent a short time at a golf course in Cottage Grove Ore before moving back to Eugene for a third time in 1993 to become the director of golf instruction at the river ridge Golf Course He remained at river ridge until his retirement last summer During his time there he helped out as the swing coach at UO under then-head coach Steve Nosler

Through it all Mundle served as president of the Washington PGA and the Pacific Northwest PGA and was a member of several National PGA committees As a player he participated in the Oregon Washington and Pacific Northwest opens as well as the Washington and Oregon PGA events One of his highlights was winning the Oregon Senior PGA Match-Play Championships in Bend in 1993

ldquoi felt i had an obligation to participaterdquo Mundle said ldquoi played a lot of golf including many many pro-ams and i won a couple of assistant championshipsrdquo

in addition to Crane Mundle also helped shape the careers of Jeff Quinney and Eric Johnson both of whom are from the Eugene area

Quinney won the United States Amateur championship in 2000 and represented the US in the Walker Cup in 2001 He has appeared in 128 PGA Tour events since 2007 placing second twice and third twice

Johnson played several years on the Asian Tour and one on the Nationwide Tour He is now a head professional at a

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course in San rafael CalifldquoAnd there have been some others mdash

Brian Henninger Mike Gove a few others mdash who have called and wanted to discus their swingrdquo Mundle said ldquoNothing on a regular basis just one or two sessionsrdquo

is Hanson his next mdash and perhaps his last mdash prodigy

Thatrsquos a tricky question since Hanson came to golf late after a budding baseball career was derailed by a shoulder injury He was a first-team all-Big Nine Conference golf selection as a junior but has yet to qualify for state and his summer resume is thin because of his baseball background

Hansonrsquos original plan was to attend Walla Walla Community College and play golf for the Warriors with the hope of earning an NCAA Division i scholarship But he has since decided to enroll in Arizona State Universityrsquos Professional Golf Management program and try out for the ASU golf team as a walk on

ldquoMore than anything i think it came down to him evaluating his goalsrdquo said Jakersquos father Gary Hanson ldquoitrsquos everyonersquos dream to play on the PGA Tour but realistically he wants to be a golf pro and teach He loves

the gamerdquoAnd a degree in the PGM program

will provide Jake with the educational background he needs to be successful in any form of business his father added

Though his chances of making the ASU varsity team seem unlikely the PGM program provides a club golf team that participates in a series of tournaments throughout the year and gives Hanson a second playing option

And keeping your options open is optimum at this point Mundle said

ldquoi think his driving force at this time mdash and also his folks mdash is to get his education And then he can do whatever he wants if he doesnrsquot go into (the golfing business) immediately he will always have it as a backuprdquo

Sounds an awful lot like the advice Thomas Mundle offered his son back in the spring of 1952 when Al Mundle wanted to leave school after his sophomore year and test his wings on the PGA Tour And as we now know all these years later staying in school worked out pretty well for Al

Jim Buchan is a sports writer for the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin He can be reached at jimbuchanwwubcom

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Join us for a night of wonder with elizabethan-inspired food fashion and merriment to celebrate the opening of walla wallarsquos power house theatre and prepare for a four-day run of seattle shakespeare companyrsquos ldquothe merry wives of windsorrdquo

walla walla lifestyles will present a fashion show with wicked and wistful gowns twisted braided hair and smoldering makeup designs designers include red eden designs autumnlin design and others

semi-formal attire creative masks encouraged this exclusive evening will enchant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fashion

to purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewallawallacom

530 - 9 pm May 18 2011

The Power H o use The at reS i x t h amp R o se Wa l l a Wa l l a

T H E A T R EPOWER HOUSE

My director Terry Edward Moore told me his only direction from the artistic director was that it be ldquoperiodrdquo that is to say authentic to the time

ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo is the only one of Shakespearersquos plays that is set in his own time so it was decided to present it as if the actors were people of the time doing what would be a contemporary (to the late 16th century) play

i started to research the clothing of the time how it was constructed and what kinds of fabrics were available at the time mdash linens homespuns woolens for the common people and silks damasks velvets and furs for the upper classes i discovered that Elizabethan society was strictly regulated in terms of social classes and upward mobility was a little-known concept Once a yeoman always a yeoman i also discovered the set of rules and regulations called ldquosumptuary lawsrdquo which specifically dictated what types of fabrics trims furs and even what colors each class was allowed to wear

Since there are three distinct classes represented in ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo mdash merchant class soldiers and servants mdash i tried to give each class its own color palette based on these laws The overall palette of the show is based on colors actually in use at the time

The availability of dyes was limited (except for the nobility) so the palette consists of many shades of yellows and browns russets black some greens and blue-grays and of course wheat-colored unbleached linen i turned to the Dutch painter Brueghel for inspiration on how the common people looked and dressed

i also researched what kinds of dyes were used and where they came from Dyes were created from all sorts of different things such as walnut shell crushed beetles and all kinds of roots i found a website that sells these authentic dyestuffs so irsquom using the real thing to dye some of the linen pieces and will coordinate the contemporary fabrics to these authentic colors

Nearly every piece will need something done to it mdash altered in some way to fit the actor re-trimmed rigged invisibly for quick changes etc mdash so there is a lot of labor involved Also hats were a hugely important part of Elizabethan fashion all the way down to the poorest serf

Certain styles of hats were often associated with certain professions mdash eg doctors scholars mdash so there are a number of hats to build as well as headpieces for the women No self-respecting woman went about with her head uncovered

Putting together a show like this is like putting together a giant jigsaw puzzle and the pieces are the costumes that irsquove borrowed and rented from other theater companies in the Seattle area such as Seattle repertory Seattle Opera and the University of Washington as well as pieces from Oregon Shakespeare Festival i design the show and then go out into the world and try to find pieces that approximate my designs and palette as closely as possible (usually with some reworking first) The pieces that i cant find and dont want to compromise on i build from scratch

deane middLeton is a theatre costume professional who works in the Seattle area She has done costumes for Issaquahrsquos Village Theater as well as several productions of the Seattle Shakespeare Company

ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 29

ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo was the only one of Shakespearersquos works set in his own time the 1600s and features Sir John Falstaff It also deals primarily with english middle-class life A hilarious bawdy comedy filled with insight into the life and times of Shakespeare ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo will delight people of all ages

About the play

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But thatrsquos exactly what longtime Walla Walla resident Larry Adams did for four years He was one of a select group of pilots for Marine One the helicopter counterpart of the presidential airplane Air Force One from 1970 to 1974

30 Walla Walla LifestyLes

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 31

Long before Adams became the Walla Walla Airport manager he was transporting heads of state foreign dignitaries famous (and now infamous) Cabinet members the executive staff and President richard M Nixon during one of the nationrsquos most turbulent times the withdrawal from vietnam and the Watergate scandal

But to Adams a native of Northern idaho all that swirled around the Nixon presidency was the least of his concerns His job was to transport the president safely to Andrews Air Force Base or Camp David or fly any short flight required Safety always at a premium End of story

Many times Adams ferried President Nixon and his staff on short flights far away from home Air Force One might fly President Nixon to a summit or a meeting with a foreign head of state but Marine One and Adams were always nearby to shuttle the chief executive on short flights or to whisk him away from sudden danger

Pretty heady stuff for a fourth-grade teacher who had never thought about flying until a Marine recruiter offered him the opportunity Although Adams had watched planes take off and land at a nearby air base as a child he had never given serious thought to flying it was more a need for a bigger paycheck than passion that brought Adams to his destiny

He liked teaching but it just wasnrsquot paying the bills So Adams turned to the military and the Gi Bill After being unimpressed by other recruiters Adams took a liking to the fellow from the Marines for as Adams recalls the recruiter took an interest in him After about an hour of talking the recruiter suggested Adams might have the potential to be a pilot

Having easily passed some preliminary tests Adams was sent to flight school in Pensacola Fla and a stellar career was ready to take off He performed well in all the aircraft he piloted but he showed a special skill for helicopters

Up until 1965 fixed-wing airplanes were the staple of all military air combat But the military had been gearing up for a big change The helicopter was to become a major part of combat The Pentagon had been developing helicopters that would do much more than transport troops to bases Now they would assist in bombing

raids ground attacks and the evacuation of the injured from the point of combat This new breed of helicopters would also possess the ability to fight back and not be lame ducks as before the new H34 would tote machine guns on each side

These cutting-edge aircraft would travel at unprecedented speeds with newly discovered agility Gifted pilots were needed not those who merely possessed superior technical skills but those who also had the composure to fly straight into

enemy fire in the dead of night picking up injured soldiers or aiding air attacks

Adams was one of those pilots and he would be one of two squadron leaders for ldquoOperation Starliterdquo mdash the first major assault using helicopters The Marines were going straight into a North vietnamese regimental stronghold No one knew what to expect

ldquoWe lost a lot that first time inrdquo says Adams ldquoTwo crew chiefs were killed

Continued on pg 32 gt

In this newspaper clipping Larry Adams poses on the steps of the helicopter dubbed Marine One which he piloted for President Richard M Nixon

32 Walla Walla LifestyLes

people ltcontinued from pg 31

four pilots were medevaced out because of their wounds i donrsquot think there was one helicopter that didnrsquot have a bunch of holes in it The one i flew in we got a lot of rounds in it Amazingly no one was hurt but when we got back the helicopter was so shot-up you couldnrsquot fly it anymore We lost 50 percent of our helicopters that dayrdquo

in the next 13 months Adams would fly many more missions often heading straight into anti-aircraft fire to pick up injured or killed soldiers He says he would see the flares signifying where the copter was supposed to land but frequently hersquod have to veer off because ground communication would say ldquoThe artillery is too hotrdquo Then there would be a window maybe two minutes maybe five when the helicopter could drop in and pick up the injured often being shot at as it waited for its passengers

Adams knew the best way to survive was to keep his focus ldquoin the daylight when you start your run in and yoursquore getting shot at Everything went to black and white for me i didnrsquot notice the green trees or the green rice paddies until we got out of there and then it would come back

to me i donrsquot know what that was i just didnrsquot see the colors irsquove talked to some other pilots and they described the same thingrdquo

in his two tours of duty in vietnam Adams would fly 880 combat missions in several types of helicopters and fixed-wing airplanes He received numerous medals including two Navy commendations for performance under combat conditions

Then the call came to fly for the president Before Adams could tote the commander in chief around in Marine One a thorough background check had to be done So thorough was the check that Adams said a friend from his hometown sent him a card that read ldquoAre you in some kind of trouble Jesus therersquos been a bunch of people around here with the dark grey suits and the skinny little ties Theyrsquore asking all these embarrassing questions about you like did you have drinking problem Did you have a gambling problem Do you know what Larryrsquos sexual preference wasrdquo

Adams chuckles ldquoit was pretty funnyrdquoAdams passed the grade and soon

he was flying President Nixon and his family to Camp David or picking up vice

President Spiro Agnew at the Pentagon or taking Secretary of State Henry kissinger or Secretary of Defense Alexander Haig to a classified meeting Although his flights varied from transporting foreign heads of state to flying members of the press the majority involved the president the vice president kissinger and Haig

The pilots did not speak to their travelers unless spoken to says Adams President Nixon usually looked in and asked them how they were kissinger never spoke Haig was good for a pat on the shoulder now and then but it was Agnew who conversed the most says Adams

Adams remembers ldquoOne time we picked him up at the Pentagon and we had taken off and had hit top altitude He usually would come up and look into the cockpit but this time he patted me on the shoulder and asked lsquoWell howrsquos it going today guysrsquordquo Adams replied ldquoNot bad sir and how about yourselfrdquo

Agnew answered ldquoMan they are really after my assrdquo He was talking about the press Adams says ldquoTwo weeks later he resignedrdquo

Adams recalls that his encounters with Agnew as defying the public perception

Adams far right gives instructions before a mission in Vietnam

Walla Walla LifestyLes 33

that Agnew was arrogant ldquoHe was always one of the nicest guys He was straightforward He looked like he had just stepped off the cover of Gentlemenrsquos Quarterly all the time He was very proper in the way he dressed but he had a sense of humor as wellrdquo

There were other humorous moments Adams recalls a certain reporter from CBS who had been a major thorn in President Nixonrsquos side was late for takeoff from the South Lawn of the White House one morning Just as Marine One was about to leave without him he came running across the lawn hollering and waving his arms The Secret Service agent supervising the flight told Adams to ldquojust gordquo The wind from the propellers whipped the reporterrsquos toupee right off his head and instead of continuing his run toward Marine One he reversed his field and tried feverishly to retrieve his toupee snagged in the hedges

ldquoEveryone got a pretty good chuckle out of thatrdquo

Of course there were somber times At one point Adams flew Cabinet members John Ehrlichman and Hr Haldeman to Camp David for a meeting with the president After only 15 minutes the two men returned and Marine One headed home Adams says it was a quiet flight He found out later the two men had been fired by President Nixon for their parts in the Watergate scandal

Whisking the president away from danger was a major part of being a pilot of Marine One Stationed across the river from the Capitol pilots awakened by an emergency alert had to be up in the air in five minutes This exercise was practiced often though never needed during Adamsrsquo tenure

One night however they thought it was The operator at the White House mistakenly hit the ldquoAlertrdquo button Marine One was in the air in five minutes

Although ground control had not spotted any enemy aircraft the operation was under way As Marine One closed in on the White House the operator at fault tried to alert everyone of his mistake but unfortunately used a poor choice of words to call off the operation

Adams chuckles as he says ldquoThe fella said lsquoThis is not an exercisersquo He was moved to another post i thinkrdquo

All levity aside the position required

the same kind of focus demanded of Adams in vietnam though it came in a different form

ldquoThere were three things the way you operated the aircraft and they were in this order safety comfort and speed Safety never gave in to comfort or speedrdquo says Adams ldquoOur job was just concentrating on doing our job it could have been anybody mdash we would do it the same way it could have been Fred Flintstone

ldquoThe difference between flying for the White House and in vietnam was we were flying a premier aircraft We had to keep it impeccably clean everything was scripted We had to have the lsquoopen-the-door timersquo down to two to four seconds in vietnam it was the stress of performing medevacs under fire or dropping troops under heavy artillery For Marine One it was the stress of doing the job rightrdquo

Also the stress of being away from onersquos family 200 days of the year wore on a Marine One pilot in 1974 after four years on the job the toll became too much and Adams stepped down

He would stay with the Marines for eight more years retiring in August 1982

By then he had received 44 Air Medals including the Joint Service Commendation and the Presidential Service Badge in his 20 years of service Adams flew seven different helicopters and five different fixed-wing planes

What makes an elite military pilot ldquoPilots who donrsquot have any misgivingsrdquo says Adams ldquoTheyrsquore totally prepared they know their aircraftrdquo

When talking about his colleagues on Marine One he adds ldquoNone were boasters They might brag about a great landing but they did not brag in spite of someone elserdquo

What did Adams love most about his flying days ldquoi enjoyed flying with the latest technology and the pristine quality of Marine One i loved the process of building my skills i could have flown another 40 years and i would still be learning thingsrdquo

is it any surprise his favorite hobby now is fly fishing

andrew hoLt writes about food people and all things Walla Walla for Walla Walla lifestyles magazine He can be reached at bruindrew86gmailcom

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it is astonishing in many ways mdash that we are presented with two weeks of top-drawer music performed by top-drawer musi-cians that there are so many ways to encounter the music (many of them free) and that a rural community has provided the incu-

bator for such a cultural undertaking to name but a fewGranted we are not your average rural community having two

colleges a university a symphony a choral society a community band and music in the schools but letrsquos face it wersquore not exactly a cosmopolitan center of culture like New york either The Cham-ber Music Festival mdash and our continued support of it through some tough times mdash puts us in a category all our own

ldquoi saw what was special about this community the first time i visited in 2007rdquo Artistic Director Timothy Christie says ldquoi have

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worked hard to start this event and to my great joy it has taken on an iden-tity of its own i hire the musicians and choose the music but the town its people and its environs make the festivalrdquo

The beauty of chamber music is its intimacy mdash smaller ensembles performing for smaller audiences it has been referred to as ldquothe music of friendsrdquo which seems so apt at this festival Free open rehearsals are held around town that provide not only a musical atmosphere in which to enjoy a latte or the ambiance of the kirkman House but which give a richer look into the machinations of a working ensemble

As one enthusiastic fan puts it ldquoi am not a musician and itrsquos fascinat-ing to watch these rehearsals to see the interactions of the musicians as they work out the snags make wry remarks and relate to each other in a whole different way than during a for-mal performance i get a glimpse into their personalities and what makes them tickrdquo

The festival supplies a generous of-fering of venues with free concerts for children and families relaxed evening programs at wineries and full concerts at the Foundry Chism Hall and Day-tonrsquos Liberty Theater

if you are lucky enough to live near the musiciansrsquo lodgings while they are in town you may also be treated to an ad hoc front-porch concert as the ensembles continue their rehearsals in more private settings The festival is about all of these ways mdash planned and accidental mdash to experience the enchantment of chamber music

it is also about historic continuity and the connection between past and present mdash relishing the existing canon while expanding the genre with con-temporary forms and voices

How is this accomplished in part by the annual commission of a new piece of music for the festival Chris-tie is committed to contributing to the broader chamber music repertoire and to providing the audience with the richest possible experience

Continued on pg 36 gt

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ldquoFor classical music to be relevant there must be a conversation between the music of our time and the music of the pastrdquo he says

By commissioning a work for the festi-val each year Christie creates such a con-versation

This year the commission was given to John David Earnest Four festival commis-sions have preceded his and he is the sec-ond ldquolocalrdquo composer to be tapped add-ing another layer of relationship between community and event (in 2009 Whitman College professor David Glenn was given the nod)

As visiting adjunct professor of music at Whitman Earnest resides here for six weeks every semester His ldquoSecond Sym-phonyrdquo was written for and performed by the Walla Walla Symphony in October 2001

The challenge for the yearly commis-sionee is to compose a piece on demand within specific constraints of time place and instrumentation while expressing hisher own voice as an artist

Earnest has created ldquoCommedia Gal-leryrdquo a set of three movements for flute

viola and harp based on stock characters from the Commedia dellrsquoArte a popu-lar theatrical form that was influential in Europe for over 300 years Commedia characters improvised dialogue around set scenarios generally involving the struggles of young lovers to overcome hindrances to their romance and each character even-tually came to have a consistent set of at-tributes in speech mannerisms and cos-tume

Earnestrsquos ldquoGalleryrdquo gives us Arlecchi-no (Harlequin) an acrobatic and devious jester Pierrot the classic sad clown and finally Scaramouche a dandy and a brag-gart who is a coward at heart

in anticipation of this yearrsquos festival i am reminded of the scene in ldquoThe Music Manrdquo in which the town awaits the ar-rival of the Wells Fargo Wagon Potentially heaped with gifts and surprises it prom-ises connection to the larger world The WWCMF brings us all ldquosomethinrsquo specialrdquo mdash an enrichment of our community and our culture

margaret Jamison is an artist and writer living in Walla Walla Contact her at artjamisongmailcom

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Smith has gardened for years at his home at 38 Mulberry Court in College Place He used to grow vegetables and flowers now he is strictly focusing on flowers mdash with fabulous results roses delphiniums and lots of irises line the fence

ldquoirises mdash irsquove always enjoyed themrdquo he says ldquoThey take a little bit of weeding and watering but not much morerdquo itrsquos the gardenerrsquos dream mdash low maintenance with a big return

A retired orthopedic surgeon Smith has in the past gardened more extensively than he does now But he has enough plants to keep him busy His new project is planting more of the reblooming iris These are still hardy but you get twice the reward they bloom in the spring then again in the fall

ldquoTheyrsquore easy to grow and spectacular for a short time iris take less care than a lot of thingsrdquo Smith says

His secret for gardening is simple and therersquos no getting around it ldquoTime and workrdquo he laughs

Hersquos getting ready to start in the garden ldquoi need to clean out the leaves and the old foliage of the irisrdquo

in addition to the basic cleaning and maintenance Smith just decides how many plants to keep Bulb flowers are hardy and they multiply on their own

ldquoAfter five years you usually have to separate the bulbs when they get too thick i donrsquot have room to add more i put in the new re-blooming onesrdquo he explains ldquoi may add more and a few other thingsrdquo

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itrsquos an odd location since it can only be seen as yoursquore leaving town but it always makes me smile This valley my adopted home is indeed a great place to be

i recently finished reading the great Western writer Wallace Stegnerrsquos book ldquoThe Sound of Mountain Waterrdquo One of his essays traces his nomadic childhood which left him feeling rootless and without a place that he felt he could call home

i identify with his feeling of not belonging i was born to a single woman from Massachusetts in a New york City hospital i stayed a scant few days before being placed with an adoption agency Born in a place i had no familial connection to i was immediately deprived of my biological family Most of my childhood was spent in suburban Cleveland Ohio Moves to upstate New york New England and Pennsylvania brought me no closer to calling any place home i loved living in the western Massachusetts town of Stockbridge but the multigenerational denizens of the town left few openings for newcomers like me i lived in central Pennsylvania for several decades but felt detached from the deep roots that most people had in the area

When we came west (for my husband a homecoming to his Oregon roots for me a new experience) i noticed that even in long-established towns like Walla Walla there is ample room for newcomers who want to be

part of the community And most folks who choose to come here donrsquot seem to want to change the valley they prefer to embrace it

While the occasional newbie whines about the lack of Whole Foods or Nordstrom they soon discover our farmers markets the wide variety of local shops and boutiques and our world-class restaurants They fall in love with our charming downtowns the small-town friendliness of the people and our kid-friendly environment Then therersquos the holiday parade the fair the ever-present Blue Mountains the parks the museums the wineries mdash really whatrsquos not to like The communities of our valley represent America at its best

irsquom a newspaper junkie i love to read everything from news to sports to classifieds mdash even the obituaries The obits are a fascinating window on our valley Many of the people chronicled were born here some lived all their lives here inextricably bound to this place But a number of people came here from other places often far away and have made a mark on our area Which makes me wonder mdash is a place any less of a hometown because you choose it or is it based primarily on the happenstance of your birth it seems that therersquos room for both paths to calling this wonderful valley home

itrsquos also our strength because collectively as a community we bring both deep familial and cultural traditions as well as the fresh perspective of newcomers to our area irsquom glad mdash after decades of searching mdash that i finally found my hometown a place that feels just right

diane reed can be reached at ladybookearthlinknet Between columns and when the spirit moves her she blogs at wwwponderingsbydianereedblogspotcom from her home overlooking the pond at lions Park in College Place

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Maymay 1The annual Kennel Club Dog Show Walla Walla County Fairgrounds De-tails 509-558-3854

The Walla Walla University Drama Department pres-ents a performance of ldquoMy Fair ladyrdquo 2 pm matinee Details 509-527-2656

The Walla Walla Choral Society presents ldquoJubilate Deordquo 3 pm May 1 Walla Walla University Church College Place Details 509-386-2445

The Walla Walla Valley Farmers Market opens local produce artisans and an outdoor concert 9 am-1 pm Saturdays and Sundays through Oct 30 Crawford Park Fourth ave and Main St Details gowallawallafarmersmar-ketcom or 509-520-3647

through may 22Enjoy the annual Senior art Thesis Exhibition Sheehan Gallery Whitman College Details 509-527-5249

through JuLy 31The Tamaacutestslikt Cultural In-stitute hosts the traveling OMSI exhibit ldquoamazing Feats of agingrdquo explor-ing the mysteries of why animals and humans age Details 541-966-9748

may 4The YWCa leadership luncheon ldquoMatters that Matterrdquo is informational and inspirational with guest speakers Kristine Van Raden and Molly Da-vis Noon Marcus Whit-man Hotel Details 509-525-2570

Walla Walla Wine Works hosts music on Wednes-days downtown Details 509-522-1261

may 5First Thursday Concert at St Pauls Episcopal Church 323 Catherine Street Walla Walla 1215-1250 pm will feature the Steel Drum Band from Walla Walla Uni-versity directed by Brandon Beck Details 529-1083

The Whitman College Visit-ing Writers Reading series presents Whitman Reading 7 pm Kimball Theatre De-tails whitmanedu

may 5-7 12-14Walla Walla High School Drama Department pres-ents ldquoFiddler on the Roofrdquo musical version 7 pm and 2 pm matinee on Saturdays May 7 and 14 Walla Walla High School Performing arts audito-rium Details Tickets can be reserved by calling 509-526-8613 the Wa-Hi box office

may 5-8 19-21a performance of ldquoThe 25th a nnua l Putnam County Spelling Beerdquo 8 pm Harper Joy Theatre Whitman College Details 509-527-5180

may 6-7Music on the weekends at the Backstage Bistro De-tails 509-526-0690

Sapolil Cellars hosts music on Friday and Saturday De-tails 509-520-5258

The Wildfire hosts music every Friday and Saturday Wildhorse Resort amp Casino Pendleton Details 800-654-9453

may 6-8Walla Walla Valley Winer-ies offer an opportunity to taste their new creations during Spring Release Weekend area wineries introduce new wines and winemakers share their creative inspiration Details 509-526-3117

may 6artWalK First Fridays May through December Visit galleries and chat with art-ists 5-8 pm Downtown Walla Walla Visit artwalk-wallawallacom

may 6-8 13-14The little Theatre presents ldquoalice In Wonderlandrdquo adapted from lewis Carroll 8 pm Friday-Saturday 2 pm Sunday little Theatre of Walla Walla Details 509-529-3683

may 7The annual Junior Horse Show brings great riding action to Milton-Freewater Pioneer Posse Grounds Details 541-938-3379

Daytonrsquos annual Street Sale turns a section of Third Street into a giant yard sale benefits churches and com-munity projects Dayton Details 509-382-4825

artist reception and dem-onstration Washington art-ist Dwight Duke exhibits his painting bronze sculptures and gunpowder light pan-els 6-730 pm Reininger Winery Details 509-522-1994

may 8Every Sunday the living History actors portray in-dividuals from the arearsquos past 2 pm Fort Walla Walla Museum Details 509-525-7703

may 13-15The annual Balloon Stam-pede brings as many as 50 hot-air balloons to the Walla Walla County Fairgrounds This colorful festival re-mains a Valley tradition Ear-ly morning flights (weather permitting) arts amp crafts antique autos commercial booths live entertainment and food Balloons light up to music at the Saturday evening Nite Glow Details 509-525-0850

may 14annual adult event cele-brates the characters who populated Pendletonrsquos past Must have reservations Pendleton Underground Tours Details 800-226-6398

may 14-15 may 27-29Walla Walla Drag Strip con-tinues the weekend fun Details wwdragstripcom or 509-200-6287

may 15Walla Walla University Chamber Series featuring Robyn McCabe 730 pm MKW Fine arts auditorium Details 509-527-2571

may 18To celebrate the opening of Walla Wallarsquos Power House Theatre and a four-day run of Seattle Shakespeare Companyrsquos ldquoThe Merry Wives of WindsorrdquoWalla Walla lifestyles will pres-ent a gala event This exclusive evening will en-chant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fash-ion from 530-9 pm at the Power House Theatre Sixth amp Rose Walla Walla To purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewalla-wallacom

may 19-21During Pendletonrsquos Cattle Baron Weekend enjoy an art exhibit by a talented group of women artists ldquoIn the Company of Cowgirlsrdquo Hamleyrsquos Steakhouse Pendleton Visit inthecom-panyofcowgirlscom or call 541-676-5013

may 19-22Whitman College 50th Reunion class of 1961 Whitman College Details 509-527-5952

Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merr y Wives of Windsorrdquo Pow-erhouse Theater Details 509-742-0739

may 21The annual Ducky Derby is a day of family fun all for a good cause Watch the ducks race down Mill Creek to help fund the Exchange Clubrsquos efforts at preventing child abuse and neglect 1130 am-330 pm Race at about 2 pm Walla Walla Community College De-tails 509-527-4300

Walla Walla University Spring Choral Concert 5 pm Walla Walla Univer-sity Church Details 509-527-2571

learn to contra dance an old-fashioned coun-try dance Music by the Wednesday Night Band 7 pm teaching and practice 730 pm regular dance Unity Church of Peace 810

C St Walla Walla Details 541-938-7403

may 22The Whitman College graduating class of 2011 accepts the challenge 11 am Memorial lawn Whitman College Details 509-527-5156

may 26 27 28 29Walla Walla Community College Theatre arts De-partment presents ldquoZoot Suitrdquo by luis Valdez 7 pm each night and Sunday 2 pm matinee W WCC Performing arts Center Details 509-527-4575

may 27-30 Dayton Days has been a Memorial Weekend tradi-tion in Dayton for nearly 100 years Highlights include a Saturday-morning parade on historic Main Street rodeo tour of Dayton and Memorial Day Fun Run De-tails 509-382-4825 or visit historicdaytoncom

may 28-30The Touchet River Roundup mdash the annual Celebration of Sobriety at the fairgrounds focuses on family fun ac-tivities Waitsburg Details 509-526-3602

may 29annual Onion Man Tria-thalon 9 am Bennington lake Details wwmulti-sportscom or call 509-529-9187

may 30Waitsburgrsquos annual Memo-rial Day celebration hosted by veterans for all veterans Details 509-337-6546

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This sculptural cornucopia marks the spot where all of Walla Walla meets the producers and wersquore not talking about the Zero Mostel and Gene Wild-er musical For you GPS fans latitude 4606678 N longitude 11834197 W

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The sculpture tops the farmers market gazebo on the corner of Fourth Avenue North and West Main Street

Contestensprulesif you have the answer e-mail it to rickdoylewwubcom or send it to Where in Walla Walla 112 S 1st Ave PO Box 1358 Walla Walla WA 99362 The names of 10 people with correct answers will be randomly selected and they will receive this great-looking mug as proof of their local knowledge and good taste

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3 Bergevin Lane vineyards 1215 W Poplar St (509) 526-4300 bergevinlanecom

4 Bunchgrass winery151 Bunchgrass lane (509) 540-8963 wwwbunchgrasswinerycom

5 canoe ridge vineyard1102 W Cherry St (509) 527-0885 wwwcanoeridgevineyardcom

6 castillo de feliciana85728 Telephone Pole Road Milton-Freewater OR (541) 558-3656 wwwcastillodefelicianacom

7 don carlo vineyardBy appointment Only (509) 540-5784 wwwdoncarlovineyardcom

8 dunham cellars150 E Boeing ave (509) 529-4685 wwwdunhamcellarscom

9 five star cellars 840 C St (509) 527-8400 wwwfivestarcellarscom

10 forgeron cellars 33 W Birch St (509) 522-9463 wwwforgeroncellarscom

21 sapolil cellars15 E Main St (509) 520-5258 wwwsapolilcellarscom

22 seven hills winery 212 N Third ave (509) 529-7198 wwwsevenhillswinerycom

23 sinclair estate vineyards 109 E Main Ste 100 (509) 876-4300 wwwsinclairestatevineyardscom

24 spring valley vineyard 18 N Second ave (509) 525-1506 wwwspringvalleyvineyardcom

25 suLei cellars355 S Second ave (503) 529-0840 www suleicellarscom

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11 foundry vineyards Corner of 13th ave and abadie St (509) 529-0736 wwwwallawallafoundrycomvineyards

12 fort walla walla cellars 127 E Main St (509) 520-1095 wwwfortwallawallacellarscom

13 glencorrie8052 Old Highway 12 (509) 525-2585 wwwglencorriecom

14 grantwood winery 2428 W Highway 12 (509) 301-0719 (509) 301-9546

15 Lrsquoecole no 41 winery41 lowden School Road and US Hwy 12 (509) 525-0940 wwwlecolecom

16 Long shadows1604 Frenchtown Road (Formerly Ireland Road) (509) 526-0905 wwwlongshadowscom By invitation only Requests accepted on a limited basis Please call to inquire

17 Lowden hills winery1401 W Pine St (509) 527-1040 wwwlowdenhillswinerycom

18 northstar winery 1736 JB George Road (509) 524-4883 wwwnorthstarmerlotcom

19 pepper Bridge winery1704 JB George Road (509) 525-6502 wwwpepperbridgecom

20 robison ranch cellars2839 Robison Ranch Road (509) 301-3480 robisonranchcellarscom

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26 syZygy 405 E Boeing ave (509) 522-0484 wwwsyzygywinescom

27 three rivers winery5641 Old Highway 12 (509) 526-9463 infoThreeRiversWinerycom

28 tertulia cellars1564 Whiteley Road (509) 525-5700 wwwtertuliacellarscom

29 trust cellars 1050 Merlot Drive (509) 529-4511 wwwtrustcellarscom

30 va piano vineyards1793 JB George Road (509) 529-0900 wwwvapianovineyardscom

31 walla walla vintnersVineyard lane off Mill Creek Road (509) 525-4724 wwwwallawallavintnerscom

32 walla walla wineworks31 E Main St (509) 522-1261 wwwwallawallawineworkscom

33 whitman cellars1015 W Pine St (509) 529-1142 wwwwhitmancellarscom

34 woodward canyon winery11920 W Hwy 12 lowden (509) 525-4129 wwwwoodwardcanyoncom

35 JLc winery425 B St (509) 301-5148

36 saviah cellars1979 JB George Rd

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Mill Creek Rd

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Play is important in Walla Walla the play will truly be the thing when Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo at the newly restored Power House Theatre this month Lifestyles is teaming up with SWW for an inaugural event that will offer guests food fashion and merriment in the Elizabethan manner May 18 Check out our cover spread for a preview of the event

Winston Churchill may have described golf best when he said it ldquois a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purposerdquo

So if you are going to pursue the sport it makes sense to get the best coaching possible Al Mundle who spent 57 years helping others improve their games thought he had put tinkering with other peoplersquos grip stance and swing away for good But that was before Terri Hanson convinced him to offer some pointers to her son Jake who was heading into his final year on the links for the Walla Walla High School Blue Devils

Jim Buchan shows you how this relationship has worked

Work to a lot of people can be repetitious drudgery Larry Adams never had that problem Whether he was flying into enemy fire in vietnam or piloting a helicopter for the president each day challenged his skills and preparation Adams recounts some of those adventures for Lifestyles

Skill and preparation are necessary ingredients for cooking Gina Medica tells how she learned to make culinary creations from Cuba Her specialty is a flan dessert

Dr Donald Smithrsquos specialty is creating an eye-catching garden of colorful flowers The iris is a primary element of his palette Check out his creations in Secret Gardens

Columnist Catie Mcintyre Walker explains how the original palette for the LrsquoEcole No 41 wine labels came from a childrsquos watercolor As the winery has matured it has decided it was time to update the labels

These are only some of the delights awaiting you in the following pages Enjoy

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GinaenspMedica

Gina Medica holds Osito her Yorkie

by andrewenspHoltensp enspphoto by DarrenenspEllisfood

Walla Walla LifestyLes 11

Born in Miami and then raised in Central Los Angeles by her Cuban-born parents Medica learned her craft by observing her mother work in the kitchen Of all Medicarsquos culinary creations it is her Cuban flan dessert that receives the most requests

ldquoEveryone in the family would always request it especially my nieces and nephewrdquo Medica says sitting at her dining room table the freshly presented flan resting in front of her ldquoMy bro can easily eat half of itrdquo

And the flan does not remain uneaten for long as i sit down with the Walla Walla businesswoman and her daughter Elizabeth to discuss and taste this delicacy Minutes after we begin our conversation nephew Nick arrives and quickly wolfs down two servings

irsquove already finished my first and am working on my second when we begin our conversation

LifEStyLES With both of your parents being Havana natives did you eat Cuban food exclusively

MEDiCa No but in the early days Thanksgiving was pretty different My mom would fix the turkey but shersquod serve it with black beans and white rice Wersquod be ldquoAh mom canrsquot we have regular Thanksgiving food like mashed potatoes and yamsrdquo Those came later as we lived in the States longer

LifEStyLES So the food changed as you kids grew older

MEDiCa Well my mom was always pretty good at American food but sometimes it wasnrsquot all the way like she made American spaghetti but she put chicken in it it was good but my brother would always complain that it didnrsquot have meatballs Now he misses the chicken

LifEStyLES How many kids do you have in the family

MEDiCa i have an older brother and a younger sister irsquom the middle one We didnrsquot have a normal childhood in the sense that my mom was a hairstylist at home and on Saturday mornings customers would start arriving at 8 And she had one of those big old hair dryers

Continued on pg 12 gt

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that you put over someonersquos head mdash we called it ldquoFidel Castrordquo mdash and yoursquod have these customers yelling at the top of their voice while they were under it So i never got to sleep in

LifEStyLES it sounds like your mother was quite a lady

MEDiCa i recently found some of her original recipes you know in her own handwriting One of them is for croquetta which was really good you take chicken with corned beef and grind them up bread it and then fry it itrsquos really goodrdquo

LifEStyLES Why do you like the flan so much

MEDiCa Because everyone in the family always requested it i make it a little different The way i make it it is a little more creamy because i use cream cheese itrsquos more like a custard Many times in Mexican restaurants the flan will be more jello-y This is almost like cheesecake

LifEStyLES is it strictly for dessert

MEDiCa yes itrsquos for special occasions

LifEStyLES Like birthdays and parties

MEDiCa yes itrsquos not light you canrsquot have too much or your stomach will start to ache

LifEStyLES Does it take a long time to prepare

MEDiCa Not really Making the caramel sauce takes the most time and you canrsquot take your eyes off it or it might burn

LifEStyLES Tastes like it didnrsquot burn

MEDiCa No i had lots of help My daughter Elizabeth (and she glances over at her youngest child) helped me a lot

andrew hoLt writes about food people and all things Walla Walla for Walla Walla lifestyles magazine He can be reached at bruindrew86gmailcom

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1 can evaporated milk1 can sweetened condensed milk1 cup whole or two percent milk6 eggs1 to 2 teaspoons vanilla extract14 teaspoon salt4 ounces cream cheese

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1 to 1frac12 cup sugar

toenspmakeensptheenspcaramelenspsauce

Place the sugar in a saucepan on medium heat and stir until granules of sugar have liquified and the mixture takes on a caramel color

Pour the mixture into a mold coating the sides This must be done quickly because the mixture will harden also use oven mittens so you donrsquot burn your hands

Put aside

toenspmakeensptheenspflan

Preheat oven to 350 degreesIn a blender mix the sweetened condensed

milk frac12 can of evaporated milk and the milk eggs cream cheese salt and vanilla and blend on low

Pour out half the mixture into a bowl and pour in the remaining evaporated milk and blend

Pour contents of blender and bowl into mold and stir Cover with aluminum foil Crimp the edges of the foil around the mold to keep moisture out

Put the mold in a big cake pan and pour enough water around the mold for it to come part-way up the sides of the mold (we call that ldquobantildeo Mariacuteardquo) and bake for one hour plus 15 to 20 minutes

Use a knife to test done-ness mdash the knife should come out clean

When the flan is done baking let it rest and cool then place it in the refrigerator for 24 hours

The next day dip the mold in warm water before flipping the flan into a serving dish

Makes 12 servings

R EC IP E

food ltcontinued from pg 11

Walla Walla LifestyLes 13

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The old Frenchtown schoolhouse built in 1915 with the stately bell tower still stands it has been a historic fixture in the Walla Walla valley that many of us have grown up with even if we never attended classes there One can still stride up the long sidewalk to the large heavy carved doors with a feeling of reverence and trepidation mdash as if it were the first day of school mdash while imagining generations of children playing on the manicured grounds

in the 1970s the old schoolhouse classrooms found themselves empty of childrenrsquos laughter But in 1983 Jean and Baker Ferguson breathed new life into the old building founding what would become one of the premier wineries in Washington LrsquoEcole No 41

The name was historically im-portant in two ways ldquoLrsquoEcolerdquo French for ldquothe schoolrdquo recognized the French men and women who settled the area and ldquo41rdquo was the numerical designation of the school district

The Fergusonsrsquo first crush of 1983 was resting in the barrel when the following year they asked their elementary school-aged family members to draw an image that would best reflect the new project

The $100 prize went to an 8-year-old cousin whose watercolor interpretation of the old schoolhouse became the template for a wine label it became an iconic label known to wine lovers around the world

in 1989 the second generation of the family Jean and Bakerrsquos daughter and son-

in-law Megan and Martin (Marty) Clubb became the new proprietors of the winery Marty became the general manager and winemaker and would lead the small artisan winery to new heights mdash it would eventually produce more than 30000 cases annually

At the same time the Washington state wine industry was booming and would soon become the nationrsquos second-largest wine producer The area would become one of the premium wine-producing regions in the United States

Marty also became a pioneer in the

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Washington state wine industry as he became a founder and activist in many of the wine industryrsquos foundations and alliances The family-owned winery also partnered with some of the most prestigious vineyards in the state LrsquoEcole No 41 has been honored nine consecutive years by Wine amp Spirits magazine as ldquoWinery of the yearrdquo becoming the second Washington winery inducted into the Hall of Fame

There is a third-generation that has grown up around the winery and will eventually become caretakers of this legacy Meganrsquos and Martyrsquos children Jeanrsquos and Bakerrsquos grandchildren rebecca and riley Clubb had their own meaningful influence on the label with their childhood drawings on the labelrsquos chalkboard image

riley is a 2009 graduate of Whitman College and is employed at the winery rebecca is enrolled in Washington State Universityrsquos wine management program and expected to graduate in 2012

The winery will soon celebrate its 30th birthday The wines produced at the old schoolhouse are refined with true varietal character and can stand up against many coveted wines from France mdash and they have Now that LrsquoEcole is a top player in the world of wine the whimsical label on its bottles is no longer truly indicative of the sophisticated gold and dark-red liquids behind the glass

ldquoLooking to the future we wanted our label to reflect the winery we have becomerdquo says Marty Clubb

This year the winery will unveil a new label it will still depict the iconic schoolhouse but with deeper colors and a new texture There will be a distinct difference among the labels depending on the vineyards used Wines produced from Columbia valley vineyards will have a soft charcoal-colored background label and the labels for the wines produced from Walla Walla vineyards will be more sepia-toned

Another distinctive change will be the de-emphasizing of the ldquoNo 41rdquo as generations of wine lovers have often referred to the winery as ldquoLrsquoEcolerdquo

The new label will be a timeless reminder of the past as well as a welcome to future generations

catie mcintyre waLker blogs at wildwallawallawinewomanblogspotcom and be reached at wildwallawallawinewomancom

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it was 1954 the year he graduated from the University of Oregon and two female students from the university were interested in learning some of the finer points of the game

ldquoit was probably the worst lesson anybody has ever givenrdquo Mundle exclaimed shaking his head in dismay ldquoThese two young ladies were looking for some help and i worked with them for an hour-and-a-half And at the end of that time i said lsquoi have done such a poor job i will pay you for the time i have put you through this torturersquordquo

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 17

Painful as it was the lesson learned proved to be a career-launching moment for Mundle who dedicated himself to his trade and spent a lifetime in the golf business successfully working up and down the i-5 corridor as course operator teacher and player

Fifty-seven years after that first teaching debacle Mundle now 79 years old is retired and living in Walla Walla He and his wife Ann relocated here last summer determined to give up teaching golf and spend more time playing the game they both love

ldquoAfter all of these years of teaching i feel that this is the time to lay it asiderdquo Mundle said ldquoi will still do a little studying of the golf swing and methods and i will be involved with some of the other local professionals in some cracker-barrel sessions when they get together to discuss teaching methods problems and how to solve them

ldquoBut i really came here not to teach but to play some golfrdquo

That was the plan anyway before he was introduced to Walla Walla High School senior Jake Hanson who was looking for a little extra help with his game heading into his final year on the links as a Blue Devil

Terri Hanson Jakersquos mother was aware of Mundlersquos reputation as a teaching professional and heard through the grapevine he was living in Walla Walla

ldquoBeing the mom i am i called him one dayrdquo Terri remembered ldquoi told him that Jakersquos golf game was at a standstill i asked him to take a look at Jake and he agreed to come and meet us and get a feel for where Jake was at

ldquoHe did and before you knew it they were putting on our hardwood floors The next day they agreed to get together at Wine valley mdash they were there for four hours and it has been an amazing connection right from the beginning

ldquoAl is an amazing Christian man who is so well-respected in his fieldrdquo Terri added ldquoAnd he just demands respect irsquom seeing my son of 17 all of a sudden growing uprdquo

Mundle concedes he is intrigued by Hansonrsquos character and potential And

Under the watchful eye of Al Mundle Jake Hanson hits an iron shot

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Hanson holds his new mentor in high esteem

ldquoirsquove learned a tremendous amountrdquo Hanson said ldquoHe has a way of getting through to me in a positive way He got through to me that i am so much better than i thought i could be He has more confidence in me than i have in myself

ldquoHe has one of the best golf swings i have ever seen and he is still working on his own gamerdquo

Mundle said Hanson reminds him of former University of Oregon player Ben Crane who now plays on the PGA Tour Crane has been playing professionally since 2007 and earned nearly $3 million on the tour in 2010

ldquoi was Benrsquos swing coach at Oregon and Jake is somewhat similarrdquo Mundle said ldquoBen worked harder than anybody on the whole golf team He would put in as much

time as three or four others combined and Jake is very much the same way Hersquos very dedicatedrdquo

However Mundle insists that helping Hanson with his game is a one-time situation

After playing just six rounds of golf last year Mundle is determined that he and Ann will spend a lot more time on the golf course as they get acquainted with their new hometown

ldquoThatrsquos an all-time lowrdquo he said of the six rounds played in 2010 ldquoMostly it was the move and all mdash a new house putting in lawn fencing shelving in the garage mdash all the little things of getting settled

ldquoBut this was a good move for us We love it here We enjoy the weather and the people you can walk down the street and people look you in the eye and say lsquoHellorsquo i love that friendlinessrdquo

Mundle grew up in Eugene and graduated from University High School in 1950 He knew he said from the time he was in the seventh grade he wanted to make golf his lifersquos work

ldquoyou might say that i had a little parental directionrdquo Mundle said ldquoMy dad went to the University of St Andrews in Scotland and he played golf at the St Andrews Old Course And my mother also played golfrdquo

After high school Mundle enrolled at the University of Oregon and played three years of varsity golf during an era when there was no such thing as a golf scholarship

ldquoThe only thing we ever received was a half-a-dozen golf balls if we went into a tournamentrdquo Mundle recalled ldquoWhen i went to the NCAA Championships in Texas my senior year i was given a new

people ltcontinued from pg 17

Walla Walla LifestyLes 19

pair of golf shoes but that was itldquoWe bought all of our own gear mdash

clubs bags rain gear everything itrsquos a whole different ball game today They have everythingrdquo

At the end of his sophomore year at Oregon Mundle had it in his mind to ldquotest my golf on the PGA Tourrdquo he said But his father an English professor at the university discouraged him

ldquoHe said lsquoGet your education first then you can do whatever you wantrsquordquo Mundle said ldquoit was just as well i saved a lot of wear and tear mdash and money i was an Ok player but not of that caliberrdquo

Mundle still has fond memories of his collegiate playing career however

ldquoi played three years for the university mdash you werenrsquot allowed to play as freshmen mdash and Oregon always had fine golf teamsrdquo Mundle said ldquoit was mostly match

play then and i was there during the time that the school went seven straight years without losing a (team) dual matchrdquo

During his senior year Mundle qualified for the NCAA Championships in Houston From a field of about 160 players Mundle made it as far as the quarterfinal round

He graduated in 1954 with a degree in history which he said he never really used

ldquoMy dad was in the top one percent of his class at St Andrewsrdquo Mundle said ldquoMy mother was also in the top part of her class and my older brother Pete was in the top of his class And then i came alongrdquo

His first golf job was as an assistant pro at his home course the Laurelwood Golf Course a position he accepted shortly after graduating from UO This was when and where the infamous first golf lesson

occurredA two-year stint in the US Army took

Mundle away from his profession in 1955-56 But he managed to keep his golf game sharp as a member of the Fort knox golf team and in 1956 he was the runner-up in the Second Army tournament and he placed 13th in the All-Army tournament

Then it was back to the Willamette valley where he came into his own in the Portland area under head professionals Eddie Hogan at riverside Country Club and Bunny Mason at Columbia Edgewater

ldquoThose two people were very influential in my professional liferdquo Mundle said

ldquoEddie was a very fine teacher of the total golf operation and service was No 1 i learned how to run the pro shop how

Jake Hanson takes a few pointers on chipping from his instructor and mentor Al Mundle

Continued on pg 20 gt

20 Walla Walla LifestyLes

people ltcontinued from pg 19

to market and merchandise mdash everything from how to run the club service program to the electric cart program to basically running the golf course

ldquoBunny was also a very fine operator of a golf shop and i also learned a lot about teaching from Bunny Sometimes you go along in life and there are certain mentors who help you along the way Anybody who says they made it by themselves is not being honest with themselves We have all had someone who has given us a little boost along the wayrdquo

Mundle took his first head professional job in 1965 at Overlake Golf and Country Club in Bellevue where he remained until 1981 At that point he returned to Eugene and was the head pro at the Eugene Country Club for three years followed by a six-year stint at the Bear Creek Country Club in Seattle

He also spent a short time at a golf course in Cottage Grove Ore before moving back to Eugene for a third time in 1993 to become the director of golf instruction at the river ridge Golf Course He remained at river ridge until his retirement last summer During his time there he helped out as the swing coach at UO under then-head coach Steve Nosler

Through it all Mundle served as president of the Washington PGA and the Pacific Northwest PGA and was a member of several National PGA committees As a player he participated in the Oregon Washington and Pacific Northwest opens as well as the Washington and Oregon PGA events One of his highlights was winning the Oregon Senior PGA Match-Play Championships in Bend in 1993

ldquoi felt i had an obligation to participaterdquo Mundle said ldquoi played a lot of golf including many many pro-ams and i won a couple of assistant championshipsrdquo

in addition to Crane Mundle also helped shape the careers of Jeff Quinney and Eric Johnson both of whom are from the Eugene area

Quinney won the United States Amateur championship in 2000 and represented the US in the Walker Cup in 2001 He has appeared in 128 PGA Tour events since 2007 placing second twice and third twice

Johnson played several years on the Asian Tour and one on the Nationwide Tour He is now a head professional at a

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course in San rafael CalifldquoAnd there have been some others mdash

Brian Henninger Mike Gove a few others mdash who have called and wanted to discus their swingrdquo Mundle said ldquoNothing on a regular basis just one or two sessionsrdquo

is Hanson his next mdash and perhaps his last mdash prodigy

Thatrsquos a tricky question since Hanson came to golf late after a budding baseball career was derailed by a shoulder injury He was a first-team all-Big Nine Conference golf selection as a junior but has yet to qualify for state and his summer resume is thin because of his baseball background

Hansonrsquos original plan was to attend Walla Walla Community College and play golf for the Warriors with the hope of earning an NCAA Division i scholarship But he has since decided to enroll in Arizona State Universityrsquos Professional Golf Management program and try out for the ASU golf team as a walk on

ldquoMore than anything i think it came down to him evaluating his goalsrdquo said Jakersquos father Gary Hanson ldquoitrsquos everyonersquos dream to play on the PGA Tour but realistically he wants to be a golf pro and teach He loves

the gamerdquoAnd a degree in the PGM program

will provide Jake with the educational background he needs to be successful in any form of business his father added

Though his chances of making the ASU varsity team seem unlikely the PGM program provides a club golf team that participates in a series of tournaments throughout the year and gives Hanson a second playing option

And keeping your options open is optimum at this point Mundle said

ldquoi think his driving force at this time mdash and also his folks mdash is to get his education And then he can do whatever he wants if he doesnrsquot go into (the golfing business) immediately he will always have it as a backuprdquo

Sounds an awful lot like the advice Thomas Mundle offered his son back in the spring of 1952 when Al Mundle wanted to leave school after his sophomore year and test his wings on the PGA Tour And as we now know all these years later staying in school worked out pretty well for Al

Jim Buchan is a sports writer for the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin He can be reached at jimbuchanwwubcom

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Join us for a night of wonder with elizabethan-inspired food fashion and merriment to celebrate the opening of walla wallarsquos power house theatre and prepare for a four-day run of seattle shakespeare companyrsquos ldquothe merry wives of windsorrdquo

walla walla lifestyles will present a fashion show with wicked and wistful gowns twisted braided hair and smoldering makeup designs designers include red eden designs autumnlin design and others

semi-formal attire creative masks encouraged this exclusive evening will enchant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fashion

to purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewallawallacom

530 - 9 pm May 18 2011

The Power H o use The at reS i x t h amp R o se Wa l l a Wa l l a

T H E A T R EPOWER HOUSE

My director Terry Edward Moore told me his only direction from the artistic director was that it be ldquoperiodrdquo that is to say authentic to the time

ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo is the only one of Shakespearersquos plays that is set in his own time so it was decided to present it as if the actors were people of the time doing what would be a contemporary (to the late 16th century) play

i started to research the clothing of the time how it was constructed and what kinds of fabrics were available at the time mdash linens homespuns woolens for the common people and silks damasks velvets and furs for the upper classes i discovered that Elizabethan society was strictly regulated in terms of social classes and upward mobility was a little-known concept Once a yeoman always a yeoman i also discovered the set of rules and regulations called ldquosumptuary lawsrdquo which specifically dictated what types of fabrics trims furs and even what colors each class was allowed to wear

Since there are three distinct classes represented in ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo mdash merchant class soldiers and servants mdash i tried to give each class its own color palette based on these laws The overall palette of the show is based on colors actually in use at the time

The availability of dyes was limited (except for the nobility) so the palette consists of many shades of yellows and browns russets black some greens and blue-grays and of course wheat-colored unbleached linen i turned to the Dutch painter Brueghel for inspiration on how the common people looked and dressed

i also researched what kinds of dyes were used and where they came from Dyes were created from all sorts of different things such as walnut shell crushed beetles and all kinds of roots i found a website that sells these authentic dyestuffs so irsquom using the real thing to dye some of the linen pieces and will coordinate the contemporary fabrics to these authentic colors

Nearly every piece will need something done to it mdash altered in some way to fit the actor re-trimmed rigged invisibly for quick changes etc mdash so there is a lot of labor involved Also hats were a hugely important part of Elizabethan fashion all the way down to the poorest serf

Certain styles of hats were often associated with certain professions mdash eg doctors scholars mdash so there are a number of hats to build as well as headpieces for the women No self-respecting woman went about with her head uncovered

Putting together a show like this is like putting together a giant jigsaw puzzle and the pieces are the costumes that irsquove borrowed and rented from other theater companies in the Seattle area such as Seattle repertory Seattle Opera and the University of Washington as well as pieces from Oregon Shakespeare Festival i design the show and then go out into the world and try to find pieces that approximate my designs and palette as closely as possible (usually with some reworking first) The pieces that i cant find and dont want to compromise on i build from scratch

deane middLeton is a theatre costume professional who works in the Seattle area She has done costumes for Issaquahrsquos Village Theater as well as several productions of the Seattle Shakespeare Company

ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 29

ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo was the only one of Shakespearersquos works set in his own time the 1600s and features Sir John Falstaff It also deals primarily with english middle-class life A hilarious bawdy comedy filled with insight into the life and times of Shakespeare ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo will delight people of all ages

About the play

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But thatrsquos exactly what longtime Walla Walla resident Larry Adams did for four years He was one of a select group of pilots for Marine One the helicopter counterpart of the presidential airplane Air Force One from 1970 to 1974

30 Walla Walla LifestyLes

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 31

Long before Adams became the Walla Walla Airport manager he was transporting heads of state foreign dignitaries famous (and now infamous) Cabinet members the executive staff and President richard M Nixon during one of the nationrsquos most turbulent times the withdrawal from vietnam and the Watergate scandal

But to Adams a native of Northern idaho all that swirled around the Nixon presidency was the least of his concerns His job was to transport the president safely to Andrews Air Force Base or Camp David or fly any short flight required Safety always at a premium End of story

Many times Adams ferried President Nixon and his staff on short flights far away from home Air Force One might fly President Nixon to a summit or a meeting with a foreign head of state but Marine One and Adams were always nearby to shuttle the chief executive on short flights or to whisk him away from sudden danger

Pretty heady stuff for a fourth-grade teacher who had never thought about flying until a Marine recruiter offered him the opportunity Although Adams had watched planes take off and land at a nearby air base as a child he had never given serious thought to flying it was more a need for a bigger paycheck than passion that brought Adams to his destiny

He liked teaching but it just wasnrsquot paying the bills So Adams turned to the military and the Gi Bill After being unimpressed by other recruiters Adams took a liking to the fellow from the Marines for as Adams recalls the recruiter took an interest in him After about an hour of talking the recruiter suggested Adams might have the potential to be a pilot

Having easily passed some preliminary tests Adams was sent to flight school in Pensacola Fla and a stellar career was ready to take off He performed well in all the aircraft he piloted but he showed a special skill for helicopters

Up until 1965 fixed-wing airplanes were the staple of all military air combat But the military had been gearing up for a big change The helicopter was to become a major part of combat The Pentagon had been developing helicopters that would do much more than transport troops to bases Now they would assist in bombing

raids ground attacks and the evacuation of the injured from the point of combat This new breed of helicopters would also possess the ability to fight back and not be lame ducks as before the new H34 would tote machine guns on each side

These cutting-edge aircraft would travel at unprecedented speeds with newly discovered agility Gifted pilots were needed not those who merely possessed superior technical skills but those who also had the composure to fly straight into

enemy fire in the dead of night picking up injured soldiers or aiding air attacks

Adams was one of those pilots and he would be one of two squadron leaders for ldquoOperation Starliterdquo mdash the first major assault using helicopters The Marines were going straight into a North vietnamese regimental stronghold No one knew what to expect

ldquoWe lost a lot that first time inrdquo says Adams ldquoTwo crew chiefs were killed

Continued on pg 32 gt

In this newspaper clipping Larry Adams poses on the steps of the helicopter dubbed Marine One which he piloted for President Richard M Nixon

32 Walla Walla LifestyLes

people ltcontinued from pg 31

four pilots were medevaced out because of their wounds i donrsquot think there was one helicopter that didnrsquot have a bunch of holes in it The one i flew in we got a lot of rounds in it Amazingly no one was hurt but when we got back the helicopter was so shot-up you couldnrsquot fly it anymore We lost 50 percent of our helicopters that dayrdquo

in the next 13 months Adams would fly many more missions often heading straight into anti-aircraft fire to pick up injured or killed soldiers He says he would see the flares signifying where the copter was supposed to land but frequently hersquod have to veer off because ground communication would say ldquoThe artillery is too hotrdquo Then there would be a window maybe two minutes maybe five when the helicopter could drop in and pick up the injured often being shot at as it waited for its passengers

Adams knew the best way to survive was to keep his focus ldquoin the daylight when you start your run in and yoursquore getting shot at Everything went to black and white for me i didnrsquot notice the green trees or the green rice paddies until we got out of there and then it would come back

to me i donrsquot know what that was i just didnrsquot see the colors irsquove talked to some other pilots and they described the same thingrdquo

in his two tours of duty in vietnam Adams would fly 880 combat missions in several types of helicopters and fixed-wing airplanes He received numerous medals including two Navy commendations for performance under combat conditions

Then the call came to fly for the president Before Adams could tote the commander in chief around in Marine One a thorough background check had to be done So thorough was the check that Adams said a friend from his hometown sent him a card that read ldquoAre you in some kind of trouble Jesus therersquos been a bunch of people around here with the dark grey suits and the skinny little ties Theyrsquore asking all these embarrassing questions about you like did you have drinking problem Did you have a gambling problem Do you know what Larryrsquos sexual preference wasrdquo

Adams chuckles ldquoit was pretty funnyrdquoAdams passed the grade and soon

he was flying President Nixon and his family to Camp David or picking up vice

President Spiro Agnew at the Pentagon or taking Secretary of State Henry kissinger or Secretary of Defense Alexander Haig to a classified meeting Although his flights varied from transporting foreign heads of state to flying members of the press the majority involved the president the vice president kissinger and Haig

The pilots did not speak to their travelers unless spoken to says Adams President Nixon usually looked in and asked them how they were kissinger never spoke Haig was good for a pat on the shoulder now and then but it was Agnew who conversed the most says Adams

Adams remembers ldquoOne time we picked him up at the Pentagon and we had taken off and had hit top altitude He usually would come up and look into the cockpit but this time he patted me on the shoulder and asked lsquoWell howrsquos it going today guysrsquordquo Adams replied ldquoNot bad sir and how about yourselfrdquo

Agnew answered ldquoMan they are really after my assrdquo He was talking about the press Adams says ldquoTwo weeks later he resignedrdquo

Adams recalls that his encounters with Agnew as defying the public perception

Adams far right gives instructions before a mission in Vietnam

Walla Walla LifestyLes 33

that Agnew was arrogant ldquoHe was always one of the nicest guys He was straightforward He looked like he had just stepped off the cover of Gentlemenrsquos Quarterly all the time He was very proper in the way he dressed but he had a sense of humor as wellrdquo

There were other humorous moments Adams recalls a certain reporter from CBS who had been a major thorn in President Nixonrsquos side was late for takeoff from the South Lawn of the White House one morning Just as Marine One was about to leave without him he came running across the lawn hollering and waving his arms The Secret Service agent supervising the flight told Adams to ldquojust gordquo The wind from the propellers whipped the reporterrsquos toupee right off his head and instead of continuing his run toward Marine One he reversed his field and tried feverishly to retrieve his toupee snagged in the hedges

ldquoEveryone got a pretty good chuckle out of thatrdquo

Of course there were somber times At one point Adams flew Cabinet members John Ehrlichman and Hr Haldeman to Camp David for a meeting with the president After only 15 minutes the two men returned and Marine One headed home Adams says it was a quiet flight He found out later the two men had been fired by President Nixon for their parts in the Watergate scandal

Whisking the president away from danger was a major part of being a pilot of Marine One Stationed across the river from the Capitol pilots awakened by an emergency alert had to be up in the air in five minutes This exercise was practiced often though never needed during Adamsrsquo tenure

One night however they thought it was The operator at the White House mistakenly hit the ldquoAlertrdquo button Marine One was in the air in five minutes

Although ground control had not spotted any enemy aircraft the operation was under way As Marine One closed in on the White House the operator at fault tried to alert everyone of his mistake but unfortunately used a poor choice of words to call off the operation

Adams chuckles as he says ldquoThe fella said lsquoThis is not an exercisersquo He was moved to another post i thinkrdquo

All levity aside the position required

the same kind of focus demanded of Adams in vietnam though it came in a different form

ldquoThere were three things the way you operated the aircraft and they were in this order safety comfort and speed Safety never gave in to comfort or speedrdquo says Adams ldquoOur job was just concentrating on doing our job it could have been anybody mdash we would do it the same way it could have been Fred Flintstone

ldquoThe difference between flying for the White House and in vietnam was we were flying a premier aircraft We had to keep it impeccably clean everything was scripted We had to have the lsquoopen-the-door timersquo down to two to four seconds in vietnam it was the stress of performing medevacs under fire or dropping troops under heavy artillery For Marine One it was the stress of doing the job rightrdquo

Also the stress of being away from onersquos family 200 days of the year wore on a Marine One pilot in 1974 after four years on the job the toll became too much and Adams stepped down

He would stay with the Marines for eight more years retiring in August 1982

By then he had received 44 Air Medals including the Joint Service Commendation and the Presidential Service Badge in his 20 years of service Adams flew seven different helicopters and five different fixed-wing planes

What makes an elite military pilot ldquoPilots who donrsquot have any misgivingsrdquo says Adams ldquoTheyrsquore totally prepared they know their aircraftrdquo

When talking about his colleagues on Marine One he adds ldquoNone were boasters They might brag about a great landing but they did not brag in spite of someone elserdquo

What did Adams love most about his flying days ldquoi enjoyed flying with the latest technology and the pristine quality of Marine One i loved the process of building my skills i could have flown another 40 years and i would still be learning thingsrdquo

is it any surprise his favorite hobby now is fly fishing

andrew hoLt writes about food people and all things Walla Walla for Walla Walla lifestyles magazine He can be reached at bruindrew86gmailcom

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it is astonishing in many ways mdash that we are presented with two weeks of top-drawer music performed by top-drawer musi-cians that there are so many ways to encounter the music (many of them free) and that a rural community has provided the incu-

bator for such a cultural undertaking to name but a fewGranted we are not your average rural community having two

colleges a university a symphony a choral society a community band and music in the schools but letrsquos face it wersquore not exactly a cosmopolitan center of culture like New york either The Cham-ber Music Festival mdash and our continued support of it through some tough times mdash puts us in a category all our own

ldquoi saw what was special about this community the first time i visited in 2007rdquo Artistic Director Timothy Christie says ldquoi have

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worked hard to start this event and to my great joy it has taken on an iden-tity of its own i hire the musicians and choose the music but the town its people and its environs make the festivalrdquo

The beauty of chamber music is its intimacy mdash smaller ensembles performing for smaller audiences it has been referred to as ldquothe music of friendsrdquo which seems so apt at this festival Free open rehearsals are held around town that provide not only a musical atmosphere in which to enjoy a latte or the ambiance of the kirkman House but which give a richer look into the machinations of a working ensemble

As one enthusiastic fan puts it ldquoi am not a musician and itrsquos fascinat-ing to watch these rehearsals to see the interactions of the musicians as they work out the snags make wry remarks and relate to each other in a whole different way than during a for-mal performance i get a glimpse into their personalities and what makes them tickrdquo

The festival supplies a generous of-fering of venues with free concerts for children and families relaxed evening programs at wineries and full concerts at the Foundry Chism Hall and Day-tonrsquos Liberty Theater

if you are lucky enough to live near the musiciansrsquo lodgings while they are in town you may also be treated to an ad hoc front-porch concert as the ensembles continue their rehearsals in more private settings The festival is about all of these ways mdash planned and accidental mdash to experience the enchantment of chamber music

it is also about historic continuity and the connection between past and present mdash relishing the existing canon while expanding the genre with con-temporary forms and voices

How is this accomplished in part by the annual commission of a new piece of music for the festival Chris-tie is committed to contributing to the broader chamber music repertoire and to providing the audience with the richest possible experience

Continued on pg 36 gt

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ldquoFor classical music to be relevant there must be a conversation between the music of our time and the music of the pastrdquo he says

By commissioning a work for the festi-val each year Christie creates such a con-versation

This year the commission was given to John David Earnest Four festival commis-sions have preceded his and he is the sec-ond ldquolocalrdquo composer to be tapped add-ing another layer of relationship between community and event (in 2009 Whitman College professor David Glenn was given the nod)

As visiting adjunct professor of music at Whitman Earnest resides here for six weeks every semester His ldquoSecond Sym-phonyrdquo was written for and performed by the Walla Walla Symphony in October 2001

The challenge for the yearly commis-sionee is to compose a piece on demand within specific constraints of time place and instrumentation while expressing hisher own voice as an artist

Earnest has created ldquoCommedia Gal-leryrdquo a set of three movements for flute

viola and harp based on stock characters from the Commedia dellrsquoArte a popu-lar theatrical form that was influential in Europe for over 300 years Commedia characters improvised dialogue around set scenarios generally involving the struggles of young lovers to overcome hindrances to their romance and each character even-tually came to have a consistent set of at-tributes in speech mannerisms and cos-tume

Earnestrsquos ldquoGalleryrdquo gives us Arlecchi-no (Harlequin) an acrobatic and devious jester Pierrot the classic sad clown and finally Scaramouche a dandy and a brag-gart who is a coward at heart

in anticipation of this yearrsquos festival i am reminded of the scene in ldquoThe Music Manrdquo in which the town awaits the ar-rival of the Wells Fargo Wagon Potentially heaped with gifts and surprises it prom-ises connection to the larger world The WWCMF brings us all ldquosomethinrsquo specialrdquo mdash an enrichment of our community and our culture

margaret Jamison is an artist and writer living in Walla Walla Contact her at artjamisongmailcom

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Smith has gardened for years at his home at 38 Mulberry Court in College Place He used to grow vegetables and flowers now he is strictly focusing on flowers mdash with fabulous results roses delphiniums and lots of irises line the fence

ldquoirises mdash irsquove always enjoyed themrdquo he says ldquoThey take a little bit of weeding and watering but not much morerdquo itrsquos the gardenerrsquos dream mdash low maintenance with a big return

A retired orthopedic surgeon Smith has in the past gardened more extensively than he does now But he has enough plants to keep him busy His new project is planting more of the reblooming iris These are still hardy but you get twice the reward they bloom in the spring then again in the fall

ldquoTheyrsquore easy to grow and spectacular for a short time iris take less care than a lot of thingsrdquo Smith says

His secret for gardening is simple and therersquos no getting around it ldquoTime and workrdquo he laughs

Hersquos getting ready to start in the garden ldquoi need to clean out the leaves and the old foliage of the irisrdquo

in addition to the basic cleaning and maintenance Smith just decides how many plants to keep Bulb flowers are hardy and they multiply on their own

ldquoAfter five years you usually have to separate the bulbs when they get too thick i donrsquot have room to add more i put in the new re-blooming onesrdquo he explains ldquoi may add more and a few other thingsrdquo

But in a garden you can always try something new or rearrange existing plants often with a spectacular outcome

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itrsquos an odd location since it can only be seen as yoursquore leaving town but it always makes me smile This valley my adopted home is indeed a great place to be

i recently finished reading the great Western writer Wallace Stegnerrsquos book ldquoThe Sound of Mountain Waterrdquo One of his essays traces his nomadic childhood which left him feeling rootless and without a place that he felt he could call home

i identify with his feeling of not belonging i was born to a single woman from Massachusetts in a New york City hospital i stayed a scant few days before being placed with an adoption agency Born in a place i had no familial connection to i was immediately deprived of my biological family Most of my childhood was spent in suburban Cleveland Ohio Moves to upstate New york New England and Pennsylvania brought me no closer to calling any place home i loved living in the western Massachusetts town of Stockbridge but the multigenerational denizens of the town left few openings for newcomers like me i lived in central Pennsylvania for several decades but felt detached from the deep roots that most people had in the area

When we came west (for my husband a homecoming to his Oregon roots for me a new experience) i noticed that even in long-established towns like Walla Walla there is ample room for newcomers who want to be

part of the community And most folks who choose to come here donrsquot seem to want to change the valley they prefer to embrace it

While the occasional newbie whines about the lack of Whole Foods or Nordstrom they soon discover our farmers markets the wide variety of local shops and boutiques and our world-class restaurants They fall in love with our charming downtowns the small-town friendliness of the people and our kid-friendly environment Then therersquos the holiday parade the fair the ever-present Blue Mountains the parks the museums the wineries mdash really whatrsquos not to like The communities of our valley represent America at its best

irsquom a newspaper junkie i love to read everything from news to sports to classifieds mdash even the obituaries The obits are a fascinating window on our valley Many of the people chronicled were born here some lived all their lives here inextricably bound to this place But a number of people came here from other places often far away and have made a mark on our area Which makes me wonder mdash is a place any less of a hometown because you choose it or is it based primarily on the happenstance of your birth it seems that therersquos room for both paths to calling this wonderful valley home

itrsquos also our strength because collectively as a community we bring both deep familial and cultural traditions as well as the fresh perspective of newcomers to our area irsquom glad mdash after decades of searching mdash that i finally found my hometown a place that feels just right

diane reed can be reached at ladybookearthlinknet Between columns and when the spirit moves her she blogs at wwwponderingsbydianereedblogspotcom from her home overlooking the pond at lions Park in College Place

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Maymay 1The annual Kennel Club Dog Show Walla Walla County Fairgrounds De-tails 509-558-3854

The Walla Walla University Drama Department pres-ents a performance of ldquoMy Fair ladyrdquo 2 pm matinee Details 509-527-2656

The Walla Walla Choral Society presents ldquoJubilate Deordquo 3 pm May 1 Walla Walla University Church College Place Details 509-386-2445

The Walla Walla Valley Farmers Market opens local produce artisans and an outdoor concert 9 am-1 pm Saturdays and Sundays through Oct 30 Crawford Park Fourth ave and Main St Details gowallawallafarmersmar-ketcom or 509-520-3647

through may 22Enjoy the annual Senior art Thesis Exhibition Sheehan Gallery Whitman College Details 509-527-5249

through JuLy 31The Tamaacutestslikt Cultural In-stitute hosts the traveling OMSI exhibit ldquoamazing Feats of agingrdquo explor-ing the mysteries of why animals and humans age Details 541-966-9748

may 4The YWCa leadership luncheon ldquoMatters that Matterrdquo is informational and inspirational with guest speakers Kristine Van Raden and Molly Da-vis Noon Marcus Whit-man Hotel Details 509-525-2570

Walla Walla Wine Works hosts music on Wednes-days downtown Details 509-522-1261

may 5First Thursday Concert at St Pauls Episcopal Church 323 Catherine Street Walla Walla 1215-1250 pm will feature the Steel Drum Band from Walla Walla Uni-versity directed by Brandon Beck Details 529-1083

The Whitman College Visit-ing Writers Reading series presents Whitman Reading 7 pm Kimball Theatre De-tails whitmanedu

may 5-7 12-14Walla Walla High School Drama Department pres-ents ldquoFiddler on the Roofrdquo musical version 7 pm and 2 pm matinee on Saturdays May 7 and 14 Walla Walla High School Performing arts audito-rium Details Tickets can be reserved by calling 509-526-8613 the Wa-Hi box office

may 5-8 19-21a performance of ldquoThe 25th a nnua l Putnam County Spelling Beerdquo 8 pm Harper Joy Theatre Whitman College Details 509-527-5180

may 6-7Music on the weekends at the Backstage Bistro De-tails 509-526-0690

Sapolil Cellars hosts music on Friday and Saturday De-tails 509-520-5258

The Wildfire hosts music every Friday and Saturday Wildhorse Resort amp Casino Pendleton Details 800-654-9453

may 6-8Walla Walla Valley Winer-ies offer an opportunity to taste their new creations during Spring Release Weekend area wineries introduce new wines and winemakers share their creative inspiration Details 509-526-3117

may 6artWalK First Fridays May through December Visit galleries and chat with art-ists 5-8 pm Downtown Walla Walla Visit artwalk-wallawallacom

may 6-8 13-14The little Theatre presents ldquoalice In Wonderlandrdquo adapted from lewis Carroll 8 pm Friday-Saturday 2 pm Sunday little Theatre of Walla Walla Details 509-529-3683

may 7The annual Junior Horse Show brings great riding action to Milton-Freewater Pioneer Posse Grounds Details 541-938-3379

Daytonrsquos annual Street Sale turns a section of Third Street into a giant yard sale benefits churches and com-munity projects Dayton Details 509-382-4825

artist reception and dem-onstration Washington art-ist Dwight Duke exhibits his painting bronze sculptures and gunpowder light pan-els 6-730 pm Reininger Winery Details 509-522-1994

may 8Every Sunday the living History actors portray in-dividuals from the arearsquos past 2 pm Fort Walla Walla Museum Details 509-525-7703

may 13-15The annual Balloon Stam-pede brings as many as 50 hot-air balloons to the Walla Walla County Fairgrounds This colorful festival re-mains a Valley tradition Ear-ly morning flights (weather permitting) arts amp crafts antique autos commercial booths live entertainment and food Balloons light up to music at the Saturday evening Nite Glow Details 509-525-0850

may 14annual adult event cele-brates the characters who populated Pendletonrsquos past Must have reservations Pendleton Underground Tours Details 800-226-6398

may 14-15 may 27-29Walla Walla Drag Strip con-tinues the weekend fun Details wwdragstripcom or 509-200-6287

may 15Walla Walla University Chamber Series featuring Robyn McCabe 730 pm MKW Fine arts auditorium Details 509-527-2571

may 18To celebrate the opening of Walla Wallarsquos Power House Theatre and a four-day run of Seattle Shakespeare Companyrsquos ldquoThe Merry Wives of WindsorrdquoWalla Walla lifestyles will pres-ent a gala event This exclusive evening will en-chant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fash-ion from 530-9 pm at the Power House Theatre Sixth amp Rose Walla Walla To purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewalla-wallacom

may 19-21During Pendletonrsquos Cattle Baron Weekend enjoy an art exhibit by a talented group of women artists ldquoIn the Company of Cowgirlsrdquo Hamleyrsquos Steakhouse Pendleton Visit inthecom-panyofcowgirlscom or call 541-676-5013

may 19-22Whitman College 50th Reunion class of 1961 Whitman College Details 509-527-5952

Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merr y Wives of Windsorrdquo Pow-erhouse Theater Details 509-742-0739

may 21The annual Ducky Derby is a day of family fun all for a good cause Watch the ducks race down Mill Creek to help fund the Exchange Clubrsquos efforts at preventing child abuse and neglect 1130 am-330 pm Race at about 2 pm Walla Walla Community College De-tails 509-527-4300

Walla Walla University Spring Choral Concert 5 pm Walla Walla Univer-sity Church Details 509-527-2571

learn to contra dance an old-fashioned coun-try dance Music by the Wednesday Night Band 7 pm teaching and practice 730 pm regular dance Unity Church of Peace 810

C St Walla Walla Details 541-938-7403

may 22The Whitman College graduating class of 2011 accepts the challenge 11 am Memorial lawn Whitman College Details 509-527-5156

may 26 27 28 29Walla Walla Community College Theatre arts De-partment presents ldquoZoot Suitrdquo by luis Valdez 7 pm each night and Sunday 2 pm matinee W WCC Performing arts Center Details 509-527-4575

may 27-30 Dayton Days has been a Memorial Weekend tradi-tion in Dayton for nearly 100 years Highlights include a Saturday-morning parade on historic Main Street rodeo tour of Dayton and Memorial Day Fun Run De-tails 509-382-4825 or visit historicdaytoncom

may 28-30The Touchet River Roundup mdash the annual Celebration of Sobriety at the fairgrounds focuses on family fun ac-tivities Waitsburg Details 509-526-3602

may 29annual Onion Man Tria-thalon 9 am Bennington lake Details wwmulti-sportscom or call 509-529-9187

may 30Waitsburgrsquos annual Memo-rial Day celebration hosted by veterans for all veterans Details 509-337-6546

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This sculptural cornucopia marks the spot where all of Walla Walla meets the producers and wersquore not talking about the Zero Mostel and Gene Wild-er musical For you GPS fans latitude 4606678 N longitude 11834197 W

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The sculpture tops the farmers market gazebo on the corner of Fourth Avenue North and West Main Street

Contestensprulesif you have the answer e-mail it to rickdoylewwubcom or send it to Where in Walla Walla 112 S 1st Ave PO Box 1358 Walla Walla WA 99362 The names of 10 people with correct answers will be randomly selected and they will receive this great-looking mug as proof of their local knowledge and good taste

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1 amavi cellars3796 Peppers Bridge Road (509) 525-3541 wwwamavicellarscom

2 Basel cellars estate winery2901 Old Milton Hwy (509) 522-0200 wwwbaselcellarscom

3 Bergevin Lane vineyards 1215 W Poplar St (509) 526-4300 bergevinlanecom

4 Bunchgrass winery151 Bunchgrass lane (509) 540-8963 wwwbunchgrasswinerycom

5 canoe ridge vineyard1102 W Cherry St (509) 527-0885 wwwcanoeridgevineyardcom

6 castillo de feliciana85728 Telephone Pole Road Milton-Freewater OR (541) 558-3656 wwwcastillodefelicianacom

7 don carlo vineyardBy appointment Only (509) 540-5784 wwwdoncarlovineyardcom

8 dunham cellars150 E Boeing ave (509) 529-4685 wwwdunhamcellarscom

9 five star cellars 840 C St (509) 527-8400 wwwfivestarcellarscom

10 forgeron cellars 33 W Birch St (509) 522-9463 wwwforgeroncellarscom

21 sapolil cellars15 E Main St (509) 520-5258 wwwsapolilcellarscom

22 seven hills winery 212 N Third ave (509) 529-7198 wwwsevenhillswinerycom

23 sinclair estate vineyards 109 E Main Ste 100 (509) 876-4300 wwwsinclairestatevineyardscom

24 spring valley vineyard 18 N Second ave (509) 525-1506 wwwspringvalleyvineyardcom

25 suLei cellars355 S Second ave (503) 529-0840 www suleicellarscom

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11 foundry vineyards Corner of 13th ave and abadie St (509) 529-0736 wwwwallawallafoundrycomvineyards

12 fort walla walla cellars 127 E Main St (509) 520-1095 wwwfortwallawallacellarscom

13 glencorrie8052 Old Highway 12 (509) 525-2585 wwwglencorriecom

14 grantwood winery 2428 W Highway 12 (509) 301-0719 (509) 301-9546

15 Lrsquoecole no 41 winery41 lowden School Road and US Hwy 12 (509) 525-0940 wwwlecolecom

16 Long shadows1604 Frenchtown Road (Formerly Ireland Road) (509) 526-0905 wwwlongshadowscom By invitation only Requests accepted on a limited basis Please call to inquire

17 Lowden hills winery1401 W Pine St (509) 527-1040 wwwlowdenhillswinerycom

18 northstar winery 1736 JB George Road (509) 524-4883 wwwnorthstarmerlotcom

19 pepper Bridge winery1704 JB George Road (509) 525-6502 wwwpepperbridgecom

20 robison ranch cellars2839 Robison Ranch Road (509) 301-3480 robisonranchcellarscom

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26 syZygy 405 E Boeing ave (509) 522-0484 wwwsyzygywinescom

27 three rivers winery5641 Old Highway 12 (509) 526-9463 infoThreeRiversWinerycom

28 tertulia cellars1564 Whiteley Road (509) 525-5700 wwwtertuliacellarscom

29 trust cellars 1050 Merlot Drive (509) 529-4511 wwwtrustcellarscom

30 va piano vineyards1793 JB George Road (509) 529-0900 wwwvapianovineyardscom

31 walla walla vintnersVineyard lane off Mill Creek Road (509) 525-4724 wwwwallawallavintnerscom

32 walla walla wineworks31 E Main St (509) 522-1261 wwwwallawallawineworkscom

33 whitman cellars1015 W Pine St (509) 529-1142 wwwwhitmancellarscom

34 woodward canyon winery11920 W Hwy 12 lowden (509) 525-4129 wwwwoodwardcanyoncom

35 JLc winery425 B St (509) 301-5148

36 saviah cellars1979 JB George Rd

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Mill Creek Rd

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Play is important in Walla Walla the play will truly be the thing when Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo at the newly restored Power House Theatre this month Lifestyles is teaming up with SWW for an inaugural event that will offer guests food fashion and merriment in the Elizabethan manner May 18 Check out our cover spread for a preview of the event

Winston Churchill may have described golf best when he said it ldquois a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purposerdquo

So if you are going to pursue the sport it makes sense to get the best coaching possible Al Mundle who spent 57 years helping others improve their games thought he had put tinkering with other peoplersquos grip stance and swing away for good But that was before Terri Hanson convinced him to offer some pointers to her son Jake who was heading into his final year on the links for the Walla Walla High School Blue Devils

Jim Buchan shows you how this relationship has worked

Work to a lot of people can be repetitious drudgery Larry Adams never had that problem Whether he was flying into enemy fire in vietnam or piloting a helicopter for the president each day challenged his skills and preparation Adams recounts some of those adventures for Lifestyles

Skill and preparation are necessary ingredients for cooking Gina Medica tells how she learned to make culinary creations from Cuba Her specialty is a flan dessert

Dr Donald Smithrsquos specialty is creating an eye-catching garden of colorful flowers The iris is a primary element of his palette Check out his creations in Secret Gardens

Columnist Catie Mcintyre Walker explains how the original palette for the LrsquoEcole No 41 wine labels came from a childrsquos watercolor As the winery has matured it has decided it was time to update the labels

These are only some of the delights awaiting you in the following pages Enjoy

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Gina Medica holds Osito her Yorkie

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 11

Born in Miami and then raised in Central Los Angeles by her Cuban-born parents Medica learned her craft by observing her mother work in the kitchen Of all Medicarsquos culinary creations it is her Cuban flan dessert that receives the most requests

ldquoEveryone in the family would always request it especially my nieces and nephewrdquo Medica says sitting at her dining room table the freshly presented flan resting in front of her ldquoMy bro can easily eat half of itrdquo

And the flan does not remain uneaten for long as i sit down with the Walla Walla businesswoman and her daughter Elizabeth to discuss and taste this delicacy Minutes after we begin our conversation nephew Nick arrives and quickly wolfs down two servings

irsquove already finished my first and am working on my second when we begin our conversation

LifEStyLES With both of your parents being Havana natives did you eat Cuban food exclusively

MEDiCa No but in the early days Thanksgiving was pretty different My mom would fix the turkey but shersquod serve it with black beans and white rice Wersquod be ldquoAh mom canrsquot we have regular Thanksgiving food like mashed potatoes and yamsrdquo Those came later as we lived in the States longer

LifEStyLES So the food changed as you kids grew older

MEDiCa Well my mom was always pretty good at American food but sometimes it wasnrsquot all the way like she made American spaghetti but she put chicken in it it was good but my brother would always complain that it didnrsquot have meatballs Now he misses the chicken

LifEStyLES How many kids do you have in the family

MEDiCa i have an older brother and a younger sister irsquom the middle one We didnrsquot have a normal childhood in the sense that my mom was a hairstylist at home and on Saturday mornings customers would start arriving at 8 And she had one of those big old hair dryers

Continued on pg 12 gt

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that you put over someonersquos head mdash we called it ldquoFidel Castrordquo mdash and yoursquod have these customers yelling at the top of their voice while they were under it So i never got to sleep in

LifEStyLES it sounds like your mother was quite a lady

MEDiCa i recently found some of her original recipes you know in her own handwriting One of them is for croquetta which was really good you take chicken with corned beef and grind them up bread it and then fry it itrsquos really goodrdquo

LifEStyLES Why do you like the flan so much

MEDiCa Because everyone in the family always requested it i make it a little different The way i make it it is a little more creamy because i use cream cheese itrsquos more like a custard Many times in Mexican restaurants the flan will be more jello-y This is almost like cheesecake

LifEStyLES is it strictly for dessert

MEDiCa yes itrsquos for special occasions

LifEStyLES Like birthdays and parties

MEDiCa yes itrsquos not light you canrsquot have too much or your stomach will start to ache

LifEStyLES Does it take a long time to prepare

MEDiCa Not really Making the caramel sauce takes the most time and you canrsquot take your eyes off it or it might burn

LifEStyLES Tastes like it didnrsquot burn

MEDiCa No i had lots of help My daughter Elizabeth (and she glances over at her youngest child) helped me a lot

andrew hoLt writes about food people and all things Walla Walla for Walla Walla lifestyles magazine He can be reached at bruindrew86gmailcom

Cubanenspflaningredientsenspforenspflan

1 can evaporated milk1 can sweetened condensed milk1 cup whole or two percent milk6 eggs1 to 2 teaspoons vanilla extract14 teaspoon salt4 ounces cream cheese

ingredientsenspforenspcaramelenspsauce

1 to 1frac12 cup sugar

toenspmakeensptheenspcaramelenspsauce

Place the sugar in a saucepan on medium heat and stir until granules of sugar have liquified and the mixture takes on a caramel color

Pour the mixture into a mold coating the sides This must be done quickly because the mixture will harden also use oven mittens so you donrsquot burn your hands

Put aside

toenspmakeensptheenspflan

Preheat oven to 350 degreesIn a blender mix the sweetened condensed

milk frac12 can of evaporated milk and the milk eggs cream cheese salt and vanilla and blend on low

Pour out half the mixture into a bowl and pour in the remaining evaporated milk and blend

Pour contents of blender and bowl into mold and stir Cover with aluminum foil Crimp the edges of the foil around the mold to keep moisture out

Put the mold in a big cake pan and pour enough water around the mold for it to come part-way up the sides of the mold (we call that ldquobantildeo Mariacuteardquo) and bake for one hour plus 15 to 20 minutes

Use a knife to test done-ness mdash the knife should come out clean

When the flan is done baking let it rest and cool then place it in the refrigerator for 24 hours

The next day dip the mold in warm water before flipping the flan into a serving dish

Makes 12 servings

R EC IP E

food ltcontinued from pg 11

Walla Walla LifestyLes 13

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The old Frenchtown schoolhouse built in 1915 with the stately bell tower still stands it has been a historic fixture in the Walla Walla valley that many of us have grown up with even if we never attended classes there One can still stride up the long sidewalk to the large heavy carved doors with a feeling of reverence and trepidation mdash as if it were the first day of school mdash while imagining generations of children playing on the manicured grounds

in the 1970s the old schoolhouse classrooms found themselves empty of childrenrsquos laughter But in 1983 Jean and Baker Ferguson breathed new life into the old building founding what would become one of the premier wineries in Washington LrsquoEcole No 41

The name was historically im-portant in two ways ldquoLrsquoEcolerdquo French for ldquothe schoolrdquo recognized the French men and women who settled the area and ldquo41rdquo was the numerical designation of the school district

The Fergusonsrsquo first crush of 1983 was resting in the barrel when the following year they asked their elementary school-aged family members to draw an image that would best reflect the new project

The $100 prize went to an 8-year-old cousin whose watercolor interpretation of the old schoolhouse became the template for a wine label it became an iconic label known to wine lovers around the world

in 1989 the second generation of the family Jean and Bakerrsquos daughter and son-

in-law Megan and Martin (Marty) Clubb became the new proprietors of the winery Marty became the general manager and winemaker and would lead the small artisan winery to new heights mdash it would eventually produce more than 30000 cases annually

At the same time the Washington state wine industry was booming and would soon become the nationrsquos second-largest wine producer The area would become one of the premium wine-producing regions in the United States

Marty also became a pioneer in the

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Washington state wine industry as he became a founder and activist in many of the wine industryrsquos foundations and alliances The family-owned winery also partnered with some of the most prestigious vineyards in the state LrsquoEcole No 41 has been honored nine consecutive years by Wine amp Spirits magazine as ldquoWinery of the yearrdquo becoming the second Washington winery inducted into the Hall of Fame

There is a third-generation that has grown up around the winery and will eventually become caretakers of this legacy Meganrsquos and Martyrsquos children Jeanrsquos and Bakerrsquos grandchildren rebecca and riley Clubb had their own meaningful influence on the label with their childhood drawings on the labelrsquos chalkboard image

riley is a 2009 graduate of Whitman College and is employed at the winery rebecca is enrolled in Washington State Universityrsquos wine management program and expected to graduate in 2012

The winery will soon celebrate its 30th birthday The wines produced at the old schoolhouse are refined with true varietal character and can stand up against many coveted wines from France mdash and they have Now that LrsquoEcole is a top player in the world of wine the whimsical label on its bottles is no longer truly indicative of the sophisticated gold and dark-red liquids behind the glass

ldquoLooking to the future we wanted our label to reflect the winery we have becomerdquo says Marty Clubb

This year the winery will unveil a new label it will still depict the iconic schoolhouse but with deeper colors and a new texture There will be a distinct difference among the labels depending on the vineyards used Wines produced from Columbia valley vineyards will have a soft charcoal-colored background label and the labels for the wines produced from Walla Walla vineyards will be more sepia-toned

Another distinctive change will be the de-emphasizing of the ldquoNo 41rdquo as generations of wine lovers have often referred to the winery as ldquoLrsquoEcolerdquo

The new label will be a timeless reminder of the past as well as a welcome to future generations

catie mcintyre waLker blogs at wildwallawallawinewomanblogspotcom and be reached at wildwallawallawinewomancom

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it was 1954 the year he graduated from the University of Oregon and two female students from the university were interested in learning some of the finer points of the game

ldquoit was probably the worst lesson anybody has ever givenrdquo Mundle exclaimed shaking his head in dismay ldquoThese two young ladies were looking for some help and i worked with them for an hour-and-a-half And at the end of that time i said lsquoi have done such a poor job i will pay you for the time i have put you through this torturersquordquo

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 17

Painful as it was the lesson learned proved to be a career-launching moment for Mundle who dedicated himself to his trade and spent a lifetime in the golf business successfully working up and down the i-5 corridor as course operator teacher and player

Fifty-seven years after that first teaching debacle Mundle now 79 years old is retired and living in Walla Walla He and his wife Ann relocated here last summer determined to give up teaching golf and spend more time playing the game they both love

ldquoAfter all of these years of teaching i feel that this is the time to lay it asiderdquo Mundle said ldquoi will still do a little studying of the golf swing and methods and i will be involved with some of the other local professionals in some cracker-barrel sessions when they get together to discuss teaching methods problems and how to solve them

ldquoBut i really came here not to teach but to play some golfrdquo

That was the plan anyway before he was introduced to Walla Walla High School senior Jake Hanson who was looking for a little extra help with his game heading into his final year on the links as a Blue Devil

Terri Hanson Jakersquos mother was aware of Mundlersquos reputation as a teaching professional and heard through the grapevine he was living in Walla Walla

ldquoBeing the mom i am i called him one dayrdquo Terri remembered ldquoi told him that Jakersquos golf game was at a standstill i asked him to take a look at Jake and he agreed to come and meet us and get a feel for where Jake was at

ldquoHe did and before you knew it they were putting on our hardwood floors The next day they agreed to get together at Wine valley mdash they were there for four hours and it has been an amazing connection right from the beginning

ldquoAl is an amazing Christian man who is so well-respected in his fieldrdquo Terri added ldquoAnd he just demands respect irsquom seeing my son of 17 all of a sudden growing uprdquo

Mundle concedes he is intrigued by Hansonrsquos character and potential And

Under the watchful eye of Al Mundle Jake Hanson hits an iron shot

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Hanson holds his new mentor in high esteem

ldquoirsquove learned a tremendous amountrdquo Hanson said ldquoHe has a way of getting through to me in a positive way He got through to me that i am so much better than i thought i could be He has more confidence in me than i have in myself

ldquoHe has one of the best golf swings i have ever seen and he is still working on his own gamerdquo

Mundle said Hanson reminds him of former University of Oregon player Ben Crane who now plays on the PGA Tour Crane has been playing professionally since 2007 and earned nearly $3 million on the tour in 2010

ldquoi was Benrsquos swing coach at Oregon and Jake is somewhat similarrdquo Mundle said ldquoBen worked harder than anybody on the whole golf team He would put in as much

time as three or four others combined and Jake is very much the same way Hersquos very dedicatedrdquo

However Mundle insists that helping Hanson with his game is a one-time situation

After playing just six rounds of golf last year Mundle is determined that he and Ann will spend a lot more time on the golf course as they get acquainted with their new hometown

ldquoThatrsquos an all-time lowrdquo he said of the six rounds played in 2010 ldquoMostly it was the move and all mdash a new house putting in lawn fencing shelving in the garage mdash all the little things of getting settled

ldquoBut this was a good move for us We love it here We enjoy the weather and the people you can walk down the street and people look you in the eye and say lsquoHellorsquo i love that friendlinessrdquo

Mundle grew up in Eugene and graduated from University High School in 1950 He knew he said from the time he was in the seventh grade he wanted to make golf his lifersquos work

ldquoyou might say that i had a little parental directionrdquo Mundle said ldquoMy dad went to the University of St Andrews in Scotland and he played golf at the St Andrews Old Course And my mother also played golfrdquo

After high school Mundle enrolled at the University of Oregon and played three years of varsity golf during an era when there was no such thing as a golf scholarship

ldquoThe only thing we ever received was a half-a-dozen golf balls if we went into a tournamentrdquo Mundle recalled ldquoWhen i went to the NCAA Championships in Texas my senior year i was given a new

people ltcontinued from pg 17

Walla Walla LifestyLes 19

pair of golf shoes but that was itldquoWe bought all of our own gear mdash

clubs bags rain gear everything itrsquos a whole different ball game today They have everythingrdquo

At the end of his sophomore year at Oregon Mundle had it in his mind to ldquotest my golf on the PGA Tourrdquo he said But his father an English professor at the university discouraged him

ldquoHe said lsquoGet your education first then you can do whatever you wantrsquordquo Mundle said ldquoit was just as well i saved a lot of wear and tear mdash and money i was an Ok player but not of that caliberrdquo

Mundle still has fond memories of his collegiate playing career however

ldquoi played three years for the university mdash you werenrsquot allowed to play as freshmen mdash and Oregon always had fine golf teamsrdquo Mundle said ldquoit was mostly match

play then and i was there during the time that the school went seven straight years without losing a (team) dual matchrdquo

During his senior year Mundle qualified for the NCAA Championships in Houston From a field of about 160 players Mundle made it as far as the quarterfinal round

He graduated in 1954 with a degree in history which he said he never really used

ldquoMy dad was in the top one percent of his class at St Andrewsrdquo Mundle said ldquoMy mother was also in the top part of her class and my older brother Pete was in the top of his class And then i came alongrdquo

His first golf job was as an assistant pro at his home course the Laurelwood Golf Course a position he accepted shortly after graduating from UO This was when and where the infamous first golf lesson

occurredA two-year stint in the US Army took

Mundle away from his profession in 1955-56 But he managed to keep his golf game sharp as a member of the Fort knox golf team and in 1956 he was the runner-up in the Second Army tournament and he placed 13th in the All-Army tournament

Then it was back to the Willamette valley where he came into his own in the Portland area under head professionals Eddie Hogan at riverside Country Club and Bunny Mason at Columbia Edgewater

ldquoThose two people were very influential in my professional liferdquo Mundle said

ldquoEddie was a very fine teacher of the total golf operation and service was No 1 i learned how to run the pro shop how

Jake Hanson takes a few pointers on chipping from his instructor and mentor Al Mundle

Continued on pg 20 gt

20 Walla Walla LifestyLes

people ltcontinued from pg 19

to market and merchandise mdash everything from how to run the club service program to the electric cart program to basically running the golf course

ldquoBunny was also a very fine operator of a golf shop and i also learned a lot about teaching from Bunny Sometimes you go along in life and there are certain mentors who help you along the way Anybody who says they made it by themselves is not being honest with themselves We have all had someone who has given us a little boost along the wayrdquo

Mundle took his first head professional job in 1965 at Overlake Golf and Country Club in Bellevue where he remained until 1981 At that point he returned to Eugene and was the head pro at the Eugene Country Club for three years followed by a six-year stint at the Bear Creek Country Club in Seattle

He also spent a short time at a golf course in Cottage Grove Ore before moving back to Eugene for a third time in 1993 to become the director of golf instruction at the river ridge Golf Course He remained at river ridge until his retirement last summer During his time there he helped out as the swing coach at UO under then-head coach Steve Nosler

Through it all Mundle served as president of the Washington PGA and the Pacific Northwest PGA and was a member of several National PGA committees As a player he participated in the Oregon Washington and Pacific Northwest opens as well as the Washington and Oregon PGA events One of his highlights was winning the Oregon Senior PGA Match-Play Championships in Bend in 1993

ldquoi felt i had an obligation to participaterdquo Mundle said ldquoi played a lot of golf including many many pro-ams and i won a couple of assistant championshipsrdquo

in addition to Crane Mundle also helped shape the careers of Jeff Quinney and Eric Johnson both of whom are from the Eugene area

Quinney won the United States Amateur championship in 2000 and represented the US in the Walker Cup in 2001 He has appeared in 128 PGA Tour events since 2007 placing second twice and third twice

Johnson played several years on the Asian Tour and one on the Nationwide Tour He is now a head professional at a

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course in San rafael CalifldquoAnd there have been some others mdash

Brian Henninger Mike Gove a few others mdash who have called and wanted to discus their swingrdquo Mundle said ldquoNothing on a regular basis just one or two sessionsrdquo

is Hanson his next mdash and perhaps his last mdash prodigy

Thatrsquos a tricky question since Hanson came to golf late after a budding baseball career was derailed by a shoulder injury He was a first-team all-Big Nine Conference golf selection as a junior but has yet to qualify for state and his summer resume is thin because of his baseball background

Hansonrsquos original plan was to attend Walla Walla Community College and play golf for the Warriors with the hope of earning an NCAA Division i scholarship But he has since decided to enroll in Arizona State Universityrsquos Professional Golf Management program and try out for the ASU golf team as a walk on

ldquoMore than anything i think it came down to him evaluating his goalsrdquo said Jakersquos father Gary Hanson ldquoitrsquos everyonersquos dream to play on the PGA Tour but realistically he wants to be a golf pro and teach He loves

the gamerdquoAnd a degree in the PGM program

will provide Jake with the educational background he needs to be successful in any form of business his father added

Though his chances of making the ASU varsity team seem unlikely the PGM program provides a club golf team that participates in a series of tournaments throughout the year and gives Hanson a second playing option

And keeping your options open is optimum at this point Mundle said

ldquoi think his driving force at this time mdash and also his folks mdash is to get his education And then he can do whatever he wants if he doesnrsquot go into (the golfing business) immediately he will always have it as a backuprdquo

Sounds an awful lot like the advice Thomas Mundle offered his son back in the spring of 1952 when Al Mundle wanted to leave school after his sophomore year and test his wings on the PGA Tour And as we now know all these years later staying in school worked out pretty well for Al

Jim Buchan is a sports writer for the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin He can be reached at jimbuchanwwubcom

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Join us for a night of wonder with elizabethan-inspired food fashion and merriment to celebrate the opening of walla wallarsquos power house theatre and prepare for a four-day run of seattle shakespeare companyrsquos ldquothe merry wives of windsorrdquo

walla walla lifestyles will present a fashion show with wicked and wistful gowns twisted braided hair and smoldering makeup designs designers include red eden designs autumnlin design and others

semi-formal attire creative masks encouraged this exclusive evening will enchant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fashion

to purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewallawallacom

530 - 9 pm May 18 2011

The Power H o use The at reS i x t h amp R o se Wa l l a Wa l l a

T H E A T R EPOWER HOUSE

My director Terry Edward Moore told me his only direction from the artistic director was that it be ldquoperiodrdquo that is to say authentic to the time

ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo is the only one of Shakespearersquos plays that is set in his own time so it was decided to present it as if the actors were people of the time doing what would be a contemporary (to the late 16th century) play

i started to research the clothing of the time how it was constructed and what kinds of fabrics were available at the time mdash linens homespuns woolens for the common people and silks damasks velvets and furs for the upper classes i discovered that Elizabethan society was strictly regulated in terms of social classes and upward mobility was a little-known concept Once a yeoman always a yeoman i also discovered the set of rules and regulations called ldquosumptuary lawsrdquo which specifically dictated what types of fabrics trims furs and even what colors each class was allowed to wear

Since there are three distinct classes represented in ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo mdash merchant class soldiers and servants mdash i tried to give each class its own color palette based on these laws The overall palette of the show is based on colors actually in use at the time

The availability of dyes was limited (except for the nobility) so the palette consists of many shades of yellows and browns russets black some greens and blue-grays and of course wheat-colored unbleached linen i turned to the Dutch painter Brueghel for inspiration on how the common people looked and dressed

i also researched what kinds of dyes were used and where they came from Dyes were created from all sorts of different things such as walnut shell crushed beetles and all kinds of roots i found a website that sells these authentic dyestuffs so irsquom using the real thing to dye some of the linen pieces and will coordinate the contemporary fabrics to these authentic colors

Nearly every piece will need something done to it mdash altered in some way to fit the actor re-trimmed rigged invisibly for quick changes etc mdash so there is a lot of labor involved Also hats were a hugely important part of Elizabethan fashion all the way down to the poorest serf

Certain styles of hats were often associated with certain professions mdash eg doctors scholars mdash so there are a number of hats to build as well as headpieces for the women No self-respecting woman went about with her head uncovered

Putting together a show like this is like putting together a giant jigsaw puzzle and the pieces are the costumes that irsquove borrowed and rented from other theater companies in the Seattle area such as Seattle repertory Seattle Opera and the University of Washington as well as pieces from Oregon Shakespeare Festival i design the show and then go out into the world and try to find pieces that approximate my designs and palette as closely as possible (usually with some reworking first) The pieces that i cant find and dont want to compromise on i build from scratch

deane middLeton is a theatre costume professional who works in the Seattle area She has done costumes for Issaquahrsquos Village Theater as well as several productions of the Seattle Shakespeare Company

ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 29

ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo was the only one of Shakespearersquos works set in his own time the 1600s and features Sir John Falstaff It also deals primarily with english middle-class life A hilarious bawdy comedy filled with insight into the life and times of Shakespeare ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo will delight people of all ages

About the play

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But thatrsquos exactly what longtime Walla Walla resident Larry Adams did for four years He was one of a select group of pilots for Marine One the helicopter counterpart of the presidential airplane Air Force One from 1970 to 1974

30 Walla Walla LifestyLes

by andrewenspHoltensp enspphoto by ColbyenspKuschatkapeople

Walla Walla LifestyLes 31

Long before Adams became the Walla Walla Airport manager he was transporting heads of state foreign dignitaries famous (and now infamous) Cabinet members the executive staff and President richard M Nixon during one of the nationrsquos most turbulent times the withdrawal from vietnam and the Watergate scandal

But to Adams a native of Northern idaho all that swirled around the Nixon presidency was the least of his concerns His job was to transport the president safely to Andrews Air Force Base or Camp David or fly any short flight required Safety always at a premium End of story

Many times Adams ferried President Nixon and his staff on short flights far away from home Air Force One might fly President Nixon to a summit or a meeting with a foreign head of state but Marine One and Adams were always nearby to shuttle the chief executive on short flights or to whisk him away from sudden danger

Pretty heady stuff for a fourth-grade teacher who had never thought about flying until a Marine recruiter offered him the opportunity Although Adams had watched planes take off and land at a nearby air base as a child he had never given serious thought to flying it was more a need for a bigger paycheck than passion that brought Adams to his destiny

He liked teaching but it just wasnrsquot paying the bills So Adams turned to the military and the Gi Bill After being unimpressed by other recruiters Adams took a liking to the fellow from the Marines for as Adams recalls the recruiter took an interest in him After about an hour of talking the recruiter suggested Adams might have the potential to be a pilot

Having easily passed some preliminary tests Adams was sent to flight school in Pensacola Fla and a stellar career was ready to take off He performed well in all the aircraft he piloted but he showed a special skill for helicopters

Up until 1965 fixed-wing airplanes were the staple of all military air combat But the military had been gearing up for a big change The helicopter was to become a major part of combat The Pentagon had been developing helicopters that would do much more than transport troops to bases Now they would assist in bombing

raids ground attacks and the evacuation of the injured from the point of combat This new breed of helicopters would also possess the ability to fight back and not be lame ducks as before the new H34 would tote machine guns on each side

These cutting-edge aircraft would travel at unprecedented speeds with newly discovered agility Gifted pilots were needed not those who merely possessed superior technical skills but those who also had the composure to fly straight into

enemy fire in the dead of night picking up injured soldiers or aiding air attacks

Adams was one of those pilots and he would be one of two squadron leaders for ldquoOperation Starliterdquo mdash the first major assault using helicopters The Marines were going straight into a North vietnamese regimental stronghold No one knew what to expect

ldquoWe lost a lot that first time inrdquo says Adams ldquoTwo crew chiefs were killed

Continued on pg 32 gt

In this newspaper clipping Larry Adams poses on the steps of the helicopter dubbed Marine One which he piloted for President Richard M Nixon

32 Walla Walla LifestyLes

people ltcontinued from pg 31

four pilots were medevaced out because of their wounds i donrsquot think there was one helicopter that didnrsquot have a bunch of holes in it The one i flew in we got a lot of rounds in it Amazingly no one was hurt but when we got back the helicopter was so shot-up you couldnrsquot fly it anymore We lost 50 percent of our helicopters that dayrdquo

in the next 13 months Adams would fly many more missions often heading straight into anti-aircraft fire to pick up injured or killed soldiers He says he would see the flares signifying where the copter was supposed to land but frequently hersquod have to veer off because ground communication would say ldquoThe artillery is too hotrdquo Then there would be a window maybe two minutes maybe five when the helicopter could drop in and pick up the injured often being shot at as it waited for its passengers

Adams knew the best way to survive was to keep his focus ldquoin the daylight when you start your run in and yoursquore getting shot at Everything went to black and white for me i didnrsquot notice the green trees or the green rice paddies until we got out of there and then it would come back

to me i donrsquot know what that was i just didnrsquot see the colors irsquove talked to some other pilots and they described the same thingrdquo

in his two tours of duty in vietnam Adams would fly 880 combat missions in several types of helicopters and fixed-wing airplanes He received numerous medals including two Navy commendations for performance under combat conditions

Then the call came to fly for the president Before Adams could tote the commander in chief around in Marine One a thorough background check had to be done So thorough was the check that Adams said a friend from his hometown sent him a card that read ldquoAre you in some kind of trouble Jesus therersquos been a bunch of people around here with the dark grey suits and the skinny little ties Theyrsquore asking all these embarrassing questions about you like did you have drinking problem Did you have a gambling problem Do you know what Larryrsquos sexual preference wasrdquo

Adams chuckles ldquoit was pretty funnyrdquoAdams passed the grade and soon

he was flying President Nixon and his family to Camp David or picking up vice

President Spiro Agnew at the Pentagon or taking Secretary of State Henry kissinger or Secretary of Defense Alexander Haig to a classified meeting Although his flights varied from transporting foreign heads of state to flying members of the press the majority involved the president the vice president kissinger and Haig

The pilots did not speak to their travelers unless spoken to says Adams President Nixon usually looked in and asked them how they were kissinger never spoke Haig was good for a pat on the shoulder now and then but it was Agnew who conversed the most says Adams

Adams remembers ldquoOne time we picked him up at the Pentagon and we had taken off and had hit top altitude He usually would come up and look into the cockpit but this time he patted me on the shoulder and asked lsquoWell howrsquos it going today guysrsquordquo Adams replied ldquoNot bad sir and how about yourselfrdquo

Agnew answered ldquoMan they are really after my assrdquo He was talking about the press Adams says ldquoTwo weeks later he resignedrdquo

Adams recalls that his encounters with Agnew as defying the public perception

Adams far right gives instructions before a mission in Vietnam

Walla Walla LifestyLes 33

that Agnew was arrogant ldquoHe was always one of the nicest guys He was straightforward He looked like he had just stepped off the cover of Gentlemenrsquos Quarterly all the time He was very proper in the way he dressed but he had a sense of humor as wellrdquo

There were other humorous moments Adams recalls a certain reporter from CBS who had been a major thorn in President Nixonrsquos side was late for takeoff from the South Lawn of the White House one morning Just as Marine One was about to leave without him he came running across the lawn hollering and waving his arms The Secret Service agent supervising the flight told Adams to ldquojust gordquo The wind from the propellers whipped the reporterrsquos toupee right off his head and instead of continuing his run toward Marine One he reversed his field and tried feverishly to retrieve his toupee snagged in the hedges

ldquoEveryone got a pretty good chuckle out of thatrdquo

Of course there were somber times At one point Adams flew Cabinet members John Ehrlichman and Hr Haldeman to Camp David for a meeting with the president After only 15 minutes the two men returned and Marine One headed home Adams says it was a quiet flight He found out later the two men had been fired by President Nixon for their parts in the Watergate scandal

Whisking the president away from danger was a major part of being a pilot of Marine One Stationed across the river from the Capitol pilots awakened by an emergency alert had to be up in the air in five minutes This exercise was practiced often though never needed during Adamsrsquo tenure

One night however they thought it was The operator at the White House mistakenly hit the ldquoAlertrdquo button Marine One was in the air in five minutes

Although ground control had not spotted any enemy aircraft the operation was under way As Marine One closed in on the White House the operator at fault tried to alert everyone of his mistake but unfortunately used a poor choice of words to call off the operation

Adams chuckles as he says ldquoThe fella said lsquoThis is not an exercisersquo He was moved to another post i thinkrdquo

All levity aside the position required

the same kind of focus demanded of Adams in vietnam though it came in a different form

ldquoThere were three things the way you operated the aircraft and they were in this order safety comfort and speed Safety never gave in to comfort or speedrdquo says Adams ldquoOur job was just concentrating on doing our job it could have been anybody mdash we would do it the same way it could have been Fred Flintstone

ldquoThe difference between flying for the White House and in vietnam was we were flying a premier aircraft We had to keep it impeccably clean everything was scripted We had to have the lsquoopen-the-door timersquo down to two to four seconds in vietnam it was the stress of performing medevacs under fire or dropping troops under heavy artillery For Marine One it was the stress of doing the job rightrdquo

Also the stress of being away from onersquos family 200 days of the year wore on a Marine One pilot in 1974 after four years on the job the toll became too much and Adams stepped down

He would stay with the Marines for eight more years retiring in August 1982

By then he had received 44 Air Medals including the Joint Service Commendation and the Presidential Service Badge in his 20 years of service Adams flew seven different helicopters and five different fixed-wing planes

What makes an elite military pilot ldquoPilots who donrsquot have any misgivingsrdquo says Adams ldquoTheyrsquore totally prepared they know their aircraftrdquo

When talking about his colleagues on Marine One he adds ldquoNone were boasters They might brag about a great landing but they did not brag in spite of someone elserdquo

What did Adams love most about his flying days ldquoi enjoyed flying with the latest technology and the pristine quality of Marine One i loved the process of building my skills i could have flown another 40 years and i would still be learning thingsrdquo

is it any surprise his favorite hobby now is fly fishing

andrew hoLt writes about food people and all things Walla Walla for Walla Walla lifestyles magazine He can be reached at bruindrew86gmailcom

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it is astonishing in many ways mdash that we are presented with two weeks of top-drawer music performed by top-drawer musi-cians that there are so many ways to encounter the music (many of them free) and that a rural community has provided the incu-

bator for such a cultural undertaking to name but a fewGranted we are not your average rural community having two

colleges a university a symphony a choral society a community band and music in the schools but letrsquos face it wersquore not exactly a cosmopolitan center of culture like New york either The Cham-ber Music Festival mdash and our continued support of it through some tough times mdash puts us in a category all our own

ldquoi saw what was special about this community the first time i visited in 2007rdquo Artistic Director Timothy Christie says ldquoi have

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 35

worked hard to start this event and to my great joy it has taken on an iden-tity of its own i hire the musicians and choose the music but the town its people and its environs make the festivalrdquo

The beauty of chamber music is its intimacy mdash smaller ensembles performing for smaller audiences it has been referred to as ldquothe music of friendsrdquo which seems so apt at this festival Free open rehearsals are held around town that provide not only a musical atmosphere in which to enjoy a latte or the ambiance of the kirkman House but which give a richer look into the machinations of a working ensemble

As one enthusiastic fan puts it ldquoi am not a musician and itrsquos fascinat-ing to watch these rehearsals to see the interactions of the musicians as they work out the snags make wry remarks and relate to each other in a whole different way than during a for-mal performance i get a glimpse into their personalities and what makes them tickrdquo

The festival supplies a generous of-fering of venues with free concerts for children and families relaxed evening programs at wineries and full concerts at the Foundry Chism Hall and Day-tonrsquos Liberty Theater

if you are lucky enough to live near the musiciansrsquo lodgings while they are in town you may also be treated to an ad hoc front-porch concert as the ensembles continue their rehearsals in more private settings The festival is about all of these ways mdash planned and accidental mdash to experience the enchantment of chamber music

it is also about historic continuity and the connection between past and present mdash relishing the existing canon while expanding the genre with con-temporary forms and voices

How is this accomplished in part by the annual commission of a new piece of music for the festival Chris-tie is committed to contributing to the broader chamber music repertoire and to providing the audience with the richest possible experience

Continued on pg 36 gt

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ldquoFor classical music to be relevant there must be a conversation between the music of our time and the music of the pastrdquo he says

By commissioning a work for the festi-val each year Christie creates such a con-versation

This year the commission was given to John David Earnest Four festival commis-sions have preceded his and he is the sec-ond ldquolocalrdquo composer to be tapped add-ing another layer of relationship between community and event (in 2009 Whitman College professor David Glenn was given the nod)

As visiting adjunct professor of music at Whitman Earnest resides here for six weeks every semester His ldquoSecond Sym-phonyrdquo was written for and performed by the Walla Walla Symphony in October 2001

The challenge for the yearly commis-sionee is to compose a piece on demand within specific constraints of time place and instrumentation while expressing hisher own voice as an artist

Earnest has created ldquoCommedia Gal-leryrdquo a set of three movements for flute

viola and harp based on stock characters from the Commedia dellrsquoArte a popu-lar theatrical form that was influential in Europe for over 300 years Commedia characters improvised dialogue around set scenarios generally involving the struggles of young lovers to overcome hindrances to their romance and each character even-tually came to have a consistent set of at-tributes in speech mannerisms and cos-tume

Earnestrsquos ldquoGalleryrdquo gives us Arlecchi-no (Harlequin) an acrobatic and devious jester Pierrot the classic sad clown and finally Scaramouche a dandy and a brag-gart who is a coward at heart

in anticipation of this yearrsquos festival i am reminded of the scene in ldquoThe Music Manrdquo in which the town awaits the ar-rival of the Wells Fargo Wagon Potentially heaped with gifts and surprises it prom-ises connection to the larger world The WWCMF brings us all ldquosomethinrsquo specialrdquo mdash an enrichment of our community and our culture

margaret Jamison is an artist and writer living in Walla Walla Contact her at artjamisongmailcom

One Winerytwo labels three cowsSpofford Station winemaker Lynne Chamberlain is the only native of Walla Walla to manage her own vineyards produce her own wines and raise Cabernet Cows to bootDonrsquot miss her many 90+ point wines at the tasting room at the vineyards or in the new locationClick for todayrsquos schedule

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Smith has gardened for years at his home at 38 Mulberry Court in College Place He used to grow vegetables and flowers now he is strictly focusing on flowers mdash with fabulous results roses delphiniums and lots of irises line the fence

ldquoirises mdash irsquove always enjoyed themrdquo he says ldquoThey take a little bit of weeding and watering but not much morerdquo itrsquos the gardenerrsquos dream mdash low maintenance with a big return

A retired orthopedic surgeon Smith has in the past gardened more extensively than he does now But he has enough plants to keep him busy His new project is planting more of the reblooming iris These are still hardy but you get twice the reward they bloom in the spring then again in the fall

ldquoTheyrsquore easy to grow and spectacular for a short time iris take less care than a lot of thingsrdquo Smith says

His secret for gardening is simple and therersquos no getting around it ldquoTime and workrdquo he laughs

Hersquos getting ready to start in the garden ldquoi need to clean out the leaves and the old foliage of the irisrdquo

in addition to the basic cleaning and maintenance Smith just decides how many plants to keep Bulb flowers are hardy and they multiply on their own

ldquoAfter five years you usually have to separate the bulbs when they get too thick i donrsquot have room to add more i put in the new re-blooming onesrdquo he explains ldquoi may add more and a few other thingsrdquo

But in a garden you can always try something new or rearrange existing plants often with a spectacular outcome

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itrsquos an odd location since it can only be seen as yoursquore leaving town but it always makes me smile This valley my adopted home is indeed a great place to be

i recently finished reading the great Western writer Wallace Stegnerrsquos book ldquoThe Sound of Mountain Waterrdquo One of his essays traces his nomadic childhood which left him feeling rootless and without a place that he felt he could call home

i identify with his feeling of not belonging i was born to a single woman from Massachusetts in a New york City hospital i stayed a scant few days before being placed with an adoption agency Born in a place i had no familial connection to i was immediately deprived of my biological family Most of my childhood was spent in suburban Cleveland Ohio Moves to upstate New york New England and Pennsylvania brought me no closer to calling any place home i loved living in the western Massachusetts town of Stockbridge but the multigenerational denizens of the town left few openings for newcomers like me i lived in central Pennsylvania for several decades but felt detached from the deep roots that most people had in the area

When we came west (for my husband a homecoming to his Oregon roots for me a new experience) i noticed that even in long-established towns like Walla Walla there is ample room for newcomers who want to be

part of the community And most folks who choose to come here donrsquot seem to want to change the valley they prefer to embrace it

While the occasional newbie whines about the lack of Whole Foods or Nordstrom they soon discover our farmers markets the wide variety of local shops and boutiques and our world-class restaurants They fall in love with our charming downtowns the small-town friendliness of the people and our kid-friendly environment Then therersquos the holiday parade the fair the ever-present Blue Mountains the parks the museums the wineries mdash really whatrsquos not to like The communities of our valley represent America at its best

irsquom a newspaper junkie i love to read everything from news to sports to classifieds mdash even the obituaries The obits are a fascinating window on our valley Many of the people chronicled were born here some lived all their lives here inextricably bound to this place But a number of people came here from other places often far away and have made a mark on our area Which makes me wonder mdash is a place any less of a hometown because you choose it or is it based primarily on the happenstance of your birth it seems that therersquos room for both paths to calling this wonderful valley home

itrsquos also our strength because collectively as a community we bring both deep familial and cultural traditions as well as the fresh perspective of newcomers to our area irsquom glad mdash after decades of searching mdash that i finally found my hometown a place that feels just right

diane reed can be reached at ladybookearthlinknet Between columns and when the spirit moves her she blogs at wwwponderingsbydianereedblogspotcom from her home overlooking the pond at lions Park in College Place

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Maymay 1The annual Kennel Club Dog Show Walla Walla County Fairgrounds De-tails 509-558-3854

The Walla Walla University Drama Department pres-ents a performance of ldquoMy Fair ladyrdquo 2 pm matinee Details 509-527-2656

The Walla Walla Choral Society presents ldquoJubilate Deordquo 3 pm May 1 Walla Walla University Church College Place Details 509-386-2445

The Walla Walla Valley Farmers Market opens local produce artisans and an outdoor concert 9 am-1 pm Saturdays and Sundays through Oct 30 Crawford Park Fourth ave and Main St Details gowallawallafarmersmar-ketcom or 509-520-3647

through may 22Enjoy the annual Senior art Thesis Exhibition Sheehan Gallery Whitman College Details 509-527-5249

through JuLy 31The Tamaacutestslikt Cultural In-stitute hosts the traveling OMSI exhibit ldquoamazing Feats of agingrdquo explor-ing the mysteries of why animals and humans age Details 541-966-9748

may 4The YWCa leadership luncheon ldquoMatters that Matterrdquo is informational and inspirational with guest speakers Kristine Van Raden and Molly Da-vis Noon Marcus Whit-man Hotel Details 509-525-2570

Walla Walla Wine Works hosts music on Wednes-days downtown Details 509-522-1261

may 5First Thursday Concert at St Pauls Episcopal Church 323 Catherine Street Walla Walla 1215-1250 pm will feature the Steel Drum Band from Walla Walla Uni-versity directed by Brandon Beck Details 529-1083

The Whitman College Visit-ing Writers Reading series presents Whitman Reading 7 pm Kimball Theatre De-tails whitmanedu

may 5-7 12-14Walla Walla High School Drama Department pres-ents ldquoFiddler on the Roofrdquo musical version 7 pm and 2 pm matinee on Saturdays May 7 and 14 Walla Walla High School Performing arts audito-rium Details Tickets can be reserved by calling 509-526-8613 the Wa-Hi box office

may 5-8 19-21a performance of ldquoThe 25th a nnua l Putnam County Spelling Beerdquo 8 pm Harper Joy Theatre Whitman College Details 509-527-5180

may 6-7Music on the weekends at the Backstage Bistro De-tails 509-526-0690

Sapolil Cellars hosts music on Friday and Saturday De-tails 509-520-5258

The Wildfire hosts music every Friday and Saturday Wildhorse Resort amp Casino Pendleton Details 800-654-9453

may 6-8Walla Walla Valley Winer-ies offer an opportunity to taste their new creations during Spring Release Weekend area wineries introduce new wines and winemakers share their creative inspiration Details 509-526-3117

may 6artWalK First Fridays May through December Visit galleries and chat with art-ists 5-8 pm Downtown Walla Walla Visit artwalk-wallawallacom

may 6-8 13-14The little Theatre presents ldquoalice In Wonderlandrdquo adapted from lewis Carroll 8 pm Friday-Saturday 2 pm Sunday little Theatre of Walla Walla Details 509-529-3683

may 7The annual Junior Horse Show brings great riding action to Milton-Freewater Pioneer Posse Grounds Details 541-938-3379

Daytonrsquos annual Street Sale turns a section of Third Street into a giant yard sale benefits churches and com-munity projects Dayton Details 509-382-4825

artist reception and dem-onstration Washington art-ist Dwight Duke exhibits his painting bronze sculptures and gunpowder light pan-els 6-730 pm Reininger Winery Details 509-522-1994

may 8Every Sunday the living History actors portray in-dividuals from the arearsquos past 2 pm Fort Walla Walla Museum Details 509-525-7703

may 13-15The annual Balloon Stam-pede brings as many as 50 hot-air balloons to the Walla Walla County Fairgrounds This colorful festival re-mains a Valley tradition Ear-ly morning flights (weather permitting) arts amp crafts antique autos commercial booths live entertainment and food Balloons light up to music at the Saturday evening Nite Glow Details 509-525-0850

may 14annual adult event cele-brates the characters who populated Pendletonrsquos past Must have reservations Pendleton Underground Tours Details 800-226-6398

may 14-15 may 27-29Walla Walla Drag Strip con-tinues the weekend fun Details wwdragstripcom or 509-200-6287

may 15Walla Walla University Chamber Series featuring Robyn McCabe 730 pm MKW Fine arts auditorium Details 509-527-2571

may 18To celebrate the opening of Walla Wallarsquos Power House Theatre and a four-day run of Seattle Shakespeare Companyrsquos ldquoThe Merry Wives of WindsorrdquoWalla Walla lifestyles will pres-ent a gala event This exclusive evening will en-chant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fash-ion from 530-9 pm at the Power House Theatre Sixth amp Rose Walla Walla To purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewalla-wallacom

may 19-21During Pendletonrsquos Cattle Baron Weekend enjoy an art exhibit by a talented group of women artists ldquoIn the Company of Cowgirlsrdquo Hamleyrsquos Steakhouse Pendleton Visit inthecom-panyofcowgirlscom or call 541-676-5013

may 19-22Whitman College 50th Reunion class of 1961 Whitman College Details 509-527-5952

Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merr y Wives of Windsorrdquo Pow-erhouse Theater Details 509-742-0739

may 21The annual Ducky Derby is a day of family fun all for a good cause Watch the ducks race down Mill Creek to help fund the Exchange Clubrsquos efforts at preventing child abuse and neglect 1130 am-330 pm Race at about 2 pm Walla Walla Community College De-tails 509-527-4300

Walla Walla University Spring Choral Concert 5 pm Walla Walla Univer-sity Church Details 509-527-2571

learn to contra dance an old-fashioned coun-try dance Music by the Wednesday Night Band 7 pm teaching and practice 730 pm regular dance Unity Church of Peace 810

C St Walla Walla Details 541-938-7403

may 22The Whitman College graduating class of 2011 accepts the challenge 11 am Memorial lawn Whitman College Details 509-527-5156

may 26 27 28 29Walla Walla Community College Theatre arts De-partment presents ldquoZoot Suitrdquo by luis Valdez 7 pm each night and Sunday 2 pm matinee W WCC Performing arts Center Details 509-527-4575

may 27-30 Dayton Days has been a Memorial Weekend tradi-tion in Dayton for nearly 100 years Highlights include a Saturday-morning parade on historic Main Street rodeo tour of Dayton and Memorial Day Fun Run De-tails 509-382-4825 or visit historicdaytoncom

may 28-30The Touchet River Roundup mdash the annual Celebration of Sobriety at the fairgrounds focuses on family fun ac-tivities Waitsburg Details 509-526-3602

may 29annual Onion Man Tria-thalon 9 am Bennington lake Details wwmulti-sportscom or call 509-529-9187

may 30Waitsburgrsquos annual Memo-rial Day celebration hosted by veterans for all veterans Details 509-337-6546

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This sculptural cornucopia marks the spot where all of Walla Walla meets the producers and wersquore not talking about the Zero Mostel and Gene Wild-er musical For you GPS fans latitude 4606678 N longitude 11834197 W

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The sculpture tops the farmers market gazebo on the corner of Fourth Avenue North and West Main Street

Contestensprulesif you have the answer e-mail it to rickdoylewwubcom or send it to Where in Walla Walla 112 S 1st Ave PO Box 1358 Walla Walla WA 99362 The names of 10 people with correct answers will be randomly selected and they will receive this great-looking mug as proof of their local knowledge and good taste

Annette CarterShirley richterDebbie FullenJudy CarlsonEloise Phillips

Dan Countsvicky ScanlonJanet TurnerTam LennoxBruce Campbell

46 Walla Walla LifestyLes

1 amavi cellars3796 Peppers Bridge Road (509) 525-3541 wwwamavicellarscom

2 Basel cellars estate winery2901 Old Milton Hwy (509) 522-0200 wwwbaselcellarscom

3 Bergevin Lane vineyards 1215 W Poplar St (509) 526-4300 bergevinlanecom

4 Bunchgrass winery151 Bunchgrass lane (509) 540-8963 wwwbunchgrasswinerycom

5 canoe ridge vineyard1102 W Cherry St (509) 527-0885 wwwcanoeridgevineyardcom

6 castillo de feliciana85728 Telephone Pole Road Milton-Freewater OR (541) 558-3656 wwwcastillodefelicianacom

7 don carlo vineyardBy appointment Only (509) 540-5784 wwwdoncarlovineyardcom

8 dunham cellars150 E Boeing ave (509) 529-4685 wwwdunhamcellarscom

9 five star cellars 840 C St (509) 527-8400 wwwfivestarcellarscom

10 forgeron cellars 33 W Birch St (509) 522-9463 wwwforgeroncellarscom

21 sapolil cellars15 E Main St (509) 520-5258 wwwsapolilcellarscom

22 seven hills winery 212 N Third ave (509) 529-7198 wwwsevenhillswinerycom

23 sinclair estate vineyards 109 E Main Ste 100 (509) 876-4300 wwwsinclairestatevineyardscom

24 spring valley vineyard 18 N Second ave (509) 525-1506 wwwspringvalleyvineyardcom

25 suLei cellars355 S Second ave (503) 529-0840 www suleicellarscom

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11 foundry vineyards Corner of 13th ave and abadie St (509) 529-0736 wwwwallawallafoundrycomvineyards

12 fort walla walla cellars 127 E Main St (509) 520-1095 wwwfortwallawallacellarscom

13 glencorrie8052 Old Highway 12 (509) 525-2585 wwwglencorriecom

14 grantwood winery 2428 W Highway 12 (509) 301-0719 (509) 301-9546

15 Lrsquoecole no 41 winery41 lowden School Road and US Hwy 12 (509) 525-0940 wwwlecolecom

16 Long shadows1604 Frenchtown Road (Formerly Ireland Road) (509) 526-0905 wwwlongshadowscom By invitation only Requests accepted on a limited basis Please call to inquire

17 Lowden hills winery1401 W Pine St (509) 527-1040 wwwlowdenhillswinerycom

18 northstar winery 1736 JB George Road (509) 524-4883 wwwnorthstarmerlotcom

19 pepper Bridge winery1704 JB George Road (509) 525-6502 wwwpepperbridgecom

20 robison ranch cellars2839 Robison Ranch Road (509) 301-3480 robisonranchcellarscom

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26 syZygy 405 E Boeing ave (509) 522-0484 wwwsyzygywinescom

27 three rivers winery5641 Old Highway 12 (509) 526-9463 infoThreeRiversWinerycom

28 tertulia cellars1564 Whiteley Road (509) 525-5700 wwwtertuliacellarscom

29 trust cellars 1050 Merlot Drive (509) 529-4511 wwwtrustcellarscom

30 va piano vineyards1793 JB George Road (509) 529-0900 wwwvapianovineyardscom

31 walla walla vintnersVineyard lane off Mill Creek Road (509) 525-4724 wwwwallawallavintnerscom

32 walla walla wineworks31 E Main St (509) 522-1261 wwwwallawallawineworkscom

33 whitman cellars1015 W Pine St (509) 529-1142 wwwwhitmancellarscom

34 woodward canyon winery11920 W Hwy 12 lowden (509) 525-4129 wwwwoodwardcanyoncom

35 JLc winery425 B St (509) 301-5148

36 saviah cellars1979 JB George Rd

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E St

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lockheed ave

Piper ave

G St

Mill Creek Rd

Isaacs ave

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JB George Rd

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Frog HollowM

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Play is important in Walla Walla the play will truly be the thing when Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo at the newly restored Power House Theatre this month Lifestyles is teaming up with SWW for an inaugural event that will offer guests food fashion and merriment in the Elizabethan manner May 18 Check out our cover spread for a preview of the event

Winston Churchill may have described golf best when he said it ldquois a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purposerdquo

So if you are going to pursue the sport it makes sense to get the best coaching possible Al Mundle who spent 57 years helping others improve their games thought he had put tinkering with other peoplersquos grip stance and swing away for good But that was before Terri Hanson convinced him to offer some pointers to her son Jake who was heading into his final year on the links for the Walla Walla High School Blue Devils

Jim Buchan shows you how this relationship has worked

Work to a lot of people can be repetitious drudgery Larry Adams never had that problem Whether he was flying into enemy fire in vietnam or piloting a helicopter for the president each day challenged his skills and preparation Adams recounts some of those adventures for Lifestyles

Skill and preparation are necessary ingredients for cooking Gina Medica tells how she learned to make culinary creations from Cuba Her specialty is a flan dessert

Dr Donald Smithrsquos specialty is creating an eye-catching garden of colorful flowers The iris is a primary element of his palette Check out his creations in Secret Gardens

Columnist Catie Mcintyre Walker explains how the original palette for the LrsquoEcole No 41 wine labels came from a childrsquos watercolor As the winery has matured it has decided it was time to update the labels

These are only some of the delights awaiting you in the following pages Enjoy

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 11

Born in Miami and then raised in Central Los Angeles by her Cuban-born parents Medica learned her craft by observing her mother work in the kitchen Of all Medicarsquos culinary creations it is her Cuban flan dessert that receives the most requests

ldquoEveryone in the family would always request it especially my nieces and nephewrdquo Medica says sitting at her dining room table the freshly presented flan resting in front of her ldquoMy bro can easily eat half of itrdquo

And the flan does not remain uneaten for long as i sit down with the Walla Walla businesswoman and her daughter Elizabeth to discuss and taste this delicacy Minutes after we begin our conversation nephew Nick arrives and quickly wolfs down two servings

irsquove already finished my first and am working on my second when we begin our conversation

LifEStyLES With both of your parents being Havana natives did you eat Cuban food exclusively

MEDiCa No but in the early days Thanksgiving was pretty different My mom would fix the turkey but shersquod serve it with black beans and white rice Wersquod be ldquoAh mom canrsquot we have regular Thanksgiving food like mashed potatoes and yamsrdquo Those came later as we lived in the States longer

LifEStyLES So the food changed as you kids grew older

MEDiCa Well my mom was always pretty good at American food but sometimes it wasnrsquot all the way like she made American spaghetti but she put chicken in it it was good but my brother would always complain that it didnrsquot have meatballs Now he misses the chicken

LifEStyLES How many kids do you have in the family

MEDiCa i have an older brother and a younger sister irsquom the middle one We didnrsquot have a normal childhood in the sense that my mom was a hairstylist at home and on Saturday mornings customers would start arriving at 8 And she had one of those big old hair dryers

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that you put over someonersquos head mdash we called it ldquoFidel Castrordquo mdash and yoursquod have these customers yelling at the top of their voice while they were under it So i never got to sleep in

LifEStyLES it sounds like your mother was quite a lady

MEDiCa i recently found some of her original recipes you know in her own handwriting One of them is for croquetta which was really good you take chicken with corned beef and grind them up bread it and then fry it itrsquos really goodrdquo

LifEStyLES Why do you like the flan so much

MEDiCa Because everyone in the family always requested it i make it a little different The way i make it it is a little more creamy because i use cream cheese itrsquos more like a custard Many times in Mexican restaurants the flan will be more jello-y This is almost like cheesecake

LifEStyLES is it strictly for dessert

MEDiCa yes itrsquos for special occasions

LifEStyLES Like birthdays and parties

MEDiCa yes itrsquos not light you canrsquot have too much or your stomach will start to ache

LifEStyLES Does it take a long time to prepare

MEDiCa Not really Making the caramel sauce takes the most time and you canrsquot take your eyes off it or it might burn

LifEStyLES Tastes like it didnrsquot burn

MEDiCa No i had lots of help My daughter Elizabeth (and she glances over at her youngest child) helped me a lot

andrew hoLt writes about food people and all things Walla Walla for Walla Walla lifestyles magazine He can be reached at bruindrew86gmailcom

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1 can evaporated milk1 can sweetened condensed milk1 cup whole or two percent milk6 eggs1 to 2 teaspoons vanilla extract14 teaspoon salt4 ounces cream cheese

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1 to 1frac12 cup sugar

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Place the sugar in a saucepan on medium heat and stir until granules of sugar have liquified and the mixture takes on a caramel color

Pour the mixture into a mold coating the sides This must be done quickly because the mixture will harden also use oven mittens so you donrsquot burn your hands

Put aside

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Preheat oven to 350 degreesIn a blender mix the sweetened condensed

milk frac12 can of evaporated milk and the milk eggs cream cheese salt and vanilla and blend on low

Pour out half the mixture into a bowl and pour in the remaining evaporated milk and blend

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Put the mold in a big cake pan and pour enough water around the mold for it to come part-way up the sides of the mold (we call that ldquobantildeo Mariacuteardquo) and bake for one hour plus 15 to 20 minutes

Use a knife to test done-ness mdash the knife should come out clean

When the flan is done baking let it rest and cool then place it in the refrigerator for 24 hours

The next day dip the mold in warm water before flipping the flan into a serving dish

Makes 12 servings

R EC IP E

food ltcontinued from pg 11

Walla Walla LifestyLes 13

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The old Frenchtown schoolhouse built in 1915 with the stately bell tower still stands it has been a historic fixture in the Walla Walla valley that many of us have grown up with even if we never attended classes there One can still stride up the long sidewalk to the large heavy carved doors with a feeling of reverence and trepidation mdash as if it were the first day of school mdash while imagining generations of children playing on the manicured grounds

in the 1970s the old schoolhouse classrooms found themselves empty of childrenrsquos laughter But in 1983 Jean and Baker Ferguson breathed new life into the old building founding what would become one of the premier wineries in Washington LrsquoEcole No 41

The name was historically im-portant in two ways ldquoLrsquoEcolerdquo French for ldquothe schoolrdquo recognized the French men and women who settled the area and ldquo41rdquo was the numerical designation of the school district

The Fergusonsrsquo first crush of 1983 was resting in the barrel when the following year they asked their elementary school-aged family members to draw an image that would best reflect the new project

The $100 prize went to an 8-year-old cousin whose watercolor interpretation of the old schoolhouse became the template for a wine label it became an iconic label known to wine lovers around the world

in 1989 the second generation of the family Jean and Bakerrsquos daughter and son-

in-law Megan and Martin (Marty) Clubb became the new proprietors of the winery Marty became the general manager and winemaker and would lead the small artisan winery to new heights mdash it would eventually produce more than 30000 cases annually

At the same time the Washington state wine industry was booming and would soon become the nationrsquos second-largest wine producer The area would become one of the premium wine-producing regions in the United States

Marty also became a pioneer in the

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Washington state wine industry as he became a founder and activist in many of the wine industryrsquos foundations and alliances The family-owned winery also partnered with some of the most prestigious vineyards in the state LrsquoEcole No 41 has been honored nine consecutive years by Wine amp Spirits magazine as ldquoWinery of the yearrdquo becoming the second Washington winery inducted into the Hall of Fame

There is a third-generation that has grown up around the winery and will eventually become caretakers of this legacy Meganrsquos and Martyrsquos children Jeanrsquos and Bakerrsquos grandchildren rebecca and riley Clubb had their own meaningful influence on the label with their childhood drawings on the labelrsquos chalkboard image

riley is a 2009 graduate of Whitman College and is employed at the winery rebecca is enrolled in Washington State Universityrsquos wine management program and expected to graduate in 2012

The winery will soon celebrate its 30th birthday The wines produced at the old schoolhouse are refined with true varietal character and can stand up against many coveted wines from France mdash and they have Now that LrsquoEcole is a top player in the world of wine the whimsical label on its bottles is no longer truly indicative of the sophisticated gold and dark-red liquids behind the glass

ldquoLooking to the future we wanted our label to reflect the winery we have becomerdquo says Marty Clubb

This year the winery will unveil a new label it will still depict the iconic schoolhouse but with deeper colors and a new texture There will be a distinct difference among the labels depending on the vineyards used Wines produced from Columbia valley vineyards will have a soft charcoal-colored background label and the labels for the wines produced from Walla Walla vineyards will be more sepia-toned

Another distinctive change will be the de-emphasizing of the ldquoNo 41rdquo as generations of wine lovers have often referred to the winery as ldquoLrsquoEcolerdquo

The new label will be a timeless reminder of the past as well as a welcome to future generations

catie mcintyre waLker blogs at wildwallawallawinewomanblogspotcom and be reached at wildwallawallawinewomancom

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it was 1954 the year he graduated from the University of Oregon and two female students from the university were interested in learning some of the finer points of the game

ldquoit was probably the worst lesson anybody has ever givenrdquo Mundle exclaimed shaking his head in dismay ldquoThese two young ladies were looking for some help and i worked with them for an hour-and-a-half And at the end of that time i said lsquoi have done such a poor job i will pay you for the time i have put you through this torturersquordquo

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 17

Painful as it was the lesson learned proved to be a career-launching moment for Mundle who dedicated himself to his trade and spent a lifetime in the golf business successfully working up and down the i-5 corridor as course operator teacher and player

Fifty-seven years after that first teaching debacle Mundle now 79 years old is retired and living in Walla Walla He and his wife Ann relocated here last summer determined to give up teaching golf and spend more time playing the game they both love

ldquoAfter all of these years of teaching i feel that this is the time to lay it asiderdquo Mundle said ldquoi will still do a little studying of the golf swing and methods and i will be involved with some of the other local professionals in some cracker-barrel sessions when they get together to discuss teaching methods problems and how to solve them

ldquoBut i really came here not to teach but to play some golfrdquo

That was the plan anyway before he was introduced to Walla Walla High School senior Jake Hanson who was looking for a little extra help with his game heading into his final year on the links as a Blue Devil

Terri Hanson Jakersquos mother was aware of Mundlersquos reputation as a teaching professional and heard through the grapevine he was living in Walla Walla

ldquoBeing the mom i am i called him one dayrdquo Terri remembered ldquoi told him that Jakersquos golf game was at a standstill i asked him to take a look at Jake and he agreed to come and meet us and get a feel for where Jake was at

ldquoHe did and before you knew it they were putting on our hardwood floors The next day they agreed to get together at Wine valley mdash they were there for four hours and it has been an amazing connection right from the beginning

ldquoAl is an amazing Christian man who is so well-respected in his fieldrdquo Terri added ldquoAnd he just demands respect irsquom seeing my son of 17 all of a sudden growing uprdquo

Mundle concedes he is intrigued by Hansonrsquos character and potential And

Under the watchful eye of Al Mundle Jake Hanson hits an iron shot

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Hanson holds his new mentor in high esteem

ldquoirsquove learned a tremendous amountrdquo Hanson said ldquoHe has a way of getting through to me in a positive way He got through to me that i am so much better than i thought i could be He has more confidence in me than i have in myself

ldquoHe has one of the best golf swings i have ever seen and he is still working on his own gamerdquo

Mundle said Hanson reminds him of former University of Oregon player Ben Crane who now plays on the PGA Tour Crane has been playing professionally since 2007 and earned nearly $3 million on the tour in 2010

ldquoi was Benrsquos swing coach at Oregon and Jake is somewhat similarrdquo Mundle said ldquoBen worked harder than anybody on the whole golf team He would put in as much

time as three or four others combined and Jake is very much the same way Hersquos very dedicatedrdquo

However Mundle insists that helping Hanson with his game is a one-time situation

After playing just six rounds of golf last year Mundle is determined that he and Ann will spend a lot more time on the golf course as they get acquainted with their new hometown

ldquoThatrsquos an all-time lowrdquo he said of the six rounds played in 2010 ldquoMostly it was the move and all mdash a new house putting in lawn fencing shelving in the garage mdash all the little things of getting settled

ldquoBut this was a good move for us We love it here We enjoy the weather and the people you can walk down the street and people look you in the eye and say lsquoHellorsquo i love that friendlinessrdquo

Mundle grew up in Eugene and graduated from University High School in 1950 He knew he said from the time he was in the seventh grade he wanted to make golf his lifersquos work

ldquoyou might say that i had a little parental directionrdquo Mundle said ldquoMy dad went to the University of St Andrews in Scotland and he played golf at the St Andrews Old Course And my mother also played golfrdquo

After high school Mundle enrolled at the University of Oregon and played three years of varsity golf during an era when there was no such thing as a golf scholarship

ldquoThe only thing we ever received was a half-a-dozen golf balls if we went into a tournamentrdquo Mundle recalled ldquoWhen i went to the NCAA Championships in Texas my senior year i was given a new

people ltcontinued from pg 17

Walla Walla LifestyLes 19

pair of golf shoes but that was itldquoWe bought all of our own gear mdash

clubs bags rain gear everything itrsquos a whole different ball game today They have everythingrdquo

At the end of his sophomore year at Oregon Mundle had it in his mind to ldquotest my golf on the PGA Tourrdquo he said But his father an English professor at the university discouraged him

ldquoHe said lsquoGet your education first then you can do whatever you wantrsquordquo Mundle said ldquoit was just as well i saved a lot of wear and tear mdash and money i was an Ok player but not of that caliberrdquo

Mundle still has fond memories of his collegiate playing career however

ldquoi played three years for the university mdash you werenrsquot allowed to play as freshmen mdash and Oregon always had fine golf teamsrdquo Mundle said ldquoit was mostly match

play then and i was there during the time that the school went seven straight years without losing a (team) dual matchrdquo

During his senior year Mundle qualified for the NCAA Championships in Houston From a field of about 160 players Mundle made it as far as the quarterfinal round

He graduated in 1954 with a degree in history which he said he never really used

ldquoMy dad was in the top one percent of his class at St Andrewsrdquo Mundle said ldquoMy mother was also in the top part of her class and my older brother Pete was in the top of his class And then i came alongrdquo

His first golf job was as an assistant pro at his home course the Laurelwood Golf Course a position he accepted shortly after graduating from UO This was when and where the infamous first golf lesson

occurredA two-year stint in the US Army took

Mundle away from his profession in 1955-56 But he managed to keep his golf game sharp as a member of the Fort knox golf team and in 1956 he was the runner-up in the Second Army tournament and he placed 13th in the All-Army tournament

Then it was back to the Willamette valley where he came into his own in the Portland area under head professionals Eddie Hogan at riverside Country Club and Bunny Mason at Columbia Edgewater

ldquoThose two people were very influential in my professional liferdquo Mundle said

ldquoEddie was a very fine teacher of the total golf operation and service was No 1 i learned how to run the pro shop how

Jake Hanson takes a few pointers on chipping from his instructor and mentor Al Mundle

Continued on pg 20 gt

20 Walla Walla LifestyLes

people ltcontinued from pg 19

to market and merchandise mdash everything from how to run the club service program to the electric cart program to basically running the golf course

ldquoBunny was also a very fine operator of a golf shop and i also learned a lot about teaching from Bunny Sometimes you go along in life and there are certain mentors who help you along the way Anybody who says they made it by themselves is not being honest with themselves We have all had someone who has given us a little boost along the wayrdquo

Mundle took his first head professional job in 1965 at Overlake Golf and Country Club in Bellevue where he remained until 1981 At that point he returned to Eugene and was the head pro at the Eugene Country Club for three years followed by a six-year stint at the Bear Creek Country Club in Seattle

He also spent a short time at a golf course in Cottage Grove Ore before moving back to Eugene for a third time in 1993 to become the director of golf instruction at the river ridge Golf Course He remained at river ridge until his retirement last summer During his time there he helped out as the swing coach at UO under then-head coach Steve Nosler

Through it all Mundle served as president of the Washington PGA and the Pacific Northwest PGA and was a member of several National PGA committees As a player he participated in the Oregon Washington and Pacific Northwest opens as well as the Washington and Oregon PGA events One of his highlights was winning the Oregon Senior PGA Match-Play Championships in Bend in 1993

ldquoi felt i had an obligation to participaterdquo Mundle said ldquoi played a lot of golf including many many pro-ams and i won a couple of assistant championshipsrdquo

in addition to Crane Mundle also helped shape the careers of Jeff Quinney and Eric Johnson both of whom are from the Eugene area

Quinney won the United States Amateur championship in 2000 and represented the US in the Walker Cup in 2001 He has appeared in 128 PGA Tour events since 2007 placing second twice and third twice

Johnson played several years on the Asian Tour and one on the Nationwide Tour He is now a head professional at a

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course in San rafael CalifldquoAnd there have been some others mdash

Brian Henninger Mike Gove a few others mdash who have called and wanted to discus their swingrdquo Mundle said ldquoNothing on a regular basis just one or two sessionsrdquo

is Hanson his next mdash and perhaps his last mdash prodigy

Thatrsquos a tricky question since Hanson came to golf late after a budding baseball career was derailed by a shoulder injury He was a first-team all-Big Nine Conference golf selection as a junior but has yet to qualify for state and his summer resume is thin because of his baseball background

Hansonrsquos original plan was to attend Walla Walla Community College and play golf for the Warriors with the hope of earning an NCAA Division i scholarship But he has since decided to enroll in Arizona State Universityrsquos Professional Golf Management program and try out for the ASU golf team as a walk on

ldquoMore than anything i think it came down to him evaluating his goalsrdquo said Jakersquos father Gary Hanson ldquoitrsquos everyonersquos dream to play on the PGA Tour but realistically he wants to be a golf pro and teach He loves

the gamerdquoAnd a degree in the PGM program

will provide Jake with the educational background he needs to be successful in any form of business his father added

Though his chances of making the ASU varsity team seem unlikely the PGM program provides a club golf team that participates in a series of tournaments throughout the year and gives Hanson a second playing option

And keeping your options open is optimum at this point Mundle said

ldquoi think his driving force at this time mdash and also his folks mdash is to get his education And then he can do whatever he wants if he doesnrsquot go into (the golfing business) immediately he will always have it as a backuprdquo

Sounds an awful lot like the advice Thomas Mundle offered his son back in the spring of 1952 when Al Mundle wanted to leave school after his sophomore year and test his wings on the PGA Tour And as we now know all these years later staying in school worked out pretty well for Al

Jim Buchan is a sports writer for the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin He can be reached at jimbuchanwwubcom

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Join us for a night of wonder with elizabethan-inspired food fashion and merriment to celebrate the opening of walla wallarsquos power house theatre and prepare for a four-day run of seattle shakespeare companyrsquos ldquothe merry wives of windsorrdquo

walla walla lifestyles will present a fashion show with wicked and wistful gowns twisted braided hair and smoldering makeup designs designers include red eden designs autumnlin design and others

semi-formal attire creative masks encouraged this exclusive evening will enchant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fashion

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My director Terry Edward Moore told me his only direction from the artistic director was that it be ldquoperiodrdquo that is to say authentic to the time

ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo is the only one of Shakespearersquos plays that is set in his own time so it was decided to present it as if the actors were people of the time doing what would be a contemporary (to the late 16th century) play

i started to research the clothing of the time how it was constructed and what kinds of fabrics were available at the time mdash linens homespuns woolens for the common people and silks damasks velvets and furs for the upper classes i discovered that Elizabethan society was strictly regulated in terms of social classes and upward mobility was a little-known concept Once a yeoman always a yeoman i also discovered the set of rules and regulations called ldquosumptuary lawsrdquo which specifically dictated what types of fabrics trims furs and even what colors each class was allowed to wear

Since there are three distinct classes represented in ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo mdash merchant class soldiers and servants mdash i tried to give each class its own color palette based on these laws The overall palette of the show is based on colors actually in use at the time

The availability of dyes was limited (except for the nobility) so the palette consists of many shades of yellows and browns russets black some greens and blue-grays and of course wheat-colored unbleached linen i turned to the Dutch painter Brueghel for inspiration on how the common people looked and dressed

i also researched what kinds of dyes were used and where they came from Dyes were created from all sorts of different things such as walnut shell crushed beetles and all kinds of roots i found a website that sells these authentic dyestuffs so irsquom using the real thing to dye some of the linen pieces and will coordinate the contemporary fabrics to these authentic colors

Nearly every piece will need something done to it mdash altered in some way to fit the actor re-trimmed rigged invisibly for quick changes etc mdash so there is a lot of labor involved Also hats were a hugely important part of Elizabethan fashion all the way down to the poorest serf

Certain styles of hats were often associated with certain professions mdash eg doctors scholars mdash so there are a number of hats to build as well as headpieces for the women No self-respecting woman went about with her head uncovered

Putting together a show like this is like putting together a giant jigsaw puzzle and the pieces are the costumes that irsquove borrowed and rented from other theater companies in the Seattle area such as Seattle repertory Seattle Opera and the University of Washington as well as pieces from Oregon Shakespeare Festival i design the show and then go out into the world and try to find pieces that approximate my designs and palette as closely as possible (usually with some reworking first) The pieces that i cant find and dont want to compromise on i build from scratch

deane middLeton is a theatre costume professional who works in the Seattle area She has done costumes for Issaquahrsquos Village Theater as well as several productions of the Seattle Shakespeare Company

ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo

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ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo was the only one of Shakespearersquos works set in his own time the 1600s and features Sir John Falstaff It also deals primarily with english middle-class life A hilarious bawdy comedy filled with insight into the life and times of Shakespeare ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo will delight people of all ages

About the play

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But thatrsquos exactly what longtime Walla Walla resident Larry Adams did for four years He was one of a select group of pilots for Marine One the helicopter counterpart of the presidential airplane Air Force One from 1970 to 1974

30 Walla Walla LifestyLes

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 31

Long before Adams became the Walla Walla Airport manager he was transporting heads of state foreign dignitaries famous (and now infamous) Cabinet members the executive staff and President richard M Nixon during one of the nationrsquos most turbulent times the withdrawal from vietnam and the Watergate scandal

But to Adams a native of Northern idaho all that swirled around the Nixon presidency was the least of his concerns His job was to transport the president safely to Andrews Air Force Base or Camp David or fly any short flight required Safety always at a premium End of story

Many times Adams ferried President Nixon and his staff on short flights far away from home Air Force One might fly President Nixon to a summit or a meeting with a foreign head of state but Marine One and Adams were always nearby to shuttle the chief executive on short flights or to whisk him away from sudden danger

Pretty heady stuff for a fourth-grade teacher who had never thought about flying until a Marine recruiter offered him the opportunity Although Adams had watched planes take off and land at a nearby air base as a child he had never given serious thought to flying it was more a need for a bigger paycheck than passion that brought Adams to his destiny

He liked teaching but it just wasnrsquot paying the bills So Adams turned to the military and the Gi Bill After being unimpressed by other recruiters Adams took a liking to the fellow from the Marines for as Adams recalls the recruiter took an interest in him After about an hour of talking the recruiter suggested Adams might have the potential to be a pilot

Having easily passed some preliminary tests Adams was sent to flight school in Pensacola Fla and a stellar career was ready to take off He performed well in all the aircraft he piloted but he showed a special skill for helicopters

Up until 1965 fixed-wing airplanes were the staple of all military air combat But the military had been gearing up for a big change The helicopter was to become a major part of combat The Pentagon had been developing helicopters that would do much more than transport troops to bases Now they would assist in bombing

raids ground attacks and the evacuation of the injured from the point of combat This new breed of helicopters would also possess the ability to fight back and not be lame ducks as before the new H34 would tote machine guns on each side

These cutting-edge aircraft would travel at unprecedented speeds with newly discovered agility Gifted pilots were needed not those who merely possessed superior technical skills but those who also had the composure to fly straight into

enemy fire in the dead of night picking up injured soldiers or aiding air attacks

Adams was one of those pilots and he would be one of two squadron leaders for ldquoOperation Starliterdquo mdash the first major assault using helicopters The Marines were going straight into a North vietnamese regimental stronghold No one knew what to expect

ldquoWe lost a lot that first time inrdquo says Adams ldquoTwo crew chiefs were killed

Continued on pg 32 gt

In this newspaper clipping Larry Adams poses on the steps of the helicopter dubbed Marine One which he piloted for President Richard M Nixon

32 Walla Walla LifestyLes

people ltcontinued from pg 31

four pilots were medevaced out because of their wounds i donrsquot think there was one helicopter that didnrsquot have a bunch of holes in it The one i flew in we got a lot of rounds in it Amazingly no one was hurt but when we got back the helicopter was so shot-up you couldnrsquot fly it anymore We lost 50 percent of our helicopters that dayrdquo

in the next 13 months Adams would fly many more missions often heading straight into anti-aircraft fire to pick up injured or killed soldiers He says he would see the flares signifying where the copter was supposed to land but frequently hersquod have to veer off because ground communication would say ldquoThe artillery is too hotrdquo Then there would be a window maybe two minutes maybe five when the helicopter could drop in and pick up the injured often being shot at as it waited for its passengers

Adams knew the best way to survive was to keep his focus ldquoin the daylight when you start your run in and yoursquore getting shot at Everything went to black and white for me i didnrsquot notice the green trees or the green rice paddies until we got out of there and then it would come back

to me i donrsquot know what that was i just didnrsquot see the colors irsquove talked to some other pilots and they described the same thingrdquo

in his two tours of duty in vietnam Adams would fly 880 combat missions in several types of helicopters and fixed-wing airplanes He received numerous medals including two Navy commendations for performance under combat conditions

Then the call came to fly for the president Before Adams could tote the commander in chief around in Marine One a thorough background check had to be done So thorough was the check that Adams said a friend from his hometown sent him a card that read ldquoAre you in some kind of trouble Jesus therersquos been a bunch of people around here with the dark grey suits and the skinny little ties Theyrsquore asking all these embarrassing questions about you like did you have drinking problem Did you have a gambling problem Do you know what Larryrsquos sexual preference wasrdquo

Adams chuckles ldquoit was pretty funnyrdquoAdams passed the grade and soon

he was flying President Nixon and his family to Camp David or picking up vice

President Spiro Agnew at the Pentagon or taking Secretary of State Henry kissinger or Secretary of Defense Alexander Haig to a classified meeting Although his flights varied from transporting foreign heads of state to flying members of the press the majority involved the president the vice president kissinger and Haig

The pilots did not speak to their travelers unless spoken to says Adams President Nixon usually looked in and asked them how they were kissinger never spoke Haig was good for a pat on the shoulder now and then but it was Agnew who conversed the most says Adams

Adams remembers ldquoOne time we picked him up at the Pentagon and we had taken off and had hit top altitude He usually would come up and look into the cockpit but this time he patted me on the shoulder and asked lsquoWell howrsquos it going today guysrsquordquo Adams replied ldquoNot bad sir and how about yourselfrdquo

Agnew answered ldquoMan they are really after my assrdquo He was talking about the press Adams says ldquoTwo weeks later he resignedrdquo

Adams recalls that his encounters with Agnew as defying the public perception

Adams far right gives instructions before a mission in Vietnam

Walla Walla LifestyLes 33

that Agnew was arrogant ldquoHe was always one of the nicest guys He was straightforward He looked like he had just stepped off the cover of Gentlemenrsquos Quarterly all the time He was very proper in the way he dressed but he had a sense of humor as wellrdquo

There were other humorous moments Adams recalls a certain reporter from CBS who had been a major thorn in President Nixonrsquos side was late for takeoff from the South Lawn of the White House one morning Just as Marine One was about to leave without him he came running across the lawn hollering and waving his arms The Secret Service agent supervising the flight told Adams to ldquojust gordquo The wind from the propellers whipped the reporterrsquos toupee right off his head and instead of continuing his run toward Marine One he reversed his field and tried feverishly to retrieve his toupee snagged in the hedges

ldquoEveryone got a pretty good chuckle out of thatrdquo

Of course there were somber times At one point Adams flew Cabinet members John Ehrlichman and Hr Haldeman to Camp David for a meeting with the president After only 15 minutes the two men returned and Marine One headed home Adams says it was a quiet flight He found out later the two men had been fired by President Nixon for their parts in the Watergate scandal

Whisking the president away from danger was a major part of being a pilot of Marine One Stationed across the river from the Capitol pilots awakened by an emergency alert had to be up in the air in five minutes This exercise was practiced often though never needed during Adamsrsquo tenure

One night however they thought it was The operator at the White House mistakenly hit the ldquoAlertrdquo button Marine One was in the air in five minutes

Although ground control had not spotted any enemy aircraft the operation was under way As Marine One closed in on the White House the operator at fault tried to alert everyone of his mistake but unfortunately used a poor choice of words to call off the operation

Adams chuckles as he says ldquoThe fella said lsquoThis is not an exercisersquo He was moved to another post i thinkrdquo

All levity aside the position required

the same kind of focus demanded of Adams in vietnam though it came in a different form

ldquoThere were three things the way you operated the aircraft and they were in this order safety comfort and speed Safety never gave in to comfort or speedrdquo says Adams ldquoOur job was just concentrating on doing our job it could have been anybody mdash we would do it the same way it could have been Fred Flintstone

ldquoThe difference between flying for the White House and in vietnam was we were flying a premier aircraft We had to keep it impeccably clean everything was scripted We had to have the lsquoopen-the-door timersquo down to two to four seconds in vietnam it was the stress of performing medevacs under fire or dropping troops under heavy artillery For Marine One it was the stress of doing the job rightrdquo

Also the stress of being away from onersquos family 200 days of the year wore on a Marine One pilot in 1974 after four years on the job the toll became too much and Adams stepped down

He would stay with the Marines for eight more years retiring in August 1982

By then he had received 44 Air Medals including the Joint Service Commendation and the Presidential Service Badge in his 20 years of service Adams flew seven different helicopters and five different fixed-wing planes

What makes an elite military pilot ldquoPilots who donrsquot have any misgivingsrdquo says Adams ldquoTheyrsquore totally prepared they know their aircraftrdquo

When talking about his colleagues on Marine One he adds ldquoNone were boasters They might brag about a great landing but they did not brag in spite of someone elserdquo

What did Adams love most about his flying days ldquoi enjoyed flying with the latest technology and the pristine quality of Marine One i loved the process of building my skills i could have flown another 40 years and i would still be learning thingsrdquo

is it any surprise his favorite hobby now is fly fishing

andrew hoLt writes about food people and all things Walla Walla for Walla Walla lifestyles magazine He can be reached at bruindrew86gmailcom

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it is astonishing in many ways mdash that we are presented with two weeks of top-drawer music performed by top-drawer musi-cians that there are so many ways to encounter the music (many of them free) and that a rural community has provided the incu-

bator for such a cultural undertaking to name but a fewGranted we are not your average rural community having two

colleges a university a symphony a choral society a community band and music in the schools but letrsquos face it wersquore not exactly a cosmopolitan center of culture like New york either The Cham-ber Music Festival mdash and our continued support of it through some tough times mdash puts us in a category all our own

ldquoi saw what was special about this community the first time i visited in 2007rdquo Artistic Director Timothy Christie says ldquoi have

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A young artistic composer pays close attention as Tim Christie uses his violin to interpret the boys piece of artwork into music on June 11 2009 Meanwhile other children work on their works of art in preparation for the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival quintets interpretations

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worked hard to start this event and to my great joy it has taken on an iden-tity of its own i hire the musicians and choose the music but the town its people and its environs make the festivalrdquo

The beauty of chamber music is its intimacy mdash smaller ensembles performing for smaller audiences it has been referred to as ldquothe music of friendsrdquo which seems so apt at this festival Free open rehearsals are held around town that provide not only a musical atmosphere in which to enjoy a latte or the ambiance of the kirkman House but which give a richer look into the machinations of a working ensemble

As one enthusiastic fan puts it ldquoi am not a musician and itrsquos fascinat-ing to watch these rehearsals to see the interactions of the musicians as they work out the snags make wry remarks and relate to each other in a whole different way than during a for-mal performance i get a glimpse into their personalities and what makes them tickrdquo

The festival supplies a generous of-fering of venues with free concerts for children and families relaxed evening programs at wineries and full concerts at the Foundry Chism Hall and Day-tonrsquos Liberty Theater

if you are lucky enough to live near the musiciansrsquo lodgings while they are in town you may also be treated to an ad hoc front-porch concert as the ensembles continue their rehearsals in more private settings The festival is about all of these ways mdash planned and accidental mdash to experience the enchantment of chamber music

it is also about historic continuity and the connection between past and present mdash relishing the existing canon while expanding the genre with con-temporary forms and voices

How is this accomplished in part by the annual commission of a new piece of music for the festival Chris-tie is committed to contributing to the broader chamber music repertoire and to providing the audience with the richest possible experience

Continued on pg 36 gt

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ldquoFor classical music to be relevant there must be a conversation between the music of our time and the music of the pastrdquo he says

By commissioning a work for the festi-val each year Christie creates such a con-versation

This year the commission was given to John David Earnest Four festival commis-sions have preceded his and he is the sec-ond ldquolocalrdquo composer to be tapped add-ing another layer of relationship between community and event (in 2009 Whitman College professor David Glenn was given the nod)

As visiting adjunct professor of music at Whitman Earnest resides here for six weeks every semester His ldquoSecond Sym-phonyrdquo was written for and performed by the Walla Walla Symphony in October 2001

The challenge for the yearly commis-sionee is to compose a piece on demand within specific constraints of time place and instrumentation while expressing hisher own voice as an artist

Earnest has created ldquoCommedia Gal-leryrdquo a set of three movements for flute

viola and harp based on stock characters from the Commedia dellrsquoArte a popu-lar theatrical form that was influential in Europe for over 300 years Commedia characters improvised dialogue around set scenarios generally involving the struggles of young lovers to overcome hindrances to their romance and each character even-tually came to have a consistent set of at-tributes in speech mannerisms and cos-tume

Earnestrsquos ldquoGalleryrdquo gives us Arlecchi-no (Harlequin) an acrobatic and devious jester Pierrot the classic sad clown and finally Scaramouche a dandy and a brag-gart who is a coward at heart

in anticipation of this yearrsquos festival i am reminded of the scene in ldquoThe Music Manrdquo in which the town awaits the ar-rival of the Wells Fargo Wagon Potentially heaped with gifts and surprises it prom-ises connection to the larger world The WWCMF brings us all ldquosomethinrsquo specialrdquo mdash an enrichment of our community and our culture

margaret Jamison is an artist and writer living in Walla Walla Contact her at artjamisongmailcom

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Smith has gardened for years at his home at 38 Mulberry Court in College Place He used to grow vegetables and flowers now he is strictly focusing on flowers mdash with fabulous results roses delphiniums and lots of irises line the fence

ldquoirises mdash irsquove always enjoyed themrdquo he says ldquoThey take a little bit of weeding and watering but not much morerdquo itrsquos the gardenerrsquos dream mdash low maintenance with a big return

A retired orthopedic surgeon Smith has in the past gardened more extensively than he does now But he has enough plants to keep him busy His new project is planting more of the reblooming iris These are still hardy but you get twice the reward they bloom in the spring then again in the fall

ldquoTheyrsquore easy to grow and spectacular for a short time iris take less care than a lot of thingsrdquo Smith says

His secret for gardening is simple and therersquos no getting around it ldquoTime and workrdquo he laughs

Hersquos getting ready to start in the garden ldquoi need to clean out the leaves and the old foliage of the irisrdquo

in addition to the basic cleaning and maintenance Smith just decides how many plants to keep Bulb flowers are hardy and they multiply on their own

ldquoAfter five years you usually have to separate the bulbs when they get too thick i donrsquot have room to add more i put in the new re-blooming onesrdquo he explains ldquoi may add more and a few other thingsrdquo

But in a garden you can always try something new or rearrange existing plants often with a spectacular outcome

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itrsquos an odd location since it can only be seen as yoursquore leaving town but it always makes me smile This valley my adopted home is indeed a great place to be

i recently finished reading the great Western writer Wallace Stegnerrsquos book ldquoThe Sound of Mountain Waterrdquo One of his essays traces his nomadic childhood which left him feeling rootless and without a place that he felt he could call home

i identify with his feeling of not belonging i was born to a single woman from Massachusetts in a New york City hospital i stayed a scant few days before being placed with an adoption agency Born in a place i had no familial connection to i was immediately deprived of my biological family Most of my childhood was spent in suburban Cleveland Ohio Moves to upstate New york New England and Pennsylvania brought me no closer to calling any place home i loved living in the western Massachusetts town of Stockbridge but the multigenerational denizens of the town left few openings for newcomers like me i lived in central Pennsylvania for several decades but felt detached from the deep roots that most people had in the area

When we came west (for my husband a homecoming to his Oregon roots for me a new experience) i noticed that even in long-established towns like Walla Walla there is ample room for newcomers who want to be

part of the community And most folks who choose to come here donrsquot seem to want to change the valley they prefer to embrace it

While the occasional newbie whines about the lack of Whole Foods or Nordstrom they soon discover our farmers markets the wide variety of local shops and boutiques and our world-class restaurants They fall in love with our charming downtowns the small-town friendliness of the people and our kid-friendly environment Then therersquos the holiday parade the fair the ever-present Blue Mountains the parks the museums the wineries mdash really whatrsquos not to like The communities of our valley represent America at its best

irsquom a newspaper junkie i love to read everything from news to sports to classifieds mdash even the obituaries The obits are a fascinating window on our valley Many of the people chronicled were born here some lived all their lives here inextricably bound to this place But a number of people came here from other places often far away and have made a mark on our area Which makes me wonder mdash is a place any less of a hometown because you choose it or is it based primarily on the happenstance of your birth it seems that therersquos room for both paths to calling this wonderful valley home

itrsquos also our strength because collectively as a community we bring both deep familial and cultural traditions as well as the fresh perspective of newcomers to our area irsquom glad mdash after decades of searching mdash that i finally found my hometown a place that feels just right

diane reed can be reached at ladybookearthlinknet Between columns and when the spirit moves her she blogs at wwwponderingsbydianereedblogspotcom from her home overlooking the pond at lions Park in College Place

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Maymay 1The annual Kennel Club Dog Show Walla Walla County Fairgrounds De-tails 509-558-3854

The Walla Walla University Drama Department pres-ents a performance of ldquoMy Fair ladyrdquo 2 pm matinee Details 509-527-2656

The Walla Walla Choral Society presents ldquoJubilate Deordquo 3 pm May 1 Walla Walla University Church College Place Details 509-386-2445

The Walla Walla Valley Farmers Market opens local produce artisans and an outdoor concert 9 am-1 pm Saturdays and Sundays through Oct 30 Crawford Park Fourth ave and Main St Details gowallawallafarmersmar-ketcom or 509-520-3647

through may 22Enjoy the annual Senior art Thesis Exhibition Sheehan Gallery Whitman College Details 509-527-5249

through JuLy 31The Tamaacutestslikt Cultural In-stitute hosts the traveling OMSI exhibit ldquoamazing Feats of agingrdquo explor-ing the mysteries of why animals and humans age Details 541-966-9748

may 4The YWCa leadership luncheon ldquoMatters that Matterrdquo is informational and inspirational with guest speakers Kristine Van Raden and Molly Da-vis Noon Marcus Whit-man Hotel Details 509-525-2570

Walla Walla Wine Works hosts music on Wednes-days downtown Details 509-522-1261

may 5First Thursday Concert at St Pauls Episcopal Church 323 Catherine Street Walla Walla 1215-1250 pm will feature the Steel Drum Band from Walla Walla Uni-versity directed by Brandon Beck Details 529-1083

The Whitman College Visit-ing Writers Reading series presents Whitman Reading 7 pm Kimball Theatre De-tails whitmanedu

may 5-7 12-14Walla Walla High School Drama Department pres-ents ldquoFiddler on the Roofrdquo musical version 7 pm and 2 pm matinee on Saturdays May 7 and 14 Walla Walla High School Performing arts audito-rium Details Tickets can be reserved by calling 509-526-8613 the Wa-Hi box office

may 5-8 19-21a performance of ldquoThe 25th a nnua l Putnam County Spelling Beerdquo 8 pm Harper Joy Theatre Whitman College Details 509-527-5180

may 6-7Music on the weekends at the Backstage Bistro De-tails 509-526-0690

Sapolil Cellars hosts music on Friday and Saturday De-tails 509-520-5258

The Wildfire hosts music every Friday and Saturday Wildhorse Resort amp Casino Pendleton Details 800-654-9453

may 6-8Walla Walla Valley Winer-ies offer an opportunity to taste their new creations during Spring Release Weekend area wineries introduce new wines and winemakers share their creative inspiration Details 509-526-3117

may 6artWalK First Fridays May through December Visit galleries and chat with art-ists 5-8 pm Downtown Walla Walla Visit artwalk-wallawallacom

may 6-8 13-14The little Theatre presents ldquoalice In Wonderlandrdquo adapted from lewis Carroll 8 pm Friday-Saturday 2 pm Sunday little Theatre of Walla Walla Details 509-529-3683

may 7The annual Junior Horse Show brings great riding action to Milton-Freewater Pioneer Posse Grounds Details 541-938-3379

Daytonrsquos annual Street Sale turns a section of Third Street into a giant yard sale benefits churches and com-munity projects Dayton Details 509-382-4825

artist reception and dem-onstration Washington art-ist Dwight Duke exhibits his painting bronze sculptures and gunpowder light pan-els 6-730 pm Reininger Winery Details 509-522-1994

may 8Every Sunday the living History actors portray in-dividuals from the arearsquos past 2 pm Fort Walla Walla Museum Details 509-525-7703

may 13-15The annual Balloon Stam-pede brings as many as 50 hot-air balloons to the Walla Walla County Fairgrounds This colorful festival re-mains a Valley tradition Ear-ly morning flights (weather permitting) arts amp crafts antique autos commercial booths live entertainment and food Balloons light up to music at the Saturday evening Nite Glow Details 509-525-0850

may 14annual adult event cele-brates the characters who populated Pendletonrsquos past Must have reservations Pendleton Underground Tours Details 800-226-6398

may 14-15 may 27-29Walla Walla Drag Strip con-tinues the weekend fun Details wwdragstripcom or 509-200-6287

may 15Walla Walla University Chamber Series featuring Robyn McCabe 730 pm MKW Fine arts auditorium Details 509-527-2571

may 18To celebrate the opening of Walla Wallarsquos Power House Theatre and a four-day run of Seattle Shakespeare Companyrsquos ldquoThe Merry Wives of WindsorrdquoWalla Walla lifestyles will pres-ent a gala event This exclusive evening will en-chant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fash-ion from 530-9 pm at the Power House Theatre Sixth amp Rose Walla Walla To purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewalla-wallacom

may 19-21During Pendletonrsquos Cattle Baron Weekend enjoy an art exhibit by a talented group of women artists ldquoIn the Company of Cowgirlsrdquo Hamleyrsquos Steakhouse Pendleton Visit inthecom-panyofcowgirlscom or call 541-676-5013

may 19-22Whitman College 50th Reunion class of 1961 Whitman College Details 509-527-5952

Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merr y Wives of Windsorrdquo Pow-erhouse Theater Details 509-742-0739

may 21The annual Ducky Derby is a day of family fun all for a good cause Watch the ducks race down Mill Creek to help fund the Exchange Clubrsquos efforts at preventing child abuse and neglect 1130 am-330 pm Race at about 2 pm Walla Walla Community College De-tails 509-527-4300

Walla Walla University Spring Choral Concert 5 pm Walla Walla Univer-sity Church Details 509-527-2571

learn to contra dance an old-fashioned coun-try dance Music by the Wednesday Night Band 7 pm teaching and practice 730 pm regular dance Unity Church of Peace 810

C St Walla Walla Details 541-938-7403

may 22The Whitman College graduating class of 2011 accepts the challenge 11 am Memorial lawn Whitman College Details 509-527-5156

may 26 27 28 29Walla Walla Community College Theatre arts De-partment presents ldquoZoot Suitrdquo by luis Valdez 7 pm each night and Sunday 2 pm matinee W WCC Performing arts Center Details 509-527-4575

may 27-30 Dayton Days has been a Memorial Weekend tradi-tion in Dayton for nearly 100 years Highlights include a Saturday-morning parade on historic Main Street rodeo tour of Dayton and Memorial Day Fun Run De-tails 509-382-4825 or visit historicdaytoncom

may 28-30The Touchet River Roundup mdash the annual Celebration of Sobriety at the fairgrounds focuses on family fun ac-tivities Waitsburg Details 509-526-3602

may 29annual Onion Man Tria-thalon 9 am Bennington lake Details wwmulti-sportscom or call 509-529-9187

may 30Waitsburgrsquos annual Memo-rial Day celebration hosted by veterans for all veterans Details 509-337-6546

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The sculpture tops the farmers market gazebo on the corner of Fourth Avenue North and West Main Street

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2 Basel cellars estate winery2901 Old Milton Hwy (509) 522-0200 wwwbaselcellarscom

3 Bergevin Lane vineyards 1215 W Poplar St (509) 526-4300 bergevinlanecom

4 Bunchgrass winery151 Bunchgrass lane (509) 540-8963 wwwbunchgrasswinerycom

5 canoe ridge vineyard1102 W Cherry St (509) 527-0885 wwwcanoeridgevineyardcom

6 castillo de feliciana85728 Telephone Pole Road Milton-Freewater OR (541) 558-3656 wwwcastillodefelicianacom

7 don carlo vineyardBy appointment Only (509) 540-5784 wwwdoncarlovineyardcom

8 dunham cellars150 E Boeing ave (509) 529-4685 wwwdunhamcellarscom

9 five star cellars 840 C St (509) 527-8400 wwwfivestarcellarscom

10 forgeron cellars 33 W Birch St (509) 522-9463 wwwforgeroncellarscom

21 sapolil cellars15 E Main St (509) 520-5258 wwwsapolilcellarscom

22 seven hills winery 212 N Third ave (509) 529-7198 wwwsevenhillswinerycom

23 sinclair estate vineyards 109 E Main Ste 100 (509) 876-4300 wwwsinclairestatevineyardscom

24 spring valley vineyard 18 N Second ave (509) 525-1506 wwwspringvalleyvineyardcom

25 suLei cellars355 S Second ave (503) 529-0840 www suleicellarscom

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12 fort walla walla cellars 127 E Main St (509) 520-1095 wwwfortwallawallacellarscom

13 glencorrie8052 Old Highway 12 (509) 525-2585 wwwglencorriecom

14 grantwood winery 2428 W Highway 12 (509) 301-0719 (509) 301-9546

15 Lrsquoecole no 41 winery41 lowden School Road and US Hwy 12 (509) 525-0940 wwwlecolecom

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17 Lowden hills winery1401 W Pine St (509) 527-1040 wwwlowdenhillswinerycom

18 northstar winery 1736 JB George Road (509) 524-4883 wwwnorthstarmerlotcom

19 pepper Bridge winery1704 JB George Road (509) 525-6502 wwwpepperbridgecom

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26 syZygy 405 E Boeing ave (509) 522-0484 wwwsyzygywinescom

27 three rivers winery5641 Old Highway 12 (509) 526-9463 infoThreeRiversWinerycom

28 tertulia cellars1564 Whiteley Road (509) 525-5700 wwwtertuliacellarscom

29 trust cellars 1050 Merlot Drive (509) 529-4511 wwwtrustcellarscom

30 va piano vineyards1793 JB George Road (509) 529-0900 wwwvapianovineyardscom

31 walla walla vintnersVineyard lane off Mill Creek Road (509) 525-4724 wwwwallawallavintnerscom

32 walla walla wineworks31 E Main St (509) 522-1261 wwwwallawallawineworkscom

33 whitman cellars1015 W Pine St (509) 529-1142 wwwwhitmancellarscom

34 woodward canyon winery11920 W Hwy 12 lowden (509) 525-4129 wwwwoodwardcanyoncom

35 JLc winery425 B St (509) 301-5148

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10ensp reaL cooks Learn how Gina Medica makes her fantastic flan

14ensp Brix amp mortar LrsquoEcole No 41 graduates to a new label

24ensp muses of the Bard Lifestyles teams with Shakespeare Walla Walla to celebrate the Power House Theatrersquos inaugural gala

30ensp the presidentrsquos piLot A veteran at the stick Larry Adams has served his country in many cockpits including Marine Onersquos

34ensp art at Large The Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival is set to begin

38ensp secret gardens Donald Smithrsquos irises are a gardenerrsquos dream come true

42ensp ponderings No matter how Walla Wallans come to be here itrsquos home

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Play is important in Walla Walla the play will truly be the thing when Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo at the newly restored Power House Theatre this month Lifestyles is teaming up with SWW for an inaugural event that will offer guests food fashion and merriment in the Elizabethan manner May 18 Check out our cover spread for a preview of the event

Winston Churchill may have described golf best when he said it ldquois a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purposerdquo

So if you are going to pursue the sport it makes sense to get the best coaching possible Al Mundle who spent 57 years helping others improve their games thought he had put tinkering with other peoplersquos grip stance and swing away for good But that was before Terri Hanson convinced him to offer some pointers to her son Jake who was heading into his final year on the links for the Walla Walla High School Blue Devils

Jim Buchan shows you how this relationship has worked

Work to a lot of people can be repetitious drudgery Larry Adams never had that problem Whether he was flying into enemy fire in vietnam or piloting a helicopter for the president each day challenged his skills and preparation Adams recounts some of those adventures for Lifestyles

Skill and preparation are necessary ingredients for cooking Gina Medica tells how she learned to make culinary creations from Cuba Her specialty is a flan dessert

Dr Donald Smithrsquos specialty is creating an eye-catching garden of colorful flowers The iris is a primary element of his palette Check out his creations in Secret Gardens

Columnist Catie Mcintyre Walker explains how the original palette for the LrsquoEcole No 41 wine labels came from a childrsquos watercolor As the winery has matured it has decided it was time to update the labels

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10 Walla Walla LifestyLes

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you donrsquot have to be a seasoned chef to make an impact with food Every

day in kitchens across the country real Cooks create extraordinary meals

for some very special guests mdash their friends and family

GinaenspMedica

Gina Medica holds Osito her Yorkie

by andrewenspHoltensp enspphoto by DarrenenspEllisfood

Walla Walla LifestyLes 11

Born in Miami and then raised in Central Los Angeles by her Cuban-born parents Medica learned her craft by observing her mother work in the kitchen Of all Medicarsquos culinary creations it is her Cuban flan dessert that receives the most requests

ldquoEveryone in the family would always request it especially my nieces and nephewrdquo Medica says sitting at her dining room table the freshly presented flan resting in front of her ldquoMy bro can easily eat half of itrdquo

And the flan does not remain uneaten for long as i sit down with the Walla Walla businesswoman and her daughter Elizabeth to discuss and taste this delicacy Minutes after we begin our conversation nephew Nick arrives and quickly wolfs down two servings

irsquove already finished my first and am working on my second when we begin our conversation

LifEStyLES With both of your parents being Havana natives did you eat Cuban food exclusively

MEDiCa No but in the early days Thanksgiving was pretty different My mom would fix the turkey but shersquod serve it with black beans and white rice Wersquod be ldquoAh mom canrsquot we have regular Thanksgiving food like mashed potatoes and yamsrdquo Those came later as we lived in the States longer

LifEStyLES So the food changed as you kids grew older

MEDiCa Well my mom was always pretty good at American food but sometimes it wasnrsquot all the way like she made American spaghetti but she put chicken in it it was good but my brother would always complain that it didnrsquot have meatballs Now he misses the chicken

LifEStyLES How many kids do you have in the family

MEDiCa i have an older brother and a younger sister irsquom the middle one We didnrsquot have a normal childhood in the sense that my mom was a hairstylist at home and on Saturday mornings customers would start arriving at 8 And she had one of those big old hair dryers

Continued on pg 12 gt

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that you put over someonersquos head mdash we called it ldquoFidel Castrordquo mdash and yoursquod have these customers yelling at the top of their voice while they were under it So i never got to sleep in

LifEStyLES it sounds like your mother was quite a lady

MEDiCa i recently found some of her original recipes you know in her own handwriting One of them is for croquetta which was really good you take chicken with corned beef and grind them up bread it and then fry it itrsquos really goodrdquo

LifEStyLES Why do you like the flan so much

MEDiCa Because everyone in the family always requested it i make it a little different The way i make it it is a little more creamy because i use cream cheese itrsquos more like a custard Many times in Mexican restaurants the flan will be more jello-y This is almost like cheesecake

LifEStyLES is it strictly for dessert

MEDiCa yes itrsquos for special occasions

LifEStyLES Like birthdays and parties

MEDiCa yes itrsquos not light you canrsquot have too much or your stomach will start to ache

LifEStyLES Does it take a long time to prepare

MEDiCa Not really Making the caramel sauce takes the most time and you canrsquot take your eyes off it or it might burn

LifEStyLES Tastes like it didnrsquot burn

MEDiCa No i had lots of help My daughter Elizabeth (and she glances over at her youngest child) helped me a lot

andrew hoLt writes about food people and all things Walla Walla for Walla Walla lifestyles magazine He can be reached at bruindrew86gmailcom

Cubanenspflaningredientsenspforenspflan

1 can evaporated milk1 can sweetened condensed milk1 cup whole or two percent milk6 eggs1 to 2 teaspoons vanilla extract14 teaspoon salt4 ounces cream cheese

ingredientsenspforenspcaramelenspsauce

1 to 1frac12 cup sugar

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Place the sugar in a saucepan on medium heat and stir until granules of sugar have liquified and the mixture takes on a caramel color

Pour the mixture into a mold coating the sides This must be done quickly because the mixture will harden also use oven mittens so you donrsquot burn your hands

Put aside

toenspmakeensptheenspflan

Preheat oven to 350 degreesIn a blender mix the sweetened condensed

milk frac12 can of evaporated milk and the milk eggs cream cheese salt and vanilla and blend on low

Pour out half the mixture into a bowl and pour in the remaining evaporated milk and blend

Pour contents of blender and bowl into mold and stir Cover with aluminum foil Crimp the edges of the foil around the mold to keep moisture out

Put the mold in a big cake pan and pour enough water around the mold for it to come part-way up the sides of the mold (we call that ldquobantildeo Mariacuteardquo) and bake for one hour plus 15 to 20 minutes

Use a knife to test done-ness mdash the knife should come out clean

When the flan is done baking let it rest and cool then place it in the refrigerator for 24 hours

The next day dip the mold in warm water before flipping the flan into a serving dish

Makes 12 servings

R EC IP E

food ltcontinued from pg 11

Walla Walla LifestyLes 13

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The old Frenchtown schoolhouse built in 1915 with the stately bell tower still stands it has been a historic fixture in the Walla Walla valley that many of us have grown up with even if we never attended classes there One can still stride up the long sidewalk to the large heavy carved doors with a feeling of reverence and trepidation mdash as if it were the first day of school mdash while imagining generations of children playing on the manicured grounds

in the 1970s the old schoolhouse classrooms found themselves empty of childrenrsquos laughter But in 1983 Jean and Baker Ferguson breathed new life into the old building founding what would become one of the premier wineries in Washington LrsquoEcole No 41

The name was historically im-portant in two ways ldquoLrsquoEcolerdquo French for ldquothe schoolrdquo recognized the French men and women who settled the area and ldquo41rdquo was the numerical designation of the school district

The Fergusonsrsquo first crush of 1983 was resting in the barrel when the following year they asked their elementary school-aged family members to draw an image that would best reflect the new project

The $100 prize went to an 8-year-old cousin whose watercolor interpretation of the old schoolhouse became the template for a wine label it became an iconic label known to wine lovers around the world

in 1989 the second generation of the family Jean and Bakerrsquos daughter and son-

in-law Megan and Martin (Marty) Clubb became the new proprietors of the winery Marty became the general manager and winemaker and would lead the small artisan winery to new heights mdash it would eventually produce more than 30000 cases annually

At the same time the Washington state wine industry was booming and would soon become the nationrsquos second-largest wine producer The area would become one of the premium wine-producing regions in the United States

Marty also became a pioneer in the

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Washington state wine industry as he became a founder and activist in many of the wine industryrsquos foundations and alliances The family-owned winery also partnered with some of the most prestigious vineyards in the state LrsquoEcole No 41 has been honored nine consecutive years by Wine amp Spirits magazine as ldquoWinery of the yearrdquo becoming the second Washington winery inducted into the Hall of Fame

There is a third-generation that has grown up around the winery and will eventually become caretakers of this legacy Meganrsquos and Martyrsquos children Jeanrsquos and Bakerrsquos grandchildren rebecca and riley Clubb had their own meaningful influence on the label with their childhood drawings on the labelrsquos chalkboard image

riley is a 2009 graduate of Whitman College and is employed at the winery rebecca is enrolled in Washington State Universityrsquos wine management program and expected to graduate in 2012

The winery will soon celebrate its 30th birthday The wines produced at the old schoolhouse are refined with true varietal character and can stand up against many coveted wines from France mdash and they have Now that LrsquoEcole is a top player in the world of wine the whimsical label on its bottles is no longer truly indicative of the sophisticated gold and dark-red liquids behind the glass

ldquoLooking to the future we wanted our label to reflect the winery we have becomerdquo says Marty Clubb

This year the winery will unveil a new label it will still depict the iconic schoolhouse but with deeper colors and a new texture There will be a distinct difference among the labels depending on the vineyards used Wines produced from Columbia valley vineyards will have a soft charcoal-colored background label and the labels for the wines produced from Walla Walla vineyards will be more sepia-toned

Another distinctive change will be the de-emphasizing of the ldquoNo 41rdquo as generations of wine lovers have often referred to the winery as ldquoLrsquoEcolerdquo

The new label will be a timeless reminder of the past as well as a welcome to future generations

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it was 1954 the year he graduated from the University of Oregon and two female students from the university were interested in learning some of the finer points of the game

ldquoit was probably the worst lesson anybody has ever givenrdquo Mundle exclaimed shaking his head in dismay ldquoThese two young ladies were looking for some help and i worked with them for an hour-and-a-half And at the end of that time i said lsquoi have done such a poor job i will pay you for the time i have put you through this torturersquordquo

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by JimenspBuchanensp enspphotos by ColbyenspKuschatka

Walla Walla LifestyLes 17

Painful as it was the lesson learned proved to be a career-launching moment for Mundle who dedicated himself to his trade and spent a lifetime in the golf business successfully working up and down the i-5 corridor as course operator teacher and player

Fifty-seven years after that first teaching debacle Mundle now 79 years old is retired and living in Walla Walla He and his wife Ann relocated here last summer determined to give up teaching golf and spend more time playing the game they both love

ldquoAfter all of these years of teaching i feel that this is the time to lay it asiderdquo Mundle said ldquoi will still do a little studying of the golf swing and methods and i will be involved with some of the other local professionals in some cracker-barrel sessions when they get together to discuss teaching methods problems and how to solve them

ldquoBut i really came here not to teach but to play some golfrdquo

That was the plan anyway before he was introduced to Walla Walla High School senior Jake Hanson who was looking for a little extra help with his game heading into his final year on the links as a Blue Devil

Terri Hanson Jakersquos mother was aware of Mundlersquos reputation as a teaching professional and heard through the grapevine he was living in Walla Walla

ldquoBeing the mom i am i called him one dayrdquo Terri remembered ldquoi told him that Jakersquos golf game was at a standstill i asked him to take a look at Jake and he agreed to come and meet us and get a feel for where Jake was at

ldquoHe did and before you knew it they were putting on our hardwood floors The next day they agreed to get together at Wine valley mdash they were there for four hours and it has been an amazing connection right from the beginning

ldquoAl is an amazing Christian man who is so well-respected in his fieldrdquo Terri added ldquoAnd he just demands respect irsquom seeing my son of 17 all of a sudden growing uprdquo

Mundle concedes he is intrigued by Hansonrsquos character and potential And

Under the watchful eye of Al Mundle Jake Hanson hits an iron shot

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Hanson holds his new mentor in high esteem

ldquoirsquove learned a tremendous amountrdquo Hanson said ldquoHe has a way of getting through to me in a positive way He got through to me that i am so much better than i thought i could be He has more confidence in me than i have in myself

ldquoHe has one of the best golf swings i have ever seen and he is still working on his own gamerdquo

Mundle said Hanson reminds him of former University of Oregon player Ben Crane who now plays on the PGA Tour Crane has been playing professionally since 2007 and earned nearly $3 million on the tour in 2010

ldquoi was Benrsquos swing coach at Oregon and Jake is somewhat similarrdquo Mundle said ldquoBen worked harder than anybody on the whole golf team He would put in as much

time as three or four others combined and Jake is very much the same way Hersquos very dedicatedrdquo

However Mundle insists that helping Hanson with his game is a one-time situation

After playing just six rounds of golf last year Mundle is determined that he and Ann will spend a lot more time on the golf course as they get acquainted with their new hometown

ldquoThatrsquos an all-time lowrdquo he said of the six rounds played in 2010 ldquoMostly it was the move and all mdash a new house putting in lawn fencing shelving in the garage mdash all the little things of getting settled

ldquoBut this was a good move for us We love it here We enjoy the weather and the people you can walk down the street and people look you in the eye and say lsquoHellorsquo i love that friendlinessrdquo

Mundle grew up in Eugene and graduated from University High School in 1950 He knew he said from the time he was in the seventh grade he wanted to make golf his lifersquos work

ldquoyou might say that i had a little parental directionrdquo Mundle said ldquoMy dad went to the University of St Andrews in Scotland and he played golf at the St Andrews Old Course And my mother also played golfrdquo

After high school Mundle enrolled at the University of Oregon and played three years of varsity golf during an era when there was no such thing as a golf scholarship

ldquoThe only thing we ever received was a half-a-dozen golf balls if we went into a tournamentrdquo Mundle recalled ldquoWhen i went to the NCAA Championships in Texas my senior year i was given a new

people ltcontinued from pg 17

Walla Walla LifestyLes 19

pair of golf shoes but that was itldquoWe bought all of our own gear mdash

clubs bags rain gear everything itrsquos a whole different ball game today They have everythingrdquo

At the end of his sophomore year at Oregon Mundle had it in his mind to ldquotest my golf on the PGA Tourrdquo he said But his father an English professor at the university discouraged him

ldquoHe said lsquoGet your education first then you can do whatever you wantrsquordquo Mundle said ldquoit was just as well i saved a lot of wear and tear mdash and money i was an Ok player but not of that caliberrdquo

Mundle still has fond memories of his collegiate playing career however

ldquoi played three years for the university mdash you werenrsquot allowed to play as freshmen mdash and Oregon always had fine golf teamsrdquo Mundle said ldquoit was mostly match

play then and i was there during the time that the school went seven straight years without losing a (team) dual matchrdquo

During his senior year Mundle qualified for the NCAA Championships in Houston From a field of about 160 players Mundle made it as far as the quarterfinal round

He graduated in 1954 with a degree in history which he said he never really used

ldquoMy dad was in the top one percent of his class at St Andrewsrdquo Mundle said ldquoMy mother was also in the top part of her class and my older brother Pete was in the top of his class And then i came alongrdquo

His first golf job was as an assistant pro at his home course the Laurelwood Golf Course a position he accepted shortly after graduating from UO This was when and where the infamous first golf lesson

occurredA two-year stint in the US Army took

Mundle away from his profession in 1955-56 But he managed to keep his golf game sharp as a member of the Fort knox golf team and in 1956 he was the runner-up in the Second Army tournament and he placed 13th in the All-Army tournament

Then it was back to the Willamette valley where he came into his own in the Portland area under head professionals Eddie Hogan at riverside Country Club and Bunny Mason at Columbia Edgewater

ldquoThose two people were very influential in my professional liferdquo Mundle said

ldquoEddie was a very fine teacher of the total golf operation and service was No 1 i learned how to run the pro shop how

Jake Hanson takes a few pointers on chipping from his instructor and mentor Al Mundle

Continued on pg 20 gt

20 Walla Walla LifestyLes

people ltcontinued from pg 19

to market and merchandise mdash everything from how to run the club service program to the electric cart program to basically running the golf course

ldquoBunny was also a very fine operator of a golf shop and i also learned a lot about teaching from Bunny Sometimes you go along in life and there are certain mentors who help you along the way Anybody who says they made it by themselves is not being honest with themselves We have all had someone who has given us a little boost along the wayrdquo

Mundle took his first head professional job in 1965 at Overlake Golf and Country Club in Bellevue where he remained until 1981 At that point he returned to Eugene and was the head pro at the Eugene Country Club for three years followed by a six-year stint at the Bear Creek Country Club in Seattle

He also spent a short time at a golf course in Cottage Grove Ore before moving back to Eugene for a third time in 1993 to become the director of golf instruction at the river ridge Golf Course He remained at river ridge until his retirement last summer During his time there he helped out as the swing coach at UO under then-head coach Steve Nosler

Through it all Mundle served as president of the Washington PGA and the Pacific Northwest PGA and was a member of several National PGA committees As a player he participated in the Oregon Washington and Pacific Northwest opens as well as the Washington and Oregon PGA events One of his highlights was winning the Oregon Senior PGA Match-Play Championships in Bend in 1993

ldquoi felt i had an obligation to participaterdquo Mundle said ldquoi played a lot of golf including many many pro-ams and i won a couple of assistant championshipsrdquo

in addition to Crane Mundle also helped shape the careers of Jeff Quinney and Eric Johnson both of whom are from the Eugene area

Quinney won the United States Amateur championship in 2000 and represented the US in the Walker Cup in 2001 He has appeared in 128 PGA Tour events since 2007 placing second twice and third twice

Johnson played several years on the Asian Tour and one on the Nationwide Tour He is now a head professional at a

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course in San rafael CalifldquoAnd there have been some others mdash

Brian Henninger Mike Gove a few others mdash who have called and wanted to discus their swingrdquo Mundle said ldquoNothing on a regular basis just one or two sessionsrdquo

is Hanson his next mdash and perhaps his last mdash prodigy

Thatrsquos a tricky question since Hanson came to golf late after a budding baseball career was derailed by a shoulder injury He was a first-team all-Big Nine Conference golf selection as a junior but has yet to qualify for state and his summer resume is thin because of his baseball background

Hansonrsquos original plan was to attend Walla Walla Community College and play golf for the Warriors with the hope of earning an NCAA Division i scholarship But he has since decided to enroll in Arizona State Universityrsquos Professional Golf Management program and try out for the ASU golf team as a walk on

ldquoMore than anything i think it came down to him evaluating his goalsrdquo said Jakersquos father Gary Hanson ldquoitrsquos everyonersquos dream to play on the PGA Tour but realistically he wants to be a golf pro and teach He loves

the gamerdquoAnd a degree in the PGM program

will provide Jake with the educational background he needs to be successful in any form of business his father added

Though his chances of making the ASU varsity team seem unlikely the PGM program provides a club golf team that participates in a series of tournaments throughout the year and gives Hanson a second playing option

And keeping your options open is optimum at this point Mundle said

ldquoi think his driving force at this time mdash and also his folks mdash is to get his education And then he can do whatever he wants if he doesnrsquot go into (the golfing business) immediately he will always have it as a backuprdquo

Sounds an awful lot like the advice Thomas Mundle offered his son back in the spring of 1952 when Al Mundle wanted to leave school after his sophomore year and test his wings on the PGA Tour And as we now know all these years later staying in school worked out pretty well for Al

Jim Buchan is a sports writer for the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin He can be reached at jimbuchanwwubcom

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Join us for a night of wonder with elizabethan-inspired food fashion and merriment to celebrate the opening of walla wallarsquos power house theatre and prepare for a four-day run of seattle shakespeare companyrsquos ldquothe merry wives of windsorrdquo

walla walla lifestyles will present a fashion show with wicked and wistful gowns twisted braided hair and smoldering makeup designs designers include red eden designs autumnlin design and others

semi-formal attire creative masks encouraged this exclusive evening will enchant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fashion

to purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewallawallacom

530 - 9 pm May 18 2011

The Power H o use The at reS i x t h amp R o se Wa l l a Wa l l a

T H E A T R EPOWER HOUSE

My director Terry Edward Moore told me his only direction from the artistic director was that it be ldquoperiodrdquo that is to say authentic to the time

ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo is the only one of Shakespearersquos plays that is set in his own time so it was decided to present it as if the actors were people of the time doing what would be a contemporary (to the late 16th century) play

i started to research the clothing of the time how it was constructed and what kinds of fabrics were available at the time mdash linens homespuns woolens for the common people and silks damasks velvets and furs for the upper classes i discovered that Elizabethan society was strictly regulated in terms of social classes and upward mobility was a little-known concept Once a yeoman always a yeoman i also discovered the set of rules and regulations called ldquosumptuary lawsrdquo which specifically dictated what types of fabrics trims furs and even what colors each class was allowed to wear

Since there are three distinct classes represented in ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo mdash merchant class soldiers and servants mdash i tried to give each class its own color palette based on these laws The overall palette of the show is based on colors actually in use at the time

The availability of dyes was limited (except for the nobility) so the palette consists of many shades of yellows and browns russets black some greens and blue-grays and of course wheat-colored unbleached linen i turned to the Dutch painter Brueghel for inspiration on how the common people looked and dressed

i also researched what kinds of dyes were used and where they came from Dyes were created from all sorts of different things such as walnut shell crushed beetles and all kinds of roots i found a website that sells these authentic dyestuffs so irsquom using the real thing to dye some of the linen pieces and will coordinate the contemporary fabrics to these authentic colors

Nearly every piece will need something done to it mdash altered in some way to fit the actor re-trimmed rigged invisibly for quick changes etc mdash so there is a lot of labor involved Also hats were a hugely important part of Elizabethan fashion all the way down to the poorest serf

Certain styles of hats were often associated with certain professions mdash eg doctors scholars mdash so there are a number of hats to build as well as headpieces for the women No self-respecting woman went about with her head uncovered

Putting together a show like this is like putting together a giant jigsaw puzzle and the pieces are the costumes that irsquove borrowed and rented from other theater companies in the Seattle area such as Seattle repertory Seattle Opera and the University of Washington as well as pieces from Oregon Shakespeare Festival i design the show and then go out into the world and try to find pieces that approximate my designs and palette as closely as possible (usually with some reworking first) The pieces that i cant find and dont want to compromise on i build from scratch

deane middLeton is a theatre costume professional who works in the Seattle area She has done costumes for Issaquahrsquos Village Theater as well as several productions of the Seattle Shakespeare Company

ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 29

ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo was the only one of Shakespearersquos works set in his own time the 1600s and features Sir John Falstaff It also deals primarily with english middle-class life A hilarious bawdy comedy filled with insight into the life and times of Shakespeare ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo will delight people of all ages

About the play

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But thatrsquos exactly what longtime Walla Walla resident Larry Adams did for four years He was one of a select group of pilots for Marine One the helicopter counterpart of the presidential airplane Air Force One from 1970 to 1974

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 31

Long before Adams became the Walla Walla Airport manager he was transporting heads of state foreign dignitaries famous (and now infamous) Cabinet members the executive staff and President richard M Nixon during one of the nationrsquos most turbulent times the withdrawal from vietnam and the Watergate scandal

But to Adams a native of Northern idaho all that swirled around the Nixon presidency was the least of his concerns His job was to transport the president safely to Andrews Air Force Base or Camp David or fly any short flight required Safety always at a premium End of story

Many times Adams ferried President Nixon and his staff on short flights far away from home Air Force One might fly President Nixon to a summit or a meeting with a foreign head of state but Marine One and Adams were always nearby to shuttle the chief executive on short flights or to whisk him away from sudden danger

Pretty heady stuff for a fourth-grade teacher who had never thought about flying until a Marine recruiter offered him the opportunity Although Adams had watched planes take off and land at a nearby air base as a child he had never given serious thought to flying it was more a need for a bigger paycheck than passion that brought Adams to his destiny

He liked teaching but it just wasnrsquot paying the bills So Adams turned to the military and the Gi Bill After being unimpressed by other recruiters Adams took a liking to the fellow from the Marines for as Adams recalls the recruiter took an interest in him After about an hour of talking the recruiter suggested Adams might have the potential to be a pilot

Having easily passed some preliminary tests Adams was sent to flight school in Pensacola Fla and a stellar career was ready to take off He performed well in all the aircraft he piloted but he showed a special skill for helicopters

Up until 1965 fixed-wing airplanes were the staple of all military air combat But the military had been gearing up for a big change The helicopter was to become a major part of combat The Pentagon had been developing helicopters that would do much more than transport troops to bases Now they would assist in bombing

raids ground attacks and the evacuation of the injured from the point of combat This new breed of helicopters would also possess the ability to fight back and not be lame ducks as before the new H34 would tote machine guns on each side

These cutting-edge aircraft would travel at unprecedented speeds with newly discovered agility Gifted pilots were needed not those who merely possessed superior technical skills but those who also had the composure to fly straight into

enemy fire in the dead of night picking up injured soldiers or aiding air attacks

Adams was one of those pilots and he would be one of two squadron leaders for ldquoOperation Starliterdquo mdash the first major assault using helicopters The Marines were going straight into a North vietnamese regimental stronghold No one knew what to expect

ldquoWe lost a lot that first time inrdquo says Adams ldquoTwo crew chiefs were killed

Continued on pg 32 gt

In this newspaper clipping Larry Adams poses on the steps of the helicopter dubbed Marine One which he piloted for President Richard M Nixon

32 Walla Walla LifestyLes

people ltcontinued from pg 31

four pilots were medevaced out because of their wounds i donrsquot think there was one helicopter that didnrsquot have a bunch of holes in it The one i flew in we got a lot of rounds in it Amazingly no one was hurt but when we got back the helicopter was so shot-up you couldnrsquot fly it anymore We lost 50 percent of our helicopters that dayrdquo

in the next 13 months Adams would fly many more missions often heading straight into anti-aircraft fire to pick up injured or killed soldiers He says he would see the flares signifying where the copter was supposed to land but frequently hersquod have to veer off because ground communication would say ldquoThe artillery is too hotrdquo Then there would be a window maybe two minutes maybe five when the helicopter could drop in and pick up the injured often being shot at as it waited for its passengers

Adams knew the best way to survive was to keep his focus ldquoin the daylight when you start your run in and yoursquore getting shot at Everything went to black and white for me i didnrsquot notice the green trees or the green rice paddies until we got out of there and then it would come back

to me i donrsquot know what that was i just didnrsquot see the colors irsquove talked to some other pilots and they described the same thingrdquo

in his two tours of duty in vietnam Adams would fly 880 combat missions in several types of helicopters and fixed-wing airplanes He received numerous medals including two Navy commendations for performance under combat conditions

Then the call came to fly for the president Before Adams could tote the commander in chief around in Marine One a thorough background check had to be done So thorough was the check that Adams said a friend from his hometown sent him a card that read ldquoAre you in some kind of trouble Jesus therersquos been a bunch of people around here with the dark grey suits and the skinny little ties Theyrsquore asking all these embarrassing questions about you like did you have drinking problem Did you have a gambling problem Do you know what Larryrsquos sexual preference wasrdquo

Adams chuckles ldquoit was pretty funnyrdquoAdams passed the grade and soon

he was flying President Nixon and his family to Camp David or picking up vice

President Spiro Agnew at the Pentagon or taking Secretary of State Henry kissinger or Secretary of Defense Alexander Haig to a classified meeting Although his flights varied from transporting foreign heads of state to flying members of the press the majority involved the president the vice president kissinger and Haig

The pilots did not speak to their travelers unless spoken to says Adams President Nixon usually looked in and asked them how they were kissinger never spoke Haig was good for a pat on the shoulder now and then but it was Agnew who conversed the most says Adams

Adams remembers ldquoOne time we picked him up at the Pentagon and we had taken off and had hit top altitude He usually would come up and look into the cockpit but this time he patted me on the shoulder and asked lsquoWell howrsquos it going today guysrsquordquo Adams replied ldquoNot bad sir and how about yourselfrdquo

Agnew answered ldquoMan they are really after my assrdquo He was talking about the press Adams says ldquoTwo weeks later he resignedrdquo

Adams recalls that his encounters with Agnew as defying the public perception

Adams far right gives instructions before a mission in Vietnam

Walla Walla LifestyLes 33

that Agnew was arrogant ldquoHe was always one of the nicest guys He was straightforward He looked like he had just stepped off the cover of Gentlemenrsquos Quarterly all the time He was very proper in the way he dressed but he had a sense of humor as wellrdquo

There were other humorous moments Adams recalls a certain reporter from CBS who had been a major thorn in President Nixonrsquos side was late for takeoff from the South Lawn of the White House one morning Just as Marine One was about to leave without him he came running across the lawn hollering and waving his arms The Secret Service agent supervising the flight told Adams to ldquojust gordquo The wind from the propellers whipped the reporterrsquos toupee right off his head and instead of continuing his run toward Marine One he reversed his field and tried feverishly to retrieve his toupee snagged in the hedges

ldquoEveryone got a pretty good chuckle out of thatrdquo

Of course there were somber times At one point Adams flew Cabinet members John Ehrlichman and Hr Haldeman to Camp David for a meeting with the president After only 15 minutes the two men returned and Marine One headed home Adams says it was a quiet flight He found out later the two men had been fired by President Nixon for their parts in the Watergate scandal

Whisking the president away from danger was a major part of being a pilot of Marine One Stationed across the river from the Capitol pilots awakened by an emergency alert had to be up in the air in five minutes This exercise was practiced often though never needed during Adamsrsquo tenure

One night however they thought it was The operator at the White House mistakenly hit the ldquoAlertrdquo button Marine One was in the air in five minutes

Although ground control had not spotted any enemy aircraft the operation was under way As Marine One closed in on the White House the operator at fault tried to alert everyone of his mistake but unfortunately used a poor choice of words to call off the operation

Adams chuckles as he says ldquoThe fella said lsquoThis is not an exercisersquo He was moved to another post i thinkrdquo

All levity aside the position required

the same kind of focus demanded of Adams in vietnam though it came in a different form

ldquoThere were three things the way you operated the aircraft and they were in this order safety comfort and speed Safety never gave in to comfort or speedrdquo says Adams ldquoOur job was just concentrating on doing our job it could have been anybody mdash we would do it the same way it could have been Fred Flintstone

ldquoThe difference between flying for the White House and in vietnam was we were flying a premier aircraft We had to keep it impeccably clean everything was scripted We had to have the lsquoopen-the-door timersquo down to two to four seconds in vietnam it was the stress of performing medevacs under fire or dropping troops under heavy artillery For Marine One it was the stress of doing the job rightrdquo

Also the stress of being away from onersquos family 200 days of the year wore on a Marine One pilot in 1974 after four years on the job the toll became too much and Adams stepped down

He would stay with the Marines for eight more years retiring in August 1982

By then he had received 44 Air Medals including the Joint Service Commendation and the Presidential Service Badge in his 20 years of service Adams flew seven different helicopters and five different fixed-wing planes

What makes an elite military pilot ldquoPilots who donrsquot have any misgivingsrdquo says Adams ldquoTheyrsquore totally prepared they know their aircraftrdquo

When talking about his colleagues on Marine One he adds ldquoNone were boasters They might brag about a great landing but they did not brag in spite of someone elserdquo

What did Adams love most about his flying days ldquoi enjoyed flying with the latest technology and the pristine quality of Marine One i loved the process of building my skills i could have flown another 40 years and i would still be learning thingsrdquo

is it any surprise his favorite hobby now is fly fishing

andrew hoLt writes about food people and all things Walla Walla for Walla Walla lifestyles magazine He can be reached at bruindrew86gmailcom

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it is astonishing in many ways mdash that we are presented with two weeks of top-drawer music performed by top-drawer musi-cians that there are so many ways to encounter the music (many of them free) and that a rural community has provided the incu-

bator for such a cultural undertaking to name but a fewGranted we are not your average rural community having two

colleges a university a symphony a choral society a community band and music in the schools but letrsquos face it wersquore not exactly a cosmopolitan center of culture like New york either The Cham-ber Music Festival mdash and our continued support of it through some tough times mdash puts us in a category all our own

ldquoi saw what was special about this community the first time i visited in 2007rdquo Artistic Director Timothy Christie says ldquoi have

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worked hard to start this event and to my great joy it has taken on an iden-tity of its own i hire the musicians and choose the music but the town its people and its environs make the festivalrdquo

The beauty of chamber music is its intimacy mdash smaller ensembles performing for smaller audiences it has been referred to as ldquothe music of friendsrdquo which seems so apt at this festival Free open rehearsals are held around town that provide not only a musical atmosphere in which to enjoy a latte or the ambiance of the kirkman House but which give a richer look into the machinations of a working ensemble

As one enthusiastic fan puts it ldquoi am not a musician and itrsquos fascinat-ing to watch these rehearsals to see the interactions of the musicians as they work out the snags make wry remarks and relate to each other in a whole different way than during a for-mal performance i get a glimpse into their personalities and what makes them tickrdquo

The festival supplies a generous of-fering of venues with free concerts for children and families relaxed evening programs at wineries and full concerts at the Foundry Chism Hall and Day-tonrsquos Liberty Theater

if you are lucky enough to live near the musiciansrsquo lodgings while they are in town you may also be treated to an ad hoc front-porch concert as the ensembles continue their rehearsals in more private settings The festival is about all of these ways mdash planned and accidental mdash to experience the enchantment of chamber music

it is also about historic continuity and the connection between past and present mdash relishing the existing canon while expanding the genre with con-temporary forms and voices

How is this accomplished in part by the annual commission of a new piece of music for the festival Chris-tie is committed to contributing to the broader chamber music repertoire and to providing the audience with the richest possible experience

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ldquoFor classical music to be relevant there must be a conversation between the music of our time and the music of the pastrdquo he says

By commissioning a work for the festi-val each year Christie creates such a con-versation

This year the commission was given to John David Earnest Four festival commis-sions have preceded his and he is the sec-ond ldquolocalrdquo composer to be tapped add-ing another layer of relationship between community and event (in 2009 Whitman College professor David Glenn was given the nod)

As visiting adjunct professor of music at Whitman Earnest resides here for six weeks every semester His ldquoSecond Sym-phonyrdquo was written for and performed by the Walla Walla Symphony in October 2001

The challenge for the yearly commis-sionee is to compose a piece on demand within specific constraints of time place and instrumentation while expressing hisher own voice as an artist

Earnest has created ldquoCommedia Gal-leryrdquo a set of three movements for flute

viola and harp based on stock characters from the Commedia dellrsquoArte a popu-lar theatrical form that was influential in Europe for over 300 years Commedia characters improvised dialogue around set scenarios generally involving the struggles of young lovers to overcome hindrances to their romance and each character even-tually came to have a consistent set of at-tributes in speech mannerisms and cos-tume

Earnestrsquos ldquoGalleryrdquo gives us Arlecchi-no (Harlequin) an acrobatic and devious jester Pierrot the classic sad clown and finally Scaramouche a dandy and a brag-gart who is a coward at heart

in anticipation of this yearrsquos festival i am reminded of the scene in ldquoThe Music Manrdquo in which the town awaits the ar-rival of the Wells Fargo Wagon Potentially heaped with gifts and surprises it prom-ises connection to the larger world The WWCMF brings us all ldquosomethinrsquo specialrdquo mdash an enrichment of our community and our culture

margaret Jamison is an artist and writer living in Walla Walla Contact her at artjamisongmailcom

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Smith has gardened for years at his home at 38 Mulberry Court in College Place He used to grow vegetables and flowers now he is strictly focusing on flowers mdash with fabulous results roses delphiniums and lots of irises line the fence

ldquoirises mdash irsquove always enjoyed themrdquo he says ldquoThey take a little bit of weeding and watering but not much morerdquo itrsquos the gardenerrsquos dream mdash low maintenance with a big return

A retired orthopedic surgeon Smith has in the past gardened more extensively than he does now But he has enough plants to keep him busy His new project is planting more of the reblooming iris These are still hardy but you get twice the reward they bloom in the spring then again in the fall

ldquoTheyrsquore easy to grow and spectacular for a short time iris take less care than a lot of thingsrdquo Smith says

His secret for gardening is simple and therersquos no getting around it ldquoTime and workrdquo he laughs

Hersquos getting ready to start in the garden ldquoi need to clean out the leaves and the old foliage of the irisrdquo

in addition to the basic cleaning and maintenance Smith just decides how many plants to keep Bulb flowers are hardy and they multiply on their own

ldquoAfter five years you usually have to separate the bulbs when they get too thick i donrsquot have room to add more i put in the new re-blooming onesrdquo he explains ldquoi may add more and a few other thingsrdquo

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itrsquos an odd location since it can only be seen as yoursquore leaving town but it always makes me smile This valley my adopted home is indeed a great place to be

i recently finished reading the great Western writer Wallace Stegnerrsquos book ldquoThe Sound of Mountain Waterrdquo One of his essays traces his nomadic childhood which left him feeling rootless and without a place that he felt he could call home

i identify with his feeling of not belonging i was born to a single woman from Massachusetts in a New york City hospital i stayed a scant few days before being placed with an adoption agency Born in a place i had no familial connection to i was immediately deprived of my biological family Most of my childhood was spent in suburban Cleveland Ohio Moves to upstate New york New England and Pennsylvania brought me no closer to calling any place home i loved living in the western Massachusetts town of Stockbridge but the multigenerational denizens of the town left few openings for newcomers like me i lived in central Pennsylvania for several decades but felt detached from the deep roots that most people had in the area

When we came west (for my husband a homecoming to his Oregon roots for me a new experience) i noticed that even in long-established towns like Walla Walla there is ample room for newcomers who want to be

part of the community And most folks who choose to come here donrsquot seem to want to change the valley they prefer to embrace it

While the occasional newbie whines about the lack of Whole Foods or Nordstrom they soon discover our farmers markets the wide variety of local shops and boutiques and our world-class restaurants They fall in love with our charming downtowns the small-town friendliness of the people and our kid-friendly environment Then therersquos the holiday parade the fair the ever-present Blue Mountains the parks the museums the wineries mdash really whatrsquos not to like The communities of our valley represent America at its best

irsquom a newspaper junkie i love to read everything from news to sports to classifieds mdash even the obituaries The obits are a fascinating window on our valley Many of the people chronicled were born here some lived all their lives here inextricably bound to this place But a number of people came here from other places often far away and have made a mark on our area Which makes me wonder mdash is a place any less of a hometown because you choose it or is it based primarily on the happenstance of your birth it seems that therersquos room for both paths to calling this wonderful valley home

itrsquos also our strength because collectively as a community we bring both deep familial and cultural traditions as well as the fresh perspective of newcomers to our area irsquom glad mdash after decades of searching mdash that i finally found my hometown a place that feels just right

diane reed can be reached at ladybookearthlinknet Between columns and when the spirit moves her she blogs at wwwponderingsbydianereedblogspotcom from her home overlooking the pond at lions Park in College Place

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Maymay 1The annual Kennel Club Dog Show Walla Walla County Fairgrounds De-tails 509-558-3854

The Walla Walla University Drama Department pres-ents a performance of ldquoMy Fair ladyrdquo 2 pm matinee Details 509-527-2656

The Walla Walla Choral Society presents ldquoJubilate Deordquo 3 pm May 1 Walla Walla University Church College Place Details 509-386-2445

The Walla Walla Valley Farmers Market opens local produce artisans and an outdoor concert 9 am-1 pm Saturdays and Sundays through Oct 30 Crawford Park Fourth ave and Main St Details gowallawallafarmersmar-ketcom or 509-520-3647

through may 22Enjoy the annual Senior art Thesis Exhibition Sheehan Gallery Whitman College Details 509-527-5249

through JuLy 31The Tamaacutestslikt Cultural In-stitute hosts the traveling OMSI exhibit ldquoamazing Feats of agingrdquo explor-ing the mysteries of why animals and humans age Details 541-966-9748

may 4The YWCa leadership luncheon ldquoMatters that Matterrdquo is informational and inspirational with guest speakers Kristine Van Raden and Molly Da-vis Noon Marcus Whit-man Hotel Details 509-525-2570

Walla Walla Wine Works hosts music on Wednes-days downtown Details 509-522-1261

may 5First Thursday Concert at St Pauls Episcopal Church 323 Catherine Street Walla Walla 1215-1250 pm will feature the Steel Drum Band from Walla Walla Uni-versity directed by Brandon Beck Details 529-1083

The Whitman College Visit-ing Writers Reading series presents Whitman Reading 7 pm Kimball Theatre De-tails whitmanedu

may 5-7 12-14Walla Walla High School Drama Department pres-ents ldquoFiddler on the Roofrdquo musical version 7 pm and 2 pm matinee on Saturdays May 7 and 14 Walla Walla High School Performing arts audito-rium Details Tickets can be reserved by calling 509-526-8613 the Wa-Hi box office

may 5-8 19-21a performance of ldquoThe 25th a nnua l Putnam County Spelling Beerdquo 8 pm Harper Joy Theatre Whitman College Details 509-527-5180

may 6-7Music on the weekends at the Backstage Bistro De-tails 509-526-0690

Sapolil Cellars hosts music on Friday and Saturday De-tails 509-520-5258

The Wildfire hosts music every Friday and Saturday Wildhorse Resort amp Casino Pendleton Details 800-654-9453

may 6-8Walla Walla Valley Winer-ies offer an opportunity to taste their new creations during Spring Release Weekend area wineries introduce new wines and winemakers share their creative inspiration Details 509-526-3117

may 6artWalK First Fridays May through December Visit galleries and chat with art-ists 5-8 pm Downtown Walla Walla Visit artwalk-wallawallacom

may 6-8 13-14The little Theatre presents ldquoalice In Wonderlandrdquo adapted from lewis Carroll 8 pm Friday-Saturday 2 pm Sunday little Theatre of Walla Walla Details 509-529-3683

may 7The annual Junior Horse Show brings great riding action to Milton-Freewater Pioneer Posse Grounds Details 541-938-3379

Daytonrsquos annual Street Sale turns a section of Third Street into a giant yard sale benefits churches and com-munity projects Dayton Details 509-382-4825

artist reception and dem-onstration Washington art-ist Dwight Duke exhibits his painting bronze sculptures and gunpowder light pan-els 6-730 pm Reininger Winery Details 509-522-1994

may 8Every Sunday the living History actors portray in-dividuals from the arearsquos past 2 pm Fort Walla Walla Museum Details 509-525-7703

may 13-15The annual Balloon Stam-pede brings as many as 50 hot-air balloons to the Walla Walla County Fairgrounds This colorful festival re-mains a Valley tradition Ear-ly morning flights (weather permitting) arts amp crafts antique autos commercial booths live entertainment and food Balloons light up to music at the Saturday evening Nite Glow Details 509-525-0850

may 14annual adult event cele-brates the characters who populated Pendletonrsquos past Must have reservations Pendleton Underground Tours Details 800-226-6398

may 14-15 may 27-29Walla Walla Drag Strip con-tinues the weekend fun Details wwdragstripcom or 509-200-6287

may 15Walla Walla University Chamber Series featuring Robyn McCabe 730 pm MKW Fine arts auditorium Details 509-527-2571

may 18To celebrate the opening of Walla Wallarsquos Power House Theatre and a four-day run of Seattle Shakespeare Companyrsquos ldquoThe Merry Wives of WindsorrdquoWalla Walla lifestyles will pres-ent a gala event This exclusive evening will en-chant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fash-ion from 530-9 pm at the Power House Theatre Sixth amp Rose Walla Walla To purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewalla-wallacom

may 19-21During Pendletonrsquos Cattle Baron Weekend enjoy an art exhibit by a talented group of women artists ldquoIn the Company of Cowgirlsrdquo Hamleyrsquos Steakhouse Pendleton Visit inthecom-panyofcowgirlscom or call 541-676-5013

may 19-22Whitman College 50th Reunion class of 1961 Whitman College Details 509-527-5952

Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merr y Wives of Windsorrdquo Pow-erhouse Theater Details 509-742-0739

may 21The annual Ducky Derby is a day of family fun all for a good cause Watch the ducks race down Mill Creek to help fund the Exchange Clubrsquos efforts at preventing child abuse and neglect 1130 am-330 pm Race at about 2 pm Walla Walla Community College De-tails 509-527-4300

Walla Walla University Spring Choral Concert 5 pm Walla Walla Univer-sity Church Details 509-527-2571

learn to contra dance an old-fashioned coun-try dance Music by the Wednesday Night Band 7 pm teaching and practice 730 pm regular dance Unity Church of Peace 810

C St Walla Walla Details 541-938-7403

may 22The Whitman College graduating class of 2011 accepts the challenge 11 am Memorial lawn Whitman College Details 509-527-5156

may 26 27 28 29Walla Walla Community College Theatre arts De-partment presents ldquoZoot Suitrdquo by luis Valdez 7 pm each night and Sunday 2 pm matinee W WCC Performing arts Center Details 509-527-4575

may 27-30 Dayton Days has been a Memorial Weekend tradi-tion in Dayton for nearly 100 years Highlights include a Saturday-morning parade on historic Main Street rodeo tour of Dayton and Memorial Day Fun Run De-tails 509-382-4825 or visit historicdaytoncom

may 28-30The Touchet River Roundup mdash the annual Celebration of Sobriety at the fairgrounds focuses on family fun ac-tivities Waitsburg Details 509-526-3602

may 29annual Onion Man Tria-thalon 9 am Bennington lake Details wwmulti-sportscom or call 509-529-9187

may 30Waitsburgrsquos annual Memo-rial Day celebration hosted by veterans for all veterans Details 509-337-6546

Walla Walla LifestyLes 45

photo by DarrenenspElliswhereenspinenspwallaenspwallaensp

Lastenspmonthrsquosenspclueensp

This sculptural cornucopia marks the spot where all of Walla Walla meets the producers and wersquore not talking about the Zero Mostel and Gene Wild-er musical For you GPS fans latitude 4606678 N longitude 11834197 W

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The sculpture tops the farmers market gazebo on the corner of Fourth Avenue North and West Main Street

Contestensprulesif you have the answer e-mail it to rickdoylewwubcom or send it to Where in Walla Walla 112 S 1st Ave PO Box 1358 Walla Walla WA 99362 The names of 10 people with correct answers will be randomly selected and they will receive this great-looking mug as proof of their local knowledge and good taste

Annette CarterShirley richterDebbie FullenJudy CarlsonEloise Phillips

Dan Countsvicky ScanlonJanet TurnerTam LennoxBruce Campbell

46 Walla Walla LifestyLes

1 amavi cellars3796 Peppers Bridge Road (509) 525-3541 wwwamavicellarscom

2 Basel cellars estate winery2901 Old Milton Hwy (509) 522-0200 wwwbaselcellarscom

3 Bergevin Lane vineyards 1215 W Poplar St (509) 526-4300 bergevinlanecom

4 Bunchgrass winery151 Bunchgrass lane (509) 540-8963 wwwbunchgrasswinerycom

5 canoe ridge vineyard1102 W Cherry St (509) 527-0885 wwwcanoeridgevineyardcom

6 castillo de feliciana85728 Telephone Pole Road Milton-Freewater OR (541) 558-3656 wwwcastillodefelicianacom

7 don carlo vineyardBy appointment Only (509) 540-5784 wwwdoncarlovineyardcom

8 dunham cellars150 E Boeing ave (509) 529-4685 wwwdunhamcellarscom

9 five star cellars 840 C St (509) 527-8400 wwwfivestarcellarscom

10 forgeron cellars 33 W Birch St (509) 522-9463 wwwforgeroncellarscom

21 sapolil cellars15 E Main St (509) 520-5258 wwwsapolilcellarscom

22 seven hills winery 212 N Third ave (509) 529-7198 wwwsevenhillswinerycom

23 sinclair estate vineyards 109 E Main Ste 100 (509) 876-4300 wwwsinclairestatevineyardscom

24 spring valley vineyard 18 N Second ave (509) 525-1506 wwwspringvalleyvineyardcom

25 suLei cellars355 S Second ave (503) 529-0840 www suleicellarscom

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125

3rd ave

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25

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11 foundry vineyards Corner of 13th ave and abadie St (509) 529-0736 wwwwallawallafoundrycomvineyards

12 fort walla walla cellars 127 E Main St (509) 520-1095 wwwfortwallawallacellarscom

13 glencorrie8052 Old Highway 12 (509) 525-2585 wwwglencorriecom

14 grantwood winery 2428 W Highway 12 (509) 301-0719 (509) 301-9546

15 Lrsquoecole no 41 winery41 lowden School Road and US Hwy 12 (509) 525-0940 wwwlecolecom

16 Long shadows1604 Frenchtown Road (Formerly Ireland Road) (509) 526-0905 wwwlongshadowscom By invitation only Requests accepted on a limited basis Please call to inquire

17 Lowden hills winery1401 W Pine St (509) 527-1040 wwwlowdenhillswinerycom

18 northstar winery 1736 JB George Road (509) 524-4883 wwwnorthstarmerlotcom

19 pepper Bridge winery1704 JB George Road (509) 525-6502 wwwpepperbridgecom

20 robison ranch cellars2839 Robison Ranch Road (509) 301-3480 robisonranchcellarscom

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 47

26 syZygy 405 E Boeing ave (509) 522-0484 wwwsyzygywinescom

27 three rivers winery5641 Old Highway 12 (509) 526-9463 infoThreeRiversWinerycom

28 tertulia cellars1564 Whiteley Road (509) 525-5700 wwwtertuliacellarscom

29 trust cellars 1050 Merlot Drive (509) 529-4511 wwwtrustcellarscom

30 va piano vineyards1793 JB George Road (509) 529-0900 wwwvapianovineyardscom

31 walla walla vintnersVineyard lane off Mill Creek Road (509) 525-4724 wwwwallawallavintnerscom

32 walla walla wineworks31 E Main St (509) 522-1261 wwwwallawallawineworkscom

33 whitman cellars1015 W Pine St (509) 529-1142 wwwwhitmancellarscom

34 woodward canyon winery11920 W Hwy 12 lowden (509) 525-4129 wwwwoodwardcanyoncom

35 JLc winery425 B St (509) 301-5148

36 saviah cellars1979 JB George Rd

highway 12

E St

Beech ave

lockheed ave

Piper ave

G St

Mill Creek Rd

Isaacs ave

AirportTerminal

Peppers B

ridge Rd

Pranger R

d

Old M

ilton Hw

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Old Milton Hwy

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JB George Rd

Whiteley Rd

Stateline RdWaSHINGTON

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larson

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Frog HollowM

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ardena Rd

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Mojonnier Rd

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To Touchet Detour R

dFrenchtow

n Rd

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ose StCollege a

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To M

ilton

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ewat

er

To Walla Walla City Center

airp

ort W

ay

Grumman ave

Fairchild ave

Cessna ave

aeronca ave F St

lear ave

Douglas ave

Curtis ave

C St

Republic ave

Ryan ave

F St

Stinson ave

B St

Boeing ave

F St

D St

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ToWaitsburg

DaytonLewiston

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ater

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May 2011

Editorrsquos CommEntsensp enspby RickenspDoyle

Union-Bulletincom

P L E A S E L i k E U S

P L E A S E F O L L OW U S

Play is important in Walla Walla the play will truly be the thing when Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo at the newly restored Power House Theatre this month Lifestyles is teaming up with SWW for an inaugural event that will offer guests food fashion and merriment in the Elizabethan manner May 18 Check out our cover spread for a preview of the event

Winston Churchill may have described golf best when he said it ldquois a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purposerdquo

So if you are going to pursue the sport it makes sense to get the best coaching possible Al Mundle who spent 57 years helping others improve their games thought he had put tinkering with other peoplersquos grip stance and swing away for good But that was before Terri Hanson convinced him to offer some pointers to her son Jake who was heading into his final year on the links for the Walla Walla High School Blue Devils

Jim Buchan shows you how this relationship has worked

Work to a lot of people can be repetitious drudgery Larry Adams never had that problem Whether he was flying into enemy fire in vietnam or piloting a helicopter for the president each day challenged his skills and preparation Adams recounts some of those adventures for Lifestyles

Skill and preparation are necessary ingredients for cooking Gina Medica tells how she learned to make culinary creations from Cuba Her specialty is a flan dessert

Dr Donald Smithrsquos specialty is creating an eye-catching garden of colorful flowers The iris is a primary element of his palette Check out his creations in Secret Gardens

Columnist Catie Mcintyre Walker explains how the original palette for the LrsquoEcole No 41 wine labels came from a childrsquos watercolor As the winery has matured it has decided it was time to update the labels

These are only some of the delights awaiting you in the following pages Enjoy

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you donrsquot have to be a seasoned chef to make an impact with food Every

day in kitchens across the country real Cooks create extraordinary meals

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 11

Born in Miami and then raised in Central Los Angeles by her Cuban-born parents Medica learned her craft by observing her mother work in the kitchen Of all Medicarsquos culinary creations it is her Cuban flan dessert that receives the most requests

ldquoEveryone in the family would always request it especially my nieces and nephewrdquo Medica says sitting at her dining room table the freshly presented flan resting in front of her ldquoMy bro can easily eat half of itrdquo

And the flan does not remain uneaten for long as i sit down with the Walla Walla businesswoman and her daughter Elizabeth to discuss and taste this delicacy Minutes after we begin our conversation nephew Nick arrives and quickly wolfs down two servings

irsquove already finished my first and am working on my second when we begin our conversation

LifEStyLES With both of your parents being Havana natives did you eat Cuban food exclusively

MEDiCa No but in the early days Thanksgiving was pretty different My mom would fix the turkey but shersquod serve it with black beans and white rice Wersquod be ldquoAh mom canrsquot we have regular Thanksgiving food like mashed potatoes and yamsrdquo Those came later as we lived in the States longer

LifEStyLES So the food changed as you kids grew older

MEDiCa Well my mom was always pretty good at American food but sometimes it wasnrsquot all the way like she made American spaghetti but she put chicken in it it was good but my brother would always complain that it didnrsquot have meatballs Now he misses the chicken

LifEStyLES How many kids do you have in the family

MEDiCa i have an older brother and a younger sister irsquom the middle one We didnrsquot have a normal childhood in the sense that my mom was a hairstylist at home and on Saturday mornings customers would start arriving at 8 And she had one of those big old hair dryers

Continued on pg 12 gt

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that you put over someonersquos head mdash we called it ldquoFidel Castrordquo mdash and yoursquod have these customers yelling at the top of their voice while they were under it So i never got to sleep in

LifEStyLES it sounds like your mother was quite a lady

MEDiCa i recently found some of her original recipes you know in her own handwriting One of them is for croquetta which was really good you take chicken with corned beef and grind them up bread it and then fry it itrsquos really goodrdquo

LifEStyLES Why do you like the flan so much

MEDiCa Because everyone in the family always requested it i make it a little different The way i make it it is a little more creamy because i use cream cheese itrsquos more like a custard Many times in Mexican restaurants the flan will be more jello-y This is almost like cheesecake

LifEStyLES is it strictly for dessert

MEDiCa yes itrsquos for special occasions

LifEStyLES Like birthdays and parties

MEDiCa yes itrsquos not light you canrsquot have too much or your stomach will start to ache

LifEStyLES Does it take a long time to prepare

MEDiCa Not really Making the caramel sauce takes the most time and you canrsquot take your eyes off it or it might burn

LifEStyLES Tastes like it didnrsquot burn

MEDiCa No i had lots of help My daughter Elizabeth (and she glances over at her youngest child) helped me a lot

andrew hoLt writes about food people and all things Walla Walla for Walla Walla lifestyles magazine He can be reached at bruindrew86gmailcom

Cubanenspflaningredientsenspforenspflan

1 can evaporated milk1 can sweetened condensed milk1 cup whole or two percent milk6 eggs1 to 2 teaspoons vanilla extract14 teaspoon salt4 ounces cream cheese

ingredientsenspforenspcaramelenspsauce

1 to 1frac12 cup sugar

toenspmakeensptheenspcaramelenspsauce

Place the sugar in a saucepan on medium heat and stir until granules of sugar have liquified and the mixture takes on a caramel color

Pour the mixture into a mold coating the sides This must be done quickly because the mixture will harden also use oven mittens so you donrsquot burn your hands

Put aside

toenspmakeensptheenspflan

Preheat oven to 350 degreesIn a blender mix the sweetened condensed

milk frac12 can of evaporated milk and the milk eggs cream cheese salt and vanilla and blend on low

Pour out half the mixture into a bowl and pour in the remaining evaporated milk and blend

Pour contents of blender and bowl into mold and stir Cover with aluminum foil Crimp the edges of the foil around the mold to keep moisture out

Put the mold in a big cake pan and pour enough water around the mold for it to come part-way up the sides of the mold (we call that ldquobantildeo Mariacuteardquo) and bake for one hour plus 15 to 20 minutes

Use a knife to test done-ness mdash the knife should come out clean

When the flan is done baking let it rest and cool then place it in the refrigerator for 24 hours

The next day dip the mold in warm water before flipping the flan into a serving dish

Makes 12 servings

R EC IP E

food ltcontinued from pg 11

Walla Walla LifestyLes 13

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14 Walla Walla LifestyLes

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The old Frenchtown schoolhouse built in 1915 with the stately bell tower still stands it has been a historic fixture in the Walla Walla valley that many of us have grown up with even if we never attended classes there One can still stride up the long sidewalk to the large heavy carved doors with a feeling of reverence and trepidation mdash as if it were the first day of school mdash while imagining generations of children playing on the manicured grounds

in the 1970s the old schoolhouse classrooms found themselves empty of childrenrsquos laughter But in 1983 Jean and Baker Ferguson breathed new life into the old building founding what would become one of the premier wineries in Washington LrsquoEcole No 41

The name was historically im-portant in two ways ldquoLrsquoEcolerdquo French for ldquothe schoolrdquo recognized the French men and women who settled the area and ldquo41rdquo was the numerical designation of the school district

The Fergusonsrsquo first crush of 1983 was resting in the barrel when the following year they asked their elementary school-aged family members to draw an image that would best reflect the new project

The $100 prize went to an 8-year-old cousin whose watercolor interpretation of the old schoolhouse became the template for a wine label it became an iconic label known to wine lovers around the world

in 1989 the second generation of the family Jean and Bakerrsquos daughter and son-

in-law Megan and Martin (Marty) Clubb became the new proprietors of the winery Marty became the general manager and winemaker and would lead the small artisan winery to new heights mdash it would eventually produce more than 30000 cases annually

At the same time the Washington state wine industry was booming and would soon become the nationrsquos second-largest wine producer The area would become one of the premium wine-producing regions in the United States

Marty also became a pioneer in the

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Washington state wine industry as he became a founder and activist in many of the wine industryrsquos foundations and alliances The family-owned winery also partnered with some of the most prestigious vineyards in the state LrsquoEcole No 41 has been honored nine consecutive years by Wine amp Spirits magazine as ldquoWinery of the yearrdquo becoming the second Washington winery inducted into the Hall of Fame

There is a third-generation that has grown up around the winery and will eventually become caretakers of this legacy Meganrsquos and Martyrsquos children Jeanrsquos and Bakerrsquos grandchildren rebecca and riley Clubb had their own meaningful influence on the label with their childhood drawings on the labelrsquos chalkboard image

riley is a 2009 graduate of Whitman College and is employed at the winery rebecca is enrolled in Washington State Universityrsquos wine management program and expected to graduate in 2012

The winery will soon celebrate its 30th birthday The wines produced at the old schoolhouse are refined with true varietal character and can stand up against many coveted wines from France mdash and they have Now that LrsquoEcole is a top player in the world of wine the whimsical label on its bottles is no longer truly indicative of the sophisticated gold and dark-red liquids behind the glass

ldquoLooking to the future we wanted our label to reflect the winery we have becomerdquo says Marty Clubb

This year the winery will unveil a new label it will still depict the iconic schoolhouse but with deeper colors and a new texture There will be a distinct difference among the labels depending on the vineyards used Wines produced from Columbia valley vineyards will have a soft charcoal-colored background label and the labels for the wines produced from Walla Walla vineyards will be more sepia-toned

Another distinctive change will be the de-emphasizing of the ldquoNo 41rdquo as generations of wine lovers have often referred to the winery as ldquoLrsquoEcolerdquo

The new label will be a timeless reminder of the past as well as a welcome to future generations

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it was 1954 the year he graduated from the University of Oregon and two female students from the university were interested in learning some of the finer points of the game

ldquoit was probably the worst lesson anybody has ever givenrdquo Mundle exclaimed shaking his head in dismay ldquoThese two young ladies were looking for some help and i worked with them for an hour-and-a-half And at the end of that time i said lsquoi have done such a poor job i will pay you for the time i have put you through this torturersquordquo

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Painful as it was the lesson learned proved to be a career-launching moment for Mundle who dedicated himself to his trade and spent a lifetime in the golf business successfully working up and down the i-5 corridor as course operator teacher and player

Fifty-seven years after that first teaching debacle Mundle now 79 years old is retired and living in Walla Walla He and his wife Ann relocated here last summer determined to give up teaching golf and spend more time playing the game they both love

ldquoAfter all of these years of teaching i feel that this is the time to lay it asiderdquo Mundle said ldquoi will still do a little studying of the golf swing and methods and i will be involved with some of the other local professionals in some cracker-barrel sessions when they get together to discuss teaching methods problems and how to solve them

ldquoBut i really came here not to teach but to play some golfrdquo

That was the plan anyway before he was introduced to Walla Walla High School senior Jake Hanson who was looking for a little extra help with his game heading into his final year on the links as a Blue Devil

Terri Hanson Jakersquos mother was aware of Mundlersquos reputation as a teaching professional and heard through the grapevine he was living in Walla Walla

ldquoBeing the mom i am i called him one dayrdquo Terri remembered ldquoi told him that Jakersquos golf game was at a standstill i asked him to take a look at Jake and he agreed to come and meet us and get a feel for where Jake was at

ldquoHe did and before you knew it they were putting on our hardwood floors The next day they agreed to get together at Wine valley mdash they were there for four hours and it has been an amazing connection right from the beginning

ldquoAl is an amazing Christian man who is so well-respected in his fieldrdquo Terri added ldquoAnd he just demands respect irsquom seeing my son of 17 all of a sudden growing uprdquo

Mundle concedes he is intrigued by Hansonrsquos character and potential And

Under the watchful eye of Al Mundle Jake Hanson hits an iron shot

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Hanson holds his new mentor in high esteem

ldquoirsquove learned a tremendous amountrdquo Hanson said ldquoHe has a way of getting through to me in a positive way He got through to me that i am so much better than i thought i could be He has more confidence in me than i have in myself

ldquoHe has one of the best golf swings i have ever seen and he is still working on his own gamerdquo

Mundle said Hanson reminds him of former University of Oregon player Ben Crane who now plays on the PGA Tour Crane has been playing professionally since 2007 and earned nearly $3 million on the tour in 2010

ldquoi was Benrsquos swing coach at Oregon and Jake is somewhat similarrdquo Mundle said ldquoBen worked harder than anybody on the whole golf team He would put in as much

time as three or four others combined and Jake is very much the same way Hersquos very dedicatedrdquo

However Mundle insists that helping Hanson with his game is a one-time situation

After playing just six rounds of golf last year Mundle is determined that he and Ann will spend a lot more time on the golf course as they get acquainted with their new hometown

ldquoThatrsquos an all-time lowrdquo he said of the six rounds played in 2010 ldquoMostly it was the move and all mdash a new house putting in lawn fencing shelving in the garage mdash all the little things of getting settled

ldquoBut this was a good move for us We love it here We enjoy the weather and the people you can walk down the street and people look you in the eye and say lsquoHellorsquo i love that friendlinessrdquo

Mundle grew up in Eugene and graduated from University High School in 1950 He knew he said from the time he was in the seventh grade he wanted to make golf his lifersquos work

ldquoyou might say that i had a little parental directionrdquo Mundle said ldquoMy dad went to the University of St Andrews in Scotland and he played golf at the St Andrews Old Course And my mother also played golfrdquo

After high school Mundle enrolled at the University of Oregon and played three years of varsity golf during an era when there was no such thing as a golf scholarship

ldquoThe only thing we ever received was a half-a-dozen golf balls if we went into a tournamentrdquo Mundle recalled ldquoWhen i went to the NCAA Championships in Texas my senior year i was given a new

people ltcontinued from pg 17

Walla Walla LifestyLes 19

pair of golf shoes but that was itldquoWe bought all of our own gear mdash

clubs bags rain gear everything itrsquos a whole different ball game today They have everythingrdquo

At the end of his sophomore year at Oregon Mundle had it in his mind to ldquotest my golf on the PGA Tourrdquo he said But his father an English professor at the university discouraged him

ldquoHe said lsquoGet your education first then you can do whatever you wantrsquordquo Mundle said ldquoit was just as well i saved a lot of wear and tear mdash and money i was an Ok player but not of that caliberrdquo

Mundle still has fond memories of his collegiate playing career however

ldquoi played three years for the university mdash you werenrsquot allowed to play as freshmen mdash and Oregon always had fine golf teamsrdquo Mundle said ldquoit was mostly match

play then and i was there during the time that the school went seven straight years without losing a (team) dual matchrdquo

During his senior year Mundle qualified for the NCAA Championships in Houston From a field of about 160 players Mundle made it as far as the quarterfinal round

He graduated in 1954 with a degree in history which he said he never really used

ldquoMy dad was in the top one percent of his class at St Andrewsrdquo Mundle said ldquoMy mother was also in the top part of her class and my older brother Pete was in the top of his class And then i came alongrdquo

His first golf job was as an assistant pro at his home course the Laurelwood Golf Course a position he accepted shortly after graduating from UO This was when and where the infamous first golf lesson

occurredA two-year stint in the US Army took

Mundle away from his profession in 1955-56 But he managed to keep his golf game sharp as a member of the Fort knox golf team and in 1956 he was the runner-up in the Second Army tournament and he placed 13th in the All-Army tournament

Then it was back to the Willamette valley where he came into his own in the Portland area under head professionals Eddie Hogan at riverside Country Club and Bunny Mason at Columbia Edgewater

ldquoThose two people were very influential in my professional liferdquo Mundle said

ldquoEddie was a very fine teacher of the total golf operation and service was No 1 i learned how to run the pro shop how

Jake Hanson takes a few pointers on chipping from his instructor and mentor Al Mundle

Continued on pg 20 gt

20 Walla Walla LifestyLes

people ltcontinued from pg 19

to market and merchandise mdash everything from how to run the club service program to the electric cart program to basically running the golf course

ldquoBunny was also a very fine operator of a golf shop and i also learned a lot about teaching from Bunny Sometimes you go along in life and there are certain mentors who help you along the way Anybody who says they made it by themselves is not being honest with themselves We have all had someone who has given us a little boost along the wayrdquo

Mundle took his first head professional job in 1965 at Overlake Golf and Country Club in Bellevue where he remained until 1981 At that point he returned to Eugene and was the head pro at the Eugene Country Club for three years followed by a six-year stint at the Bear Creek Country Club in Seattle

He also spent a short time at a golf course in Cottage Grove Ore before moving back to Eugene for a third time in 1993 to become the director of golf instruction at the river ridge Golf Course He remained at river ridge until his retirement last summer During his time there he helped out as the swing coach at UO under then-head coach Steve Nosler

Through it all Mundle served as president of the Washington PGA and the Pacific Northwest PGA and was a member of several National PGA committees As a player he participated in the Oregon Washington and Pacific Northwest opens as well as the Washington and Oregon PGA events One of his highlights was winning the Oregon Senior PGA Match-Play Championships in Bend in 1993

ldquoi felt i had an obligation to participaterdquo Mundle said ldquoi played a lot of golf including many many pro-ams and i won a couple of assistant championshipsrdquo

in addition to Crane Mundle also helped shape the careers of Jeff Quinney and Eric Johnson both of whom are from the Eugene area

Quinney won the United States Amateur championship in 2000 and represented the US in the Walker Cup in 2001 He has appeared in 128 PGA Tour events since 2007 placing second twice and third twice

Johnson played several years on the Asian Tour and one on the Nationwide Tour He is now a head professional at a

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course in San rafael CalifldquoAnd there have been some others mdash

Brian Henninger Mike Gove a few others mdash who have called and wanted to discus their swingrdquo Mundle said ldquoNothing on a regular basis just one or two sessionsrdquo

is Hanson his next mdash and perhaps his last mdash prodigy

Thatrsquos a tricky question since Hanson came to golf late after a budding baseball career was derailed by a shoulder injury He was a first-team all-Big Nine Conference golf selection as a junior but has yet to qualify for state and his summer resume is thin because of his baseball background

Hansonrsquos original plan was to attend Walla Walla Community College and play golf for the Warriors with the hope of earning an NCAA Division i scholarship But he has since decided to enroll in Arizona State Universityrsquos Professional Golf Management program and try out for the ASU golf team as a walk on

ldquoMore than anything i think it came down to him evaluating his goalsrdquo said Jakersquos father Gary Hanson ldquoitrsquos everyonersquos dream to play on the PGA Tour but realistically he wants to be a golf pro and teach He loves

the gamerdquoAnd a degree in the PGM program

will provide Jake with the educational background he needs to be successful in any form of business his father added

Though his chances of making the ASU varsity team seem unlikely the PGM program provides a club golf team that participates in a series of tournaments throughout the year and gives Hanson a second playing option

And keeping your options open is optimum at this point Mundle said

ldquoi think his driving force at this time mdash and also his folks mdash is to get his education And then he can do whatever he wants if he doesnrsquot go into (the golfing business) immediately he will always have it as a backuprdquo

Sounds an awful lot like the advice Thomas Mundle offered his son back in the spring of 1952 when Al Mundle wanted to leave school after his sophomore year and test his wings on the PGA Tour And as we now know all these years later staying in school worked out pretty well for Al

Jim Buchan is a sports writer for the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin He can be reached at jimbuchanwwubcom

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Join us for a night of wonder with elizabethan-inspired food fashion and merriment to celebrate the opening of walla wallarsquos power house theatre and prepare for a four-day run of seattle shakespeare companyrsquos ldquothe merry wives of windsorrdquo

walla walla lifestyles will present a fashion show with wicked and wistful gowns twisted braided hair and smoldering makeup designs designers include red eden designs autumnlin design and others

semi-formal attire creative masks encouraged this exclusive evening will enchant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fashion

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530 - 9 pm May 18 2011

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My director Terry Edward Moore told me his only direction from the artistic director was that it be ldquoperiodrdquo that is to say authentic to the time

ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo is the only one of Shakespearersquos plays that is set in his own time so it was decided to present it as if the actors were people of the time doing what would be a contemporary (to the late 16th century) play

i started to research the clothing of the time how it was constructed and what kinds of fabrics were available at the time mdash linens homespuns woolens for the common people and silks damasks velvets and furs for the upper classes i discovered that Elizabethan society was strictly regulated in terms of social classes and upward mobility was a little-known concept Once a yeoman always a yeoman i also discovered the set of rules and regulations called ldquosumptuary lawsrdquo which specifically dictated what types of fabrics trims furs and even what colors each class was allowed to wear

Since there are three distinct classes represented in ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo mdash merchant class soldiers and servants mdash i tried to give each class its own color palette based on these laws The overall palette of the show is based on colors actually in use at the time

The availability of dyes was limited (except for the nobility) so the palette consists of many shades of yellows and browns russets black some greens and blue-grays and of course wheat-colored unbleached linen i turned to the Dutch painter Brueghel for inspiration on how the common people looked and dressed

i also researched what kinds of dyes were used and where they came from Dyes were created from all sorts of different things such as walnut shell crushed beetles and all kinds of roots i found a website that sells these authentic dyestuffs so irsquom using the real thing to dye some of the linen pieces and will coordinate the contemporary fabrics to these authentic colors

Nearly every piece will need something done to it mdash altered in some way to fit the actor re-trimmed rigged invisibly for quick changes etc mdash so there is a lot of labor involved Also hats were a hugely important part of Elizabethan fashion all the way down to the poorest serf

Certain styles of hats were often associated with certain professions mdash eg doctors scholars mdash so there are a number of hats to build as well as headpieces for the women No self-respecting woman went about with her head uncovered

Putting together a show like this is like putting together a giant jigsaw puzzle and the pieces are the costumes that irsquove borrowed and rented from other theater companies in the Seattle area such as Seattle repertory Seattle Opera and the University of Washington as well as pieces from Oregon Shakespeare Festival i design the show and then go out into the world and try to find pieces that approximate my designs and palette as closely as possible (usually with some reworking first) The pieces that i cant find and dont want to compromise on i build from scratch

deane middLeton is a theatre costume professional who works in the Seattle area She has done costumes for Issaquahrsquos Village Theater as well as several productions of the Seattle Shakespeare Company

ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 29

ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo was the only one of Shakespearersquos works set in his own time the 1600s and features Sir John Falstaff It also deals primarily with english middle-class life A hilarious bawdy comedy filled with insight into the life and times of Shakespeare ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo will delight people of all ages

About the play

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But thatrsquos exactly what longtime Walla Walla resident Larry Adams did for four years He was one of a select group of pilots for Marine One the helicopter counterpart of the presidential airplane Air Force One from 1970 to 1974

30 Walla Walla LifestyLes

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 31

Long before Adams became the Walla Walla Airport manager he was transporting heads of state foreign dignitaries famous (and now infamous) Cabinet members the executive staff and President richard M Nixon during one of the nationrsquos most turbulent times the withdrawal from vietnam and the Watergate scandal

But to Adams a native of Northern idaho all that swirled around the Nixon presidency was the least of his concerns His job was to transport the president safely to Andrews Air Force Base or Camp David or fly any short flight required Safety always at a premium End of story

Many times Adams ferried President Nixon and his staff on short flights far away from home Air Force One might fly President Nixon to a summit or a meeting with a foreign head of state but Marine One and Adams were always nearby to shuttle the chief executive on short flights or to whisk him away from sudden danger

Pretty heady stuff for a fourth-grade teacher who had never thought about flying until a Marine recruiter offered him the opportunity Although Adams had watched planes take off and land at a nearby air base as a child he had never given serious thought to flying it was more a need for a bigger paycheck than passion that brought Adams to his destiny

He liked teaching but it just wasnrsquot paying the bills So Adams turned to the military and the Gi Bill After being unimpressed by other recruiters Adams took a liking to the fellow from the Marines for as Adams recalls the recruiter took an interest in him After about an hour of talking the recruiter suggested Adams might have the potential to be a pilot

Having easily passed some preliminary tests Adams was sent to flight school in Pensacola Fla and a stellar career was ready to take off He performed well in all the aircraft he piloted but he showed a special skill for helicopters

Up until 1965 fixed-wing airplanes were the staple of all military air combat But the military had been gearing up for a big change The helicopter was to become a major part of combat The Pentagon had been developing helicopters that would do much more than transport troops to bases Now they would assist in bombing

raids ground attacks and the evacuation of the injured from the point of combat This new breed of helicopters would also possess the ability to fight back and not be lame ducks as before the new H34 would tote machine guns on each side

These cutting-edge aircraft would travel at unprecedented speeds with newly discovered agility Gifted pilots were needed not those who merely possessed superior technical skills but those who also had the composure to fly straight into

enemy fire in the dead of night picking up injured soldiers or aiding air attacks

Adams was one of those pilots and he would be one of two squadron leaders for ldquoOperation Starliterdquo mdash the first major assault using helicopters The Marines were going straight into a North vietnamese regimental stronghold No one knew what to expect

ldquoWe lost a lot that first time inrdquo says Adams ldquoTwo crew chiefs were killed

Continued on pg 32 gt

In this newspaper clipping Larry Adams poses on the steps of the helicopter dubbed Marine One which he piloted for President Richard M Nixon

32 Walla Walla LifestyLes

people ltcontinued from pg 31

four pilots were medevaced out because of their wounds i donrsquot think there was one helicopter that didnrsquot have a bunch of holes in it The one i flew in we got a lot of rounds in it Amazingly no one was hurt but when we got back the helicopter was so shot-up you couldnrsquot fly it anymore We lost 50 percent of our helicopters that dayrdquo

in the next 13 months Adams would fly many more missions often heading straight into anti-aircraft fire to pick up injured or killed soldiers He says he would see the flares signifying where the copter was supposed to land but frequently hersquod have to veer off because ground communication would say ldquoThe artillery is too hotrdquo Then there would be a window maybe two minutes maybe five when the helicopter could drop in and pick up the injured often being shot at as it waited for its passengers

Adams knew the best way to survive was to keep his focus ldquoin the daylight when you start your run in and yoursquore getting shot at Everything went to black and white for me i didnrsquot notice the green trees or the green rice paddies until we got out of there and then it would come back

to me i donrsquot know what that was i just didnrsquot see the colors irsquove talked to some other pilots and they described the same thingrdquo

in his two tours of duty in vietnam Adams would fly 880 combat missions in several types of helicopters and fixed-wing airplanes He received numerous medals including two Navy commendations for performance under combat conditions

Then the call came to fly for the president Before Adams could tote the commander in chief around in Marine One a thorough background check had to be done So thorough was the check that Adams said a friend from his hometown sent him a card that read ldquoAre you in some kind of trouble Jesus therersquos been a bunch of people around here with the dark grey suits and the skinny little ties Theyrsquore asking all these embarrassing questions about you like did you have drinking problem Did you have a gambling problem Do you know what Larryrsquos sexual preference wasrdquo

Adams chuckles ldquoit was pretty funnyrdquoAdams passed the grade and soon

he was flying President Nixon and his family to Camp David or picking up vice

President Spiro Agnew at the Pentagon or taking Secretary of State Henry kissinger or Secretary of Defense Alexander Haig to a classified meeting Although his flights varied from transporting foreign heads of state to flying members of the press the majority involved the president the vice president kissinger and Haig

The pilots did not speak to their travelers unless spoken to says Adams President Nixon usually looked in and asked them how they were kissinger never spoke Haig was good for a pat on the shoulder now and then but it was Agnew who conversed the most says Adams

Adams remembers ldquoOne time we picked him up at the Pentagon and we had taken off and had hit top altitude He usually would come up and look into the cockpit but this time he patted me on the shoulder and asked lsquoWell howrsquos it going today guysrsquordquo Adams replied ldquoNot bad sir and how about yourselfrdquo

Agnew answered ldquoMan they are really after my assrdquo He was talking about the press Adams says ldquoTwo weeks later he resignedrdquo

Adams recalls that his encounters with Agnew as defying the public perception

Adams far right gives instructions before a mission in Vietnam

Walla Walla LifestyLes 33

that Agnew was arrogant ldquoHe was always one of the nicest guys He was straightforward He looked like he had just stepped off the cover of Gentlemenrsquos Quarterly all the time He was very proper in the way he dressed but he had a sense of humor as wellrdquo

There were other humorous moments Adams recalls a certain reporter from CBS who had been a major thorn in President Nixonrsquos side was late for takeoff from the South Lawn of the White House one morning Just as Marine One was about to leave without him he came running across the lawn hollering and waving his arms The Secret Service agent supervising the flight told Adams to ldquojust gordquo The wind from the propellers whipped the reporterrsquos toupee right off his head and instead of continuing his run toward Marine One he reversed his field and tried feverishly to retrieve his toupee snagged in the hedges

ldquoEveryone got a pretty good chuckle out of thatrdquo

Of course there were somber times At one point Adams flew Cabinet members John Ehrlichman and Hr Haldeman to Camp David for a meeting with the president After only 15 minutes the two men returned and Marine One headed home Adams says it was a quiet flight He found out later the two men had been fired by President Nixon for their parts in the Watergate scandal

Whisking the president away from danger was a major part of being a pilot of Marine One Stationed across the river from the Capitol pilots awakened by an emergency alert had to be up in the air in five minutes This exercise was practiced often though never needed during Adamsrsquo tenure

One night however they thought it was The operator at the White House mistakenly hit the ldquoAlertrdquo button Marine One was in the air in five minutes

Although ground control had not spotted any enemy aircraft the operation was under way As Marine One closed in on the White House the operator at fault tried to alert everyone of his mistake but unfortunately used a poor choice of words to call off the operation

Adams chuckles as he says ldquoThe fella said lsquoThis is not an exercisersquo He was moved to another post i thinkrdquo

All levity aside the position required

the same kind of focus demanded of Adams in vietnam though it came in a different form

ldquoThere were three things the way you operated the aircraft and they were in this order safety comfort and speed Safety never gave in to comfort or speedrdquo says Adams ldquoOur job was just concentrating on doing our job it could have been anybody mdash we would do it the same way it could have been Fred Flintstone

ldquoThe difference between flying for the White House and in vietnam was we were flying a premier aircraft We had to keep it impeccably clean everything was scripted We had to have the lsquoopen-the-door timersquo down to two to four seconds in vietnam it was the stress of performing medevacs under fire or dropping troops under heavy artillery For Marine One it was the stress of doing the job rightrdquo

Also the stress of being away from onersquos family 200 days of the year wore on a Marine One pilot in 1974 after four years on the job the toll became too much and Adams stepped down

He would stay with the Marines for eight more years retiring in August 1982

By then he had received 44 Air Medals including the Joint Service Commendation and the Presidential Service Badge in his 20 years of service Adams flew seven different helicopters and five different fixed-wing planes

What makes an elite military pilot ldquoPilots who donrsquot have any misgivingsrdquo says Adams ldquoTheyrsquore totally prepared they know their aircraftrdquo

When talking about his colleagues on Marine One he adds ldquoNone were boasters They might brag about a great landing but they did not brag in spite of someone elserdquo

What did Adams love most about his flying days ldquoi enjoyed flying with the latest technology and the pristine quality of Marine One i loved the process of building my skills i could have flown another 40 years and i would still be learning thingsrdquo

is it any surprise his favorite hobby now is fly fishing

andrew hoLt writes about food people and all things Walla Walla for Walla Walla lifestyles magazine He can be reached at bruindrew86gmailcom

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it is astonishing in many ways mdash that we are presented with two weeks of top-drawer music performed by top-drawer musi-cians that there are so many ways to encounter the music (many of them free) and that a rural community has provided the incu-

bator for such a cultural undertaking to name but a fewGranted we are not your average rural community having two

colleges a university a symphony a choral society a community band and music in the schools but letrsquos face it wersquore not exactly a cosmopolitan center of culture like New york either The Cham-ber Music Festival mdash and our continued support of it through some tough times mdash puts us in a category all our own

ldquoi saw what was special about this community the first time i visited in 2007rdquo Artistic Director Timothy Christie says ldquoi have

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A young artistic composer pays close attention as Tim Christie uses his violin to interpret the boys piece of artwork into music on June 11 2009 Meanwhile other children work on their works of art in preparation for the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival quintets interpretations

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worked hard to start this event and to my great joy it has taken on an iden-tity of its own i hire the musicians and choose the music but the town its people and its environs make the festivalrdquo

The beauty of chamber music is its intimacy mdash smaller ensembles performing for smaller audiences it has been referred to as ldquothe music of friendsrdquo which seems so apt at this festival Free open rehearsals are held around town that provide not only a musical atmosphere in which to enjoy a latte or the ambiance of the kirkman House but which give a richer look into the machinations of a working ensemble

As one enthusiastic fan puts it ldquoi am not a musician and itrsquos fascinat-ing to watch these rehearsals to see the interactions of the musicians as they work out the snags make wry remarks and relate to each other in a whole different way than during a for-mal performance i get a glimpse into their personalities and what makes them tickrdquo

The festival supplies a generous of-fering of venues with free concerts for children and families relaxed evening programs at wineries and full concerts at the Foundry Chism Hall and Day-tonrsquos Liberty Theater

if you are lucky enough to live near the musiciansrsquo lodgings while they are in town you may also be treated to an ad hoc front-porch concert as the ensembles continue their rehearsals in more private settings The festival is about all of these ways mdash planned and accidental mdash to experience the enchantment of chamber music

it is also about historic continuity and the connection between past and present mdash relishing the existing canon while expanding the genre with con-temporary forms and voices

How is this accomplished in part by the annual commission of a new piece of music for the festival Chris-tie is committed to contributing to the broader chamber music repertoire and to providing the audience with the richest possible experience

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ldquoFor classical music to be relevant there must be a conversation between the music of our time and the music of the pastrdquo he says

By commissioning a work for the festi-val each year Christie creates such a con-versation

This year the commission was given to John David Earnest Four festival commis-sions have preceded his and he is the sec-ond ldquolocalrdquo composer to be tapped add-ing another layer of relationship between community and event (in 2009 Whitman College professor David Glenn was given the nod)

As visiting adjunct professor of music at Whitman Earnest resides here for six weeks every semester His ldquoSecond Sym-phonyrdquo was written for and performed by the Walla Walla Symphony in October 2001

The challenge for the yearly commis-sionee is to compose a piece on demand within specific constraints of time place and instrumentation while expressing hisher own voice as an artist

Earnest has created ldquoCommedia Gal-leryrdquo a set of three movements for flute

viola and harp based on stock characters from the Commedia dellrsquoArte a popu-lar theatrical form that was influential in Europe for over 300 years Commedia characters improvised dialogue around set scenarios generally involving the struggles of young lovers to overcome hindrances to their romance and each character even-tually came to have a consistent set of at-tributes in speech mannerisms and cos-tume

Earnestrsquos ldquoGalleryrdquo gives us Arlecchi-no (Harlequin) an acrobatic and devious jester Pierrot the classic sad clown and finally Scaramouche a dandy and a brag-gart who is a coward at heart

in anticipation of this yearrsquos festival i am reminded of the scene in ldquoThe Music Manrdquo in which the town awaits the ar-rival of the Wells Fargo Wagon Potentially heaped with gifts and surprises it prom-ises connection to the larger world The WWCMF brings us all ldquosomethinrsquo specialrdquo mdash an enrichment of our community and our culture

margaret Jamison is an artist and writer living in Walla Walla Contact her at artjamisongmailcom

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Smith has gardened for years at his home at 38 Mulberry Court in College Place He used to grow vegetables and flowers now he is strictly focusing on flowers mdash with fabulous results roses delphiniums and lots of irises line the fence

ldquoirises mdash irsquove always enjoyed themrdquo he says ldquoThey take a little bit of weeding and watering but not much morerdquo itrsquos the gardenerrsquos dream mdash low maintenance with a big return

A retired orthopedic surgeon Smith has in the past gardened more extensively than he does now But he has enough plants to keep him busy His new project is planting more of the reblooming iris These are still hardy but you get twice the reward they bloom in the spring then again in the fall

ldquoTheyrsquore easy to grow and spectacular for a short time iris take less care than a lot of thingsrdquo Smith says

His secret for gardening is simple and therersquos no getting around it ldquoTime and workrdquo he laughs

Hersquos getting ready to start in the garden ldquoi need to clean out the leaves and the old foliage of the irisrdquo

in addition to the basic cleaning and maintenance Smith just decides how many plants to keep Bulb flowers are hardy and they multiply on their own

ldquoAfter five years you usually have to separate the bulbs when they get too thick i donrsquot have room to add more i put in the new re-blooming onesrdquo he explains ldquoi may add more and a few other thingsrdquo

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itrsquos an odd location since it can only be seen as yoursquore leaving town but it always makes me smile This valley my adopted home is indeed a great place to be

i recently finished reading the great Western writer Wallace Stegnerrsquos book ldquoThe Sound of Mountain Waterrdquo One of his essays traces his nomadic childhood which left him feeling rootless and without a place that he felt he could call home

i identify with his feeling of not belonging i was born to a single woman from Massachusetts in a New york City hospital i stayed a scant few days before being placed with an adoption agency Born in a place i had no familial connection to i was immediately deprived of my biological family Most of my childhood was spent in suburban Cleveland Ohio Moves to upstate New york New England and Pennsylvania brought me no closer to calling any place home i loved living in the western Massachusetts town of Stockbridge but the multigenerational denizens of the town left few openings for newcomers like me i lived in central Pennsylvania for several decades but felt detached from the deep roots that most people had in the area

When we came west (for my husband a homecoming to his Oregon roots for me a new experience) i noticed that even in long-established towns like Walla Walla there is ample room for newcomers who want to be

part of the community And most folks who choose to come here donrsquot seem to want to change the valley they prefer to embrace it

While the occasional newbie whines about the lack of Whole Foods or Nordstrom they soon discover our farmers markets the wide variety of local shops and boutiques and our world-class restaurants They fall in love with our charming downtowns the small-town friendliness of the people and our kid-friendly environment Then therersquos the holiday parade the fair the ever-present Blue Mountains the parks the museums the wineries mdash really whatrsquos not to like The communities of our valley represent America at its best

irsquom a newspaper junkie i love to read everything from news to sports to classifieds mdash even the obituaries The obits are a fascinating window on our valley Many of the people chronicled were born here some lived all their lives here inextricably bound to this place But a number of people came here from other places often far away and have made a mark on our area Which makes me wonder mdash is a place any less of a hometown because you choose it or is it based primarily on the happenstance of your birth it seems that therersquos room for both paths to calling this wonderful valley home

itrsquos also our strength because collectively as a community we bring both deep familial and cultural traditions as well as the fresh perspective of newcomers to our area irsquom glad mdash after decades of searching mdash that i finally found my hometown a place that feels just right

diane reed can be reached at ladybookearthlinknet Between columns and when the spirit moves her she blogs at wwwponderingsbydianereedblogspotcom from her home overlooking the pond at lions Park in College Place

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Maymay 1The annual Kennel Club Dog Show Walla Walla County Fairgrounds De-tails 509-558-3854

The Walla Walla University Drama Department pres-ents a performance of ldquoMy Fair ladyrdquo 2 pm matinee Details 509-527-2656

The Walla Walla Choral Society presents ldquoJubilate Deordquo 3 pm May 1 Walla Walla University Church College Place Details 509-386-2445

The Walla Walla Valley Farmers Market opens local produce artisans and an outdoor concert 9 am-1 pm Saturdays and Sundays through Oct 30 Crawford Park Fourth ave and Main St Details gowallawallafarmersmar-ketcom or 509-520-3647

through may 22Enjoy the annual Senior art Thesis Exhibition Sheehan Gallery Whitman College Details 509-527-5249

through JuLy 31The Tamaacutestslikt Cultural In-stitute hosts the traveling OMSI exhibit ldquoamazing Feats of agingrdquo explor-ing the mysteries of why animals and humans age Details 541-966-9748

may 4The YWCa leadership luncheon ldquoMatters that Matterrdquo is informational and inspirational with guest speakers Kristine Van Raden and Molly Da-vis Noon Marcus Whit-man Hotel Details 509-525-2570

Walla Walla Wine Works hosts music on Wednes-days downtown Details 509-522-1261

may 5First Thursday Concert at St Pauls Episcopal Church 323 Catherine Street Walla Walla 1215-1250 pm will feature the Steel Drum Band from Walla Walla Uni-versity directed by Brandon Beck Details 529-1083

The Whitman College Visit-ing Writers Reading series presents Whitman Reading 7 pm Kimball Theatre De-tails whitmanedu

may 5-7 12-14Walla Walla High School Drama Department pres-ents ldquoFiddler on the Roofrdquo musical version 7 pm and 2 pm matinee on Saturdays May 7 and 14 Walla Walla High School Performing arts audito-rium Details Tickets can be reserved by calling 509-526-8613 the Wa-Hi box office

may 5-8 19-21a performance of ldquoThe 25th a nnua l Putnam County Spelling Beerdquo 8 pm Harper Joy Theatre Whitman College Details 509-527-5180

may 6-7Music on the weekends at the Backstage Bistro De-tails 509-526-0690

Sapolil Cellars hosts music on Friday and Saturday De-tails 509-520-5258

The Wildfire hosts music every Friday and Saturday Wildhorse Resort amp Casino Pendleton Details 800-654-9453

may 6-8Walla Walla Valley Winer-ies offer an opportunity to taste their new creations during Spring Release Weekend area wineries introduce new wines and winemakers share their creative inspiration Details 509-526-3117

may 6artWalK First Fridays May through December Visit galleries and chat with art-ists 5-8 pm Downtown Walla Walla Visit artwalk-wallawallacom

may 6-8 13-14The little Theatre presents ldquoalice In Wonderlandrdquo adapted from lewis Carroll 8 pm Friday-Saturday 2 pm Sunday little Theatre of Walla Walla Details 509-529-3683

may 7The annual Junior Horse Show brings great riding action to Milton-Freewater Pioneer Posse Grounds Details 541-938-3379

Daytonrsquos annual Street Sale turns a section of Third Street into a giant yard sale benefits churches and com-munity projects Dayton Details 509-382-4825

artist reception and dem-onstration Washington art-ist Dwight Duke exhibits his painting bronze sculptures and gunpowder light pan-els 6-730 pm Reininger Winery Details 509-522-1994

may 8Every Sunday the living History actors portray in-dividuals from the arearsquos past 2 pm Fort Walla Walla Museum Details 509-525-7703

may 13-15The annual Balloon Stam-pede brings as many as 50 hot-air balloons to the Walla Walla County Fairgrounds This colorful festival re-mains a Valley tradition Ear-ly morning flights (weather permitting) arts amp crafts antique autos commercial booths live entertainment and food Balloons light up to music at the Saturday evening Nite Glow Details 509-525-0850

may 14annual adult event cele-brates the characters who populated Pendletonrsquos past Must have reservations Pendleton Underground Tours Details 800-226-6398

may 14-15 may 27-29Walla Walla Drag Strip con-tinues the weekend fun Details wwdragstripcom or 509-200-6287

may 15Walla Walla University Chamber Series featuring Robyn McCabe 730 pm MKW Fine arts auditorium Details 509-527-2571

may 18To celebrate the opening of Walla Wallarsquos Power House Theatre and a four-day run of Seattle Shakespeare Companyrsquos ldquoThe Merry Wives of WindsorrdquoWalla Walla lifestyles will pres-ent a gala event This exclusive evening will en-chant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fash-ion from 530-9 pm at the Power House Theatre Sixth amp Rose Walla Walla To purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewalla-wallacom

may 19-21During Pendletonrsquos Cattle Baron Weekend enjoy an art exhibit by a talented group of women artists ldquoIn the Company of Cowgirlsrdquo Hamleyrsquos Steakhouse Pendleton Visit inthecom-panyofcowgirlscom or call 541-676-5013

may 19-22Whitman College 50th Reunion class of 1961 Whitman College Details 509-527-5952

Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merr y Wives of Windsorrdquo Pow-erhouse Theater Details 509-742-0739

may 21The annual Ducky Derby is a day of family fun all for a good cause Watch the ducks race down Mill Creek to help fund the Exchange Clubrsquos efforts at preventing child abuse and neglect 1130 am-330 pm Race at about 2 pm Walla Walla Community College De-tails 509-527-4300

Walla Walla University Spring Choral Concert 5 pm Walla Walla Univer-sity Church Details 509-527-2571

learn to contra dance an old-fashioned coun-try dance Music by the Wednesday Night Band 7 pm teaching and practice 730 pm regular dance Unity Church of Peace 810

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may 22The Whitman College graduating class of 2011 accepts the challenge 11 am Memorial lawn Whitman College Details 509-527-5156

may 26 27 28 29Walla Walla Community College Theatre arts De-partment presents ldquoZoot Suitrdquo by luis Valdez 7 pm each night and Sunday 2 pm matinee W WCC Performing arts Center Details 509-527-4575

may 27-30 Dayton Days has been a Memorial Weekend tradi-tion in Dayton for nearly 100 years Highlights include a Saturday-morning parade on historic Main Street rodeo tour of Dayton and Memorial Day Fun Run De-tails 509-382-4825 or visit historicdaytoncom

may 28-30The Touchet River Roundup mdash the annual Celebration of Sobriety at the fairgrounds focuses on family fun ac-tivities Waitsburg Details 509-526-3602

may 29annual Onion Man Tria-thalon 9 am Bennington lake Details wwmulti-sportscom or call 509-529-9187

may 30Waitsburgrsquos annual Memo-rial Day celebration hosted by veterans for all veterans Details 509-337-6546

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This sculptural cornucopia marks the spot where all of Walla Walla meets the producers and wersquore not talking about the Zero Mostel and Gene Wild-er musical For you GPS fans latitude 4606678 N longitude 11834197 W

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The sculpture tops the farmers market gazebo on the corner of Fourth Avenue North and West Main Street

Contestensprulesif you have the answer e-mail it to rickdoylewwubcom or send it to Where in Walla Walla 112 S 1st Ave PO Box 1358 Walla Walla WA 99362 The names of 10 people with correct answers will be randomly selected and they will receive this great-looking mug as proof of their local knowledge and good taste

Annette CarterShirley richterDebbie FullenJudy CarlsonEloise Phillips

Dan Countsvicky ScanlonJanet TurnerTam LennoxBruce Campbell

46 Walla Walla LifestyLes

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3 Bergevin Lane vineyards 1215 W Poplar St (509) 526-4300 bergevinlanecom

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6 castillo de feliciana85728 Telephone Pole Road Milton-Freewater OR (541) 558-3656 wwwcastillodefelicianacom

7 don carlo vineyardBy appointment Only (509) 540-5784 wwwdoncarlovineyardcom

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9 five star cellars 840 C St (509) 527-8400 wwwfivestarcellarscom

10 forgeron cellars 33 W Birch St (509) 522-9463 wwwforgeroncellarscom

21 sapolil cellars15 E Main St (509) 520-5258 wwwsapolilcellarscom

22 seven hills winery 212 N Third ave (509) 529-7198 wwwsevenhillswinerycom

23 sinclair estate vineyards 109 E Main Ste 100 (509) 876-4300 wwwsinclairestatevineyardscom

24 spring valley vineyard 18 N Second ave (509) 525-1506 wwwspringvalleyvineyardcom

25 suLei cellars355 S Second ave (503) 529-0840 www suleicellarscom

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12 fort walla walla cellars 127 E Main St (509) 520-1095 wwwfortwallawallacellarscom

13 glencorrie8052 Old Highway 12 (509) 525-2585 wwwglencorriecom

14 grantwood winery 2428 W Highway 12 (509) 301-0719 (509) 301-9546

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16 Long shadows1604 Frenchtown Road (Formerly Ireland Road) (509) 526-0905 wwwlongshadowscom By invitation only Requests accepted on a limited basis Please call to inquire

17 Lowden hills winery1401 W Pine St (509) 527-1040 wwwlowdenhillswinerycom

18 northstar winery 1736 JB George Road (509) 524-4883 wwwnorthstarmerlotcom

19 pepper Bridge winery1704 JB George Road (509) 525-6502 wwwpepperbridgecom

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26 syZygy 405 E Boeing ave (509) 522-0484 wwwsyzygywinescom

27 three rivers winery5641 Old Highway 12 (509) 526-9463 infoThreeRiversWinerycom

28 tertulia cellars1564 Whiteley Road (509) 525-5700 wwwtertuliacellarscom

29 trust cellars 1050 Merlot Drive (509) 529-4511 wwwtrustcellarscom

30 va piano vineyards1793 JB George Road (509) 529-0900 wwwvapianovineyardscom

31 walla walla vintnersVineyard lane off Mill Creek Road (509) 525-4724 wwwwallawallavintnerscom

32 walla walla wineworks31 E Main St (509) 522-1261 wwwwallawallawineworkscom

33 whitman cellars1015 W Pine St (509) 529-1142 wwwwhitmancellarscom

34 woodward canyon winery11920 W Hwy 12 lowden (509) 525-4129 wwwwoodwardcanyoncom

35 JLc winery425 B St (509) 301-5148

36 saviah cellars1979 JB George Rd

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Editorrsquos CommEntsensp enspby RickenspDoyle

Union-Bulletincom

P L E A S E L i k E U S

P L E A S E F O L L OW U S

Play is important in Walla Walla the play will truly be the thing when Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo at the newly restored Power House Theatre this month Lifestyles is teaming up with SWW for an inaugural event that will offer guests food fashion and merriment in the Elizabethan manner May 18 Check out our cover spread for a preview of the event

Winston Churchill may have described golf best when he said it ldquois a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purposerdquo

So if you are going to pursue the sport it makes sense to get the best coaching possible Al Mundle who spent 57 years helping others improve their games thought he had put tinkering with other peoplersquos grip stance and swing away for good But that was before Terri Hanson convinced him to offer some pointers to her son Jake who was heading into his final year on the links for the Walla Walla High School Blue Devils

Jim Buchan shows you how this relationship has worked

Work to a lot of people can be repetitious drudgery Larry Adams never had that problem Whether he was flying into enemy fire in vietnam or piloting a helicopter for the president each day challenged his skills and preparation Adams recounts some of those adventures for Lifestyles

Skill and preparation are necessary ingredients for cooking Gina Medica tells how she learned to make culinary creations from Cuba Her specialty is a flan dessert

Dr Donald Smithrsquos specialty is creating an eye-catching garden of colorful flowers The iris is a primary element of his palette Check out his creations in Secret Gardens

Columnist Catie Mcintyre Walker explains how the original palette for the LrsquoEcole No 41 wine labels came from a childrsquos watercolor As the winery has matured it has decided it was time to update the labels

These are only some of the delights awaiting you in the following pages Enjoy

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you donrsquot have to be a seasoned chef to make an impact with food Every

day in kitchens across the country real Cooks create extraordinary meals

for some very special guests mdash their friends and family

GinaenspMedica

Gina Medica holds Osito her Yorkie

by andrewenspHoltensp enspphoto by DarrenenspEllisfood

Walla Walla LifestyLes 11

Born in Miami and then raised in Central Los Angeles by her Cuban-born parents Medica learned her craft by observing her mother work in the kitchen Of all Medicarsquos culinary creations it is her Cuban flan dessert that receives the most requests

ldquoEveryone in the family would always request it especially my nieces and nephewrdquo Medica says sitting at her dining room table the freshly presented flan resting in front of her ldquoMy bro can easily eat half of itrdquo

And the flan does not remain uneaten for long as i sit down with the Walla Walla businesswoman and her daughter Elizabeth to discuss and taste this delicacy Minutes after we begin our conversation nephew Nick arrives and quickly wolfs down two servings

irsquove already finished my first and am working on my second when we begin our conversation

LifEStyLES With both of your parents being Havana natives did you eat Cuban food exclusively

MEDiCa No but in the early days Thanksgiving was pretty different My mom would fix the turkey but shersquod serve it with black beans and white rice Wersquod be ldquoAh mom canrsquot we have regular Thanksgiving food like mashed potatoes and yamsrdquo Those came later as we lived in the States longer

LifEStyLES So the food changed as you kids grew older

MEDiCa Well my mom was always pretty good at American food but sometimes it wasnrsquot all the way like she made American spaghetti but she put chicken in it it was good but my brother would always complain that it didnrsquot have meatballs Now he misses the chicken

LifEStyLES How many kids do you have in the family

MEDiCa i have an older brother and a younger sister irsquom the middle one We didnrsquot have a normal childhood in the sense that my mom was a hairstylist at home and on Saturday mornings customers would start arriving at 8 And she had one of those big old hair dryers

Continued on pg 12 gt

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12 Walla Walla LifestyLes

that you put over someonersquos head mdash we called it ldquoFidel Castrordquo mdash and yoursquod have these customers yelling at the top of their voice while they were under it So i never got to sleep in

LifEStyLES it sounds like your mother was quite a lady

MEDiCa i recently found some of her original recipes you know in her own handwriting One of them is for croquetta which was really good you take chicken with corned beef and grind them up bread it and then fry it itrsquos really goodrdquo

LifEStyLES Why do you like the flan so much

MEDiCa Because everyone in the family always requested it i make it a little different The way i make it it is a little more creamy because i use cream cheese itrsquos more like a custard Many times in Mexican restaurants the flan will be more jello-y This is almost like cheesecake

LifEStyLES is it strictly for dessert

MEDiCa yes itrsquos for special occasions

LifEStyLES Like birthdays and parties

MEDiCa yes itrsquos not light you canrsquot have too much or your stomach will start to ache

LifEStyLES Does it take a long time to prepare

MEDiCa Not really Making the caramel sauce takes the most time and you canrsquot take your eyes off it or it might burn

LifEStyLES Tastes like it didnrsquot burn

MEDiCa No i had lots of help My daughter Elizabeth (and she glances over at her youngest child) helped me a lot

andrew hoLt writes about food people and all things Walla Walla for Walla Walla lifestyles magazine He can be reached at bruindrew86gmailcom

Cubanenspflaningredientsenspforenspflan

1 can evaporated milk1 can sweetened condensed milk1 cup whole or two percent milk6 eggs1 to 2 teaspoons vanilla extract14 teaspoon salt4 ounces cream cheese

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1 to 1frac12 cup sugar

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Place the sugar in a saucepan on medium heat and stir until granules of sugar have liquified and the mixture takes on a caramel color

Pour the mixture into a mold coating the sides This must be done quickly because the mixture will harden also use oven mittens so you donrsquot burn your hands

Put aside

toenspmakeensptheenspflan

Preheat oven to 350 degreesIn a blender mix the sweetened condensed

milk frac12 can of evaporated milk and the milk eggs cream cheese salt and vanilla and blend on low

Pour out half the mixture into a bowl and pour in the remaining evaporated milk and blend

Pour contents of blender and bowl into mold and stir Cover with aluminum foil Crimp the edges of the foil around the mold to keep moisture out

Put the mold in a big cake pan and pour enough water around the mold for it to come part-way up the sides of the mold (we call that ldquobantildeo Mariacuteardquo) and bake for one hour plus 15 to 20 minutes

Use a knife to test done-ness mdash the knife should come out clean

When the flan is done baking let it rest and cool then place it in the refrigerator for 24 hours

The next day dip the mold in warm water before flipping the flan into a serving dish

Makes 12 servings

R EC IP E

food ltcontinued from pg 11

Walla Walla LifestyLes 13

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The old Frenchtown schoolhouse built in 1915 with the stately bell tower still stands it has been a historic fixture in the Walla Walla valley that many of us have grown up with even if we never attended classes there One can still stride up the long sidewalk to the large heavy carved doors with a feeling of reverence and trepidation mdash as if it were the first day of school mdash while imagining generations of children playing on the manicured grounds

in the 1970s the old schoolhouse classrooms found themselves empty of childrenrsquos laughter But in 1983 Jean and Baker Ferguson breathed new life into the old building founding what would become one of the premier wineries in Washington LrsquoEcole No 41

The name was historically im-portant in two ways ldquoLrsquoEcolerdquo French for ldquothe schoolrdquo recognized the French men and women who settled the area and ldquo41rdquo was the numerical designation of the school district

The Fergusonsrsquo first crush of 1983 was resting in the barrel when the following year they asked their elementary school-aged family members to draw an image that would best reflect the new project

The $100 prize went to an 8-year-old cousin whose watercolor interpretation of the old schoolhouse became the template for a wine label it became an iconic label known to wine lovers around the world

in 1989 the second generation of the family Jean and Bakerrsquos daughter and son-

in-law Megan and Martin (Marty) Clubb became the new proprietors of the winery Marty became the general manager and winemaker and would lead the small artisan winery to new heights mdash it would eventually produce more than 30000 cases annually

At the same time the Washington state wine industry was booming and would soon become the nationrsquos second-largest wine producer The area would become one of the premium wine-producing regions in the United States

Marty also became a pioneer in the

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 15

Washington state wine industry as he became a founder and activist in many of the wine industryrsquos foundations and alliances The family-owned winery also partnered with some of the most prestigious vineyards in the state LrsquoEcole No 41 has been honored nine consecutive years by Wine amp Spirits magazine as ldquoWinery of the yearrdquo becoming the second Washington winery inducted into the Hall of Fame

There is a third-generation that has grown up around the winery and will eventually become caretakers of this legacy Meganrsquos and Martyrsquos children Jeanrsquos and Bakerrsquos grandchildren rebecca and riley Clubb had their own meaningful influence on the label with their childhood drawings on the labelrsquos chalkboard image

riley is a 2009 graduate of Whitman College and is employed at the winery rebecca is enrolled in Washington State Universityrsquos wine management program and expected to graduate in 2012

The winery will soon celebrate its 30th birthday The wines produced at the old schoolhouse are refined with true varietal character and can stand up against many coveted wines from France mdash and they have Now that LrsquoEcole is a top player in the world of wine the whimsical label on its bottles is no longer truly indicative of the sophisticated gold and dark-red liquids behind the glass

ldquoLooking to the future we wanted our label to reflect the winery we have becomerdquo says Marty Clubb

This year the winery will unveil a new label it will still depict the iconic schoolhouse but with deeper colors and a new texture There will be a distinct difference among the labels depending on the vineyards used Wines produced from Columbia valley vineyards will have a soft charcoal-colored background label and the labels for the wines produced from Walla Walla vineyards will be more sepia-toned

Another distinctive change will be the de-emphasizing of the ldquoNo 41rdquo as generations of wine lovers have often referred to the winery as ldquoLrsquoEcolerdquo

The new label will be a timeless reminder of the past as well as a welcome to future generations

catie mcintyre waLker blogs at wildwallawallawinewomanblogspotcom and be reached at wildwallawallawinewomancom

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it was 1954 the year he graduated from the University of Oregon and two female students from the university were interested in learning some of the finer points of the game

ldquoit was probably the worst lesson anybody has ever givenrdquo Mundle exclaimed shaking his head in dismay ldquoThese two young ladies were looking for some help and i worked with them for an hour-and-a-half And at the end of that time i said lsquoi have done such a poor job i will pay you for the time i have put you through this torturersquordquo

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by JimenspBuchanensp enspphotos by ColbyenspKuschatka

Walla Walla LifestyLes 17

Painful as it was the lesson learned proved to be a career-launching moment for Mundle who dedicated himself to his trade and spent a lifetime in the golf business successfully working up and down the i-5 corridor as course operator teacher and player

Fifty-seven years after that first teaching debacle Mundle now 79 years old is retired and living in Walla Walla He and his wife Ann relocated here last summer determined to give up teaching golf and spend more time playing the game they both love

ldquoAfter all of these years of teaching i feel that this is the time to lay it asiderdquo Mundle said ldquoi will still do a little studying of the golf swing and methods and i will be involved with some of the other local professionals in some cracker-barrel sessions when they get together to discuss teaching methods problems and how to solve them

ldquoBut i really came here not to teach but to play some golfrdquo

That was the plan anyway before he was introduced to Walla Walla High School senior Jake Hanson who was looking for a little extra help with his game heading into his final year on the links as a Blue Devil

Terri Hanson Jakersquos mother was aware of Mundlersquos reputation as a teaching professional and heard through the grapevine he was living in Walla Walla

ldquoBeing the mom i am i called him one dayrdquo Terri remembered ldquoi told him that Jakersquos golf game was at a standstill i asked him to take a look at Jake and he agreed to come and meet us and get a feel for where Jake was at

ldquoHe did and before you knew it they were putting on our hardwood floors The next day they agreed to get together at Wine valley mdash they were there for four hours and it has been an amazing connection right from the beginning

ldquoAl is an amazing Christian man who is so well-respected in his fieldrdquo Terri added ldquoAnd he just demands respect irsquom seeing my son of 17 all of a sudden growing uprdquo

Mundle concedes he is intrigued by Hansonrsquos character and potential And

Under the watchful eye of Al Mundle Jake Hanson hits an iron shot

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Hanson holds his new mentor in high esteem

ldquoirsquove learned a tremendous amountrdquo Hanson said ldquoHe has a way of getting through to me in a positive way He got through to me that i am so much better than i thought i could be He has more confidence in me than i have in myself

ldquoHe has one of the best golf swings i have ever seen and he is still working on his own gamerdquo

Mundle said Hanson reminds him of former University of Oregon player Ben Crane who now plays on the PGA Tour Crane has been playing professionally since 2007 and earned nearly $3 million on the tour in 2010

ldquoi was Benrsquos swing coach at Oregon and Jake is somewhat similarrdquo Mundle said ldquoBen worked harder than anybody on the whole golf team He would put in as much

time as three or four others combined and Jake is very much the same way Hersquos very dedicatedrdquo

However Mundle insists that helping Hanson with his game is a one-time situation

After playing just six rounds of golf last year Mundle is determined that he and Ann will spend a lot more time on the golf course as they get acquainted with their new hometown

ldquoThatrsquos an all-time lowrdquo he said of the six rounds played in 2010 ldquoMostly it was the move and all mdash a new house putting in lawn fencing shelving in the garage mdash all the little things of getting settled

ldquoBut this was a good move for us We love it here We enjoy the weather and the people you can walk down the street and people look you in the eye and say lsquoHellorsquo i love that friendlinessrdquo

Mundle grew up in Eugene and graduated from University High School in 1950 He knew he said from the time he was in the seventh grade he wanted to make golf his lifersquos work

ldquoyou might say that i had a little parental directionrdquo Mundle said ldquoMy dad went to the University of St Andrews in Scotland and he played golf at the St Andrews Old Course And my mother also played golfrdquo

After high school Mundle enrolled at the University of Oregon and played three years of varsity golf during an era when there was no such thing as a golf scholarship

ldquoThe only thing we ever received was a half-a-dozen golf balls if we went into a tournamentrdquo Mundle recalled ldquoWhen i went to the NCAA Championships in Texas my senior year i was given a new

people ltcontinued from pg 17

Walla Walla LifestyLes 19

pair of golf shoes but that was itldquoWe bought all of our own gear mdash

clubs bags rain gear everything itrsquos a whole different ball game today They have everythingrdquo

At the end of his sophomore year at Oregon Mundle had it in his mind to ldquotest my golf on the PGA Tourrdquo he said But his father an English professor at the university discouraged him

ldquoHe said lsquoGet your education first then you can do whatever you wantrsquordquo Mundle said ldquoit was just as well i saved a lot of wear and tear mdash and money i was an Ok player but not of that caliberrdquo

Mundle still has fond memories of his collegiate playing career however

ldquoi played three years for the university mdash you werenrsquot allowed to play as freshmen mdash and Oregon always had fine golf teamsrdquo Mundle said ldquoit was mostly match

play then and i was there during the time that the school went seven straight years without losing a (team) dual matchrdquo

During his senior year Mundle qualified for the NCAA Championships in Houston From a field of about 160 players Mundle made it as far as the quarterfinal round

He graduated in 1954 with a degree in history which he said he never really used

ldquoMy dad was in the top one percent of his class at St Andrewsrdquo Mundle said ldquoMy mother was also in the top part of her class and my older brother Pete was in the top of his class And then i came alongrdquo

His first golf job was as an assistant pro at his home course the Laurelwood Golf Course a position he accepted shortly after graduating from UO This was when and where the infamous first golf lesson

occurredA two-year stint in the US Army took

Mundle away from his profession in 1955-56 But he managed to keep his golf game sharp as a member of the Fort knox golf team and in 1956 he was the runner-up in the Second Army tournament and he placed 13th in the All-Army tournament

Then it was back to the Willamette valley where he came into his own in the Portland area under head professionals Eddie Hogan at riverside Country Club and Bunny Mason at Columbia Edgewater

ldquoThose two people were very influential in my professional liferdquo Mundle said

ldquoEddie was a very fine teacher of the total golf operation and service was No 1 i learned how to run the pro shop how

Jake Hanson takes a few pointers on chipping from his instructor and mentor Al Mundle

Continued on pg 20 gt

20 Walla Walla LifestyLes

people ltcontinued from pg 19

to market and merchandise mdash everything from how to run the club service program to the electric cart program to basically running the golf course

ldquoBunny was also a very fine operator of a golf shop and i also learned a lot about teaching from Bunny Sometimes you go along in life and there are certain mentors who help you along the way Anybody who says they made it by themselves is not being honest with themselves We have all had someone who has given us a little boost along the wayrdquo

Mundle took his first head professional job in 1965 at Overlake Golf and Country Club in Bellevue where he remained until 1981 At that point he returned to Eugene and was the head pro at the Eugene Country Club for three years followed by a six-year stint at the Bear Creek Country Club in Seattle

He also spent a short time at a golf course in Cottage Grove Ore before moving back to Eugene for a third time in 1993 to become the director of golf instruction at the river ridge Golf Course He remained at river ridge until his retirement last summer During his time there he helped out as the swing coach at UO under then-head coach Steve Nosler

Through it all Mundle served as president of the Washington PGA and the Pacific Northwest PGA and was a member of several National PGA committees As a player he participated in the Oregon Washington and Pacific Northwest opens as well as the Washington and Oregon PGA events One of his highlights was winning the Oregon Senior PGA Match-Play Championships in Bend in 1993

ldquoi felt i had an obligation to participaterdquo Mundle said ldquoi played a lot of golf including many many pro-ams and i won a couple of assistant championshipsrdquo

in addition to Crane Mundle also helped shape the careers of Jeff Quinney and Eric Johnson both of whom are from the Eugene area

Quinney won the United States Amateur championship in 2000 and represented the US in the Walker Cup in 2001 He has appeared in 128 PGA Tour events since 2007 placing second twice and third twice

Johnson played several years on the Asian Tour and one on the Nationwide Tour He is now a head professional at a

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course in San rafael CalifldquoAnd there have been some others mdash

Brian Henninger Mike Gove a few others mdash who have called and wanted to discus their swingrdquo Mundle said ldquoNothing on a regular basis just one or two sessionsrdquo

is Hanson his next mdash and perhaps his last mdash prodigy

Thatrsquos a tricky question since Hanson came to golf late after a budding baseball career was derailed by a shoulder injury He was a first-team all-Big Nine Conference golf selection as a junior but has yet to qualify for state and his summer resume is thin because of his baseball background

Hansonrsquos original plan was to attend Walla Walla Community College and play golf for the Warriors with the hope of earning an NCAA Division i scholarship But he has since decided to enroll in Arizona State Universityrsquos Professional Golf Management program and try out for the ASU golf team as a walk on

ldquoMore than anything i think it came down to him evaluating his goalsrdquo said Jakersquos father Gary Hanson ldquoitrsquos everyonersquos dream to play on the PGA Tour but realistically he wants to be a golf pro and teach He loves

the gamerdquoAnd a degree in the PGM program

will provide Jake with the educational background he needs to be successful in any form of business his father added

Though his chances of making the ASU varsity team seem unlikely the PGM program provides a club golf team that participates in a series of tournaments throughout the year and gives Hanson a second playing option

And keeping your options open is optimum at this point Mundle said

ldquoi think his driving force at this time mdash and also his folks mdash is to get his education And then he can do whatever he wants if he doesnrsquot go into (the golfing business) immediately he will always have it as a backuprdquo

Sounds an awful lot like the advice Thomas Mundle offered his son back in the spring of 1952 when Al Mundle wanted to leave school after his sophomore year and test his wings on the PGA Tour And as we now know all these years later staying in school worked out pretty well for Al

Jim Buchan is a sports writer for the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin He can be reached at jimbuchanwwubcom

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Join us for a night of wonder with elizabethan-inspired food fashion and merriment to celebrate the opening of walla wallarsquos power house theatre and prepare for a four-day run of seattle shakespeare companyrsquos ldquothe merry wives of windsorrdquo

walla walla lifestyles will present a fashion show with wicked and wistful gowns twisted braided hair and smoldering makeup designs designers include red eden designs autumnlin design and others

semi-formal attire creative masks encouraged this exclusive evening will enchant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fashion

to purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewallawallacom

530 - 9 pm May 18 2011

The Power H o use The at reS i x t h amp R o se Wa l l a Wa l l a

T H E A T R EPOWER HOUSE

My director Terry Edward Moore told me his only direction from the artistic director was that it be ldquoperiodrdquo that is to say authentic to the time

ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo is the only one of Shakespearersquos plays that is set in his own time so it was decided to present it as if the actors were people of the time doing what would be a contemporary (to the late 16th century) play

i started to research the clothing of the time how it was constructed and what kinds of fabrics were available at the time mdash linens homespuns woolens for the common people and silks damasks velvets and furs for the upper classes i discovered that Elizabethan society was strictly regulated in terms of social classes and upward mobility was a little-known concept Once a yeoman always a yeoman i also discovered the set of rules and regulations called ldquosumptuary lawsrdquo which specifically dictated what types of fabrics trims furs and even what colors each class was allowed to wear

Since there are three distinct classes represented in ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo mdash merchant class soldiers and servants mdash i tried to give each class its own color palette based on these laws The overall palette of the show is based on colors actually in use at the time

The availability of dyes was limited (except for the nobility) so the palette consists of many shades of yellows and browns russets black some greens and blue-grays and of course wheat-colored unbleached linen i turned to the Dutch painter Brueghel for inspiration on how the common people looked and dressed

i also researched what kinds of dyes were used and where they came from Dyes were created from all sorts of different things such as walnut shell crushed beetles and all kinds of roots i found a website that sells these authentic dyestuffs so irsquom using the real thing to dye some of the linen pieces and will coordinate the contemporary fabrics to these authentic colors

Nearly every piece will need something done to it mdash altered in some way to fit the actor re-trimmed rigged invisibly for quick changes etc mdash so there is a lot of labor involved Also hats were a hugely important part of Elizabethan fashion all the way down to the poorest serf

Certain styles of hats were often associated with certain professions mdash eg doctors scholars mdash so there are a number of hats to build as well as headpieces for the women No self-respecting woman went about with her head uncovered

Putting together a show like this is like putting together a giant jigsaw puzzle and the pieces are the costumes that irsquove borrowed and rented from other theater companies in the Seattle area such as Seattle repertory Seattle Opera and the University of Washington as well as pieces from Oregon Shakespeare Festival i design the show and then go out into the world and try to find pieces that approximate my designs and palette as closely as possible (usually with some reworking first) The pieces that i cant find and dont want to compromise on i build from scratch

deane middLeton is a theatre costume professional who works in the Seattle area She has done costumes for Issaquahrsquos Village Theater as well as several productions of the Seattle Shakespeare Company

ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 29

ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo was the only one of Shakespearersquos works set in his own time the 1600s and features Sir John Falstaff It also deals primarily with english middle-class life A hilarious bawdy comedy filled with insight into the life and times of Shakespeare ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo will delight people of all ages

About the play

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But thatrsquos exactly what longtime Walla Walla resident Larry Adams did for four years He was one of a select group of pilots for Marine One the helicopter counterpart of the presidential airplane Air Force One from 1970 to 1974

30 Walla Walla LifestyLes

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 31

Long before Adams became the Walla Walla Airport manager he was transporting heads of state foreign dignitaries famous (and now infamous) Cabinet members the executive staff and President richard M Nixon during one of the nationrsquos most turbulent times the withdrawal from vietnam and the Watergate scandal

But to Adams a native of Northern idaho all that swirled around the Nixon presidency was the least of his concerns His job was to transport the president safely to Andrews Air Force Base or Camp David or fly any short flight required Safety always at a premium End of story

Many times Adams ferried President Nixon and his staff on short flights far away from home Air Force One might fly President Nixon to a summit or a meeting with a foreign head of state but Marine One and Adams were always nearby to shuttle the chief executive on short flights or to whisk him away from sudden danger

Pretty heady stuff for a fourth-grade teacher who had never thought about flying until a Marine recruiter offered him the opportunity Although Adams had watched planes take off and land at a nearby air base as a child he had never given serious thought to flying it was more a need for a bigger paycheck than passion that brought Adams to his destiny

He liked teaching but it just wasnrsquot paying the bills So Adams turned to the military and the Gi Bill After being unimpressed by other recruiters Adams took a liking to the fellow from the Marines for as Adams recalls the recruiter took an interest in him After about an hour of talking the recruiter suggested Adams might have the potential to be a pilot

Having easily passed some preliminary tests Adams was sent to flight school in Pensacola Fla and a stellar career was ready to take off He performed well in all the aircraft he piloted but he showed a special skill for helicopters

Up until 1965 fixed-wing airplanes were the staple of all military air combat But the military had been gearing up for a big change The helicopter was to become a major part of combat The Pentagon had been developing helicopters that would do much more than transport troops to bases Now they would assist in bombing

raids ground attacks and the evacuation of the injured from the point of combat This new breed of helicopters would also possess the ability to fight back and not be lame ducks as before the new H34 would tote machine guns on each side

These cutting-edge aircraft would travel at unprecedented speeds with newly discovered agility Gifted pilots were needed not those who merely possessed superior technical skills but those who also had the composure to fly straight into

enemy fire in the dead of night picking up injured soldiers or aiding air attacks

Adams was one of those pilots and he would be one of two squadron leaders for ldquoOperation Starliterdquo mdash the first major assault using helicopters The Marines were going straight into a North vietnamese regimental stronghold No one knew what to expect

ldquoWe lost a lot that first time inrdquo says Adams ldquoTwo crew chiefs were killed

Continued on pg 32 gt

In this newspaper clipping Larry Adams poses on the steps of the helicopter dubbed Marine One which he piloted for President Richard M Nixon

32 Walla Walla LifestyLes

people ltcontinued from pg 31

four pilots were medevaced out because of their wounds i donrsquot think there was one helicopter that didnrsquot have a bunch of holes in it The one i flew in we got a lot of rounds in it Amazingly no one was hurt but when we got back the helicopter was so shot-up you couldnrsquot fly it anymore We lost 50 percent of our helicopters that dayrdquo

in the next 13 months Adams would fly many more missions often heading straight into anti-aircraft fire to pick up injured or killed soldiers He says he would see the flares signifying where the copter was supposed to land but frequently hersquod have to veer off because ground communication would say ldquoThe artillery is too hotrdquo Then there would be a window maybe two minutes maybe five when the helicopter could drop in and pick up the injured often being shot at as it waited for its passengers

Adams knew the best way to survive was to keep his focus ldquoin the daylight when you start your run in and yoursquore getting shot at Everything went to black and white for me i didnrsquot notice the green trees or the green rice paddies until we got out of there and then it would come back

to me i donrsquot know what that was i just didnrsquot see the colors irsquove talked to some other pilots and they described the same thingrdquo

in his two tours of duty in vietnam Adams would fly 880 combat missions in several types of helicopters and fixed-wing airplanes He received numerous medals including two Navy commendations for performance under combat conditions

Then the call came to fly for the president Before Adams could tote the commander in chief around in Marine One a thorough background check had to be done So thorough was the check that Adams said a friend from his hometown sent him a card that read ldquoAre you in some kind of trouble Jesus therersquos been a bunch of people around here with the dark grey suits and the skinny little ties Theyrsquore asking all these embarrassing questions about you like did you have drinking problem Did you have a gambling problem Do you know what Larryrsquos sexual preference wasrdquo

Adams chuckles ldquoit was pretty funnyrdquoAdams passed the grade and soon

he was flying President Nixon and his family to Camp David or picking up vice

President Spiro Agnew at the Pentagon or taking Secretary of State Henry kissinger or Secretary of Defense Alexander Haig to a classified meeting Although his flights varied from transporting foreign heads of state to flying members of the press the majority involved the president the vice president kissinger and Haig

The pilots did not speak to their travelers unless spoken to says Adams President Nixon usually looked in and asked them how they were kissinger never spoke Haig was good for a pat on the shoulder now and then but it was Agnew who conversed the most says Adams

Adams remembers ldquoOne time we picked him up at the Pentagon and we had taken off and had hit top altitude He usually would come up and look into the cockpit but this time he patted me on the shoulder and asked lsquoWell howrsquos it going today guysrsquordquo Adams replied ldquoNot bad sir and how about yourselfrdquo

Agnew answered ldquoMan they are really after my assrdquo He was talking about the press Adams says ldquoTwo weeks later he resignedrdquo

Adams recalls that his encounters with Agnew as defying the public perception

Adams far right gives instructions before a mission in Vietnam

Walla Walla LifestyLes 33

that Agnew was arrogant ldquoHe was always one of the nicest guys He was straightforward He looked like he had just stepped off the cover of Gentlemenrsquos Quarterly all the time He was very proper in the way he dressed but he had a sense of humor as wellrdquo

There were other humorous moments Adams recalls a certain reporter from CBS who had been a major thorn in President Nixonrsquos side was late for takeoff from the South Lawn of the White House one morning Just as Marine One was about to leave without him he came running across the lawn hollering and waving his arms The Secret Service agent supervising the flight told Adams to ldquojust gordquo The wind from the propellers whipped the reporterrsquos toupee right off his head and instead of continuing his run toward Marine One he reversed his field and tried feverishly to retrieve his toupee snagged in the hedges

ldquoEveryone got a pretty good chuckle out of thatrdquo

Of course there were somber times At one point Adams flew Cabinet members John Ehrlichman and Hr Haldeman to Camp David for a meeting with the president After only 15 minutes the two men returned and Marine One headed home Adams says it was a quiet flight He found out later the two men had been fired by President Nixon for their parts in the Watergate scandal

Whisking the president away from danger was a major part of being a pilot of Marine One Stationed across the river from the Capitol pilots awakened by an emergency alert had to be up in the air in five minutes This exercise was practiced often though never needed during Adamsrsquo tenure

One night however they thought it was The operator at the White House mistakenly hit the ldquoAlertrdquo button Marine One was in the air in five minutes

Although ground control had not spotted any enemy aircraft the operation was under way As Marine One closed in on the White House the operator at fault tried to alert everyone of his mistake but unfortunately used a poor choice of words to call off the operation

Adams chuckles as he says ldquoThe fella said lsquoThis is not an exercisersquo He was moved to another post i thinkrdquo

All levity aside the position required

the same kind of focus demanded of Adams in vietnam though it came in a different form

ldquoThere were three things the way you operated the aircraft and they were in this order safety comfort and speed Safety never gave in to comfort or speedrdquo says Adams ldquoOur job was just concentrating on doing our job it could have been anybody mdash we would do it the same way it could have been Fred Flintstone

ldquoThe difference between flying for the White House and in vietnam was we were flying a premier aircraft We had to keep it impeccably clean everything was scripted We had to have the lsquoopen-the-door timersquo down to two to four seconds in vietnam it was the stress of performing medevacs under fire or dropping troops under heavy artillery For Marine One it was the stress of doing the job rightrdquo

Also the stress of being away from onersquos family 200 days of the year wore on a Marine One pilot in 1974 after four years on the job the toll became too much and Adams stepped down

He would stay with the Marines for eight more years retiring in August 1982

By then he had received 44 Air Medals including the Joint Service Commendation and the Presidential Service Badge in his 20 years of service Adams flew seven different helicopters and five different fixed-wing planes

What makes an elite military pilot ldquoPilots who donrsquot have any misgivingsrdquo says Adams ldquoTheyrsquore totally prepared they know their aircraftrdquo

When talking about his colleagues on Marine One he adds ldquoNone were boasters They might brag about a great landing but they did not brag in spite of someone elserdquo

What did Adams love most about his flying days ldquoi enjoyed flying with the latest technology and the pristine quality of Marine One i loved the process of building my skills i could have flown another 40 years and i would still be learning thingsrdquo

is it any surprise his favorite hobby now is fly fishing

andrew hoLt writes about food people and all things Walla Walla for Walla Walla lifestyles magazine He can be reached at bruindrew86gmailcom

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it is astonishing in many ways mdash that we are presented with two weeks of top-drawer music performed by top-drawer musi-cians that there are so many ways to encounter the music (many of them free) and that a rural community has provided the incu-

bator for such a cultural undertaking to name but a fewGranted we are not your average rural community having two

colleges a university a symphony a choral society a community band and music in the schools but letrsquos face it wersquore not exactly a cosmopolitan center of culture like New york either The Cham-ber Music Festival mdash and our continued support of it through some tough times mdash puts us in a category all our own

ldquoi saw what was special about this community the first time i visited in 2007rdquo Artistic Director Timothy Christie says ldquoi have

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A young artistic composer pays close attention as Tim Christie uses his violin to interpret the boys piece of artwork into music on June 11 2009 Meanwhile other children work on their works of art in preparation for the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival quintets interpretations

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worked hard to start this event and to my great joy it has taken on an iden-tity of its own i hire the musicians and choose the music but the town its people and its environs make the festivalrdquo

The beauty of chamber music is its intimacy mdash smaller ensembles performing for smaller audiences it has been referred to as ldquothe music of friendsrdquo which seems so apt at this festival Free open rehearsals are held around town that provide not only a musical atmosphere in which to enjoy a latte or the ambiance of the kirkman House but which give a richer look into the machinations of a working ensemble

As one enthusiastic fan puts it ldquoi am not a musician and itrsquos fascinat-ing to watch these rehearsals to see the interactions of the musicians as they work out the snags make wry remarks and relate to each other in a whole different way than during a for-mal performance i get a glimpse into their personalities and what makes them tickrdquo

The festival supplies a generous of-fering of venues with free concerts for children and families relaxed evening programs at wineries and full concerts at the Foundry Chism Hall and Day-tonrsquos Liberty Theater

if you are lucky enough to live near the musiciansrsquo lodgings while they are in town you may also be treated to an ad hoc front-porch concert as the ensembles continue their rehearsals in more private settings The festival is about all of these ways mdash planned and accidental mdash to experience the enchantment of chamber music

it is also about historic continuity and the connection between past and present mdash relishing the existing canon while expanding the genre with con-temporary forms and voices

How is this accomplished in part by the annual commission of a new piece of music for the festival Chris-tie is committed to contributing to the broader chamber music repertoire and to providing the audience with the richest possible experience

Continued on pg 36 gt

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ldquoFor classical music to be relevant there must be a conversation between the music of our time and the music of the pastrdquo he says

By commissioning a work for the festi-val each year Christie creates such a con-versation

This year the commission was given to John David Earnest Four festival commis-sions have preceded his and he is the sec-ond ldquolocalrdquo composer to be tapped add-ing another layer of relationship between community and event (in 2009 Whitman College professor David Glenn was given the nod)

As visiting adjunct professor of music at Whitman Earnest resides here for six weeks every semester His ldquoSecond Sym-phonyrdquo was written for and performed by the Walla Walla Symphony in October 2001

The challenge for the yearly commis-sionee is to compose a piece on demand within specific constraints of time place and instrumentation while expressing hisher own voice as an artist

Earnest has created ldquoCommedia Gal-leryrdquo a set of three movements for flute

viola and harp based on stock characters from the Commedia dellrsquoArte a popu-lar theatrical form that was influential in Europe for over 300 years Commedia characters improvised dialogue around set scenarios generally involving the struggles of young lovers to overcome hindrances to their romance and each character even-tually came to have a consistent set of at-tributes in speech mannerisms and cos-tume

Earnestrsquos ldquoGalleryrdquo gives us Arlecchi-no (Harlequin) an acrobatic and devious jester Pierrot the classic sad clown and finally Scaramouche a dandy and a brag-gart who is a coward at heart

in anticipation of this yearrsquos festival i am reminded of the scene in ldquoThe Music Manrdquo in which the town awaits the ar-rival of the Wells Fargo Wagon Potentially heaped with gifts and surprises it prom-ises connection to the larger world The WWCMF brings us all ldquosomethinrsquo specialrdquo mdash an enrichment of our community and our culture

margaret Jamison is an artist and writer living in Walla Walla Contact her at artjamisongmailcom

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Smith has gardened for years at his home at 38 Mulberry Court in College Place He used to grow vegetables and flowers now he is strictly focusing on flowers mdash with fabulous results roses delphiniums and lots of irises line the fence

ldquoirises mdash irsquove always enjoyed themrdquo he says ldquoThey take a little bit of weeding and watering but not much morerdquo itrsquos the gardenerrsquos dream mdash low maintenance with a big return

A retired orthopedic surgeon Smith has in the past gardened more extensively than he does now But he has enough plants to keep him busy His new project is planting more of the reblooming iris These are still hardy but you get twice the reward they bloom in the spring then again in the fall

ldquoTheyrsquore easy to grow and spectacular for a short time iris take less care than a lot of thingsrdquo Smith says

His secret for gardening is simple and therersquos no getting around it ldquoTime and workrdquo he laughs

Hersquos getting ready to start in the garden ldquoi need to clean out the leaves and the old foliage of the irisrdquo

in addition to the basic cleaning and maintenance Smith just decides how many plants to keep Bulb flowers are hardy and they multiply on their own

ldquoAfter five years you usually have to separate the bulbs when they get too thick i donrsquot have room to add more i put in the new re-blooming onesrdquo he explains ldquoi may add more and a few other thingsrdquo

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itrsquos an odd location since it can only be seen as yoursquore leaving town but it always makes me smile This valley my adopted home is indeed a great place to be

i recently finished reading the great Western writer Wallace Stegnerrsquos book ldquoThe Sound of Mountain Waterrdquo One of his essays traces his nomadic childhood which left him feeling rootless and without a place that he felt he could call home

i identify with his feeling of not belonging i was born to a single woman from Massachusetts in a New york City hospital i stayed a scant few days before being placed with an adoption agency Born in a place i had no familial connection to i was immediately deprived of my biological family Most of my childhood was spent in suburban Cleveland Ohio Moves to upstate New york New England and Pennsylvania brought me no closer to calling any place home i loved living in the western Massachusetts town of Stockbridge but the multigenerational denizens of the town left few openings for newcomers like me i lived in central Pennsylvania for several decades but felt detached from the deep roots that most people had in the area

When we came west (for my husband a homecoming to his Oregon roots for me a new experience) i noticed that even in long-established towns like Walla Walla there is ample room for newcomers who want to be

part of the community And most folks who choose to come here donrsquot seem to want to change the valley they prefer to embrace it

While the occasional newbie whines about the lack of Whole Foods or Nordstrom they soon discover our farmers markets the wide variety of local shops and boutiques and our world-class restaurants They fall in love with our charming downtowns the small-town friendliness of the people and our kid-friendly environment Then therersquos the holiday parade the fair the ever-present Blue Mountains the parks the museums the wineries mdash really whatrsquos not to like The communities of our valley represent America at its best

irsquom a newspaper junkie i love to read everything from news to sports to classifieds mdash even the obituaries The obits are a fascinating window on our valley Many of the people chronicled were born here some lived all their lives here inextricably bound to this place But a number of people came here from other places often far away and have made a mark on our area Which makes me wonder mdash is a place any less of a hometown because you choose it or is it based primarily on the happenstance of your birth it seems that therersquos room for both paths to calling this wonderful valley home

itrsquos also our strength because collectively as a community we bring both deep familial and cultural traditions as well as the fresh perspective of newcomers to our area irsquom glad mdash after decades of searching mdash that i finally found my hometown a place that feels just right

diane reed can be reached at ladybookearthlinknet Between columns and when the spirit moves her she blogs at wwwponderingsbydianereedblogspotcom from her home overlooking the pond at lions Park in College Place

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Maymay 1The annual Kennel Club Dog Show Walla Walla County Fairgrounds De-tails 509-558-3854

The Walla Walla University Drama Department pres-ents a performance of ldquoMy Fair ladyrdquo 2 pm matinee Details 509-527-2656

The Walla Walla Choral Society presents ldquoJubilate Deordquo 3 pm May 1 Walla Walla University Church College Place Details 509-386-2445

The Walla Walla Valley Farmers Market opens local produce artisans and an outdoor concert 9 am-1 pm Saturdays and Sundays through Oct 30 Crawford Park Fourth ave and Main St Details gowallawallafarmersmar-ketcom or 509-520-3647

through may 22Enjoy the annual Senior art Thesis Exhibition Sheehan Gallery Whitman College Details 509-527-5249

through JuLy 31The Tamaacutestslikt Cultural In-stitute hosts the traveling OMSI exhibit ldquoamazing Feats of agingrdquo explor-ing the mysteries of why animals and humans age Details 541-966-9748

may 4The YWCa leadership luncheon ldquoMatters that Matterrdquo is informational and inspirational with guest speakers Kristine Van Raden and Molly Da-vis Noon Marcus Whit-man Hotel Details 509-525-2570

Walla Walla Wine Works hosts music on Wednes-days downtown Details 509-522-1261

may 5First Thursday Concert at St Pauls Episcopal Church 323 Catherine Street Walla Walla 1215-1250 pm will feature the Steel Drum Band from Walla Walla Uni-versity directed by Brandon Beck Details 529-1083

The Whitman College Visit-ing Writers Reading series presents Whitman Reading 7 pm Kimball Theatre De-tails whitmanedu

may 5-7 12-14Walla Walla High School Drama Department pres-ents ldquoFiddler on the Roofrdquo musical version 7 pm and 2 pm matinee on Saturdays May 7 and 14 Walla Walla High School Performing arts audito-rium Details Tickets can be reserved by calling 509-526-8613 the Wa-Hi box office

may 5-8 19-21a performance of ldquoThe 25th a nnua l Putnam County Spelling Beerdquo 8 pm Harper Joy Theatre Whitman College Details 509-527-5180

may 6-7Music on the weekends at the Backstage Bistro De-tails 509-526-0690

Sapolil Cellars hosts music on Friday and Saturday De-tails 509-520-5258

The Wildfire hosts music every Friday and Saturday Wildhorse Resort amp Casino Pendleton Details 800-654-9453

may 6-8Walla Walla Valley Winer-ies offer an opportunity to taste their new creations during Spring Release Weekend area wineries introduce new wines and winemakers share their creative inspiration Details 509-526-3117

may 6artWalK First Fridays May through December Visit galleries and chat with art-ists 5-8 pm Downtown Walla Walla Visit artwalk-wallawallacom

may 6-8 13-14The little Theatre presents ldquoalice In Wonderlandrdquo adapted from lewis Carroll 8 pm Friday-Saturday 2 pm Sunday little Theatre of Walla Walla Details 509-529-3683

may 7The annual Junior Horse Show brings great riding action to Milton-Freewater Pioneer Posse Grounds Details 541-938-3379

Daytonrsquos annual Street Sale turns a section of Third Street into a giant yard sale benefits churches and com-munity projects Dayton Details 509-382-4825

artist reception and dem-onstration Washington art-ist Dwight Duke exhibits his painting bronze sculptures and gunpowder light pan-els 6-730 pm Reininger Winery Details 509-522-1994

may 8Every Sunday the living History actors portray in-dividuals from the arearsquos past 2 pm Fort Walla Walla Museum Details 509-525-7703

may 13-15The annual Balloon Stam-pede brings as many as 50 hot-air balloons to the Walla Walla County Fairgrounds This colorful festival re-mains a Valley tradition Ear-ly morning flights (weather permitting) arts amp crafts antique autos commercial booths live entertainment and food Balloons light up to music at the Saturday evening Nite Glow Details 509-525-0850

may 14annual adult event cele-brates the characters who populated Pendletonrsquos past Must have reservations Pendleton Underground Tours Details 800-226-6398

may 14-15 may 27-29Walla Walla Drag Strip con-tinues the weekend fun Details wwdragstripcom or 509-200-6287

may 15Walla Walla University Chamber Series featuring Robyn McCabe 730 pm MKW Fine arts auditorium Details 509-527-2571

may 18To celebrate the opening of Walla Wallarsquos Power House Theatre and a four-day run of Seattle Shakespeare Companyrsquos ldquoThe Merry Wives of WindsorrdquoWalla Walla lifestyles will pres-ent a gala event This exclusive evening will en-chant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fash-ion from 530-9 pm at the Power House Theatre Sixth amp Rose Walla Walla To purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewalla-wallacom

may 19-21During Pendletonrsquos Cattle Baron Weekend enjoy an art exhibit by a talented group of women artists ldquoIn the Company of Cowgirlsrdquo Hamleyrsquos Steakhouse Pendleton Visit inthecom-panyofcowgirlscom or call 541-676-5013

may 19-22Whitman College 50th Reunion class of 1961 Whitman College Details 509-527-5952

Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merr y Wives of Windsorrdquo Pow-erhouse Theater Details 509-742-0739

may 21The annual Ducky Derby is a day of family fun all for a good cause Watch the ducks race down Mill Creek to help fund the Exchange Clubrsquos efforts at preventing child abuse and neglect 1130 am-330 pm Race at about 2 pm Walla Walla Community College De-tails 509-527-4300

Walla Walla University Spring Choral Concert 5 pm Walla Walla Univer-sity Church Details 509-527-2571

learn to contra dance an old-fashioned coun-try dance Music by the Wednesday Night Band 7 pm teaching and practice 730 pm regular dance Unity Church of Peace 810

C St Walla Walla Details 541-938-7403

may 22The Whitman College graduating class of 2011 accepts the challenge 11 am Memorial lawn Whitman College Details 509-527-5156

may 26 27 28 29Walla Walla Community College Theatre arts De-partment presents ldquoZoot Suitrdquo by luis Valdez 7 pm each night and Sunday 2 pm matinee W WCC Performing arts Center Details 509-527-4575

may 27-30 Dayton Days has been a Memorial Weekend tradi-tion in Dayton for nearly 100 years Highlights include a Saturday-morning parade on historic Main Street rodeo tour of Dayton and Memorial Day Fun Run De-tails 509-382-4825 or visit historicdaytoncom

may 28-30The Touchet River Roundup mdash the annual Celebration of Sobriety at the fairgrounds focuses on family fun ac-tivities Waitsburg Details 509-526-3602

may 29annual Onion Man Tria-thalon 9 am Bennington lake Details wwmulti-sportscom or call 509-529-9187

may 30Waitsburgrsquos annual Memo-rial Day celebration hosted by veterans for all veterans Details 509-337-6546

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The sculpture tops the farmers market gazebo on the corner of Fourth Avenue North and West Main Street

Contestensprulesif you have the answer e-mail it to rickdoylewwubcom or send it to Where in Walla Walla 112 S 1st Ave PO Box 1358 Walla Walla WA 99362 The names of 10 people with correct answers will be randomly selected and they will receive this great-looking mug as proof of their local knowledge and good taste

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3 Bergevin Lane vineyards 1215 W Poplar St (509) 526-4300 bergevinlanecom

4 Bunchgrass winery151 Bunchgrass lane (509) 540-8963 wwwbunchgrasswinerycom

5 canoe ridge vineyard1102 W Cherry St (509) 527-0885 wwwcanoeridgevineyardcom

6 castillo de feliciana85728 Telephone Pole Road Milton-Freewater OR (541) 558-3656 wwwcastillodefelicianacom

7 don carlo vineyardBy appointment Only (509) 540-5784 wwwdoncarlovineyardcom

8 dunham cellars150 E Boeing ave (509) 529-4685 wwwdunhamcellarscom

9 five star cellars 840 C St (509) 527-8400 wwwfivestarcellarscom

10 forgeron cellars 33 W Birch St (509) 522-9463 wwwforgeroncellarscom

21 sapolil cellars15 E Main St (509) 520-5258 wwwsapolilcellarscom

22 seven hills winery 212 N Third ave (509) 529-7198 wwwsevenhillswinerycom

23 sinclair estate vineyards 109 E Main Ste 100 (509) 876-4300 wwwsinclairestatevineyardscom

24 spring valley vineyard 18 N Second ave (509) 525-1506 wwwspringvalleyvineyardcom

25 suLei cellars355 S Second ave (503) 529-0840 www suleicellarscom

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12 fort walla walla cellars 127 E Main St (509) 520-1095 wwwfortwallawallacellarscom

13 glencorrie8052 Old Highway 12 (509) 525-2585 wwwglencorriecom

14 grantwood winery 2428 W Highway 12 (509) 301-0719 (509) 301-9546

15 Lrsquoecole no 41 winery41 lowden School Road and US Hwy 12 (509) 525-0940 wwwlecolecom

16 Long shadows1604 Frenchtown Road (Formerly Ireland Road) (509) 526-0905 wwwlongshadowscom By invitation only Requests accepted on a limited basis Please call to inquire

17 Lowden hills winery1401 W Pine St (509) 527-1040 wwwlowdenhillswinerycom

18 northstar winery 1736 JB George Road (509) 524-4883 wwwnorthstarmerlotcom

19 pepper Bridge winery1704 JB George Road (509) 525-6502 wwwpepperbridgecom

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26 syZygy 405 E Boeing ave (509) 522-0484 wwwsyzygywinescom

27 three rivers winery5641 Old Highway 12 (509) 526-9463 infoThreeRiversWinerycom

28 tertulia cellars1564 Whiteley Road (509) 525-5700 wwwtertuliacellarscom

29 trust cellars 1050 Merlot Drive (509) 529-4511 wwwtrustcellarscom

30 va piano vineyards1793 JB George Road (509) 529-0900 wwwvapianovineyardscom

31 walla walla vintnersVineyard lane off Mill Creek Road (509) 525-4724 wwwwallawallavintnerscom

32 walla walla wineworks31 E Main St (509) 522-1261 wwwwallawallawineworkscom

33 whitman cellars1015 W Pine St (509) 529-1142 wwwwhitmancellarscom

34 woodward canyon winery11920 W Hwy 12 lowden (509) 525-4129 wwwwoodwardcanyoncom

35 JLc winery425 B St (509) 301-5148

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A Dv E r T i S i N G Di r E C TO r

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M A N AG i N G E Di TO r

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P rO D U C T iO N M A N AG E r

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D E S iG N E r

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C O N T r i B U T i N G W r i T E r S

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P H O TO G r A P H E r S

Darren Ellis Andrew Holt Margaret Jamison Colby kuschatka

P rO D U C T iO N S TA F F

ralph Hendrix Chris Lee Steve Lenz Sherry Burrows

S A L E S S TA F F

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C O P y E Di TO r

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FA S H iO N B E AU T y E Di TO r

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E Di TO r i A L A S S i S TA N T

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Cover Photo by Colby kuschatka

F O r E Di TO r i A L i N F O r M AT iO N

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May 2011

Editorrsquos CommEntsensp enspby RickenspDoyle

Union-Bulletincom

P L E A S E L i k E U S

P L E A S E F O L L OW U S

Play is important in Walla Walla the play will truly be the thing when Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo at the newly restored Power House Theatre this month Lifestyles is teaming up with SWW for an inaugural event that will offer guests food fashion and merriment in the Elizabethan manner May 18 Check out our cover spread for a preview of the event

Winston Churchill may have described golf best when he said it ldquois a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purposerdquo

So if you are going to pursue the sport it makes sense to get the best coaching possible Al Mundle who spent 57 years helping others improve their games thought he had put tinkering with other peoplersquos grip stance and swing away for good But that was before Terri Hanson convinced him to offer some pointers to her son Jake who was heading into his final year on the links for the Walla Walla High School Blue Devils

Jim Buchan shows you how this relationship has worked

Work to a lot of people can be repetitious drudgery Larry Adams never had that problem Whether he was flying into enemy fire in vietnam or piloting a helicopter for the president each day challenged his skills and preparation Adams recounts some of those adventures for Lifestyles

Skill and preparation are necessary ingredients for cooking Gina Medica tells how she learned to make culinary creations from Cuba Her specialty is a flan dessert

Dr Donald Smithrsquos specialty is creating an eye-catching garden of colorful flowers The iris is a primary element of his palette Check out his creations in Secret Gardens

Columnist Catie Mcintyre Walker explains how the original palette for the LrsquoEcole No 41 wine labels came from a childrsquos watercolor As the winery has matured it has decided it was time to update the labels

These are only some of the delights awaiting you in the following pages Enjoy

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 11

Born in Miami and then raised in Central Los Angeles by her Cuban-born parents Medica learned her craft by observing her mother work in the kitchen Of all Medicarsquos culinary creations it is her Cuban flan dessert that receives the most requests

ldquoEveryone in the family would always request it especially my nieces and nephewrdquo Medica says sitting at her dining room table the freshly presented flan resting in front of her ldquoMy bro can easily eat half of itrdquo

And the flan does not remain uneaten for long as i sit down with the Walla Walla businesswoman and her daughter Elizabeth to discuss and taste this delicacy Minutes after we begin our conversation nephew Nick arrives and quickly wolfs down two servings

irsquove already finished my first and am working on my second when we begin our conversation

LifEStyLES With both of your parents being Havana natives did you eat Cuban food exclusively

MEDiCa No but in the early days Thanksgiving was pretty different My mom would fix the turkey but shersquod serve it with black beans and white rice Wersquod be ldquoAh mom canrsquot we have regular Thanksgiving food like mashed potatoes and yamsrdquo Those came later as we lived in the States longer

LifEStyLES So the food changed as you kids grew older

MEDiCa Well my mom was always pretty good at American food but sometimes it wasnrsquot all the way like she made American spaghetti but she put chicken in it it was good but my brother would always complain that it didnrsquot have meatballs Now he misses the chicken

LifEStyLES How many kids do you have in the family

MEDiCa i have an older brother and a younger sister irsquom the middle one We didnrsquot have a normal childhood in the sense that my mom was a hairstylist at home and on Saturday mornings customers would start arriving at 8 And she had one of those big old hair dryers

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that you put over someonersquos head mdash we called it ldquoFidel Castrordquo mdash and yoursquod have these customers yelling at the top of their voice while they were under it So i never got to sleep in

LifEStyLES it sounds like your mother was quite a lady

MEDiCa i recently found some of her original recipes you know in her own handwriting One of them is for croquetta which was really good you take chicken with corned beef and grind them up bread it and then fry it itrsquos really goodrdquo

LifEStyLES Why do you like the flan so much

MEDiCa Because everyone in the family always requested it i make it a little different The way i make it it is a little more creamy because i use cream cheese itrsquos more like a custard Many times in Mexican restaurants the flan will be more jello-y This is almost like cheesecake

LifEStyLES is it strictly for dessert

MEDiCa yes itrsquos for special occasions

LifEStyLES Like birthdays and parties

MEDiCa yes itrsquos not light you canrsquot have too much or your stomach will start to ache

LifEStyLES Does it take a long time to prepare

MEDiCa Not really Making the caramel sauce takes the most time and you canrsquot take your eyes off it or it might burn

LifEStyLES Tastes like it didnrsquot burn

MEDiCa No i had lots of help My daughter Elizabeth (and she glances over at her youngest child) helped me a lot

andrew hoLt writes about food people and all things Walla Walla for Walla Walla lifestyles magazine He can be reached at bruindrew86gmailcom

Cubanenspflaningredientsenspforenspflan

1 can evaporated milk1 can sweetened condensed milk1 cup whole or two percent milk6 eggs1 to 2 teaspoons vanilla extract14 teaspoon salt4 ounces cream cheese

ingredientsenspforenspcaramelenspsauce

1 to 1frac12 cup sugar

toenspmakeensptheenspcaramelenspsauce

Place the sugar in a saucepan on medium heat and stir until granules of sugar have liquified and the mixture takes on a caramel color

Pour the mixture into a mold coating the sides This must be done quickly because the mixture will harden also use oven mittens so you donrsquot burn your hands

Put aside

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Preheat oven to 350 degreesIn a blender mix the sweetened condensed

milk frac12 can of evaporated milk and the milk eggs cream cheese salt and vanilla and blend on low

Pour out half the mixture into a bowl and pour in the remaining evaporated milk and blend

Pour contents of blender and bowl into mold and stir Cover with aluminum foil Crimp the edges of the foil around the mold to keep moisture out

Put the mold in a big cake pan and pour enough water around the mold for it to come part-way up the sides of the mold (we call that ldquobantildeo Mariacuteardquo) and bake for one hour plus 15 to 20 minutes

Use a knife to test done-ness mdash the knife should come out clean

When the flan is done baking let it rest and cool then place it in the refrigerator for 24 hours

The next day dip the mold in warm water before flipping the flan into a serving dish

Makes 12 servings

R EC IP E

food ltcontinued from pg 11

Walla Walla LifestyLes 13

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The old Frenchtown schoolhouse built in 1915 with the stately bell tower still stands it has been a historic fixture in the Walla Walla valley that many of us have grown up with even if we never attended classes there One can still stride up the long sidewalk to the large heavy carved doors with a feeling of reverence and trepidation mdash as if it were the first day of school mdash while imagining generations of children playing on the manicured grounds

in the 1970s the old schoolhouse classrooms found themselves empty of childrenrsquos laughter But in 1983 Jean and Baker Ferguson breathed new life into the old building founding what would become one of the premier wineries in Washington LrsquoEcole No 41

The name was historically im-portant in two ways ldquoLrsquoEcolerdquo French for ldquothe schoolrdquo recognized the French men and women who settled the area and ldquo41rdquo was the numerical designation of the school district

The Fergusonsrsquo first crush of 1983 was resting in the barrel when the following year they asked their elementary school-aged family members to draw an image that would best reflect the new project

The $100 prize went to an 8-year-old cousin whose watercolor interpretation of the old schoolhouse became the template for a wine label it became an iconic label known to wine lovers around the world

in 1989 the second generation of the family Jean and Bakerrsquos daughter and son-

in-law Megan and Martin (Marty) Clubb became the new proprietors of the winery Marty became the general manager and winemaker and would lead the small artisan winery to new heights mdash it would eventually produce more than 30000 cases annually

At the same time the Washington state wine industry was booming and would soon become the nationrsquos second-largest wine producer The area would become one of the premium wine-producing regions in the United States

Marty also became a pioneer in the

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Washington state wine industry as he became a founder and activist in many of the wine industryrsquos foundations and alliances The family-owned winery also partnered with some of the most prestigious vineyards in the state LrsquoEcole No 41 has been honored nine consecutive years by Wine amp Spirits magazine as ldquoWinery of the yearrdquo becoming the second Washington winery inducted into the Hall of Fame

There is a third-generation that has grown up around the winery and will eventually become caretakers of this legacy Meganrsquos and Martyrsquos children Jeanrsquos and Bakerrsquos grandchildren rebecca and riley Clubb had their own meaningful influence on the label with their childhood drawings on the labelrsquos chalkboard image

riley is a 2009 graduate of Whitman College and is employed at the winery rebecca is enrolled in Washington State Universityrsquos wine management program and expected to graduate in 2012

The winery will soon celebrate its 30th birthday The wines produced at the old schoolhouse are refined with true varietal character and can stand up against many coveted wines from France mdash and they have Now that LrsquoEcole is a top player in the world of wine the whimsical label on its bottles is no longer truly indicative of the sophisticated gold and dark-red liquids behind the glass

ldquoLooking to the future we wanted our label to reflect the winery we have becomerdquo says Marty Clubb

This year the winery will unveil a new label it will still depict the iconic schoolhouse but with deeper colors and a new texture There will be a distinct difference among the labels depending on the vineyards used Wines produced from Columbia valley vineyards will have a soft charcoal-colored background label and the labels for the wines produced from Walla Walla vineyards will be more sepia-toned

Another distinctive change will be the de-emphasizing of the ldquoNo 41rdquo as generations of wine lovers have often referred to the winery as ldquoLrsquoEcolerdquo

The new label will be a timeless reminder of the past as well as a welcome to future generations

catie mcintyre waLker blogs at wildwallawallawinewomanblogspotcom and be reached at wildwallawallawinewomancom

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it was 1954 the year he graduated from the University of Oregon and two female students from the university were interested in learning some of the finer points of the game

ldquoit was probably the worst lesson anybody has ever givenrdquo Mundle exclaimed shaking his head in dismay ldquoThese two young ladies were looking for some help and i worked with them for an hour-and-a-half And at the end of that time i said lsquoi have done such a poor job i will pay you for the time i have put you through this torturersquordquo

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 17

Painful as it was the lesson learned proved to be a career-launching moment for Mundle who dedicated himself to his trade and spent a lifetime in the golf business successfully working up and down the i-5 corridor as course operator teacher and player

Fifty-seven years after that first teaching debacle Mundle now 79 years old is retired and living in Walla Walla He and his wife Ann relocated here last summer determined to give up teaching golf and spend more time playing the game they both love

ldquoAfter all of these years of teaching i feel that this is the time to lay it asiderdquo Mundle said ldquoi will still do a little studying of the golf swing and methods and i will be involved with some of the other local professionals in some cracker-barrel sessions when they get together to discuss teaching methods problems and how to solve them

ldquoBut i really came here not to teach but to play some golfrdquo

That was the plan anyway before he was introduced to Walla Walla High School senior Jake Hanson who was looking for a little extra help with his game heading into his final year on the links as a Blue Devil

Terri Hanson Jakersquos mother was aware of Mundlersquos reputation as a teaching professional and heard through the grapevine he was living in Walla Walla

ldquoBeing the mom i am i called him one dayrdquo Terri remembered ldquoi told him that Jakersquos golf game was at a standstill i asked him to take a look at Jake and he agreed to come and meet us and get a feel for where Jake was at

ldquoHe did and before you knew it they were putting on our hardwood floors The next day they agreed to get together at Wine valley mdash they were there for four hours and it has been an amazing connection right from the beginning

ldquoAl is an amazing Christian man who is so well-respected in his fieldrdquo Terri added ldquoAnd he just demands respect irsquom seeing my son of 17 all of a sudden growing uprdquo

Mundle concedes he is intrigued by Hansonrsquos character and potential And

Under the watchful eye of Al Mundle Jake Hanson hits an iron shot

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Hanson holds his new mentor in high esteem

ldquoirsquove learned a tremendous amountrdquo Hanson said ldquoHe has a way of getting through to me in a positive way He got through to me that i am so much better than i thought i could be He has more confidence in me than i have in myself

ldquoHe has one of the best golf swings i have ever seen and he is still working on his own gamerdquo

Mundle said Hanson reminds him of former University of Oregon player Ben Crane who now plays on the PGA Tour Crane has been playing professionally since 2007 and earned nearly $3 million on the tour in 2010

ldquoi was Benrsquos swing coach at Oregon and Jake is somewhat similarrdquo Mundle said ldquoBen worked harder than anybody on the whole golf team He would put in as much

time as three or four others combined and Jake is very much the same way Hersquos very dedicatedrdquo

However Mundle insists that helping Hanson with his game is a one-time situation

After playing just six rounds of golf last year Mundle is determined that he and Ann will spend a lot more time on the golf course as they get acquainted with their new hometown

ldquoThatrsquos an all-time lowrdquo he said of the six rounds played in 2010 ldquoMostly it was the move and all mdash a new house putting in lawn fencing shelving in the garage mdash all the little things of getting settled

ldquoBut this was a good move for us We love it here We enjoy the weather and the people you can walk down the street and people look you in the eye and say lsquoHellorsquo i love that friendlinessrdquo

Mundle grew up in Eugene and graduated from University High School in 1950 He knew he said from the time he was in the seventh grade he wanted to make golf his lifersquos work

ldquoyou might say that i had a little parental directionrdquo Mundle said ldquoMy dad went to the University of St Andrews in Scotland and he played golf at the St Andrews Old Course And my mother also played golfrdquo

After high school Mundle enrolled at the University of Oregon and played three years of varsity golf during an era when there was no such thing as a golf scholarship

ldquoThe only thing we ever received was a half-a-dozen golf balls if we went into a tournamentrdquo Mundle recalled ldquoWhen i went to the NCAA Championships in Texas my senior year i was given a new

people ltcontinued from pg 17

Walla Walla LifestyLes 19

pair of golf shoes but that was itldquoWe bought all of our own gear mdash

clubs bags rain gear everything itrsquos a whole different ball game today They have everythingrdquo

At the end of his sophomore year at Oregon Mundle had it in his mind to ldquotest my golf on the PGA Tourrdquo he said But his father an English professor at the university discouraged him

ldquoHe said lsquoGet your education first then you can do whatever you wantrsquordquo Mundle said ldquoit was just as well i saved a lot of wear and tear mdash and money i was an Ok player but not of that caliberrdquo

Mundle still has fond memories of his collegiate playing career however

ldquoi played three years for the university mdash you werenrsquot allowed to play as freshmen mdash and Oregon always had fine golf teamsrdquo Mundle said ldquoit was mostly match

play then and i was there during the time that the school went seven straight years without losing a (team) dual matchrdquo

During his senior year Mundle qualified for the NCAA Championships in Houston From a field of about 160 players Mundle made it as far as the quarterfinal round

He graduated in 1954 with a degree in history which he said he never really used

ldquoMy dad was in the top one percent of his class at St Andrewsrdquo Mundle said ldquoMy mother was also in the top part of her class and my older brother Pete was in the top of his class And then i came alongrdquo

His first golf job was as an assistant pro at his home course the Laurelwood Golf Course a position he accepted shortly after graduating from UO This was when and where the infamous first golf lesson

occurredA two-year stint in the US Army took

Mundle away from his profession in 1955-56 But he managed to keep his golf game sharp as a member of the Fort knox golf team and in 1956 he was the runner-up in the Second Army tournament and he placed 13th in the All-Army tournament

Then it was back to the Willamette valley where he came into his own in the Portland area under head professionals Eddie Hogan at riverside Country Club and Bunny Mason at Columbia Edgewater

ldquoThose two people were very influential in my professional liferdquo Mundle said

ldquoEddie was a very fine teacher of the total golf operation and service was No 1 i learned how to run the pro shop how

Jake Hanson takes a few pointers on chipping from his instructor and mentor Al Mundle

Continued on pg 20 gt

20 Walla Walla LifestyLes

people ltcontinued from pg 19

to market and merchandise mdash everything from how to run the club service program to the electric cart program to basically running the golf course

ldquoBunny was also a very fine operator of a golf shop and i also learned a lot about teaching from Bunny Sometimes you go along in life and there are certain mentors who help you along the way Anybody who says they made it by themselves is not being honest with themselves We have all had someone who has given us a little boost along the wayrdquo

Mundle took his first head professional job in 1965 at Overlake Golf and Country Club in Bellevue where he remained until 1981 At that point he returned to Eugene and was the head pro at the Eugene Country Club for three years followed by a six-year stint at the Bear Creek Country Club in Seattle

He also spent a short time at a golf course in Cottage Grove Ore before moving back to Eugene for a third time in 1993 to become the director of golf instruction at the river ridge Golf Course He remained at river ridge until his retirement last summer During his time there he helped out as the swing coach at UO under then-head coach Steve Nosler

Through it all Mundle served as president of the Washington PGA and the Pacific Northwest PGA and was a member of several National PGA committees As a player he participated in the Oregon Washington and Pacific Northwest opens as well as the Washington and Oregon PGA events One of his highlights was winning the Oregon Senior PGA Match-Play Championships in Bend in 1993

ldquoi felt i had an obligation to participaterdquo Mundle said ldquoi played a lot of golf including many many pro-ams and i won a couple of assistant championshipsrdquo

in addition to Crane Mundle also helped shape the careers of Jeff Quinney and Eric Johnson both of whom are from the Eugene area

Quinney won the United States Amateur championship in 2000 and represented the US in the Walker Cup in 2001 He has appeared in 128 PGA Tour events since 2007 placing second twice and third twice

Johnson played several years on the Asian Tour and one on the Nationwide Tour He is now a head professional at a

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course in San rafael CalifldquoAnd there have been some others mdash

Brian Henninger Mike Gove a few others mdash who have called and wanted to discus their swingrdquo Mundle said ldquoNothing on a regular basis just one or two sessionsrdquo

is Hanson his next mdash and perhaps his last mdash prodigy

Thatrsquos a tricky question since Hanson came to golf late after a budding baseball career was derailed by a shoulder injury He was a first-team all-Big Nine Conference golf selection as a junior but has yet to qualify for state and his summer resume is thin because of his baseball background

Hansonrsquos original plan was to attend Walla Walla Community College and play golf for the Warriors with the hope of earning an NCAA Division i scholarship But he has since decided to enroll in Arizona State Universityrsquos Professional Golf Management program and try out for the ASU golf team as a walk on

ldquoMore than anything i think it came down to him evaluating his goalsrdquo said Jakersquos father Gary Hanson ldquoitrsquos everyonersquos dream to play on the PGA Tour but realistically he wants to be a golf pro and teach He loves

the gamerdquoAnd a degree in the PGM program

will provide Jake with the educational background he needs to be successful in any form of business his father added

Though his chances of making the ASU varsity team seem unlikely the PGM program provides a club golf team that participates in a series of tournaments throughout the year and gives Hanson a second playing option

And keeping your options open is optimum at this point Mundle said

ldquoi think his driving force at this time mdash and also his folks mdash is to get his education And then he can do whatever he wants if he doesnrsquot go into (the golfing business) immediately he will always have it as a backuprdquo

Sounds an awful lot like the advice Thomas Mundle offered his son back in the spring of 1952 when Al Mundle wanted to leave school after his sophomore year and test his wings on the PGA Tour And as we now know all these years later staying in school worked out pretty well for Al

Jim Buchan is a sports writer for the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin He can be reached at jimbuchanwwubcom

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Join us for a night of wonder with elizabethan-inspired food fashion and merriment to celebrate the opening of walla wallarsquos power house theatre and prepare for a four-day run of seattle shakespeare companyrsquos ldquothe merry wives of windsorrdquo

walla walla lifestyles will present a fashion show with wicked and wistful gowns twisted braided hair and smoldering makeup designs designers include red eden designs autumnlin design and others

semi-formal attire creative masks encouraged this exclusive evening will enchant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fashion

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My director Terry Edward Moore told me his only direction from the artistic director was that it be ldquoperiodrdquo that is to say authentic to the time

ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo is the only one of Shakespearersquos plays that is set in his own time so it was decided to present it as if the actors were people of the time doing what would be a contemporary (to the late 16th century) play

i started to research the clothing of the time how it was constructed and what kinds of fabrics were available at the time mdash linens homespuns woolens for the common people and silks damasks velvets and furs for the upper classes i discovered that Elizabethan society was strictly regulated in terms of social classes and upward mobility was a little-known concept Once a yeoman always a yeoman i also discovered the set of rules and regulations called ldquosumptuary lawsrdquo which specifically dictated what types of fabrics trims furs and even what colors each class was allowed to wear

Since there are three distinct classes represented in ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo mdash merchant class soldiers and servants mdash i tried to give each class its own color palette based on these laws The overall palette of the show is based on colors actually in use at the time

The availability of dyes was limited (except for the nobility) so the palette consists of many shades of yellows and browns russets black some greens and blue-grays and of course wheat-colored unbleached linen i turned to the Dutch painter Brueghel for inspiration on how the common people looked and dressed

i also researched what kinds of dyes were used and where they came from Dyes were created from all sorts of different things such as walnut shell crushed beetles and all kinds of roots i found a website that sells these authentic dyestuffs so irsquom using the real thing to dye some of the linen pieces and will coordinate the contemporary fabrics to these authentic colors

Nearly every piece will need something done to it mdash altered in some way to fit the actor re-trimmed rigged invisibly for quick changes etc mdash so there is a lot of labor involved Also hats were a hugely important part of Elizabethan fashion all the way down to the poorest serf

Certain styles of hats were often associated with certain professions mdash eg doctors scholars mdash so there are a number of hats to build as well as headpieces for the women No self-respecting woman went about with her head uncovered

Putting together a show like this is like putting together a giant jigsaw puzzle and the pieces are the costumes that irsquove borrowed and rented from other theater companies in the Seattle area such as Seattle repertory Seattle Opera and the University of Washington as well as pieces from Oregon Shakespeare Festival i design the show and then go out into the world and try to find pieces that approximate my designs and palette as closely as possible (usually with some reworking first) The pieces that i cant find and dont want to compromise on i build from scratch

deane middLeton is a theatre costume professional who works in the Seattle area She has done costumes for Issaquahrsquos Village Theater as well as several productions of the Seattle Shakespeare Company

ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo

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ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo was the only one of Shakespearersquos works set in his own time the 1600s and features Sir John Falstaff It also deals primarily with english middle-class life A hilarious bawdy comedy filled with insight into the life and times of Shakespeare ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo will delight people of all ages

About the play

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But thatrsquos exactly what longtime Walla Walla resident Larry Adams did for four years He was one of a select group of pilots for Marine One the helicopter counterpart of the presidential airplane Air Force One from 1970 to 1974

30 Walla Walla LifestyLes

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 31

Long before Adams became the Walla Walla Airport manager he was transporting heads of state foreign dignitaries famous (and now infamous) Cabinet members the executive staff and President richard M Nixon during one of the nationrsquos most turbulent times the withdrawal from vietnam and the Watergate scandal

But to Adams a native of Northern idaho all that swirled around the Nixon presidency was the least of his concerns His job was to transport the president safely to Andrews Air Force Base or Camp David or fly any short flight required Safety always at a premium End of story

Many times Adams ferried President Nixon and his staff on short flights far away from home Air Force One might fly President Nixon to a summit or a meeting with a foreign head of state but Marine One and Adams were always nearby to shuttle the chief executive on short flights or to whisk him away from sudden danger

Pretty heady stuff for a fourth-grade teacher who had never thought about flying until a Marine recruiter offered him the opportunity Although Adams had watched planes take off and land at a nearby air base as a child he had never given serious thought to flying it was more a need for a bigger paycheck than passion that brought Adams to his destiny

He liked teaching but it just wasnrsquot paying the bills So Adams turned to the military and the Gi Bill After being unimpressed by other recruiters Adams took a liking to the fellow from the Marines for as Adams recalls the recruiter took an interest in him After about an hour of talking the recruiter suggested Adams might have the potential to be a pilot

Having easily passed some preliminary tests Adams was sent to flight school in Pensacola Fla and a stellar career was ready to take off He performed well in all the aircraft he piloted but he showed a special skill for helicopters

Up until 1965 fixed-wing airplanes were the staple of all military air combat But the military had been gearing up for a big change The helicopter was to become a major part of combat The Pentagon had been developing helicopters that would do much more than transport troops to bases Now they would assist in bombing

raids ground attacks and the evacuation of the injured from the point of combat This new breed of helicopters would also possess the ability to fight back and not be lame ducks as before the new H34 would tote machine guns on each side

These cutting-edge aircraft would travel at unprecedented speeds with newly discovered agility Gifted pilots were needed not those who merely possessed superior technical skills but those who also had the composure to fly straight into

enemy fire in the dead of night picking up injured soldiers or aiding air attacks

Adams was one of those pilots and he would be one of two squadron leaders for ldquoOperation Starliterdquo mdash the first major assault using helicopters The Marines were going straight into a North vietnamese regimental stronghold No one knew what to expect

ldquoWe lost a lot that first time inrdquo says Adams ldquoTwo crew chiefs were killed

Continued on pg 32 gt

In this newspaper clipping Larry Adams poses on the steps of the helicopter dubbed Marine One which he piloted for President Richard M Nixon

32 Walla Walla LifestyLes

people ltcontinued from pg 31

four pilots were medevaced out because of their wounds i donrsquot think there was one helicopter that didnrsquot have a bunch of holes in it The one i flew in we got a lot of rounds in it Amazingly no one was hurt but when we got back the helicopter was so shot-up you couldnrsquot fly it anymore We lost 50 percent of our helicopters that dayrdquo

in the next 13 months Adams would fly many more missions often heading straight into anti-aircraft fire to pick up injured or killed soldiers He says he would see the flares signifying where the copter was supposed to land but frequently hersquod have to veer off because ground communication would say ldquoThe artillery is too hotrdquo Then there would be a window maybe two minutes maybe five when the helicopter could drop in and pick up the injured often being shot at as it waited for its passengers

Adams knew the best way to survive was to keep his focus ldquoin the daylight when you start your run in and yoursquore getting shot at Everything went to black and white for me i didnrsquot notice the green trees or the green rice paddies until we got out of there and then it would come back

to me i donrsquot know what that was i just didnrsquot see the colors irsquove talked to some other pilots and they described the same thingrdquo

in his two tours of duty in vietnam Adams would fly 880 combat missions in several types of helicopters and fixed-wing airplanes He received numerous medals including two Navy commendations for performance under combat conditions

Then the call came to fly for the president Before Adams could tote the commander in chief around in Marine One a thorough background check had to be done So thorough was the check that Adams said a friend from his hometown sent him a card that read ldquoAre you in some kind of trouble Jesus therersquos been a bunch of people around here with the dark grey suits and the skinny little ties Theyrsquore asking all these embarrassing questions about you like did you have drinking problem Did you have a gambling problem Do you know what Larryrsquos sexual preference wasrdquo

Adams chuckles ldquoit was pretty funnyrdquoAdams passed the grade and soon

he was flying President Nixon and his family to Camp David or picking up vice

President Spiro Agnew at the Pentagon or taking Secretary of State Henry kissinger or Secretary of Defense Alexander Haig to a classified meeting Although his flights varied from transporting foreign heads of state to flying members of the press the majority involved the president the vice president kissinger and Haig

The pilots did not speak to their travelers unless spoken to says Adams President Nixon usually looked in and asked them how they were kissinger never spoke Haig was good for a pat on the shoulder now and then but it was Agnew who conversed the most says Adams

Adams remembers ldquoOne time we picked him up at the Pentagon and we had taken off and had hit top altitude He usually would come up and look into the cockpit but this time he patted me on the shoulder and asked lsquoWell howrsquos it going today guysrsquordquo Adams replied ldquoNot bad sir and how about yourselfrdquo

Agnew answered ldquoMan they are really after my assrdquo He was talking about the press Adams says ldquoTwo weeks later he resignedrdquo

Adams recalls that his encounters with Agnew as defying the public perception

Adams far right gives instructions before a mission in Vietnam

Walla Walla LifestyLes 33

that Agnew was arrogant ldquoHe was always one of the nicest guys He was straightforward He looked like he had just stepped off the cover of Gentlemenrsquos Quarterly all the time He was very proper in the way he dressed but he had a sense of humor as wellrdquo

There were other humorous moments Adams recalls a certain reporter from CBS who had been a major thorn in President Nixonrsquos side was late for takeoff from the South Lawn of the White House one morning Just as Marine One was about to leave without him he came running across the lawn hollering and waving his arms The Secret Service agent supervising the flight told Adams to ldquojust gordquo The wind from the propellers whipped the reporterrsquos toupee right off his head and instead of continuing his run toward Marine One he reversed his field and tried feverishly to retrieve his toupee snagged in the hedges

ldquoEveryone got a pretty good chuckle out of thatrdquo

Of course there were somber times At one point Adams flew Cabinet members John Ehrlichman and Hr Haldeman to Camp David for a meeting with the president After only 15 minutes the two men returned and Marine One headed home Adams says it was a quiet flight He found out later the two men had been fired by President Nixon for their parts in the Watergate scandal

Whisking the president away from danger was a major part of being a pilot of Marine One Stationed across the river from the Capitol pilots awakened by an emergency alert had to be up in the air in five minutes This exercise was practiced often though never needed during Adamsrsquo tenure

One night however they thought it was The operator at the White House mistakenly hit the ldquoAlertrdquo button Marine One was in the air in five minutes

Although ground control had not spotted any enemy aircraft the operation was under way As Marine One closed in on the White House the operator at fault tried to alert everyone of his mistake but unfortunately used a poor choice of words to call off the operation

Adams chuckles as he says ldquoThe fella said lsquoThis is not an exercisersquo He was moved to another post i thinkrdquo

All levity aside the position required

the same kind of focus demanded of Adams in vietnam though it came in a different form

ldquoThere were three things the way you operated the aircraft and they were in this order safety comfort and speed Safety never gave in to comfort or speedrdquo says Adams ldquoOur job was just concentrating on doing our job it could have been anybody mdash we would do it the same way it could have been Fred Flintstone

ldquoThe difference between flying for the White House and in vietnam was we were flying a premier aircraft We had to keep it impeccably clean everything was scripted We had to have the lsquoopen-the-door timersquo down to two to four seconds in vietnam it was the stress of performing medevacs under fire or dropping troops under heavy artillery For Marine One it was the stress of doing the job rightrdquo

Also the stress of being away from onersquos family 200 days of the year wore on a Marine One pilot in 1974 after four years on the job the toll became too much and Adams stepped down

He would stay with the Marines for eight more years retiring in August 1982

By then he had received 44 Air Medals including the Joint Service Commendation and the Presidential Service Badge in his 20 years of service Adams flew seven different helicopters and five different fixed-wing planes

What makes an elite military pilot ldquoPilots who donrsquot have any misgivingsrdquo says Adams ldquoTheyrsquore totally prepared they know their aircraftrdquo

When talking about his colleagues on Marine One he adds ldquoNone were boasters They might brag about a great landing but they did not brag in spite of someone elserdquo

What did Adams love most about his flying days ldquoi enjoyed flying with the latest technology and the pristine quality of Marine One i loved the process of building my skills i could have flown another 40 years and i would still be learning thingsrdquo

is it any surprise his favorite hobby now is fly fishing

andrew hoLt writes about food people and all things Walla Walla for Walla Walla lifestyles magazine He can be reached at bruindrew86gmailcom

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it is astonishing in many ways mdash that we are presented with two weeks of top-drawer music performed by top-drawer musi-cians that there are so many ways to encounter the music (many of them free) and that a rural community has provided the incu-

bator for such a cultural undertaking to name but a fewGranted we are not your average rural community having two

colleges a university a symphony a choral society a community band and music in the schools but letrsquos face it wersquore not exactly a cosmopolitan center of culture like New york either The Cham-ber Music Festival mdash and our continued support of it through some tough times mdash puts us in a category all our own

ldquoi saw what was special about this community the first time i visited in 2007rdquo Artistic Director Timothy Christie says ldquoi have

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worked hard to start this event and to my great joy it has taken on an iden-tity of its own i hire the musicians and choose the music but the town its people and its environs make the festivalrdquo

The beauty of chamber music is its intimacy mdash smaller ensembles performing for smaller audiences it has been referred to as ldquothe music of friendsrdquo which seems so apt at this festival Free open rehearsals are held around town that provide not only a musical atmosphere in which to enjoy a latte or the ambiance of the kirkman House but which give a richer look into the machinations of a working ensemble

As one enthusiastic fan puts it ldquoi am not a musician and itrsquos fascinat-ing to watch these rehearsals to see the interactions of the musicians as they work out the snags make wry remarks and relate to each other in a whole different way than during a for-mal performance i get a glimpse into their personalities and what makes them tickrdquo

The festival supplies a generous of-fering of venues with free concerts for children and families relaxed evening programs at wineries and full concerts at the Foundry Chism Hall and Day-tonrsquos Liberty Theater

if you are lucky enough to live near the musiciansrsquo lodgings while they are in town you may also be treated to an ad hoc front-porch concert as the ensembles continue their rehearsals in more private settings The festival is about all of these ways mdash planned and accidental mdash to experience the enchantment of chamber music

it is also about historic continuity and the connection between past and present mdash relishing the existing canon while expanding the genre with con-temporary forms and voices

How is this accomplished in part by the annual commission of a new piece of music for the festival Chris-tie is committed to contributing to the broader chamber music repertoire and to providing the audience with the richest possible experience

Continued on pg 36 gt

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ldquoFor classical music to be relevant there must be a conversation between the music of our time and the music of the pastrdquo he says

By commissioning a work for the festi-val each year Christie creates such a con-versation

This year the commission was given to John David Earnest Four festival commis-sions have preceded his and he is the sec-ond ldquolocalrdquo composer to be tapped add-ing another layer of relationship between community and event (in 2009 Whitman College professor David Glenn was given the nod)

As visiting adjunct professor of music at Whitman Earnest resides here for six weeks every semester His ldquoSecond Sym-phonyrdquo was written for and performed by the Walla Walla Symphony in October 2001

The challenge for the yearly commis-sionee is to compose a piece on demand within specific constraints of time place and instrumentation while expressing hisher own voice as an artist

Earnest has created ldquoCommedia Gal-leryrdquo a set of three movements for flute

viola and harp based on stock characters from the Commedia dellrsquoArte a popu-lar theatrical form that was influential in Europe for over 300 years Commedia characters improvised dialogue around set scenarios generally involving the struggles of young lovers to overcome hindrances to their romance and each character even-tually came to have a consistent set of at-tributes in speech mannerisms and cos-tume

Earnestrsquos ldquoGalleryrdquo gives us Arlecchi-no (Harlequin) an acrobatic and devious jester Pierrot the classic sad clown and finally Scaramouche a dandy and a brag-gart who is a coward at heart

in anticipation of this yearrsquos festival i am reminded of the scene in ldquoThe Music Manrdquo in which the town awaits the ar-rival of the Wells Fargo Wagon Potentially heaped with gifts and surprises it prom-ises connection to the larger world The WWCMF brings us all ldquosomethinrsquo specialrdquo mdash an enrichment of our community and our culture

margaret Jamison is an artist and writer living in Walla Walla Contact her at artjamisongmailcom

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Smith has gardened for years at his home at 38 Mulberry Court in College Place He used to grow vegetables and flowers now he is strictly focusing on flowers mdash with fabulous results roses delphiniums and lots of irises line the fence

ldquoirises mdash irsquove always enjoyed themrdquo he says ldquoThey take a little bit of weeding and watering but not much morerdquo itrsquos the gardenerrsquos dream mdash low maintenance with a big return

A retired orthopedic surgeon Smith has in the past gardened more extensively than he does now But he has enough plants to keep him busy His new project is planting more of the reblooming iris These are still hardy but you get twice the reward they bloom in the spring then again in the fall

ldquoTheyrsquore easy to grow and spectacular for a short time iris take less care than a lot of thingsrdquo Smith says

His secret for gardening is simple and therersquos no getting around it ldquoTime and workrdquo he laughs

Hersquos getting ready to start in the garden ldquoi need to clean out the leaves and the old foliage of the irisrdquo

in addition to the basic cleaning and maintenance Smith just decides how many plants to keep Bulb flowers are hardy and they multiply on their own

ldquoAfter five years you usually have to separate the bulbs when they get too thick i donrsquot have room to add more i put in the new re-blooming onesrdquo he explains ldquoi may add more and a few other thingsrdquo

But in a garden you can always try something new or rearrange existing plants often with a spectacular outcome

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itrsquos an odd location since it can only be seen as yoursquore leaving town but it always makes me smile This valley my adopted home is indeed a great place to be

i recently finished reading the great Western writer Wallace Stegnerrsquos book ldquoThe Sound of Mountain Waterrdquo One of his essays traces his nomadic childhood which left him feeling rootless and without a place that he felt he could call home

i identify with his feeling of not belonging i was born to a single woman from Massachusetts in a New york City hospital i stayed a scant few days before being placed with an adoption agency Born in a place i had no familial connection to i was immediately deprived of my biological family Most of my childhood was spent in suburban Cleveland Ohio Moves to upstate New york New England and Pennsylvania brought me no closer to calling any place home i loved living in the western Massachusetts town of Stockbridge but the multigenerational denizens of the town left few openings for newcomers like me i lived in central Pennsylvania for several decades but felt detached from the deep roots that most people had in the area

When we came west (for my husband a homecoming to his Oregon roots for me a new experience) i noticed that even in long-established towns like Walla Walla there is ample room for newcomers who want to be

part of the community And most folks who choose to come here donrsquot seem to want to change the valley they prefer to embrace it

While the occasional newbie whines about the lack of Whole Foods or Nordstrom they soon discover our farmers markets the wide variety of local shops and boutiques and our world-class restaurants They fall in love with our charming downtowns the small-town friendliness of the people and our kid-friendly environment Then therersquos the holiday parade the fair the ever-present Blue Mountains the parks the museums the wineries mdash really whatrsquos not to like The communities of our valley represent America at its best

irsquom a newspaper junkie i love to read everything from news to sports to classifieds mdash even the obituaries The obits are a fascinating window on our valley Many of the people chronicled were born here some lived all their lives here inextricably bound to this place But a number of people came here from other places often far away and have made a mark on our area Which makes me wonder mdash is a place any less of a hometown because you choose it or is it based primarily on the happenstance of your birth it seems that therersquos room for both paths to calling this wonderful valley home

itrsquos also our strength because collectively as a community we bring both deep familial and cultural traditions as well as the fresh perspective of newcomers to our area irsquom glad mdash after decades of searching mdash that i finally found my hometown a place that feels just right

diane reed can be reached at ladybookearthlinknet Between columns and when the spirit moves her she blogs at wwwponderingsbydianereedblogspotcom from her home overlooking the pond at lions Park in College Place

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Maymay 1The annual Kennel Club Dog Show Walla Walla County Fairgrounds De-tails 509-558-3854

The Walla Walla University Drama Department pres-ents a performance of ldquoMy Fair ladyrdquo 2 pm matinee Details 509-527-2656

The Walla Walla Choral Society presents ldquoJubilate Deordquo 3 pm May 1 Walla Walla University Church College Place Details 509-386-2445

The Walla Walla Valley Farmers Market opens local produce artisans and an outdoor concert 9 am-1 pm Saturdays and Sundays through Oct 30 Crawford Park Fourth ave and Main St Details gowallawallafarmersmar-ketcom or 509-520-3647

through may 22Enjoy the annual Senior art Thesis Exhibition Sheehan Gallery Whitman College Details 509-527-5249

through JuLy 31The Tamaacutestslikt Cultural In-stitute hosts the traveling OMSI exhibit ldquoamazing Feats of agingrdquo explor-ing the mysteries of why animals and humans age Details 541-966-9748

may 4The YWCa leadership luncheon ldquoMatters that Matterrdquo is informational and inspirational with guest speakers Kristine Van Raden and Molly Da-vis Noon Marcus Whit-man Hotel Details 509-525-2570

Walla Walla Wine Works hosts music on Wednes-days downtown Details 509-522-1261

may 5First Thursday Concert at St Pauls Episcopal Church 323 Catherine Street Walla Walla 1215-1250 pm will feature the Steel Drum Band from Walla Walla Uni-versity directed by Brandon Beck Details 529-1083

The Whitman College Visit-ing Writers Reading series presents Whitman Reading 7 pm Kimball Theatre De-tails whitmanedu

may 5-7 12-14Walla Walla High School Drama Department pres-ents ldquoFiddler on the Roofrdquo musical version 7 pm and 2 pm matinee on Saturdays May 7 and 14 Walla Walla High School Performing arts audito-rium Details Tickets can be reserved by calling 509-526-8613 the Wa-Hi box office

may 5-8 19-21a performance of ldquoThe 25th a nnua l Putnam County Spelling Beerdquo 8 pm Harper Joy Theatre Whitman College Details 509-527-5180

may 6-7Music on the weekends at the Backstage Bistro De-tails 509-526-0690

Sapolil Cellars hosts music on Friday and Saturday De-tails 509-520-5258

The Wildfire hosts music every Friday and Saturday Wildhorse Resort amp Casino Pendleton Details 800-654-9453

may 6-8Walla Walla Valley Winer-ies offer an opportunity to taste their new creations during Spring Release Weekend area wineries introduce new wines and winemakers share their creative inspiration Details 509-526-3117

may 6artWalK First Fridays May through December Visit galleries and chat with art-ists 5-8 pm Downtown Walla Walla Visit artwalk-wallawallacom

may 6-8 13-14The little Theatre presents ldquoalice In Wonderlandrdquo adapted from lewis Carroll 8 pm Friday-Saturday 2 pm Sunday little Theatre of Walla Walla Details 509-529-3683

may 7The annual Junior Horse Show brings great riding action to Milton-Freewater Pioneer Posse Grounds Details 541-938-3379

Daytonrsquos annual Street Sale turns a section of Third Street into a giant yard sale benefits churches and com-munity projects Dayton Details 509-382-4825

artist reception and dem-onstration Washington art-ist Dwight Duke exhibits his painting bronze sculptures and gunpowder light pan-els 6-730 pm Reininger Winery Details 509-522-1994

may 8Every Sunday the living History actors portray in-dividuals from the arearsquos past 2 pm Fort Walla Walla Museum Details 509-525-7703

may 13-15The annual Balloon Stam-pede brings as many as 50 hot-air balloons to the Walla Walla County Fairgrounds This colorful festival re-mains a Valley tradition Ear-ly morning flights (weather permitting) arts amp crafts antique autos commercial booths live entertainment and food Balloons light up to music at the Saturday evening Nite Glow Details 509-525-0850

may 14annual adult event cele-brates the characters who populated Pendletonrsquos past Must have reservations Pendleton Underground Tours Details 800-226-6398

may 14-15 may 27-29Walla Walla Drag Strip con-tinues the weekend fun Details wwdragstripcom or 509-200-6287

may 15Walla Walla University Chamber Series featuring Robyn McCabe 730 pm MKW Fine arts auditorium Details 509-527-2571

may 18To celebrate the opening of Walla Wallarsquos Power House Theatre and a four-day run of Seattle Shakespeare Companyrsquos ldquoThe Merry Wives of WindsorrdquoWalla Walla lifestyles will pres-ent a gala event This exclusive evening will en-chant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fash-ion from 530-9 pm at the Power House Theatre Sixth amp Rose Walla Walla To purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewalla-wallacom

may 19-21During Pendletonrsquos Cattle Baron Weekend enjoy an art exhibit by a talented group of women artists ldquoIn the Company of Cowgirlsrdquo Hamleyrsquos Steakhouse Pendleton Visit inthecom-panyofcowgirlscom or call 541-676-5013

may 19-22Whitman College 50th Reunion class of 1961 Whitman College Details 509-527-5952

Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merr y Wives of Windsorrdquo Pow-erhouse Theater Details 509-742-0739

may 21The annual Ducky Derby is a day of family fun all for a good cause Watch the ducks race down Mill Creek to help fund the Exchange Clubrsquos efforts at preventing child abuse and neglect 1130 am-330 pm Race at about 2 pm Walla Walla Community College De-tails 509-527-4300

Walla Walla University Spring Choral Concert 5 pm Walla Walla Univer-sity Church Details 509-527-2571

learn to contra dance an old-fashioned coun-try dance Music by the Wednesday Night Band 7 pm teaching and practice 730 pm regular dance Unity Church of Peace 810

C St Walla Walla Details 541-938-7403

may 22The Whitman College graduating class of 2011 accepts the challenge 11 am Memorial lawn Whitman College Details 509-527-5156

may 26 27 28 29Walla Walla Community College Theatre arts De-partment presents ldquoZoot Suitrdquo by luis Valdez 7 pm each night and Sunday 2 pm matinee W WCC Performing arts Center Details 509-527-4575

may 27-30 Dayton Days has been a Memorial Weekend tradi-tion in Dayton for nearly 100 years Highlights include a Saturday-morning parade on historic Main Street rodeo tour of Dayton and Memorial Day Fun Run De-tails 509-382-4825 or visit historicdaytoncom

may 28-30The Touchet River Roundup mdash the annual Celebration of Sobriety at the fairgrounds focuses on family fun ac-tivities Waitsburg Details 509-526-3602

may 29annual Onion Man Tria-thalon 9 am Bennington lake Details wwmulti-sportscom or call 509-529-9187

may 30Waitsburgrsquos annual Memo-rial Day celebration hosted by veterans for all veterans Details 509-337-6546

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This sculptural cornucopia marks the spot where all of Walla Walla meets the producers and wersquore not talking about the Zero Mostel and Gene Wild-er musical For you GPS fans latitude 4606678 N longitude 11834197 W

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The sculpture tops the farmers market gazebo on the corner of Fourth Avenue North and West Main Street

Contestensprulesif you have the answer e-mail it to rickdoylewwubcom or send it to Where in Walla Walla 112 S 1st Ave PO Box 1358 Walla Walla WA 99362 The names of 10 people with correct answers will be randomly selected and they will receive this great-looking mug as proof of their local knowledge and good taste

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46 Walla Walla LifestyLes

1 amavi cellars3796 Peppers Bridge Road (509) 525-3541 wwwamavicellarscom

2 Basel cellars estate winery2901 Old Milton Hwy (509) 522-0200 wwwbaselcellarscom

3 Bergevin Lane vineyards 1215 W Poplar St (509) 526-4300 bergevinlanecom

4 Bunchgrass winery151 Bunchgrass lane (509) 540-8963 wwwbunchgrasswinerycom

5 canoe ridge vineyard1102 W Cherry St (509) 527-0885 wwwcanoeridgevineyardcom

6 castillo de feliciana85728 Telephone Pole Road Milton-Freewater OR (541) 558-3656 wwwcastillodefelicianacom

7 don carlo vineyardBy appointment Only (509) 540-5784 wwwdoncarlovineyardcom

8 dunham cellars150 E Boeing ave (509) 529-4685 wwwdunhamcellarscom

9 five star cellars 840 C St (509) 527-8400 wwwfivestarcellarscom

10 forgeron cellars 33 W Birch St (509) 522-9463 wwwforgeroncellarscom

21 sapolil cellars15 E Main St (509) 520-5258 wwwsapolilcellarscom

22 seven hills winery 212 N Third ave (509) 529-7198 wwwsevenhillswinerycom

23 sinclair estate vineyards 109 E Main Ste 100 (509) 876-4300 wwwsinclairestatevineyardscom

24 spring valley vineyard 18 N Second ave (509) 525-1506 wwwspringvalleyvineyardcom

25 suLei cellars355 S Second ave (503) 529-0840 www suleicellarscom

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11 foundry vineyards Corner of 13th ave and abadie St (509) 529-0736 wwwwallawallafoundrycomvineyards

12 fort walla walla cellars 127 E Main St (509) 520-1095 wwwfortwallawallacellarscom

13 glencorrie8052 Old Highway 12 (509) 525-2585 wwwglencorriecom

14 grantwood winery 2428 W Highway 12 (509) 301-0719 (509) 301-9546

15 Lrsquoecole no 41 winery41 lowden School Road and US Hwy 12 (509) 525-0940 wwwlecolecom

16 Long shadows1604 Frenchtown Road (Formerly Ireland Road) (509) 526-0905 wwwlongshadowscom By invitation only Requests accepted on a limited basis Please call to inquire

17 Lowden hills winery1401 W Pine St (509) 527-1040 wwwlowdenhillswinerycom

18 northstar winery 1736 JB George Road (509) 524-4883 wwwnorthstarmerlotcom

19 pepper Bridge winery1704 JB George Road (509) 525-6502 wwwpepperbridgecom

20 robison ranch cellars2839 Robison Ranch Road (509) 301-3480 robisonranchcellarscom

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26 syZygy 405 E Boeing ave (509) 522-0484 wwwsyzygywinescom

27 three rivers winery5641 Old Highway 12 (509) 526-9463 infoThreeRiversWinerycom

28 tertulia cellars1564 Whiteley Road (509) 525-5700 wwwtertuliacellarscom

29 trust cellars 1050 Merlot Drive (509) 529-4511 wwwtrustcellarscom

30 va piano vineyards1793 JB George Road (509) 529-0900 wwwvapianovineyardscom

31 walla walla vintnersVineyard lane off Mill Creek Road (509) 525-4724 wwwwallawallavintnerscom

32 walla walla wineworks31 E Main St (509) 522-1261 wwwwallawallawineworkscom

33 whitman cellars1015 W Pine St (509) 529-1142 wwwwhitmancellarscom

34 woodward canyon winery11920 W Hwy 12 lowden (509) 525-4129 wwwwoodwardcanyoncom

35 JLc winery425 B St (509) 301-5148

36 saviah cellars1979 JB George Rd

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lockheed ave

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Mill Creek Rd

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ilton

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Fairchild ave

Cessna ave

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Republic ave

Ryan ave

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Stinson ave

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Boeing ave

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 11

Born in Miami and then raised in Central Los Angeles by her Cuban-born parents Medica learned her craft by observing her mother work in the kitchen Of all Medicarsquos culinary creations it is her Cuban flan dessert that receives the most requests

ldquoEveryone in the family would always request it especially my nieces and nephewrdquo Medica says sitting at her dining room table the freshly presented flan resting in front of her ldquoMy bro can easily eat half of itrdquo

And the flan does not remain uneaten for long as i sit down with the Walla Walla businesswoman and her daughter Elizabeth to discuss and taste this delicacy Minutes after we begin our conversation nephew Nick arrives and quickly wolfs down two servings

irsquove already finished my first and am working on my second when we begin our conversation

LifEStyLES With both of your parents being Havana natives did you eat Cuban food exclusively

MEDiCa No but in the early days Thanksgiving was pretty different My mom would fix the turkey but shersquod serve it with black beans and white rice Wersquod be ldquoAh mom canrsquot we have regular Thanksgiving food like mashed potatoes and yamsrdquo Those came later as we lived in the States longer

LifEStyLES So the food changed as you kids grew older

MEDiCa Well my mom was always pretty good at American food but sometimes it wasnrsquot all the way like she made American spaghetti but she put chicken in it it was good but my brother would always complain that it didnrsquot have meatballs Now he misses the chicken

LifEStyLES How many kids do you have in the family

MEDiCa i have an older brother and a younger sister irsquom the middle one We didnrsquot have a normal childhood in the sense that my mom was a hairstylist at home and on Saturday mornings customers would start arriving at 8 And she had one of those big old hair dryers

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that you put over someonersquos head mdash we called it ldquoFidel Castrordquo mdash and yoursquod have these customers yelling at the top of their voice while they were under it So i never got to sleep in

LifEStyLES it sounds like your mother was quite a lady

MEDiCa i recently found some of her original recipes you know in her own handwriting One of them is for croquetta which was really good you take chicken with corned beef and grind them up bread it and then fry it itrsquos really goodrdquo

LifEStyLES Why do you like the flan so much

MEDiCa Because everyone in the family always requested it i make it a little different The way i make it it is a little more creamy because i use cream cheese itrsquos more like a custard Many times in Mexican restaurants the flan will be more jello-y This is almost like cheesecake

LifEStyLES is it strictly for dessert

MEDiCa yes itrsquos for special occasions

LifEStyLES Like birthdays and parties

MEDiCa yes itrsquos not light you canrsquot have too much or your stomach will start to ache

LifEStyLES Does it take a long time to prepare

MEDiCa Not really Making the caramel sauce takes the most time and you canrsquot take your eyes off it or it might burn

LifEStyLES Tastes like it didnrsquot burn

MEDiCa No i had lots of help My daughter Elizabeth (and she glances over at her youngest child) helped me a lot

andrew hoLt writes about food people and all things Walla Walla for Walla Walla lifestyles magazine He can be reached at bruindrew86gmailcom

Cubanenspflaningredientsenspforenspflan

1 can evaporated milk1 can sweetened condensed milk1 cup whole or two percent milk6 eggs1 to 2 teaspoons vanilla extract14 teaspoon salt4 ounces cream cheese

ingredientsenspforenspcaramelenspsauce

1 to 1frac12 cup sugar

toenspmakeensptheenspcaramelenspsauce

Place the sugar in a saucepan on medium heat and stir until granules of sugar have liquified and the mixture takes on a caramel color

Pour the mixture into a mold coating the sides This must be done quickly because the mixture will harden also use oven mittens so you donrsquot burn your hands

Put aside

toenspmakeensptheenspflan

Preheat oven to 350 degreesIn a blender mix the sweetened condensed

milk frac12 can of evaporated milk and the milk eggs cream cheese salt and vanilla and blend on low

Pour out half the mixture into a bowl and pour in the remaining evaporated milk and blend

Pour contents of blender and bowl into mold and stir Cover with aluminum foil Crimp the edges of the foil around the mold to keep moisture out

Put the mold in a big cake pan and pour enough water around the mold for it to come part-way up the sides of the mold (we call that ldquobantildeo Mariacuteardquo) and bake for one hour plus 15 to 20 minutes

Use a knife to test done-ness mdash the knife should come out clean

When the flan is done baking let it rest and cool then place it in the refrigerator for 24 hours

The next day dip the mold in warm water before flipping the flan into a serving dish

Makes 12 servings

R EC IP E

food ltcontinued from pg 11

Walla Walla LifestyLes 13

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The old Frenchtown schoolhouse built in 1915 with the stately bell tower still stands it has been a historic fixture in the Walla Walla valley that many of us have grown up with even if we never attended classes there One can still stride up the long sidewalk to the large heavy carved doors with a feeling of reverence and trepidation mdash as if it were the first day of school mdash while imagining generations of children playing on the manicured grounds

in the 1970s the old schoolhouse classrooms found themselves empty of childrenrsquos laughter But in 1983 Jean and Baker Ferguson breathed new life into the old building founding what would become one of the premier wineries in Washington LrsquoEcole No 41

The name was historically im-portant in two ways ldquoLrsquoEcolerdquo French for ldquothe schoolrdquo recognized the French men and women who settled the area and ldquo41rdquo was the numerical designation of the school district

The Fergusonsrsquo first crush of 1983 was resting in the barrel when the following year they asked their elementary school-aged family members to draw an image that would best reflect the new project

The $100 prize went to an 8-year-old cousin whose watercolor interpretation of the old schoolhouse became the template for a wine label it became an iconic label known to wine lovers around the world

in 1989 the second generation of the family Jean and Bakerrsquos daughter and son-

in-law Megan and Martin (Marty) Clubb became the new proprietors of the winery Marty became the general manager and winemaker and would lead the small artisan winery to new heights mdash it would eventually produce more than 30000 cases annually

At the same time the Washington state wine industry was booming and would soon become the nationrsquos second-largest wine producer The area would become one of the premium wine-producing regions in the United States

Marty also became a pioneer in the

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Washington state wine industry as he became a founder and activist in many of the wine industryrsquos foundations and alliances The family-owned winery also partnered with some of the most prestigious vineyards in the state LrsquoEcole No 41 has been honored nine consecutive years by Wine amp Spirits magazine as ldquoWinery of the yearrdquo becoming the second Washington winery inducted into the Hall of Fame

There is a third-generation that has grown up around the winery and will eventually become caretakers of this legacy Meganrsquos and Martyrsquos children Jeanrsquos and Bakerrsquos grandchildren rebecca and riley Clubb had their own meaningful influence on the label with their childhood drawings on the labelrsquos chalkboard image

riley is a 2009 graduate of Whitman College and is employed at the winery rebecca is enrolled in Washington State Universityrsquos wine management program and expected to graduate in 2012

The winery will soon celebrate its 30th birthday The wines produced at the old schoolhouse are refined with true varietal character and can stand up against many coveted wines from France mdash and they have Now that LrsquoEcole is a top player in the world of wine the whimsical label on its bottles is no longer truly indicative of the sophisticated gold and dark-red liquids behind the glass

ldquoLooking to the future we wanted our label to reflect the winery we have becomerdquo says Marty Clubb

This year the winery will unveil a new label it will still depict the iconic schoolhouse but with deeper colors and a new texture There will be a distinct difference among the labels depending on the vineyards used Wines produced from Columbia valley vineyards will have a soft charcoal-colored background label and the labels for the wines produced from Walla Walla vineyards will be more sepia-toned

Another distinctive change will be the de-emphasizing of the ldquoNo 41rdquo as generations of wine lovers have often referred to the winery as ldquoLrsquoEcolerdquo

The new label will be a timeless reminder of the past as well as a welcome to future generations

catie mcintyre waLker blogs at wildwallawallawinewomanblogspotcom and be reached at wildwallawallawinewomancom

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it was 1954 the year he graduated from the University of Oregon and two female students from the university were interested in learning some of the finer points of the game

ldquoit was probably the worst lesson anybody has ever givenrdquo Mundle exclaimed shaking his head in dismay ldquoThese two young ladies were looking for some help and i worked with them for an hour-and-a-half And at the end of that time i said lsquoi have done such a poor job i will pay you for the time i have put you through this torturersquordquo

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Painful as it was the lesson learned proved to be a career-launching moment for Mundle who dedicated himself to his trade and spent a lifetime in the golf business successfully working up and down the i-5 corridor as course operator teacher and player

Fifty-seven years after that first teaching debacle Mundle now 79 years old is retired and living in Walla Walla He and his wife Ann relocated here last summer determined to give up teaching golf and spend more time playing the game they both love

ldquoAfter all of these years of teaching i feel that this is the time to lay it asiderdquo Mundle said ldquoi will still do a little studying of the golf swing and methods and i will be involved with some of the other local professionals in some cracker-barrel sessions when they get together to discuss teaching methods problems and how to solve them

ldquoBut i really came here not to teach but to play some golfrdquo

That was the plan anyway before he was introduced to Walla Walla High School senior Jake Hanson who was looking for a little extra help with his game heading into his final year on the links as a Blue Devil

Terri Hanson Jakersquos mother was aware of Mundlersquos reputation as a teaching professional and heard through the grapevine he was living in Walla Walla

ldquoBeing the mom i am i called him one dayrdquo Terri remembered ldquoi told him that Jakersquos golf game was at a standstill i asked him to take a look at Jake and he agreed to come and meet us and get a feel for where Jake was at

ldquoHe did and before you knew it they were putting on our hardwood floors The next day they agreed to get together at Wine valley mdash they were there for four hours and it has been an amazing connection right from the beginning

ldquoAl is an amazing Christian man who is so well-respected in his fieldrdquo Terri added ldquoAnd he just demands respect irsquom seeing my son of 17 all of a sudden growing uprdquo

Mundle concedes he is intrigued by Hansonrsquos character and potential And

Under the watchful eye of Al Mundle Jake Hanson hits an iron shot

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Hanson holds his new mentor in high esteem

ldquoirsquove learned a tremendous amountrdquo Hanson said ldquoHe has a way of getting through to me in a positive way He got through to me that i am so much better than i thought i could be He has more confidence in me than i have in myself

ldquoHe has one of the best golf swings i have ever seen and he is still working on his own gamerdquo

Mundle said Hanson reminds him of former University of Oregon player Ben Crane who now plays on the PGA Tour Crane has been playing professionally since 2007 and earned nearly $3 million on the tour in 2010

ldquoi was Benrsquos swing coach at Oregon and Jake is somewhat similarrdquo Mundle said ldquoBen worked harder than anybody on the whole golf team He would put in as much

time as three or four others combined and Jake is very much the same way Hersquos very dedicatedrdquo

However Mundle insists that helping Hanson with his game is a one-time situation

After playing just six rounds of golf last year Mundle is determined that he and Ann will spend a lot more time on the golf course as they get acquainted with their new hometown

ldquoThatrsquos an all-time lowrdquo he said of the six rounds played in 2010 ldquoMostly it was the move and all mdash a new house putting in lawn fencing shelving in the garage mdash all the little things of getting settled

ldquoBut this was a good move for us We love it here We enjoy the weather and the people you can walk down the street and people look you in the eye and say lsquoHellorsquo i love that friendlinessrdquo

Mundle grew up in Eugene and graduated from University High School in 1950 He knew he said from the time he was in the seventh grade he wanted to make golf his lifersquos work

ldquoyou might say that i had a little parental directionrdquo Mundle said ldquoMy dad went to the University of St Andrews in Scotland and he played golf at the St Andrews Old Course And my mother also played golfrdquo

After high school Mundle enrolled at the University of Oregon and played three years of varsity golf during an era when there was no such thing as a golf scholarship

ldquoThe only thing we ever received was a half-a-dozen golf balls if we went into a tournamentrdquo Mundle recalled ldquoWhen i went to the NCAA Championships in Texas my senior year i was given a new

people ltcontinued from pg 17

Walla Walla LifestyLes 19

pair of golf shoes but that was itldquoWe bought all of our own gear mdash

clubs bags rain gear everything itrsquos a whole different ball game today They have everythingrdquo

At the end of his sophomore year at Oregon Mundle had it in his mind to ldquotest my golf on the PGA Tourrdquo he said But his father an English professor at the university discouraged him

ldquoHe said lsquoGet your education first then you can do whatever you wantrsquordquo Mundle said ldquoit was just as well i saved a lot of wear and tear mdash and money i was an Ok player but not of that caliberrdquo

Mundle still has fond memories of his collegiate playing career however

ldquoi played three years for the university mdash you werenrsquot allowed to play as freshmen mdash and Oregon always had fine golf teamsrdquo Mundle said ldquoit was mostly match

play then and i was there during the time that the school went seven straight years without losing a (team) dual matchrdquo

During his senior year Mundle qualified for the NCAA Championships in Houston From a field of about 160 players Mundle made it as far as the quarterfinal round

He graduated in 1954 with a degree in history which he said he never really used

ldquoMy dad was in the top one percent of his class at St Andrewsrdquo Mundle said ldquoMy mother was also in the top part of her class and my older brother Pete was in the top of his class And then i came alongrdquo

His first golf job was as an assistant pro at his home course the Laurelwood Golf Course a position he accepted shortly after graduating from UO This was when and where the infamous first golf lesson

occurredA two-year stint in the US Army took

Mundle away from his profession in 1955-56 But he managed to keep his golf game sharp as a member of the Fort knox golf team and in 1956 he was the runner-up in the Second Army tournament and he placed 13th in the All-Army tournament

Then it was back to the Willamette valley where he came into his own in the Portland area under head professionals Eddie Hogan at riverside Country Club and Bunny Mason at Columbia Edgewater

ldquoThose two people were very influential in my professional liferdquo Mundle said

ldquoEddie was a very fine teacher of the total golf operation and service was No 1 i learned how to run the pro shop how

Jake Hanson takes a few pointers on chipping from his instructor and mentor Al Mundle

Continued on pg 20 gt

20 Walla Walla LifestyLes

people ltcontinued from pg 19

to market and merchandise mdash everything from how to run the club service program to the electric cart program to basically running the golf course

ldquoBunny was also a very fine operator of a golf shop and i also learned a lot about teaching from Bunny Sometimes you go along in life and there are certain mentors who help you along the way Anybody who says they made it by themselves is not being honest with themselves We have all had someone who has given us a little boost along the wayrdquo

Mundle took his first head professional job in 1965 at Overlake Golf and Country Club in Bellevue where he remained until 1981 At that point he returned to Eugene and was the head pro at the Eugene Country Club for three years followed by a six-year stint at the Bear Creek Country Club in Seattle

He also spent a short time at a golf course in Cottage Grove Ore before moving back to Eugene for a third time in 1993 to become the director of golf instruction at the river ridge Golf Course He remained at river ridge until his retirement last summer During his time there he helped out as the swing coach at UO under then-head coach Steve Nosler

Through it all Mundle served as president of the Washington PGA and the Pacific Northwest PGA and was a member of several National PGA committees As a player he participated in the Oregon Washington and Pacific Northwest opens as well as the Washington and Oregon PGA events One of his highlights was winning the Oregon Senior PGA Match-Play Championships in Bend in 1993

ldquoi felt i had an obligation to participaterdquo Mundle said ldquoi played a lot of golf including many many pro-ams and i won a couple of assistant championshipsrdquo

in addition to Crane Mundle also helped shape the careers of Jeff Quinney and Eric Johnson both of whom are from the Eugene area

Quinney won the United States Amateur championship in 2000 and represented the US in the Walker Cup in 2001 He has appeared in 128 PGA Tour events since 2007 placing second twice and third twice

Johnson played several years on the Asian Tour and one on the Nationwide Tour He is now a head professional at a

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course in San rafael CalifldquoAnd there have been some others mdash

Brian Henninger Mike Gove a few others mdash who have called and wanted to discus their swingrdquo Mundle said ldquoNothing on a regular basis just one or two sessionsrdquo

is Hanson his next mdash and perhaps his last mdash prodigy

Thatrsquos a tricky question since Hanson came to golf late after a budding baseball career was derailed by a shoulder injury He was a first-team all-Big Nine Conference golf selection as a junior but has yet to qualify for state and his summer resume is thin because of his baseball background

Hansonrsquos original plan was to attend Walla Walla Community College and play golf for the Warriors with the hope of earning an NCAA Division i scholarship But he has since decided to enroll in Arizona State Universityrsquos Professional Golf Management program and try out for the ASU golf team as a walk on

ldquoMore than anything i think it came down to him evaluating his goalsrdquo said Jakersquos father Gary Hanson ldquoitrsquos everyonersquos dream to play on the PGA Tour but realistically he wants to be a golf pro and teach He loves

the gamerdquoAnd a degree in the PGM program

will provide Jake with the educational background he needs to be successful in any form of business his father added

Though his chances of making the ASU varsity team seem unlikely the PGM program provides a club golf team that participates in a series of tournaments throughout the year and gives Hanson a second playing option

And keeping your options open is optimum at this point Mundle said

ldquoi think his driving force at this time mdash and also his folks mdash is to get his education And then he can do whatever he wants if he doesnrsquot go into (the golfing business) immediately he will always have it as a backuprdquo

Sounds an awful lot like the advice Thomas Mundle offered his son back in the spring of 1952 when Al Mundle wanted to leave school after his sophomore year and test his wings on the PGA Tour And as we now know all these years later staying in school worked out pretty well for Al

Jim Buchan is a sports writer for the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin He can be reached at jimbuchanwwubcom

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Join us for a night of wonder with elizabethan-inspired food fashion and merriment to celebrate the opening of walla wallarsquos power house theatre and prepare for a four-day run of seattle shakespeare companyrsquos ldquothe merry wives of windsorrdquo

walla walla lifestyles will present a fashion show with wicked and wistful gowns twisted braided hair and smoldering makeup designs designers include red eden designs autumnlin design and others

semi-formal attire creative masks encouraged this exclusive evening will enchant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fashion

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530 - 9 pm May 18 2011

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My director Terry Edward Moore told me his only direction from the artistic director was that it be ldquoperiodrdquo that is to say authentic to the time

ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo is the only one of Shakespearersquos plays that is set in his own time so it was decided to present it as if the actors were people of the time doing what would be a contemporary (to the late 16th century) play

i started to research the clothing of the time how it was constructed and what kinds of fabrics were available at the time mdash linens homespuns woolens for the common people and silks damasks velvets and furs for the upper classes i discovered that Elizabethan society was strictly regulated in terms of social classes and upward mobility was a little-known concept Once a yeoman always a yeoman i also discovered the set of rules and regulations called ldquosumptuary lawsrdquo which specifically dictated what types of fabrics trims furs and even what colors each class was allowed to wear

Since there are three distinct classes represented in ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo mdash merchant class soldiers and servants mdash i tried to give each class its own color palette based on these laws The overall palette of the show is based on colors actually in use at the time

The availability of dyes was limited (except for the nobility) so the palette consists of many shades of yellows and browns russets black some greens and blue-grays and of course wheat-colored unbleached linen i turned to the Dutch painter Brueghel for inspiration on how the common people looked and dressed

i also researched what kinds of dyes were used and where they came from Dyes were created from all sorts of different things such as walnut shell crushed beetles and all kinds of roots i found a website that sells these authentic dyestuffs so irsquom using the real thing to dye some of the linen pieces and will coordinate the contemporary fabrics to these authentic colors

Nearly every piece will need something done to it mdash altered in some way to fit the actor re-trimmed rigged invisibly for quick changes etc mdash so there is a lot of labor involved Also hats were a hugely important part of Elizabethan fashion all the way down to the poorest serf

Certain styles of hats were often associated with certain professions mdash eg doctors scholars mdash so there are a number of hats to build as well as headpieces for the women No self-respecting woman went about with her head uncovered

Putting together a show like this is like putting together a giant jigsaw puzzle and the pieces are the costumes that irsquove borrowed and rented from other theater companies in the Seattle area such as Seattle repertory Seattle Opera and the University of Washington as well as pieces from Oregon Shakespeare Festival i design the show and then go out into the world and try to find pieces that approximate my designs and palette as closely as possible (usually with some reworking first) The pieces that i cant find and dont want to compromise on i build from scratch

deane middLeton is a theatre costume professional who works in the Seattle area She has done costumes for Issaquahrsquos Village Theater as well as several productions of the Seattle Shakespeare Company

ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 29

ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo was the only one of Shakespearersquos works set in his own time the 1600s and features Sir John Falstaff It also deals primarily with english middle-class life A hilarious bawdy comedy filled with insight into the life and times of Shakespeare ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo will delight people of all ages

About the play

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But thatrsquos exactly what longtime Walla Walla resident Larry Adams did for four years He was one of a select group of pilots for Marine One the helicopter counterpart of the presidential airplane Air Force One from 1970 to 1974

30 Walla Walla LifestyLes

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 31

Long before Adams became the Walla Walla Airport manager he was transporting heads of state foreign dignitaries famous (and now infamous) Cabinet members the executive staff and President richard M Nixon during one of the nationrsquos most turbulent times the withdrawal from vietnam and the Watergate scandal

But to Adams a native of Northern idaho all that swirled around the Nixon presidency was the least of his concerns His job was to transport the president safely to Andrews Air Force Base or Camp David or fly any short flight required Safety always at a premium End of story

Many times Adams ferried President Nixon and his staff on short flights far away from home Air Force One might fly President Nixon to a summit or a meeting with a foreign head of state but Marine One and Adams were always nearby to shuttle the chief executive on short flights or to whisk him away from sudden danger

Pretty heady stuff for a fourth-grade teacher who had never thought about flying until a Marine recruiter offered him the opportunity Although Adams had watched planes take off and land at a nearby air base as a child he had never given serious thought to flying it was more a need for a bigger paycheck than passion that brought Adams to his destiny

He liked teaching but it just wasnrsquot paying the bills So Adams turned to the military and the Gi Bill After being unimpressed by other recruiters Adams took a liking to the fellow from the Marines for as Adams recalls the recruiter took an interest in him After about an hour of talking the recruiter suggested Adams might have the potential to be a pilot

Having easily passed some preliminary tests Adams was sent to flight school in Pensacola Fla and a stellar career was ready to take off He performed well in all the aircraft he piloted but he showed a special skill for helicopters

Up until 1965 fixed-wing airplanes were the staple of all military air combat But the military had been gearing up for a big change The helicopter was to become a major part of combat The Pentagon had been developing helicopters that would do much more than transport troops to bases Now they would assist in bombing

raids ground attacks and the evacuation of the injured from the point of combat This new breed of helicopters would also possess the ability to fight back and not be lame ducks as before the new H34 would tote machine guns on each side

These cutting-edge aircraft would travel at unprecedented speeds with newly discovered agility Gifted pilots were needed not those who merely possessed superior technical skills but those who also had the composure to fly straight into

enemy fire in the dead of night picking up injured soldiers or aiding air attacks

Adams was one of those pilots and he would be one of two squadron leaders for ldquoOperation Starliterdquo mdash the first major assault using helicopters The Marines were going straight into a North vietnamese regimental stronghold No one knew what to expect

ldquoWe lost a lot that first time inrdquo says Adams ldquoTwo crew chiefs were killed

Continued on pg 32 gt

In this newspaper clipping Larry Adams poses on the steps of the helicopter dubbed Marine One which he piloted for President Richard M Nixon

32 Walla Walla LifestyLes

people ltcontinued from pg 31

four pilots were medevaced out because of their wounds i donrsquot think there was one helicopter that didnrsquot have a bunch of holes in it The one i flew in we got a lot of rounds in it Amazingly no one was hurt but when we got back the helicopter was so shot-up you couldnrsquot fly it anymore We lost 50 percent of our helicopters that dayrdquo

in the next 13 months Adams would fly many more missions often heading straight into anti-aircraft fire to pick up injured or killed soldiers He says he would see the flares signifying where the copter was supposed to land but frequently hersquod have to veer off because ground communication would say ldquoThe artillery is too hotrdquo Then there would be a window maybe two minutes maybe five when the helicopter could drop in and pick up the injured often being shot at as it waited for its passengers

Adams knew the best way to survive was to keep his focus ldquoin the daylight when you start your run in and yoursquore getting shot at Everything went to black and white for me i didnrsquot notice the green trees or the green rice paddies until we got out of there and then it would come back

to me i donrsquot know what that was i just didnrsquot see the colors irsquove talked to some other pilots and they described the same thingrdquo

in his two tours of duty in vietnam Adams would fly 880 combat missions in several types of helicopters and fixed-wing airplanes He received numerous medals including two Navy commendations for performance under combat conditions

Then the call came to fly for the president Before Adams could tote the commander in chief around in Marine One a thorough background check had to be done So thorough was the check that Adams said a friend from his hometown sent him a card that read ldquoAre you in some kind of trouble Jesus therersquos been a bunch of people around here with the dark grey suits and the skinny little ties Theyrsquore asking all these embarrassing questions about you like did you have drinking problem Did you have a gambling problem Do you know what Larryrsquos sexual preference wasrdquo

Adams chuckles ldquoit was pretty funnyrdquoAdams passed the grade and soon

he was flying President Nixon and his family to Camp David or picking up vice

President Spiro Agnew at the Pentagon or taking Secretary of State Henry kissinger or Secretary of Defense Alexander Haig to a classified meeting Although his flights varied from transporting foreign heads of state to flying members of the press the majority involved the president the vice president kissinger and Haig

The pilots did not speak to their travelers unless spoken to says Adams President Nixon usually looked in and asked them how they were kissinger never spoke Haig was good for a pat on the shoulder now and then but it was Agnew who conversed the most says Adams

Adams remembers ldquoOne time we picked him up at the Pentagon and we had taken off and had hit top altitude He usually would come up and look into the cockpit but this time he patted me on the shoulder and asked lsquoWell howrsquos it going today guysrsquordquo Adams replied ldquoNot bad sir and how about yourselfrdquo

Agnew answered ldquoMan they are really after my assrdquo He was talking about the press Adams says ldquoTwo weeks later he resignedrdquo

Adams recalls that his encounters with Agnew as defying the public perception

Adams far right gives instructions before a mission in Vietnam

Walla Walla LifestyLes 33

that Agnew was arrogant ldquoHe was always one of the nicest guys He was straightforward He looked like he had just stepped off the cover of Gentlemenrsquos Quarterly all the time He was very proper in the way he dressed but he had a sense of humor as wellrdquo

There were other humorous moments Adams recalls a certain reporter from CBS who had been a major thorn in President Nixonrsquos side was late for takeoff from the South Lawn of the White House one morning Just as Marine One was about to leave without him he came running across the lawn hollering and waving his arms The Secret Service agent supervising the flight told Adams to ldquojust gordquo The wind from the propellers whipped the reporterrsquos toupee right off his head and instead of continuing his run toward Marine One he reversed his field and tried feverishly to retrieve his toupee snagged in the hedges

ldquoEveryone got a pretty good chuckle out of thatrdquo

Of course there were somber times At one point Adams flew Cabinet members John Ehrlichman and Hr Haldeman to Camp David for a meeting with the president After only 15 minutes the two men returned and Marine One headed home Adams says it was a quiet flight He found out later the two men had been fired by President Nixon for their parts in the Watergate scandal

Whisking the president away from danger was a major part of being a pilot of Marine One Stationed across the river from the Capitol pilots awakened by an emergency alert had to be up in the air in five minutes This exercise was practiced often though never needed during Adamsrsquo tenure

One night however they thought it was The operator at the White House mistakenly hit the ldquoAlertrdquo button Marine One was in the air in five minutes

Although ground control had not spotted any enemy aircraft the operation was under way As Marine One closed in on the White House the operator at fault tried to alert everyone of his mistake but unfortunately used a poor choice of words to call off the operation

Adams chuckles as he says ldquoThe fella said lsquoThis is not an exercisersquo He was moved to another post i thinkrdquo

All levity aside the position required

the same kind of focus demanded of Adams in vietnam though it came in a different form

ldquoThere were three things the way you operated the aircraft and they were in this order safety comfort and speed Safety never gave in to comfort or speedrdquo says Adams ldquoOur job was just concentrating on doing our job it could have been anybody mdash we would do it the same way it could have been Fred Flintstone

ldquoThe difference between flying for the White House and in vietnam was we were flying a premier aircraft We had to keep it impeccably clean everything was scripted We had to have the lsquoopen-the-door timersquo down to two to four seconds in vietnam it was the stress of performing medevacs under fire or dropping troops under heavy artillery For Marine One it was the stress of doing the job rightrdquo

Also the stress of being away from onersquos family 200 days of the year wore on a Marine One pilot in 1974 after four years on the job the toll became too much and Adams stepped down

He would stay with the Marines for eight more years retiring in August 1982

By then he had received 44 Air Medals including the Joint Service Commendation and the Presidential Service Badge in his 20 years of service Adams flew seven different helicopters and five different fixed-wing planes

What makes an elite military pilot ldquoPilots who donrsquot have any misgivingsrdquo says Adams ldquoTheyrsquore totally prepared they know their aircraftrdquo

When talking about his colleagues on Marine One he adds ldquoNone were boasters They might brag about a great landing but they did not brag in spite of someone elserdquo

What did Adams love most about his flying days ldquoi enjoyed flying with the latest technology and the pristine quality of Marine One i loved the process of building my skills i could have flown another 40 years and i would still be learning thingsrdquo

is it any surprise his favorite hobby now is fly fishing

andrew hoLt writes about food people and all things Walla Walla for Walla Walla lifestyles magazine He can be reached at bruindrew86gmailcom

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it is astonishing in many ways mdash that we are presented with two weeks of top-drawer music performed by top-drawer musi-cians that there are so many ways to encounter the music (many of them free) and that a rural community has provided the incu-

bator for such a cultural undertaking to name but a fewGranted we are not your average rural community having two

colleges a university a symphony a choral society a community band and music in the schools but letrsquos face it wersquore not exactly a cosmopolitan center of culture like New york either The Cham-ber Music Festival mdash and our continued support of it through some tough times mdash puts us in a category all our own

ldquoi saw what was special about this community the first time i visited in 2007rdquo Artistic Director Timothy Christie says ldquoi have

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A young artistic composer pays close attention as Tim Christie uses his violin to interpret the boys piece of artwork into music on June 11 2009 Meanwhile other children work on their works of art in preparation for the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival quintets interpretations

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worked hard to start this event and to my great joy it has taken on an iden-tity of its own i hire the musicians and choose the music but the town its people and its environs make the festivalrdquo

The beauty of chamber music is its intimacy mdash smaller ensembles performing for smaller audiences it has been referred to as ldquothe music of friendsrdquo which seems so apt at this festival Free open rehearsals are held around town that provide not only a musical atmosphere in which to enjoy a latte or the ambiance of the kirkman House but which give a richer look into the machinations of a working ensemble

As one enthusiastic fan puts it ldquoi am not a musician and itrsquos fascinat-ing to watch these rehearsals to see the interactions of the musicians as they work out the snags make wry remarks and relate to each other in a whole different way than during a for-mal performance i get a glimpse into their personalities and what makes them tickrdquo

The festival supplies a generous of-fering of venues with free concerts for children and families relaxed evening programs at wineries and full concerts at the Foundry Chism Hall and Day-tonrsquos Liberty Theater

if you are lucky enough to live near the musiciansrsquo lodgings while they are in town you may also be treated to an ad hoc front-porch concert as the ensembles continue their rehearsals in more private settings The festival is about all of these ways mdash planned and accidental mdash to experience the enchantment of chamber music

it is also about historic continuity and the connection between past and present mdash relishing the existing canon while expanding the genre with con-temporary forms and voices

How is this accomplished in part by the annual commission of a new piece of music for the festival Chris-tie is committed to contributing to the broader chamber music repertoire and to providing the audience with the richest possible experience

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ldquoFor classical music to be relevant there must be a conversation between the music of our time and the music of the pastrdquo he says

By commissioning a work for the festi-val each year Christie creates such a con-versation

This year the commission was given to John David Earnest Four festival commis-sions have preceded his and he is the sec-ond ldquolocalrdquo composer to be tapped add-ing another layer of relationship between community and event (in 2009 Whitman College professor David Glenn was given the nod)

As visiting adjunct professor of music at Whitman Earnest resides here for six weeks every semester His ldquoSecond Sym-phonyrdquo was written for and performed by the Walla Walla Symphony in October 2001

The challenge for the yearly commis-sionee is to compose a piece on demand within specific constraints of time place and instrumentation while expressing hisher own voice as an artist

Earnest has created ldquoCommedia Gal-leryrdquo a set of three movements for flute

viola and harp based on stock characters from the Commedia dellrsquoArte a popu-lar theatrical form that was influential in Europe for over 300 years Commedia characters improvised dialogue around set scenarios generally involving the struggles of young lovers to overcome hindrances to their romance and each character even-tually came to have a consistent set of at-tributes in speech mannerisms and cos-tume

Earnestrsquos ldquoGalleryrdquo gives us Arlecchi-no (Harlequin) an acrobatic and devious jester Pierrot the classic sad clown and finally Scaramouche a dandy and a brag-gart who is a coward at heart

in anticipation of this yearrsquos festival i am reminded of the scene in ldquoThe Music Manrdquo in which the town awaits the ar-rival of the Wells Fargo Wagon Potentially heaped with gifts and surprises it prom-ises connection to the larger world The WWCMF brings us all ldquosomethinrsquo specialrdquo mdash an enrichment of our community and our culture

margaret Jamison is an artist and writer living in Walla Walla Contact her at artjamisongmailcom

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Smith has gardened for years at his home at 38 Mulberry Court in College Place He used to grow vegetables and flowers now he is strictly focusing on flowers mdash with fabulous results roses delphiniums and lots of irises line the fence

ldquoirises mdash irsquove always enjoyed themrdquo he says ldquoThey take a little bit of weeding and watering but not much morerdquo itrsquos the gardenerrsquos dream mdash low maintenance with a big return

A retired orthopedic surgeon Smith has in the past gardened more extensively than he does now But he has enough plants to keep him busy His new project is planting more of the reblooming iris These are still hardy but you get twice the reward they bloom in the spring then again in the fall

ldquoTheyrsquore easy to grow and spectacular for a short time iris take less care than a lot of thingsrdquo Smith says

His secret for gardening is simple and therersquos no getting around it ldquoTime and workrdquo he laughs

Hersquos getting ready to start in the garden ldquoi need to clean out the leaves and the old foliage of the irisrdquo

in addition to the basic cleaning and maintenance Smith just decides how many plants to keep Bulb flowers are hardy and they multiply on their own

ldquoAfter five years you usually have to separate the bulbs when they get too thick i donrsquot have room to add more i put in the new re-blooming onesrdquo he explains ldquoi may add more and a few other thingsrdquo

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itrsquos an odd location since it can only be seen as yoursquore leaving town but it always makes me smile This valley my adopted home is indeed a great place to be

i recently finished reading the great Western writer Wallace Stegnerrsquos book ldquoThe Sound of Mountain Waterrdquo One of his essays traces his nomadic childhood which left him feeling rootless and without a place that he felt he could call home

i identify with his feeling of not belonging i was born to a single woman from Massachusetts in a New york City hospital i stayed a scant few days before being placed with an adoption agency Born in a place i had no familial connection to i was immediately deprived of my biological family Most of my childhood was spent in suburban Cleveland Ohio Moves to upstate New york New England and Pennsylvania brought me no closer to calling any place home i loved living in the western Massachusetts town of Stockbridge but the multigenerational denizens of the town left few openings for newcomers like me i lived in central Pennsylvania for several decades but felt detached from the deep roots that most people had in the area

When we came west (for my husband a homecoming to his Oregon roots for me a new experience) i noticed that even in long-established towns like Walla Walla there is ample room for newcomers who want to be

part of the community And most folks who choose to come here donrsquot seem to want to change the valley they prefer to embrace it

While the occasional newbie whines about the lack of Whole Foods or Nordstrom they soon discover our farmers markets the wide variety of local shops and boutiques and our world-class restaurants They fall in love with our charming downtowns the small-town friendliness of the people and our kid-friendly environment Then therersquos the holiday parade the fair the ever-present Blue Mountains the parks the museums the wineries mdash really whatrsquos not to like The communities of our valley represent America at its best

irsquom a newspaper junkie i love to read everything from news to sports to classifieds mdash even the obituaries The obits are a fascinating window on our valley Many of the people chronicled were born here some lived all their lives here inextricably bound to this place But a number of people came here from other places often far away and have made a mark on our area Which makes me wonder mdash is a place any less of a hometown because you choose it or is it based primarily on the happenstance of your birth it seems that therersquos room for both paths to calling this wonderful valley home

itrsquos also our strength because collectively as a community we bring both deep familial and cultural traditions as well as the fresh perspective of newcomers to our area irsquom glad mdash after decades of searching mdash that i finally found my hometown a place that feels just right

diane reed can be reached at ladybookearthlinknet Between columns and when the spirit moves her she blogs at wwwponderingsbydianereedblogspotcom from her home overlooking the pond at lions Park in College Place

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Maymay 1The annual Kennel Club Dog Show Walla Walla County Fairgrounds De-tails 509-558-3854

The Walla Walla University Drama Department pres-ents a performance of ldquoMy Fair ladyrdquo 2 pm matinee Details 509-527-2656

The Walla Walla Choral Society presents ldquoJubilate Deordquo 3 pm May 1 Walla Walla University Church College Place Details 509-386-2445

The Walla Walla Valley Farmers Market opens local produce artisans and an outdoor concert 9 am-1 pm Saturdays and Sundays through Oct 30 Crawford Park Fourth ave and Main St Details gowallawallafarmersmar-ketcom or 509-520-3647

through may 22Enjoy the annual Senior art Thesis Exhibition Sheehan Gallery Whitman College Details 509-527-5249

through JuLy 31The Tamaacutestslikt Cultural In-stitute hosts the traveling OMSI exhibit ldquoamazing Feats of agingrdquo explor-ing the mysteries of why animals and humans age Details 541-966-9748

may 4The YWCa leadership luncheon ldquoMatters that Matterrdquo is informational and inspirational with guest speakers Kristine Van Raden and Molly Da-vis Noon Marcus Whit-man Hotel Details 509-525-2570

Walla Walla Wine Works hosts music on Wednes-days downtown Details 509-522-1261

may 5First Thursday Concert at St Pauls Episcopal Church 323 Catherine Street Walla Walla 1215-1250 pm will feature the Steel Drum Band from Walla Walla Uni-versity directed by Brandon Beck Details 529-1083

The Whitman College Visit-ing Writers Reading series presents Whitman Reading 7 pm Kimball Theatre De-tails whitmanedu

may 5-7 12-14Walla Walla High School Drama Department pres-ents ldquoFiddler on the Roofrdquo musical version 7 pm and 2 pm matinee on Saturdays May 7 and 14 Walla Walla High School Performing arts audito-rium Details Tickets can be reserved by calling 509-526-8613 the Wa-Hi box office

may 5-8 19-21a performance of ldquoThe 25th a nnua l Putnam County Spelling Beerdquo 8 pm Harper Joy Theatre Whitman College Details 509-527-5180

may 6-7Music on the weekends at the Backstage Bistro De-tails 509-526-0690

Sapolil Cellars hosts music on Friday and Saturday De-tails 509-520-5258

The Wildfire hosts music every Friday and Saturday Wildhorse Resort amp Casino Pendleton Details 800-654-9453

may 6-8Walla Walla Valley Winer-ies offer an opportunity to taste their new creations during Spring Release Weekend area wineries introduce new wines and winemakers share their creative inspiration Details 509-526-3117

may 6artWalK First Fridays May through December Visit galleries and chat with art-ists 5-8 pm Downtown Walla Walla Visit artwalk-wallawallacom

may 6-8 13-14The little Theatre presents ldquoalice In Wonderlandrdquo adapted from lewis Carroll 8 pm Friday-Saturday 2 pm Sunday little Theatre of Walla Walla Details 509-529-3683

may 7The annual Junior Horse Show brings great riding action to Milton-Freewater Pioneer Posse Grounds Details 541-938-3379

Daytonrsquos annual Street Sale turns a section of Third Street into a giant yard sale benefits churches and com-munity projects Dayton Details 509-382-4825

artist reception and dem-onstration Washington art-ist Dwight Duke exhibits his painting bronze sculptures and gunpowder light pan-els 6-730 pm Reininger Winery Details 509-522-1994

may 8Every Sunday the living History actors portray in-dividuals from the arearsquos past 2 pm Fort Walla Walla Museum Details 509-525-7703

may 13-15The annual Balloon Stam-pede brings as many as 50 hot-air balloons to the Walla Walla County Fairgrounds This colorful festival re-mains a Valley tradition Ear-ly morning flights (weather permitting) arts amp crafts antique autos commercial booths live entertainment and food Balloons light up to music at the Saturday evening Nite Glow Details 509-525-0850

may 14annual adult event cele-brates the characters who populated Pendletonrsquos past Must have reservations Pendleton Underground Tours Details 800-226-6398

may 14-15 may 27-29Walla Walla Drag Strip con-tinues the weekend fun Details wwdragstripcom or 509-200-6287

may 15Walla Walla University Chamber Series featuring Robyn McCabe 730 pm MKW Fine arts auditorium Details 509-527-2571

may 18To celebrate the opening of Walla Wallarsquos Power House Theatre and a four-day run of Seattle Shakespeare Companyrsquos ldquoThe Merry Wives of WindsorrdquoWalla Walla lifestyles will pres-ent a gala event This exclusive evening will en-chant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fash-ion from 530-9 pm at the Power House Theatre Sixth amp Rose Walla Walla To purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewalla-wallacom

may 19-21During Pendletonrsquos Cattle Baron Weekend enjoy an art exhibit by a talented group of women artists ldquoIn the Company of Cowgirlsrdquo Hamleyrsquos Steakhouse Pendleton Visit inthecom-panyofcowgirlscom or call 541-676-5013

may 19-22Whitman College 50th Reunion class of 1961 Whitman College Details 509-527-5952

Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merr y Wives of Windsorrdquo Pow-erhouse Theater Details 509-742-0739

may 21The annual Ducky Derby is a day of family fun all for a good cause Watch the ducks race down Mill Creek to help fund the Exchange Clubrsquos efforts at preventing child abuse and neglect 1130 am-330 pm Race at about 2 pm Walla Walla Community College De-tails 509-527-4300

Walla Walla University Spring Choral Concert 5 pm Walla Walla Univer-sity Church Details 509-527-2571

learn to contra dance an old-fashioned coun-try dance Music by the Wednesday Night Band 7 pm teaching and practice 730 pm regular dance Unity Church of Peace 810

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may 22The Whitman College graduating class of 2011 accepts the challenge 11 am Memorial lawn Whitman College Details 509-527-5156

may 26 27 28 29Walla Walla Community College Theatre arts De-partment presents ldquoZoot Suitrdquo by luis Valdez 7 pm each night and Sunday 2 pm matinee W WCC Performing arts Center Details 509-527-4575

may 27-30 Dayton Days has been a Memorial Weekend tradi-tion in Dayton for nearly 100 years Highlights include a Saturday-morning parade on historic Main Street rodeo tour of Dayton and Memorial Day Fun Run De-tails 509-382-4825 or visit historicdaytoncom

may 28-30The Touchet River Roundup mdash the annual Celebration of Sobriety at the fairgrounds focuses on family fun ac-tivities Waitsburg Details 509-526-3602

may 29annual Onion Man Tria-thalon 9 am Bennington lake Details wwmulti-sportscom or call 509-529-9187

may 30Waitsburgrsquos annual Memo-rial Day celebration hosted by veterans for all veterans Details 509-337-6546

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This sculptural cornucopia marks the spot where all of Walla Walla meets the producers and wersquore not talking about the Zero Mostel and Gene Wild-er musical For you GPS fans latitude 4606678 N longitude 11834197 W

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The sculpture tops the farmers market gazebo on the corner of Fourth Avenue North and West Main Street

Contestensprulesif you have the answer e-mail it to rickdoylewwubcom or send it to Where in Walla Walla 112 S 1st Ave PO Box 1358 Walla Walla WA 99362 The names of 10 people with correct answers will be randomly selected and they will receive this great-looking mug as proof of their local knowledge and good taste

Annette CarterShirley richterDebbie FullenJudy CarlsonEloise Phillips

Dan Countsvicky ScanlonJanet TurnerTam LennoxBruce Campbell

46 Walla Walla LifestyLes

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2 Basel cellars estate winery2901 Old Milton Hwy (509) 522-0200 wwwbaselcellarscom

3 Bergevin Lane vineyards 1215 W Poplar St (509) 526-4300 bergevinlanecom

4 Bunchgrass winery151 Bunchgrass lane (509) 540-8963 wwwbunchgrasswinerycom

5 canoe ridge vineyard1102 W Cherry St (509) 527-0885 wwwcanoeridgevineyardcom

6 castillo de feliciana85728 Telephone Pole Road Milton-Freewater OR (541) 558-3656 wwwcastillodefelicianacom

7 don carlo vineyardBy appointment Only (509) 540-5784 wwwdoncarlovineyardcom

8 dunham cellars150 E Boeing ave (509) 529-4685 wwwdunhamcellarscom

9 five star cellars 840 C St (509) 527-8400 wwwfivestarcellarscom

10 forgeron cellars 33 W Birch St (509) 522-9463 wwwforgeroncellarscom

21 sapolil cellars15 E Main St (509) 520-5258 wwwsapolilcellarscom

22 seven hills winery 212 N Third ave (509) 529-7198 wwwsevenhillswinerycom

23 sinclair estate vineyards 109 E Main Ste 100 (509) 876-4300 wwwsinclairestatevineyardscom

24 spring valley vineyard 18 N Second ave (509) 525-1506 wwwspringvalleyvineyardcom

25 suLei cellars355 S Second ave (503) 529-0840 www suleicellarscom

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11 foundry vineyards Corner of 13th ave and abadie St (509) 529-0736 wwwwallawallafoundrycomvineyards

12 fort walla walla cellars 127 E Main St (509) 520-1095 wwwfortwallawallacellarscom

13 glencorrie8052 Old Highway 12 (509) 525-2585 wwwglencorriecom

14 grantwood winery 2428 W Highway 12 (509) 301-0719 (509) 301-9546

15 Lrsquoecole no 41 winery41 lowden School Road and US Hwy 12 (509) 525-0940 wwwlecolecom

16 Long shadows1604 Frenchtown Road (Formerly Ireland Road) (509) 526-0905 wwwlongshadowscom By invitation only Requests accepted on a limited basis Please call to inquire

17 Lowden hills winery1401 W Pine St (509) 527-1040 wwwlowdenhillswinerycom

18 northstar winery 1736 JB George Road (509) 524-4883 wwwnorthstarmerlotcom

19 pepper Bridge winery1704 JB George Road (509) 525-6502 wwwpepperbridgecom

20 robison ranch cellars2839 Robison Ranch Road (509) 301-3480 robisonranchcellarscom

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26 syZygy 405 E Boeing ave (509) 522-0484 wwwsyzygywinescom

27 three rivers winery5641 Old Highway 12 (509) 526-9463 infoThreeRiversWinerycom

28 tertulia cellars1564 Whiteley Road (509) 525-5700 wwwtertuliacellarscom

29 trust cellars 1050 Merlot Drive (509) 529-4511 wwwtrustcellarscom

30 va piano vineyards1793 JB George Road (509) 529-0900 wwwvapianovineyardscom

31 walla walla vintnersVineyard lane off Mill Creek Road (509) 525-4724 wwwwallawallavintnerscom

32 walla walla wineworks31 E Main St (509) 522-1261 wwwwallawallawineworkscom

33 whitman cellars1015 W Pine St (509) 529-1142 wwwwhitmancellarscom

34 woodward canyon winery11920 W Hwy 12 lowden (509) 525-4129 wwwwoodwardcanyoncom

35 JLc winery425 B St (509) 301-5148

36 saviah cellars1979 JB George Rd

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E St

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Mill Creek Rd

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ilton

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Tumac MachineryWalla Walla

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 11

Born in Miami and then raised in Central Los Angeles by her Cuban-born parents Medica learned her craft by observing her mother work in the kitchen Of all Medicarsquos culinary creations it is her Cuban flan dessert that receives the most requests

ldquoEveryone in the family would always request it especially my nieces and nephewrdquo Medica says sitting at her dining room table the freshly presented flan resting in front of her ldquoMy bro can easily eat half of itrdquo

And the flan does not remain uneaten for long as i sit down with the Walla Walla businesswoman and her daughter Elizabeth to discuss and taste this delicacy Minutes after we begin our conversation nephew Nick arrives and quickly wolfs down two servings

irsquove already finished my first and am working on my second when we begin our conversation

LifEStyLES With both of your parents being Havana natives did you eat Cuban food exclusively

MEDiCa No but in the early days Thanksgiving was pretty different My mom would fix the turkey but shersquod serve it with black beans and white rice Wersquod be ldquoAh mom canrsquot we have regular Thanksgiving food like mashed potatoes and yamsrdquo Those came later as we lived in the States longer

LifEStyLES So the food changed as you kids grew older

MEDiCa Well my mom was always pretty good at American food but sometimes it wasnrsquot all the way like she made American spaghetti but she put chicken in it it was good but my brother would always complain that it didnrsquot have meatballs Now he misses the chicken

LifEStyLES How many kids do you have in the family

MEDiCa i have an older brother and a younger sister irsquom the middle one We didnrsquot have a normal childhood in the sense that my mom was a hairstylist at home and on Saturday mornings customers would start arriving at 8 And she had one of those big old hair dryers

Continued on pg 12 gt

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102255

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Open Daily 10 am to 5 pm1979 JB George Road bull Walla Walla Washington

5095205166 bull wwwsaviahcellarscom

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12 Walla Walla LifestyLes

that you put over someonersquos head mdash we called it ldquoFidel Castrordquo mdash and yoursquod have these customers yelling at the top of their voice while they were under it So i never got to sleep in

LifEStyLES it sounds like your mother was quite a lady

MEDiCa i recently found some of her original recipes you know in her own handwriting One of them is for croquetta which was really good you take chicken with corned beef and grind them up bread it and then fry it itrsquos really goodrdquo

LifEStyLES Why do you like the flan so much

MEDiCa Because everyone in the family always requested it i make it a little different The way i make it it is a little more creamy because i use cream cheese itrsquos more like a custard Many times in Mexican restaurants the flan will be more jello-y This is almost like cheesecake

LifEStyLES is it strictly for dessert

MEDiCa yes itrsquos for special occasions

LifEStyLES Like birthdays and parties

MEDiCa yes itrsquos not light you canrsquot have too much or your stomach will start to ache

LifEStyLES Does it take a long time to prepare

MEDiCa Not really Making the caramel sauce takes the most time and you canrsquot take your eyes off it or it might burn

LifEStyLES Tastes like it didnrsquot burn

MEDiCa No i had lots of help My daughter Elizabeth (and she glances over at her youngest child) helped me a lot

andrew hoLt writes about food people and all things Walla Walla for Walla Walla lifestyles magazine He can be reached at bruindrew86gmailcom

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1 can evaporated milk1 can sweetened condensed milk1 cup whole or two percent milk6 eggs1 to 2 teaspoons vanilla extract14 teaspoon salt4 ounces cream cheese

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1 to 1frac12 cup sugar

toenspmakeensptheenspcaramelenspsauce

Place the sugar in a saucepan on medium heat and stir until granules of sugar have liquified and the mixture takes on a caramel color

Pour the mixture into a mold coating the sides This must be done quickly because the mixture will harden also use oven mittens so you donrsquot burn your hands

Put aside

toenspmakeensptheenspflan

Preheat oven to 350 degreesIn a blender mix the sweetened condensed

milk frac12 can of evaporated milk and the milk eggs cream cheese salt and vanilla and blend on low

Pour out half the mixture into a bowl and pour in the remaining evaporated milk and blend

Pour contents of blender and bowl into mold and stir Cover with aluminum foil Crimp the edges of the foil around the mold to keep moisture out

Put the mold in a big cake pan and pour enough water around the mold for it to come part-way up the sides of the mold (we call that ldquobantildeo Mariacuteardquo) and bake for one hour plus 15 to 20 minutes

Use a knife to test done-ness mdash the knife should come out clean

When the flan is done baking let it rest and cool then place it in the refrigerator for 24 hours

The next day dip the mold in warm water before flipping the flan into a serving dish

Makes 12 servings

R EC IP E

food ltcontinued from pg 11

Walla Walla LifestyLes 13

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The old Frenchtown schoolhouse built in 1915 with the stately bell tower still stands it has been a historic fixture in the Walla Walla valley that many of us have grown up with even if we never attended classes there One can still stride up the long sidewalk to the large heavy carved doors with a feeling of reverence and trepidation mdash as if it were the first day of school mdash while imagining generations of children playing on the manicured grounds

in the 1970s the old schoolhouse classrooms found themselves empty of childrenrsquos laughter But in 1983 Jean and Baker Ferguson breathed new life into the old building founding what would become one of the premier wineries in Washington LrsquoEcole No 41

The name was historically im-portant in two ways ldquoLrsquoEcolerdquo French for ldquothe schoolrdquo recognized the French men and women who settled the area and ldquo41rdquo was the numerical designation of the school district

The Fergusonsrsquo first crush of 1983 was resting in the barrel when the following year they asked their elementary school-aged family members to draw an image that would best reflect the new project

The $100 prize went to an 8-year-old cousin whose watercolor interpretation of the old schoolhouse became the template for a wine label it became an iconic label known to wine lovers around the world

in 1989 the second generation of the family Jean and Bakerrsquos daughter and son-

in-law Megan and Martin (Marty) Clubb became the new proprietors of the winery Marty became the general manager and winemaker and would lead the small artisan winery to new heights mdash it would eventually produce more than 30000 cases annually

At the same time the Washington state wine industry was booming and would soon become the nationrsquos second-largest wine producer The area would become one of the premium wine-producing regions in the United States

Marty also became a pioneer in the

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Washington state wine industry as he became a founder and activist in many of the wine industryrsquos foundations and alliances The family-owned winery also partnered with some of the most prestigious vineyards in the state LrsquoEcole No 41 has been honored nine consecutive years by Wine amp Spirits magazine as ldquoWinery of the yearrdquo becoming the second Washington winery inducted into the Hall of Fame

There is a third-generation that has grown up around the winery and will eventually become caretakers of this legacy Meganrsquos and Martyrsquos children Jeanrsquos and Bakerrsquos grandchildren rebecca and riley Clubb had their own meaningful influence on the label with their childhood drawings on the labelrsquos chalkboard image

riley is a 2009 graduate of Whitman College and is employed at the winery rebecca is enrolled in Washington State Universityrsquos wine management program and expected to graduate in 2012

The winery will soon celebrate its 30th birthday The wines produced at the old schoolhouse are refined with true varietal character and can stand up against many coveted wines from France mdash and they have Now that LrsquoEcole is a top player in the world of wine the whimsical label on its bottles is no longer truly indicative of the sophisticated gold and dark-red liquids behind the glass

ldquoLooking to the future we wanted our label to reflect the winery we have becomerdquo says Marty Clubb

This year the winery will unveil a new label it will still depict the iconic schoolhouse but with deeper colors and a new texture There will be a distinct difference among the labels depending on the vineyards used Wines produced from Columbia valley vineyards will have a soft charcoal-colored background label and the labels for the wines produced from Walla Walla vineyards will be more sepia-toned

Another distinctive change will be the de-emphasizing of the ldquoNo 41rdquo as generations of wine lovers have often referred to the winery as ldquoLrsquoEcolerdquo

The new label will be a timeless reminder of the past as well as a welcome to future generations

catie mcintyre waLker blogs at wildwallawallawinewomanblogspotcom and be reached at wildwallawallawinewomancom

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it was 1954 the year he graduated from the University of Oregon and two female students from the university were interested in learning some of the finer points of the game

ldquoit was probably the worst lesson anybody has ever givenrdquo Mundle exclaimed shaking his head in dismay ldquoThese two young ladies were looking for some help and i worked with them for an hour-and-a-half And at the end of that time i said lsquoi have done such a poor job i will pay you for the time i have put you through this torturersquordquo

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 17

Painful as it was the lesson learned proved to be a career-launching moment for Mundle who dedicated himself to his trade and spent a lifetime in the golf business successfully working up and down the i-5 corridor as course operator teacher and player

Fifty-seven years after that first teaching debacle Mundle now 79 years old is retired and living in Walla Walla He and his wife Ann relocated here last summer determined to give up teaching golf and spend more time playing the game they both love

ldquoAfter all of these years of teaching i feel that this is the time to lay it asiderdquo Mundle said ldquoi will still do a little studying of the golf swing and methods and i will be involved with some of the other local professionals in some cracker-barrel sessions when they get together to discuss teaching methods problems and how to solve them

ldquoBut i really came here not to teach but to play some golfrdquo

That was the plan anyway before he was introduced to Walla Walla High School senior Jake Hanson who was looking for a little extra help with his game heading into his final year on the links as a Blue Devil

Terri Hanson Jakersquos mother was aware of Mundlersquos reputation as a teaching professional and heard through the grapevine he was living in Walla Walla

ldquoBeing the mom i am i called him one dayrdquo Terri remembered ldquoi told him that Jakersquos golf game was at a standstill i asked him to take a look at Jake and he agreed to come and meet us and get a feel for where Jake was at

ldquoHe did and before you knew it they were putting on our hardwood floors The next day they agreed to get together at Wine valley mdash they were there for four hours and it has been an amazing connection right from the beginning

ldquoAl is an amazing Christian man who is so well-respected in his fieldrdquo Terri added ldquoAnd he just demands respect irsquom seeing my son of 17 all of a sudden growing uprdquo

Mundle concedes he is intrigued by Hansonrsquos character and potential And

Under the watchful eye of Al Mundle Jake Hanson hits an iron shot

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Hanson holds his new mentor in high esteem

ldquoirsquove learned a tremendous amountrdquo Hanson said ldquoHe has a way of getting through to me in a positive way He got through to me that i am so much better than i thought i could be He has more confidence in me than i have in myself

ldquoHe has one of the best golf swings i have ever seen and he is still working on his own gamerdquo

Mundle said Hanson reminds him of former University of Oregon player Ben Crane who now plays on the PGA Tour Crane has been playing professionally since 2007 and earned nearly $3 million on the tour in 2010

ldquoi was Benrsquos swing coach at Oregon and Jake is somewhat similarrdquo Mundle said ldquoBen worked harder than anybody on the whole golf team He would put in as much

time as three or four others combined and Jake is very much the same way Hersquos very dedicatedrdquo

However Mundle insists that helping Hanson with his game is a one-time situation

After playing just six rounds of golf last year Mundle is determined that he and Ann will spend a lot more time on the golf course as they get acquainted with their new hometown

ldquoThatrsquos an all-time lowrdquo he said of the six rounds played in 2010 ldquoMostly it was the move and all mdash a new house putting in lawn fencing shelving in the garage mdash all the little things of getting settled

ldquoBut this was a good move for us We love it here We enjoy the weather and the people you can walk down the street and people look you in the eye and say lsquoHellorsquo i love that friendlinessrdquo

Mundle grew up in Eugene and graduated from University High School in 1950 He knew he said from the time he was in the seventh grade he wanted to make golf his lifersquos work

ldquoyou might say that i had a little parental directionrdquo Mundle said ldquoMy dad went to the University of St Andrews in Scotland and he played golf at the St Andrews Old Course And my mother also played golfrdquo

After high school Mundle enrolled at the University of Oregon and played three years of varsity golf during an era when there was no such thing as a golf scholarship

ldquoThe only thing we ever received was a half-a-dozen golf balls if we went into a tournamentrdquo Mundle recalled ldquoWhen i went to the NCAA Championships in Texas my senior year i was given a new

people ltcontinued from pg 17

Walla Walla LifestyLes 19

pair of golf shoes but that was itldquoWe bought all of our own gear mdash

clubs bags rain gear everything itrsquos a whole different ball game today They have everythingrdquo

At the end of his sophomore year at Oregon Mundle had it in his mind to ldquotest my golf on the PGA Tourrdquo he said But his father an English professor at the university discouraged him

ldquoHe said lsquoGet your education first then you can do whatever you wantrsquordquo Mundle said ldquoit was just as well i saved a lot of wear and tear mdash and money i was an Ok player but not of that caliberrdquo

Mundle still has fond memories of his collegiate playing career however

ldquoi played three years for the university mdash you werenrsquot allowed to play as freshmen mdash and Oregon always had fine golf teamsrdquo Mundle said ldquoit was mostly match

play then and i was there during the time that the school went seven straight years without losing a (team) dual matchrdquo

During his senior year Mundle qualified for the NCAA Championships in Houston From a field of about 160 players Mundle made it as far as the quarterfinal round

He graduated in 1954 with a degree in history which he said he never really used

ldquoMy dad was in the top one percent of his class at St Andrewsrdquo Mundle said ldquoMy mother was also in the top part of her class and my older brother Pete was in the top of his class And then i came alongrdquo

His first golf job was as an assistant pro at his home course the Laurelwood Golf Course a position he accepted shortly after graduating from UO This was when and where the infamous first golf lesson

occurredA two-year stint in the US Army took

Mundle away from his profession in 1955-56 But he managed to keep his golf game sharp as a member of the Fort knox golf team and in 1956 he was the runner-up in the Second Army tournament and he placed 13th in the All-Army tournament

Then it was back to the Willamette valley where he came into his own in the Portland area under head professionals Eddie Hogan at riverside Country Club and Bunny Mason at Columbia Edgewater

ldquoThose two people were very influential in my professional liferdquo Mundle said

ldquoEddie was a very fine teacher of the total golf operation and service was No 1 i learned how to run the pro shop how

Jake Hanson takes a few pointers on chipping from his instructor and mentor Al Mundle

Continued on pg 20 gt

20 Walla Walla LifestyLes

people ltcontinued from pg 19

to market and merchandise mdash everything from how to run the club service program to the electric cart program to basically running the golf course

ldquoBunny was also a very fine operator of a golf shop and i also learned a lot about teaching from Bunny Sometimes you go along in life and there are certain mentors who help you along the way Anybody who says they made it by themselves is not being honest with themselves We have all had someone who has given us a little boost along the wayrdquo

Mundle took his first head professional job in 1965 at Overlake Golf and Country Club in Bellevue where he remained until 1981 At that point he returned to Eugene and was the head pro at the Eugene Country Club for three years followed by a six-year stint at the Bear Creek Country Club in Seattle

He also spent a short time at a golf course in Cottage Grove Ore before moving back to Eugene for a third time in 1993 to become the director of golf instruction at the river ridge Golf Course He remained at river ridge until his retirement last summer During his time there he helped out as the swing coach at UO under then-head coach Steve Nosler

Through it all Mundle served as president of the Washington PGA and the Pacific Northwest PGA and was a member of several National PGA committees As a player he participated in the Oregon Washington and Pacific Northwest opens as well as the Washington and Oregon PGA events One of his highlights was winning the Oregon Senior PGA Match-Play Championships in Bend in 1993

ldquoi felt i had an obligation to participaterdquo Mundle said ldquoi played a lot of golf including many many pro-ams and i won a couple of assistant championshipsrdquo

in addition to Crane Mundle also helped shape the careers of Jeff Quinney and Eric Johnson both of whom are from the Eugene area

Quinney won the United States Amateur championship in 2000 and represented the US in the Walker Cup in 2001 He has appeared in 128 PGA Tour events since 2007 placing second twice and third twice

Johnson played several years on the Asian Tour and one on the Nationwide Tour He is now a head professional at a

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course in San rafael CalifldquoAnd there have been some others mdash

Brian Henninger Mike Gove a few others mdash who have called and wanted to discus their swingrdquo Mundle said ldquoNothing on a regular basis just one or two sessionsrdquo

is Hanson his next mdash and perhaps his last mdash prodigy

Thatrsquos a tricky question since Hanson came to golf late after a budding baseball career was derailed by a shoulder injury He was a first-team all-Big Nine Conference golf selection as a junior but has yet to qualify for state and his summer resume is thin because of his baseball background

Hansonrsquos original plan was to attend Walla Walla Community College and play golf for the Warriors with the hope of earning an NCAA Division i scholarship But he has since decided to enroll in Arizona State Universityrsquos Professional Golf Management program and try out for the ASU golf team as a walk on

ldquoMore than anything i think it came down to him evaluating his goalsrdquo said Jakersquos father Gary Hanson ldquoitrsquos everyonersquos dream to play on the PGA Tour but realistically he wants to be a golf pro and teach He loves

the gamerdquoAnd a degree in the PGM program

will provide Jake with the educational background he needs to be successful in any form of business his father added

Though his chances of making the ASU varsity team seem unlikely the PGM program provides a club golf team that participates in a series of tournaments throughout the year and gives Hanson a second playing option

And keeping your options open is optimum at this point Mundle said

ldquoi think his driving force at this time mdash and also his folks mdash is to get his education And then he can do whatever he wants if he doesnrsquot go into (the golfing business) immediately he will always have it as a backuprdquo

Sounds an awful lot like the advice Thomas Mundle offered his son back in the spring of 1952 when Al Mundle wanted to leave school after his sophomore year and test his wings on the PGA Tour And as we now know all these years later staying in school worked out pretty well for Al

Jim Buchan is a sports writer for the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin He can be reached at jimbuchanwwubcom

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Join us for a night of wonder with elizabethan-inspired food fashion and merriment to celebrate the opening of walla wallarsquos power house theatre and prepare for a four-day run of seattle shakespeare companyrsquos ldquothe merry wives of windsorrdquo

walla walla lifestyles will present a fashion show with wicked and wistful gowns twisted braided hair and smoldering makeup designs designers include red eden designs autumnlin design and others

semi-formal attire creative masks encouraged this exclusive evening will enchant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fashion

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My director Terry Edward Moore told me his only direction from the artistic director was that it be ldquoperiodrdquo that is to say authentic to the time

ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo is the only one of Shakespearersquos plays that is set in his own time so it was decided to present it as if the actors were people of the time doing what would be a contemporary (to the late 16th century) play

i started to research the clothing of the time how it was constructed and what kinds of fabrics were available at the time mdash linens homespuns woolens for the common people and silks damasks velvets and furs for the upper classes i discovered that Elizabethan society was strictly regulated in terms of social classes and upward mobility was a little-known concept Once a yeoman always a yeoman i also discovered the set of rules and regulations called ldquosumptuary lawsrdquo which specifically dictated what types of fabrics trims furs and even what colors each class was allowed to wear

Since there are three distinct classes represented in ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo mdash merchant class soldiers and servants mdash i tried to give each class its own color palette based on these laws The overall palette of the show is based on colors actually in use at the time

The availability of dyes was limited (except for the nobility) so the palette consists of many shades of yellows and browns russets black some greens and blue-grays and of course wheat-colored unbleached linen i turned to the Dutch painter Brueghel for inspiration on how the common people looked and dressed

i also researched what kinds of dyes were used and where they came from Dyes were created from all sorts of different things such as walnut shell crushed beetles and all kinds of roots i found a website that sells these authentic dyestuffs so irsquom using the real thing to dye some of the linen pieces and will coordinate the contemporary fabrics to these authentic colors

Nearly every piece will need something done to it mdash altered in some way to fit the actor re-trimmed rigged invisibly for quick changes etc mdash so there is a lot of labor involved Also hats were a hugely important part of Elizabethan fashion all the way down to the poorest serf

Certain styles of hats were often associated with certain professions mdash eg doctors scholars mdash so there are a number of hats to build as well as headpieces for the women No self-respecting woman went about with her head uncovered

Putting together a show like this is like putting together a giant jigsaw puzzle and the pieces are the costumes that irsquove borrowed and rented from other theater companies in the Seattle area such as Seattle repertory Seattle Opera and the University of Washington as well as pieces from Oregon Shakespeare Festival i design the show and then go out into the world and try to find pieces that approximate my designs and palette as closely as possible (usually with some reworking first) The pieces that i cant find and dont want to compromise on i build from scratch

deane middLeton is a theatre costume professional who works in the Seattle area She has done costumes for Issaquahrsquos Village Theater as well as several productions of the Seattle Shakespeare Company

ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo

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ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo was the only one of Shakespearersquos works set in his own time the 1600s and features Sir John Falstaff It also deals primarily with english middle-class life A hilarious bawdy comedy filled with insight into the life and times of Shakespeare ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo will delight people of all ages

About the play

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But thatrsquos exactly what longtime Walla Walla resident Larry Adams did for four years He was one of a select group of pilots for Marine One the helicopter counterpart of the presidential airplane Air Force One from 1970 to 1974

30 Walla Walla LifestyLes

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 31

Long before Adams became the Walla Walla Airport manager he was transporting heads of state foreign dignitaries famous (and now infamous) Cabinet members the executive staff and President richard M Nixon during one of the nationrsquos most turbulent times the withdrawal from vietnam and the Watergate scandal

But to Adams a native of Northern idaho all that swirled around the Nixon presidency was the least of his concerns His job was to transport the president safely to Andrews Air Force Base or Camp David or fly any short flight required Safety always at a premium End of story

Many times Adams ferried President Nixon and his staff on short flights far away from home Air Force One might fly President Nixon to a summit or a meeting with a foreign head of state but Marine One and Adams were always nearby to shuttle the chief executive on short flights or to whisk him away from sudden danger

Pretty heady stuff for a fourth-grade teacher who had never thought about flying until a Marine recruiter offered him the opportunity Although Adams had watched planes take off and land at a nearby air base as a child he had never given serious thought to flying it was more a need for a bigger paycheck than passion that brought Adams to his destiny

He liked teaching but it just wasnrsquot paying the bills So Adams turned to the military and the Gi Bill After being unimpressed by other recruiters Adams took a liking to the fellow from the Marines for as Adams recalls the recruiter took an interest in him After about an hour of talking the recruiter suggested Adams might have the potential to be a pilot

Having easily passed some preliminary tests Adams was sent to flight school in Pensacola Fla and a stellar career was ready to take off He performed well in all the aircraft he piloted but he showed a special skill for helicopters

Up until 1965 fixed-wing airplanes were the staple of all military air combat But the military had been gearing up for a big change The helicopter was to become a major part of combat The Pentagon had been developing helicopters that would do much more than transport troops to bases Now they would assist in bombing

raids ground attacks and the evacuation of the injured from the point of combat This new breed of helicopters would also possess the ability to fight back and not be lame ducks as before the new H34 would tote machine guns on each side

These cutting-edge aircraft would travel at unprecedented speeds with newly discovered agility Gifted pilots were needed not those who merely possessed superior technical skills but those who also had the composure to fly straight into

enemy fire in the dead of night picking up injured soldiers or aiding air attacks

Adams was one of those pilots and he would be one of two squadron leaders for ldquoOperation Starliterdquo mdash the first major assault using helicopters The Marines were going straight into a North vietnamese regimental stronghold No one knew what to expect

ldquoWe lost a lot that first time inrdquo says Adams ldquoTwo crew chiefs were killed

Continued on pg 32 gt

In this newspaper clipping Larry Adams poses on the steps of the helicopter dubbed Marine One which he piloted for President Richard M Nixon

32 Walla Walla LifestyLes

people ltcontinued from pg 31

four pilots were medevaced out because of their wounds i donrsquot think there was one helicopter that didnrsquot have a bunch of holes in it The one i flew in we got a lot of rounds in it Amazingly no one was hurt but when we got back the helicopter was so shot-up you couldnrsquot fly it anymore We lost 50 percent of our helicopters that dayrdquo

in the next 13 months Adams would fly many more missions often heading straight into anti-aircraft fire to pick up injured or killed soldiers He says he would see the flares signifying where the copter was supposed to land but frequently hersquod have to veer off because ground communication would say ldquoThe artillery is too hotrdquo Then there would be a window maybe two minutes maybe five when the helicopter could drop in and pick up the injured often being shot at as it waited for its passengers

Adams knew the best way to survive was to keep his focus ldquoin the daylight when you start your run in and yoursquore getting shot at Everything went to black and white for me i didnrsquot notice the green trees or the green rice paddies until we got out of there and then it would come back

to me i donrsquot know what that was i just didnrsquot see the colors irsquove talked to some other pilots and they described the same thingrdquo

in his two tours of duty in vietnam Adams would fly 880 combat missions in several types of helicopters and fixed-wing airplanes He received numerous medals including two Navy commendations for performance under combat conditions

Then the call came to fly for the president Before Adams could tote the commander in chief around in Marine One a thorough background check had to be done So thorough was the check that Adams said a friend from his hometown sent him a card that read ldquoAre you in some kind of trouble Jesus therersquos been a bunch of people around here with the dark grey suits and the skinny little ties Theyrsquore asking all these embarrassing questions about you like did you have drinking problem Did you have a gambling problem Do you know what Larryrsquos sexual preference wasrdquo

Adams chuckles ldquoit was pretty funnyrdquoAdams passed the grade and soon

he was flying President Nixon and his family to Camp David or picking up vice

President Spiro Agnew at the Pentagon or taking Secretary of State Henry kissinger or Secretary of Defense Alexander Haig to a classified meeting Although his flights varied from transporting foreign heads of state to flying members of the press the majority involved the president the vice president kissinger and Haig

The pilots did not speak to their travelers unless spoken to says Adams President Nixon usually looked in and asked them how they were kissinger never spoke Haig was good for a pat on the shoulder now and then but it was Agnew who conversed the most says Adams

Adams remembers ldquoOne time we picked him up at the Pentagon and we had taken off and had hit top altitude He usually would come up and look into the cockpit but this time he patted me on the shoulder and asked lsquoWell howrsquos it going today guysrsquordquo Adams replied ldquoNot bad sir and how about yourselfrdquo

Agnew answered ldquoMan they are really after my assrdquo He was talking about the press Adams says ldquoTwo weeks later he resignedrdquo

Adams recalls that his encounters with Agnew as defying the public perception

Adams far right gives instructions before a mission in Vietnam

Walla Walla LifestyLes 33

that Agnew was arrogant ldquoHe was always one of the nicest guys He was straightforward He looked like he had just stepped off the cover of Gentlemenrsquos Quarterly all the time He was very proper in the way he dressed but he had a sense of humor as wellrdquo

There were other humorous moments Adams recalls a certain reporter from CBS who had been a major thorn in President Nixonrsquos side was late for takeoff from the South Lawn of the White House one morning Just as Marine One was about to leave without him he came running across the lawn hollering and waving his arms The Secret Service agent supervising the flight told Adams to ldquojust gordquo The wind from the propellers whipped the reporterrsquos toupee right off his head and instead of continuing his run toward Marine One he reversed his field and tried feverishly to retrieve his toupee snagged in the hedges

ldquoEveryone got a pretty good chuckle out of thatrdquo

Of course there were somber times At one point Adams flew Cabinet members John Ehrlichman and Hr Haldeman to Camp David for a meeting with the president After only 15 minutes the two men returned and Marine One headed home Adams says it was a quiet flight He found out later the two men had been fired by President Nixon for their parts in the Watergate scandal

Whisking the president away from danger was a major part of being a pilot of Marine One Stationed across the river from the Capitol pilots awakened by an emergency alert had to be up in the air in five minutes This exercise was practiced often though never needed during Adamsrsquo tenure

One night however they thought it was The operator at the White House mistakenly hit the ldquoAlertrdquo button Marine One was in the air in five minutes

Although ground control had not spotted any enemy aircraft the operation was under way As Marine One closed in on the White House the operator at fault tried to alert everyone of his mistake but unfortunately used a poor choice of words to call off the operation

Adams chuckles as he says ldquoThe fella said lsquoThis is not an exercisersquo He was moved to another post i thinkrdquo

All levity aside the position required

the same kind of focus demanded of Adams in vietnam though it came in a different form

ldquoThere were three things the way you operated the aircraft and they were in this order safety comfort and speed Safety never gave in to comfort or speedrdquo says Adams ldquoOur job was just concentrating on doing our job it could have been anybody mdash we would do it the same way it could have been Fred Flintstone

ldquoThe difference between flying for the White House and in vietnam was we were flying a premier aircraft We had to keep it impeccably clean everything was scripted We had to have the lsquoopen-the-door timersquo down to two to four seconds in vietnam it was the stress of performing medevacs under fire or dropping troops under heavy artillery For Marine One it was the stress of doing the job rightrdquo

Also the stress of being away from onersquos family 200 days of the year wore on a Marine One pilot in 1974 after four years on the job the toll became too much and Adams stepped down

He would stay with the Marines for eight more years retiring in August 1982

By then he had received 44 Air Medals including the Joint Service Commendation and the Presidential Service Badge in his 20 years of service Adams flew seven different helicopters and five different fixed-wing planes

What makes an elite military pilot ldquoPilots who donrsquot have any misgivingsrdquo says Adams ldquoTheyrsquore totally prepared they know their aircraftrdquo

When talking about his colleagues on Marine One he adds ldquoNone were boasters They might brag about a great landing but they did not brag in spite of someone elserdquo

What did Adams love most about his flying days ldquoi enjoyed flying with the latest technology and the pristine quality of Marine One i loved the process of building my skills i could have flown another 40 years and i would still be learning thingsrdquo

is it any surprise his favorite hobby now is fly fishing

andrew hoLt writes about food people and all things Walla Walla for Walla Walla lifestyles magazine He can be reached at bruindrew86gmailcom

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it is astonishing in many ways mdash that we are presented with two weeks of top-drawer music performed by top-drawer musi-cians that there are so many ways to encounter the music (many of them free) and that a rural community has provided the incu-

bator for such a cultural undertaking to name but a fewGranted we are not your average rural community having two

colleges a university a symphony a choral society a community band and music in the schools but letrsquos face it wersquore not exactly a cosmopolitan center of culture like New york either The Cham-ber Music Festival mdash and our continued support of it through some tough times mdash puts us in a category all our own

ldquoi saw what was special about this community the first time i visited in 2007rdquo Artistic Director Timothy Christie says ldquoi have

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worked hard to start this event and to my great joy it has taken on an iden-tity of its own i hire the musicians and choose the music but the town its people and its environs make the festivalrdquo

The beauty of chamber music is its intimacy mdash smaller ensembles performing for smaller audiences it has been referred to as ldquothe music of friendsrdquo which seems so apt at this festival Free open rehearsals are held around town that provide not only a musical atmosphere in which to enjoy a latte or the ambiance of the kirkman House but which give a richer look into the machinations of a working ensemble

As one enthusiastic fan puts it ldquoi am not a musician and itrsquos fascinat-ing to watch these rehearsals to see the interactions of the musicians as they work out the snags make wry remarks and relate to each other in a whole different way than during a for-mal performance i get a glimpse into their personalities and what makes them tickrdquo

The festival supplies a generous of-fering of venues with free concerts for children and families relaxed evening programs at wineries and full concerts at the Foundry Chism Hall and Day-tonrsquos Liberty Theater

if you are lucky enough to live near the musiciansrsquo lodgings while they are in town you may also be treated to an ad hoc front-porch concert as the ensembles continue their rehearsals in more private settings The festival is about all of these ways mdash planned and accidental mdash to experience the enchantment of chamber music

it is also about historic continuity and the connection between past and present mdash relishing the existing canon while expanding the genre with con-temporary forms and voices

How is this accomplished in part by the annual commission of a new piece of music for the festival Chris-tie is committed to contributing to the broader chamber music repertoire and to providing the audience with the richest possible experience

Continued on pg 36 gt

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ldquoFor classical music to be relevant there must be a conversation between the music of our time and the music of the pastrdquo he says

By commissioning a work for the festi-val each year Christie creates such a con-versation

This year the commission was given to John David Earnest Four festival commis-sions have preceded his and he is the sec-ond ldquolocalrdquo composer to be tapped add-ing another layer of relationship between community and event (in 2009 Whitman College professor David Glenn was given the nod)

As visiting adjunct professor of music at Whitman Earnest resides here for six weeks every semester His ldquoSecond Sym-phonyrdquo was written for and performed by the Walla Walla Symphony in October 2001

The challenge for the yearly commis-sionee is to compose a piece on demand within specific constraints of time place and instrumentation while expressing hisher own voice as an artist

Earnest has created ldquoCommedia Gal-leryrdquo a set of three movements for flute

viola and harp based on stock characters from the Commedia dellrsquoArte a popu-lar theatrical form that was influential in Europe for over 300 years Commedia characters improvised dialogue around set scenarios generally involving the struggles of young lovers to overcome hindrances to their romance and each character even-tually came to have a consistent set of at-tributes in speech mannerisms and cos-tume

Earnestrsquos ldquoGalleryrdquo gives us Arlecchi-no (Harlequin) an acrobatic and devious jester Pierrot the classic sad clown and finally Scaramouche a dandy and a brag-gart who is a coward at heart

in anticipation of this yearrsquos festival i am reminded of the scene in ldquoThe Music Manrdquo in which the town awaits the ar-rival of the Wells Fargo Wagon Potentially heaped with gifts and surprises it prom-ises connection to the larger world The WWCMF brings us all ldquosomethinrsquo specialrdquo mdash an enrichment of our community and our culture

margaret Jamison is an artist and writer living in Walla Walla Contact her at artjamisongmailcom

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Smith has gardened for years at his home at 38 Mulberry Court in College Place He used to grow vegetables and flowers now he is strictly focusing on flowers mdash with fabulous results roses delphiniums and lots of irises line the fence

ldquoirises mdash irsquove always enjoyed themrdquo he says ldquoThey take a little bit of weeding and watering but not much morerdquo itrsquos the gardenerrsquos dream mdash low maintenance with a big return

A retired orthopedic surgeon Smith has in the past gardened more extensively than he does now But he has enough plants to keep him busy His new project is planting more of the reblooming iris These are still hardy but you get twice the reward they bloom in the spring then again in the fall

ldquoTheyrsquore easy to grow and spectacular for a short time iris take less care than a lot of thingsrdquo Smith says

His secret for gardening is simple and therersquos no getting around it ldquoTime and workrdquo he laughs

Hersquos getting ready to start in the garden ldquoi need to clean out the leaves and the old foliage of the irisrdquo

in addition to the basic cleaning and maintenance Smith just decides how many plants to keep Bulb flowers are hardy and they multiply on their own

ldquoAfter five years you usually have to separate the bulbs when they get too thick i donrsquot have room to add more i put in the new re-blooming onesrdquo he explains ldquoi may add more and a few other thingsrdquo

But in a garden you can always try something new or rearrange existing plants often with a spectacular outcome

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itrsquos an odd location since it can only be seen as yoursquore leaving town but it always makes me smile This valley my adopted home is indeed a great place to be

i recently finished reading the great Western writer Wallace Stegnerrsquos book ldquoThe Sound of Mountain Waterrdquo One of his essays traces his nomadic childhood which left him feeling rootless and without a place that he felt he could call home

i identify with his feeling of not belonging i was born to a single woman from Massachusetts in a New york City hospital i stayed a scant few days before being placed with an adoption agency Born in a place i had no familial connection to i was immediately deprived of my biological family Most of my childhood was spent in suburban Cleveland Ohio Moves to upstate New york New England and Pennsylvania brought me no closer to calling any place home i loved living in the western Massachusetts town of Stockbridge but the multigenerational denizens of the town left few openings for newcomers like me i lived in central Pennsylvania for several decades but felt detached from the deep roots that most people had in the area

When we came west (for my husband a homecoming to his Oregon roots for me a new experience) i noticed that even in long-established towns like Walla Walla there is ample room for newcomers who want to be

part of the community And most folks who choose to come here donrsquot seem to want to change the valley they prefer to embrace it

While the occasional newbie whines about the lack of Whole Foods or Nordstrom they soon discover our farmers markets the wide variety of local shops and boutiques and our world-class restaurants They fall in love with our charming downtowns the small-town friendliness of the people and our kid-friendly environment Then therersquos the holiday parade the fair the ever-present Blue Mountains the parks the museums the wineries mdash really whatrsquos not to like The communities of our valley represent America at its best

irsquom a newspaper junkie i love to read everything from news to sports to classifieds mdash even the obituaries The obits are a fascinating window on our valley Many of the people chronicled were born here some lived all their lives here inextricably bound to this place But a number of people came here from other places often far away and have made a mark on our area Which makes me wonder mdash is a place any less of a hometown because you choose it or is it based primarily on the happenstance of your birth it seems that therersquos room for both paths to calling this wonderful valley home

itrsquos also our strength because collectively as a community we bring both deep familial and cultural traditions as well as the fresh perspective of newcomers to our area irsquom glad mdash after decades of searching mdash that i finally found my hometown a place that feels just right

diane reed can be reached at ladybookearthlinknet Between columns and when the spirit moves her she blogs at wwwponderingsbydianereedblogspotcom from her home overlooking the pond at lions Park in College Place

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Maymay 1The annual Kennel Club Dog Show Walla Walla County Fairgrounds De-tails 509-558-3854

The Walla Walla University Drama Department pres-ents a performance of ldquoMy Fair ladyrdquo 2 pm matinee Details 509-527-2656

The Walla Walla Choral Society presents ldquoJubilate Deordquo 3 pm May 1 Walla Walla University Church College Place Details 509-386-2445

The Walla Walla Valley Farmers Market opens local produce artisans and an outdoor concert 9 am-1 pm Saturdays and Sundays through Oct 30 Crawford Park Fourth ave and Main St Details gowallawallafarmersmar-ketcom or 509-520-3647

through may 22Enjoy the annual Senior art Thesis Exhibition Sheehan Gallery Whitman College Details 509-527-5249

through JuLy 31The Tamaacutestslikt Cultural In-stitute hosts the traveling OMSI exhibit ldquoamazing Feats of agingrdquo explor-ing the mysteries of why animals and humans age Details 541-966-9748

may 4The YWCa leadership luncheon ldquoMatters that Matterrdquo is informational and inspirational with guest speakers Kristine Van Raden and Molly Da-vis Noon Marcus Whit-man Hotel Details 509-525-2570

Walla Walla Wine Works hosts music on Wednes-days downtown Details 509-522-1261

may 5First Thursday Concert at St Pauls Episcopal Church 323 Catherine Street Walla Walla 1215-1250 pm will feature the Steel Drum Band from Walla Walla Uni-versity directed by Brandon Beck Details 529-1083

The Whitman College Visit-ing Writers Reading series presents Whitman Reading 7 pm Kimball Theatre De-tails whitmanedu

may 5-7 12-14Walla Walla High School Drama Department pres-ents ldquoFiddler on the Roofrdquo musical version 7 pm and 2 pm matinee on Saturdays May 7 and 14 Walla Walla High School Performing arts audito-rium Details Tickets can be reserved by calling 509-526-8613 the Wa-Hi box office

may 5-8 19-21a performance of ldquoThe 25th a nnua l Putnam County Spelling Beerdquo 8 pm Harper Joy Theatre Whitman College Details 509-527-5180

may 6-7Music on the weekends at the Backstage Bistro De-tails 509-526-0690

Sapolil Cellars hosts music on Friday and Saturday De-tails 509-520-5258

The Wildfire hosts music every Friday and Saturday Wildhorse Resort amp Casino Pendleton Details 800-654-9453

may 6-8Walla Walla Valley Winer-ies offer an opportunity to taste their new creations during Spring Release Weekend area wineries introduce new wines and winemakers share their creative inspiration Details 509-526-3117

may 6artWalK First Fridays May through December Visit galleries and chat with art-ists 5-8 pm Downtown Walla Walla Visit artwalk-wallawallacom

may 6-8 13-14The little Theatre presents ldquoalice In Wonderlandrdquo adapted from lewis Carroll 8 pm Friday-Saturday 2 pm Sunday little Theatre of Walla Walla Details 509-529-3683

may 7The annual Junior Horse Show brings great riding action to Milton-Freewater Pioneer Posse Grounds Details 541-938-3379

Daytonrsquos annual Street Sale turns a section of Third Street into a giant yard sale benefits churches and com-munity projects Dayton Details 509-382-4825

artist reception and dem-onstration Washington art-ist Dwight Duke exhibits his painting bronze sculptures and gunpowder light pan-els 6-730 pm Reininger Winery Details 509-522-1994

may 8Every Sunday the living History actors portray in-dividuals from the arearsquos past 2 pm Fort Walla Walla Museum Details 509-525-7703

may 13-15The annual Balloon Stam-pede brings as many as 50 hot-air balloons to the Walla Walla County Fairgrounds This colorful festival re-mains a Valley tradition Ear-ly morning flights (weather permitting) arts amp crafts antique autos commercial booths live entertainment and food Balloons light up to music at the Saturday evening Nite Glow Details 509-525-0850

may 14annual adult event cele-brates the characters who populated Pendletonrsquos past Must have reservations Pendleton Underground Tours Details 800-226-6398

may 14-15 may 27-29Walla Walla Drag Strip con-tinues the weekend fun Details wwdragstripcom or 509-200-6287

may 15Walla Walla University Chamber Series featuring Robyn McCabe 730 pm MKW Fine arts auditorium Details 509-527-2571

may 18To celebrate the opening of Walla Wallarsquos Power House Theatre and a four-day run of Seattle Shakespeare Companyrsquos ldquoThe Merry Wives of WindsorrdquoWalla Walla lifestyles will pres-ent a gala event This exclusive evening will en-chant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fash-ion from 530-9 pm at the Power House Theatre Sixth amp Rose Walla Walla To purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewalla-wallacom

may 19-21During Pendletonrsquos Cattle Baron Weekend enjoy an art exhibit by a talented group of women artists ldquoIn the Company of Cowgirlsrdquo Hamleyrsquos Steakhouse Pendleton Visit inthecom-panyofcowgirlscom or call 541-676-5013

may 19-22Whitman College 50th Reunion class of 1961 Whitman College Details 509-527-5952

Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merr y Wives of Windsorrdquo Pow-erhouse Theater Details 509-742-0739

may 21The annual Ducky Derby is a day of family fun all for a good cause Watch the ducks race down Mill Creek to help fund the Exchange Clubrsquos efforts at preventing child abuse and neglect 1130 am-330 pm Race at about 2 pm Walla Walla Community College De-tails 509-527-4300

Walla Walla University Spring Choral Concert 5 pm Walla Walla Univer-sity Church Details 509-527-2571

learn to contra dance an old-fashioned coun-try dance Music by the Wednesday Night Band 7 pm teaching and practice 730 pm regular dance Unity Church of Peace 810

C St Walla Walla Details 541-938-7403

may 22The Whitman College graduating class of 2011 accepts the challenge 11 am Memorial lawn Whitman College Details 509-527-5156

may 26 27 28 29Walla Walla Community College Theatre arts De-partment presents ldquoZoot Suitrdquo by luis Valdez 7 pm each night and Sunday 2 pm matinee W WCC Performing arts Center Details 509-527-4575

may 27-30 Dayton Days has been a Memorial Weekend tradi-tion in Dayton for nearly 100 years Highlights include a Saturday-morning parade on historic Main Street rodeo tour of Dayton and Memorial Day Fun Run De-tails 509-382-4825 or visit historicdaytoncom

may 28-30The Touchet River Roundup mdash the annual Celebration of Sobriety at the fairgrounds focuses on family fun ac-tivities Waitsburg Details 509-526-3602

may 29annual Onion Man Tria-thalon 9 am Bennington lake Details wwmulti-sportscom or call 509-529-9187

may 30Waitsburgrsquos annual Memo-rial Day celebration hosted by veterans for all veterans Details 509-337-6546

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This sculptural cornucopia marks the spot where all of Walla Walla meets the producers and wersquore not talking about the Zero Mostel and Gene Wild-er musical For you GPS fans latitude 4606678 N longitude 11834197 W

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The sculpture tops the farmers market gazebo on the corner of Fourth Avenue North and West Main Street

Contestensprulesif you have the answer e-mail it to rickdoylewwubcom or send it to Where in Walla Walla 112 S 1st Ave PO Box 1358 Walla Walla WA 99362 The names of 10 people with correct answers will be randomly selected and they will receive this great-looking mug as proof of their local knowledge and good taste

Annette CarterShirley richterDebbie FullenJudy CarlsonEloise Phillips

Dan Countsvicky ScanlonJanet TurnerTam LennoxBruce Campbell

46 Walla Walla LifestyLes

1 amavi cellars3796 Peppers Bridge Road (509) 525-3541 wwwamavicellarscom

2 Basel cellars estate winery2901 Old Milton Hwy (509) 522-0200 wwwbaselcellarscom

3 Bergevin Lane vineyards 1215 W Poplar St (509) 526-4300 bergevinlanecom

4 Bunchgrass winery151 Bunchgrass lane (509) 540-8963 wwwbunchgrasswinerycom

5 canoe ridge vineyard1102 W Cherry St (509) 527-0885 wwwcanoeridgevineyardcom

6 castillo de feliciana85728 Telephone Pole Road Milton-Freewater OR (541) 558-3656 wwwcastillodefelicianacom

7 don carlo vineyardBy appointment Only (509) 540-5784 wwwdoncarlovineyardcom

8 dunham cellars150 E Boeing ave (509) 529-4685 wwwdunhamcellarscom

9 five star cellars 840 C St (509) 527-8400 wwwfivestarcellarscom

10 forgeron cellars 33 W Birch St (509) 522-9463 wwwforgeroncellarscom

21 sapolil cellars15 E Main St (509) 520-5258 wwwsapolilcellarscom

22 seven hills winery 212 N Third ave (509) 529-7198 wwwsevenhillswinerycom

23 sinclair estate vineyards 109 E Main Ste 100 (509) 876-4300 wwwsinclairestatevineyardscom

24 spring valley vineyard 18 N Second ave (509) 525-1506 wwwspringvalleyvineyardcom

25 suLei cellars355 S Second ave (503) 529-0840 www suleicellarscom

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11 foundry vineyards Corner of 13th ave and abadie St (509) 529-0736 wwwwallawallafoundrycomvineyards

12 fort walla walla cellars 127 E Main St (509) 520-1095 wwwfortwallawallacellarscom

13 glencorrie8052 Old Highway 12 (509) 525-2585 wwwglencorriecom

14 grantwood winery 2428 W Highway 12 (509) 301-0719 (509) 301-9546

15 Lrsquoecole no 41 winery41 lowden School Road and US Hwy 12 (509) 525-0940 wwwlecolecom

16 Long shadows1604 Frenchtown Road (Formerly Ireland Road) (509) 526-0905 wwwlongshadowscom By invitation only Requests accepted on a limited basis Please call to inquire

17 Lowden hills winery1401 W Pine St (509) 527-1040 wwwlowdenhillswinerycom

18 northstar winery 1736 JB George Road (509) 524-4883 wwwnorthstarmerlotcom

19 pepper Bridge winery1704 JB George Road (509) 525-6502 wwwpepperbridgecom

20 robison ranch cellars2839 Robison Ranch Road (509) 301-3480 robisonranchcellarscom

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26 syZygy 405 E Boeing ave (509) 522-0484 wwwsyzygywinescom

27 three rivers winery5641 Old Highway 12 (509) 526-9463 infoThreeRiversWinerycom

28 tertulia cellars1564 Whiteley Road (509) 525-5700 wwwtertuliacellarscom

29 trust cellars 1050 Merlot Drive (509) 529-4511 wwwtrustcellarscom

30 va piano vineyards1793 JB George Road (509) 529-0900 wwwvapianovineyardscom

31 walla walla vintnersVineyard lane off Mill Creek Road (509) 525-4724 wwwwallawallavintnerscom

32 walla walla wineworks31 E Main St (509) 522-1261 wwwwallawallawineworkscom

33 whitman cellars1015 W Pine St (509) 529-1142 wwwwhitmancellarscom

34 woodward canyon winery11920 W Hwy 12 lowden (509) 525-4129 wwwwoodwardcanyoncom

35 JLc winery425 B St (509) 301-5148

36 saviah cellars1979 JB George Rd

highway 12

E St

Beech ave

lockheed ave

Piper ave

G St

Mill Creek Rd

Isaacs ave

AirportTerminal

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ridge Rd

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Old Milton Hwy

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JB George Rd

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Stateline RdWaSHINGTON

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Frog HollowM

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ardena Rd

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To Walla Walla

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ilton

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ort W

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Grumman ave

Fairchild ave

Cessna ave

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Douglas ave

Curtis ave

C St

Republic ave

Ryan ave

F St

Stinson ave

B St

Boeing ave

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DaytonLewiston

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that you put over someonersquos head mdash we called it ldquoFidel Castrordquo mdash and yoursquod have these customers yelling at the top of their voice while they were under it So i never got to sleep in

LifEStyLES it sounds like your mother was quite a lady

MEDiCa i recently found some of her original recipes you know in her own handwriting One of them is for croquetta which was really good you take chicken with corned beef and grind them up bread it and then fry it itrsquos really goodrdquo

LifEStyLES Why do you like the flan so much

MEDiCa Because everyone in the family always requested it i make it a little different The way i make it it is a little more creamy because i use cream cheese itrsquos more like a custard Many times in Mexican restaurants the flan will be more jello-y This is almost like cheesecake

LifEStyLES is it strictly for dessert

MEDiCa yes itrsquos for special occasions

LifEStyLES Like birthdays and parties

MEDiCa yes itrsquos not light you canrsquot have too much or your stomach will start to ache

LifEStyLES Does it take a long time to prepare

MEDiCa Not really Making the caramel sauce takes the most time and you canrsquot take your eyes off it or it might burn

LifEStyLES Tastes like it didnrsquot burn

MEDiCa No i had lots of help My daughter Elizabeth (and she glances over at her youngest child) helped me a lot

andrew hoLt writes about food people and all things Walla Walla for Walla Walla lifestyles magazine He can be reached at bruindrew86gmailcom

Cubanenspflaningredientsenspforenspflan

1 can evaporated milk1 can sweetened condensed milk1 cup whole or two percent milk6 eggs1 to 2 teaspoons vanilla extract14 teaspoon salt4 ounces cream cheese

ingredientsenspforenspcaramelenspsauce

1 to 1frac12 cup sugar

toenspmakeensptheenspcaramelenspsauce

Place the sugar in a saucepan on medium heat and stir until granules of sugar have liquified and the mixture takes on a caramel color

Pour the mixture into a mold coating the sides This must be done quickly because the mixture will harden also use oven mittens so you donrsquot burn your hands

Put aside

toenspmakeensptheenspflan

Preheat oven to 350 degreesIn a blender mix the sweetened condensed

milk frac12 can of evaporated milk and the milk eggs cream cheese salt and vanilla and blend on low

Pour out half the mixture into a bowl and pour in the remaining evaporated milk and blend

Pour contents of blender and bowl into mold and stir Cover with aluminum foil Crimp the edges of the foil around the mold to keep moisture out

Put the mold in a big cake pan and pour enough water around the mold for it to come part-way up the sides of the mold (we call that ldquobantildeo Mariacuteardquo) and bake for one hour plus 15 to 20 minutes

Use a knife to test done-ness mdash the knife should come out clean

When the flan is done baking let it rest and cool then place it in the refrigerator for 24 hours

The next day dip the mold in warm water before flipping the flan into a serving dish

Makes 12 servings

R EC IP E

food ltcontinued from pg 11

Walla Walla LifestyLes 13

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The old Frenchtown schoolhouse built in 1915 with the stately bell tower still stands it has been a historic fixture in the Walla Walla valley that many of us have grown up with even if we never attended classes there One can still stride up the long sidewalk to the large heavy carved doors with a feeling of reverence and trepidation mdash as if it were the first day of school mdash while imagining generations of children playing on the manicured grounds

in the 1970s the old schoolhouse classrooms found themselves empty of childrenrsquos laughter But in 1983 Jean and Baker Ferguson breathed new life into the old building founding what would become one of the premier wineries in Washington LrsquoEcole No 41

The name was historically im-portant in two ways ldquoLrsquoEcolerdquo French for ldquothe schoolrdquo recognized the French men and women who settled the area and ldquo41rdquo was the numerical designation of the school district

The Fergusonsrsquo first crush of 1983 was resting in the barrel when the following year they asked their elementary school-aged family members to draw an image that would best reflect the new project

The $100 prize went to an 8-year-old cousin whose watercolor interpretation of the old schoolhouse became the template for a wine label it became an iconic label known to wine lovers around the world

in 1989 the second generation of the family Jean and Bakerrsquos daughter and son-

in-law Megan and Martin (Marty) Clubb became the new proprietors of the winery Marty became the general manager and winemaker and would lead the small artisan winery to new heights mdash it would eventually produce more than 30000 cases annually

At the same time the Washington state wine industry was booming and would soon become the nationrsquos second-largest wine producer The area would become one of the premium wine-producing regions in the United States

Marty also became a pioneer in the

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Washington state wine industry as he became a founder and activist in many of the wine industryrsquos foundations and alliances The family-owned winery also partnered with some of the most prestigious vineyards in the state LrsquoEcole No 41 has been honored nine consecutive years by Wine amp Spirits magazine as ldquoWinery of the yearrdquo becoming the second Washington winery inducted into the Hall of Fame

There is a third-generation that has grown up around the winery and will eventually become caretakers of this legacy Meganrsquos and Martyrsquos children Jeanrsquos and Bakerrsquos grandchildren rebecca and riley Clubb had their own meaningful influence on the label with their childhood drawings on the labelrsquos chalkboard image

riley is a 2009 graduate of Whitman College and is employed at the winery rebecca is enrolled in Washington State Universityrsquos wine management program and expected to graduate in 2012

The winery will soon celebrate its 30th birthday The wines produced at the old schoolhouse are refined with true varietal character and can stand up against many coveted wines from France mdash and they have Now that LrsquoEcole is a top player in the world of wine the whimsical label on its bottles is no longer truly indicative of the sophisticated gold and dark-red liquids behind the glass

ldquoLooking to the future we wanted our label to reflect the winery we have becomerdquo says Marty Clubb

This year the winery will unveil a new label it will still depict the iconic schoolhouse but with deeper colors and a new texture There will be a distinct difference among the labels depending on the vineyards used Wines produced from Columbia valley vineyards will have a soft charcoal-colored background label and the labels for the wines produced from Walla Walla vineyards will be more sepia-toned

Another distinctive change will be the de-emphasizing of the ldquoNo 41rdquo as generations of wine lovers have often referred to the winery as ldquoLrsquoEcolerdquo

The new label will be a timeless reminder of the past as well as a welcome to future generations

catie mcintyre waLker blogs at wildwallawallawinewomanblogspotcom and be reached at wildwallawallawinewomancom

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it was 1954 the year he graduated from the University of Oregon and two female students from the university were interested in learning some of the finer points of the game

ldquoit was probably the worst lesson anybody has ever givenrdquo Mundle exclaimed shaking his head in dismay ldquoThese two young ladies were looking for some help and i worked with them for an hour-and-a-half And at the end of that time i said lsquoi have done such a poor job i will pay you for the time i have put you through this torturersquordquo

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Painful as it was the lesson learned proved to be a career-launching moment for Mundle who dedicated himself to his trade and spent a lifetime in the golf business successfully working up and down the i-5 corridor as course operator teacher and player

Fifty-seven years after that first teaching debacle Mundle now 79 years old is retired and living in Walla Walla He and his wife Ann relocated here last summer determined to give up teaching golf and spend more time playing the game they both love

ldquoAfter all of these years of teaching i feel that this is the time to lay it asiderdquo Mundle said ldquoi will still do a little studying of the golf swing and methods and i will be involved with some of the other local professionals in some cracker-barrel sessions when they get together to discuss teaching methods problems and how to solve them

ldquoBut i really came here not to teach but to play some golfrdquo

That was the plan anyway before he was introduced to Walla Walla High School senior Jake Hanson who was looking for a little extra help with his game heading into his final year on the links as a Blue Devil

Terri Hanson Jakersquos mother was aware of Mundlersquos reputation as a teaching professional and heard through the grapevine he was living in Walla Walla

ldquoBeing the mom i am i called him one dayrdquo Terri remembered ldquoi told him that Jakersquos golf game was at a standstill i asked him to take a look at Jake and he agreed to come and meet us and get a feel for where Jake was at

ldquoHe did and before you knew it they were putting on our hardwood floors The next day they agreed to get together at Wine valley mdash they were there for four hours and it has been an amazing connection right from the beginning

ldquoAl is an amazing Christian man who is so well-respected in his fieldrdquo Terri added ldquoAnd he just demands respect irsquom seeing my son of 17 all of a sudden growing uprdquo

Mundle concedes he is intrigued by Hansonrsquos character and potential And

Under the watchful eye of Al Mundle Jake Hanson hits an iron shot

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Hanson holds his new mentor in high esteem

ldquoirsquove learned a tremendous amountrdquo Hanson said ldquoHe has a way of getting through to me in a positive way He got through to me that i am so much better than i thought i could be He has more confidence in me than i have in myself

ldquoHe has one of the best golf swings i have ever seen and he is still working on his own gamerdquo

Mundle said Hanson reminds him of former University of Oregon player Ben Crane who now plays on the PGA Tour Crane has been playing professionally since 2007 and earned nearly $3 million on the tour in 2010

ldquoi was Benrsquos swing coach at Oregon and Jake is somewhat similarrdquo Mundle said ldquoBen worked harder than anybody on the whole golf team He would put in as much

time as three or four others combined and Jake is very much the same way Hersquos very dedicatedrdquo

However Mundle insists that helping Hanson with his game is a one-time situation

After playing just six rounds of golf last year Mundle is determined that he and Ann will spend a lot more time on the golf course as they get acquainted with their new hometown

ldquoThatrsquos an all-time lowrdquo he said of the six rounds played in 2010 ldquoMostly it was the move and all mdash a new house putting in lawn fencing shelving in the garage mdash all the little things of getting settled

ldquoBut this was a good move for us We love it here We enjoy the weather and the people you can walk down the street and people look you in the eye and say lsquoHellorsquo i love that friendlinessrdquo

Mundle grew up in Eugene and graduated from University High School in 1950 He knew he said from the time he was in the seventh grade he wanted to make golf his lifersquos work

ldquoyou might say that i had a little parental directionrdquo Mundle said ldquoMy dad went to the University of St Andrews in Scotland and he played golf at the St Andrews Old Course And my mother also played golfrdquo

After high school Mundle enrolled at the University of Oregon and played three years of varsity golf during an era when there was no such thing as a golf scholarship

ldquoThe only thing we ever received was a half-a-dozen golf balls if we went into a tournamentrdquo Mundle recalled ldquoWhen i went to the NCAA Championships in Texas my senior year i was given a new

people ltcontinued from pg 17

Walla Walla LifestyLes 19

pair of golf shoes but that was itldquoWe bought all of our own gear mdash

clubs bags rain gear everything itrsquos a whole different ball game today They have everythingrdquo

At the end of his sophomore year at Oregon Mundle had it in his mind to ldquotest my golf on the PGA Tourrdquo he said But his father an English professor at the university discouraged him

ldquoHe said lsquoGet your education first then you can do whatever you wantrsquordquo Mundle said ldquoit was just as well i saved a lot of wear and tear mdash and money i was an Ok player but not of that caliberrdquo

Mundle still has fond memories of his collegiate playing career however

ldquoi played three years for the university mdash you werenrsquot allowed to play as freshmen mdash and Oregon always had fine golf teamsrdquo Mundle said ldquoit was mostly match

play then and i was there during the time that the school went seven straight years without losing a (team) dual matchrdquo

During his senior year Mundle qualified for the NCAA Championships in Houston From a field of about 160 players Mundle made it as far as the quarterfinal round

He graduated in 1954 with a degree in history which he said he never really used

ldquoMy dad was in the top one percent of his class at St Andrewsrdquo Mundle said ldquoMy mother was also in the top part of her class and my older brother Pete was in the top of his class And then i came alongrdquo

His first golf job was as an assistant pro at his home course the Laurelwood Golf Course a position he accepted shortly after graduating from UO This was when and where the infamous first golf lesson

occurredA two-year stint in the US Army took

Mundle away from his profession in 1955-56 But he managed to keep his golf game sharp as a member of the Fort knox golf team and in 1956 he was the runner-up in the Second Army tournament and he placed 13th in the All-Army tournament

Then it was back to the Willamette valley where he came into his own in the Portland area under head professionals Eddie Hogan at riverside Country Club and Bunny Mason at Columbia Edgewater

ldquoThose two people were very influential in my professional liferdquo Mundle said

ldquoEddie was a very fine teacher of the total golf operation and service was No 1 i learned how to run the pro shop how

Jake Hanson takes a few pointers on chipping from his instructor and mentor Al Mundle

Continued on pg 20 gt

20 Walla Walla LifestyLes

people ltcontinued from pg 19

to market and merchandise mdash everything from how to run the club service program to the electric cart program to basically running the golf course

ldquoBunny was also a very fine operator of a golf shop and i also learned a lot about teaching from Bunny Sometimes you go along in life and there are certain mentors who help you along the way Anybody who says they made it by themselves is not being honest with themselves We have all had someone who has given us a little boost along the wayrdquo

Mundle took his first head professional job in 1965 at Overlake Golf and Country Club in Bellevue where he remained until 1981 At that point he returned to Eugene and was the head pro at the Eugene Country Club for three years followed by a six-year stint at the Bear Creek Country Club in Seattle

He also spent a short time at a golf course in Cottage Grove Ore before moving back to Eugene for a third time in 1993 to become the director of golf instruction at the river ridge Golf Course He remained at river ridge until his retirement last summer During his time there he helped out as the swing coach at UO under then-head coach Steve Nosler

Through it all Mundle served as president of the Washington PGA and the Pacific Northwest PGA and was a member of several National PGA committees As a player he participated in the Oregon Washington and Pacific Northwest opens as well as the Washington and Oregon PGA events One of his highlights was winning the Oregon Senior PGA Match-Play Championships in Bend in 1993

ldquoi felt i had an obligation to participaterdquo Mundle said ldquoi played a lot of golf including many many pro-ams and i won a couple of assistant championshipsrdquo

in addition to Crane Mundle also helped shape the careers of Jeff Quinney and Eric Johnson both of whom are from the Eugene area

Quinney won the United States Amateur championship in 2000 and represented the US in the Walker Cup in 2001 He has appeared in 128 PGA Tour events since 2007 placing second twice and third twice

Johnson played several years on the Asian Tour and one on the Nationwide Tour He is now a head professional at a

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course in San rafael CalifldquoAnd there have been some others mdash

Brian Henninger Mike Gove a few others mdash who have called and wanted to discus their swingrdquo Mundle said ldquoNothing on a regular basis just one or two sessionsrdquo

is Hanson his next mdash and perhaps his last mdash prodigy

Thatrsquos a tricky question since Hanson came to golf late after a budding baseball career was derailed by a shoulder injury He was a first-team all-Big Nine Conference golf selection as a junior but has yet to qualify for state and his summer resume is thin because of his baseball background

Hansonrsquos original plan was to attend Walla Walla Community College and play golf for the Warriors with the hope of earning an NCAA Division i scholarship But he has since decided to enroll in Arizona State Universityrsquos Professional Golf Management program and try out for the ASU golf team as a walk on

ldquoMore than anything i think it came down to him evaluating his goalsrdquo said Jakersquos father Gary Hanson ldquoitrsquos everyonersquos dream to play on the PGA Tour but realistically he wants to be a golf pro and teach He loves

the gamerdquoAnd a degree in the PGM program

will provide Jake with the educational background he needs to be successful in any form of business his father added

Though his chances of making the ASU varsity team seem unlikely the PGM program provides a club golf team that participates in a series of tournaments throughout the year and gives Hanson a second playing option

And keeping your options open is optimum at this point Mundle said

ldquoi think his driving force at this time mdash and also his folks mdash is to get his education And then he can do whatever he wants if he doesnrsquot go into (the golfing business) immediately he will always have it as a backuprdquo

Sounds an awful lot like the advice Thomas Mundle offered his son back in the spring of 1952 when Al Mundle wanted to leave school after his sophomore year and test his wings on the PGA Tour And as we now know all these years later staying in school worked out pretty well for Al

Jim Buchan is a sports writer for the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin He can be reached at jimbuchanwwubcom

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Join us for a night of wonder with elizabethan-inspired food fashion and merriment to celebrate the opening of walla wallarsquos power house theatre and prepare for a four-day run of seattle shakespeare companyrsquos ldquothe merry wives of windsorrdquo

walla walla lifestyles will present a fashion show with wicked and wistful gowns twisted braided hair and smoldering makeup designs designers include red eden designs autumnlin design and others

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My director Terry Edward Moore told me his only direction from the artistic director was that it be ldquoperiodrdquo that is to say authentic to the time

ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo is the only one of Shakespearersquos plays that is set in his own time so it was decided to present it as if the actors were people of the time doing what would be a contemporary (to the late 16th century) play

i started to research the clothing of the time how it was constructed and what kinds of fabrics were available at the time mdash linens homespuns woolens for the common people and silks damasks velvets and furs for the upper classes i discovered that Elizabethan society was strictly regulated in terms of social classes and upward mobility was a little-known concept Once a yeoman always a yeoman i also discovered the set of rules and regulations called ldquosumptuary lawsrdquo which specifically dictated what types of fabrics trims furs and even what colors each class was allowed to wear

Since there are three distinct classes represented in ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo mdash merchant class soldiers and servants mdash i tried to give each class its own color palette based on these laws The overall palette of the show is based on colors actually in use at the time

The availability of dyes was limited (except for the nobility) so the palette consists of many shades of yellows and browns russets black some greens and blue-grays and of course wheat-colored unbleached linen i turned to the Dutch painter Brueghel for inspiration on how the common people looked and dressed

i also researched what kinds of dyes were used and where they came from Dyes were created from all sorts of different things such as walnut shell crushed beetles and all kinds of roots i found a website that sells these authentic dyestuffs so irsquom using the real thing to dye some of the linen pieces and will coordinate the contemporary fabrics to these authentic colors

Nearly every piece will need something done to it mdash altered in some way to fit the actor re-trimmed rigged invisibly for quick changes etc mdash so there is a lot of labor involved Also hats were a hugely important part of Elizabethan fashion all the way down to the poorest serf

Certain styles of hats were often associated with certain professions mdash eg doctors scholars mdash so there are a number of hats to build as well as headpieces for the women No self-respecting woman went about with her head uncovered

Putting together a show like this is like putting together a giant jigsaw puzzle and the pieces are the costumes that irsquove borrowed and rented from other theater companies in the Seattle area such as Seattle repertory Seattle Opera and the University of Washington as well as pieces from Oregon Shakespeare Festival i design the show and then go out into the world and try to find pieces that approximate my designs and palette as closely as possible (usually with some reworking first) The pieces that i cant find and dont want to compromise on i build from scratch

deane middLeton is a theatre costume professional who works in the Seattle area She has done costumes for Issaquahrsquos Village Theater as well as several productions of the Seattle Shakespeare Company

ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo

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ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo was the only one of Shakespearersquos works set in his own time the 1600s and features Sir John Falstaff It also deals primarily with english middle-class life A hilarious bawdy comedy filled with insight into the life and times of Shakespeare ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo will delight people of all ages

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But thatrsquos exactly what longtime Walla Walla resident Larry Adams did for four years He was one of a select group of pilots for Marine One the helicopter counterpart of the presidential airplane Air Force One from 1970 to 1974

30 Walla Walla LifestyLes

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 31

Long before Adams became the Walla Walla Airport manager he was transporting heads of state foreign dignitaries famous (and now infamous) Cabinet members the executive staff and President richard M Nixon during one of the nationrsquos most turbulent times the withdrawal from vietnam and the Watergate scandal

But to Adams a native of Northern idaho all that swirled around the Nixon presidency was the least of his concerns His job was to transport the president safely to Andrews Air Force Base or Camp David or fly any short flight required Safety always at a premium End of story

Many times Adams ferried President Nixon and his staff on short flights far away from home Air Force One might fly President Nixon to a summit or a meeting with a foreign head of state but Marine One and Adams were always nearby to shuttle the chief executive on short flights or to whisk him away from sudden danger

Pretty heady stuff for a fourth-grade teacher who had never thought about flying until a Marine recruiter offered him the opportunity Although Adams had watched planes take off and land at a nearby air base as a child he had never given serious thought to flying it was more a need for a bigger paycheck than passion that brought Adams to his destiny

He liked teaching but it just wasnrsquot paying the bills So Adams turned to the military and the Gi Bill After being unimpressed by other recruiters Adams took a liking to the fellow from the Marines for as Adams recalls the recruiter took an interest in him After about an hour of talking the recruiter suggested Adams might have the potential to be a pilot

Having easily passed some preliminary tests Adams was sent to flight school in Pensacola Fla and a stellar career was ready to take off He performed well in all the aircraft he piloted but he showed a special skill for helicopters

Up until 1965 fixed-wing airplanes were the staple of all military air combat But the military had been gearing up for a big change The helicopter was to become a major part of combat The Pentagon had been developing helicopters that would do much more than transport troops to bases Now they would assist in bombing

raids ground attacks and the evacuation of the injured from the point of combat This new breed of helicopters would also possess the ability to fight back and not be lame ducks as before the new H34 would tote machine guns on each side

These cutting-edge aircraft would travel at unprecedented speeds with newly discovered agility Gifted pilots were needed not those who merely possessed superior technical skills but those who also had the composure to fly straight into

enemy fire in the dead of night picking up injured soldiers or aiding air attacks

Adams was one of those pilots and he would be one of two squadron leaders for ldquoOperation Starliterdquo mdash the first major assault using helicopters The Marines were going straight into a North vietnamese regimental stronghold No one knew what to expect

ldquoWe lost a lot that first time inrdquo says Adams ldquoTwo crew chiefs were killed

Continued on pg 32 gt

In this newspaper clipping Larry Adams poses on the steps of the helicopter dubbed Marine One which he piloted for President Richard M Nixon

32 Walla Walla LifestyLes

people ltcontinued from pg 31

four pilots were medevaced out because of their wounds i donrsquot think there was one helicopter that didnrsquot have a bunch of holes in it The one i flew in we got a lot of rounds in it Amazingly no one was hurt but when we got back the helicopter was so shot-up you couldnrsquot fly it anymore We lost 50 percent of our helicopters that dayrdquo

in the next 13 months Adams would fly many more missions often heading straight into anti-aircraft fire to pick up injured or killed soldiers He says he would see the flares signifying where the copter was supposed to land but frequently hersquod have to veer off because ground communication would say ldquoThe artillery is too hotrdquo Then there would be a window maybe two minutes maybe five when the helicopter could drop in and pick up the injured often being shot at as it waited for its passengers

Adams knew the best way to survive was to keep his focus ldquoin the daylight when you start your run in and yoursquore getting shot at Everything went to black and white for me i didnrsquot notice the green trees or the green rice paddies until we got out of there and then it would come back

to me i donrsquot know what that was i just didnrsquot see the colors irsquove talked to some other pilots and they described the same thingrdquo

in his two tours of duty in vietnam Adams would fly 880 combat missions in several types of helicopters and fixed-wing airplanes He received numerous medals including two Navy commendations for performance under combat conditions

Then the call came to fly for the president Before Adams could tote the commander in chief around in Marine One a thorough background check had to be done So thorough was the check that Adams said a friend from his hometown sent him a card that read ldquoAre you in some kind of trouble Jesus therersquos been a bunch of people around here with the dark grey suits and the skinny little ties Theyrsquore asking all these embarrassing questions about you like did you have drinking problem Did you have a gambling problem Do you know what Larryrsquos sexual preference wasrdquo

Adams chuckles ldquoit was pretty funnyrdquoAdams passed the grade and soon

he was flying President Nixon and his family to Camp David or picking up vice

President Spiro Agnew at the Pentagon or taking Secretary of State Henry kissinger or Secretary of Defense Alexander Haig to a classified meeting Although his flights varied from transporting foreign heads of state to flying members of the press the majority involved the president the vice president kissinger and Haig

The pilots did not speak to their travelers unless spoken to says Adams President Nixon usually looked in and asked them how they were kissinger never spoke Haig was good for a pat on the shoulder now and then but it was Agnew who conversed the most says Adams

Adams remembers ldquoOne time we picked him up at the Pentagon and we had taken off and had hit top altitude He usually would come up and look into the cockpit but this time he patted me on the shoulder and asked lsquoWell howrsquos it going today guysrsquordquo Adams replied ldquoNot bad sir and how about yourselfrdquo

Agnew answered ldquoMan they are really after my assrdquo He was talking about the press Adams says ldquoTwo weeks later he resignedrdquo

Adams recalls that his encounters with Agnew as defying the public perception

Adams far right gives instructions before a mission in Vietnam

Walla Walla LifestyLes 33

that Agnew was arrogant ldquoHe was always one of the nicest guys He was straightforward He looked like he had just stepped off the cover of Gentlemenrsquos Quarterly all the time He was very proper in the way he dressed but he had a sense of humor as wellrdquo

There were other humorous moments Adams recalls a certain reporter from CBS who had been a major thorn in President Nixonrsquos side was late for takeoff from the South Lawn of the White House one morning Just as Marine One was about to leave without him he came running across the lawn hollering and waving his arms The Secret Service agent supervising the flight told Adams to ldquojust gordquo The wind from the propellers whipped the reporterrsquos toupee right off his head and instead of continuing his run toward Marine One he reversed his field and tried feverishly to retrieve his toupee snagged in the hedges

ldquoEveryone got a pretty good chuckle out of thatrdquo

Of course there were somber times At one point Adams flew Cabinet members John Ehrlichman and Hr Haldeman to Camp David for a meeting with the president After only 15 minutes the two men returned and Marine One headed home Adams says it was a quiet flight He found out later the two men had been fired by President Nixon for their parts in the Watergate scandal

Whisking the president away from danger was a major part of being a pilot of Marine One Stationed across the river from the Capitol pilots awakened by an emergency alert had to be up in the air in five minutes This exercise was practiced often though never needed during Adamsrsquo tenure

One night however they thought it was The operator at the White House mistakenly hit the ldquoAlertrdquo button Marine One was in the air in five minutes

Although ground control had not spotted any enemy aircraft the operation was under way As Marine One closed in on the White House the operator at fault tried to alert everyone of his mistake but unfortunately used a poor choice of words to call off the operation

Adams chuckles as he says ldquoThe fella said lsquoThis is not an exercisersquo He was moved to another post i thinkrdquo

All levity aside the position required

the same kind of focus demanded of Adams in vietnam though it came in a different form

ldquoThere were three things the way you operated the aircraft and they were in this order safety comfort and speed Safety never gave in to comfort or speedrdquo says Adams ldquoOur job was just concentrating on doing our job it could have been anybody mdash we would do it the same way it could have been Fred Flintstone

ldquoThe difference between flying for the White House and in vietnam was we were flying a premier aircraft We had to keep it impeccably clean everything was scripted We had to have the lsquoopen-the-door timersquo down to two to four seconds in vietnam it was the stress of performing medevacs under fire or dropping troops under heavy artillery For Marine One it was the stress of doing the job rightrdquo

Also the stress of being away from onersquos family 200 days of the year wore on a Marine One pilot in 1974 after four years on the job the toll became too much and Adams stepped down

He would stay with the Marines for eight more years retiring in August 1982

By then he had received 44 Air Medals including the Joint Service Commendation and the Presidential Service Badge in his 20 years of service Adams flew seven different helicopters and five different fixed-wing planes

What makes an elite military pilot ldquoPilots who donrsquot have any misgivingsrdquo says Adams ldquoTheyrsquore totally prepared they know their aircraftrdquo

When talking about his colleagues on Marine One he adds ldquoNone were boasters They might brag about a great landing but they did not brag in spite of someone elserdquo

What did Adams love most about his flying days ldquoi enjoyed flying with the latest technology and the pristine quality of Marine One i loved the process of building my skills i could have flown another 40 years and i would still be learning thingsrdquo

is it any surprise his favorite hobby now is fly fishing

andrew hoLt writes about food people and all things Walla Walla for Walla Walla lifestyles magazine He can be reached at bruindrew86gmailcom

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it is astonishing in many ways mdash that we are presented with two weeks of top-drawer music performed by top-drawer musi-cians that there are so many ways to encounter the music (many of them free) and that a rural community has provided the incu-

bator for such a cultural undertaking to name but a fewGranted we are not your average rural community having two

colleges a university a symphony a choral society a community band and music in the schools but letrsquos face it wersquore not exactly a cosmopolitan center of culture like New york either The Cham-ber Music Festival mdash and our continued support of it through some tough times mdash puts us in a category all our own

ldquoi saw what was special about this community the first time i visited in 2007rdquo Artistic Director Timothy Christie says ldquoi have

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A young artistic composer pays close attention as Tim Christie uses his violin to interpret the boys piece of artwork into music on June 11 2009 Meanwhile other children work on their works of art in preparation for the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival quintets interpretations

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worked hard to start this event and to my great joy it has taken on an iden-tity of its own i hire the musicians and choose the music but the town its people and its environs make the festivalrdquo

The beauty of chamber music is its intimacy mdash smaller ensembles performing for smaller audiences it has been referred to as ldquothe music of friendsrdquo which seems so apt at this festival Free open rehearsals are held around town that provide not only a musical atmosphere in which to enjoy a latte or the ambiance of the kirkman House but which give a richer look into the machinations of a working ensemble

As one enthusiastic fan puts it ldquoi am not a musician and itrsquos fascinat-ing to watch these rehearsals to see the interactions of the musicians as they work out the snags make wry remarks and relate to each other in a whole different way than during a for-mal performance i get a glimpse into their personalities and what makes them tickrdquo

The festival supplies a generous of-fering of venues with free concerts for children and families relaxed evening programs at wineries and full concerts at the Foundry Chism Hall and Day-tonrsquos Liberty Theater

if you are lucky enough to live near the musiciansrsquo lodgings while they are in town you may also be treated to an ad hoc front-porch concert as the ensembles continue their rehearsals in more private settings The festival is about all of these ways mdash planned and accidental mdash to experience the enchantment of chamber music

it is also about historic continuity and the connection between past and present mdash relishing the existing canon while expanding the genre with con-temporary forms and voices

How is this accomplished in part by the annual commission of a new piece of music for the festival Chris-tie is committed to contributing to the broader chamber music repertoire and to providing the audience with the richest possible experience

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ldquoFor classical music to be relevant there must be a conversation between the music of our time and the music of the pastrdquo he says

By commissioning a work for the festi-val each year Christie creates such a con-versation

This year the commission was given to John David Earnest Four festival commis-sions have preceded his and he is the sec-ond ldquolocalrdquo composer to be tapped add-ing another layer of relationship between community and event (in 2009 Whitman College professor David Glenn was given the nod)

As visiting adjunct professor of music at Whitman Earnest resides here for six weeks every semester His ldquoSecond Sym-phonyrdquo was written for and performed by the Walla Walla Symphony in October 2001

The challenge for the yearly commis-sionee is to compose a piece on demand within specific constraints of time place and instrumentation while expressing hisher own voice as an artist

Earnest has created ldquoCommedia Gal-leryrdquo a set of three movements for flute

viola and harp based on stock characters from the Commedia dellrsquoArte a popu-lar theatrical form that was influential in Europe for over 300 years Commedia characters improvised dialogue around set scenarios generally involving the struggles of young lovers to overcome hindrances to their romance and each character even-tually came to have a consistent set of at-tributes in speech mannerisms and cos-tume

Earnestrsquos ldquoGalleryrdquo gives us Arlecchi-no (Harlequin) an acrobatic and devious jester Pierrot the classic sad clown and finally Scaramouche a dandy and a brag-gart who is a coward at heart

in anticipation of this yearrsquos festival i am reminded of the scene in ldquoThe Music Manrdquo in which the town awaits the ar-rival of the Wells Fargo Wagon Potentially heaped with gifts and surprises it prom-ises connection to the larger world The WWCMF brings us all ldquosomethinrsquo specialrdquo mdash an enrichment of our community and our culture

margaret Jamison is an artist and writer living in Walla Walla Contact her at artjamisongmailcom

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Smith has gardened for years at his home at 38 Mulberry Court in College Place He used to grow vegetables and flowers now he is strictly focusing on flowers mdash with fabulous results roses delphiniums and lots of irises line the fence

ldquoirises mdash irsquove always enjoyed themrdquo he says ldquoThey take a little bit of weeding and watering but not much morerdquo itrsquos the gardenerrsquos dream mdash low maintenance with a big return

A retired orthopedic surgeon Smith has in the past gardened more extensively than he does now But he has enough plants to keep him busy His new project is planting more of the reblooming iris These are still hardy but you get twice the reward they bloom in the spring then again in the fall

ldquoTheyrsquore easy to grow and spectacular for a short time iris take less care than a lot of thingsrdquo Smith says

His secret for gardening is simple and therersquos no getting around it ldquoTime and workrdquo he laughs

Hersquos getting ready to start in the garden ldquoi need to clean out the leaves and the old foliage of the irisrdquo

in addition to the basic cleaning and maintenance Smith just decides how many plants to keep Bulb flowers are hardy and they multiply on their own

ldquoAfter five years you usually have to separate the bulbs when they get too thick i donrsquot have room to add more i put in the new re-blooming onesrdquo he explains ldquoi may add more and a few other thingsrdquo

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itrsquos an odd location since it can only be seen as yoursquore leaving town but it always makes me smile This valley my adopted home is indeed a great place to be

i recently finished reading the great Western writer Wallace Stegnerrsquos book ldquoThe Sound of Mountain Waterrdquo One of his essays traces his nomadic childhood which left him feeling rootless and without a place that he felt he could call home

i identify with his feeling of not belonging i was born to a single woman from Massachusetts in a New york City hospital i stayed a scant few days before being placed with an adoption agency Born in a place i had no familial connection to i was immediately deprived of my biological family Most of my childhood was spent in suburban Cleveland Ohio Moves to upstate New york New England and Pennsylvania brought me no closer to calling any place home i loved living in the western Massachusetts town of Stockbridge but the multigenerational denizens of the town left few openings for newcomers like me i lived in central Pennsylvania for several decades but felt detached from the deep roots that most people had in the area

When we came west (for my husband a homecoming to his Oregon roots for me a new experience) i noticed that even in long-established towns like Walla Walla there is ample room for newcomers who want to be

part of the community And most folks who choose to come here donrsquot seem to want to change the valley they prefer to embrace it

While the occasional newbie whines about the lack of Whole Foods or Nordstrom they soon discover our farmers markets the wide variety of local shops and boutiques and our world-class restaurants They fall in love with our charming downtowns the small-town friendliness of the people and our kid-friendly environment Then therersquos the holiday parade the fair the ever-present Blue Mountains the parks the museums the wineries mdash really whatrsquos not to like The communities of our valley represent America at its best

irsquom a newspaper junkie i love to read everything from news to sports to classifieds mdash even the obituaries The obits are a fascinating window on our valley Many of the people chronicled were born here some lived all their lives here inextricably bound to this place But a number of people came here from other places often far away and have made a mark on our area Which makes me wonder mdash is a place any less of a hometown because you choose it or is it based primarily on the happenstance of your birth it seems that therersquos room for both paths to calling this wonderful valley home

itrsquos also our strength because collectively as a community we bring both deep familial and cultural traditions as well as the fresh perspective of newcomers to our area irsquom glad mdash after decades of searching mdash that i finally found my hometown a place that feels just right

diane reed can be reached at ladybookearthlinknet Between columns and when the spirit moves her she blogs at wwwponderingsbydianereedblogspotcom from her home overlooking the pond at lions Park in College Place

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Maymay 1The annual Kennel Club Dog Show Walla Walla County Fairgrounds De-tails 509-558-3854

The Walla Walla University Drama Department pres-ents a performance of ldquoMy Fair ladyrdquo 2 pm matinee Details 509-527-2656

The Walla Walla Choral Society presents ldquoJubilate Deordquo 3 pm May 1 Walla Walla University Church College Place Details 509-386-2445

The Walla Walla Valley Farmers Market opens local produce artisans and an outdoor concert 9 am-1 pm Saturdays and Sundays through Oct 30 Crawford Park Fourth ave and Main St Details gowallawallafarmersmar-ketcom or 509-520-3647

through may 22Enjoy the annual Senior art Thesis Exhibition Sheehan Gallery Whitman College Details 509-527-5249

through JuLy 31The Tamaacutestslikt Cultural In-stitute hosts the traveling OMSI exhibit ldquoamazing Feats of agingrdquo explor-ing the mysteries of why animals and humans age Details 541-966-9748

may 4The YWCa leadership luncheon ldquoMatters that Matterrdquo is informational and inspirational with guest speakers Kristine Van Raden and Molly Da-vis Noon Marcus Whit-man Hotel Details 509-525-2570

Walla Walla Wine Works hosts music on Wednes-days downtown Details 509-522-1261

may 5First Thursday Concert at St Pauls Episcopal Church 323 Catherine Street Walla Walla 1215-1250 pm will feature the Steel Drum Band from Walla Walla Uni-versity directed by Brandon Beck Details 529-1083

The Whitman College Visit-ing Writers Reading series presents Whitman Reading 7 pm Kimball Theatre De-tails whitmanedu

may 5-7 12-14Walla Walla High School Drama Department pres-ents ldquoFiddler on the Roofrdquo musical version 7 pm and 2 pm matinee on Saturdays May 7 and 14 Walla Walla High School Performing arts audito-rium Details Tickets can be reserved by calling 509-526-8613 the Wa-Hi box office

may 5-8 19-21a performance of ldquoThe 25th a nnua l Putnam County Spelling Beerdquo 8 pm Harper Joy Theatre Whitman College Details 509-527-5180

may 6-7Music on the weekends at the Backstage Bistro De-tails 509-526-0690

Sapolil Cellars hosts music on Friday and Saturday De-tails 509-520-5258

The Wildfire hosts music every Friday and Saturday Wildhorse Resort amp Casino Pendleton Details 800-654-9453

may 6-8Walla Walla Valley Winer-ies offer an opportunity to taste their new creations during Spring Release Weekend area wineries introduce new wines and winemakers share their creative inspiration Details 509-526-3117

may 6artWalK First Fridays May through December Visit galleries and chat with art-ists 5-8 pm Downtown Walla Walla Visit artwalk-wallawallacom

may 6-8 13-14The little Theatre presents ldquoalice In Wonderlandrdquo adapted from lewis Carroll 8 pm Friday-Saturday 2 pm Sunday little Theatre of Walla Walla Details 509-529-3683

may 7The annual Junior Horse Show brings great riding action to Milton-Freewater Pioneer Posse Grounds Details 541-938-3379

Daytonrsquos annual Street Sale turns a section of Third Street into a giant yard sale benefits churches and com-munity projects Dayton Details 509-382-4825

artist reception and dem-onstration Washington art-ist Dwight Duke exhibits his painting bronze sculptures and gunpowder light pan-els 6-730 pm Reininger Winery Details 509-522-1994

may 8Every Sunday the living History actors portray in-dividuals from the arearsquos past 2 pm Fort Walla Walla Museum Details 509-525-7703

may 13-15The annual Balloon Stam-pede brings as many as 50 hot-air balloons to the Walla Walla County Fairgrounds This colorful festival re-mains a Valley tradition Ear-ly morning flights (weather permitting) arts amp crafts antique autos commercial booths live entertainment and food Balloons light up to music at the Saturday evening Nite Glow Details 509-525-0850

may 14annual adult event cele-brates the characters who populated Pendletonrsquos past Must have reservations Pendleton Underground Tours Details 800-226-6398

may 14-15 may 27-29Walla Walla Drag Strip con-tinues the weekend fun Details wwdragstripcom or 509-200-6287

may 15Walla Walla University Chamber Series featuring Robyn McCabe 730 pm MKW Fine arts auditorium Details 509-527-2571

may 18To celebrate the opening of Walla Wallarsquos Power House Theatre and a four-day run of Seattle Shakespeare Companyrsquos ldquoThe Merry Wives of WindsorrdquoWalla Walla lifestyles will pres-ent a gala event This exclusive evening will en-chant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fash-ion from 530-9 pm at the Power House Theatre Sixth amp Rose Walla Walla To purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewalla-wallacom

may 19-21During Pendletonrsquos Cattle Baron Weekend enjoy an art exhibit by a talented group of women artists ldquoIn the Company of Cowgirlsrdquo Hamleyrsquos Steakhouse Pendleton Visit inthecom-panyofcowgirlscom or call 541-676-5013

may 19-22Whitman College 50th Reunion class of 1961 Whitman College Details 509-527-5952

Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merr y Wives of Windsorrdquo Pow-erhouse Theater Details 509-742-0739

may 21The annual Ducky Derby is a day of family fun all for a good cause Watch the ducks race down Mill Creek to help fund the Exchange Clubrsquos efforts at preventing child abuse and neglect 1130 am-330 pm Race at about 2 pm Walla Walla Community College De-tails 509-527-4300

Walla Walla University Spring Choral Concert 5 pm Walla Walla Univer-sity Church Details 509-527-2571

learn to contra dance an old-fashioned coun-try dance Music by the Wednesday Night Band 7 pm teaching and practice 730 pm regular dance Unity Church of Peace 810

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may 22The Whitman College graduating class of 2011 accepts the challenge 11 am Memorial lawn Whitman College Details 509-527-5156

may 26 27 28 29Walla Walla Community College Theatre arts De-partment presents ldquoZoot Suitrdquo by luis Valdez 7 pm each night and Sunday 2 pm matinee W WCC Performing arts Center Details 509-527-4575

may 27-30 Dayton Days has been a Memorial Weekend tradi-tion in Dayton for nearly 100 years Highlights include a Saturday-morning parade on historic Main Street rodeo tour of Dayton and Memorial Day Fun Run De-tails 509-382-4825 or visit historicdaytoncom

may 28-30The Touchet River Roundup mdash the annual Celebration of Sobriety at the fairgrounds focuses on family fun ac-tivities Waitsburg Details 509-526-3602

may 29annual Onion Man Tria-thalon 9 am Bennington lake Details wwmulti-sportscom or call 509-529-9187

may 30Waitsburgrsquos annual Memo-rial Day celebration hosted by veterans for all veterans Details 509-337-6546

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This sculptural cornucopia marks the spot where all of Walla Walla meets the producers and wersquore not talking about the Zero Mostel and Gene Wild-er musical For you GPS fans latitude 4606678 N longitude 11834197 W

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21 sapolil cellars15 E Main St (509) 520-5258 wwwsapolilcellarscom

22 seven hills winery 212 N Third ave (509) 529-7198 wwwsevenhillswinerycom

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13 glencorrie8052 Old Highway 12 (509) 525-2585 wwwglencorriecom

14 grantwood winery 2428 W Highway 12 (509) 301-0719 (509) 301-9546

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27 three rivers winery5641 Old Highway 12 (509) 526-9463 infoThreeRiversWinerycom

28 tertulia cellars1564 Whiteley Road (509) 525-5700 wwwtertuliacellarscom

29 trust cellars 1050 Merlot Drive (509) 529-4511 wwwtrustcellarscom

30 va piano vineyards1793 JB George Road (509) 529-0900 wwwvapianovineyardscom

31 walla walla vintnersVineyard lane off Mill Creek Road (509) 525-4724 wwwwallawallavintnerscom

32 walla walla wineworks31 E Main St (509) 522-1261 wwwwallawallawineworkscom

33 whitman cellars1015 W Pine St (509) 529-1142 wwwwhitmancellarscom

34 woodward canyon winery11920 W Hwy 12 lowden (509) 525-4129 wwwwoodwardcanyoncom

35 JLc winery425 B St (509) 301-5148

36 saviah cellars1979 JB George Rd

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Mill Creek Rd

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The old Frenchtown schoolhouse built in 1915 with the stately bell tower still stands it has been a historic fixture in the Walla Walla valley that many of us have grown up with even if we never attended classes there One can still stride up the long sidewalk to the large heavy carved doors with a feeling of reverence and trepidation mdash as if it were the first day of school mdash while imagining generations of children playing on the manicured grounds

in the 1970s the old schoolhouse classrooms found themselves empty of childrenrsquos laughter But in 1983 Jean and Baker Ferguson breathed new life into the old building founding what would become one of the premier wineries in Washington LrsquoEcole No 41

The name was historically im-portant in two ways ldquoLrsquoEcolerdquo French for ldquothe schoolrdquo recognized the French men and women who settled the area and ldquo41rdquo was the numerical designation of the school district

The Fergusonsrsquo first crush of 1983 was resting in the barrel when the following year they asked their elementary school-aged family members to draw an image that would best reflect the new project

The $100 prize went to an 8-year-old cousin whose watercolor interpretation of the old schoolhouse became the template for a wine label it became an iconic label known to wine lovers around the world

in 1989 the second generation of the family Jean and Bakerrsquos daughter and son-

in-law Megan and Martin (Marty) Clubb became the new proprietors of the winery Marty became the general manager and winemaker and would lead the small artisan winery to new heights mdash it would eventually produce more than 30000 cases annually

At the same time the Washington state wine industry was booming and would soon become the nationrsquos second-largest wine producer The area would become one of the premium wine-producing regions in the United States

Marty also became a pioneer in the

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Washington state wine industry as he became a founder and activist in many of the wine industryrsquos foundations and alliances The family-owned winery also partnered with some of the most prestigious vineyards in the state LrsquoEcole No 41 has been honored nine consecutive years by Wine amp Spirits magazine as ldquoWinery of the yearrdquo becoming the second Washington winery inducted into the Hall of Fame

There is a third-generation that has grown up around the winery and will eventually become caretakers of this legacy Meganrsquos and Martyrsquos children Jeanrsquos and Bakerrsquos grandchildren rebecca and riley Clubb had their own meaningful influence on the label with their childhood drawings on the labelrsquos chalkboard image

riley is a 2009 graduate of Whitman College and is employed at the winery rebecca is enrolled in Washington State Universityrsquos wine management program and expected to graduate in 2012

The winery will soon celebrate its 30th birthday The wines produced at the old schoolhouse are refined with true varietal character and can stand up against many coveted wines from France mdash and they have Now that LrsquoEcole is a top player in the world of wine the whimsical label on its bottles is no longer truly indicative of the sophisticated gold and dark-red liquids behind the glass

ldquoLooking to the future we wanted our label to reflect the winery we have becomerdquo says Marty Clubb

This year the winery will unveil a new label it will still depict the iconic schoolhouse but with deeper colors and a new texture There will be a distinct difference among the labels depending on the vineyards used Wines produced from Columbia valley vineyards will have a soft charcoal-colored background label and the labels for the wines produced from Walla Walla vineyards will be more sepia-toned

Another distinctive change will be the de-emphasizing of the ldquoNo 41rdquo as generations of wine lovers have often referred to the winery as ldquoLrsquoEcolerdquo

The new label will be a timeless reminder of the past as well as a welcome to future generations

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it was 1954 the year he graduated from the University of Oregon and two female students from the university were interested in learning some of the finer points of the game

ldquoit was probably the worst lesson anybody has ever givenrdquo Mundle exclaimed shaking his head in dismay ldquoThese two young ladies were looking for some help and i worked with them for an hour-and-a-half And at the end of that time i said lsquoi have done such a poor job i will pay you for the time i have put you through this torturersquordquo

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Painful as it was the lesson learned proved to be a career-launching moment for Mundle who dedicated himself to his trade and spent a lifetime in the golf business successfully working up and down the i-5 corridor as course operator teacher and player

Fifty-seven years after that first teaching debacle Mundle now 79 years old is retired and living in Walla Walla He and his wife Ann relocated here last summer determined to give up teaching golf and spend more time playing the game they both love

ldquoAfter all of these years of teaching i feel that this is the time to lay it asiderdquo Mundle said ldquoi will still do a little studying of the golf swing and methods and i will be involved with some of the other local professionals in some cracker-barrel sessions when they get together to discuss teaching methods problems and how to solve them

ldquoBut i really came here not to teach but to play some golfrdquo

That was the plan anyway before he was introduced to Walla Walla High School senior Jake Hanson who was looking for a little extra help with his game heading into his final year on the links as a Blue Devil

Terri Hanson Jakersquos mother was aware of Mundlersquos reputation as a teaching professional and heard through the grapevine he was living in Walla Walla

ldquoBeing the mom i am i called him one dayrdquo Terri remembered ldquoi told him that Jakersquos golf game was at a standstill i asked him to take a look at Jake and he agreed to come and meet us and get a feel for where Jake was at

ldquoHe did and before you knew it they were putting on our hardwood floors The next day they agreed to get together at Wine valley mdash they were there for four hours and it has been an amazing connection right from the beginning

ldquoAl is an amazing Christian man who is so well-respected in his fieldrdquo Terri added ldquoAnd he just demands respect irsquom seeing my son of 17 all of a sudden growing uprdquo

Mundle concedes he is intrigued by Hansonrsquos character and potential And

Under the watchful eye of Al Mundle Jake Hanson hits an iron shot

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Hanson holds his new mentor in high esteem

ldquoirsquove learned a tremendous amountrdquo Hanson said ldquoHe has a way of getting through to me in a positive way He got through to me that i am so much better than i thought i could be He has more confidence in me than i have in myself

ldquoHe has one of the best golf swings i have ever seen and he is still working on his own gamerdquo

Mundle said Hanson reminds him of former University of Oregon player Ben Crane who now plays on the PGA Tour Crane has been playing professionally since 2007 and earned nearly $3 million on the tour in 2010

ldquoi was Benrsquos swing coach at Oregon and Jake is somewhat similarrdquo Mundle said ldquoBen worked harder than anybody on the whole golf team He would put in as much

time as three or four others combined and Jake is very much the same way Hersquos very dedicatedrdquo

However Mundle insists that helping Hanson with his game is a one-time situation

After playing just six rounds of golf last year Mundle is determined that he and Ann will spend a lot more time on the golf course as they get acquainted with their new hometown

ldquoThatrsquos an all-time lowrdquo he said of the six rounds played in 2010 ldquoMostly it was the move and all mdash a new house putting in lawn fencing shelving in the garage mdash all the little things of getting settled

ldquoBut this was a good move for us We love it here We enjoy the weather and the people you can walk down the street and people look you in the eye and say lsquoHellorsquo i love that friendlinessrdquo

Mundle grew up in Eugene and graduated from University High School in 1950 He knew he said from the time he was in the seventh grade he wanted to make golf his lifersquos work

ldquoyou might say that i had a little parental directionrdquo Mundle said ldquoMy dad went to the University of St Andrews in Scotland and he played golf at the St Andrews Old Course And my mother also played golfrdquo

After high school Mundle enrolled at the University of Oregon and played three years of varsity golf during an era when there was no such thing as a golf scholarship

ldquoThe only thing we ever received was a half-a-dozen golf balls if we went into a tournamentrdquo Mundle recalled ldquoWhen i went to the NCAA Championships in Texas my senior year i was given a new

people ltcontinued from pg 17

Walla Walla LifestyLes 19

pair of golf shoes but that was itldquoWe bought all of our own gear mdash

clubs bags rain gear everything itrsquos a whole different ball game today They have everythingrdquo

At the end of his sophomore year at Oregon Mundle had it in his mind to ldquotest my golf on the PGA Tourrdquo he said But his father an English professor at the university discouraged him

ldquoHe said lsquoGet your education first then you can do whatever you wantrsquordquo Mundle said ldquoit was just as well i saved a lot of wear and tear mdash and money i was an Ok player but not of that caliberrdquo

Mundle still has fond memories of his collegiate playing career however

ldquoi played three years for the university mdash you werenrsquot allowed to play as freshmen mdash and Oregon always had fine golf teamsrdquo Mundle said ldquoit was mostly match

play then and i was there during the time that the school went seven straight years without losing a (team) dual matchrdquo

During his senior year Mundle qualified for the NCAA Championships in Houston From a field of about 160 players Mundle made it as far as the quarterfinal round

He graduated in 1954 with a degree in history which he said he never really used

ldquoMy dad was in the top one percent of his class at St Andrewsrdquo Mundle said ldquoMy mother was also in the top part of her class and my older brother Pete was in the top of his class And then i came alongrdquo

His first golf job was as an assistant pro at his home course the Laurelwood Golf Course a position he accepted shortly after graduating from UO This was when and where the infamous first golf lesson

occurredA two-year stint in the US Army took

Mundle away from his profession in 1955-56 But he managed to keep his golf game sharp as a member of the Fort knox golf team and in 1956 he was the runner-up in the Second Army tournament and he placed 13th in the All-Army tournament

Then it was back to the Willamette valley where he came into his own in the Portland area under head professionals Eddie Hogan at riverside Country Club and Bunny Mason at Columbia Edgewater

ldquoThose two people were very influential in my professional liferdquo Mundle said

ldquoEddie was a very fine teacher of the total golf operation and service was No 1 i learned how to run the pro shop how

Jake Hanson takes a few pointers on chipping from his instructor and mentor Al Mundle

Continued on pg 20 gt

20 Walla Walla LifestyLes

people ltcontinued from pg 19

to market and merchandise mdash everything from how to run the club service program to the electric cart program to basically running the golf course

ldquoBunny was also a very fine operator of a golf shop and i also learned a lot about teaching from Bunny Sometimes you go along in life and there are certain mentors who help you along the way Anybody who says they made it by themselves is not being honest with themselves We have all had someone who has given us a little boost along the wayrdquo

Mundle took his first head professional job in 1965 at Overlake Golf and Country Club in Bellevue where he remained until 1981 At that point he returned to Eugene and was the head pro at the Eugene Country Club for three years followed by a six-year stint at the Bear Creek Country Club in Seattle

He also spent a short time at a golf course in Cottage Grove Ore before moving back to Eugene for a third time in 1993 to become the director of golf instruction at the river ridge Golf Course He remained at river ridge until his retirement last summer During his time there he helped out as the swing coach at UO under then-head coach Steve Nosler

Through it all Mundle served as president of the Washington PGA and the Pacific Northwest PGA and was a member of several National PGA committees As a player he participated in the Oregon Washington and Pacific Northwest opens as well as the Washington and Oregon PGA events One of his highlights was winning the Oregon Senior PGA Match-Play Championships in Bend in 1993

ldquoi felt i had an obligation to participaterdquo Mundle said ldquoi played a lot of golf including many many pro-ams and i won a couple of assistant championshipsrdquo

in addition to Crane Mundle also helped shape the careers of Jeff Quinney and Eric Johnson both of whom are from the Eugene area

Quinney won the United States Amateur championship in 2000 and represented the US in the Walker Cup in 2001 He has appeared in 128 PGA Tour events since 2007 placing second twice and third twice

Johnson played several years on the Asian Tour and one on the Nationwide Tour He is now a head professional at a

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course in San rafael CalifldquoAnd there have been some others mdash

Brian Henninger Mike Gove a few others mdash who have called and wanted to discus their swingrdquo Mundle said ldquoNothing on a regular basis just one or two sessionsrdquo

is Hanson his next mdash and perhaps his last mdash prodigy

Thatrsquos a tricky question since Hanson came to golf late after a budding baseball career was derailed by a shoulder injury He was a first-team all-Big Nine Conference golf selection as a junior but has yet to qualify for state and his summer resume is thin because of his baseball background

Hansonrsquos original plan was to attend Walla Walla Community College and play golf for the Warriors with the hope of earning an NCAA Division i scholarship But he has since decided to enroll in Arizona State Universityrsquos Professional Golf Management program and try out for the ASU golf team as a walk on

ldquoMore than anything i think it came down to him evaluating his goalsrdquo said Jakersquos father Gary Hanson ldquoitrsquos everyonersquos dream to play on the PGA Tour but realistically he wants to be a golf pro and teach He loves

the gamerdquoAnd a degree in the PGM program

will provide Jake with the educational background he needs to be successful in any form of business his father added

Though his chances of making the ASU varsity team seem unlikely the PGM program provides a club golf team that participates in a series of tournaments throughout the year and gives Hanson a second playing option

And keeping your options open is optimum at this point Mundle said

ldquoi think his driving force at this time mdash and also his folks mdash is to get his education And then he can do whatever he wants if he doesnrsquot go into (the golfing business) immediately he will always have it as a backuprdquo

Sounds an awful lot like the advice Thomas Mundle offered his son back in the spring of 1952 when Al Mundle wanted to leave school after his sophomore year and test his wings on the PGA Tour And as we now know all these years later staying in school worked out pretty well for Al

Jim Buchan is a sports writer for the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin He can be reached at jimbuchanwwubcom

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Join us for a night of wonder with elizabethan-inspired food fashion and merriment to celebrate the opening of walla wallarsquos power house theatre and prepare for a four-day run of seattle shakespeare companyrsquos ldquothe merry wives of windsorrdquo

walla walla lifestyles will present a fashion show with wicked and wistful gowns twisted braided hair and smoldering makeup designs designers include red eden designs autumnlin design and others

semi-formal attire creative masks encouraged this exclusive evening will enchant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fashion

to purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewallawallacom

530 - 9 pm May 18 2011

The Power H o use The at reS i x t h amp R o se Wa l l a Wa l l a

T H E A T R EPOWER HOUSE

My director Terry Edward Moore told me his only direction from the artistic director was that it be ldquoperiodrdquo that is to say authentic to the time

ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo is the only one of Shakespearersquos plays that is set in his own time so it was decided to present it as if the actors were people of the time doing what would be a contemporary (to the late 16th century) play

i started to research the clothing of the time how it was constructed and what kinds of fabrics were available at the time mdash linens homespuns woolens for the common people and silks damasks velvets and furs for the upper classes i discovered that Elizabethan society was strictly regulated in terms of social classes and upward mobility was a little-known concept Once a yeoman always a yeoman i also discovered the set of rules and regulations called ldquosumptuary lawsrdquo which specifically dictated what types of fabrics trims furs and even what colors each class was allowed to wear

Since there are three distinct classes represented in ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo mdash merchant class soldiers and servants mdash i tried to give each class its own color palette based on these laws The overall palette of the show is based on colors actually in use at the time

The availability of dyes was limited (except for the nobility) so the palette consists of many shades of yellows and browns russets black some greens and blue-grays and of course wheat-colored unbleached linen i turned to the Dutch painter Brueghel for inspiration on how the common people looked and dressed

i also researched what kinds of dyes were used and where they came from Dyes were created from all sorts of different things such as walnut shell crushed beetles and all kinds of roots i found a website that sells these authentic dyestuffs so irsquom using the real thing to dye some of the linen pieces and will coordinate the contemporary fabrics to these authentic colors

Nearly every piece will need something done to it mdash altered in some way to fit the actor re-trimmed rigged invisibly for quick changes etc mdash so there is a lot of labor involved Also hats were a hugely important part of Elizabethan fashion all the way down to the poorest serf

Certain styles of hats were often associated with certain professions mdash eg doctors scholars mdash so there are a number of hats to build as well as headpieces for the women No self-respecting woman went about with her head uncovered

Putting together a show like this is like putting together a giant jigsaw puzzle and the pieces are the costumes that irsquove borrowed and rented from other theater companies in the Seattle area such as Seattle repertory Seattle Opera and the University of Washington as well as pieces from Oregon Shakespeare Festival i design the show and then go out into the world and try to find pieces that approximate my designs and palette as closely as possible (usually with some reworking first) The pieces that i cant find and dont want to compromise on i build from scratch

deane middLeton is a theatre costume professional who works in the Seattle area She has done costumes for Issaquahrsquos Village Theater as well as several productions of the Seattle Shakespeare Company

ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 29

ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo was the only one of Shakespearersquos works set in his own time the 1600s and features Sir John Falstaff It also deals primarily with english middle-class life A hilarious bawdy comedy filled with insight into the life and times of Shakespeare ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo will delight people of all ages

About the play

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But thatrsquos exactly what longtime Walla Walla resident Larry Adams did for four years He was one of a select group of pilots for Marine One the helicopter counterpart of the presidential airplane Air Force One from 1970 to 1974

30 Walla Walla LifestyLes

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 31

Long before Adams became the Walla Walla Airport manager he was transporting heads of state foreign dignitaries famous (and now infamous) Cabinet members the executive staff and President richard M Nixon during one of the nationrsquos most turbulent times the withdrawal from vietnam and the Watergate scandal

But to Adams a native of Northern idaho all that swirled around the Nixon presidency was the least of his concerns His job was to transport the president safely to Andrews Air Force Base or Camp David or fly any short flight required Safety always at a premium End of story

Many times Adams ferried President Nixon and his staff on short flights far away from home Air Force One might fly President Nixon to a summit or a meeting with a foreign head of state but Marine One and Adams were always nearby to shuttle the chief executive on short flights or to whisk him away from sudden danger

Pretty heady stuff for a fourth-grade teacher who had never thought about flying until a Marine recruiter offered him the opportunity Although Adams had watched planes take off and land at a nearby air base as a child he had never given serious thought to flying it was more a need for a bigger paycheck than passion that brought Adams to his destiny

He liked teaching but it just wasnrsquot paying the bills So Adams turned to the military and the Gi Bill After being unimpressed by other recruiters Adams took a liking to the fellow from the Marines for as Adams recalls the recruiter took an interest in him After about an hour of talking the recruiter suggested Adams might have the potential to be a pilot

Having easily passed some preliminary tests Adams was sent to flight school in Pensacola Fla and a stellar career was ready to take off He performed well in all the aircraft he piloted but he showed a special skill for helicopters

Up until 1965 fixed-wing airplanes were the staple of all military air combat But the military had been gearing up for a big change The helicopter was to become a major part of combat The Pentagon had been developing helicopters that would do much more than transport troops to bases Now they would assist in bombing

raids ground attacks and the evacuation of the injured from the point of combat This new breed of helicopters would also possess the ability to fight back and not be lame ducks as before the new H34 would tote machine guns on each side

These cutting-edge aircraft would travel at unprecedented speeds with newly discovered agility Gifted pilots were needed not those who merely possessed superior technical skills but those who also had the composure to fly straight into

enemy fire in the dead of night picking up injured soldiers or aiding air attacks

Adams was one of those pilots and he would be one of two squadron leaders for ldquoOperation Starliterdquo mdash the first major assault using helicopters The Marines were going straight into a North vietnamese regimental stronghold No one knew what to expect

ldquoWe lost a lot that first time inrdquo says Adams ldquoTwo crew chiefs were killed

Continued on pg 32 gt

In this newspaper clipping Larry Adams poses on the steps of the helicopter dubbed Marine One which he piloted for President Richard M Nixon

32 Walla Walla LifestyLes

people ltcontinued from pg 31

four pilots were medevaced out because of their wounds i donrsquot think there was one helicopter that didnrsquot have a bunch of holes in it The one i flew in we got a lot of rounds in it Amazingly no one was hurt but when we got back the helicopter was so shot-up you couldnrsquot fly it anymore We lost 50 percent of our helicopters that dayrdquo

in the next 13 months Adams would fly many more missions often heading straight into anti-aircraft fire to pick up injured or killed soldiers He says he would see the flares signifying where the copter was supposed to land but frequently hersquod have to veer off because ground communication would say ldquoThe artillery is too hotrdquo Then there would be a window maybe two minutes maybe five when the helicopter could drop in and pick up the injured often being shot at as it waited for its passengers

Adams knew the best way to survive was to keep his focus ldquoin the daylight when you start your run in and yoursquore getting shot at Everything went to black and white for me i didnrsquot notice the green trees or the green rice paddies until we got out of there and then it would come back

to me i donrsquot know what that was i just didnrsquot see the colors irsquove talked to some other pilots and they described the same thingrdquo

in his two tours of duty in vietnam Adams would fly 880 combat missions in several types of helicopters and fixed-wing airplanes He received numerous medals including two Navy commendations for performance under combat conditions

Then the call came to fly for the president Before Adams could tote the commander in chief around in Marine One a thorough background check had to be done So thorough was the check that Adams said a friend from his hometown sent him a card that read ldquoAre you in some kind of trouble Jesus therersquos been a bunch of people around here with the dark grey suits and the skinny little ties Theyrsquore asking all these embarrassing questions about you like did you have drinking problem Did you have a gambling problem Do you know what Larryrsquos sexual preference wasrdquo

Adams chuckles ldquoit was pretty funnyrdquoAdams passed the grade and soon

he was flying President Nixon and his family to Camp David or picking up vice

President Spiro Agnew at the Pentagon or taking Secretary of State Henry kissinger or Secretary of Defense Alexander Haig to a classified meeting Although his flights varied from transporting foreign heads of state to flying members of the press the majority involved the president the vice president kissinger and Haig

The pilots did not speak to their travelers unless spoken to says Adams President Nixon usually looked in and asked them how they were kissinger never spoke Haig was good for a pat on the shoulder now and then but it was Agnew who conversed the most says Adams

Adams remembers ldquoOne time we picked him up at the Pentagon and we had taken off and had hit top altitude He usually would come up and look into the cockpit but this time he patted me on the shoulder and asked lsquoWell howrsquos it going today guysrsquordquo Adams replied ldquoNot bad sir and how about yourselfrdquo

Agnew answered ldquoMan they are really after my assrdquo He was talking about the press Adams says ldquoTwo weeks later he resignedrdquo

Adams recalls that his encounters with Agnew as defying the public perception

Adams far right gives instructions before a mission in Vietnam

Walla Walla LifestyLes 33

that Agnew was arrogant ldquoHe was always one of the nicest guys He was straightforward He looked like he had just stepped off the cover of Gentlemenrsquos Quarterly all the time He was very proper in the way he dressed but he had a sense of humor as wellrdquo

There were other humorous moments Adams recalls a certain reporter from CBS who had been a major thorn in President Nixonrsquos side was late for takeoff from the South Lawn of the White House one morning Just as Marine One was about to leave without him he came running across the lawn hollering and waving his arms The Secret Service agent supervising the flight told Adams to ldquojust gordquo The wind from the propellers whipped the reporterrsquos toupee right off his head and instead of continuing his run toward Marine One he reversed his field and tried feverishly to retrieve his toupee snagged in the hedges

ldquoEveryone got a pretty good chuckle out of thatrdquo

Of course there were somber times At one point Adams flew Cabinet members John Ehrlichman and Hr Haldeman to Camp David for a meeting with the president After only 15 minutes the two men returned and Marine One headed home Adams says it was a quiet flight He found out later the two men had been fired by President Nixon for their parts in the Watergate scandal

Whisking the president away from danger was a major part of being a pilot of Marine One Stationed across the river from the Capitol pilots awakened by an emergency alert had to be up in the air in five minutes This exercise was practiced often though never needed during Adamsrsquo tenure

One night however they thought it was The operator at the White House mistakenly hit the ldquoAlertrdquo button Marine One was in the air in five minutes

Although ground control had not spotted any enemy aircraft the operation was under way As Marine One closed in on the White House the operator at fault tried to alert everyone of his mistake but unfortunately used a poor choice of words to call off the operation

Adams chuckles as he says ldquoThe fella said lsquoThis is not an exercisersquo He was moved to another post i thinkrdquo

All levity aside the position required

the same kind of focus demanded of Adams in vietnam though it came in a different form

ldquoThere were three things the way you operated the aircraft and they were in this order safety comfort and speed Safety never gave in to comfort or speedrdquo says Adams ldquoOur job was just concentrating on doing our job it could have been anybody mdash we would do it the same way it could have been Fred Flintstone

ldquoThe difference between flying for the White House and in vietnam was we were flying a premier aircraft We had to keep it impeccably clean everything was scripted We had to have the lsquoopen-the-door timersquo down to two to four seconds in vietnam it was the stress of performing medevacs under fire or dropping troops under heavy artillery For Marine One it was the stress of doing the job rightrdquo

Also the stress of being away from onersquos family 200 days of the year wore on a Marine One pilot in 1974 after four years on the job the toll became too much and Adams stepped down

He would stay with the Marines for eight more years retiring in August 1982

By then he had received 44 Air Medals including the Joint Service Commendation and the Presidential Service Badge in his 20 years of service Adams flew seven different helicopters and five different fixed-wing planes

What makes an elite military pilot ldquoPilots who donrsquot have any misgivingsrdquo says Adams ldquoTheyrsquore totally prepared they know their aircraftrdquo

When talking about his colleagues on Marine One he adds ldquoNone were boasters They might brag about a great landing but they did not brag in spite of someone elserdquo

What did Adams love most about his flying days ldquoi enjoyed flying with the latest technology and the pristine quality of Marine One i loved the process of building my skills i could have flown another 40 years and i would still be learning thingsrdquo

is it any surprise his favorite hobby now is fly fishing

andrew hoLt writes about food people and all things Walla Walla for Walla Walla lifestyles magazine He can be reached at bruindrew86gmailcom

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it is astonishing in many ways mdash that we are presented with two weeks of top-drawer music performed by top-drawer musi-cians that there are so many ways to encounter the music (many of them free) and that a rural community has provided the incu-

bator for such a cultural undertaking to name but a fewGranted we are not your average rural community having two

colleges a university a symphony a choral society a community band and music in the schools but letrsquos face it wersquore not exactly a cosmopolitan center of culture like New york either The Cham-ber Music Festival mdash and our continued support of it through some tough times mdash puts us in a category all our own

ldquoi saw what was special about this community the first time i visited in 2007rdquo Artistic Director Timothy Christie says ldquoi have

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worked hard to start this event and to my great joy it has taken on an iden-tity of its own i hire the musicians and choose the music but the town its people and its environs make the festivalrdquo

The beauty of chamber music is its intimacy mdash smaller ensembles performing for smaller audiences it has been referred to as ldquothe music of friendsrdquo which seems so apt at this festival Free open rehearsals are held around town that provide not only a musical atmosphere in which to enjoy a latte or the ambiance of the kirkman House but which give a richer look into the machinations of a working ensemble

As one enthusiastic fan puts it ldquoi am not a musician and itrsquos fascinat-ing to watch these rehearsals to see the interactions of the musicians as they work out the snags make wry remarks and relate to each other in a whole different way than during a for-mal performance i get a glimpse into their personalities and what makes them tickrdquo

The festival supplies a generous of-fering of venues with free concerts for children and families relaxed evening programs at wineries and full concerts at the Foundry Chism Hall and Day-tonrsquos Liberty Theater

if you are lucky enough to live near the musiciansrsquo lodgings while they are in town you may also be treated to an ad hoc front-porch concert as the ensembles continue their rehearsals in more private settings The festival is about all of these ways mdash planned and accidental mdash to experience the enchantment of chamber music

it is also about historic continuity and the connection between past and present mdash relishing the existing canon while expanding the genre with con-temporary forms and voices

How is this accomplished in part by the annual commission of a new piece of music for the festival Chris-tie is committed to contributing to the broader chamber music repertoire and to providing the audience with the richest possible experience

Continued on pg 36 gt

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ldquoFor classical music to be relevant there must be a conversation between the music of our time and the music of the pastrdquo he says

By commissioning a work for the festi-val each year Christie creates such a con-versation

This year the commission was given to John David Earnest Four festival commis-sions have preceded his and he is the sec-ond ldquolocalrdquo composer to be tapped add-ing another layer of relationship between community and event (in 2009 Whitman College professor David Glenn was given the nod)

As visiting adjunct professor of music at Whitman Earnest resides here for six weeks every semester His ldquoSecond Sym-phonyrdquo was written for and performed by the Walla Walla Symphony in October 2001

The challenge for the yearly commis-sionee is to compose a piece on demand within specific constraints of time place and instrumentation while expressing hisher own voice as an artist

Earnest has created ldquoCommedia Gal-leryrdquo a set of three movements for flute

viola and harp based on stock characters from the Commedia dellrsquoArte a popu-lar theatrical form that was influential in Europe for over 300 years Commedia characters improvised dialogue around set scenarios generally involving the struggles of young lovers to overcome hindrances to their romance and each character even-tually came to have a consistent set of at-tributes in speech mannerisms and cos-tume

Earnestrsquos ldquoGalleryrdquo gives us Arlecchi-no (Harlequin) an acrobatic and devious jester Pierrot the classic sad clown and finally Scaramouche a dandy and a brag-gart who is a coward at heart

in anticipation of this yearrsquos festival i am reminded of the scene in ldquoThe Music Manrdquo in which the town awaits the ar-rival of the Wells Fargo Wagon Potentially heaped with gifts and surprises it prom-ises connection to the larger world The WWCMF brings us all ldquosomethinrsquo specialrdquo mdash an enrichment of our community and our culture

margaret Jamison is an artist and writer living in Walla Walla Contact her at artjamisongmailcom

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Smith has gardened for years at his home at 38 Mulberry Court in College Place He used to grow vegetables and flowers now he is strictly focusing on flowers mdash with fabulous results roses delphiniums and lots of irises line the fence

ldquoirises mdash irsquove always enjoyed themrdquo he says ldquoThey take a little bit of weeding and watering but not much morerdquo itrsquos the gardenerrsquos dream mdash low maintenance with a big return

A retired orthopedic surgeon Smith has in the past gardened more extensively than he does now But he has enough plants to keep him busy His new project is planting more of the reblooming iris These are still hardy but you get twice the reward they bloom in the spring then again in the fall

ldquoTheyrsquore easy to grow and spectacular for a short time iris take less care than a lot of thingsrdquo Smith says

His secret for gardening is simple and therersquos no getting around it ldquoTime and workrdquo he laughs

Hersquos getting ready to start in the garden ldquoi need to clean out the leaves and the old foliage of the irisrdquo

in addition to the basic cleaning and maintenance Smith just decides how many plants to keep Bulb flowers are hardy and they multiply on their own

ldquoAfter five years you usually have to separate the bulbs when they get too thick i donrsquot have room to add more i put in the new re-blooming onesrdquo he explains ldquoi may add more and a few other thingsrdquo

But in a garden you can always try something new or rearrange existing plants often with a spectacular outcome

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itrsquos an odd location since it can only be seen as yoursquore leaving town but it always makes me smile This valley my adopted home is indeed a great place to be

i recently finished reading the great Western writer Wallace Stegnerrsquos book ldquoThe Sound of Mountain Waterrdquo One of his essays traces his nomadic childhood which left him feeling rootless and without a place that he felt he could call home

i identify with his feeling of not belonging i was born to a single woman from Massachusetts in a New york City hospital i stayed a scant few days before being placed with an adoption agency Born in a place i had no familial connection to i was immediately deprived of my biological family Most of my childhood was spent in suburban Cleveland Ohio Moves to upstate New york New England and Pennsylvania brought me no closer to calling any place home i loved living in the western Massachusetts town of Stockbridge but the multigenerational denizens of the town left few openings for newcomers like me i lived in central Pennsylvania for several decades but felt detached from the deep roots that most people had in the area

When we came west (for my husband a homecoming to his Oregon roots for me a new experience) i noticed that even in long-established towns like Walla Walla there is ample room for newcomers who want to be

part of the community And most folks who choose to come here donrsquot seem to want to change the valley they prefer to embrace it

While the occasional newbie whines about the lack of Whole Foods or Nordstrom they soon discover our farmers markets the wide variety of local shops and boutiques and our world-class restaurants They fall in love with our charming downtowns the small-town friendliness of the people and our kid-friendly environment Then therersquos the holiday parade the fair the ever-present Blue Mountains the parks the museums the wineries mdash really whatrsquos not to like The communities of our valley represent America at its best

irsquom a newspaper junkie i love to read everything from news to sports to classifieds mdash even the obituaries The obits are a fascinating window on our valley Many of the people chronicled were born here some lived all their lives here inextricably bound to this place But a number of people came here from other places often far away and have made a mark on our area Which makes me wonder mdash is a place any less of a hometown because you choose it or is it based primarily on the happenstance of your birth it seems that therersquos room for both paths to calling this wonderful valley home

itrsquos also our strength because collectively as a community we bring both deep familial and cultural traditions as well as the fresh perspective of newcomers to our area irsquom glad mdash after decades of searching mdash that i finally found my hometown a place that feels just right

diane reed can be reached at ladybookearthlinknet Between columns and when the spirit moves her she blogs at wwwponderingsbydianereedblogspotcom from her home overlooking the pond at lions Park in College Place

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wwwfivestarcellarscom 40100

103192

2428 Heritage Road (Old Highway 12)

Open Friday amp Saturday 1200 - 430

509-301-9546 509-529-5872

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Closed January amp February

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44 Walla Walla LifestyLes

Maymay 1The annual Kennel Club Dog Show Walla Walla County Fairgrounds De-tails 509-558-3854

The Walla Walla University Drama Department pres-ents a performance of ldquoMy Fair ladyrdquo 2 pm matinee Details 509-527-2656

The Walla Walla Choral Society presents ldquoJubilate Deordquo 3 pm May 1 Walla Walla University Church College Place Details 509-386-2445

The Walla Walla Valley Farmers Market opens local produce artisans and an outdoor concert 9 am-1 pm Saturdays and Sundays through Oct 30 Crawford Park Fourth ave and Main St Details gowallawallafarmersmar-ketcom or 509-520-3647

through may 22Enjoy the annual Senior art Thesis Exhibition Sheehan Gallery Whitman College Details 509-527-5249

through JuLy 31The Tamaacutestslikt Cultural In-stitute hosts the traveling OMSI exhibit ldquoamazing Feats of agingrdquo explor-ing the mysteries of why animals and humans age Details 541-966-9748

may 4The YWCa leadership luncheon ldquoMatters that Matterrdquo is informational and inspirational with guest speakers Kristine Van Raden and Molly Da-vis Noon Marcus Whit-man Hotel Details 509-525-2570

Walla Walla Wine Works hosts music on Wednes-days downtown Details 509-522-1261

may 5First Thursday Concert at St Pauls Episcopal Church 323 Catherine Street Walla Walla 1215-1250 pm will feature the Steel Drum Band from Walla Walla Uni-versity directed by Brandon Beck Details 529-1083

The Whitman College Visit-ing Writers Reading series presents Whitman Reading 7 pm Kimball Theatre De-tails whitmanedu

may 5-7 12-14Walla Walla High School Drama Department pres-ents ldquoFiddler on the Roofrdquo musical version 7 pm and 2 pm matinee on Saturdays May 7 and 14 Walla Walla High School Performing arts audito-rium Details Tickets can be reserved by calling 509-526-8613 the Wa-Hi box office

may 5-8 19-21a performance of ldquoThe 25th a nnua l Putnam County Spelling Beerdquo 8 pm Harper Joy Theatre Whitman College Details 509-527-5180

may 6-7Music on the weekends at the Backstage Bistro De-tails 509-526-0690

Sapolil Cellars hosts music on Friday and Saturday De-tails 509-520-5258

The Wildfire hosts music every Friday and Saturday Wildhorse Resort amp Casino Pendleton Details 800-654-9453

may 6-8Walla Walla Valley Winer-ies offer an opportunity to taste their new creations during Spring Release Weekend area wineries introduce new wines and winemakers share their creative inspiration Details 509-526-3117

may 6artWalK First Fridays May through December Visit galleries and chat with art-ists 5-8 pm Downtown Walla Walla Visit artwalk-wallawallacom

may 6-8 13-14The little Theatre presents ldquoalice In Wonderlandrdquo adapted from lewis Carroll 8 pm Friday-Saturday 2 pm Sunday little Theatre of Walla Walla Details 509-529-3683

may 7The annual Junior Horse Show brings great riding action to Milton-Freewater Pioneer Posse Grounds Details 541-938-3379

Daytonrsquos annual Street Sale turns a section of Third Street into a giant yard sale benefits churches and com-munity projects Dayton Details 509-382-4825

artist reception and dem-onstration Washington art-ist Dwight Duke exhibits his painting bronze sculptures and gunpowder light pan-els 6-730 pm Reininger Winery Details 509-522-1994

may 8Every Sunday the living History actors portray in-dividuals from the arearsquos past 2 pm Fort Walla Walla Museum Details 509-525-7703

may 13-15The annual Balloon Stam-pede brings as many as 50 hot-air balloons to the Walla Walla County Fairgrounds This colorful festival re-mains a Valley tradition Ear-ly morning flights (weather permitting) arts amp crafts antique autos commercial booths live entertainment and food Balloons light up to music at the Saturday evening Nite Glow Details 509-525-0850

may 14annual adult event cele-brates the characters who populated Pendletonrsquos past Must have reservations Pendleton Underground Tours Details 800-226-6398

may 14-15 may 27-29Walla Walla Drag Strip con-tinues the weekend fun Details wwdragstripcom or 509-200-6287

may 15Walla Walla University Chamber Series featuring Robyn McCabe 730 pm MKW Fine arts auditorium Details 509-527-2571

may 18To celebrate the opening of Walla Wallarsquos Power House Theatre and a four-day run of Seattle Shakespeare Companyrsquos ldquoThe Merry Wives of WindsorrdquoWalla Walla lifestyles will pres-ent a gala event This exclusive evening will en-chant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fash-ion from 530-9 pm at the Power House Theatre Sixth amp Rose Walla Walla To purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewalla-wallacom

may 19-21During Pendletonrsquos Cattle Baron Weekend enjoy an art exhibit by a talented group of women artists ldquoIn the Company of Cowgirlsrdquo Hamleyrsquos Steakhouse Pendleton Visit inthecom-panyofcowgirlscom or call 541-676-5013

may 19-22Whitman College 50th Reunion class of 1961 Whitman College Details 509-527-5952

Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merr y Wives of Windsorrdquo Pow-erhouse Theater Details 509-742-0739

may 21The annual Ducky Derby is a day of family fun all for a good cause Watch the ducks race down Mill Creek to help fund the Exchange Clubrsquos efforts at preventing child abuse and neglect 1130 am-330 pm Race at about 2 pm Walla Walla Community College De-tails 509-527-4300

Walla Walla University Spring Choral Concert 5 pm Walla Walla Univer-sity Church Details 509-527-2571

learn to contra dance an old-fashioned coun-try dance Music by the Wednesday Night Band 7 pm teaching and practice 730 pm regular dance Unity Church of Peace 810

C St Walla Walla Details 541-938-7403

may 22The Whitman College graduating class of 2011 accepts the challenge 11 am Memorial lawn Whitman College Details 509-527-5156

may 26 27 28 29Walla Walla Community College Theatre arts De-partment presents ldquoZoot Suitrdquo by luis Valdez 7 pm each night and Sunday 2 pm matinee W WCC Performing arts Center Details 509-527-4575

may 27-30 Dayton Days has been a Memorial Weekend tradi-tion in Dayton for nearly 100 years Highlights include a Saturday-morning parade on historic Main Street rodeo tour of Dayton and Memorial Day Fun Run De-tails 509-382-4825 or visit historicdaytoncom

may 28-30The Touchet River Roundup mdash the annual Celebration of Sobriety at the fairgrounds focuses on family fun ac-tivities Waitsburg Details 509-526-3602

may 29annual Onion Man Tria-thalon 9 am Bennington lake Details wwmulti-sportscom or call 509-529-9187

may 30Waitsburgrsquos annual Memo-rial Day celebration hosted by veterans for all veterans Details 509-337-6546

Walla Walla LifestyLes 45

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This sculptural cornucopia marks the spot where all of Walla Walla meets the producers and wersquore not talking about the Zero Mostel and Gene Wild-er musical For you GPS fans latitude 4606678 N longitude 11834197 W

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The sculpture tops the farmers market gazebo on the corner of Fourth Avenue North and West Main Street

Contestensprulesif you have the answer e-mail it to rickdoylewwubcom or send it to Where in Walla Walla 112 S 1st Ave PO Box 1358 Walla Walla WA 99362 The names of 10 people with correct answers will be randomly selected and they will receive this great-looking mug as proof of their local knowledge and good taste

Annette CarterShirley richterDebbie FullenJudy CarlsonEloise Phillips

Dan Countsvicky ScanlonJanet TurnerTam LennoxBruce Campbell

46 Walla Walla LifestyLes

1 amavi cellars3796 Peppers Bridge Road (509) 525-3541 wwwamavicellarscom

2 Basel cellars estate winery2901 Old Milton Hwy (509) 522-0200 wwwbaselcellarscom

3 Bergevin Lane vineyards 1215 W Poplar St (509) 526-4300 bergevinlanecom

4 Bunchgrass winery151 Bunchgrass lane (509) 540-8963 wwwbunchgrasswinerycom

5 canoe ridge vineyard1102 W Cherry St (509) 527-0885 wwwcanoeridgevineyardcom

6 castillo de feliciana85728 Telephone Pole Road Milton-Freewater OR (541) 558-3656 wwwcastillodefelicianacom

7 don carlo vineyardBy appointment Only (509) 540-5784 wwwdoncarlovineyardcom

8 dunham cellars150 E Boeing ave (509) 529-4685 wwwdunhamcellarscom

9 five star cellars 840 C St (509) 527-8400 wwwfivestarcellarscom

10 forgeron cellars 33 W Birch St (509) 522-9463 wwwforgeroncellarscom

21 sapolil cellars15 E Main St (509) 520-5258 wwwsapolilcellarscom

22 seven hills winery 212 N Third ave (509) 529-7198 wwwsevenhillswinerycom

23 sinclair estate vineyards 109 E Main Ste 100 (509) 876-4300 wwwsinclairestatevineyardscom

24 spring valley vineyard 18 N Second ave (509) 525-1506 wwwspringvalleyvineyardcom

25 suLei cellars355 S Second ave (503) 529-0840 www suleicellarscom

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Park St

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Palouse St

Colville St

4th ave

Main St

Pine St

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Birch St

Spokane St Boyer ave

Rose St

Poplar St9th St

13th ave

Cherry St

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11 foundry vineyards Corner of 13th ave and abadie St (509) 529-0736 wwwwallawallafoundrycomvineyards

12 fort walla walla cellars 127 E Main St (509) 520-1095 wwwfortwallawallacellarscom

13 glencorrie8052 Old Highway 12 (509) 525-2585 wwwglencorriecom

14 grantwood winery 2428 W Highway 12 (509) 301-0719 (509) 301-9546

15 Lrsquoecole no 41 winery41 lowden School Road and US Hwy 12 (509) 525-0940 wwwlecolecom

16 Long shadows1604 Frenchtown Road (Formerly Ireland Road) (509) 526-0905 wwwlongshadowscom By invitation only Requests accepted on a limited basis Please call to inquire

17 Lowden hills winery1401 W Pine St (509) 527-1040 wwwlowdenhillswinerycom

18 northstar winery 1736 JB George Road (509) 524-4883 wwwnorthstarmerlotcom

19 pepper Bridge winery1704 JB George Road (509) 525-6502 wwwpepperbridgecom

20 robison ranch cellars2839 Robison Ranch Road (509) 301-3480 robisonranchcellarscom

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26 syZygy 405 E Boeing ave (509) 522-0484 wwwsyzygywinescom

27 three rivers winery5641 Old Highway 12 (509) 526-9463 infoThreeRiversWinerycom

28 tertulia cellars1564 Whiteley Road (509) 525-5700 wwwtertuliacellarscom

29 trust cellars 1050 Merlot Drive (509) 529-4511 wwwtrustcellarscom

30 va piano vineyards1793 JB George Road (509) 529-0900 wwwvapianovineyardscom

31 walla walla vintnersVineyard lane off Mill Creek Road (509) 525-4724 wwwwallawallavintnerscom

32 walla walla wineworks31 E Main St (509) 522-1261 wwwwallawallawineworkscom

33 whitman cellars1015 W Pine St (509) 529-1142 wwwwhitmancellarscom

34 woodward canyon winery11920 W Hwy 12 lowden (509) 525-4129 wwwwoodwardcanyoncom

35 JLc winery425 B St (509) 301-5148

36 saviah cellars1979 JB George Rd

highway 12

E St

Beech ave

lockheed ave

Piper ave

G St

Mill Creek Rd

Isaacs ave

AirportTerminal

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Old M

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Old Milton Hwy

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JB George Rd

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Stateline RdWaSHINGTON

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Frog HollowM

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Fairchild ave

Cessna ave

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lear ave

Douglas ave

Curtis ave

C St

Republic ave

Ryan ave

F St

Stinson ave

B St

Boeing ave

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DaytonLewiston

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Tumac MachineryWalla Walla

(509) 525 - 2010wwwTumacMachinerycom

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$300 off new X500 series Select Series tractors Offer is valid 3111 to 8111 $250 off new Z445 EZtrak mowers Offer is valid 3111 to 53111 Some restriction apply other special rates and terms may be availableso see your dealer for details and other financing options Available at participating dealers Prices and model availability may vary by dealer sup1Offer valid from 3111 to 8111 Interest will be charged to your accountfrom the purchase data at 179 APR if the purchase balance is not paid in full within 12 months or if your account is otherwise in default Subject to approved credit on John Deere Financial Revolving Plan a serviceof FPC Financial fsb For consumer use only Some restrictions apply Other special rates and terms may be available including installment financing and financing for commercial use Available at participating dealers in the United States Prices and savings in US dollars Taxes freight setup and delivery not included Prices subject to change without notice ^The engine horsepower information is provided by the engine manufacturer to be used for comparison purposes only Actual operating horsepower will be less Hour limitation apply and vary by model See the LIMITED WARRANTY FOR NEW JOHN DEERE COMMERCIAL ANDCONSUMER EQUIPMENT at johndeerecom for details John Deerersquos green and yellow symbol and JOHN DEERE are trademarks of Deere amp CompanyAD3KKCU1Aı487-00346843

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14 Walla Walla LifestyLes

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The old Frenchtown schoolhouse built in 1915 with the stately bell tower still stands it has been a historic fixture in the Walla Walla valley that many of us have grown up with even if we never attended classes there One can still stride up the long sidewalk to the large heavy carved doors with a feeling of reverence and trepidation mdash as if it were the first day of school mdash while imagining generations of children playing on the manicured grounds

in the 1970s the old schoolhouse classrooms found themselves empty of childrenrsquos laughter But in 1983 Jean and Baker Ferguson breathed new life into the old building founding what would become one of the premier wineries in Washington LrsquoEcole No 41

The name was historically im-portant in two ways ldquoLrsquoEcolerdquo French for ldquothe schoolrdquo recognized the French men and women who settled the area and ldquo41rdquo was the numerical designation of the school district

The Fergusonsrsquo first crush of 1983 was resting in the barrel when the following year they asked their elementary school-aged family members to draw an image that would best reflect the new project

The $100 prize went to an 8-year-old cousin whose watercolor interpretation of the old schoolhouse became the template for a wine label it became an iconic label known to wine lovers around the world

in 1989 the second generation of the family Jean and Bakerrsquos daughter and son-

in-law Megan and Martin (Marty) Clubb became the new proprietors of the winery Marty became the general manager and winemaker and would lead the small artisan winery to new heights mdash it would eventually produce more than 30000 cases annually

At the same time the Washington state wine industry was booming and would soon become the nationrsquos second-largest wine producer The area would become one of the premium wine-producing regions in the United States

Marty also became a pioneer in the

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 15

Washington state wine industry as he became a founder and activist in many of the wine industryrsquos foundations and alliances The family-owned winery also partnered with some of the most prestigious vineyards in the state LrsquoEcole No 41 has been honored nine consecutive years by Wine amp Spirits magazine as ldquoWinery of the yearrdquo becoming the second Washington winery inducted into the Hall of Fame

There is a third-generation that has grown up around the winery and will eventually become caretakers of this legacy Meganrsquos and Martyrsquos children Jeanrsquos and Bakerrsquos grandchildren rebecca and riley Clubb had their own meaningful influence on the label with their childhood drawings on the labelrsquos chalkboard image

riley is a 2009 graduate of Whitman College and is employed at the winery rebecca is enrolled in Washington State Universityrsquos wine management program and expected to graduate in 2012

The winery will soon celebrate its 30th birthday The wines produced at the old schoolhouse are refined with true varietal character and can stand up against many coveted wines from France mdash and they have Now that LrsquoEcole is a top player in the world of wine the whimsical label on its bottles is no longer truly indicative of the sophisticated gold and dark-red liquids behind the glass

ldquoLooking to the future we wanted our label to reflect the winery we have becomerdquo says Marty Clubb

This year the winery will unveil a new label it will still depict the iconic schoolhouse but with deeper colors and a new texture There will be a distinct difference among the labels depending on the vineyards used Wines produced from Columbia valley vineyards will have a soft charcoal-colored background label and the labels for the wines produced from Walla Walla vineyards will be more sepia-toned

Another distinctive change will be the de-emphasizing of the ldquoNo 41rdquo as generations of wine lovers have often referred to the winery as ldquoLrsquoEcolerdquo

The new label will be a timeless reminder of the past as well as a welcome to future generations

catie mcintyre waLker blogs at wildwallawallawinewomanblogspotcom and be reached at wildwallawallawinewomancom

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it was 1954 the year he graduated from the University of Oregon and two female students from the university were interested in learning some of the finer points of the game

ldquoit was probably the worst lesson anybody has ever givenrdquo Mundle exclaimed shaking his head in dismay ldquoThese two young ladies were looking for some help and i worked with them for an hour-and-a-half And at the end of that time i said lsquoi have done such a poor job i will pay you for the time i have put you through this torturersquordquo

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 17

Painful as it was the lesson learned proved to be a career-launching moment for Mundle who dedicated himself to his trade and spent a lifetime in the golf business successfully working up and down the i-5 corridor as course operator teacher and player

Fifty-seven years after that first teaching debacle Mundle now 79 years old is retired and living in Walla Walla He and his wife Ann relocated here last summer determined to give up teaching golf and spend more time playing the game they both love

ldquoAfter all of these years of teaching i feel that this is the time to lay it asiderdquo Mundle said ldquoi will still do a little studying of the golf swing and methods and i will be involved with some of the other local professionals in some cracker-barrel sessions when they get together to discuss teaching methods problems and how to solve them

ldquoBut i really came here not to teach but to play some golfrdquo

That was the plan anyway before he was introduced to Walla Walla High School senior Jake Hanson who was looking for a little extra help with his game heading into his final year on the links as a Blue Devil

Terri Hanson Jakersquos mother was aware of Mundlersquos reputation as a teaching professional and heard through the grapevine he was living in Walla Walla

ldquoBeing the mom i am i called him one dayrdquo Terri remembered ldquoi told him that Jakersquos golf game was at a standstill i asked him to take a look at Jake and he agreed to come and meet us and get a feel for where Jake was at

ldquoHe did and before you knew it they were putting on our hardwood floors The next day they agreed to get together at Wine valley mdash they were there for four hours and it has been an amazing connection right from the beginning

ldquoAl is an amazing Christian man who is so well-respected in his fieldrdquo Terri added ldquoAnd he just demands respect irsquom seeing my son of 17 all of a sudden growing uprdquo

Mundle concedes he is intrigued by Hansonrsquos character and potential And

Under the watchful eye of Al Mundle Jake Hanson hits an iron shot

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18 Walla Walla LifestyLes

Hanson holds his new mentor in high esteem

ldquoirsquove learned a tremendous amountrdquo Hanson said ldquoHe has a way of getting through to me in a positive way He got through to me that i am so much better than i thought i could be He has more confidence in me than i have in myself

ldquoHe has one of the best golf swings i have ever seen and he is still working on his own gamerdquo

Mundle said Hanson reminds him of former University of Oregon player Ben Crane who now plays on the PGA Tour Crane has been playing professionally since 2007 and earned nearly $3 million on the tour in 2010

ldquoi was Benrsquos swing coach at Oregon and Jake is somewhat similarrdquo Mundle said ldquoBen worked harder than anybody on the whole golf team He would put in as much

time as three or four others combined and Jake is very much the same way Hersquos very dedicatedrdquo

However Mundle insists that helping Hanson with his game is a one-time situation

After playing just six rounds of golf last year Mundle is determined that he and Ann will spend a lot more time on the golf course as they get acquainted with their new hometown

ldquoThatrsquos an all-time lowrdquo he said of the six rounds played in 2010 ldquoMostly it was the move and all mdash a new house putting in lawn fencing shelving in the garage mdash all the little things of getting settled

ldquoBut this was a good move for us We love it here We enjoy the weather and the people you can walk down the street and people look you in the eye and say lsquoHellorsquo i love that friendlinessrdquo

Mundle grew up in Eugene and graduated from University High School in 1950 He knew he said from the time he was in the seventh grade he wanted to make golf his lifersquos work

ldquoyou might say that i had a little parental directionrdquo Mundle said ldquoMy dad went to the University of St Andrews in Scotland and he played golf at the St Andrews Old Course And my mother also played golfrdquo

After high school Mundle enrolled at the University of Oregon and played three years of varsity golf during an era when there was no such thing as a golf scholarship

ldquoThe only thing we ever received was a half-a-dozen golf balls if we went into a tournamentrdquo Mundle recalled ldquoWhen i went to the NCAA Championships in Texas my senior year i was given a new

people ltcontinued from pg 17

Walla Walla LifestyLes 19

pair of golf shoes but that was itldquoWe bought all of our own gear mdash

clubs bags rain gear everything itrsquos a whole different ball game today They have everythingrdquo

At the end of his sophomore year at Oregon Mundle had it in his mind to ldquotest my golf on the PGA Tourrdquo he said But his father an English professor at the university discouraged him

ldquoHe said lsquoGet your education first then you can do whatever you wantrsquordquo Mundle said ldquoit was just as well i saved a lot of wear and tear mdash and money i was an Ok player but not of that caliberrdquo

Mundle still has fond memories of his collegiate playing career however

ldquoi played three years for the university mdash you werenrsquot allowed to play as freshmen mdash and Oregon always had fine golf teamsrdquo Mundle said ldquoit was mostly match

play then and i was there during the time that the school went seven straight years without losing a (team) dual matchrdquo

During his senior year Mundle qualified for the NCAA Championships in Houston From a field of about 160 players Mundle made it as far as the quarterfinal round

He graduated in 1954 with a degree in history which he said he never really used

ldquoMy dad was in the top one percent of his class at St Andrewsrdquo Mundle said ldquoMy mother was also in the top part of her class and my older brother Pete was in the top of his class And then i came alongrdquo

His first golf job was as an assistant pro at his home course the Laurelwood Golf Course a position he accepted shortly after graduating from UO This was when and where the infamous first golf lesson

occurredA two-year stint in the US Army took

Mundle away from his profession in 1955-56 But he managed to keep his golf game sharp as a member of the Fort knox golf team and in 1956 he was the runner-up in the Second Army tournament and he placed 13th in the All-Army tournament

Then it was back to the Willamette valley where he came into his own in the Portland area under head professionals Eddie Hogan at riverside Country Club and Bunny Mason at Columbia Edgewater

ldquoThose two people were very influential in my professional liferdquo Mundle said

ldquoEddie was a very fine teacher of the total golf operation and service was No 1 i learned how to run the pro shop how

Jake Hanson takes a few pointers on chipping from his instructor and mentor Al Mundle

Continued on pg 20 gt

20 Walla Walla LifestyLes

people ltcontinued from pg 19

to market and merchandise mdash everything from how to run the club service program to the electric cart program to basically running the golf course

ldquoBunny was also a very fine operator of a golf shop and i also learned a lot about teaching from Bunny Sometimes you go along in life and there are certain mentors who help you along the way Anybody who says they made it by themselves is not being honest with themselves We have all had someone who has given us a little boost along the wayrdquo

Mundle took his first head professional job in 1965 at Overlake Golf and Country Club in Bellevue where he remained until 1981 At that point he returned to Eugene and was the head pro at the Eugene Country Club for three years followed by a six-year stint at the Bear Creek Country Club in Seattle

He also spent a short time at a golf course in Cottage Grove Ore before moving back to Eugene for a third time in 1993 to become the director of golf instruction at the river ridge Golf Course He remained at river ridge until his retirement last summer During his time there he helped out as the swing coach at UO under then-head coach Steve Nosler

Through it all Mundle served as president of the Washington PGA and the Pacific Northwest PGA and was a member of several National PGA committees As a player he participated in the Oregon Washington and Pacific Northwest opens as well as the Washington and Oregon PGA events One of his highlights was winning the Oregon Senior PGA Match-Play Championships in Bend in 1993

ldquoi felt i had an obligation to participaterdquo Mundle said ldquoi played a lot of golf including many many pro-ams and i won a couple of assistant championshipsrdquo

in addition to Crane Mundle also helped shape the careers of Jeff Quinney and Eric Johnson both of whom are from the Eugene area

Quinney won the United States Amateur championship in 2000 and represented the US in the Walker Cup in 2001 He has appeared in 128 PGA Tour events since 2007 placing second twice and third twice

Johnson played several years on the Asian Tour and one on the Nationwide Tour He is now a head professional at a

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course in San rafael CalifldquoAnd there have been some others mdash

Brian Henninger Mike Gove a few others mdash who have called and wanted to discus their swingrdquo Mundle said ldquoNothing on a regular basis just one or two sessionsrdquo

is Hanson his next mdash and perhaps his last mdash prodigy

Thatrsquos a tricky question since Hanson came to golf late after a budding baseball career was derailed by a shoulder injury He was a first-team all-Big Nine Conference golf selection as a junior but has yet to qualify for state and his summer resume is thin because of his baseball background

Hansonrsquos original plan was to attend Walla Walla Community College and play golf for the Warriors with the hope of earning an NCAA Division i scholarship But he has since decided to enroll in Arizona State Universityrsquos Professional Golf Management program and try out for the ASU golf team as a walk on

ldquoMore than anything i think it came down to him evaluating his goalsrdquo said Jakersquos father Gary Hanson ldquoitrsquos everyonersquos dream to play on the PGA Tour but realistically he wants to be a golf pro and teach He loves

the gamerdquoAnd a degree in the PGM program

will provide Jake with the educational background he needs to be successful in any form of business his father added

Though his chances of making the ASU varsity team seem unlikely the PGM program provides a club golf team that participates in a series of tournaments throughout the year and gives Hanson a second playing option

And keeping your options open is optimum at this point Mundle said

ldquoi think his driving force at this time mdash and also his folks mdash is to get his education And then he can do whatever he wants if he doesnrsquot go into (the golfing business) immediately he will always have it as a backuprdquo

Sounds an awful lot like the advice Thomas Mundle offered his son back in the spring of 1952 when Al Mundle wanted to leave school after his sophomore year and test his wings on the PGA Tour And as we now know all these years later staying in school worked out pretty well for Al

Jim Buchan is a sports writer for the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin He can be reached at jimbuchanwwubcom

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Join us for a night of wonder with elizabethan-inspired food fashion and merriment to celebrate the opening of walla wallarsquos power house theatre and prepare for a four-day run of seattle shakespeare companyrsquos ldquothe merry wives of windsorrdquo

walla walla lifestyles will present a fashion show with wicked and wistful gowns twisted braided hair and smoldering makeup designs designers include red eden designs autumnlin design and others

semi-formal attire creative masks encouraged this exclusive evening will enchant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fashion

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530 - 9 pm May 18 2011

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T H E A T R EPOWER HOUSE

My director Terry Edward Moore told me his only direction from the artistic director was that it be ldquoperiodrdquo that is to say authentic to the time

ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo is the only one of Shakespearersquos plays that is set in his own time so it was decided to present it as if the actors were people of the time doing what would be a contemporary (to the late 16th century) play

i started to research the clothing of the time how it was constructed and what kinds of fabrics were available at the time mdash linens homespuns woolens for the common people and silks damasks velvets and furs for the upper classes i discovered that Elizabethan society was strictly regulated in terms of social classes and upward mobility was a little-known concept Once a yeoman always a yeoman i also discovered the set of rules and regulations called ldquosumptuary lawsrdquo which specifically dictated what types of fabrics trims furs and even what colors each class was allowed to wear

Since there are three distinct classes represented in ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo mdash merchant class soldiers and servants mdash i tried to give each class its own color palette based on these laws The overall palette of the show is based on colors actually in use at the time

The availability of dyes was limited (except for the nobility) so the palette consists of many shades of yellows and browns russets black some greens and blue-grays and of course wheat-colored unbleached linen i turned to the Dutch painter Brueghel for inspiration on how the common people looked and dressed

i also researched what kinds of dyes were used and where they came from Dyes were created from all sorts of different things such as walnut shell crushed beetles and all kinds of roots i found a website that sells these authentic dyestuffs so irsquom using the real thing to dye some of the linen pieces and will coordinate the contemporary fabrics to these authentic colors

Nearly every piece will need something done to it mdash altered in some way to fit the actor re-trimmed rigged invisibly for quick changes etc mdash so there is a lot of labor involved Also hats were a hugely important part of Elizabethan fashion all the way down to the poorest serf

Certain styles of hats were often associated with certain professions mdash eg doctors scholars mdash so there are a number of hats to build as well as headpieces for the women No self-respecting woman went about with her head uncovered

Putting together a show like this is like putting together a giant jigsaw puzzle and the pieces are the costumes that irsquove borrowed and rented from other theater companies in the Seattle area such as Seattle repertory Seattle Opera and the University of Washington as well as pieces from Oregon Shakespeare Festival i design the show and then go out into the world and try to find pieces that approximate my designs and palette as closely as possible (usually with some reworking first) The pieces that i cant find and dont want to compromise on i build from scratch

deane middLeton is a theatre costume professional who works in the Seattle area She has done costumes for Issaquahrsquos Village Theater as well as several productions of the Seattle Shakespeare Company

ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo

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ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo was the only one of Shakespearersquos works set in his own time the 1600s and features Sir John Falstaff It also deals primarily with english middle-class life A hilarious bawdy comedy filled with insight into the life and times of Shakespeare ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo will delight people of all ages

About the play

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But thatrsquos exactly what longtime Walla Walla resident Larry Adams did for four years He was one of a select group of pilots for Marine One the helicopter counterpart of the presidential airplane Air Force One from 1970 to 1974

30 Walla Walla LifestyLes

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 31

Long before Adams became the Walla Walla Airport manager he was transporting heads of state foreign dignitaries famous (and now infamous) Cabinet members the executive staff and President richard M Nixon during one of the nationrsquos most turbulent times the withdrawal from vietnam and the Watergate scandal

But to Adams a native of Northern idaho all that swirled around the Nixon presidency was the least of his concerns His job was to transport the president safely to Andrews Air Force Base or Camp David or fly any short flight required Safety always at a premium End of story

Many times Adams ferried President Nixon and his staff on short flights far away from home Air Force One might fly President Nixon to a summit or a meeting with a foreign head of state but Marine One and Adams were always nearby to shuttle the chief executive on short flights or to whisk him away from sudden danger

Pretty heady stuff for a fourth-grade teacher who had never thought about flying until a Marine recruiter offered him the opportunity Although Adams had watched planes take off and land at a nearby air base as a child he had never given serious thought to flying it was more a need for a bigger paycheck than passion that brought Adams to his destiny

He liked teaching but it just wasnrsquot paying the bills So Adams turned to the military and the Gi Bill After being unimpressed by other recruiters Adams took a liking to the fellow from the Marines for as Adams recalls the recruiter took an interest in him After about an hour of talking the recruiter suggested Adams might have the potential to be a pilot

Having easily passed some preliminary tests Adams was sent to flight school in Pensacola Fla and a stellar career was ready to take off He performed well in all the aircraft he piloted but he showed a special skill for helicopters

Up until 1965 fixed-wing airplanes were the staple of all military air combat But the military had been gearing up for a big change The helicopter was to become a major part of combat The Pentagon had been developing helicopters that would do much more than transport troops to bases Now they would assist in bombing

raids ground attacks and the evacuation of the injured from the point of combat This new breed of helicopters would also possess the ability to fight back and not be lame ducks as before the new H34 would tote machine guns on each side

These cutting-edge aircraft would travel at unprecedented speeds with newly discovered agility Gifted pilots were needed not those who merely possessed superior technical skills but those who also had the composure to fly straight into

enemy fire in the dead of night picking up injured soldiers or aiding air attacks

Adams was one of those pilots and he would be one of two squadron leaders for ldquoOperation Starliterdquo mdash the first major assault using helicopters The Marines were going straight into a North vietnamese regimental stronghold No one knew what to expect

ldquoWe lost a lot that first time inrdquo says Adams ldquoTwo crew chiefs were killed

Continued on pg 32 gt

In this newspaper clipping Larry Adams poses on the steps of the helicopter dubbed Marine One which he piloted for President Richard M Nixon

32 Walla Walla LifestyLes

people ltcontinued from pg 31

four pilots were medevaced out because of their wounds i donrsquot think there was one helicopter that didnrsquot have a bunch of holes in it The one i flew in we got a lot of rounds in it Amazingly no one was hurt but when we got back the helicopter was so shot-up you couldnrsquot fly it anymore We lost 50 percent of our helicopters that dayrdquo

in the next 13 months Adams would fly many more missions often heading straight into anti-aircraft fire to pick up injured or killed soldiers He says he would see the flares signifying where the copter was supposed to land but frequently hersquod have to veer off because ground communication would say ldquoThe artillery is too hotrdquo Then there would be a window maybe two minutes maybe five when the helicopter could drop in and pick up the injured often being shot at as it waited for its passengers

Adams knew the best way to survive was to keep his focus ldquoin the daylight when you start your run in and yoursquore getting shot at Everything went to black and white for me i didnrsquot notice the green trees or the green rice paddies until we got out of there and then it would come back

to me i donrsquot know what that was i just didnrsquot see the colors irsquove talked to some other pilots and they described the same thingrdquo

in his two tours of duty in vietnam Adams would fly 880 combat missions in several types of helicopters and fixed-wing airplanes He received numerous medals including two Navy commendations for performance under combat conditions

Then the call came to fly for the president Before Adams could tote the commander in chief around in Marine One a thorough background check had to be done So thorough was the check that Adams said a friend from his hometown sent him a card that read ldquoAre you in some kind of trouble Jesus therersquos been a bunch of people around here with the dark grey suits and the skinny little ties Theyrsquore asking all these embarrassing questions about you like did you have drinking problem Did you have a gambling problem Do you know what Larryrsquos sexual preference wasrdquo

Adams chuckles ldquoit was pretty funnyrdquoAdams passed the grade and soon

he was flying President Nixon and his family to Camp David or picking up vice

President Spiro Agnew at the Pentagon or taking Secretary of State Henry kissinger or Secretary of Defense Alexander Haig to a classified meeting Although his flights varied from transporting foreign heads of state to flying members of the press the majority involved the president the vice president kissinger and Haig

The pilots did not speak to their travelers unless spoken to says Adams President Nixon usually looked in and asked them how they were kissinger never spoke Haig was good for a pat on the shoulder now and then but it was Agnew who conversed the most says Adams

Adams remembers ldquoOne time we picked him up at the Pentagon and we had taken off and had hit top altitude He usually would come up and look into the cockpit but this time he patted me on the shoulder and asked lsquoWell howrsquos it going today guysrsquordquo Adams replied ldquoNot bad sir and how about yourselfrdquo

Agnew answered ldquoMan they are really after my assrdquo He was talking about the press Adams says ldquoTwo weeks later he resignedrdquo

Adams recalls that his encounters with Agnew as defying the public perception

Adams far right gives instructions before a mission in Vietnam

Walla Walla LifestyLes 33

that Agnew was arrogant ldquoHe was always one of the nicest guys He was straightforward He looked like he had just stepped off the cover of Gentlemenrsquos Quarterly all the time He was very proper in the way he dressed but he had a sense of humor as wellrdquo

There were other humorous moments Adams recalls a certain reporter from CBS who had been a major thorn in President Nixonrsquos side was late for takeoff from the South Lawn of the White House one morning Just as Marine One was about to leave without him he came running across the lawn hollering and waving his arms The Secret Service agent supervising the flight told Adams to ldquojust gordquo The wind from the propellers whipped the reporterrsquos toupee right off his head and instead of continuing his run toward Marine One he reversed his field and tried feverishly to retrieve his toupee snagged in the hedges

ldquoEveryone got a pretty good chuckle out of thatrdquo

Of course there were somber times At one point Adams flew Cabinet members John Ehrlichman and Hr Haldeman to Camp David for a meeting with the president After only 15 minutes the two men returned and Marine One headed home Adams says it was a quiet flight He found out later the two men had been fired by President Nixon for their parts in the Watergate scandal

Whisking the president away from danger was a major part of being a pilot of Marine One Stationed across the river from the Capitol pilots awakened by an emergency alert had to be up in the air in five minutes This exercise was practiced often though never needed during Adamsrsquo tenure

One night however they thought it was The operator at the White House mistakenly hit the ldquoAlertrdquo button Marine One was in the air in five minutes

Although ground control had not spotted any enemy aircraft the operation was under way As Marine One closed in on the White House the operator at fault tried to alert everyone of his mistake but unfortunately used a poor choice of words to call off the operation

Adams chuckles as he says ldquoThe fella said lsquoThis is not an exercisersquo He was moved to another post i thinkrdquo

All levity aside the position required

the same kind of focus demanded of Adams in vietnam though it came in a different form

ldquoThere were three things the way you operated the aircraft and they were in this order safety comfort and speed Safety never gave in to comfort or speedrdquo says Adams ldquoOur job was just concentrating on doing our job it could have been anybody mdash we would do it the same way it could have been Fred Flintstone

ldquoThe difference between flying for the White House and in vietnam was we were flying a premier aircraft We had to keep it impeccably clean everything was scripted We had to have the lsquoopen-the-door timersquo down to two to four seconds in vietnam it was the stress of performing medevacs under fire or dropping troops under heavy artillery For Marine One it was the stress of doing the job rightrdquo

Also the stress of being away from onersquos family 200 days of the year wore on a Marine One pilot in 1974 after four years on the job the toll became too much and Adams stepped down

He would stay with the Marines for eight more years retiring in August 1982

By then he had received 44 Air Medals including the Joint Service Commendation and the Presidential Service Badge in his 20 years of service Adams flew seven different helicopters and five different fixed-wing planes

What makes an elite military pilot ldquoPilots who donrsquot have any misgivingsrdquo says Adams ldquoTheyrsquore totally prepared they know their aircraftrdquo

When talking about his colleagues on Marine One he adds ldquoNone were boasters They might brag about a great landing but they did not brag in spite of someone elserdquo

What did Adams love most about his flying days ldquoi enjoyed flying with the latest technology and the pristine quality of Marine One i loved the process of building my skills i could have flown another 40 years and i would still be learning thingsrdquo

is it any surprise his favorite hobby now is fly fishing

andrew hoLt writes about food people and all things Walla Walla for Walla Walla lifestyles magazine He can be reached at bruindrew86gmailcom

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it is astonishing in many ways mdash that we are presented with two weeks of top-drawer music performed by top-drawer musi-cians that there are so many ways to encounter the music (many of them free) and that a rural community has provided the incu-

bator for such a cultural undertaking to name but a fewGranted we are not your average rural community having two

colleges a university a symphony a choral society a community band and music in the schools but letrsquos face it wersquore not exactly a cosmopolitan center of culture like New york either The Cham-ber Music Festival mdash and our continued support of it through some tough times mdash puts us in a category all our own

ldquoi saw what was special about this community the first time i visited in 2007rdquo Artistic Director Timothy Christie says ldquoi have

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worked hard to start this event and to my great joy it has taken on an iden-tity of its own i hire the musicians and choose the music but the town its people and its environs make the festivalrdquo

The beauty of chamber music is its intimacy mdash smaller ensembles performing for smaller audiences it has been referred to as ldquothe music of friendsrdquo which seems so apt at this festival Free open rehearsals are held around town that provide not only a musical atmosphere in which to enjoy a latte or the ambiance of the kirkman House but which give a richer look into the machinations of a working ensemble

As one enthusiastic fan puts it ldquoi am not a musician and itrsquos fascinat-ing to watch these rehearsals to see the interactions of the musicians as they work out the snags make wry remarks and relate to each other in a whole different way than during a for-mal performance i get a glimpse into their personalities and what makes them tickrdquo

The festival supplies a generous of-fering of venues with free concerts for children and families relaxed evening programs at wineries and full concerts at the Foundry Chism Hall and Day-tonrsquos Liberty Theater

if you are lucky enough to live near the musiciansrsquo lodgings while they are in town you may also be treated to an ad hoc front-porch concert as the ensembles continue their rehearsals in more private settings The festival is about all of these ways mdash planned and accidental mdash to experience the enchantment of chamber music

it is also about historic continuity and the connection between past and present mdash relishing the existing canon while expanding the genre with con-temporary forms and voices

How is this accomplished in part by the annual commission of a new piece of music for the festival Chris-tie is committed to contributing to the broader chamber music repertoire and to providing the audience with the richest possible experience

Continued on pg 36 gt

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ldquoFor classical music to be relevant there must be a conversation between the music of our time and the music of the pastrdquo he says

By commissioning a work for the festi-val each year Christie creates such a con-versation

This year the commission was given to John David Earnest Four festival commis-sions have preceded his and he is the sec-ond ldquolocalrdquo composer to be tapped add-ing another layer of relationship between community and event (in 2009 Whitman College professor David Glenn was given the nod)

As visiting adjunct professor of music at Whitman Earnest resides here for six weeks every semester His ldquoSecond Sym-phonyrdquo was written for and performed by the Walla Walla Symphony in October 2001

The challenge for the yearly commis-sionee is to compose a piece on demand within specific constraints of time place and instrumentation while expressing hisher own voice as an artist

Earnest has created ldquoCommedia Gal-leryrdquo a set of three movements for flute

viola and harp based on stock characters from the Commedia dellrsquoArte a popu-lar theatrical form that was influential in Europe for over 300 years Commedia characters improvised dialogue around set scenarios generally involving the struggles of young lovers to overcome hindrances to their romance and each character even-tually came to have a consistent set of at-tributes in speech mannerisms and cos-tume

Earnestrsquos ldquoGalleryrdquo gives us Arlecchi-no (Harlequin) an acrobatic and devious jester Pierrot the classic sad clown and finally Scaramouche a dandy and a brag-gart who is a coward at heart

in anticipation of this yearrsquos festival i am reminded of the scene in ldquoThe Music Manrdquo in which the town awaits the ar-rival of the Wells Fargo Wagon Potentially heaped with gifts and surprises it prom-ises connection to the larger world The WWCMF brings us all ldquosomethinrsquo specialrdquo mdash an enrichment of our community and our culture

margaret Jamison is an artist and writer living in Walla Walla Contact her at artjamisongmailcom

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Smith has gardened for years at his home at 38 Mulberry Court in College Place He used to grow vegetables and flowers now he is strictly focusing on flowers mdash with fabulous results roses delphiniums and lots of irises line the fence

ldquoirises mdash irsquove always enjoyed themrdquo he says ldquoThey take a little bit of weeding and watering but not much morerdquo itrsquos the gardenerrsquos dream mdash low maintenance with a big return

A retired orthopedic surgeon Smith has in the past gardened more extensively than he does now But he has enough plants to keep him busy His new project is planting more of the reblooming iris These are still hardy but you get twice the reward they bloom in the spring then again in the fall

ldquoTheyrsquore easy to grow and spectacular for a short time iris take less care than a lot of thingsrdquo Smith says

His secret for gardening is simple and therersquos no getting around it ldquoTime and workrdquo he laughs

Hersquos getting ready to start in the garden ldquoi need to clean out the leaves and the old foliage of the irisrdquo

in addition to the basic cleaning and maintenance Smith just decides how many plants to keep Bulb flowers are hardy and they multiply on their own

ldquoAfter five years you usually have to separate the bulbs when they get too thick i donrsquot have room to add more i put in the new re-blooming onesrdquo he explains ldquoi may add more and a few other thingsrdquo

But in a garden you can always try something new or rearrange existing plants often with a spectacular outcome

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itrsquos an odd location since it can only be seen as yoursquore leaving town but it always makes me smile This valley my adopted home is indeed a great place to be

i recently finished reading the great Western writer Wallace Stegnerrsquos book ldquoThe Sound of Mountain Waterrdquo One of his essays traces his nomadic childhood which left him feeling rootless and without a place that he felt he could call home

i identify with his feeling of not belonging i was born to a single woman from Massachusetts in a New york City hospital i stayed a scant few days before being placed with an adoption agency Born in a place i had no familial connection to i was immediately deprived of my biological family Most of my childhood was spent in suburban Cleveland Ohio Moves to upstate New york New England and Pennsylvania brought me no closer to calling any place home i loved living in the western Massachusetts town of Stockbridge but the multigenerational denizens of the town left few openings for newcomers like me i lived in central Pennsylvania for several decades but felt detached from the deep roots that most people had in the area

When we came west (for my husband a homecoming to his Oregon roots for me a new experience) i noticed that even in long-established towns like Walla Walla there is ample room for newcomers who want to be

part of the community And most folks who choose to come here donrsquot seem to want to change the valley they prefer to embrace it

While the occasional newbie whines about the lack of Whole Foods or Nordstrom they soon discover our farmers markets the wide variety of local shops and boutiques and our world-class restaurants They fall in love with our charming downtowns the small-town friendliness of the people and our kid-friendly environment Then therersquos the holiday parade the fair the ever-present Blue Mountains the parks the museums the wineries mdash really whatrsquos not to like The communities of our valley represent America at its best

irsquom a newspaper junkie i love to read everything from news to sports to classifieds mdash even the obituaries The obits are a fascinating window on our valley Many of the people chronicled were born here some lived all their lives here inextricably bound to this place But a number of people came here from other places often far away and have made a mark on our area Which makes me wonder mdash is a place any less of a hometown because you choose it or is it based primarily on the happenstance of your birth it seems that therersquos room for both paths to calling this wonderful valley home

itrsquos also our strength because collectively as a community we bring both deep familial and cultural traditions as well as the fresh perspective of newcomers to our area irsquom glad mdash after decades of searching mdash that i finally found my hometown a place that feels just right

diane reed can be reached at ladybookearthlinknet Between columns and when the spirit moves her she blogs at wwwponderingsbydianereedblogspotcom from her home overlooking the pond at lions Park in College Place

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Maymay 1The annual Kennel Club Dog Show Walla Walla County Fairgrounds De-tails 509-558-3854

The Walla Walla University Drama Department pres-ents a performance of ldquoMy Fair ladyrdquo 2 pm matinee Details 509-527-2656

The Walla Walla Choral Society presents ldquoJubilate Deordquo 3 pm May 1 Walla Walla University Church College Place Details 509-386-2445

The Walla Walla Valley Farmers Market opens local produce artisans and an outdoor concert 9 am-1 pm Saturdays and Sundays through Oct 30 Crawford Park Fourth ave and Main St Details gowallawallafarmersmar-ketcom or 509-520-3647

through may 22Enjoy the annual Senior art Thesis Exhibition Sheehan Gallery Whitman College Details 509-527-5249

through JuLy 31The Tamaacutestslikt Cultural In-stitute hosts the traveling OMSI exhibit ldquoamazing Feats of agingrdquo explor-ing the mysteries of why animals and humans age Details 541-966-9748

may 4The YWCa leadership luncheon ldquoMatters that Matterrdquo is informational and inspirational with guest speakers Kristine Van Raden and Molly Da-vis Noon Marcus Whit-man Hotel Details 509-525-2570

Walla Walla Wine Works hosts music on Wednes-days downtown Details 509-522-1261

may 5First Thursday Concert at St Pauls Episcopal Church 323 Catherine Street Walla Walla 1215-1250 pm will feature the Steel Drum Band from Walla Walla Uni-versity directed by Brandon Beck Details 529-1083

The Whitman College Visit-ing Writers Reading series presents Whitman Reading 7 pm Kimball Theatre De-tails whitmanedu

may 5-7 12-14Walla Walla High School Drama Department pres-ents ldquoFiddler on the Roofrdquo musical version 7 pm and 2 pm matinee on Saturdays May 7 and 14 Walla Walla High School Performing arts audito-rium Details Tickets can be reserved by calling 509-526-8613 the Wa-Hi box office

may 5-8 19-21a performance of ldquoThe 25th a nnua l Putnam County Spelling Beerdquo 8 pm Harper Joy Theatre Whitman College Details 509-527-5180

may 6-7Music on the weekends at the Backstage Bistro De-tails 509-526-0690

Sapolil Cellars hosts music on Friday and Saturday De-tails 509-520-5258

The Wildfire hosts music every Friday and Saturday Wildhorse Resort amp Casino Pendleton Details 800-654-9453

may 6-8Walla Walla Valley Winer-ies offer an opportunity to taste their new creations during Spring Release Weekend area wineries introduce new wines and winemakers share their creative inspiration Details 509-526-3117

may 6artWalK First Fridays May through December Visit galleries and chat with art-ists 5-8 pm Downtown Walla Walla Visit artwalk-wallawallacom

may 6-8 13-14The little Theatre presents ldquoalice In Wonderlandrdquo adapted from lewis Carroll 8 pm Friday-Saturday 2 pm Sunday little Theatre of Walla Walla Details 509-529-3683

may 7The annual Junior Horse Show brings great riding action to Milton-Freewater Pioneer Posse Grounds Details 541-938-3379

Daytonrsquos annual Street Sale turns a section of Third Street into a giant yard sale benefits churches and com-munity projects Dayton Details 509-382-4825

artist reception and dem-onstration Washington art-ist Dwight Duke exhibits his painting bronze sculptures and gunpowder light pan-els 6-730 pm Reininger Winery Details 509-522-1994

may 8Every Sunday the living History actors portray in-dividuals from the arearsquos past 2 pm Fort Walla Walla Museum Details 509-525-7703

may 13-15The annual Balloon Stam-pede brings as many as 50 hot-air balloons to the Walla Walla County Fairgrounds This colorful festival re-mains a Valley tradition Ear-ly morning flights (weather permitting) arts amp crafts antique autos commercial booths live entertainment and food Balloons light up to music at the Saturday evening Nite Glow Details 509-525-0850

may 14annual adult event cele-brates the characters who populated Pendletonrsquos past Must have reservations Pendleton Underground Tours Details 800-226-6398

may 14-15 may 27-29Walla Walla Drag Strip con-tinues the weekend fun Details wwdragstripcom or 509-200-6287

may 15Walla Walla University Chamber Series featuring Robyn McCabe 730 pm MKW Fine arts auditorium Details 509-527-2571

may 18To celebrate the opening of Walla Wallarsquos Power House Theatre and a four-day run of Seattle Shakespeare Companyrsquos ldquoThe Merry Wives of WindsorrdquoWalla Walla lifestyles will pres-ent a gala event This exclusive evening will en-chant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fash-ion from 530-9 pm at the Power House Theatre Sixth amp Rose Walla Walla To purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewalla-wallacom

may 19-21During Pendletonrsquos Cattle Baron Weekend enjoy an art exhibit by a talented group of women artists ldquoIn the Company of Cowgirlsrdquo Hamleyrsquos Steakhouse Pendleton Visit inthecom-panyofcowgirlscom or call 541-676-5013

may 19-22Whitman College 50th Reunion class of 1961 Whitman College Details 509-527-5952

Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merr y Wives of Windsorrdquo Pow-erhouse Theater Details 509-742-0739

may 21The annual Ducky Derby is a day of family fun all for a good cause Watch the ducks race down Mill Creek to help fund the Exchange Clubrsquos efforts at preventing child abuse and neglect 1130 am-330 pm Race at about 2 pm Walla Walla Community College De-tails 509-527-4300

Walla Walla University Spring Choral Concert 5 pm Walla Walla Univer-sity Church Details 509-527-2571

learn to contra dance an old-fashioned coun-try dance Music by the Wednesday Night Band 7 pm teaching and practice 730 pm regular dance Unity Church of Peace 810

C St Walla Walla Details 541-938-7403

may 22The Whitman College graduating class of 2011 accepts the challenge 11 am Memorial lawn Whitman College Details 509-527-5156

may 26 27 28 29Walla Walla Community College Theatre arts De-partment presents ldquoZoot Suitrdquo by luis Valdez 7 pm each night and Sunday 2 pm matinee W WCC Performing arts Center Details 509-527-4575

may 27-30 Dayton Days has been a Memorial Weekend tradi-tion in Dayton for nearly 100 years Highlights include a Saturday-morning parade on historic Main Street rodeo tour of Dayton and Memorial Day Fun Run De-tails 509-382-4825 or visit historicdaytoncom

may 28-30The Touchet River Roundup mdash the annual Celebration of Sobriety at the fairgrounds focuses on family fun ac-tivities Waitsburg Details 509-526-3602

may 29annual Onion Man Tria-thalon 9 am Bennington lake Details wwmulti-sportscom or call 509-529-9187

may 30Waitsburgrsquos annual Memo-rial Day celebration hosted by veterans for all veterans Details 509-337-6546

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This sculptural cornucopia marks the spot where all of Walla Walla meets the producers and wersquore not talking about the Zero Mostel and Gene Wild-er musical For you GPS fans latitude 4606678 N longitude 11834197 W

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The sculpture tops the farmers market gazebo on the corner of Fourth Avenue North and West Main Street

Contestensprulesif you have the answer e-mail it to rickdoylewwubcom or send it to Where in Walla Walla 112 S 1st Ave PO Box 1358 Walla Walla WA 99362 The names of 10 people with correct answers will be randomly selected and they will receive this great-looking mug as proof of their local knowledge and good taste

Annette CarterShirley richterDebbie FullenJudy CarlsonEloise Phillips

Dan Countsvicky ScanlonJanet TurnerTam LennoxBruce Campbell

46 Walla Walla LifestyLes

1 amavi cellars3796 Peppers Bridge Road (509) 525-3541 wwwamavicellarscom

2 Basel cellars estate winery2901 Old Milton Hwy (509) 522-0200 wwwbaselcellarscom

3 Bergevin Lane vineyards 1215 W Poplar St (509) 526-4300 bergevinlanecom

4 Bunchgrass winery151 Bunchgrass lane (509) 540-8963 wwwbunchgrasswinerycom

5 canoe ridge vineyard1102 W Cherry St (509) 527-0885 wwwcanoeridgevineyardcom

6 castillo de feliciana85728 Telephone Pole Road Milton-Freewater OR (541) 558-3656 wwwcastillodefelicianacom

7 don carlo vineyardBy appointment Only (509) 540-5784 wwwdoncarlovineyardcom

8 dunham cellars150 E Boeing ave (509) 529-4685 wwwdunhamcellarscom

9 five star cellars 840 C St (509) 527-8400 wwwfivestarcellarscom

10 forgeron cellars 33 W Birch St (509) 522-9463 wwwforgeroncellarscom

21 sapolil cellars15 E Main St (509) 520-5258 wwwsapolilcellarscom

22 seven hills winery 212 N Third ave (509) 529-7198 wwwsevenhillswinerycom

23 sinclair estate vineyards 109 E Main Ste 100 (509) 876-4300 wwwsinclairestatevineyardscom

24 spring valley vineyard 18 N Second ave (509) 525-1506 wwwspringvalleyvineyardcom

25 suLei cellars355 S Second ave (503) 529-0840 www suleicellarscom

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11 foundry vineyards Corner of 13th ave and abadie St (509) 529-0736 wwwwallawallafoundrycomvineyards

12 fort walla walla cellars 127 E Main St (509) 520-1095 wwwfortwallawallacellarscom

13 glencorrie8052 Old Highway 12 (509) 525-2585 wwwglencorriecom

14 grantwood winery 2428 W Highway 12 (509) 301-0719 (509) 301-9546

15 Lrsquoecole no 41 winery41 lowden School Road and US Hwy 12 (509) 525-0940 wwwlecolecom

16 Long shadows1604 Frenchtown Road (Formerly Ireland Road) (509) 526-0905 wwwlongshadowscom By invitation only Requests accepted on a limited basis Please call to inquire

17 Lowden hills winery1401 W Pine St (509) 527-1040 wwwlowdenhillswinerycom

18 northstar winery 1736 JB George Road (509) 524-4883 wwwnorthstarmerlotcom

19 pepper Bridge winery1704 JB George Road (509) 525-6502 wwwpepperbridgecom

20 robison ranch cellars2839 Robison Ranch Road (509) 301-3480 robisonranchcellarscom

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26 syZygy 405 E Boeing ave (509) 522-0484 wwwsyzygywinescom

27 three rivers winery5641 Old Highway 12 (509) 526-9463 infoThreeRiversWinerycom

28 tertulia cellars1564 Whiteley Road (509) 525-5700 wwwtertuliacellarscom

29 trust cellars 1050 Merlot Drive (509) 529-4511 wwwtrustcellarscom

30 va piano vineyards1793 JB George Road (509) 529-0900 wwwvapianovineyardscom

31 walla walla vintnersVineyard lane off Mill Creek Road (509) 525-4724 wwwwallawallavintnerscom

32 walla walla wineworks31 E Main St (509) 522-1261 wwwwallawallawineworkscom

33 whitman cellars1015 W Pine St (509) 529-1142 wwwwhitmancellarscom

34 woodward canyon winery11920 W Hwy 12 lowden (509) 525-4129 wwwwoodwardcanyoncom

35 JLc winery425 B St (509) 301-5148

36 saviah cellars1979 JB George Rd

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Mill Creek Rd

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Frog HollowM

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Washington state wine industry as he became a founder and activist in many of the wine industryrsquos foundations and alliances The family-owned winery also partnered with some of the most prestigious vineyards in the state LrsquoEcole No 41 has been honored nine consecutive years by Wine amp Spirits magazine as ldquoWinery of the yearrdquo becoming the second Washington winery inducted into the Hall of Fame

There is a third-generation that has grown up around the winery and will eventually become caretakers of this legacy Meganrsquos and Martyrsquos children Jeanrsquos and Bakerrsquos grandchildren rebecca and riley Clubb had their own meaningful influence on the label with their childhood drawings on the labelrsquos chalkboard image

riley is a 2009 graduate of Whitman College and is employed at the winery rebecca is enrolled in Washington State Universityrsquos wine management program and expected to graduate in 2012

The winery will soon celebrate its 30th birthday The wines produced at the old schoolhouse are refined with true varietal character and can stand up against many coveted wines from France mdash and they have Now that LrsquoEcole is a top player in the world of wine the whimsical label on its bottles is no longer truly indicative of the sophisticated gold and dark-red liquids behind the glass

ldquoLooking to the future we wanted our label to reflect the winery we have becomerdquo says Marty Clubb

This year the winery will unveil a new label it will still depict the iconic schoolhouse but with deeper colors and a new texture There will be a distinct difference among the labels depending on the vineyards used Wines produced from Columbia valley vineyards will have a soft charcoal-colored background label and the labels for the wines produced from Walla Walla vineyards will be more sepia-toned

Another distinctive change will be the de-emphasizing of the ldquoNo 41rdquo as generations of wine lovers have often referred to the winery as ldquoLrsquoEcolerdquo

The new label will be a timeless reminder of the past as well as a welcome to future generations

catie mcintyre waLker blogs at wildwallawallawinewomanblogspotcom and be reached at wildwallawallawinewomancom

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it was 1954 the year he graduated from the University of Oregon and two female students from the university were interested in learning some of the finer points of the game

ldquoit was probably the worst lesson anybody has ever givenrdquo Mundle exclaimed shaking his head in dismay ldquoThese two young ladies were looking for some help and i worked with them for an hour-and-a-half And at the end of that time i said lsquoi have done such a poor job i will pay you for the time i have put you through this torturersquordquo

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Painful as it was the lesson learned proved to be a career-launching moment for Mundle who dedicated himself to his trade and spent a lifetime in the golf business successfully working up and down the i-5 corridor as course operator teacher and player

Fifty-seven years after that first teaching debacle Mundle now 79 years old is retired and living in Walla Walla He and his wife Ann relocated here last summer determined to give up teaching golf and spend more time playing the game they both love

ldquoAfter all of these years of teaching i feel that this is the time to lay it asiderdquo Mundle said ldquoi will still do a little studying of the golf swing and methods and i will be involved with some of the other local professionals in some cracker-barrel sessions when they get together to discuss teaching methods problems and how to solve them

ldquoBut i really came here not to teach but to play some golfrdquo

That was the plan anyway before he was introduced to Walla Walla High School senior Jake Hanson who was looking for a little extra help with his game heading into his final year on the links as a Blue Devil

Terri Hanson Jakersquos mother was aware of Mundlersquos reputation as a teaching professional and heard through the grapevine he was living in Walla Walla

ldquoBeing the mom i am i called him one dayrdquo Terri remembered ldquoi told him that Jakersquos golf game was at a standstill i asked him to take a look at Jake and he agreed to come and meet us and get a feel for where Jake was at

ldquoHe did and before you knew it they were putting on our hardwood floors The next day they agreed to get together at Wine valley mdash they were there for four hours and it has been an amazing connection right from the beginning

ldquoAl is an amazing Christian man who is so well-respected in his fieldrdquo Terri added ldquoAnd he just demands respect irsquom seeing my son of 17 all of a sudden growing uprdquo

Mundle concedes he is intrigued by Hansonrsquos character and potential And

Under the watchful eye of Al Mundle Jake Hanson hits an iron shot

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Hanson holds his new mentor in high esteem

ldquoirsquove learned a tremendous amountrdquo Hanson said ldquoHe has a way of getting through to me in a positive way He got through to me that i am so much better than i thought i could be He has more confidence in me than i have in myself

ldquoHe has one of the best golf swings i have ever seen and he is still working on his own gamerdquo

Mundle said Hanson reminds him of former University of Oregon player Ben Crane who now plays on the PGA Tour Crane has been playing professionally since 2007 and earned nearly $3 million on the tour in 2010

ldquoi was Benrsquos swing coach at Oregon and Jake is somewhat similarrdquo Mundle said ldquoBen worked harder than anybody on the whole golf team He would put in as much

time as three or four others combined and Jake is very much the same way Hersquos very dedicatedrdquo

However Mundle insists that helping Hanson with his game is a one-time situation

After playing just six rounds of golf last year Mundle is determined that he and Ann will spend a lot more time on the golf course as they get acquainted with their new hometown

ldquoThatrsquos an all-time lowrdquo he said of the six rounds played in 2010 ldquoMostly it was the move and all mdash a new house putting in lawn fencing shelving in the garage mdash all the little things of getting settled

ldquoBut this was a good move for us We love it here We enjoy the weather and the people you can walk down the street and people look you in the eye and say lsquoHellorsquo i love that friendlinessrdquo

Mundle grew up in Eugene and graduated from University High School in 1950 He knew he said from the time he was in the seventh grade he wanted to make golf his lifersquos work

ldquoyou might say that i had a little parental directionrdquo Mundle said ldquoMy dad went to the University of St Andrews in Scotland and he played golf at the St Andrews Old Course And my mother also played golfrdquo

After high school Mundle enrolled at the University of Oregon and played three years of varsity golf during an era when there was no such thing as a golf scholarship

ldquoThe only thing we ever received was a half-a-dozen golf balls if we went into a tournamentrdquo Mundle recalled ldquoWhen i went to the NCAA Championships in Texas my senior year i was given a new

people ltcontinued from pg 17

Walla Walla LifestyLes 19

pair of golf shoes but that was itldquoWe bought all of our own gear mdash

clubs bags rain gear everything itrsquos a whole different ball game today They have everythingrdquo

At the end of his sophomore year at Oregon Mundle had it in his mind to ldquotest my golf on the PGA Tourrdquo he said But his father an English professor at the university discouraged him

ldquoHe said lsquoGet your education first then you can do whatever you wantrsquordquo Mundle said ldquoit was just as well i saved a lot of wear and tear mdash and money i was an Ok player but not of that caliberrdquo

Mundle still has fond memories of his collegiate playing career however

ldquoi played three years for the university mdash you werenrsquot allowed to play as freshmen mdash and Oregon always had fine golf teamsrdquo Mundle said ldquoit was mostly match

play then and i was there during the time that the school went seven straight years without losing a (team) dual matchrdquo

During his senior year Mundle qualified for the NCAA Championships in Houston From a field of about 160 players Mundle made it as far as the quarterfinal round

He graduated in 1954 with a degree in history which he said he never really used

ldquoMy dad was in the top one percent of his class at St Andrewsrdquo Mundle said ldquoMy mother was also in the top part of her class and my older brother Pete was in the top of his class And then i came alongrdquo

His first golf job was as an assistant pro at his home course the Laurelwood Golf Course a position he accepted shortly after graduating from UO This was when and where the infamous first golf lesson

occurredA two-year stint in the US Army took

Mundle away from his profession in 1955-56 But he managed to keep his golf game sharp as a member of the Fort knox golf team and in 1956 he was the runner-up in the Second Army tournament and he placed 13th in the All-Army tournament

Then it was back to the Willamette valley where he came into his own in the Portland area under head professionals Eddie Hogan at riverside Country Club and Bunny Mason at Columbia Edgewater

ldquoThose two people were very influential in my professional liferdquo Mundle said

ldquoEddie was a very fine teacher of the total golf operation and service was No 1 i learned how to run the pro shop how

Jake Hanson takes a few pointers on chipping from his instructor and mentor Al Mundle

Continued on pg 20 gt

20 Walla Walla LifestyLes

people ltcontinued from pg 19

to market and merchandise mdash everything from how to run the club service program to the electric cart program to basically running the golf course

ldquoBunny was also a very fine operator of a golf shop and i also learned a lot about teaching from Bunny Sometimes you go along in life and there are certain mentors who help you along the way Anybody who says they made it by themselves is not being honest with themselves We have all had someone who has given us a little boost along the wayrdquo

Mundle took his first head professional job in 1965 at Overlake Golf and Country Club in Bellevue where he remained until 1981 At that point he returned to Eugene and was the head pro at the Eugene Country Club for three years followed by a six-year stint at the Bear Creek Country Club in Seattle

He also spent a short time at a golf course in Cottage Grove Ore before moving back to Eugene for a third time in 1993 to become the director of golf instruction at the river ridge Golf Course He remained at river ridge until his retirement last summer During his time there he helped out as the swing coach at UO under then-head coach Steve Nosler

Through it all Mundle served as president of the Washington PGA and the Pacific Northwest PGA and was a member of several National PGA committees As a player he participated in the Oregon Washington and Pacific Northwest opens as well as the Washington and Oregon PGA events One of his highlights was winning the Oregon Senior PGA Match-Play Championships in Bend in 1993

ldquoi felt i had an obligation to participaterdquo Mundle said ldquoi played a lot of golf including many many pro-ams and i won a couple of assistant championshipsrdquo

in addition to Crane Mundle also helped shape the careers of Jeff Quinney and Eric Johnson both of whom are from the Eugene area

Quinney won the United States Amateur championship in 2000 and represented the US in the Walker Cup in 2001 He has appeared in 128 PGA Tour events since 2007 placing second twice and third twice

Johnson played several years on the Asian Tour and one on the Nationwide Tour He is now a head professional at a

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course in San rafael CalifldquoAnd there have been some others mdash

Brian Henninger Mike Gove a few others mdash who have called and wanted to discus their swingrdquo Mundle said ldquoNothing on a regular basis just one or two sessionsrdquo

is Hanson his next mdash and perhaps his last mdash prodigy

Thatrsquos a tricky question since Hanson came to golf late after a budding baseball career was derailed by a shoulder injury He was a first-team all-Big Nine Conference golf selection as a junior but has yet to qualify for state and his summer resume is thin because of his baseball background

Hansonrsquos original plan was to attend Walla Walla Community College and play golf for the Warriors with the hope of earning an NCAA Division i scholarship But he has since decided to enroll in Arizona State Universityrsquos Professional Golf Management program and try out for the ASU golf team as a walk on

ldquoMore than anything i think it came down to him evaluating his goalsrdquo said Jakersquos father Gary Hanson ldquoitrsquos everyonersquos dream to play on the PGA Tour but realistically he wants to be a golf pro and teach He loves

the gamerdquoAnd a degree in the PGM program

will provide Jake with the educational background he needs to be successful in any form of business his father added

Though his chances of making the ASU varsity team seem unlikely the PGM program provides a club golf team that participates in a series of tournaments throughout the year and gives Hanson a second playing option

And keeping your options open is optimum at this point Mundle said

ldquoi think his driving force at this time mdash and also his folks mdash is to get his education And then he can do whatever he wants if he doesnrsquot go into (the golfing business) immediately he will always have it as a backuprdquo

Sounds an awful lot like the advice Thomas Mundle offered his son back in the spring of 1952 when Al Mundle wanted to leave school after his sophomore year and test his wings on the PGA Tour And as we now know all these years later staying in school worked out pretty well for Al

Jim Buchan is a sports writer for the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin He can be reached at jimbuchanwwubcom

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Join us for a night of wonder with elizabethan-inspired food fashion and merriment to celebrate the opening of walla wallarsquos power house theatre and prepare for a four-day run of seattle shakespeare companyrsquos ldquothe merry wives of windsorrdquo

walla walla lifestyles will present a fashion show with wicked and wistful gowns twisted braided hair and smoldering makeup designs designers include red eden designs autumnlin design and others

semi-formal attire creative masks encouraged this exclusive evening will enchant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fashion

to purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewallawallacom

530 - 9 pm May 18 2011

The Power H o use The at reS i x t h amp R o se Wa l l a Wa l l a

T H E A T R EPOWER HOUSE

My director Terry Edward Moore told me his only direction from the artistic director was that it be ldquoperiodrdquo that is to say authentic to the time

ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo is the only one of Shakespearersquos plays that is set in his own time so it was decided to present it as if the actors were people of the time doing what would be a contemporary (to the late 16th century) play

i started to research the clothing of the time how it was constructed and what kinds of fabrics were available at the time mdash linens homespuns woolens for the common people and silks damasks velvets and furs for the upper classes i discovered that Elizabethan society was strictly regulated in terms of social classes and upward mobility was a little-known concept Once a yeoman always a yeoman i also discovered the set of rules and regulations called ldquosumptuary lawsrdquo which specifically dictated what types of fabrics trims furs and even what colors each class was allowed to wear

Since there are three distinct classes represented in ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo mdash merchant class soldiers and servants mdash i tried to give each class its own color palette based on these laws The overall palette of the show is based on colors actually in use at the time

The availability of dyes was limited (except for the nobility) so the palette consists of many shades of yellows and browns russets black some greens and blue-grays and of course wheat-colored unbleached linen i turned to the Dutch painter Brueghel for inspiration on how the common people looked and dressed

i also researched what kinds of dyes were used and where they came from Dyes were created from all sorts of different things such as walnut shell crushed beetles and all kinds of roots i found a website that sells these authentic dyestuffs so irsquom using the real thing to dye some of the linen pieces and will coordinate the contemporary fabrics to these authentic colors

Nearly every piece will need something done to it mdash altered in some way to fit the actor re-trimmed rigged invisibly for quick changes etc mdash so there is a lot of labor involved Also hats were a hugely important part of Elizabethan fashion all the way down to the poorest serf

Certain styles of hats were often associated with certain professions mdash eg doctors scholars mdash so there are a number of hats to build as well as headpieces for the women No self-respecting woman went about with her head uncovered

Putting together a show like this is like putting together a giant jigsaw puzzle and the pieces are the costumes that irsquove borrowed and rented from other theater companies in the Seattle area such as Seattle repertory Seattle Opera and the University of Washington as well as pieces from Oregon Shakespeare Festival i design the show and then go out into the world and try to find pieces that approximate my designs and palette as closely as possible (usually with some reworking first) The pieces that i cant find and dont want to compromise on i build from scratch

deane middLeton is a theatre costume professional who works in the Seattle area She has done costumes for Issaquahrsquos Village Theater as well as several productions of the Seattle Shakespeare Company

ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 29

ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo was the only one of Shakespearersquos works set in his own time the 1600s and features Sir John Falstaff It also deals primarily with english middle-class life A hilarious bawdy comedy filled with insight into the life and times of Shakespeare ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo will delight people of all ages

About the play

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But thatrsquos exactly what longtime Walla Walla resident Larry Adams did for four years He was one of a select group of pilots for Marine One the helicopter counterpart of the presidential airplane Air Force One from 1970 to 1974

30 Walla Walla LifestyLes

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 31

Long before Adams became the Walla Walla Airport manager he was transporting heads of state foreign dignitaries famous (and now infamous) Cabinet members the executive staff and President richard M Nixon during one of the nationrsquos most turbulent times the withdrawal from vietnam and the Watergate scandal

But to Adams a native of Northern idaho all that swirled around the Nixon presidency was the least of his concerns His job was to transport the president safely to Andrews Air Force Base or Camp David or fly any short flight required Safety always at a premium End of story

Many times Adams ferried President Nixon and his staff on short flights far away from home Air Force One might fly President Nixon to a summit or a meeting with a foreign head of state but Marine One and Adams were always nearby to shuttle the chief executive on short flights or to whisk him away from sudden danger

Pretty heady stuff for a fourth-grade teacher who had never thought about flying until a Marine recruiter offered him the opportunity Although Adams had watched planes take off and land at a nearby air base as a child he had never given serious thought to flying it was more a need for a bigger paycheck than passion that brought Adams to his destiny

He liked teaching but it just wasnrsquot paying the bills So Adams turned to the military and the Gi Bill After being unimpressed by other recruiters Adams took a liking to the fellow from the Marines for as Adams recalls the recruiter took an interest in him After about an hour of talking the recruiter suggested Adams might have the potential to be a pilot

Having easily passed some preliminary tests Adams was sent to flight school in Pensacola Fla and a stellar career was ready to take off He performed well in all the aircraft he piloted but he showed a special skill for helicopters

Up until 1965 fixed-wing airplanes were the staple of all military air combat But the military had been gearing up for a big change The helicopter was to become a major part of combat The Pentagon had been developing helicopters that would do much more than transport troops to bases Now they would assist in bombing

raids ground attacks and the evacuation of the injured from the point of combat This new breed of helicopters would also possess the ability to fight back and not be lame ducks as before the new H34 would tote machine guns on each side

These cutting-edge aircraft would travel at unprecedented speeds with newly discovered agility Gifted pilots were needed not those who merely possessed superior technical skills but those who also had the composure to fly straight into

enemy fire in the dead of night picking up injured soldiers or aiding air attacks

Adams was one of those pilots and he would be one of two squadron leaders for ldquoOperation Starliterdquo mdash the first major assault using helicopters The Marines were going straight into a North vietnamese regimental stronghold No one knew what to expect

ldquoWe lost a lot that first time inrdquo says Adams ldquoTwo crew chiefs were killed

Continued on pg 32 gt

In this newspaper clipping Larry Adams poses on the steps of the helicopter dubbed Marine One which he piloted for President Richard M Nixon

32 Walla Walla LifestyLes

people ltcontinued from pg 31

four pilots were medevaced out because of their wounds i donrsquot think there was one helicopter that didnrsquot have a bunch of holes in it The one i flew in we got a lot of rounds in it Amazingly no one was hurt but when we got back the helicopter was so shot-up you couldnrsquot fly it anymore We lost 50 percent of our helicopters that dayrdquo

in the next 13 months Adams would fly many more missions often heading straight into anti-aircraft fire to pick up injured or killed soldiers He says he would see the flares signifying where the copter was supposed to land but frequently hersquod have to veer off because ground communication would say ldquoThe artillery is too hotrdquo Then there would be a window maybe two minutes maybe five when the helicopter could drop in and pick up the injured often being shot at as it waited for its passengers

Adams knew the best way to survive was to keep his focus ldquoin the daylight when you start your run in and yoursquore getting shot at Everything went to black and white for me i didnrsquot notice the green trees or the green rice paddies until we got out of there and then it would come back

to me i donrsquot know what that was i just didnrsquot see the colors irsquove talked to some other pilots and they described the same thingrdquo

in his two tours of duty in vietnam Adams would fly 880 combat missions in several types of helicopters and fixed-wing airplanes He received numerous medals including two Navy commendations for performance under combat conditions

Then the call came to fly for the president Before Adams could tote the commander in chief around in Marine One a thorough background check had to be done So thorough was the check that Adams said a friend from his hometown sent him a card that read ldquoAre you in some kind of trouble Jesus therersquos been a bunch of people around here with the dark grey suits and the skinny little ties Theyrsquore asking all these embarrassing questions about you like did you have drinking problem Did you have a gambling problem Do you know what Larryrsquos sexual preference wasrdquo

Adams chuckles ldquoit was pretty funnyrdquoAdams passed the grade and soon

he was flying President Nixon and his family to Camp David or picking up vice

President Spiro Agnew at the Pentagon or taking Secretary of State Henry kissinger or Secretary of Defense Alexander Haig to a classified meeting Although his flights varied from transporting foreign heads of state to flying members of the press the majority involved the president the vice president kissinger and Haig

The pilots did not speak to their travelers unless spoken to says Adams President Nixon usually looked in and asked them how they were kissinger never spoke Haig was good for a pat on the shoulder now and then but it was Agnew who conversed the most says Adams

Adams remembers ldquoOne time we picked him up at the Pentagon and we had taken off and had hit top altitude He usually would come up and look into the cockpit but this time he patted me on the shoulder and asked lsquoWell howrsquos it going today guysrsquordquo Adams replied ldquoNot bad sir and how about yourselfrdquo

Agnew answered ldquoMan they are really after my assrdquo He was talking about the press Adams says ldquoTwo weeks later he resignedrdquo

Adams recalls that his encounters with Agnew as defying the public perception

Adams far right gives instructions before a mission in Vietnam

Walla Walla LifestyLes 33

that Agnew was arrogant ldquoHe was always one of the nicest guys He was straightforward He looked like he had just stepped off the cover of Gentlemenrsquos Quarterly all the time He was very proper in the way he dressed but he had a sense of humor as wellrdquo

There were other humorous moments Adams recalls a certain reporter from CBS who had been a major thorn in President Nixonrsquos side was late for takeoff from the South Lawn of the White House one morning Just as Marine One was about to leave without him he came running across the lawn hollering and waving his arms The Secret Service agent supervising the flight told Adams to ldquojust gordquo The wind from the propellers whipped the reporterrsquos toupee right off his head and instead of continuing his run toward Marine One he reversed his field and tried feverishly to retrieve his toupee snagged in the hedges

ldquoEveryone got a pretty good chuckle out of thatrdquo

Of course there were somber times At one point Adams flew Cabinet members John Ehrlichman and Hr Haldeman to Camp David for a meeting with the president After only 15 minutes the two men returned and Marine One headed home Adams says it was a quiet flight He found out later the two men had been fired by President Nixon for their parts in the Watergate scandal

Whisking the president away from danger was a major part of being a pilot of Marine One Stationed across the river from the Capitol pilots awakened by an emergency alert had to be up in the air in five minutes This exercise was practiced often though never needed during Adamsrsquo tenure

One night however they thought it was The operator at the White House mistakenly hit the ldquoAlertrdquo button Marine One was in the air in five minutes

Although ground control had not spotted any enemy aircraft the operation was under way As Marine One closed in on the White House the operator at fault tried to alert everyone of his mistake but unfortunately used a poor choice of words to call off the operation

Adams chuckles as he says ldquoThe fella said lsquoThis is not an exercisersquo He was moved to another post i thinkrdquo

All levity aside the position required

the same kind of focus demanded of Adams in vietnam though it came in a different form

ldquoThere were three things the way you operated the aircraft and they were in this order safety comfort and speed Safety never gave in to comfort or speedrdquo says Adams ldquoOur job was just concentrating on doing our job it could have been anybody mdash we would do it the same way it could have been Fred Flintstone

ldquoThe difference between flying for the White House and in vietnam was we were flying a premier aircraft We had to keep it impeccably clean everything was scripted We had to have the lsquoopen-the-door timersquo down to two to four seconds in vietnam it was the stress of performing medevacs under fire or dropping troops under heavy artillery For Marine One it was the stress of doing the job rightrdquo

Also the stress of being away from onersquos family 200 days of the year wore on a Marine One pilot in 1974 after four years on the job the toll became too much and Adams stepped down

He would stay with the Marines for eight more years retiring in August 1982

By then he had received 44 Air Medals including the Joint Service Commendation and the Presidential Service Badge in his 20 years of service Adams flew seven different helicopters and five different fixed-wing planes

What makes an elite military pilot ldquoPilots who donrsquot have any misgivingsrdquo says Adams ldquoTheyrsquore totally prepared they know their aircraftrdquo

When talking about his colleagues on Marine One he adds ldquoNone were boasters They might brag about a great landing but they did not brag in spite of someone elserdquo

What did Adams love most about his flying days ldquoi enjoyed flying with the latest technology and the pristine quality of Marine One i loved the process of building my skills i could have flown another 40 years and i would still be learning thingsrdquo

is it any surprise his favorite hobby now is fly fishing

andrew hoLt writes about food people and all things Walla Walla for Walla Walla lifestyles magazine He can be reached at bruindrew86gmailcom

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it is astonishing in many ways mdash that we are presented with two weeks of top-drawer music performed by top-drawer musi-cians that there are so many ways to encounter the music (many of them free) and that a rural community has provided the incu-

bator for such a cultural undertaking to name but a fewGranted we are not your average rural community having two

colleges a university a symphony a choral society a community band and music in the schools but letrsquos face it wersquore not exactly a cosmopolitan center of culture like New york either The Cham-ber Music Festival mdash and our continued support of it through some tough times mdash puts us in a category all our own

ldquoi saw what was special about this community the first time i visited in 2007rdquo Artistic Director Timothy Christie says ldquoi have

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A young artistic composer pays close attention as Tim Christie uses his violin to interpret the boys piece of artwork into music on June 11 2009 Meanwhile other children work on their works of art in preparation for the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival quintets interpretations

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 35

worked hard to start this event and to my great joy it has taken on an iden-tity of its own i hire the musicians and choose the music but the town its people and its environs make the festivalrdquo

The beauty of chamber music is its intimacy mdash smaller ensembles performing for smaller audiences it has been referred to as ldquothe music of friendsrdquo which seems so apt at this festival Free open rehearsals are held around town that provide not only a musical atmosphere in which to enjoy a latte or the ambiance of the kirkman House but which give a richer look into the machinations of a working ensemble

As one enthusiastic fan puts it ldquoi am not a musician and itrsquos fascinat-ing to watch these rehearsals to see the interactions of the musicians as they work out the snags make wry remarks and relate to each other in a whole different way than during a for-mal performance i get a glimpse into their personalities and what makes them tickrdquo

The festival supplies a generous of-fering of venues with free concerts for children and families relaxed evening programs at wineries and full concerts at the Foundry Chism Hall and Day-tonrsquos Liberty Theater

if you are lucky enough to live near the musiciansrsquo lodgings while they are in town you may also be treated to an ad hoc front-porch concert as the ensembles continue their rehearsals in more private settings The festival is about all of these ways mdash planned and accidental mdash to experience the enchantment of chamber music

it is also about historic continuity and the connection between past and present mdash relishing the existing canon while expanding the genre with con-temporary forms and voices

How is this accomplished in part by the annual commission of a new piece of music for the festival Chris-tie is committed to contributing to the broader chamber music repertoire and to providing the audience with the richest possible experience

Continued on pg 36 gt

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ldquoFor classical music to be relevant there must be a conversation between the music of our time and the music of the pastrdquo he says

By commissioning a work for the festi-val each year Christie creates such a con-versation

This year the commission was given to John David Earnest Four festival commis-sions have preceded his and he is the sec-ond ldquolocalrdquo composer to be tapped add-ing another layer of relationship between community and event (in 2009 Whitman College professor David Glenn was given the nod)

As visiting adjunct professor of music at Whitman Earnest resides here for six weeks every semester His ldquoSecond Sym-phonyrdquo was written for and performed by the Walla Walla Symphony in October 2001

The challenge for the yearly commis-sionee is to compose a piece on demand within specific constraints of time place and instrumentation while expressing hisher own voice as an artist

Earnest has created ldquoCommedia Gal-leryrdquo a set of three movements for flute

viola and harp based on stock characters from the Commedia dellrsquoArte a popu-lar theatrical form that was influential in Europe for over 300 years Commedia characters improvised dialogue around set scenarios generally involving the struggles of young lovers to overcome hindrances to their romance and each character even-tually came to have a consistent set of at-tributes in speech mannerisms and cos-tume

Earnestrsquos ldquoGalleryrdquo gives us Arlecchi-no (Harlequin) an acrobatic and devious jester Pierrot the classic sad clown and finally Scaramouche a dandy and a brag-gart who is a coward at heart

in anticipation of this yearrsquos festival i am reminded of the scene in ldquoThe Music Manrdquo in which the town awaits the ar-rival of the Wells Fargo Wagon Potentially heaped with gifts and surprises it prom-ises connection to the larger world The WWCMF brings us all ldquosomethinrsquo specialrdquo mdash an enrichment of our community and our culture

margaret Jamison is an artist and writer living in Walla Walla Contact her at artjamisongmailcom

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Smith has gardened for years at his home at 38 Mulberry Court in College Place He used to grow vegetables and flowers now he is strictly focusing on flowers mdash with fabulous results roses delphiniums and lots of irises line the fence

ldquoirises mdash irsquove always enjoyed themrdquo he says ldquoThey take a little bit of weeding and watering but not much morerdquo itrsquos the gardenerrsquos dream mdash low maintenance with a big return

A retired orthopedic surgeon Smith has in the past gardened more extensively than he does now But he has enough plants to keep him busy His new project is planting more of the reblooming iris These are still hardy but you get twice the reward they bloom in the spring then again in the fall

ldquoTheyrsquore easy to grow and spectacular for a short time iris take less care than a lot of thingsrdquo Smith says

His secret for gardening is simple and therersquos no getting around it ldquoTime and workrdquo he laughs

Hersquos getting ready to start in the garden ldquoi need to clean out the leaves and the old foliage of the irisrdquo

in addition to the basic cleaning and maintenance Smith just decides how many plants to keep Bulb flowers are hardy and they multiply on their own

ldquoAfter five years you usually have to separate the bulbs when they get too thick i donrsquot have room to add more i put in the new re-blooming onesrdquo he explains ldquoi may add more and a few other thingsrdquo

But in a garden you can always try something new or rearrange existing plants often with a spectacular outcome

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itrsquos an odd location since it can only be seen as yoursquore leaving town but it always makes me smile This valley my adopted home is indeed a great place to be

i recently finished reading the great Western writer Wallace Stegnerrsquos book ldquoThe Sound of Mountain Waterrdquo One of his essays traces his nomadic childhood which left him feeling rootless and without a place that he felt he could call home

i identify with his feeling of not belonging i was born to a single woman from Massachusetts in a New york City hospital i stayed a scant few days before being placed with an adoption agency Born in a place i had no familial connection to i was immediately deprived of my biological family Most of my childhood was spent in suburban Cleveland Ohio Moves to upstate New york New England and Pennsylvania brought me no closer to calling any place home i loved living in the western Massachusetts town of Stockbridge but the multigenerational denizens of the town left few openings for newcomers like me i lived in central Pennsylvania for several decades but felt detached from the deep roots that most people had in the area

When we came west (for my husband a homecoming to his Oregon roots for me a new experience) i noticed that even in long-established towns like Walla Walla there is ample room for newcomers who want to be

part of the community And most folks who choose to come here donrsquot seem to want to change the valley they prefer to embrace it

While the occasional newbie whines about the lack of Whole Foods or Nordstrom they soon discover our farmers markets the wide variety of local shops and boutiques and our world-class restaurants They fall in love with our charming downtowns the small-town friendliness of the people and our kid-friendly environment Then therersquos the holiday parade the fair the ever-present Blue Mountains the parks the museums the wineries mdash really whatrsquos not to like The communities of our valley represent America at its best

irsquom a newspaper junkie i love to read everything from news to sports to classifieds mdash even the obituaries The obits are a fascinating window on our valley Many of the people chronicled were born here some lived all their lives here inextricably bound to this place But a number of people came here from other places often far away and have made a mark on our area Which makes me wonder mdash is a place any less of a hometown because you choose it or is it based primarily on the happenstance of your birth it seems that therersquos room for both paths to calling this wonderful valley home

itrsquos also our strength because collectively as a community we bring both deep familial and cultural traditions as well as the fresh perspective of newcomers to our area irsquom glad mdash after decades of searching mdash that i finally found my hometown a place that feels just right

diane reed can be reached at ladybookearthlinknet Between columns and when the spirit moves her she blogs at wwwponderingsbydianereedblogspotcom from her home overlooking the pond at lions Park in College Place

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Maymay 1The annual Kennel Club Dog Show Walla Walla County Fairgrounds De-tails 509-558-3854

The Walla Walla University Drama Department pres-ents a performance of ldquoMy Fair ladyrdquo 2 pm matinee Details 509-527-2656

The Walla Walla Choral Society presents ldquoJubilate Deordquo 3 pm May 1 Walla Walla University Church College Place Details 509-386-2445

The Walla Walla Valley Farmers Market opens local produce artisans and an outdoor concert 9 am-1 pm Saturdays and Sundays through Oct 30 Crawford Park Fourth ave and Main St Details gowallawallafarmersmar-ketcom or 509-520-3647

through may 22Enjoy the annual Senior art Thesis Exhibition Sheehan Gallery Whitman College Details 509-527-5249

through JuLy 31The Tamaacutestslikt Cultural In-stitute hosts the traveling OMSI exhibit ldquoamazing Feats of agingrdquo explor-ing the mysteries of why animals and humans age Details 541-966-9748

may 4The YWCa leadership luncheon ldquoMatters that Matterrdquo is informational and inspirational with guest speakers Kristine Van Raden and Molly Da-vis Noon Marcus Whit-man Hotel Details 509-525-2570

Walla Walla Wine Works hosts music on Wednes-days downtown Details 509-522-1261

may 5First Thursday Concert at St Pauls Episcopal Church 323 Catherine Street Walla Walla 1215-1250 pm will feature the Steel Drum Band from Walla Walla Uni-versity directed by Brandon Beck Details 529-1083

The Whitman College Visit-ing Writers Reading series presents Whitman Reading 7 pm Kimball Theatre De-tails whitmanedu

may 5-7 12-14Walla Walla High School Drama Department pres-ents ldquoFiddler on the Roofrdquo musical version 7 pm and 2 pm matinee on Saturdays May 7 and 14 Walla Walla High School Performing arts audito-rium Details Tickets can be reserved by calling 509-526-8613 the Wa-Hi box office

may 5-8 19-21a performance of ldquoThe 25th a nnua l Putnam County Spelling Beerdquo 8 pm Harper Joy Theatre Whitman College Details 509-527-5180

may 6-7Music on the weekends at the Backstage Bistro De-tails 509-526-0690

Sapolil Cellars hosts music on Friday and Saturday De-tails 509-520-5258

The Wildfire hosts music every Friday and Saturday Wildhorse Resort amp Casino Pendleton Details 800-654-9453

may 6-8Walla Walla Valley Winer-ies offer an opportunity to taste their new creations during Spring Release Weekend area wineries introduce new wines and winemakers share their creative inspiration Details 509-526-3117

may 6artWalK First Fridays May through December Visit galleries and chat with art-ists 5-8 pm Downtown Walla Walla Visit artwalk-wallawallacom

may 6-8 13-14The little Theatre presents ldquoalice In Wonderlandrdquo adapted from lewis Carroll 8 pm Friday-Saturday 2 pm Sunday little Theatre of Walla Walla Details 509-529-3683

may 7The annual Junior Horse Show brings great riding action to Milton-Freewater Pioneer Posse Grounds Details 541-938-3379

Daytonrsquos annual Street Sale turns a section of Third Street into a giant yard sale benefits churches and com-munity projects Dayton Details 509-382-4825

artist reception and dem-onstration Washington art-ist Dwight Duke exhibits his painting bronze sculptures and gunpowder light pan-els 6-730 pm Reininger Winery Details 509-522-1994

may 8Every Sunday the living History actors portray in-dividuals from the arearsquos past 2 pm Fort Walla Walla Museum Details 509-525-7703

may 13-15The annual Balloon Stam-pede brings as many as 50 hot-air balloons to the Walla Walla County Fairgrounds This colorful festival re-mains a Valley tradition Ear-ly morning flights (weather permitting) arts amp crafts antique autos commercial booths live entertainment and food Balloons light up to music at the Saturday evening Nite Glow Details 509-525-0850

may 14annual adult event cele-brates the characters who populated Pendletonrsquos past Must have reservations Pendleton Underground Tours Details 800-226-6398

may 14-15 may 27-29Walla Walla Drag Strip con-tinues the weekend fun Details wwdragstripcom or 509-200-6287

may 15Walla Walla University Chamber Series featuring Robyn McCabe 730 pm MKW Fine arts auditorium Details 509-527-2571

may 18To celebrate the opening of Walla Wallarsquos Power House Theatre and a four-day run of Seattle Shakespeare Companyrsquos ldquoThe Merry Wives of WindsorrdquoWalla Walla lifestyles will pres-ent a gala event This exclusive evening will en-chant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fash-ion from 530-9 pm at the Power House Theatre Sixth amp Rose Walla Walla To purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewalla-wallacom

may 19-21During Pendletonrsquos Cattle Baron Weekend enjoy an art exhibit by a talented group of women artists ldquoIn the Company of Cowgirlsrdquo Hamleyrsquos Steakhouse Pendleton Visit inthecom-panyofcowgirlscom or call 541-676-5013

may 19-22Whitman College 50th Reunion class of 1961 Whitman College Details 509-527-5952

Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merr y Wives of Windsorrdquo Pow-erhouse Theater Details 509-742-0739

may 21The annual Ducky Derby is a day of family fun all for a good cause Watch the ducks race down Mill Creek to help fund the Exchange Clubrsquos efforts at preventing child abuse and neglect 1130 am-330 pm Race at about 2 pm Walla Walla Community College De-tails 509-527-4300

Walla Walla University Spring Choral Concert 5 pm Walla Walla Univer-sity Church Details 509-527-2571

learn to contra dance an old-fashioned coun-try dance Music by the Wednesday Night Band 7 pm teaching and practice 730 pm regular dance Unity Church of Peace 810

C St Walla Walla Details 541-938-7403

may 22The Whitman College graduating class of 2011 accepts the challenge 11 am Memorial lawn Whitman College Details 509-527-5156

may 26 27 28 29Walla Walla Community College Theatre arts De-partment presents ldquoZoot Suitrdquo by luis Valdez 7 pm each night and Sunday 2 pm matinee W WCC Performing arts Center Details 509-527-4575

may 27-30 Dayton Days has been a Memorial Weekend tradi-tion in Dayton for nearly 100 years Highlights include a Saturday-morning parade on historic Main Street rodeo tour of Dayton and Memorial Day Fun Run De-tails 509-382-4825 or visit historicdaytoncom

may 28-30The Touchet River Roundup mdash the annual Celebration of Sobriety at the fairgrounds focuses on family fun ac-tivities Waitsburg Details 509-526-3602

may 29annual Onion Man Tria-thalon 9 am Bennington lake Details wwmulti-sportscom or call 509-529-9187

may 30Waitsburgrsquos annual Memo-rial Day celebration hosted by veterans for all veterans Details 509-337-6546

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The sculpture tops the farmers market gazebo on the corner of Fourth Avenue North and West Main Street

Contestensprulesif you have the answer e-mail it to rickdoylewwubcom or send it to Where in Walla Walla 112 S 1st Ave PO Box 1358 Walla Walla WA 99362 The names of 10 people with correct answers will be randomly selected and they will receive this great-looking mug as proof of their local knowledge and good taste

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2 Basel cellars estate winery2901 Old Milton Hwy (509) 522-0200 wwwbaselcellarscom

3 Bergevin Lane vineyards 1215 W Poplar St (509) 526-4300 bergevinlanecom

4 Bunchgrass winery151 Bunchgrass lane (509) 540-8963 wwwbunchgrasswinerycom

5 canoe ridge vineyard1102 W Cherry St (509) 527-0885 wwwcanoeridgevineyardcom

6 castillo de feliciana85728 Telephone Pole Road Milton-Freewater OR (541) 558-3656 wwwcastillodefelicianacom

7 don carlo vineyardBy appointment Only (509) 540-5784 wwwdoncarlovineyardcom

8 dunham cellars150 E Boeing ave (509) 529-4685 wwwdunhamcellarscom

9 five star cellars 840 C St (509) 527-8400 wwwfivestarcellarscom

10 forgeron cellars 33 W Birch St (509) 522-9463 wwwforgeroncellarscom

21 sapolil cellars15 E Main St (509) 520-5258 wwwsapolilcellarscom

22 seven hills winery 212 N Third ave (509) 529-7198 wwwsevenhillswinerycom

23 sinclair estate vineyards 109 E Main Ste 100 (509) 876-4300 wwwsinclairestatevineyardscom

24 spring valley vineyard 18 N Second ave (509) 525-1506 wwwspringvalleyvineyardcom

25 suLei cellars355 S Second ave (503) 529-0840 www suleicellarscom

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12 fort walla walla cellars 127 E Main St (509) 520-1095 wwwfortwallawallacellarscom

13 glencorrie8052 Old Highway 12 (509) 525-2585 wwwglencorriecom

14 grantwood winery 2428 W Highway 12 (509) 301-0719 (509) 301-9546

15 Lrsquoecole no 41 winery41 lowden School Road and US Hwy 12 (509) 525-0940 wwwlecolecom

16 Long shadows1604 Frenchtown Road (Formerly Ireland Road) (509) 526-0905 wwwlongshadowscom By invitation only Requests accepted on a limited basis Please call to inquire

17 Lowden hills winery1401 W Pine St (509) 527-1040 wwwlowdenhillswinerycom

18 northstar winery 1736 JB George Road (509) 524-4883 wwwnorthstarmerlotcom

19 pepper Bridge winery1704 JB George Road (509) 525-6502 wwwpepperbridgecom

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26 syZygy 405 E Boeing ave (509) 522-0484 wwwsyzygywinescom

27 three rivers winery5641 Old Highway 12 (509) 526-9463 infoThreeRiversWinerycom

28 tertulia cellars1564 Whiteley Road (509) 525-5700 wwwtertuliacellarscom

29 trust cellars 1050 Merlot Drive (509) 529-4511 wwwtrustcellarscom

30 va piano vineyards1793 JB George Road (509) 529-0900 wwwvapianovineyardscom

31 walla walla vintnersVineyard lane off Mill Creek Road (509) 525-4724 wwwwallawallavintnerscom

32 walla walla wineworks31 E Main St (509) 522-1261 wwwwallawallawineworkscom

33 whitman cellars1015 W Pine St (509) 529-1142 wwwwhitmancellarscom

34 woodward canyon winery11920 W Hwy 12 lowden (509) 525-4129 wwwwoodwardcanyoncom

35 JLc winery425 B St (509) 301-5148

36 saviah cellars1979 JB George Rd

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it was 1954 the year he graduated from the University of Oregon and two female students from the university were interested in learning some of the finer points of the game

ldquoit was probably the worst lesson anybody has ever givenrdquo Mundle exclaimed shaking his head in dismay ldquoThese two young ladies were looking for some help and i worked with them for an hour-and-a-half And at the end of that time i said lsquoi have done such a poor job i will pay you for the time i have put you through this torturersquordquo

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 17

Painful as it was the lesson learned proved to be a career-launching moment for Mundle who dedicated himself to his trade and spent a lifetime in the golf business successfully working up and down the i-5 corridor as course operator teacher and player

Fifty-seven years after that first teaching debacle Mundle now 79 years old is retired and living in Walla Walla He and his wife Ann relocated here last summer determined to give up teaching golf and spend more time playing the game they both love

ldquoAfter all of these years of teaching i feel that this is the time to lay it asiderdquo Mundle said ldquoi will still do a little studying of the golf swing and methods and i will be involved with some of the other local professionals in some cracker-barrel sessions when they get together to discuss teaching methods problems and how to solve them

ldquoBut i really came here not to teach but to play some golfrdquo

That was the plan anyway before he was introduced to Walla Walla High School senior Jake Hanson who was looking for a little extra help with his game heading into his final year on the links as a Blue Devil

Terri Hanson Jakersquos mother was aware of Mundlersquos reputation as a teaching professional and heard through the grapevine he was living in Walla Walla

ldquoBeing the mom i am i called him one dayrdquo Terri remembered ldquoi told him that Jakersquos golf game was at a standstill i asked him to take a look at Jake and he agreed to come and meet us and get a feel for where Jake was at

ldquoHe did and before you knew it they were putting on our hardwood floors The next day they agreed to get together at Wine valley mdash they were there for four hours and it has been an amazing connection right from the beginning

ldquoAl is an amazing Christian man who is so well-respected in his fieldrdquo Terri added ldquoAnd he just demands respect irsquom seeing my son of 17 all of a sudden growing uprdquo

Mundle concedes he is intrigued by Hansonrsquos character and potential And

Under the watchful eye of Al Mundle Jake Hanson hits an iron shot

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Hanson holds his new mentor in high esteem

ldquoirsquove learned a tremendous amountrdquo Hanson said ldquoHe has a way of getting through to me in a positive way He got through to me that i am so much better than i thought i could be He has more confidence in me than i have in myself

ldquoHe has one of the best golf swings i have ever seen and he is still working on his own gamerdquo

Mundle said Hanson reminds him of former University of Oregon player Ben Crane who now plays on the PGA Tour Crane has been playing professionally since 2007 and earned nearly $3 million on the tour in 2010

ldquoi was Benrsquos swing coach at Oregon and Jake is somewhat similarrdquo Mundle said ldquoBen worked harder than anybody on the whole golf team He would put in as much

time as three or four others combined and Jake is very much the same way Hersquos very dedicatedrdquo

However Mundle insists that helping Hanson with his game is a one-time situation

After playing just six rounds of golf last year Mundle is determined that he and Ann will spend a lot more time on the golf course as they get acquainted with their new hometown

ldquoThatrsquos an all-time lowrdquo he said of the six rounds played in 2010 ldquoMostly it was the move and all mdash a new house putting in lawn fencing shelving in the garage mdash all the little things of getting settled

ldquoBut this was a good move for us We love it here We enjoy the weather and the people you can walk down the street and people look you in the eye and say lsquoHellorsquo i love that friendlinessrdquo

Mundle grew up in Eugene and graduated from University High School in 1950 He knew he said from the time he was in the seventh grade he wanted to make golf his lifersquos work

ldquoyou might say that i had a little parental directionrdquo Mundle said ldquoMy dad went to the University of St Andrews in Scotland and he played golf at the St Andrews Old Course And my mother also played golfrdquo

After high school Mundle enrolled at the University of Oregon and played three years of varsity golf during an era when there was no such thing as a golf scholarship

ldquoThe only thing we ever received was a half-a-dozen golf balls if we went into a tournamentrdquo Mundle recalled ldquoWhen i went to the NCAA Championships in Texas my senior year i was given a new

people ltcontinued from pg 17

Walla Walla LifestyLes 19

pair of golf shoes but that was itldquoWe bought all of our own gear mdash

clubs bags rain gear everything itrsquos a whole different ball game today They have everythingrdquo

At the end of his sophomore year at Oregon Mundle had it in his mind to ldquotest my golf on the PGA Tourrdquo he said But his father an English professor at the university discouraged him

ldquoHe said lsquoGet your education first then you can do whatever you wantrsquordquo Mundle said ldquoit was just as well i saved a lot of wear and tear mdash and money i was an Ok player but not of that caliberrdquo

Mundle still has fond memories of his collegiate playing career however

ldquoi played three years for the university mdash you werenrsquot allowed to play as freshmen mdash and Oregon always had fine golf teamsrdquo Mundle said ldquoit was mostly match

play then and i was there during the time that the school went seven straight years without losing a (team) dual matchrdquo

During his senior year Mundle qualified for the NCAA Championships in Houston From a field of about 160 players Mundle made it as far as the quarterfinal round

He graduated in 1954 with a degree in history which he said he never really used

ldquoMy dad was in the top one percent of his class at St Andrewsrdquo Mundle said ldquoMy mother was also in the top part of her class and my older brother Pete was in the top of his class And then i came alongrdquo

His first golf job was as an assistant pro at his home course the Laurelwood Golf Course a position he accepted shortly after graduating from UO This was when and where the infamous first golf lesson

occurredA two-year stint in the US Army took

Mundle away from his profession in 1955-56 But he managed to keep his golf game sharp as a member of the Fort knox golf team and in 1956 he was the runner-up in the Second Army tournament and he placed 13th in the All-Army tournament

Then it was back to the Willamette valley where he came into his own in the Portland area under head professionals Eddie Hogan at riverside Country Club and Bunny Mason at Columbia Edgewater

ldquoThose two people were very influential in my professional liferdquo Mundle said

ldquoEddie was a very fine teacher of the total golf operation and service was No 1 i learned how to run the pro shop how

Jake Hanson takes a few pointers on chipping from his instructor and mentor Al Mundle

Continued on pg 20 gt

20 Walla Walla LifestyLes

people ltcontinued from pg 19

to market and merchandise mdash everything from how to run the club service program to the electric cart program to basically running the golf course

ldquoBunny was also a very fine operator of a golf shop and i also learned a lot about teaching from Bunny Sometimes you go along in life and there are certain mentors who help you along the way Anybody who says they made it by themselves is not being honest with themselves We have all had someone who has given us a little boost along the wayrdquo

Mundle took his first head professional job in 1965 at Overlake Golf and Country Club in Bellevue where he remained until 1981 At that point he returned to Eugene and was the head pro at the Eugene Country Club for three years followed by a six-year stint at the Bear Creek Country Club in Seattle

He also spent a short time at a golf course in Cottage Grove Ore before moving back to Eugene for a third time in 1993 to become the director of golf instruction at the river ridge Golf Course He remained at river ridge until his retirement last summer During his time there he helped out as the swing coach at UO under then-head coach Steve Nosler

Through it all Mundle served as president of the Washington PGA and the Pacific Northwest PGA and was a member of several National PGA committees As a player he participated in the Oregon Washington and Pacific Northwest opens as well as the Washington and Oregon PGA events One of his highlights was winning the Oregon Senior PGA Match-Play Championships in Bend in 1993

ldquoi felt i had an obligation to participaterdquo Mundle said ldquoi played a lot of golf including many many pro-ams and i won a couple of assistant championshipsrdquo

in addition to Crane Mundle also helped shape the careers of Jeff Quinney and Eric Johnson both of whom are from the Eugene area

Quinney won the United States Amateur championship in 2000 and represented the US in the Walker Cup in 2001 He has appeared in 128 PGA Tour events since 2007 placing second twice and third twice

Johnson played several years on the Asian Tour and one on the Nationwide Tour He is now a head professional at a

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course in San rafael CalifldquoAnd there have been some others mdash

Brian Henninger Mike Gove a few others mdash who have called and wanted to discus their swingrdquo Mundle said ldquoNothing on a regular basis just one or two sessionsrdquo

is Hanson his next mdash and perhaps his last mdash prodigy

Thatrsquos a tricky question since Hanson came to golf late after a budding baseball career was derailed by a shoulder injury He was a first-team all-Big Nine Conference golf selection as a junior but has yet to qualify for state and his summer resume is thin because of his baseball background

Hansonrsquos original plan was to attend Walla Walla Community College and play golf for the Warriors with the hope of earning an NCAA Division i scholarship But he has since decided to enroll in Arizona State Universityrsquos Professional Golf Management program and try out for the ASU golf team as a walk on

ldquoMore than anything i think it came down to him evaluating his goalsrdquo said Jakersquos father Gary Hanson ldquoitrsquos everyonersquos dream to play on the PGA Tour but realistically he wants to be a golf pro and teach He loves

the gamerdquoAnd a degree in the PGM program

will provide Jake with the educational background he needs to be successful in any form of business his father added

Though his chances of making the ASU varsity team seem unlikely the PGM program provides a club golf team that participates in a series of tournaments throughout the year and gives Hanson a second playing option

And keeping your options open is optimum at this point Mundle said

ldquoi think his driving force at this time mdash and also his folks mdash is to get his education And then he can do whatever he wants if he doesnrsquot go into (the golfing business) immediately he will always have it as a backuprdquo

Sounds an awful lot like the advice Thomas Mundle offered his son back in the spring of 1952 when Al Mundle wanted to leave school after his sophomore year and test his wings on the PGA Tour And as we now know all these years later staying in school worked out pretty well for Al

Jim Buchan is a sports writer for the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin He can be reached at jimbuchanwwubcom

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Join us for a night of wonder with elizabethan-inspired food fashion and merriment to celebrate the opening of walla wallarsquos power house theatre and prepare for a four-day run of seattle shakespeare companyrsquos ldquothe merry wives of windsorrdquo

walla walla lifestyles will present a fashion show with wicked and wistful gowns twisted braided hair and smoldering makeup designs designers include red eden designs autumnlin design and others

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530 - 9 pm May 18 2011

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T H E A T R EPOWER HOUSE

My director Terry Edward Moore told me his only direction from the artistic director was that it be ldquoperiodrdquo that is to say authentic to the time

ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo is the only one of Shakespearersquos plays that is set in his own time so it was decided to present it as if the actors were people of the time doing what would be a contemporary (to the late 16th century) play

i started to research the clothing of the time how it was constructed and what kinds of fabrics were available at the time mdash linens homespuns woolens for the common people and silks damasks velvets and furs for the upper classes i discovered that Elizabethan society was strictly regulated in terms of social classes and upward mobility was a little-known concept Once a yeoman always a yeoman i also discovered the set of rules and regulations called ldquosumptuary lawsrdquo which specifically dictated what types of fabrics trims furs and even what colors each class was allowed to wear

Since there are three distinct classes represented in ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo mdash merchant class soldiers and servants mdash i tried to give each class its own color palette based on these laws The overall palette of the show is based on colors actually in use at the time

The availability of dyes was limited (except for the nobility) so the palette consists of many shades of yellows and browns russets black some greens and blue-grays and of course wheat-colored unbleached linen i turned to the Dutch painter Brueghel for inspiration on how the common people looked and dressed

i also researched what kinds of dyes were used and where they came from Dyes were created from all sorts of different things such as walnut shell crushed beetles and all kinds of roots i found a website that sells these authentic dyestuffs so irsquom using the real thing to dye some of the linen pieces and will coordinate the contemporary fabrics to these authentic colors

Nearly every piece will need something done to it mdash altered in some way to fit the actor re-trimmed rigged invisibly for quick changes etc mdash so there is a lot of labor involved Also hats were a hugely important part of Elizabethan fashion all the way down to the poorest serf

Certain styles of hats were often associated with certain professions mdash eg doctors scholars mdash so there are a number of hats to build as well as headpieces for the women No self-respecting woman went about with her head uncovered

Putting together a show like this is like putting together a giant jigsaw puzzle and the pieces are the costumes that irsquove borrowed and rented from other theater companies in the Seattle area such as Seattle repertory Seattle Opera and the University of Washington as well as pieces from Oregon Shakespeare Festival i design the show and then go out into the world and try to find pieces that approximate my designs and palette as closely as possible (usually with some reworking first) The pieces that i cant find and dont want to compromise on i build from scratch

deane middLeton is a theatre costume professional who works in the Seattle area She has done costumes for Issaquahrsquos Village Theater as well as several productions of the Seattle Shakespeare Company

ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo

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ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo was the only one of Shakespearersquos works set in his own time the 1600s and features Sir John Falstaff It also deals primarily with english middle-class life A hilarious bawdy comedy filled with insight into the life and times of Shakespeare ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo will delight people of all ages

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But thatrsquos exactly what longtime Walla Walla resident Larry Adams did for four years He was one of a select group of pilots for Marine One the helicopter counterpart of the presidential airplane Air Force One from 1970 to 1974

30 Walla Walla LifestyLes

by andrewenspHoltensp enspphoto by ColbyenspKuschatkapeople

Walla Walla LifestyLes 31

Long before Adams became the Walla Walla Airport manager he was transporting heads of state foreign dignitaries famous (and now infamous) Cabinet members the executive staff and President richard M Nixon during one of the nationrsquos most turbulent times the withdrawal from vietnam and the Watergate scandal

But to Adams a native of Northern idaho all that swirled around the Nixon presidency was the least of his concerns His job was to transport the president safely to Andrews Air Force Base or Camp David or fly any short flight required Safety always at a premium End of story

Many times Adams ferried President Nixon and his staff on short flights far away from home Air Force One might fly President Nixon to a summit or a meeting with a foreign head of state but Marine One and Adams were always nearby to shuttle the chief executive on short flights or to whisk him away from sudden danger

Pretty heady stuff for a fourth-grade teacher who had never thought about flying until a Marine recruiter offered him the opportunity Although Adams had watched planes take off and land at a nearby air base as a child he had never given serious thought to flying it was more a need for a bigger paycheck than passion that brought Adams to his destiny

He liked teaching but it just wasnrsquot paying the bills So Adams turned to the military and the Gi Bill After being unimpressed by other recruiters Adams took a liking to the fellow from the Marines for as Adams recalls the recruiter took an interest in him After about an hour of talking the recruiter suggested Adams might have the potential to be a pilot

Having easily passed some preliminary tests Adams was sent to flight school in Pensacola Fla and a stellar career was ready to take off He performed well in all the aircraft he piloted but he showed a special skill for helicopters

Up until 1965 fixed-wing airplanes were the staple of all military air combat But the military had been gearing up for a big change The helicopter was to become a major part of combat The Pentagon had been developing helicopters that would do much more than transport troops to bases Now they would assist in bombing

raids ground attacks and the evacuation of the injured from the point of combat This new breed of helicopters would also possess the ability to fight back and not be lame ducks as before the new H34 would tote machine guns on each side

These cutting-edge aircraft would travel at unprecedented speeds with newly discovered agility Gifted pilots were needed not those who merely possessed superior technical skills but those who also had the composure to fly straight into

enemy fire in the dead of night picking up injured soldiers or aiding air attacks

Adams was one of those pilots and he would be one of two squadron leaders for ldquoOperation Starliterdquo mdash the first major assault using helicopters The Marines were going straight into a North vietnamese regimental stronghold No one knew what to expect

ldquoWe lost a lot that first time inrdquo says Adams ldquoTwo crew chiefs were killed

Continued on pg 32 gt

In this newspaper clipping Larry Adams poses on the steps of the helicopter dubbed Marine One which he piloted for President Richard M Nixon

32 Walla Walla LifestyLes

people ltcontinued from pg 31

four pilots were medevaced out because of their wounds i donrsquot think there was one helicopter that didnrsquot have a bunch of holes in it The one i flew in we got a lot of rounds in it Amazingly no one was hurt but when we got back the helicopter was so shot-up you couldnrsquot fly it anymore We lost 50 percent of our helicopters that dayrdquo

in the next 13 months Adams would fly many more missions often heading straight into anti-aircraft fire to pick up injured or killed soldiers He says he would see the flares signifying where the copter was supposed to land but frequently hersquod have to veer off because ground communication would say ldquoThe artillery is too hotrdquo Then there would be a window maybe two minutes maybe five when the helicopter could drop in and pick up the injured often being shot at as it waited for its passengers

Adams knew the best way to survive was to keep his focus ldquoin the daylight when you start your run in and yoursquore getting shot at Everything went to black and white for me i didnrsquot notice the green trees or the green rice paddies until we got out of there and then it would come back

to me i donrsquot know what that was i just didnrsquot see the colors irsquove talked to some other pilots and they described the same thingrdquo

in his two tours of duty in vietnam Adams would fly 880 combat missions in several types of helicopters and fixed-wing airplanes He received numerous medals including two Navy commendations for performance under combat conditions

Then the call came to fly for the president Before Adams could tote the commander in chief around in Marine One a thorough background check had to be done So thorough was the check that Adams said a friend from his hometown sent him a card that read ldquoAre you in some kind of trouble Jesus therersquos been a bunch of people around here with the dark grey suits and the skinny little ties Theyrsquore asking all these embarrassing questions about you like did you have drinking problem Did you have a gambling problem Do you know what Larryrsquos sexual preference wasrdquo

Adams chuckles ldquoit was pretty funnyrdquoAdams passed the grade and soon

he was flying President Nixon and his family to Camp David or picking up vice

President Spiro Agnew at the Pentagon or taking Secretary of State Henry kissinger or Secretary of Defense Alexander Haig to a classified meeting Although his flights varied from transporting foreign heads of state to flying members of the press the majority involved the president the vice president kissinger and Haig

The pilots did not speak to their travelers unless spoken to says Adams President Nixon usually looked in and asked them how they were kissinger never spoke Haig was good for a pat on the shoulder now and then but it was Agnew who conversed the most says Adams

Adams remembers ldquoOne time we picked him up at the Pentagon and we had taken off and had hit top altitude He usually would come up and look into the cockpit but this time he patted me on the shoulder and asked lsquoWell howrsquos it going today guysrsquordquo Adams replied ldquoNot bad sir and how about yourselfrdquo

Agnew answered ldquoMan they are really after my assrdquo He was talking about the press Adams says ldquoTwo weeks later he resignedrdquo

Adams recalls that his encounters with Agnew as defying the public perception

Adams far right gives instructions before a mission in Vietnam

Walla Walla LifestyLes 33

that Agnew was arrogant ldquoHe was always one of the nicest guys He was straightforward He looked like he had just stepped off the cover of Gentlemenrsquos Quarterly all the time He was very proper in the way he dressed but he had a sense of humor as wellrdquo

There were other humorous moments Adams recalls a certain reporter from CBS who had been a major thorn in President Nixonrsquos side was late for takeoff from the South Lawn of the White House one morning Just as Marine One was about to leave without him he came running across the lawn hollering and waving his arms The Secret Service agent supervising the flight told Adams to ldquojust gordquo The wind from the propellers whipped the reporterrsquos toupee right off his head and instead of continuing his run toward Marine One he reversed his field and tried feverishly to retrieve his toupee snagged in the hedges

ldquoEveryone got a pretty good chuckle out of thatrdquo

Of course there were somber times At one point Adams flew Cabinet members John Ehrlichman and Hr Haldeman to Camp David for a meeting with the president After only 15 minutes the two men returned and Marine One headed home Adams says it was a quiet flight He found out later the two men had been fired by President Nixon for their parts in the Watergate scandal

Whisking the president away from danger was a major part of being a pilot of Marine One Stationed across the river from the Capitol pilots awakened by an emergency alert had to be up in the air in five minutes This exercise was practiced often though never needed during Adamsrsquo tenure

One night however they thought it was The operator at the White House mistakenly hit the ldquoAlertrdquo button Marine One was in the air in five minutes

Although ground control had not spotted any enemy aircraft the operation was under way As Marine One closed in on the White House the operator at fault tried to alert everyone of his mistake but unfortunately used a poor choice of words to call off the operation

Adams chuckles as he says ldquoThe fella said lsquoThis is not an exercisersquo He was moved to another post i thinkrdquo

All levity aside the position required

the same kind of focus demanded of Adams in vietnam though it came in a different form

ldquoThere were three things the way you operated the aircraft and they were in this order safety comfort and speed Safety never gave in to comfort or speedrdquo says Adams ldquoOur job was just concentrating on doing our job it could have been anybody mdash we would do it the same way it could have been Fred Flintstone

ldquoThe difference between flying for the White House and in vietnam was we were flying a premier aircraft We had to keep it impeccably clean everything was scripted We had to have the lsquoopen-the-door timersquo down to two to four seconds in vietnam it was the stress of performing medevacs under fire or dropping troops under heavy artillery For Marine One it was the stress of doing the job rightrdquo

Also the stress of being away from onersquos family 200 days of the year wore on a Marine One pilot in 1974 after four years on the job the toll became too much and Adams stepped down

He would stay with the Marines for eight more years retiring in August 1982

By then he had received 44 Air Medals including the Joint Service Commendation and the Presidential Service Badge in his 20 years of service Adams flew seven different helicopters and five different fixed-wing planes

What makes an elite military pilot ldquoPilots who donrsquot have any misgivingsrdquo says Adams ldquoTheyrsquore totally prepared they know their aircraftrdquo

When talking about his colleagues on Marine One he adds ldquoNone were boasters They might brag about a great landing but they did not brag in spite of someone elserdquo

What did Adams love most about his flying days ldquoi enjoyed flying with the latest technology and the pristine quality of Marine One i loved the process of building my skills i could have flown another 40 years and i would still be learning thingsrdquo

is it any surprise his favorite hobby now is fly fishing

andrew hoLt writes about food people and all things Walla Walla for Walla Walla lifestyles magazine He can be reached at bruindrew86gmailcom

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it is astonishing in many ways mdash that we are presented with two weeks of top-drawer music performed by top-drawer musi-cians that there are so many ways to encounter the music (many of them free) and that a rural community has provided the incu-

bator for such a cultural undertaking to name but a fewGranted we are not your average rural community having two

colleges a university a symphony a choral society a community band and music in the schools but letrsquos face it wersquore not exactly a cosmopolitan center of culture like New york either The Cham-ber Music Festival mdash and our continued support of it through some tough times mdash puts us in a category all our own

ldquoi saw what was special about this community the first time i visited in 2007rdquo Artistic Director Timothy Christie says ldquoi have

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A young artistic composer pays close attention as Tim Christie uses his violin to interpret the boys piece of artwork into music on June 11 2009 Meanwhile other children work on their works of art in preparation for the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival quintets interpretations

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worked hard to start this event and to my great joy it has taken on an iden-tity of its own i hire the musicians and choose the music but the town its people and its environs make the festivalrdquo

The beauty of chamber music is its intimacy mdash smaller ensembles performing for smaller audiences it has been referred to as ldquothe music of friendsrdquo which seems so apt at this festival Free open rehearsals are held around town that provide not only a musical atmosphere in which to enjoy a latte or the ambiance of the kirkman House but which give a richer look into the machinations of a working ensemble

As one enthusiastic fan puts it ldquoi am not a musician and itrsquos fascinat-ing to watch these rehearsals to see the interactions of the musicians as they work out the snags make wry remarks and relate to each other in a whole different way than during a for-mal performance i get a glimpse into their personalities and what makes them tickrdquo

The festival supplies a generous of-fering of venues with free concerts for children and families relaxed evening programs at wineries and full concerts at the Foundry Chism Hall and Day-tonrsquos Liberty Theater

if you are lucky enough to live near the musiciansrsquo lodgings while they are in town you may also be treated to an ad hoc front-porch concert as the ensembles continue their rehearsals in more private settings The festival is about all of these ways mdash planned and accidental mdash to experience the enchantment of chamber music

it is also about historic continuity and the connection between past and present mdash relishing the existing canon while expanding the genre with con-temporary forms and voices

How is this accomplished in part by the annual commission of a new piece of music for the festival Chris-tie is committed to contributing to the broader chamber music repertoire and to providing the audience with the richest possible experience

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ldquoFor classical music to be relevant there must be a conversation between the music of our time and the music of the pastrdquo he says

By commissioning a work for the festi-val each year Christie creates such a con-versation

This year the commission was given to John David Earnest Four festival commis-sions have preceded his and he is the sec-ond ldquolocalrdquo composer to be tapped add-ing another layer of relationship between community and event (in 2009 Whitman College professor David Glenn was given the nod)

As visiting adjunct professor of music at Whitman Earnest resides here for six weeks every semester His ldquoSecond Sym-phonyrdquo was written for and performed by the Walla Walla Symphony in October 2001

The challenge for the yearly commis-sionee is to compose a piece on demand within specific constraints of time place and instrumentation while expressing hisher own voice as an artist

Earnest has created ldquoCommedia Gal-leryrdquo a set of three movements for flute

viola and harp based on stock characters from the Commedia dellrsquoArte a popu-lar theatrical form that was influential in Europe for over 300 years Commedia characters improvised dialogue around set scenarios generally involving the struggles of young lovers to overcome hindrances to their romance and each character even-tually came to have a consistent set of at-tributes in speech mannerisms and cos-tume

Earnestrsquos ldquoGalleryrdquo gives us Arlecchi-no (Harlequin) an acrobatic and devious jester Pierrot the classic sad clown and finally Scaramouche a dandy and a brag-gart who is a coward at heart

in anticipation of this yearrsquos festival i am reminded of the scene in ldquoThe Music Manrdquo in which the town awaits the ar-rival of the Wells Fargo Wagon Potentially heaped with gifts and surprises it prom-ises connection to the larger world The WWCMF brings us all ldquosomethinrsquo specialrdquo mdash an enrichment of our community and our culture

margaret Jamison is an artist and writer living in Walla Walla Contact her at artjamisongmailcom

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Smith has gardened for years at his home at 38 Mulberry Court in College Place He used to grow vegetables and flowers now he is strictly focusing on flowers mdash with fabulous results roses delphiniums and lots of irises line the fence

ldquoirises mdash irsquove always enjoyed themrdquo he says ldquoThey take a little bit of weeding and watering but not much morerdquo itrsquos the gardenerrsquos dream mdash low maintenance with a big return

A retired orthopedic surgeon Smith has in the past gardened more extensively than he does now But he has enough plants to keep him busy His new project is planting more of the reblooming iris These are still hardy but you get twice the reward they bloom in the spring then again in the fall

ldquoTheyrsquore easy to grow and spectacular for a short time iris take less care than a lot of thingsrdquo Smith says

His secret for gardening is simple and therersquos no getting around it ldquoTime and workrdquo he laughs

Hersquos getting ready to start in the garden ldquoi need to clean out the leaves and the old foliage of the irisrdquo

in addition to the basic cleaning and maintenance Smith just decides how many plants to keep Bulb flowers are hardy and they multiply on their own

ldquoAfter five years you usually have to separate the bulbs when they get too thick i donrsquot have room to add more i put in the new re-blooming onesrdquo he explains ldquoi may add more and a few other thingsrdquo

But in a garden you can always try something new or rearrange existing plants often with a spectacular outcome

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itrsquos an odd location since it can only be seen as yoursquore leaving town but it always makes me smile This valley my adopted home is indeed a great place to be

i recently finished reading the great Western writer Wallace Stegnerrsquos book ldquoThe Sound of Mountain Waterrdquo One of his essays traces his nomadic childhood which left him feeling rootless and without a place that he felt he could call home

i identify with his feeling of not belonging i was born to a single woman from Massachusetts in a New york City hospital i stayed a scant few days before being placed with an adoption agency Born in a place i had no familial connection to i was immediately deprived of my biological family Most of my childhood was spent in suburban Cleveland Ohio Moves to upstate New york New England and Pennsylvania brought me no closer to calling any place home i loved living in the western Massachusetts town of Stockbridge but the multigenerational denizens of the town left few openings for newcomers like me i lived in central Pennsylvania for several decades but felt detached from the deep roots that most people had in the area

When we came west (for my husband a homecoming to his Oregon roots for me a new experience) i noticed that even in long-established towns like Walla Walla there is ample room for newcomers who want to be

part of the community And most folks who choose to come here donrsquot seem to want to change the valley they prefer to embrace it

While the occasional newbie whines about the lack of Whole Foods or Nordstrom they soon discover our farmers markets the wide variety of local shops and boutiques and our world-class restaurants They fall in love with our charming downtowns the small-town friendliness of the people and our kid-friendly environment Then therersquos the holiday parade the fair the ever-present Blue Mountains the parks the museums the wineries mdash really whatrsquos not to like The communities of our valley represent America at its best

irsquom a newspaper junkie i love to read everything from news to sports to classifieds mdash even the obituaries The obits are a fascinating window on our valley Many of the people chronicled were born here some lived all their lives here inextricably bound to this place But a number of people came here from other places often far away and have made a mark on our area Which makes me wonder mdash is a place any less of a hometown because you choose it or is it based primarily on the happenstance of your birth it seems that therersquos room for both paths to calling this wonderful valley home

itrsquos also our strength because collectively as a community we bring both deep familial and cultural traditions as well as the fresh perspective of newcomers to our area irsquom glad mdash after decades of searching mdash that i finally found my hometown a place that feels just right

diane reed can be reached at ladybookearthlinknet Between columns and when the spirit moves her she blogs at wwwponderingsbydianereedblogspotcom from her home overlooking the pond at lions Park in College Place

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Maymay 1The annual Kennel Club Dog Show Walla Walla County Fairgrounds De-tails 509-558-3854

The Walla Walla University Drama Department pres-ents a performance of ldquoMy Fair ladyrdquo 2 pm matinee Details 509-527-2656

The Walla Walla Choral Society presents ldquoJubilate Deordquo 3 pm May 1 Walla Walla University Church College Place Details 509-386-2445

The Walla Walla Valley Farmers Market opens local produce artisans and an outdoor concert 9 am-1 pm Saturdays and Sundays through Oct 30 Crawford Park Fourth ave and Main St Details gowallawallafarmersmar-ketcom or 509-520-3647

through may 22Enjoy the annual Senior art Thesis Exhibition Sheehan Gallery Whitman College Details 509-527-5249

through JuLy 31The Tamaacutestslikt Cultural In-stitute hosts the traveling OMSI exhibit ldquoamazing Feats of agingrdquo explor-ing the mysteries of why animals and humans age Details 541-966-9748

may 4The YWCa leadership luncheon ldquoMatters that Matterrdquo is informational and inspirational with guest speakers Kristine Van Raden and Molly Da-vis Noon Marcus Whit-man Hotel Details 509-525-2570

Walla Walla Wine Works hosts music on Wednes-days downtown Details 509-522-1261

may 5First Thursday Concert at St Pauls Episcopal Church 323 Catherine Street Walla Walla 1215-1250 pm will feature the Steel Drum Band from Walla Walla Uni-versity directed by Brandon Beck Details 529-1083

The Whitman College Visit-ing Writers Reading series presents Whitman Reading 7 pm Kimball Theatre De-tails whitmanedu

may 5-7 12-14Walla Walla High School Drama Department pres-ents ldquoFiddler on the Roofrdquo musical version 7 pm and 2 pm matinee on Saturdays May 7 and 14 Walla Walla High School Performing arts audito-rium Details Tickets can be reserved by calling 509-526-8613 the Wa-Hi box office

may 5-8 19-21a performance of ldquoThe 25th a nnua l Putnam County Spelling Beerdquo 8 pm Harper Joy Theatre Whitman College Details 509-527-5180

may 6-7Music on the weekends at the Backstage Bistro De-tails 509-526-0690

Sapolil Cellars hosts music on Friday and Saturday De-tails 509-520-5258

The Wildfire hosts music every Friday and Saturday Wildhorse Resort amp Casino Pendleton Details 800-654-9453

may 6-8Walla Walla Valley Winer-ies offer an opportunity to taste their new creations during Spring Release Weekend area wineries introduce new wines and winemakers share their creative inspiration Details 509-526-3117

may 6artWalK First Fridays May through December Visit galleries and chat with art-ists 5-8 pm Downtown Walla Walla Visit artwalk-wallawallacom

may 6-8 13-14The little Theatre presents ldquoalice In Wonderlandrdquo adapted from lewis Carroll 8 pm Friday-Saturday 2 pm Sunday little Theatre of Walla Walla Details 509-529-3683

may 7The annual Junior Horse Show brings great riding action to Milton-Freewater Pioneer Posse Grounds Details 541-938-3379

Daytonrsquos annual Street Sale turns a section of Third Street into a giant yard sale benefits churches and com-munity projects Dayton Details 509-382-4825

artist reception and dem-onstration Washington art-ist Dwight Duke exhibits his painting bronze sculptures and gunpowder light pan-els 6-730 pm Reininger Winery Details 509-522-1994

may 8Every Sunday the living History actors portray in-dividuals from the arearsquos past 2 pm Fort Walla Walla Museum Details 509-525-7703

may 13-15The annual Balloon Stam-pede brings as many as 50 hot-air balloons to the Walla Walla County Fairgrounds This colorful festival re-mains a Valley tradition Ear-ly morning flights (weather permitting) arts amp crafts antique autos commercial booths live entertainment and food Balloons light up to music at the Saturday evening Nite Glow Details 509-525-0850

may 14annual adult event cele-brates the characters who populated Pendletonrsquos past Must have reservations Pendleton Underground Tours Details 800-226-6398

may 14-15 may 27-29Walla Walla Drag Strip con-tinues the weekend fun Details wwdragstripcom or 509-200-6287

may 15Walla Walla University Chamber Series featuring Robyn McCabe 730 pm MKW Fine arts auditorium Details 509-527-2571

may 18To celebrate the opening of Walla Wallarsquos Power House Theatre and a four-day run of Seattle Shakespeare Companyrsquos ldquoThe Merry Wives of WindsorrdquoWalla Walla lifestyles will pres-ent a gala event This exclusive evening will en-chant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fash-ion from 530-9 pm at the Power House Theatre Sixth amp Rose Walla Walla To purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewalla-wallacom

may 19-21During Pendletonrsquos Cattle Baron Weekend enjoy an art exhibit by a talented group of women artists ldquoIn the Company of Cowgirlsrdquo Hamleyrsquos Steakhouse Pendleton Visit inthecom-panyofcowgirlscom or call 541-676-5013

may 19-22Whitman College 50th Reunion class of 1961 Whitman College Details 509-527-5952

Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merr y Wives of Windsorrdquo Pow-erhouse Theater Details 509-742-0739

may 21The annual Ducky Derby is a day of family fun all for a good cause Watch the ducks race down Mill Creek to help fund the Exchange Clubrsquos efforts at preventing child abuse and neglect 1130 am-330 pm Race at about 2 pm Walla Walla Community College De-tails 509-527-4300

Walla Walla University Spring Choral Concert 5 pm Walla Walla Univer-sity Church Details 509-527-2571

learn to contra dance an old-fashioned coun-try dance Music by the Wednesday Night Band 7 pm teaching and practice 730 pm regular dance Unity Church of Peace 810

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may 22The Whitman College graduating class of 2011 accepts the challenge 11 am Memorial lawn Whitman College Details 509-527-5156

may 26 27 28 29Walla Walla Community College Theatre arts De-partment presents ldquoZoot Suitrdquo by luis Valdez 7 pm each night and Sunday 2 pm matinee W WCC Performing arts Center Details 509-527-4575

may 27-30 Dayton Days has been a Memorial Weekend tradi-tion in Dayton for nearly 100 years Highlights include a Saturday-morning parade on historic Main Street rodeo tour of Dayton and Memorial Day Fun Run De-tails 509-382-4825 or visit historicdaytoncom

may 28-30The Touchet River Roundup mdash the annual Celebration of Sobriety at the fairgrounds focuses on family fun ac-tivities Waitsburg Details 509-526-3602

may 29annual Onion Man Tria-thalon 9 am Bennington lake Details wwmulti-sportscom or call 509-529-9187

may 30Waitsburgrsquos annual Memo-rial Day celebration hosted by veterans for all veterans Details 509-337-6546

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The sculpture tops the farmers market gazebo on the corner of Fourth Avenue North and West Main Street

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Painful as it was the lesson learned proved to be a career-launching moment for Mundle who dedicated himself to his trade and spent a lifetime in the golf business successfully working up and down the i-5 corridor as course operator teacher and player

Fifty-seven years after that first teaching debacle Mundle now 79 years old is retired and living in Walla Walla He and his wife Ann relocated here last summer determined to give up teaching golf and spend more time playing the game they both love

ldquoAfter all of these years of teaching i feel that this is the time to lay it asiderdquo Mundle said ldquoi will still do a little studying of the golf swing and methods and i will be involved with some of the other local professionals in some cracker-barrel sessions when they get together to discuss teaching methods problems and how to solve them

ldquoBut i really came here not to teach but to play some golfrdquo

That was the plan anyway before he was introduced to Walla Walla High School senior Jake Hanson who was looking for a little extra help with his game heading into his final year on the links as a Blue Devil

Terri Hanson Jakersquos mother was aware of Mundlersquos reputation as a teaching professional and heard through the grapevine he was living in Walla Walla

ldquoBeing the mom i am i called him one dayrdquo Terri remembered ldquoi told him that Jakersquos golf game was at a standstill i asked him to take a look at Jake and he agreed to come and meet us and get a feel for where Jake was at

ldquoHe did and before you knew it they were putting on our hardwood floors The next day they agreed to get together at Wine valley mdash they were there for four hours and it has been an amazing connection right from the beginning

ldquoAl is an amazing Christian man who is so well-respected in his fieldrdquo Terri added ldquoAnd he just demands respect irsquom seeing my son of 17 all of a sudden growing uprdquo

Mundle concedes he is intrigued by Hansonrsquos character and potential And

Under the watchful eye of Al Mundle Jake Hanson hits an iron shot

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Hanson holds his new mentor in high esteem

ldquoirsquove learned a tremendous amountrdquo Hanson said ldquoHe has a way of getting through to me in a positive way He got through to me that i am so much better than i thought i could be He has more confidence in me than i have in myself

ldquoHe has one of the best golf swings i have ever seen and he is still working on his own gamerdquo

Mundle said Hanson reminds him of former University of Oregon player Ben Crane who now plays on the PGA Tour Crane has been playing professionally since 2007 and earned nearly $3 million on the tour in 2010

ldquoi was Benrsquos swing coach at Oregon and Jake is somewhat similarrdquo Mundle said ldquoBen worked harder than anybody on the whole golf team He would put in as much

time as three or four others combined and Jake is very much the same way Hersquos very dedicatedrdquo

However Mundle insists that helping Hanson with his game is a one-time situation

After playing just six rounds of golf last year Mundle is determined that he and Ann will spend a lot more time on the golf course as they get acquainted with their new hometown

ldquoThatrsquos an all-time lowrdquo he said of the six rounds played in 2010 ldquoMostly it was the move and all mdash a new house putting in lawn fencing shelving in the garage mdash all the little things of getting settled

ldquoBut this was a good move for us We love it here We enjoy the weather and the people you can walk down the street and people look you in the eye and say lsquoHellorsquo i love that friendlinessrdquo

Mundle grew up in Eugene and graduated from University High School in 1950 He knew he said from the time he was in the seventh grade he wanted to make golf his lifersquos work

ldquoyou might say that i had a little parental directionrdquo Mundle said ldquoMy dad went to the University of St Andrews in Scotland and he played golf at the St Andrews Old Course And my mother also played golfrdquo

After high school Mundle enrolled at the University of Oregon and played three years of varsity golf during an era when there was no such thing as a golf scholarship

ldquoThe only thing we ever received was a half-a-dozen golf balls if we went into a tournamentrdquo Mundle recalled ldquoWhen i went to the NCAA Championships in Texas my senior year i was given a new

people ltcontinued from pg 17

Walla Walla LifestyLes 19

pair of golf shoes but that was itldquoWe bought all of our own gear mdash

clubs bags rain gear everything itrsquos a whole different ball game today They have everythingrdquo

At the end of his sophomore year at Oregon Mundle had it in his mind to ldquotest my golf on the PGA Tourrdquo he said But his father an English professor at the university discouraged him

ldquoHe said lsquoGet your education first then you can do whatever you wantrsquordquo Mundle said ldquoit was just as well i saved a lot of wear and tear mdash and money i was an Ok player but not of that caliberrdquo

Mundle still has fond memories of his collegiate playing career however

ldquoi played three years for the university mdash you werenrsquot allowed to play as freshmen mdash and Oregon always had fine golf teamsrdquo Mundle said ldquoit was mostly match

play then and i was there during the time that the school went seven straight years without losing a (team) dual matchrdquo

During his senior year Mundle qualified for the NCAA Championships in Houston From a field of about 160 players Mundle made it as far as the quarterfinal round

He graduated in 1954 with a degree in history which he said he never really used

ldquoMy dad was in the top one percent of his class at St Andrewsrdquo Mundle said ldquoMy mother was also in the top part of her class and my older brother Pete was in the top of his class And then i came alongrdquo

His first golf job was as an assistant pro at his home course the Laurelwood Golf Course a position he accepted shortly after graduating from UO This was when and where the infamous first golf lesson

occurredA two-year stint in the US Army took

Mundle away from his profession in 1955-56 But he managed to keep his golf game sharp as a member of the Fort knox golf team and in 1956 he was the runner-up in the Second Army tournament and he placed 13th in the All-Army tournament

Then it was back to the Willamette valley where he came into his own in the Portland area under head professionals Eddie Hogan at riverside Country Club and Bunny Mason at Columbia Edgewater

ldquoThose two people were very influential in my professional liferdquo Mundle said

ldquoEddie was a very fine teacher of the total golf operation and service was No 1 i learned how to run the pro shop how

Jake Hanson takes a few pointers on chipping from his instructor and mentor Al Mundle

Continued on pg 20 gt

20 Walla Walla LifestyLes

people ltcontinued from pg 19

to market and merchandise mdash everything from how to run the club service program to the electric cart program to basically running the golf course

ldquoBunny was also a very fine operator of a golf shop and i also learned a lot about teaching from Bunny Sometimes you go along in life and there are certain mentors who help you along the way Anybody who says they made it by themselves is not being honest with themselves We have all had someone who has given us a little boost along the wayrdquo

Mundle took his first head professional job in 1965 at Overlake Golf and Country Club in Bellevue where he remained until 1981 At that point he returned to Eugene and was the head pro at the Eugene Country Club for three years followed by a six-year stint at the Bear Creek Country Club in Seattle

He also spent a short time at a golf course in Cottage Grove Ore before moving back to Eugene for a third time in 1993 to become the director of golf instruction at the river ridge Golf Course He remained at river ridge until his retirement last summer During his time there he helped out as the swing coach at UO under then-head coach Steve Nosler

Through it all Mundle served as president of the Washington PGA and the Pacific Northwest PGA and was a member of several National PGA committees As a player he participated in the Oregon Washington and Pacific Northwest opens as well as the Washington and Oregon PGA events One of his highlights was winning the Oregon Senior PGA Match-Play Championships in Bend in 1993

ldquoi felt i had an obligation to participaterdquo Mundle said ldquoi played a lot of golf including many many pro-ams and i won a couple of assistant championshipsrdquo

in addition to Crane Mundle also helped shape the careers of Jeff Quinney and Eric Johnson both of whom are from the Eugene area

Quinney won the United States Amateur championship in 2000 and represented the US in the Walker Cup in 2001 He has appeared in 128 PGA Tour events since 2007 placing second twice and third twice

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course in San rafael CalifldquoAnd there have been some others mdash

Brian Henninger Mike Gove a few others mdash who have called and wanted to discus their swingrdquo Mundle said ldquoNothing on a regular basis just one or two sessionsrdquo

is Hanson his next mdash and perhaps his last mdash prodigy

Thatrsquos a tricky question since Hanson came to golf late after a budding baseball career was derailed by a shoulder injury He was a first-team all-Big Nine Conference golf selection as a junior but has yet to qualify for state and his summer resume is thin because of his baseball background

Hansonrsquos original plan was to attend Walla Walla Community College and play golf for the Warriors with the hope of earning an NCAA Division i scholarship But he has since decided to enroll in Arizona State Universityrsquos Professional Golf Management program and try out for the ASU golf team as a walk on

ldquoMore than anything i think it came down to him evaluating his goalsrdquo said Jakersquos father Gary Hanson ldquoitrsquos everyonersquos dream to play on the PGA Tour but realistically he wants to be a golf pro and teach He loves

the gamerdquoAnd a degree in the PGM program

will provide Jake with the educational background he needs to be successful in any form of business his father added

Though his chances of making the ASU varsity team seem unlikely the PGM program provides a club golf team that participates in a series of tournaments throughout the year and gives Hanson a second playing option

And keeping your options open is optimum at this point Mundle said

ldquoi think his driving force at this time mdash and also his folks mdash is to get his education And then he can do whatever he wants if he doesnrsquot go into (the golfing business) immediately he will always have it as a backuprdquo

Sounds an awful lot like the advice Thomas Mundle offered his son back in the spring of 1952 when Al Mundle wanted to leave school after his sophomore year and test his wings on the PGA Tour And as we now know all these years later staying in school worked out pretty well for Al

Jim Buchan is a sports writer for the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin He can be reached at jimbuchanwwubcom

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Join us for a night of wonder with elizabethan-inspired food fashion and merriment to celebrate the opening of walla wallarsquos power house theatre and prepare for a four-day run of seattle shakespeare companyrsquos ldquothe merry wives of windsorrdquo

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My director Terry Edward Moore told me his only direction from the artistic director was that it be ldquoperiodrdquo that is to say authentic to the time

ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo is the only one of Shakespearersquos plays that is set in his own time so it was decided to present it as if the actors were people of the time doing what would be a contemporary (to the late 16th century) play

i started to research the clothing of the time how it was constructed and what kinds of fabrics were available at the time mdash linens homespuns woolens for the common people and silks damasks velvets and furs for the upper classes i discovered that Elizabethan society was strictly regulated in terms of social classes and upward mobility was a little-known concept Once a yeoman always a yeoman i also discovered the set of rules and regulations called ldquosumptuary lawsrdquo which specifically dictated what types of fabrics trims furs and even what colors each class was allowed to wear

Since there are three distinct classes represented in ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo mdash merchant class soldiers and servants mdash i tried to give each class its own color palette based on these laws The overall palette of the show is based on colors actually in use at the time

The availability of dyes was limited (except for the nobility) so the palette consists of many shades of yellows and browns russets black some greens and blue-grays and of course wheat-colored unbleached linen i turned to the Dutch painter Brueghel for inspiration on how the common people looked and dressed

i also researched what kinds of dyes were used and where they came from Dyes were created from all sorts of different things such as walnut shell crushed beetles and all kinds of roots i found a website that sells these authentic dyestuffs so irsquom using the real thing to dye some of the linen pieces and will coordinate the contemporary fabrics to these authentic colors

Nearly every piece will need something done to it mdash altered in some way to fit the actor re-trimmed rigged invisibly for quick changes etc mdash so there is a lot of labor involved Also hats were a hugely important part of Elizabethan fashion all the way down to the poorest serf

Certain styles of hats were often associated with certain professions mdash eg doctors scholars mdash so there are a number of hats to build as well as headpieces for the women No self-respecting woman went about with her head uncovered

Putting together a show like this is like putting together a giant jigsaw puzzle and the pieces are the costumes that irsquove borrowed and rented from other theater companies in the Seattle area such as Seattle repertory Seattle Opera and the University of Washington as well as pieces from Oregon Shakespeare Festival i design the show and then go out into the world and try to find pieces that approximate my designs and palette as closely as possible (usually with some reworking first) The pieces that i cant find and dont want to compromise on i build from scratch

deane middLeton is a theatre costume professional who works in the Seattle area She has done costumes for Issaquahrsquos Village Theater as well as several productions of the Seattle Shakespeare Company

ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo

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ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo was the only one of Shakespearersquos works set in his own time the 1600s and features Sir John Falstaff It also deals primarily with english middle-class life A hilarious bawdy comedy filled with insight into the life and times of Shakespeare ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo will delight people of all ages

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But thatrsquos exactly what longtime Walla Walla resident Larry Adams did for four years He was one of a select group of pilots for Marine One the helicopter counterpart of the presidential airplane Air Force One from 1970 to 1974

30 Walla Walla LifestyLes

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 31

Long before Adams became the Walla Walla Airport manager he was transporting heads of state foreign dignitaries famous (and now infamous) Cabinet members the executive staff and President richard M Nixon during one of the nationrsquos most turbulent times the withdrawal from vietnam and the Watergate scandal

But to Adams a native of Northern idaho all that swirled around the Nixon presidency was the least of his concerns His job was to transport the president safely to Andrews Air Force Base or Camp David or fly any short flight required Safety always at a premium End of story

Many times Adams ferried President Nixon and his staff on short flights far away from home Air Force One might fly President Nixon to a summit or a meeting with a foreign head of state but Marine One and Adams were always nearby to shuttle the chief executive on short flights or to whisk him away from sudden danger

Pretty heady stuff for a fourth-grade teacher who had never thought about flying until a Marine recruiter offered him the opportunity Although Adams had watched planes take off and land at a nearby air base as a child he had never given serious thought to flying it was more a need for a bigger paycheck than passion that brought Adams to his destiny

He liked teaching but it just wasnrsquot paying the bills So Adams turned to the military and the Gi Bill After being unimpressed by other recruiters Adams took a liking to the fellow from the Marines for as Adams recalls the recruiter took an interest in him After about an hour of talking the recruiter suggested Adams might have the potential to be a pilot

Having easily passed some preliminary tests Adams was sent to flight school in Pensacola Fla and a stellar career was ready to take off He performed well in all the aircraft he piloted but he showed a special skill for helicopters

Up until 1965 fixed-wing airplanes were the staple of all military air combat But the military had been gearing up for a big change The helicopter was to become a major part of combat The Pentagon had been developing helicopters that would do much more than transport troops to bases Now they would assist in bombing

raids ground attacks and the evacuation of the injured from the point of combat This new breed of helicopters would also possess the ability to fight back and not be lame ducks as before the new H34 would tote machine guns on each side

These cutting-edge aircraft would travel at unprecedented speeds with newly discovered agility Gifted pilots were needed not those who merely possessed superior technical skills but those who also had the composure to fly straight into

enemy fire in the dead of night picking up injured soldiers or aiding air attacks

Adams was one of those pilots and he would be one of two squadron leaders for ldquoOperation Starliterdquo mdash the first major assault using helicopters The Marines were going straight into a North vietnamese regimental stronghold No one knew what to expect

ldquoWe lost a lot that first time inrdquo says Adams ldquoTwo crew chiefs were killed

Continued on pg 32 gt

In this newspaper clipping Larry Adams poses on the steps of the helicopter dubbed Marine One which he piloted for President Richard M Nixon

32 Walla Walla LifestyLes

people ltcontinued from pg 31

four pilots were medevaced out because of their wounds i donrsquot think there was one helicopter that didnrsquot have a bunch of holes in it The one i flew in we got a lot of rounds in it Amazingly no one was hurt but when we got back the helicopter was so shot-up you couldnrsquot fly it anymore We lost 50 percent of our helicopters that dayrdquo

in the next 13 months Adams would fly many more missions often heading straight into anti-aircraft fire to pick up injured or killed soldiers He says he would see the flares signifying where the copter was supposed to land but frequently hersquod have to veer off because ground communication would say ldquoThe artillery is too hotrdquo Then there would be a window maybe two minutes maybe five when the helicopter could drop in and pick up the injured often being shot at as it waited for its passengers

Adams knew the best way to survive was to keep his focus ldquoin the daylight when you start your run in and yoursquore getting shot at Everything went to black and white for me i didnrsquot notice the green trees or the green rice paddies until we got out of there and then it would come back

to me i donrsquot know what that was i just didnrsquot see the colors irsquove talked to some other pilots and they described the same thingrdquo

in his two tours of duty in vietnam Adams would fly 880 combat missions in several types of helicopters and fixed-wing airplanes He received numerous medals including two Navy commendations for performance under combat conditions

Then the call came to fly for the president Before Adams could tote the commander in chief around in Marine One a thorough background check had to be done So thorough was the check that Adams said a friend from his hometown sent him a card that read ldquoAre you in some kind of trouble Jesus therersquos been a bunch of people around here with the dark grey suits and the skinny little ties Theyrsquore asking all these embarrassing questions about you like did you have drinking problem Did you have a gambling problem Do you know what Larryrsquos sexual preference wasrdquo

Adams chuckles ldquoit was pretty funnyrdquoAdams passed the grade and soon

he was flying President Nixon and his family to Camp David or picking up vice

President Spiro Agnew at the Pentagon or taking Secretary of State Henry kissinger or Secretary of Defense Alexander Haig to a classified meeting Although his flights varied from transporting foreign heads of state to flying members of the press the majority involved the president the vice president kissinger and Haig

The pilots did not speak to their travelers unless spoken to says Adams President Nixon usually looked in and asked them how they were kissinger never spoke Haig was good for a pat on the shoulder now and then but it was Agnew who conversed the most says Adams

Adams remembers ldquoOne time we picked him up at the Pentagon and we had taken off and had hit top altitude He usually would come up and look into the cockpit but this time he patted me on the shoulder and asked lsquoWell howrsquos it going today guysrsquordquo Adams replied ldquoNot bad sir and how about yourselfrdquo

Agnew answered ldquoMan they are really after my assrdquo He was talking about the press Adams says ldquoTwo weeks later he resignedrdquo

Adams recalls that his encounters with Agnew as defying the public perception

Adams far right gives instructions before a mission in Vietnam

Walla Walla LifestyLes 33

that Agnew was arrogant ldquoHe was always one of the nicest guys He was straightforward He looked like he had just stepped off the cover of Gentlemenrsquos Quarterly all the time He was very proper in the way he dressed but he had a sense of humor as wellrdquo

There were other humorous moments Adams recalls a certain reporter from CBS who had been a major thorn in President Nixonrsquos side was late for takeoff from the South Lawn of the White House one morning Just as Marine One was about to leave without him he came running across the lawn hollering and waving his arms The Secret Service agent supervising the flight told Adams to ldquojust gordquo The wind from the propellers whipped the reporterrsquos toupee right off his head and instead of continuing his run toward Marine One he reversed his field and tried feverishly to retrieve his toupee snagged in the hedges

ldquoEveryone got a pretty good chuckle out of thatrdquo

Of course there were somber times At one point Adams flew Cabinet members John Ehrlichman and Hr Haldeman to Camp David for a meeting with the president After only 15 minutes the two men returned and Marine One headed home Adams says it was a quiet flight He found out later the two men had been fired by President Nixon for their parts in the Watergate scandal

Whisking the president away from danger was a major part of being a pilot of Marine One Stationed across the river from the Capitol pilots awakened by an emergency alert had to be up in the air in five minutes This exercise was practiced often though never needed during Adamsrsquo tenure

One night however they thought it was The operator at the White House mistakenly hit the ldquoAlertrdquo button Marine One was in the air in five minutes

Although ground control had not spotted any enemy aircraft the operation was under way As Marine One closed in on the White House the operator at fault tried to alert everyone of his mistake but unfortunately used a poor choice of words to call off the operation

Adams chuckles as he says ldquoThe fella said lsquoThis is not an exercisersquo He was moved to another post i thinkrdquo

All levity aside the position required

the same kind of focus demanded of Adams in vietnam though it came in a different form

ldquoThere were three things the way you operated the aircraft and they were in this order safety comfort and speed Safety never gave in to comfort or speedrdquo says Adams ldquoOur job was just concentrating on doing our job it could have been anybody mdash we would do it the same way it could have been Fred Flintstone

ldquoThe difference between flying for the White House and in vietnam was we were flying a premier aircraft We had to keep it impeccably clean everything was scripted We had to have the lsquoopen-the-door timersquo down to two to four seconds in vietnam it was the stress of performing medevacs under fire or dropping troops under heavy artillery For Marine One it was the stress of doing the job rightrdquo

Also the stress of being away from onersquos family 200 days of the year wore on a Marine One pilot in 1974 after four years on the job the toll became too much and Adams stepped down

He would stay with the Marines for eight more years retiring in August 1982

By then he had received 44 Air Medals including the Joint Service Commendation and the Presidential Service Badge in his 20 years of service Adams flew seven different helicopters and five different fixed-wing planes

What makes an elite military pilot ldquoPilots who donrsquot have any misgivingsrdquo says Adams ldquoTheyrsquore totally prepared they know their aircraftrdquo

When talking about his colleagues on Marine One he adds ldquoNone were boasters They might brag about a great landing but they did not brag in spite of someone elserdquo

What did Adams love most about his flying days ldquoi enjoyed flying with the latest technology and the pristine quality of Marine One i loved the process of building my skills i could have flown another 40 years and i would still be learning thingsrdquo

is it any surprise his favorite hobby now is fly fishing

andrew hoLt writes about food people and all things Walla Walla for Walla Walla lifestyles magazine He can be reached at bruindrew86gmailcom

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it is astonishing in many ways mdash that we are presented with two weeks of top-drawer music performed by top-drawer musi-cians that there are so many ways to encounter the music (many of them free) and that a rural community has provided the incu-

bator for such a cultural undertaking to name but a fewGranted we are not your average rural community having two

colleges a university a symphony a choral society a community band and music in the schools but letrsquos face it wersquore not exactly a cosmopolitan center of culture like New york either The Cham-ber Music Festival mdash and our continued support of it through some tough times mdash puts us in a category all our own

ldquoi saw what was special about this community the first time i visited in 2007rdquo Artistic Director Timothy Christie says ldquoi have

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A young artistic composer pays close attention as Tim Christie uses his violin to interpret the boys piece of artwork into music on June 11 2009 Meanwhile other children work on their works of art in preparation for the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival quintets interpretations

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worked hard to start this event and to my great joy it has taken on an iden-tity of its own i hire the musicians and choose the music but the town its people and its environs make the festivalrdquo

The beauty of chamber music is its intimacy mdash smaller ensembles performing for smaller audiences it has been referred to as ldquothe music of friendsrdquo which seems so apt at this festival Free open rehearsals are held around town that provide not only a musical atmosphere in which to enjoy a latte or the ambiance of the kirkman House but which give a richer look into the machinations of a working ensemble

As one enthusiastic fan puts it ldquoi am not a musician and itrsquos fascinat-ing to watch these rehearsals to see the interactions of the musicians as they work out the snags make wry remarks and relate to each other in a whole different way than during a for-mal performance i get a glimpse into their personalities and what makes them tickrdquo

The festival supplies a generous of-fering of venues with free concerts for children and families relaxed evening programs at wineries and full concerts at the Foundry Chism Hall and Day-tonrsquos Liberty Theater

if you are lucky enough to live near the musiciansrsquo lodgings while they are in town you may also be treated to an ad hoc front-porch concert as the ensembles continue their rehearsals in more private settings The festival is about all of these ways mdash planned and accidental mdash to experience the enchantment of chamber music

it is also about historic continuity and the connection between past and present mdash relishing the existing canon while expanding the genre with con-temporary forms and voices

How is this accomplished in part by the annual commission of a new piece of music for the festival Chris-tie is committed to contributing to the broader chamber music repertoire and to providing the audience with the richest possible experience

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ldquoFor classical music to be relevant there must be a conversation between the music of our time and the music of the pastrdquo he says

By commissioning a work for the festi-val each year Christie creates such a con-versation

This year the commission was given to John David Earnest Four festival commis-sions have preceded his and he is the sec-ond ldquolocalrdquo composer to be tapped add-ing another layer of relationship between community and event (in 2009 Whitman College professor David Glenn was given the nod)

As visiting adjunct professor of music at Whitman Earnest resides here for six weeks every semester His ldquoSecond Sym-phonyrdquo was written for and performed by the Walla Walla Symphony in October 2001

The challenge for the yearly commis-sionee is to compose a piece on demand within specific constraints of time place and instrumentation while expressing hisher own voice as an artist

Earnest has created ldquoCommedia Gal-leryrdquo a set of three movements for flute

viola and harp based on stock characters from the Commedia dellrsquoArte a popu-lar theatrical form that was influential in Europe for over 300 years Commedia characters improvised dialogue around set scenarios generally involving the struggles of young lovers to overcome hindrances to their romance and each character even-tually came to have a consistent set of at-tributes in speech mannerisms and cos-tume

Earnestrsquos ldquoGalleryrdquo gives us Arlecchi-no (Harlequin) an acrobatic and devious jester Pierrot the classic sad clown and finally Scaramouche a dandy and a brag-gart who is a coward at heart

in anticipation of this yearrsquos festival i am reminded of the scene in ldquoThe Music Manrdquo in which the town awaits the ar-rival of the Wells Fargo Wagon Potentially heaped with gifts and surprises it prom-ises connection to the larger world The WWCMF brings us all ldquosomethinrsquo specialrdquo mdash an enrichment of our community and our culture

margaret Jamison is an artist and writer living in Walla Walla Contact her at artjamisongmailcom

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Smith has gardened for years at his home at 38 Mulberry Court in College Place He used to grow vegetables and flowers now he is strictly focusing on flowers mdash with fabulous results roses delphiniums and lots of irises line the fence

ldquoirises mdash irsquove always enjoyed themrdquo he says ldquoThey take a little bit of weeding and watering but not much morerdquo itrsquos the gardenerrsquos dream mdash low maintenance with a big return

A retired orthopedic surgeon Smith has in the past gardened more extensively than he does now But he has enough plants to keep him busy His new project is planting more of the reblooming iris These are still hardy but you get twice the reward they bloom in the spring then again in the fall

ldquoTheyrsquore easy to grow and spectacular for a short time iris take less care than a lot of thingsrdquo Smith says

His secret for gardening is simple and therersquos no getting around it ldquoTime and workrdquo he laughs

Hersquos getting ready to start in the garden ldquoi need to clean out the leaves and the old foliage of the irisrdquo

in addition to the basic cleaning and maintenance Smith just decides how many plants to keep Bulb flowers are hardy and they multiply on their own

ldquoAfter five years you usually have to separate the bulbs when they get too thick i donrsquot have room to add more i put in the new re-blooming onesrdquo he explains ldquoi may add more and a few other thingsrdquo

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itrsquos an odd location since it can only be seen as yoursquore leaving town but it always makes me smile This valley my adopted home is indeed a great place to be

i recently finished reading the great Western writer Wallace Stegnerrsquos book ldquoThe Sound of Mountain Waterrdquo One of his essays traces his nomadic childhood which left him feeling rootless and without a place that he felt he could call home

i identify with his feeling of not belonging i was born to a single woman from Massachusetts in a New york City hospital i stayed a scant few days before being placed with an adoption agency Born in a place i had no familial connection to i was immediately deprived of my biological family Most of my childhood was spent in suburban Cleveland Ohio Moves to upstate New york New England and Pennsylvania brought me no closer to calling any place home i loved living in the western Massachusetts town of Stockbridge but the multigenerational denizens of the town left few openings for newcomers like me i lived in central Pennsylvania for several decades but felt detached from the deep roots that most people had in the area

When we came west (for my husband a homecoming to his Oregon roots for me a new experience) i noticed that even in long-established towns like Walla Walla there is ample room for newcomers who want to be

part of the community And most folks who choose to come here donrsquot seem to want to change the valley they prefer to embrace it

While the occasional newbie whines about the lack of Whole Foods or Nordstrom they soon discover our farmers markets the wide variety of local shops and boutiques and our world-class restaurants They fall in love with our charming downtowns the small-town friendliness of the people and our kid-friendly environment Then therersquos the holiday parade the fair the ever-present Blue Mountains the parks the museums the wineries mdash really whatrsquos not to like The communities of our valley represent America at its best

irsquom a newspaper junkie i love to read everything from news to sports to classifieds mdash even the obituaries The obits are a fascinating window on our valley Many of the people chronicled were born here some lived all their lives here inextricably bound to this place But a number of people came here from other places often far away and have made a mark on our area Which makes me wonder mdash is a place any less of a hometown because you choose it or is it based primarily on the happenstance of your birth it seems that therersquos room for both paths to calling this wonderful valley home

itrsquos also our strength because collectively as a community we bring both deep familial and cultural traditions as well as the fresh perspective of newcomers to our area irsquom glad mdash after decades of searching mdash that i finally found my hometown a place that feels just right

diane reed can be reached at ladybookearthlinknet Between columns and when the spirit moves her she blogs at wwwponderingsbydianereedblogspotcom from her home overlooking the pond at lions Park in College Place

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Maymay 1The annual Kennel Club Dog Show Walla Walla County Fairgrounds De-tails 509-558-3854

The Walla Walla University Drama Department pres-ents a performance of ldquoMy Fair ladyrdquo 2 pm matinee Details 509-527-2656

The Walla Walla Choral Society presents ldquoJubilate Deordquo 3 pm May 1 Walla Walla University Church College Place Details 509-386-2445

The Walla Walla Valley Farmers Market opens local produce artisans and an outdoor concert 9 am-1 pm Saturdays and Sundays through Oct 30 Crawford Park Fourth ave and Main St Details gowallawallafarmersmar-ketcom or 509-520-3647

through may 22Enjoy the annual Senior art Thesis Exhibition Sheehan Gallery Whitman College Details 509-527-5249

through JuLy 31The Tamaacutestslikt Cultural In-stitute hosts the traveling OMSI exhibit ldquoamazing Feats of agingrdquo explor-ing the mysteries of why animals and humans age Details 541-966-9748

may 4The YWCa leadership luncheon ldquoMatters that Matterrdquo is informational and inspirational with guest speakers Kristine Van Raden and Molly Da-vis Noon Marcus Whit-man Hotel Details 509-525-2570

Walla Walla Wine Works hosts music on Wednes-days downtown Details 509-522-1261

may 5First Thursday Concert at St Pauls Episcopal Church 323 Catherine Street Walla Walla 1215-1250 pm will feature the Steel Drum Band from Walla Walla Uni-versity directed by Brandon Beck Details 529-1083

The Whitman College Visit-ing Writers Reading series presents Whitman Reading 7 pm Kimball Theatre De-tails whitmanedu

may 5-7 12-14Walla Walla High School Drama Department pres-ents ldquoFiddler on the Roofrdquo musical version 7 pm and 2 pm matinee on Saturdays May 7 and 14 Walla Walla High School Performing arts audito-rium Details Tickets can be reserved by calling 509-526-8613 the Wa-Hi box office

may 5-8 19-21a performance of ldquoThe 25th a nnua l Putnam County Spelling Beerdquo 8 pm Harper Joy Theatre Whitman College Details 509-527-5180

may 6-7Music on the weekends at the Backstage Bistro De-tails 509-526-0690

Sapolil Cellars hosts music on Friday and Saturday De-tails 509-520-5258

The Wildfire hosts music every Friday and Saturday Wildhorse Resort amp Casino Pendleton Details 800-654-9453

may 6-8Walla Walla Valley Winer-ies offer an opportunity to taste their new creations during Spring Release Weekend area wineries introduce new wines and winemakers share their creative inspiration Details 509-526-3117

may 6artWalK First Fridays May through December Visit galleries and chat with art-ists 5-8 pm Downtown Walla Walla Visit artwalk-wallawallacom

may 6-8 13-14The little Theatre presents ldquoalice In Wonderlandrdquo adapted from lewis Carroll 8 pm Friday-Saturday 2 pm Sunday little Theatre of Walla Walla Details 509-529-3683

may 7The annual Junior Horse Show brings great riding action to Milton-Freewater Pioneer Posse Grounds Details 541-938-3379

Daytonrsquos annual Street Sale turns a section of Third Street into a giant yard sale benefits churches and com-munity projects Dayton Details 509-382-4825

artist reception and dem-onstration Washington art-ist Dwight Duke exhibits his painting bronze sculptures and gunpowder light pan-els 6-730 pm Reininger Winery Details 509-522-1994

may 8Every Sunday the living History actors portray in-dividuals from the arearsquos past 2 pm Fort Walla Walla Museum Details 509-525-7703

may 13-15The annual Balloon Stam-pede brings as many as 50 hot-air balloons to the Walla Walla County Fairgrounds This colorful festival re-mains a Valley tradition Ear-ly morning flights (weather permitting) arts amp crafts antique autos commercial booths live entertainment and food Balloons light up to music at the Saturday evening Nite Glow Details 509-525-0850

may 14annual adult event cele-brates the characters who populated Pendletonrsquos past Must have reservations Pendleton Underground Tours Details 800-226-6398

may 14-15 may 27-29Walla Walla Drag Strip con-tinues the weekend fun Details wwdragstripcom or 509-200-6287

may 15Walla Walla University Chamber Series featuring Robyn McCabe 730 pm MKW Fine arts auditorium Details 509-527-2571

may 18To celebrate the opening of Walla Wallarsquos Power House Theatre and a four-day run of Seattle Shakespeare Companyrsquos ldquoThe Merry Wives of WindsorrdquoWalla Walla lifestyles will pres-ent a gala event This exclusive evening will en-chant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fash-ion from 530-9 pm at the Power House Theatre Sixth amp Rose Walla Walla To purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewalla-wallacom

may 19-21During Pendletonrsquos Cattle Baron Weekend enjoy an art exhibit by a talented group of women artists ldquoIn the Company of Cowgirlsrdquo Hamleyrsquos Steakhouse Pendleton Visit inthecom-panyofcowgirlscom or call 541-676-5013

may 19-22Whitman College 50th Reunion class of 1961 Whitman College Details 509-527-5952

Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merr y Wives of Windsorrdquo Pow-erhouse Theater Details 509-742-0739

may 21The annual Ducky Derby is a day of family fun all for a good cause Watch the ducks race down Mill Creek to help fund the Exchange Clubrsquos efforts at preventing child abuse and neglect 1130 am-330 pm Race at about 2 pm Walla Walla Community College De-tails 509-527-4300

Walla Walla University Spring Choral Concert 5 pm Walla Walla Univer-sity Church Details 509-527-2571

learn to contra dance an old-fashioned coun-try dance Music by the Wednesday Night Band 7 pm teaching and practice 730 pm regular dance Unity Church of Peace 810

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may 22The Whitman College graduating class of 2011 accepts the challenge 11 am Memorial lawn Whitman College Details 509-527-5156

may 26 27 28 29Walla Walla Community College Theatre arts De-partment presents ldquoZoot Suitrdquo by luis Valdez 7 pm each night and Sunday 2 pm matinee W WCC Performing arts Center Details 509-527-4575

may 27-30 Dayton Days has been a Memorial Weekend tradi-tion in Dayton for nearly 100 years Highlights include a Saturday-morning parade on historic Main Street rodeo tour of Dayton and Memorial Day Fun Run De-tails 509-382-4825 or visit historicdaytoncom

may 28-30The Touchet River Roundup mdash the annual Celebration of Sobriety at the fairgrounds focuses on family fun ac-tivities Waitsburg Details 509-526-3602

may 29annual Onion Man Tria-thalon 9 am Bennington lake Details wwmulti-sportscom or call 509-529-9187

may 30Waitsburgrsquos annual Memo-rial Day celebration hosted by veterans for all veterans Details 509-337-6546

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This sculptural cornucopia marks the spot where all of Walla Walla meets the producers and wersquore not talking about the Zero Mostel and Gene Wild-er musical For you GPS fans latitude 4606678 N longitude 11834197 W

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18 Walla Walla LifestyLes

Hanson holds his new mentor in high esteem

ldquoirsquove learned a tremendous amountrdquo Hanson said ldquoHe has a way of getting through to me in a positive way He got through to me that i am so much better than i thought i could be He has more confidence in me than i have in myself

ldquoHe has one of the best golf swings i have ever seen and he is still working on his own gamerdquo

Mundle said Hanson reminds him of former University of Oregon player Ben Crane who now plays on the PGA Tour Crane has been playing professionally since 2007 and earned nearly $3 million on the tour in 2010

ldquoi was Benrsquos swing coach at Oregon and Jake is somewhat similarrdquo Mundle said ldquoBen worked harder than anybody on the whole golf team He would put in as much

time as three or four others combined and Jake is very much the same way Hersquos very dedicatedrdquo

However Mundle insists that helping Hanson with his game is a one-time situation

After playing just six rounds of golf last year Mundle is determined that he and Ann will spend a lot more time on the golf course as they get acquainted with their new hometown

ldquoThatrsquos an all-time lowrdquo he said of the six rounds played in 2010 ldquoMostly it was the move and all mdash a new house putting in lawn fencing shelving in the garage mdash all the little things of getting settled

ldquoBut this was a good move for us We love it here We enjoy the weather and the people you can walk down the street and people look you in the eye and say lsquoHellorsquo i love that friendlinessrdquo

Mundle grew up in Eugene and graduated from University High School in 1950 He knew he said from the time he was in the seventh grade he wanted to make golf his lifersquos work

ldquoyou might say that i had a little parental directionrdquo Mundle said ldquoMy dad went to the University of St Andrews in Scotland and he played golf at the St Andrews Old Course And my mother also played golfrdquo

After high school Mundle enrolled at the University of Oregon and played three years of varsity golf during an era when there was no such thing as a golf scholarship

ldquoThe only thing we ever received was a half-a-dozen golf balls if we went into a tournamentrdquo Mundle recalled ldquoWhen i went to the NCAA Championships in Texas my senior year i was given a new

people ltcontinued from pg 17

Walla Walla LifestyLes 19

pair of golf shoes but that was itldquoWe bought all of our own gear mdash

clubs bags rain gear everything itrsquos a whole different ball game today They have everythingrdquo

At the end of his sophomore year at Oregon Mundle had it in his mind to ldquotest my golf on the PGA Tourrdquo he said But his father an English professor at the university discouraged him

ldquoHe said lsquoGet your education first then you can do whatever you wantrsquordquo Mundle said ldquoit was just as well i saved a lot of wear and tear mdash and money i was an Ok player but not of that caliberrdquo

Mundle still has fond memories of his collegiate playing career however

ldquoi played three years for the university mdash you werenrsquot allowed to play as freshmen mdash and Oregon always had fine golf teamsrdquo Mundle said ldquoit was mostly match

play then and i was there during the time that the school went seven straight years without losing a (team) dual matchrdquo

During his senior year Mundle qualified for the NCAA Championships in Houston From a field of about 160 players Mundle made it as far as the quarterfinal round

He graduated in 1954 with a degree in history which he said he never really used

ldquoMy dad was in the top one percent of his class at St Andrewsrdquo Mundle said ldquoMy mother was also in the top part of her class and my older brother Pete was in the top of his class And then i came alongrdquo

His first golf job was as an assistant pro at his home course the Laurelwood Golf Course a position he accepted shortly after graduating from UO This was when and where the infamous first golf lesson

occurredA two-year stint in the US Army took

Mundle away from his profession in 1955-56 But he managed to keep his golf game sharp as a member of the Fort knox golf team and in 1956 he was the runner-up in the Second Army tournament and he placed 13th in the All-Army tournament

Then it was back to the Willamette valley where he came into his own in the Portland area under head professionals Eddie Hogan at riverside Country Club and Bunny Mason at Columbia Edgewater

ldquoThose two people were very influential in my professional liferdquo Mundle said

ldquoEddie was a very fine teacher of the total golf operation and service was No 1 i learned how to run the pro shop how

Jake Hanson takes a few pointers on chipping from his instructor and mentor Al Mundle

Continued on pg 20 gt

20 Walla Walla LifestyLes

people ltcontinued from pg 19

to market and merchandise mdash everything from how to run the club service program to the electric cart program to basically running the golf course

ldquoBunny was also a very fine operator of a golf shop and i also learned a lot about teaching from Bunny Sometimes you go along in life and there are certain mentors who help you along the way Anybody who says they made it by themselves is not being honest with themselves We have all had someone who has given us a little boost along the wayrdquo

Mundle took his first head professional job in 1965 at Overlake Golf and Country Club in Bellevue where he remained until 1981 At that point he returned to Eugene and was the head pro at the Eugene Country Club for three years followed by a six-year stint at the Bear Creek Country Club in Seattle

He also spent a short time at a golf course in Cottage Grove Ore before moving back to Eugene for a third time in 1993 to become the director of golf instruction at the river ridge Golf Course He remained at river ridge until his retirement last summer During his time there he helped out as the swing coach at UO under then-head coach Steve Nosler

Through it all Mundle served as president of the Washington PGA and the Pacific Northwest PGA and was a member of several National PGA committees As a player he participated in the Oregon Washington and Pacific Northwest opens as well as the Washington and Oregon PGA events One of his highlights was winning the Oregon Senior PGA Match-Play Championships in Bend in 1993

ldquoi felt i had an obligation to participaterdquo Mundle said ldquoi played a lot of golf including many many pro-ams and i won a couple of assistant championshipsrdquo

in addition to Crane Mundle also helped shape the careers of Jeff Quinney and Eric Johnson both of whom are from the Eugene area

Quinney won the United States Amateur championship in 2000 and represented the US in the Walker Cup in 2001 He has appeared in 128 PGA Tour events since 2007 placing second twice and third twice

Johnson played several years on the Asian Tour and one on the Nationwide Tour He is now a head professional at a

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course in San rafael CalifldquoAnd there have been some others mdash

Brian Henninger Mike Gove a few others mdash who have called and wanted to discus their swingrdquo Mundle said ldquoNothing on a regular basis just one or two sessionsrdquo

is Hanson his next mdash and perhaps his last mdash prodigy

Thatrsquos a tricky question since Hanson came to golf late after a budding baseball career was derailed by a shoulder injury He was a first-team all-Big Nine Conference golf selection as a junior but has yet to qualify for state and his summer resume is thin because of his baseball background

Hansonrsquos original plan was to attend Walla Walla Community College and play golf for the Warriors with the hope of earning an NCAA Division i scholarship But he has since decided to enroll in Arizona State Universityrsquos Professional Golf Management program and try out for the ASU golf team as a walk on

ldquoMore than anything i think it came down to him evaluating his goalsrdquo said Jakersquos father Gary Hanson ldquoitrsquos everyonersquos dream to play on the PGA Tour but realistically he wants to be a golf pro and teach He loves

the gamerdquoAnd a degree in the PGM program

will provide Jake with the educational background he needs to be successful in any form of business his father added

Though his chances of making the ASU varsity team seem unlikely the PGM program provides a club golf team that participates in a series of tournaments throughout the year and gives Hanson a second playing option

And keeping your options open is optimum at this point Mundle said

ldquoi think his driving force at this time mdash and also his folks mdash is to get his education And then he can do whatever he wants if he doesnrsquot go into (the golfing business) immediately he will always have it as a backuprdquo

Sounds an awful lot like the advice Thomas Mundle offered his son back in the spring of 1952 when Al Mundle wanted to leave school after his sophomore year and test his wings on the PGA Tour And as we now know all these years later staying in school worked out pretty well for Al

Jim Buchan is a sports writer for the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin He can be reached at jimbuchanwwubcom

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Join us for a night of wonder with elizabethan-inspired food fashion and merriment to celebrate the opening of walla wallarsquos power house theatre and prepare for a four-day run of seattle shakespeare companyrsquos ldquothe merry wives of windsorrdquo

walla walla lifestyles will present a fashion show with wicked and wistful gowns twisted braided hair and smoldering makeup designs designers include red eden designs autumnlin design and others

semi-formal attire creative masks encouraged this exclusive evening will enchant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fashion

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530 - 9 pm May 18 2011

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T H E A T R EPOWER HOUSE

My director Terry Edward Moore told me his only direction from the artistic director was that it be ldquoperiodrdquo that is to say authentic to the time

ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo is the only one of Shakespearersquos plays that is set in his own time so it was decided to present it as if the actors were people of the time doing what would be a contemporary (to the late 16th century) play

i started to research the clothing of the time how it was constructed and what kinds of fabrics were available at the time mdash linens homespuns woolens for the common people and silks damasks velvets and furs for the upper classes i discovered that Elizabethan society was strictly regulated in terms of social classes and upward mobility was a little-known concept Once a yeoman always a yeoman i also discovered the set of rules and regulations called ldquosumptuary lawsrdquo which specifically dictated what types of fabrics trims furs and even what colors each class was allowed to wear

Since there are three distinct classes represented in ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo mdash merchant class soldiers and servants mdash i tried to give each class its own color palette based on these laws The overall palette of the show is based on colors actually in use at the time

The availability of dyes was limited (except for the nobility) so the palette consists of many shades of yellows and browns russets black some greens and blue-grays and of course wheat-colored unbleached linen i turned to the Dutch painter Brueghel for inspiration on how the common people looked and dressed

i also researched what kinds of dyes were used and where they came from Dyes were created from all sorts of different things such as walnut shell crushed beetles and all kinds of roots i found a website that sells these authentic dyestuffs so irsquom using the real thing to dye some of the linen pieces and will coordinate the contemporary fabrics to these authentic colors

Nearly every piece will need something done to it mdash altered in some way to fit the actor re-trimmed rigged invisibly for quick changes etc mdash so there is a lot of labor involved Also hats were a hugely important part of Elizabethan fashion all the way down to the poorest serf

Certain styles of hats were often associated with certain professions mdash eg doctors scholars mdash so there are a number of hats to build as well as headpieces for the women No self-respecting woman went about with her head uncovered

Putting together a show like this is like putting together a giant jigsaw puzzle and the pieces are the costumes that irsquove borrowed and rented from other theater companies in the Seattle area such as Seattle repertory Seattle Opera and the University of Washington as well as pieces from Oregon Shakespeare Festival i design the show and then go out into the world and try to find pieces that approximate my designs and palette as closely as possible (usually with some reworking first) The pieces that i cant find and dont want to compromise on i build from scratch

deane middLeton is a theatre costume professional who works in the Seattle area She has done costumes for Issaquahrsquos Village Theater as well as several productions of the Seattle Shakespeare Company

ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 29

ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo was the only one of Shakespearersquos works set in his own time the 1600s and features Sir John Falstaff It also deals primarily with english middle-class life A hilarious bawdy comedy filled with insight into the life and times of Shakespeare ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo will delight people of all ages

About the play

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But thatrsquos exactly what longtime Walla Walla resident Larry Adams did for four years He was one of a select group of pilots for Marine One the helicopter counterpart of the presidential airplane Air Force One from 1970 to 1974

30 Walla Walla LifestyLes

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 31

Long before Adams became the Walla Walla Airport manager he was transporting heads of state foreign dignitaries famous (and now infamous) Cabinet members the executive staff and President richard M Nixon during one of the nationrsquos most turbulent times the withdrawal from vietnam and the Watergate scandal

But to Adams a native of Northern idaho all that swirled around the Nixon presidency was the least of his concerns His job was to transport the president safely to Andrews Air Force Base or Camp David or fly any short flight required Safety always at a premium End of story

Many times Adams ferried President Nixon and his staff on short flights far away from home Air Force One might fly President Nixon to a summit or a meeting with a foreign head of state but Marine One and Adams were always nearby to shuttle the chief executive on short flights or to whisk him away from sudden danger

Pretty heady stuff for a fourth-grade teacher who had never thought about flying until a Marine recruiter offered him the opportunity Although Adams had watched planes take off and land at a nearby air base as a child he had never given serious thought to flying it was more a need for a bigger paycheck than passion that brought Adams to his destiny

He liked teaching but it just wasnrsquot paying the bills So Adams turned to the military and the Gi Bill After being unimpressed by other recruiters Adams took a liking to the fellow from the Marines for as Adams recalls the recruiter took an interest in him After about an hour of talking the recruiter suggested Adams might have the potential to be a pilot

Having easily passed some preliminary tests Adams was sent to flight school in Pensacola Fla and a stellar career was ready to take off He performed well in all the aircraft he piloted but he showed a special skill for helicopters

Up until 1965 fixed-wing airplanes were the staple of all military air combat But the military had been gearing up for a big change The helicopter was to become a major part of combat The Pentagon had been developing helicopters that would do much more than transport troops to bases Now they would assist in bombing

raids ground attacks and the evacuation of the injured from the point of combat This new breed of helicopters would also possess the ability to fight back and not be lame ducks as before the new H34 would tote machine guns on each side

These cutting-edge aircraft would travel at unprecedented speeds with newly discovered agility Gifted pilots were needed not those who merely possessed superior technical skills but those who also had the composure to fly straight into

enemy fire in the dead of night picking up injured soldiers or aiding air attacks

Adams was one of those pilots and he would be one of two squadron leaders for ldquoOperation Starliterdquo mdash the first major assault using helicopters The Marines were going straight into a North vietnamese regimental stronghold No one knew what to expect

ldquoWe lost a lot that first time inrdquo says Adams ldquoTwo crew chiefs were killed

Continued on pg 32 gt

In this newspaper clipping Larry Adams poses on the steps of the helicopter dubbed Marine One which he piloted for President Richard M Nixon

32 Walla Walla LifestyLes

people ltcontinued from pg 31

four pilots were medevaced out because of their wounds i donrsquot think there was one helicopter that didnrsquot have a bunch of holes in it The one i flew in we got a lot of rounds in it Amazingly no one was hurt but when we got back the helicopter was so shot-up you couldnrsquot fly it anymore We lost 50 percent of our helicopters that dayrdquo

in the next 13 months Adams would fly many more missions often heading straight into anti-aircraft fire to pick up injured or killed soldiers He says he would see the flares signifying where the copter was supposed to land but frequently hersquod have to veer off because ground communication would say ldquoThe artillery is too hotrdquo Then there would be a window maybe two minutes maybe five when the helicopter could drop in and pick up the injured often being shot at as it waited for its passengers

Adams knew the best way to survive was to keep his focus ldquoin the daylight when you start your run in and yoursquore getting shot at Everything went to black and white for me i didnrsquot notice the green trees or the green rice paddies until we got out of there and then it would come back

to me i donrsquot know what that was i just didnrsquot see the colors irsquove talked to some other pilots and they described the same thingrdquo

in his two tours of duty in vietnam Adams would fly 880 combat missions in several types of helicopters and fixed-wing airplanes He received numerous medals including two Navy commendations for performance under combat conditions

Then the call came to fly for the president Before Adams could tote the commander in chief around in Marine One a thorough background check had to be done So thorough was the check that Adams said a friend from his hometown sent him a card that read ldquoAre you in some kind of trouble Jesus therersquos been a bunch of people around here with the dark grey suits and the skinny little ties Theyrsquore asking all these embarrassing questions about you like did you have drinking problem Did you have a gambling problem Do you know what Larryrsquos sexual preference wasrdquo

Adams chuckles ldquoit was pretty funnyrdquoAdams passed the grade and soon

he was flying President Nixon and his family to Camp David or picking up vice

President Spiro Agnew at the Pentagon or taking Secretary of State Henry kissinger or Secretary of Defense Alexander Haig to a classified meeting Although his flights varied from transporting foreign heads of state to flying members of the press the majority involved the president the vice president kissinger and Haig

The pilots did not speak to their travelers unless spoken to says Adams President Nixon usually looked in and asked them how they were kissinger never spoke Haig was good for a pat on the shoulder now and then but it was Agnew who conversed the most says Adams

Adams remembers ldquoOne time we picked him up at the Pentagon and we had taken off and had hit top altitude He usually would come up and look into the cockpit but this time he patted me on the shoulder and asked lsquoWell howrsquos it going today guysrsquordquo Adams replied ldquoNot bad sir and how about yourselfrdquo

Agnew answered ldquoMan they are really after my assrdquo He was talking about the press Adams says ldquoTwo weeks later he resignedrdquo

Adams recalls that his encounters with Agnew as defying the public perception

Adams far right gives instructions before a mission in Vietnam

Walla Walla LifestyLes 33

that Agnew was arrogant ldquoHe was always one of the nicest guys He was straightforward He looked like he had just stepped off the cover of Gentlemenrsquos Quarterly all the time He was very proper in the way he dressed but he had a sense of humor as wellrdquo

There were other humorous moments Adams recalls a certain reporter from CBS who had been a major thorn in President Nixonrsquos side was late for takeoff from the South Lawn of the White House one morning Just as Marine One was about to leave without him he came running across the lawn hollering and waving his arms The Secret Service agent supervising the flight told Adams to ldquojust gordquo The wind from the propellers whipped the reporterrsquos toupee right off his head and instead of continuing his run toward Marine One he reversed his field and tried feverishly to retrieve his toupee snagged in the hedges

ldquoEveryone got a pretty good chuckle out of thatrdquo

Of course there were somber times At one point Adams flew Cabinet members John Ehrlichman and Hr Haldeman to Camp David for a meeting with the president After only 15 minutes the two men returned and Marine One headed home Adams says it was a quiet flight He found out later the two men had been fired by President Nixon for their parts in the Watergate scandal

Whisking the president away from danger was a major part of being a pilot of Marine One Stationed across the river from the Capitol pilots awakened by an emergency alert had to be up in the air in five minutes This exercise was practiced often though never needed during Adamsrsquo tenure

One night however they thought it was The operator at the White House mistakenly hit the ldquoAlertrdquo button Marine One was in the air in five minutes

Although ground control had not spotted any enemy aircraft the operation was under way As Marine One closed in on the White House the operator at fault tried to alert everyone of his mistake but unfortunately used a poor choice of words to call off the operation

Adams chuckles as he says ldquoThe fella said lsquoThis is not an exercisersquo He was moved to another post i thinkrdquo

All levity aside the position required

the same kind of focus demanded of Adams in vietnam though it came in a different form

ldquoThere were three things the way you operated the aircraft and they were in this order safety comfort and speed Safety never gave in to comfort or speedrdquo says Adams ldquoOur job was just concentrating on doing our job it could have been anybody mdash we would do it the same way it could have been Fred Flintstone

ldquoThe difference between flying for the White House and in vietnam was we were flying a premier aircraft We had to keep it impeccably clean everything was scripted We had to have the lsquoopen-the-door timersquo down to two to four seconds in vietnam it was the stress of performing medevacs under fire or dropping troops under heavy artillery For Marine One it was the stress of doing the job rightrdquo

Also the stress of being away from onersquos family 200 days of the year wore on a Marine One pilot in 1974 after four years on the job the toll became too much and Adams stepped down

He would stay with the Marines for eight more years retiring in August 1982

By then he had received 44 Air Medals including the Joint Service Commendation and the Presidential Service Badge in his 20 years of service Adams flew seven different helicopters and five different fixed-wing planes

What makes an elite military pilot ldquoPilots who donrsquot have any misgivingsrdquo says Adams ldquoTheyrsquore totally prepared they know their aircraftrdquo

When talking about his colleagues on Marine One he adds ldquoNone were boasters They might brag about a great landing but they did not brag in spite of someone elserdquo

What did Adams love most about his flying days ldquoi enjoyed flying with the latest technology and the pristine quality of Marine One i loved the process of building my skills i could have flown another 40 years and i would still be learning thingsrdquo

is it any surprise his favorite hobby now is fly fishing

andrew hoLt writes about food people and all things Walla Walla for Walla Walla lifestyles magazine He can be reached at bruindrew86gmailcom

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it is astonishing in many ways mdash that we are presented with two weeks of top-drawer music performed by top-drawer musi-cians that there are so many ways to encounter the music (many of them free) and that a rural community has provided the incu-

bator for such a cultural undertaking to name but a fewGranted we are not your average rural community having two

colleges a university a symphony a choral society a community band and music in the schools but letrsquos face it wersquore not exactly a cosmopolitan center of culture like New york either The Cham-ber Music Festival mdash and our continued support of it through some tough times mdash puts us in a category all our own

ldquoi saw what was special about this community the first time i visited in 2007rdquo Artistic Director Timothy Christie says ldquoi have

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A young artistic composer pays close attention as Tim Christie uses his violin to interpret the boys piece of artwork into music on June 11 2009 Meanwhile other children work on their works of art in preparation for the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival quintets interpretations

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worked hard to start this event and to my great joy it has taken on an iden-tity of its own i hire the musicians and choose the music but the town its people and its environs make the festivalrdquo

The beauty of chamber music is its intimacy mdash smaller ensembles performing for smaller audiences it has been referred to as ldquothe music of friendsrdquo which seems so apt at this festival Free open rehearsals are held around town that provide not only a musical atmosphere in which to enjoy a latte or the ambiance of the kirkman House but which give a richer look into the machinations of a working ensemble

As one enthusiastic fan puts it ldquoi am not a musician and itrsquos fascinat-ing to watch these rehearsals to see the interactions of the musicians as they work out the snags make wry remarks and relate to each other in a whole different way than during a for-mal performance i get a glimpse into their personalities and what makes them tickrdquo

The festival supplies a generous of-fering of venues with free concerts for children and families relaxed evening programs at wineries and full concerts at the Foundry Chism Hall and Day-tonrsquos Liberty Theater

if you are lucky enough to live near the musiciansrsquo lodgings while they are in town you may also be treated to an ad hoc front-porch concert as the ensembles continue their rehearsals in more private settings The festival is about all of these ways mdash planned and accidental mdash to experience the enchantment of chamber music

it is also about historic continuity and the connection between past and present mdash relishing the existing canon while expanding the genre with con-temporary forms and voices

How is this accomplished in part by the annual commission of a new piece of music for the festival Chris-tie is committed to contributing to the broader chamber music repertoire and to providing the audience with the richest possible experience

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ldquoFor classical music to be relevant there must be a conversation between the music of our time and the music of the pastrdquo he says

By commissioning a work for the festi-val each year Christie creates such a con-versation

This year the commission was given to John David Earnest Four festival commis-sions have preceded his and he is the sec-ond ldquolocalrdquo composer to be tapped add-ing another layer of relationship between community and event (in 2009 Whitman College professor David Glenn was given the nod)

As visiting adjunct professor of music at Whitman Earnest resides here for six weeks every semester His ldquoSecond Sym-phonyrdquo was written for and performed by the Walla Walla Symphony in October 2001

The challenge for the yearly commis-sionee is to compose a piece on demand within specific constraints of time place and instrumentation while expressing hisher own voice as an artist

Earnest has created ldquoCommedia Gal-leryrdquo a set of three movements for flute

viola and harp based on stock characters from the Commedia dellrsquoArte a popu-lar theatrical form that was influential in Europe for over 300 years Commedia characters improvised dialogue around set scenarios generally involving the struggles of young lovers to overcome hindrances to their romance and each character even-tually came to have a consistent set of at-tributes in speech mannerisms and cos-tume

Earnestrsquos ldquoGalleryrdquo gives us Arlecchi-no (Harlequin) an acrobatic and devious jester Pierrot the classic sad clown and finally Scaramouche a dandy and a brag-gart who is a coward at heart

in anticipation of this yearrsquos festival i am reminded of the scene in ldquoThe Music Manrdquo in which the town awaits the ar-rival of the Wells Fargo Wagon Potentially heaped with gifts and surprises it prom-ises connection to the larger world The WWCMF brings us all ldquosomethinrsquo specialrdquo mdash an enrichment of our community and our culture

margaret Jamison is an artist and writer living in Walla Walla Contact her at artjamisongmailcom

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Smith has gardened for years at his home at 38 Mulberry Court in College Place He used to grow vegetables and flowers now he is strictly focusing on flowers mdash with fabulous results roses delphiniums and lots of irises line the fence

ldquoirises mdash irsquove always enjoyed themrdquo he says ldquoThey take a little bit of weeding and watering but not much morerdquo itrsquos the gardenerrsquos dream mdash low maintenance with a big return

A retired orthopedic surgeon Smith has in the past gardened more extensively than he does now But he has enough plants to keep him busy His new project is planting more of the reblooming iris These are still hardy but you get twice the reward they bloom in the spring then again in the fall

ldquoTheyrsquore easy to grow and spectacular for a short time iris take less care than a lot of thingsrdquo Smith says

His secret for gardening is simple and therersquos no getting around it ldquoTime and workrdquo he laughs

Hersquos getting ready to start in the garden ldquoi need to clean out the leaves and the old foliage of the irisrdquo

in addition to the basic cleaning and maintenance Smith just decides how many plants to keep Bulb flowers are hardy and they multiply on their own

ldquoAfter five years you usually have to separate the bulbs when they get too thick i donrsquot have room to add more i put in the new re-blooming onesrdquo he explains ldquoi may add more and a few other thingsrdquo

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itrsquos an odd location since it can only be seen as yoursquore leaving town but it always makes me smile This valley my adopted home is indeed a great place to be

i recently finished reading the great Western writer Wallace Stegnerrsquos book ldquoThe Sound of Mountain Waterrdquo One of his essays traces his nomadic childhood which left him feeling rootless and without a place that he felt he could call home

i identify with his feeling of not belonging i was born to a single woman from Massachusetts in a New york City hospital i stayed a scant few days before being placed with an adoption agency Born in a place i had no familial connection to i was immediately deprived of my biological family Most of my childhood was spent in suburban Cleveland Ohio Moves to upstate New york New England and Pennsylvania brought me no closer to calling any place home i loved living in the western Massachusetts town of Stockbridge but the multigenerational denizens of the town left few openings for newcomers like me i lived in central Pennsylvania for several decades but felt detached from the deep roots that most people had in the area

When we came west (for my husband a homecoming to his Oregon roots for me a new experience) i noticed that even in long-established towns like Walla Walla there is ample room for newcomers who want to be

part of the community And most folks who choose to come here donrsquot seem to want to change the valley they prefer to embrace it

While the occasional newbie whines about the lack of Whole Foods or Nordstrom they soon discover our farmers markets the wide variety of local shops and boutiques and our world-class restaurants They fall in love with our charming downtowns the small-town friendliness of the people and our kid-friendly environment Then therersquos the holiday parade the fair the ever-present Blue Mountains the parks the museums the wineries mdash really whatrsquos not to like The communities of our valley represent America at its best

irsquom a newspaper junkie i love to read everything from news to sports to classifieds mdash even the obituaries The obits are a fascinating window on our valley Many of the people chronicled were born here some lived all their lives here inextricably bound to this place But a number of people came here from other places often far away and have made a mark on our area Which makes me wonder mdash is a place any less of a hometown because you choose it or is it based primarily on the happenstance of your birth it seems that therersquos room for both paths to calling this wonderful valley home

itrsquos also our strength because collectively as a community we bring both deep familial and cultural traditions as well as the fresh perspective of newcomers to our area irsquom glad mdash after decades of searching mdash that i finally found my hometown a place that feels just right

diane reed can be reached at ladybookearthlinknet Between columns and when the spirit moves her she blogs at wwwponderingsbydianereedblogspotcom from her home overlooking the pond at lions Park in College Place

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Maymay 1The annual Kennel Club Dog Show Walla Walla County Fairgrounds De-tails 509-558-3854

The Walla Walla University Drama Department pres-ents a performance of ldquoMy Fair ladyrdquo 2 pm matinee Details 509-527-2656

The Walla Walla Choral Society presents ldquoJubilate Deordquo 3 pm May 1 Walla Walla University Church College Place Details 509-386-2445

The Walla Walla Valley Farmers Market opens local produce artisans and an outdoor concert 9 am-1 pm Saturdays and Sundays through Oct 30 Crawford Park Fourth ave and Main St Details gowallawallafarmersmar-ketcom or 509-520-3647

through may 22Enjoy the annual Senior art Thesis Exhibition Sheehan Gallery Whitman College Details 509-527-5249

through JuLy 31The Tamaacutestslikt Cultural In-stitute hosts the traveling OMSI exhibit ldquoamazing Feats of agingrdquo explor-ing the mysteries of why animals and humans age Details 541-966-9748

may 4The YWCa leadership luncheon ldquoMatters that Matterrdquo is informational and inspirational with guest speakers Kristine Van Raden and Molly Da-vis Noon Marcus Whit-man Hotel Details 509-525-2570

Walla Walla Wine Works hosts music on Wednes-days downtown Details 509-522-1261

may 5First Thursday Concert at St Pauls Episcopal Church 323 Catherine Street Walla Walla 1215-1250 pm will feature the Steel Drum Band from Walla Walla Uni-versity directed by Brandon Beck Details 529-1083

The Whitman College Visit-ing Writers Reading series presents Whitman Reading 7 pm Kimball Theatre De-tails whitmanedu

may 5-7 12-14Walla Walla High School Drama Department pres-ents ldquoFiddler on the Roofrdquo musical version 7 pm and 2 pm matinee on Saturdays May 7 and 14 Walla Walla High School Performing arts audito-rium Details Tickets can be reserved by calling 509-526-8613 the Wa-Hi box office

may 5-8 19-21a performance of ldquoThe 25th a nnua l Putnam County Spelling Beerdquo 8 pm Harper Joy Theatre Whitman College Details 509-527-5180

may 6-7Music on the weekends at the Backstage Bistro De-tails 509-526-0690

Sapolil Cellars hosts music on Friday and Saturday De-tails 509-520-5258

The Wildfire hosts music every Friday and Saturday Wildhorse Resort amp Casino Pendleton Details 800-654-9453

may 6-8Walla Walla Valley Winer-ies offer an opportunity to taste their new creations during Spring Release Weekend area wineries introduce new wines and winemakers share their creative inspiration Details 509-526-3117

may 6artWalK First Fridays May through December Visit galleries and chat with art-ists 5-8 pm Downtown Walla Walla Visit artwalk-wallawallacom

may 6-8 13-14The little Theatre presents ldquoalice In Wonderlandrdquo adapted from lewis Carroll 8 pm Friday-Saturday 2 pm Sunday little Theatre of Walla Walla Details 509-529-3683

may 7The annual Junior Horse Show brings great riding action to Milton-Freewater Pioneer Posse Grounds Details 541-938-3379

Daytonrsquos annual Street Sale turns a section of Third Street into a giant yard sale benefits churches and com-munity projects Dayton Details 509-382-4825

artist reception and dem-onstration Washington art-ist Dwight Duke exhibits his painting bronze sculptures and gunpowder light pan-els 6-730 pm Reininger Winery Details 509-522-1994

may 8Every Sunday the living History actors portray in-dividuals from the arearsquos past 2 pm Fort Walla Walla Museum Details 509-525-7703

may 13-15The annual Balloon Stam-pede brings as many as 50 hot-air balloons to the Walla Walla County Fairgrounds This colorful festival re-mains a Valley tradition Ear-ly morning flights (weather permitting) arts amp crafts antique autos commercial booths live entertainment and food Balloons light up to music at the Saturday evening Nite Glow Details 509-525-0850

may 14annual adult event cele-brates the characters who populated Pendletonrsquos past Must have reservations Pendleton Underground Tours Details 800-226-6398

may 14-15 may 27-29Walla Walla Drag Strip con-tinues the weekend fun Details wwdragstripcom or 509-200-6287

may 15Walla Walla University Chamber Series featuring Robyn McCabe 730 pm MKW Fine arts auditorium Details 509-527-2571

may 18To celebrate the opening of Walla Wallarsquos Power House Theatre and a four-day run of Seattle Shakespeare Companyrsquos ldquoThe Merry Wives of WindsorrdquoWalla Walla lifestyles will pres-ent a gala event This exclusive evening will en-chant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fash-ion from 530-9 pm at the Power House Theatre Sixth amp Rose Walla Walla To purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewalla-wallacom

may 19-21During Pendletonrsquos Cattle Baron Weekend enjoy an art exhibit by a talented group of women artists ldquoIn the Company of Cowgirlsrdquo Hamleyrsquos Steakhouse Pendleton Visit inthecom-panyofcowgirlscom or call 541-676-5013

may 19-22Whitman College 50th Reunion class of 1961 Whitman College Details 509-527-5952

Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merr y Wives of Windsorrdquo Pow-erhouse Theater Details 509-742-0739

may 21The annual Ducky Derby is a day of family fun all for a good cause Watch the ducks race down Mill Creek to help fund the Exchange Clubrsquos efforts at preventing child abuse and neglect 1130 am-330 pm Race at about 2 pm Walla Walla Community College De-tails 509-527-4300

Walla Walla University Spring Choral Concert 5 pm Walla Walla Univer-sity Church Details 509-527-2571

learn to contra dance an old-fashioned coun-try dance Music by the Wednesday Night Band 7 pm teaching and practice 730 pm regular dance Unity Church of Peace 810

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may 22The Whitman College graduating class of 2011 accepts the challenge 11 am Memorial lawn Whitman College Details 509-527-5156

may 26 27 28 29Walla Walla Community College Theatre arts De-partment presents ldquoZoot Suitrdquo by luis Valdez 7 pm each night and Sunday 2 pm matinee W WCC Performing arts Center Details 509-527-4575

may 27-30 Dayton Days has been a Memorial Weekend tradi-tion in Dayton for nearly 100 years Highlights include a Saturday-morning parade on historic Main Street rodeo tour of Dayton and Memorial Day Fun Run De-tails 509-382-4825 or visit historicdaytoncom

may 28-30The Touchet River Roundup mdash the annual Celebration of Sobriety at the fairgrounds focuses on family fun ac-tivities Waitsburg Details 509-526-3602

may 29annual Onion Man Tria-thalon 9 am Bennington lake Details wwmulti-sportscom or call 509-529-9187

may 30Waitsburgrsquos annual Memo-rial Day celebration hosted by veterans for all veterans Details 509-337-6546

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This sculptural cornucopia marks the spot where all of Walla Walla meets the producers and wersquore not talking about the Zero Mostel and Gene Wild-er musical For you GPS fans latitude 4606678 N longitude 11834197 W

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pair of golf shoes but that was itldquoWe bought all of our own gear mdash

clubs bags rain gear everything itrsquos a whole different ball game today They have everythingrdquo

At the end of his sophomore year at Oregon Mundle had it in his mind to ldquotest my golf on the PGA Tourrdquo he said But his father an English professor at the university discouraged him

ldquoHe said lsquoGet your education first then you can do whatever you wantrsquordquo Mundle said ldquoit was just as well i saved a lot of wear and tear mdash and money i was an Ok player but not of that caliberrdquo

Mundle still has fond memories of his collegiate playing career however

ldquoi played three years for the university mdash you werenrsquot allowed to play as freshmen mdash and Oregon always had fine golf teamsrdquo Mundle said ldquoit was mostly match

play then and i was there during the time that the school went seven straight years without losing a (team) dual matchrdquo

During his senior year Mundle qualified for the NCAA Championships in Houston From a field of about 160 players Mundle made it as far as the quarterfinal round

He graduated in 1954 with a degree in history which he said he never really used

ldquoMy dad was in the top one percent of his class at St Andrewsrdquo Mundle said ldquoMy mother was also in the top part of her class and my older brother Pete was in the top of his class And then i came alongrdquo

His first golf job was as an assistant pro at his home course the Laurelwood Golf Course a position he accepted shortly after graduating from UO This was when and where the infamous first golf lesson

occurredA two-year stint in the US Army took

Mundle away from his profession in 1955-56 But he managed to keep his golf game sharp as a member of the Fort knox golf team and in 1956 he was the runner-up in the Second Army tournament and he placed 13th in the All-Army tournament

Then it was back to the Willamette valley where he came into his own in the Portland area under head professionals Eddie Hogan at riverside Country Club and Bunny Mason at Columbia Edgewater

ldquoThose two people were very influential in my professional liferdquo Mundle said

ldquoEddie was a very fine teacher of the total golf operation and service was No 1 i learned how to run the pro shop how

Jake Hanson takes a few pointers on chipping from his instructor and mentor Al Mundle

Continued on pg 20 gt

20 Walla Walla LifestyLes

people ltcontinued from pg 19

to market and merchandise mdash everything from how to run the club service program to the electric cart program to basically running the golf course

ldquoBunny was also a very fine operator of a golf shop and i also learned a lot about teaching from Bunny Sometimes you go along in life and there are certain mentors who help you along the way Anybody who says they made it by themselves is not being honest with themselves We have all had someone who has given us a little boost along the wayrdquo

Mundle took his first head professional job in 1965 at Overlake Golf and Country Club in Bellevue where he remained until 1981 At that point he returned to Eugene and was the head pro at the Eugene Country Club for three years followed by a six-year stint at the Bear Creek Country Club in Seattle

He also spent a short time at a golf course in Cottage Grove Ore before moving back to Eugene for a third time in 1993 to become the director of golf instruction at the river ridge Golf Course He remained at river ridge until his retirement last summer During his time there he helped out as the swing coach at UO under then-head coach Steve Nosler

Through it all Mundle served as president of the Washington PGA and the Pacific Northwest PGA and was a member of several National PGA committees As a player he participated in the Oregon Washington and Pacific Northwest opens as well as the Washington and Oregon PGA events One of his highlights was winning the Oregon Senior PGA Match-Play Championships in Bend in 1993

ldquoi felt i had an obligation to participaterdquo Mundle said ldquoi played a lot of golf including many many pro-ams and i won a couple of assistant championshipsrdquo

in addition to Crane Mundle also helped shape the careers of Jeff Quinney and Eric Johnson both of whom are from the Eugene area

Quinney won the United States Amateur championship in 2000 and represented the US in the Walker Cup in 2001 He has appeared in 128 PGA Tour events since 2007 placing second twice and third twice

Johnson played several years on the Asian Tour and one on the Nationwide Tour He is now a head professional at a

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course in San rafael CalifldquoAnd there have been some others mdash

Brian Henninger Mike Gove a few others mdash who have called and wanted to discus their swingrdquo Mundle said ldquoNothing on a regular basis just one or two sessionsrdquo

is Hanson his next mdash and perhaps his last mdash prodigy

Thatrsquos a tricky question since Hanson came to golf late after a budding baseball career was derailed by a shoulder injury He was a first-team all-Big Nine Conference golf selection as a junior but has yet to qualify for state and his summer resume is thin because of his baseball background

Hansonrsquos original plan was to attend Walla Walla Community College and play golf for the Warriors with the hope of earning an NCAA Division i scholarship But he has since decided to enroll in Arizona State Universityrsquos Professional Golf Management program and try out for the ASU golf team as a walk on

ldquoMore than anything i think it came down to him evaluating his goalsrdquo said Jakersquos father Gary Hanson ldquoitrsquos everyonersquos dream to play on the PGA Tour but realistically he wants to be a golf pro and teach He loves

the gamerdquoAnd a degree in the PGM program

will provide Jake with the educational background he needs to be successful in any form of business his father added

Though his chances of making the ASU varsity team seem unlikely the PGM program provides a club golf team that participates in a series of tournaments throughout the year and gives Hanson a second playing option

And keeping your options open is optimum at this point Mundle said

ldquoi think his driving force at this time mdash and also his folks mdash is to get his education And then he can do whatever he wants if he doesnrsquot go into (the golfing business) immediately he will always have it as a backuprdquo

Sounds an awful lot like the advice Thomas Mundle offered his son back in the spring of 1952 when Al Mundle wanted to leave school after his sophomore year and test his wings on the PGA Tour And as we now know all these years later staying in school worked out pretty well for Al

Jim Buchan is a sports writer for the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin He can be reached at jimbuchanwwubcom

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Join us for a night of wonder with elizabethan-inspired food fashion and merriment to celebrate the opening of walla wallarsquos power house theatre and prepare for a four-day run of seattle shakespeare companyrsquos ldquothe merry wives of windsorrdquo

walla walla lifestyles will present a fashion show with wicked and wistful gowns twisted braided hair and smoldering makeup designs designers include red eden designs autumnlin design and others

semi-formal attire creative masks encouraged this exclusive evening will enchant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fashion

to purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewallawallacom

530 - 9 pm May 18 2011

The Power H o use The at reS i x t h amp R o se Wa l l a Wa l l a

T H E A T R EPOWER HOUSE

My director Terry Edward Moore told me his only direction from the artistic director was that it be ldquoperiodrdquo that is to say authentic to the time

ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo is the only one of Shakespearersquos plays that is set in his own time so it was decided to present it as if the actors were people of the time doing what would be a contemporary (to the late 16th century) play

i started to research the clothing of the time how it was constructed and what kinds of fabrics were available at the time mdash linens homespuns woolens for the common people and silks damasks velvets and furs for the upper classes i discovered that Elizabethan society was strictly regulated in terms of social classes and upward mobility was a little-known concept Once a yeoman always a yeoman i also discovered the set of rules and regulations called ldquosumptuary lawsrdquo which specifically dictated what types of fabrics trims furs and even what colors each class was allowed to wear

Since there are three distinct classes represented in ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo mdash merchant class soldiers and servants mdash i tried to give each class its own color palette based on these laws The overall palette of the show is based on colors actually in use at the time

The availability of dyes was limited (except for the nobility) so the palette consists of many shades of yellows and browns russets black some greens and blue-grays and of course wheat-colored unbleached linen i turned to the Dutch painter Brueghel for inspiration on how the common people looked and dressed

i also researched what kinds of dyes were used and where they came from Dyes were created from all sorts of different things such as walnut shell crushed beetles and all kinds of roots i found a website that sells these authentic dyestuffs so irsquom using the real thing to dye some of the linen pieces and will coordinate the contemporary fabrics to these authentic colors

Nearly every piece will need something done to it mdash altered in some way to fit the actor re-trimmed rigged invisibly for quick changes etc mdash so there is a lot of labor involved Also hats were a hugely important part of Elizabethan fashion all the way down to the poorest serf

Certain styles of hats were often associated with certain professions mdash eg doctors scholars mdash so there are a number of hats to build as well as headpieces for the women No self-respecting woman went about with her head uncovered

Putting together a show like this is like putting together a giant jigsaw puzzle and the pieces are the costumes that irsquove borrowed and rented from other theater companies in the Seattle area such as Seattle repertory Seattle Opera and the University of Washington as well as pieces from Oregon Shakespeare Festival i design the show and then go out into the world and try to find pieces that approximate my designs and palette as closely as possible (usually with some reworking first) The pieces that i cant find and dont want to compromise on i build from scratch

deane middLeton is a theatre costume professional who works in the Seattle area She has done costumes for Issaquahrsquos Village Theater as well as several productions of the Seattle Shakespeare Company

ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 29

ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo was the only one of Shakespearersquos works set in his own time the 1600s and features Sir John Falstaff It also deals primarily with english middle-class life A hilarious bawdy comedy filled with insight into the life and times of Shakespeare ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo will delight people of all ages

About the play

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But thatrsquos exactly what longtime Walla Walla resident Larry Adams did for four years He was one of a select group of pilots for Marine One the helicopter counterpart of the presidential airplane Air Force One from 1970 to 1974

30 Walla Walla LifestyLes

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 31

Long before Adams became the Walla Walla Airport manager he was transporting heads of state foreign dignitaries famous (and now infamous) Cabinet members the executive staff and President richard M Nixon during one of the nationrsquos most turbulent times the withdrawal from vietnam and the Watergate scandal

But to Adams a native of Northern idaho all that swirled around the Nixon presidency was the least of his concerns His job was to transport the president safely to Andrews Air Force Base or Camp David or fly any short flight required Safety always at a premium End of story

Many times Adams ferried President Nixon and his staff on short flights far away from home Air Force One might fly President Nixon to a summit or a meeting with a foreign head of state but Marine One and Adams were always nearby to shuttle the chief executive on short flights or to whisk him away from sudden danger

Pretty heady stuff for a fourth-grade teacher who had never thought about flying until a Marine recruiter offered him the opportunity Although Adams had watched planes take off and land at a nearby air base as a child he had never given serious thought to flying it was more a need for a bigger paycheck than passion that brought Adams to his destiny

He liked teaching but it just wasnrsquot paying the bills So Adams turned to the military and the Gi Bill After being unimpressed by other recruiters Adams took a liking to the fellow from the Marines for as Adams recalls the recruiter took an interest in him After about an hour of talking the recruiter suggested Adams might have the potential to be a pilot

Having easily passed some preliminary tests Adams was sent to flight school in Pensacola Fla and a stellar career was ready to take off He performed well in all the aircraft he piloted but he showed a special skill for helicopters

Up until 1965 fixed-wing airplanes were the staple of all military air combat But the military had been gearing up for a big change The helicopter was to become a major part of combat The Pentagon had been developing helicopters that would do much more than transport troops to bases Now they would assist in bombing

raids ground attacks and the evacuation of the injured from the point of combat This new breed of helicopters would also possess the ability to fight back and not be lame ducks as before the new H34 would tote machine guns on each side

These cutting-edge aircraft would travel at unprecedented speeds with newly discovered agility Gifted pilots were needed not those who merely possessed superior technical skills but those who also had the composure to fly straight into

enemy fire in the dead of night picking up injured soldiers or aiding air attacks

Adams was one of those pilots and he would be one of two squadron leaders for ldquoOperation Starliterdquo mdash the first major assault using helicopters The Marines were going straight into a North vietnamese regimental stronghold No one knew what to expect

ldquoWe lost a lot that first time inrdquo says Adams ldquoTwo crew chiefs were killed

Continued on pg 32 gt

In this newspaper clipping Larry Adams poses on the steps of the helicopter dubbed Marine One which he piloted for President Richard M Nixon

32 Walla Walla LifestyLes

people ltcontinued from pg 31

four pilots were medevaced out because of their wounds i donrsquot think there was one helicopter that didnrsquot have a bunch of holes in it The one i flew in we got a lot of rounds in it Amazingly no one was hurt but when we got back the helicopter was so shot-up you couldnrsquot fly it anymore We lost 50 percent of our helicopters that dayrdquo

in the next 13 months Adams would fly many more missions often heading straight into anti-aircraft fire to pick up injured or killed soldiers He says he would see the flares signifying where the copter was supposed to land but frequently hersquod have to veer off because ground communication would say ldquoThe artillery is too hotrdquo Then there would be a window maybe two minutes maybe five when the helicopter could drop in and pick up the injured often being shot at as it waited for its passengers

Adams knew the best way to survive was to keep his focus ldquoin the daylight when you start your run in and yoursquore getting shot at Everything went to black and white for me i didnrsquot notice the green trees or the green rice paddies until we got out of there and then it would come back

to me i donrsquot know what that was i just didnrsquot see the colors irsquove talked to some other pilots and they described the same thingrdquo

in his two tours of duty in vietnam Adams would fly 880 combat missions in several types of helicopters and fixed-wing airplanes He received numerous medals including two Navy commendations for performance under combat conditions

Then the call came to fly for the president Before Adams could tote the commander in chief around in Marine One a thorough background check had to be done So thorough was the check that Adams said a friend from his hometown sent him a card that read ldquoAre you in some kind of trouble Jesus therersquos been a bunch of people around here with the dark grey suits and the skinny little ties Theyrsquore asking all these embarrassing questions about you like did you have drinking problem Did you have a gambling problem Do you know what Larryrsquos sexual preference wasrdquo

Adams chuckles ldquoit was pretty funnyrdquoAdams passed the grade and soon

he was flying President Nixon and his family to Camp David or picking up vice

President Spiro Agnew at the Pentagon or taking Secretary of State Henry kissinger or Secretary of Defense Alexander Haig to a classified meeting Although his flights varied from transporting foreign heads of state to flying members of the press the majority involved the president the vice president kissinger and Haig

The pilots did not speak to their travelers unless spoken to says Adams President Nixon usually looked in and asked them how they were kissinger never spoke Haig was good for a pat on the shoulder now and then but it was Agnew who conversed the most says Adams

Adams remembers ldquoOne time we picked him up at the Pentagon and we had taken off and had hit top altitude He usually would come up and look into the cockpit but this time he patted me on the shoulder and asked lsquoWell howrsquos it going today guysrsquordquo Adams replied ldquoNot bad sir and how about yourselfrdquo

Agnew answered ldquoMan they are really after my assrdquo He was talking about the press Adams says ldquoTwo weeks later he resignedrdquo

Adams recalls that his encounters with Agnew as defying the public perception

Adams far right gives instructions before a mission in Vietnam

Walla Walla LifestyLes 33

that Agnew was arrogant ldquoHe was always one of the nicest guys He was straightforward He looked like he had just stepped off the cover of Gentlemenrsquos Quarterly all the time He was very proper in the way he dressed but he had a sense of humor as wellrdquo

There were other humorous moments Adams recalls a certain reporter from CBS who had been a major thorn in President Nixonrsquos side was late for takeoff from the South Lawn of the White House one morning Just as Marine One was about to leave without him he came running across the lawn hollering and waving his arms The Secret Service agent supervising the flight told Adams to ldquojust gordquo The wind from the propellers whipped the reporterrsquos toupee right off his head and instead of continuing his run toward Marine One he reversed his field and tried feverishly to retrieve his toupee snagged in the hedges

ldquoEveryone got a pretty good chuckle out of thatrdquo

Of course there were somber times At one point Adams flew Cabinet members John Ehrlichman and Hr Haldeman to Camp David for a meeting with the president After only 15 minutes the two men returned and Marine One headed home Adams says it was a quiet flight He found out later the two men had been fired by President Nixon for their parts in the Watergate scandal

Whisking the president away from danger was a major part of being a pilot of Marine One Stationed across the river from the Capitol pilots awakened by an emergency alert had to be up in the air in five minutes This exercise was practiced often though never needed during Adamsrsquo tenure

One night however they thought it was The operator at the White House mistakenly hit the ldquoAlertrdquo button Marine One was in the air in five minutes

Although ground control had not spotted any enemy aircraft the operation was under way As Marine One closed in on the White House the operator at fault tried to alert everyone of his mistake but unfortunately used a poor choice of words to call off the operation

Adams chuckles as he says ldquoThe fella said lsquoThis is not an exercisersquo He was moved to another post i thinkrdquo

All levity aside the position required

the same kind of focus demanded of Adams in vietnam though it came in a different form

ldquoThere were three things the way you operated the aircraft and they were in this order safety comfort and speed Safety never gave in to comfort or speedrdquo says Adams ldquoOur job was just concentrating on doing our job it could have been anybody mdash we would do it the same way it could have been Fred Flintstone

ldquoThe difference between flying for the White House and in vietnam was we were flying a premier aircraft We had to keep it impeccably clean everything was scripted We had to have the lsquoopen-the-door timersquo down to two to four seconds in vietnam it was the stress of performing medevacs under fire or dropping troops under heavy artillery For Marine One it was the stress of doing the job rightrdquo

Also the stress of being away from onersquos family 200 days of the year wore on a Marine One pilot in 1974 after four years on the job the toll became too much and Adams stepped down

He would stay with the Marines for eight more years retiring in August 1982

By then he had received 44 Air Medals including the Joint Service Commendation and the Presidential Service Badge in his 20 years of service Adams flew seven different helicopters and five different fixed-wing planes

What makes an elite military pilot ldquoPilots who donrsquot have any misgivingsrdquo says Adams ldquoTheyrsquore totally prepared they know their aircraftrdquo

When talking about his colleagues on Marine One he adds ldquoNone were boasters They might brag about a great landing but they did not brag in spite of someone elserdquo

What did Adams love most about his flying days ldquoi enjoyed flying with the latest technology and the pristine quality of Marine One i loved the process of building my skills i could have flown another 40 years and i would still be learning thingsrdquo

is it any surprise his favorite hobby now is fly fishing

andrew hoLt writes about food people and all things Walla Walla for Walla Walla lifestyles magazine He can be reached at bruindrew86gmailcom

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it is astonishing in many ways mdash that we are presented with two weeks of top-drawer music performed by top-drawer musi-cians that there are so many ways to encounter the music (many of them free) and that a rural community has provided the incu-

bator for such a cultural undertaking to name but a fewGranted we are not your average rural community having two

colleges a university a symphony a choral society a community band and music in the schools but letrsquos face it wersquore not exactly a cosmopolitan center of culture like New york either The Cham-ber Music Festival mdash and our continued support of it through some tough times mdash puts us in a category all our own

ldquoi saw what was special about this community the first time i visited in 2007rdquo Artistic Director Timothy Christie says ldquoi have

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A young artistic composer pays close attention as Tim Christie uses his violin to interpret the boys piece of artwork into music on June 11 2009 Meanwhile other children work on their works of art in preparation for the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival quintets interpretations

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worked hard to start this event and to my great joy it has taken on an iden-tity of its own i hire the musicians and choose the music but the town its people and its environs make the festivalrdquo

The beauty of chamber music is its intimacy mdash smaller ensembles performing for smaller audiences it has been referred to as ldquothe music of friendsrdquo which seems so apt at this festival Free open rehearsals are held around town that provide not only a musical atmosphere in which to enjoy a latte or the ambiance of the kirkman House but which give a richer look into the machinations of a working ensemble

As one enthusiastic fan puts it ldquoi am not a musician and itrsquos fascinat-ing to watch these rehearsals to see the interactions of the musicians as they work out the snags make wry remarks and relate to each other in a whole different way than during a for-mal performance i get a glimpse into their personalities and what makes them tickrdquo

The festival supplies a generous of-fering of venues with free concerts for children and families relaxed evening programs at wineries and full concerts at the Foundry Chism Hall and Day-tonrsquos Liberty Theater

if you are lucky enough to live near the musiciansrsquo lodgings while they are in town you may also be treated to an ad hoc front-porch concert as the ensembles continue their rehearsals in more private settings The festival is about all of these ways mdash planned and accidental mdash to experience the enchantment of chamber music

it is also about historic continuity and the connection between past and present mdash relishing the existing canon while expanding the genre with con-temporary forms and voices

How is this accomplished in part by the annual commission of a new piece of music for the festival Chris-tie is committed to contributing to the broader chamber music repertoire and to providing the audience with the richest possible experience

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ldquoFor classical music to be relevant there must be a conversation between the music of our time and the music of the pastrdquo he says

By commissioning a work for the festi-val each year Christie creates such a con-versation

This year the commission was given to John David Earnest Four festival commis-sions have preceded his and he is the sec-ond ldquolocalrdquo composer to be tapped add-ing another layer of relationship between community and event (in 2009 Whitman College professor David Glenn was given the nod)

As visiting adjunct professor of music at Whitman Earnest resides here for six weeks every semester His ldquoSecond Sym-phonyrdquo was written for and performed by the Walla Walla Symphony in October 2001

The challenge for the yearly commis-sionee is to compose a piece on demand within specific constraints of time place and instrumentation while expressing hisher own voice as an artist

Earnest has created ldquoCommedia Gal-leryrdquo a set of three movements for flute

viola and harp based on stock characters from the Commedia dellrsquoArte a popu-lar theatrical form that was influential in Europe for over 300 years Commedia characters improvised dialogue around set scenarios generally involving the struggles of young lovers to overcome hindrances to their romance and each character even-tually came to have a consistent set of at-tributes in speech mannerisms and cos-tume

Earnestrsquos ldquoGalleryrdquo gives us Arlecchi-no (Harlequin) an acrobatic and devious jester Pierrot the classic sad clown and finally Scaramouche a dandy and a brag-gart who is a coward at heart

in anticipation of this yearrsquos festival i am reminded of the scene in ldquoThe Music Manrdquo in which the town awaits the ar-rival of the Wells Fargo Wagon Potentially heaped with gifts and surprises it prom-ises connection to the larger world The WWCMF brings us all ldquosomethinrsquo specialrdquo mdash an enrichment of our community and our culture

margaret Jamison is an artist and writer living in Walla Walla Contact her at artjamisongmailcom

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Smith has gardened for years at his home at 38 Mulberry Court in College Place He used to grow vegetables and flowers now he is strictly focusing on flowers mdash with fabulous results roses delphiniums and lots of irises line the fence

ldquoirises mdash irsquove always enjoyed themrdquo he says ldquoThey take a little bit of weeding and watering but not much morerdquo itrsquos the gardenerrsquos dream mdash low maintenance with a big return

A retired orthopedic surgeon Smith has in the past gardened more extensively than he does now But he has enough plants to keep him busy His new project is planting more of the reblooming iris These are still hardy but you get twice the reward they bloom in the spring then again in the fall

ldquoTheyrsquore easy to grow and spectacular for a short time iris take less care than a lot of thingsrdquo Smith says

His secret for gardening is simple and therersquos no getting around it ldquoTime and workrdquo he laughs

Hersquos getting ready to start in the garden ldquoi need to clean out the leaves and the old foliage of the irisrdquo

in addition to the basic cleaning and maintenance Smith just decides how many plants to keep Bulb flowers are hardy and they multiply on their own

ldquoAfter five years you usually have to separate the bulbs when they get too thick i donrsquot have room to add more i put in the new re-blooming onesrdquo he explains ldquoi may add more and a few other thingsrdquo

But in a garden you can always try something new or rearrange existing plants often with a spectacular outcome

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itrsquos an odd location since it can only be seen as yoursquore leaving town but it always makes me smile This valley my adopted home is indeed a great place to be

i recently finished reading the great Western writer Wallace Stegnerrsquos book ldquoThe Sound of Mountain Waterrdquo One of his essays traces his nomadic childhood which left him feeling rootless and without a place that he felt he could call home

i identify with his feeling of not belonging i was born to a single woman from Massachusetts in a New york City hospital i stayed a scant few days before being placed with an adoption agency Born in a place i had no familial connection to i was immediately deprived of my biological family Most of my childhood was spent in suburban Cleveland Ohio Moves to upstate New york New England and Pennsylvania brought me no closer to calling any place home i loved living in the western Massachusetts town of Stockbridge but the multigenerational denizens of the town left few openings for newcomers like me i lived in central Pennsylvania for several decades but felt detached from the deep roots that most people had in the area

When we came west (for my husband a homecoming to his Oregon roots for me a new experience) i noticed that even in long-established towns like Walla Walla there is ample room for newcomers who want to be

part of the community And most folks who choose to come here donrsquot seem to want to change the valley they prefer to embrace it

While the occasional newbie whines about the lack of Whole Foods or Nordstrom they soon discover our farmers markets the wide variety of local shops and boutiques and our world-class restaurants They fall in love with our charming downtowns the small-town friendliness of the people and our kid-friendly environment Then therersquos the holiday parade the fair the ever-present Blue Mountains the parks the museums the wineries mdash really whatrsquos not to like The communities of our valley represent America at its best

irsquom a newspaper junkie i love to read everything from news to sports to classifieds mdash even the obituaries The obits are a fascinating window on our valley Many of the people chronicled were born here some lived all their lives here inextricably bound to this place But a number of people came here from other places often far away and have made a mark on our area Which makes me wonder mdash is a place any less of a hometown because you choose it or is it based primarily on the happenstance of your birth it seems that therersquos room for both paths to calling this wonderful valley home

itrsquos also our strength because collectively as a community we bring both deep familial and cultural traditions as well as the fresh perspective of newcomers to our area irsquom glad mdash after decades of searching mdash that i finally found my hometown a place that feels just right

diane reed can be reached at ladybookearthlinknet Between columns and when the spirit moves her she blogs at wwwponderingsbydianereedblogspotcom from her home overlooking the pond at lions Park in College Place

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Maymay 1The annual Kennel Club Dog Show Walla Walla County Fairgrounds De-tails 509-558-3854

The Walla Walla University Drama Department pres-ents a performance of ldquoMy Fair ladyrdquo 2 pm matinee Details 509-527-2656

The Walla Walla Choral Society presents ldquoJubilate Deordquo 3 pm May 1 Walla Walla University Church College Place Details 509-386-2445

The Walla Walla Valley Farmers Market opens local produce artisans and an outdoor concert 9 am-1 pm Saturdays and Sundays through Oct 30 Crawford Park Fourth ave and Main St Details gowallawallafarmersmar-ketcom or 509-520-3647

through may 22Enjoy the annual Senior art Thesis Exhibition Sheehan Gallery Whitman College Details 509-527-5249

through JuLy 31The Tamaacutestslikt Cultural In-stitute hosts the traveling OMSI exhibit ldquoamazing Feats of agingrdquo explor-ing the mysteries of why animals and humans age Details 541-966-9748

may 4The YWCa leadership luncheon ldquoMatters that Matterrdquo is informational and inspirational with guest speakers Kristine Van Raden and Molly Da-vis Noon Marcus Whit-man Hotel Details 509-525-2570

Walla Walla Wine Works hosts music on Wednes-days downtown Details 509-522-1261

may 5First Thursday Concert at St Pauls Episcopal Church 323 Catherine Street Walla Walla 1215-1250 pm will feature the Steel Drum Band from Walla Walla Uni-versity directed by Brandon Beck Details 529-1083

The Whitman College Visit-ing Writers Reading series presents Whitman Reading 7 pm Kimball Theatre De-tails whitmanedu

may 5-7 12-14Walla Walla High School Drama Department pres-ents ldquoFiddler on the Roofrdquo musical version 7 pm and 2 pm matinee on Saturdays May 7 and 14 Walla Walla High School Performing arts audito-rium Details Tickets can be reserved by calling 509-526-8613 the Wa-Hi box office

may 5-8 19-21a performance of ldquoThe 25th a nnua l Putnam County Spelling Beerdquo 8 pm Harper Joy Theatre Whitman College Details 509-527-5180

may 6-7Music on the weekends at the Backstage Bistro De-tails 509-526-0690

Sapolil Cellars hosts music on Friday and Saturday De-tails 509-520-5258

The Wildfire hosts music every Friday and Saturday Wildhorse Resort amp Casino Pendleton Details 800-654-9453

may 6-8Walla Walla Valley Winer-ies offer an opportunity to taste their new creations during Spring Release Weekend area wineries introduce new wines and winemakers share their creative inspiration Details 509-526-3117

may 6artWalK First Fridays May through December Visit galleries and chat with art-ists 5-8 pm Downtown Walla Walla Visit artwalk-wallawallacom

may 6-8 13-14The little Theatre presents ldquoalice In Wonderlandrdquo adapted from lewis Carroll 8 pm Friday-Saturday 2 pm Sunday little Theatre of Walla Walla Details 509-529-3683

may 7The annual Junior Horse Show brings great riding action to Milton-Freewater Pioneer Posse Grounds Details 541-938-3379

Daytonrsquos annual Street Sale turns a section of Third Street into a giant yard sale benefits churches and com-munity projects Dayton Details 509-382-4825

artist reception and dem-onstration Washington art-ist Dwight Duke exhibits his painting bronze sculptures and gunpowder light pan-els 6-730 pm Reininger Winery Details 509-522-1994

may 8Every Sunday the living History actors portray in-dividuals from the arearsquos past 2 pm Fort Walla Walla Museum Details 509-525-7703

may 13-15The annual Balloon Stam-pede brings as many as 50 hot-air balloons to the Walla Walla County Fairgrounds This colorful festival re-mains a Valley tradition Ear-ly morning flights (weather permitting) arts amp crafts antique autos commercial booths live entertainment and food Balloons light up to music at the Saturday evening Nite Glow Details 509-525-0850

may 14annual adult event cele-brates the characters who populated Pendletonrsquos past Must have reservations Pendleton Underground Tours Details 800-226-6398

may 14-15 may 27-29Walla Walla Drag Strip con-tinues the weekend fun Details wwdragstripcom or 509-200-6287

may 15Walla Walla University Chamber Series featuring Robyn McCabe 730 pm MKW Fine arts auditorium Details 509-527-2571

may 18To celebrate the opening of Walla Wallarsquos Power House Theatre and a four-day run of Seattle Shakespeare Companyrsquos ldquoThe Merry Wives of WindsorrdquoWalla Walla lifestyles will pres-ent a gala event This exclusive evening will en-chant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fash-ion from 530-9 pm at the Power House Theatre Sixth amp Rose Walla Walla To purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewalla-wallacom

may 19-21During Pendletonrsquos Cattle Baron Weekend enjoy an art exhibit by a talented group of women artists ldquoIn the Company of Cowgirlsrdquo Hamleyrsquos Steakhouse Pendleton Visit inthecom-panyofcowgirlscom or call 541-676-5013

may 19-22Whitman College 50th Reunion class of 1961 Whitman College Details 509-527-5952

Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merr y Wives of Windsorrdquo Pow-erhouse Theater Details 509-742-0739

may 21The annual Ducky Derby is a day of family fun all for a good cause Watch the ducks race down Mill Creek to help fund the Exchange Clubrsquos efforts at preventing child abuse and neglect 1130 am-330 pm Race at about 2 pm Walla Walla Community College De-tails 509-527-4300

Walla Walla University Spring Choral Concert 5 pm Walla Walla Univer-sity Church Details 509-527-2571

learn to contra dance an old-fashioned coun-try dance Music by the Wednesday Night Band 7 pm teaching and practice 730 pm regular dance Unity Church of Peace 810

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may 22The Whitman College graduating class of 2011 accepts the challenge 11 am Memorial lawn Whitman College Details 509-527-5156

may 26 27 28 29Walla Walla Community College Theatre arts De-partment presents ldquoZoot Suitrdquo by luis Valdez 7 pm each night and Sunday 2 pm matinee W WCC Performing arts Center Details 509-527-4575

may 27-30 Dayton Days has been a Memorial Weekend tradi-tion in Dayton for nearly 100 years Highlights include a Saturday-morning parade on historic Main Street rodeo tour of Dayton and Memorial Day Fun Run De-tails 509-382-4825 or visit historicdaytoncom

may 28-30The Touchet River Roundup mdash the annual Celebration of Sobriety at the fairgrounds focuses on family fun ac-tivities Waitsburg Details 509-526-3602

may 29annual Onion Man Tria-thalon 9 am Bennington lake Details wwmulti-sportscom or call 509-529-9187

may 30Waitsburgrsquos annual Memo-rial Day celebration hosted by veterans for all veterans Details 509-337-6546

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The sculpture tops the farmers market gazebo on the corner of Fourth Avenue North and West Main Street

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22 seven hills winery 212 N Third ave (509) 529-7198 wwwsevenhillswinerycom

23 sinclair estate vineyards 109 E Main Ste 100 (509) 876-4300 wwwsinclairestatevineyardscom

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to market and merchandise mdash everything from how to run the club service program to the electric cart program to basically running the golf course

ldquoBunny was also a very fine operator of a golf shop and i also learned a lot about teaching from Bunny Sometimes you go along in life and there are certain mentors who help you along the way Anybody who says they made it by themselves is not being honest with themselves We have all had someone who has given us a little boost along the wayrdquo

Mundle took his first head professional job in 1965 at Overlake Golf and Country Club in Bellevue where he remained until 1981 At that point he returned to Eugene and was the head pro at the Eugene Country Club for three years followed by a six-year stint at the Bear Creek Country Club in Seattle

He also spent a short time at a golf course in Cottage Grove Ore before moving back to Eugene for a third time in 1993 to become the director of golf instruction at the river ridge Golf Course He remained at river ridge until his retirement last summer During his time there he helped out as the swing coach at UO under then-head coach Steve Nosler

Through it all Mundle served as president of the Washington PGA and the Pacific Northwest PGA and was a member of several National PGA committees As a player he participated in the Oregon Washington and Pacific Northwest opens as well as the Washington and Oregon PGA events One of his highlights was winning the Oregon Senior PGA Match-Play Championships in Bend in 1993

ldquoi felt i had an obligation to participaterdquo Mundle said ldquoi played a lot of golf including many many pro-ams and i won a couple of assistant championshipsrdquo

in addition to Crane Mundle also helped shape the careers of Jeff Quinney and Eric Johnson both of whom are from the Eugene area

Quinney won the United States Amateur championship in 2000 and represented the US in the Walker Cup in 2001 He has appeared in 128 PGA Tour events since 2007 placing second twice and third twice

Johnson played several years on the Asian Tour and one on the Nationwide Tour He is now a head professional at a

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course in San rafael CalifldquoAnd there have been some others mdash

Brian Henninger Mike Gove a few others mdash who have called and wanted to discus their swingrdquo Mundle said ldquoNothing on a regular basis just one or two sessionsrdquo

is Hanson his next mdash and perhaps his last mdash prodigy

Thatrsquos a tricky question since Hanson came to golf late after a budding baseball career was derailed by a shoulder injury He was a first-team all-Big Nine Conference golf selection as a junior but has yet to qualify for state and his summer resume is thin because of his baseball background

Hansonrsquos original plan was to attend Walla Walla Community College and play golf for the Warriors with the hope of earning an NCAA Division i scholarship But he has since decided to enroll in Arizona State Universityrsquos Professional Golf Management program and try out for the ASU golf team as a walk on

ldquoMore than anything i think it came down to him evaluating his goalsrdquo said Jakersquos father Gary Hanson ldquoitrsquos everyonersquos dream to play on the PGA Tour but realistically he wants to be a golf pro and teach He loves

the gamerdquoAnd a degree in the PGM program

will provide Jake with the educational background he needs to be successful in any form of business his father added

Though his chances of making the ASU varsity team seem unlikely the PGM program provides a club golf team that participates in a series of tournaments throughout the year and gives Hanson a second playing option

And keeping your options open is optimum at this point Mundle said

ldquoi think his driving force at this time mdash and also his folks mdash is to get his education And then he can do whatever he wants if he doesnrsquot go into (the golfing business) immediately he will always have it as a backuprdquo

Sounds an awful lot like the advice Thomas Mundle offered his son back in the spring of 1952 when Al Mundle wanted to leave school after his sophomore year and test his wings on the PGA Tour And as we now know all these years later staying in school worked out pretty well for Al

Jim Buchan is a sports writer for the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin He can be reached at jimbuchanwwubcom

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Join us for a night of wonder with elizabethan-inspired food fashion and merriment to celebrate the opening of walla wallarsquos power house theatre and prepare for a four-day run of seattle shakespeare companyrsquos ldquothe merry wives of windsorrdquo

walla walla lifestyles will present a fashion show with wicked and wistful gowns twisted braided hair and smoldering makeup designs designers include red eden designs autumnlin design and others

semi-formal attire creative masks encouraged this exclusive evening will enchant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fashion

to purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewallawallacom

530 - 9 pm May 18 2011

The Power H o use The at reS i x t h amp R o se Wa l l a Wa l l a

T H E A T R EPOWER HOUSE

My director Terry Edward Moore told me his only direction from the artistic director was that it be ldquoperiodrdquo that is to say authentic to the time

ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo is the only one of Shakespearersquos plays that is set in his own time so it was decided to present it as if the actors were people of the time doing what would be a contemporary (to the late 16th century) play

i started to research the clothing of the time how it was constructed and what kinds of fabrics were available at the time mdash linens homespuns woolens for the common people and silks damasks velvets and furs for the upper classes i discovered that Elizabethan society was strictly regulated in terms of social classes and upward mobility was a little-known concept Once a yeoman always a yeoman i also discovered the set of rules and regulations called ldquosumptuary lawsrdquo which specifically dictated what types of fabrics trims furs and even what colors each class was allowed to wear

Since there are three distinct classes represented in ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo mdash merchant class soldiers and servants mdash i tried to give each class its own color palette based on these laws The overall palette of the show is based on colors actually in use at the time

The availability of dyes was limited (except for the nobility) so the palette consists of many shades of yellows and browns russets black some greens and blue-grays and of course wheat-colored unbleached linen i turned to the Dutch painter Brueghel for inspiration on how the common people looked and dressed

i also researched what kinds of dyes were used and where they came from Dyes were created from all sorts of different things such as walnut shell crushed beetles and all kinds of roots i found a website that sells these authentic dyestuffs so irsquom using the real thing to dye some of the linen pieces and will coordinate the contemporary fabrics to these authentic colors

Nearly every piece will need something done to it mdash altered in some way to fit the actor re-trimmed rigged invisibly for quick changes etc mdash so there is a lot of labor involved Also hats were a hugely important part of Elizabethan fashion all the way down to the poorest serf

Certain styles of hats were often associated with certain professions mdash eg doctors scholars mdash so there are a number of hats to build as well as headpieces for the women No self-respecting woman went about with her head uncovered

Putting together a show like this is like putting together a giant jigsaw puzzle and the pieces are the costumes that irsquove borrowed and rented from other theater companies in the Seattle area such as Seattle repertory Seattle Opera and the University of Washington as well as pieces from Oregon Shakespeare Festival i design the show and then go out into the world and try to find pieces that approximate my designs and palette as closely as possible (usually with some reworking first) The pieces that i cant find and dont want to compromise on i build from scratch

deane middLeton is a theatre costume professional who works in the Seattle area She has done costumes for Issaquahrsquos Village Theater as well as several productions of the Seattle Shakespeare Company

ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo

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ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo was the only one of Shakespearersquos works set in his own time the 1600s and features Sir John Falstaff It also deals primarily with english middle-class life A hilarious bawdy comedy filled with insight into the life and times of Shakespeare ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo will delight people of all ages

About the play

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But thatrsquos exactly what longtime Walla Walla resident Larry Adams did for four years He was one of a select group of pilots for Marine One the helicopter counterpart of the presidential airplane Air Force One from 1970 to 1974

30 Walla Walla LifestyLes

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 31

Long before Adams became the Walla Walla Airport manager he was transporting heads of state foreign dignitaries famous (and now infamous) Cabinet members the executive staff and President richard M Nixon during one of the nationrsquos most turbulent times the withdrawal from vietnam and the Watergate scandal

But to Adams a native of Northern idaho all that swirled around the Nixon presidency was the least of his concerns His job was to transport the president safely to Andrews Air Force Base or Camp David or fly any short flight required Safety always at a premium End of story

Many times Adams ferried President Nixon and his staff on short flights far away from home Air Force One might fly President Nixon to a summit or a meeting with a foreign head of state but Marine One and Adams were always nearby to shuttle the chief executive on short flights or to whisk him away from sudden danger

Pretty heady stuff for a fourth-grade teacher who had never thought about flying until a Marine recruiter offered him the opportunity Although Adams had watched planes take off and land at a nearby air base as a child he had never given serious thought to flying it was more a need for a bigger paycheck than passion that brought Adams to his destiny

He liked teaching but it just wasnrsquot paying the bills So Adams turned to the military and the Gi Bill After being unimpressed by other recruiters Adams took a liking to the fellow from the Marines for as Adams recalls the recruiter took an interest in him After about an hour of talking the recruiter suggested Adams might have the potential to be a pilot

Having easily passed some preliminary tests Adams was sent to flight school in Pensacola Fla and a stellar career was ready to take off He performed well in all the aircraft he piloted but he showed a special skill for helicopters

Up until 1965 fixed-wing airplanes were the staple of all military air combat But the military had been gearing up for a big change The helicopter was to become a major part of combat The Pentagon had been developing helicopters that would do much more than transport troops to bases Now they would assist in bombing

raids ground attacks and the evacuation of the injured from the point of combat This new breed of helicopters would also possess the ability to fight back and not be lame ducks as before the new H34 would tote machine guns on each side

These cutting-edge aircraft would travel at unprecedented speeds with newly discovered agility Gifted pilots were needed not those who merely possessed superior technical skills but those who also had the composure to fly straight into

enemy fire in the dead of night picking up injured soldiers or aiding air attacks

Adams was one of those pilots and he would be one of two squadron leaders for ldquoOperation Starliterdquo mdash the first major assault using helicopters The Marines were going straight into a North vietnamese regimental stronghold No one knew what to expect

ldquoWe lost a lot that first time inrdquo says Adams ldquoTwo crew chiefs were killed

Continued on pg 32 gt

In this newspaper clipping Larry Adams poses on the steps of the helicopter dubbed Marine One which he piloted for President Richard M Nixon

32 Walla Walla LifestyLes

people ltcontinued from pg 31

four pilots were medevaced out because of their wounds i donrsquot think there was one helicopter that didnrsquot have a bunch of holes in it The one i flew in we got a lot of rounds in it Amazingly no one was hurt but when we got back the helicopter was so shot-up you couldnrsquot fly it anymore We lost 50 percent of our helicopters that dayrdquo

in the next 13 months Adams would fly many more missions often heading straight into anti-aircraft fire to pick up injured or killed soldiers He says he would see the flares signifying where the copter was supposed to land but frequently hersquod have to veer off because ground communication would say ldquoThe artillery is too hotrdquo Then there would be a window maybe two minutes maybe five when the helicopter could drop in and pick up the injured often being shot at as it waited for its passengers

Adams knew the best way to survive was to keep his focus ldquoin the daylight when you start your run in and yoursquore getting shot at Everything went to black and white for me i didnrsquot notice the green trees or the green rice paddies until we got out of there and then it would come back

to me i donrsquot know what that was i just didnrsquot see the colors irsquove talked to some other pilots and they described the same thingrdquo

in his two tours of duty in vietnam Adams would fly 880 combat missions in several types of helicopters and fixed-wing airplanes He received numerous medals including two Navy commendations for performance under combat conditions

Then the call came to fly for the president Before Adams could tote the commander in chief around in Marine One a thorough background check had to be done So thorough was the check that Adams said a friend from his hometown sent him a card that read ldquoAre you in some kind of trouble Jesus therersquos been a bunch of people around here with the dark grey suits and the skinny little ties Theyrsquore asking all these embarrassing questions about you like did you have drinking problem Did you have a gambling problem Do you know what Larryrsquos sexual preference wasrdquo

Adams chuckles ldquoit was pretty funnyrdquoAdams passed the grade and soon

he was flying President Nixon and his family to Camp David or picking up vice

President Spiro Agnew at the Pentagon or taking Secretary of State Henry kissinger or Secretary of Defense Alexander Haig to a classified meeting Although his flights varied from transporting foreign heads of state to flying members of the press the majority involved the president the vice president kissinger and Haig

The pilots did not speak to their travelers unless spoken to says Adams President Nixon usually looked in and asked them how they were kissinger never spoke Haig was good for a pat on the shoulder now and then but it was Agnew who conversed the most says Adams

Adams remembers ldquoOne time we picked him up at the Pentagon and we had taken off and had hit top altitude He usually would come up and look into the cockpit but this time he patted me on the shoulder and asked lsquoWell howrsquos it going today guysrsquordquo Adams replied ldquoNot bad sir and how about yourselfrdquo

Agnew answered ldquoMan they are really after my assrdquo He was talking about the press Adams says ldquoTwo weeks later he resignedrdquo

Adams recalls that his encounters with Agnew as defying the public perception

Adams far right gives instructions before a mission in Vietnam

Walla Walla LifestyLes 33

that Agnew was arrogant ldquoHe was always one of the nicest guys He was straightforward He looked like he had just stepped off the cover of Gentlemenrsquos Quarterly all the time He was very proper in the way he dressed but he had a sense of humor as wellrdquo

There were other humorous moments Adams recalls a certain reporter from CBS who had been a major thorn in President Nixonrsquos side was late for takeoff from the South Lawn of the White House one morning Just as Marine One was about to leave without him he came running across the lawn hollering and waving his arms The Secret Service agent supervising the flight told Adams to ldquojust gordquo The wind from the propellers whipped the reporterrsquos toupee right off his head and instead of continuing his run toward Marine One he reversed his field and tried feverishly to retrieve his toupee snagged in the hedges

ldquoEveryone got a pretty good chuckle out of thatrdquo

Of course there were somber times At one point Adams flew Cabinet members John Ehrlichman and Hr Haldeman to Camp David for a meeting with the president After only 15 minutes the two men returned and Marine One headed home Adams says it was a quiet flight He found out later the two men had been fired by President Nixon for their parts in the Watergate scandal

Whisking the president away from danger was a major part of being a pilot of Marine One Stationed across the river from the Capitol pilots awakened by an emergency alert had to be up in the air in five minutes This exercise was practiced often though never needed during Adamsrsquo tenure

One night however they thought it was The operator at the White House mistakenly hit the ldquoAlertrdquo button Marine One was in the air in five minutes

Although ground control had not spotted any enemy aircraft the operation was under way As Marine One closed in on the White House the operator at fault tried to alert everyone of his mistake but unfortunately used a poor choice of words to call off the operation

Adams chuckles as he says ldquoThe fella said lsquoThis is not an exercisersquo He was moved to another post i thinkrdquo

All levity aside the position required

the same kind of focus demanded of Adams in vietnam though it came in a different form

ldquoThere were three things the way you operated the aircraft and they were in this order safety comfort and speed Safety never gave in to comfort or speedrdquo says Adams ldquoOur job was just concentrating on doing our job it could have been anybody mdash we would do it the same way it could have been Fred Flintstone

ldquoThe difference between flying for the White House and in vietnam was we were flying a premier aircraft We had to keep it impeccably clean everything was scripted We had to have the lsquoopen-the-door timersquo down to two to four seconds in vietnam it was the stress of performing medevacs under fire or dropping troops under heavy artillery For Marine One it was the stress of doing the job rightrdquo

Also the stress of being away from onersquos family 200 days of the year wore on a Marine One pilot in 1974 after four years on the job the toll became too much and Adams stepped down

He would stay with the Marines for eight more years retiring in August 1982

By then he had received 44 Air Medals including the Joint Service Commendation and the Presidential Service Badge in his 20 years of service Adams flew seven different helicopters and five different fixed-wing planes

What makes an elite military pilot ldquoPilots who donrsquot have any misgivingsrdquo says Adams ldquoTheyrsquore totally prepared they know their aircraftrdquo

When talking about his colleagues on Marine One he adds ldquoNone were boasters They might brag about a great landing but they did not brag in spite of someone elserdquo

What did Adams love most about his flying days ldquoi enjoyed flying with the latest technology and the pristine quality of Marine One i loved the process of building my skills i could have flown another 40 years and i would still be learning thingsrdquo

is it any surprise his favorite hobby now is fly fishing

andrew hoLt writes about food people and all things Walla Walla for Walla Walla lifestyles magazine He can be reached at bruindrew86gmailcom

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it is astonishing in many ways mdash that we are presented with two weeks of top-drawer music performed by top-drawer musi-cians that there are so many ways to encounter the music (many of them free) and that a rural community has provided the incu-

bator for such a cultural undertaking to name but a fewGranted we are not your average rural community having two

colleges a university a symphony a choral society a community band and music in the schools but letrsquos face it wersquore not exactly a cosmopolitan center of culture like New york either The Cham-ber Music Festival mdash and our continued support of it through some tough times mdash puts us in a category all our own

ldquoi saw what was special about this community the first time i visited in 2007rdquo Artistic Director Timothy Christie says ldquoi have

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worked hard to start this event and to my great joy it has taken on an iden-tity of its own i hire the musicians and choose the music but the town its people and its environs make the festivalrdquo

The beauty of chamber music is its intimacy mdash smaller ensembles performing for smaller audiences it has been referred to as ldquothe music of friendsrdquo which seems so apt at this festival Free open rehearsals are held around town that provide not only a musical atmosphere in which to enjoy a latte or the ambiance of the kirkman House but which give a richer look into the machinations of a working ensemble

As one enthusiastic fan puts it ldquoi am not a musician and itrsquos fascinat-ing to watch these rehearsals to see the interactions of the musicians as they work out the snags make wry remarks and relate to each other in a whole different way than during a for-mal performance i get a glimpse into their personalities and what makes them tickrdquo

The festival supplies a generous of-fering of venues with free concerts for children and families relaxed evening programs at wineries and full concerts at the Foundry Chism Hall and Day-tonrsquos Liberty Theater

if you are lucky enough to live near the musiciansrsquo lodgings while they are in town you may also be treated to an ad hoc front-porch concert as the ensembles continue their rehearsals in more private settings The festival is about all of these ways mdash planned and accidental mdash to experience the enchantment of chamber music

it is also about historic continuity and the connection between past and present mdash relishing the existing canon while expanding the genre with con-temporary forms and voices

How is this accomplished in part by the annual commission of a new piece of music for the festival Chris-tie is committed to contributing to the broader chamber music repertoire and to providing the audience with the richest possible experience

Continued on pg 36 gt

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ldquoFor classical music to be relevant there must be a conversation between the music of our time and the music of the pastrdquo he says

By commissioning a work for the festi-val each year Christie creates such a con-versation

This year the commission was given to John David Earnest Four festival commis-sions have preceded his and he is the sec-ond ldquolocalrdquo composer to be tapped add-ing another layer of relationship between community and event (in 2009 Whitman College professor David Glenn was given the nod)

As visiting adjunct professor of music at Whitman Earnest resides here for six weeks every semester His ldquoSecond Sym-phonyrdquo was written for and performed by the Walla Walla Symphony in October 2001

The challenge for the yearly commis-sionee is to compose a piece on demand within specific constraints of time place and instrumentation while expressing hisher own voice as an artist

Earnest has created ldquoCommedia Gal-leryrdquo a set of three movements for flute

viola and harp based on stock characters from the Commedia dellrsquoArte a popu-lar theatrical form that was influential in Europe for over 300 years Commedia characters improvised dialogue around set scenarios generally involving the struggles of young lovers to overcome hindrances to their romance and each character even-tually came to have a consistent set of at-tributes in speech mannerisms and cos-tume

Earnestrsquos ldquoGalleryrdquo gives us Arlecchi-no (Harlequin) an acrobatic and devious jester Pierrot the classic sad clown and finally Scaramouche a dandy and a brag-gart who is a coward at heart

in anticipation of this yearrsquos festival i am reminded of the scene in ldquoThe Music Manrdquo in which the town awaits the ar-rival of the Wells Fargo Wagon Potentially heaped with gifts and surprises it prom-ises connection to the larger world The WWCMF brings us all ldquosomethinrsquo specialrdquo mdash an enrichment of our community and our culture

margaret Jamison is an artist and writer living in Walla Walla Contact her at artjamisongmailcom

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Smith has gardened for years at his home at 38 Mulberry Court in College Place He used to grow vegetables and flowers now he is strictly focusing on flowers mdash with fabulous results roses delphiniums and lots of irises line the fence

ldquoirises mdash irsquove always enjoyed themrdquo he says ldquoThey take a little bit of weeding and watering but not much morerdquo itrsquos the gardenerrsquos dream mdash low maintenance with a big return

A retired orthopedic surgeon Smith has in the past gardened more extensively than he does now But he has enough plants to keep him busy His new project is planting more of the reblooming iris These are still hardy but you get twice the reward they bloom in the spring then again in the fall

ldquoTheyrsquore easy to grow and spectacular for a short time iris take less care than a lot of thingsrdquo Smith says

His secret for gardening is simple and therersquos no getting around it ldquoTime and workrdquo he laughs

Hersquos getting ready to start in the garden ldquoi need to clean out the leaves and the old foliage of the irisrdquo

in addition to the basic cleaning and maintenance Smith just decides how many plants to keep Bulb flowers are hardy and they multiply on their own

ldquoAfter five years you usually have to separate the bulbs when they get too thick i donrsquot have room to add more i put in the new re-blooming onesrdquo he explains ldquoi may add more and a few other thingsrdquo

But in a garden you can always try something new or rearrange existing plants often with a spectacular outcome

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itrsquos an odd location since it can only be seen as yoursquore leaving town but it always makes me smile This valley my adopted home is indeed a great place to be

i recently finished reading the great Western writer Wallace Stegnerrsquos book ldquoThe Sound of Mountain Waterrdquo One of his essays traces his nomadic childhood which left him feeling rootless and without a place that he felt he could call home

i identify with his feeling of not belonging i was born to a single woman from Massachusetts in a New york City hospital i stayed a scant few days before being placed with an adoption agency Born in a place i had no familial connection to i was immediately deprived of my biological family Most of my childhood was spent in suburban Cleveland Ohio Moves to upstate New york New England and Pennsylvania brought me no closer to calling any place home i loved living in the western Massachusetts town of Stockbridge but the multigenerational denizens of the town left few openings for newcomers like me i lived in central Pennsylvania for several decades but felt detached from the deep roots that most people had in the area

When we came west (for my husband a homecoming to his Oregon roots for me a new experience) i noticed that even in long-established towns like Walla Walla there is ample room for newcomers who want to be

part of the community And most folks who choose to come here donrsquot seem to want to change the valley they prefer to embrace it

While the occasional newbie whines about the lack of Whole Foods or Nordstrom they soon discover our farmers markets the wide variety of local shops and boutiques and our world-class restaurants They fall in love with our charming downtowns the small-town friendliness of the people and our kid-friendly environment Then therersquos the holiday parade the fair the ever-present Blue Mountains the parks the museums the wineries mdash really whatrsquos not to like The communities of our valley represent America at its best

irsquom a newspaper junkie i love to read everything from news to sports to classifieds mdash even the obituaries The obits are a fascinating window on our valley Many of the people chronicled were born here some lived all their lives here inextricably bound to this place But a number of people came here from other places often far away and have made a mark on our area Which makes me wonder mdash is a place any less of a hometown because you choose it or is it based primarily on the happenstance of your birth it seems that therersquos room for both paths to calling this wonderful valley home

itrsquos also our strength because collectively as a community we bring both deep familial and cultural traditions as well as the fresh perspective of newcomers to our area irsquom glad mdash after decades of searching mdash that i finally found my hometown a place that feels just right

diane reed can be reached at ladybookearthlinknet Between columns and when the spirit moves her she blogs at wwwponderingsbydianereedblogspotcom from her home overlooking the pond at lions Park in College Place

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Maymay 1The annual Kennel Club Dog Show Walla Walla County Fairgrounds De-tails 509-558-3854

The Walla Walla University Drama Department pres-ents a performance of ldquoMy Fair ladyrdquo 2 pm matinee Details 509-527-2656

The Walla Walla Choral Society presents ldquoJubilate Deordquo 3 pm May 1 Walla Walla University Church College Place Details 509-386-2445

The Walla Walla Valley Farmers Market opens local produce artisans and an outdoor concert 9 am-1 pm Saturdays and Sundays through Oct 30 Crawford Park Fourth ave and Main St Details gowallawallafarmersmar-ketcom or 509-520-3647

through may 22Enjoy the annual Senior art Thesis Exhibition Sheehan Gallery Whitman College Details 509-527-5249

through JuLy 31The Tamaacutestslikt Cultural In-stitute hosts the traveling OMSI exhibit ldquoamazing Feats of agingrdquo explor-ing the mysteries of why animals and humans age Details 541-966-9748

may 4The YWCa leadership luncheon ldquoMatters that Matterrdquo is informational and inspirational with guest speakers Kristine Van Raden and Molly Da-vis Noon Marcus Whit-man Hotel Details 509-525-2570

Walla Walla Wine Works hosts music on Wednes-days downtown Details 509-522-1261

may 5First Thursday Concert at St Pauls Episcopal Church 323 Catherine Street Walla Walla 1215-1250 pm will feature the Steel Drum Band from Walla Walla Uni-versity directed by Brandon Beck Details 529-1083

The Whitman College Visit-ing Writers Reading series presents Whitman Reading 7 pm Kimball Theatre De-tails whitmanedu

may 5-7 12-14Walla Walla High School Drama Department pres-ents ldquoFiddler on the Roofrdquo musical version 7 pm and 2 pm matinee on Saturdays May 7 and 14 Walla Walla High School Performing arts audito-rium Details Tickets can be reserved by calling 509-526-8613 the Wa-Hi box office

may 5-8 19-21a performance of ldquoThe 25th a nnua l Putnam County Spelling Beerdquo 8 pm Harper Joy Theatre Whitman College Details 509-527-5180

may 6-7Music on the weekends at the Backstage Bistro De-tails 509-526-0690

Sapolil Cellars hosts music on Friday and Saturday De-tails 509-520-5258

The Wildfire hosts music every Friday and Saturday Wildhorse Resort amp Casino Pendleton Details 800-654-9453

may 6-8Walla Walla Valley Winer-ies offer an opportunity to taste their new creations during Spring Release Weekend area wineries introduce new wines and winemakers share their creative inspiration Details 509-526-3117

may 6artWalK First Fridays May through December Visit galleries and chat with art-ists 5-8 pm Downtown Walla Walla Visit artwalk-wallawallacom

may 6-8 13-14The little Theatre presents ldquoalice In Wonderlandrdquo adapted from lewis Carroll 8 pm Friday-Saturday 2 pm Sunday little Theatre of Walla Walla Details 509-529-3683

may 7The annual Junior Horse Show brings great riding action to Milton-Freewater Pioneer Posse Grounds Details 541-938-3379

Daytonrsquos annual Street Sale turns a section of Third Street into a giant yard sale benefits churches and com-munity projects Dayton Details 509-382-4825

artist reception and dem-onstration Washington art-ist Dwight Duke exhibits his painting bronze sculptures and gunpowder light pan-els 6-730 pm Reininger Winery Details 509-522-1994

may 8Every Sunday the living History actors portray in-dividuals from the arearsquos past 2 pm Fort Walla Walla Museum Details 509-525-7703

may 13-15The annual Balloon Stam-pede brings as many as 50 hot-air balloons to the Walla Walla County Fairgrounds This colorful festival re-mains a Valley tradition Ear-ly morning flights (weather permitting) arts amp crafts antique autos commercial booths live entertainment and food Balloons light up to music at the Saturday evening Nite Glow Details 509-525-0850

may 14annual adult event cele-brates the characters who populated Pendletonrsquos past Must have reservations Pendleton Underground Tours Details 800-226-6398

may 14-15 may 27-29Walla Walla Drag Strip con-tinues the weekend fun Details wwdragstripcom or 509-200-6287

may 15Walla Walla University Chamber Series featuring Robyn McCabe 730 pm MKW Fine arts auditorium Details 509-527-2571

may 18To celebrate the opening of Walla Wallarsquos Power House Theatre and a four-day run of Seattle Shakespeare Companyrsquos ldquoThe Merry Wives of WindsorrdquoWalla Walla lifestyles will pres-ent a gala event This exclusive evening will en-chant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fash-ion from 530-9 pm at the Power House Theatre Sixth amp Rose Walla Walla To purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewalla-wallacom

may 19-21During Pendletonrsquos Cattle Baron Weekend enjoy an art exhibit by a talented group of women artists ldquoIn the Company of Cowgirlsrdquo Hamleyrsquos Steakhouse Pendleton Visit inthecom-panyofcowgirlscom or call 541-676-5013

may 19-22Whitman College 50th Reunion class of 1961 Whitman College Details 509-527-5952

Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merr y Wives of Windsorrdquo Pow-erhouse Theater Details 509-742-0739

may 21The annual Ducky Derby is a day of family fun all for a good cause Watch the ducks race down Mill Creek to help fund the Exchange Clubrsquos efforts at preventing child abuse and neglect 1130 am-330 pm Race at about 2 pm Walla Walla Community College De-tails 509-527-4300

Walla Walla University Spring Choral Concert 5 pm Walla Walla Univer-sity Church Details 509-527-2571

learn to contra dance an old-fashioned coun-try dance Music by the Wednesday Night Band 7 pm teaching and practice 730 pm regular dance Unity Church of Peace 810

C St Walla Walla Details 541-938-7403

may 22The Whitman College graduating class of 2011 accepts the challenge 11 am Memorial lawn Whitman College Details 509-527-5156

may 26 27 28 29Walla Walla Community College Theatre arts De-partment presents ldquoZoot Suitrdquo by luis Valdez 7 pm each night and Sunday 2 pm matinee W WCC Performing arts Center Details 509-527-4575

may 27-30 Dayton Days has been a Memorial Weekend tradi-tion in Dayton for nearly 100 years Highlights include a Saturday-morning parade on historic Main Street rodeo tour of Dayton and Memorial Day Fun Run De-tails 509-382-4825 or visit historicdaytoncom

may 28-30The Touchet River Roundup mdash the annual Celebration of Sobriety at the fairgrounds focuses on family fun ac-tivities Waitsburg Details 509-526-3602

may 29annual Onion Man Tria-thalon 9 am Bennington lake Details wwmulti-sportscom or call 509-529-9187

may 30Waitsburgrsquos annual Memo-rial Day celebration hosted by veterans for all veterans Details 509-337-6546

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The sculpture tops the farmers market gazebo on the corner of Fourth Avenue North and West Main Street

Contestensprulesif you have the answer e-mail it to rickdoylewwubcom or send it to Where in Walla Walla 112 S 1st Ave PO Box 1358 Walla Walla WA 99362 The names of 10 people with correct answers will be randomly selected and they will receive this great-looking mug as proof of their local knowledge and good taste

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3 Bergevin Lane vineyards 1215 W Poplar St (509) 526-4300 bergevinlanecom

4 Bunchgrass winery151 Bunchgrass lane (509) 540-8963 wwwbunchgrasswinerycom

5 canoe ridge vineyard1102 W Cherry St (509) 527-0885 wwwcanoeridgevineyardcom

6 castillo de feliciana85728 Telephone Pole Road Milton-Freewater OR (541) 558-3656 wwwcastillodefelicianacom

7 don carlo vineyardBy appointment Only (509) 540-5784 wwwdoncarlovineyardcom

8 dunham cellars150 E Boeing ave (509) 529-4685 wwwdunhamcellarscom

9 five star cellars 840 C St (509) 527-8400 wwwfivestarcellarscom

10 forgeron cellars 33 W Birch St (509) 522-9463 wwwforgeroncellarscom

21 sapolil cellars15 E Main St (509) 520-5258 wwwsapolilcellarscom

22 seven hills winery 212 N Third ave (509) 529-7198 wwwsevenhillswinerycom

23 sinclair estate vineyards 109 E Main Ste 100 (509) 876-4300 wwwsinclairestatevineyardscom

24 spring valley vineyard 18 N Second ave (509) 525-1506 wwwspringvalleyvineyardcom

25 suLei cellars355 S Second ave (503) 529-0840 www suleicellarscom

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11 foundry vineyards Corner of 13th ave and abadie St (509) 529-0736 wwwwallawallafoundrycomvineyards

12 fort walla walla cellars 127 E Main St (509) 520-1095 wwwfortwallawallacellarscom

13 glencorrie8052 Old Highway 12 (509) 525-2585 wwwglencorriecom

14 grantwood winery 2428 W Highway 12 (509) 301-0719 (509) 301-9546

15 Lrsquoecole no 41 winery41 lowden School Road and US Hwy 12 (509) 525-0940 wwwlecolecom

16 Long shadows1604 Frenchtown Road (Formerly Ireland Road) (509) 526-0905 wwwlongshadowscom By invitation only Requests accepted on a limited basis Please call to inquire

17 Lowden hills winery1401 W Pine St (509) 527-1040 wwwlowdenhillswinerycom

18 northstar winery 1736 JB George Road (509) 524-4883 wwwnorthstarmerlotcom

19 pepper Bridge winery1704 JB George Road (509) 525-6502 wwwpepperbridgecom

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26 syZygy 405 E Boeing ave (509) 522-0484 wwwsyzygywinescom

27 three rivers winery5641 Old Highway 12 (509) 526-9463 infoThreeRiversWinerycom

28 tertulia cellars1564 Whiteley Road (509) 525-5700 wwwtertuliacellarscom

29 trust cellars 1050 Merlot Drive (509) 529-4511 wwwtrustcellarscom

30 va piano vineyards1793 JB George Road (509) 529-0900 wwwvapianovineyardscom

31 walla walla vintnersVineyard lane off Mill Creek Road (509) 525-4724 wwwwallawallavintnerscom

32 walla walla wineworks31 E Main St (509) 522-1261 wwwwallawallawineworkscom

33 whitman cellars1015 W Pine St (509) 529-1142 wwwwhitmancellarscom

34 woodward canyon winery11920 W Hwy 12 lowden (509) 525-4129 wwwwoodwardcanyoncom

35 JLc winery425 B St (509) 301-5148

36 saviah cellars1979 JB George Rd

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course in San rafael CalifldquoAnd there have been some others mdash

Brian Henninger Mike Gove a few others mdash who have called and wanted to discus their swingrdquo Mundle said ldquoNothing on a regular basis just one or two sessionsrdquo

is Hanson his next mdash and perhaps his last mdash prodigy

Thatrsquos a tricky question since Hanson came to golf late after a budding baseball career was derailed by a shoulder injury He was a first-team all-Big Nine Conference golf selection as a junior but has yet to qualify for state and his summer resume is thin because of his baseball background

Hansonrsquos original plan was to attend Walla Walla Community College and play golf for the Warriors with the hope of earning an NCAA Division i scholarship But he has since decided to enroll in Arizona State Universityrsquos Professional Golf Management program and try out for the ASU golf team as a walk on

ldquoMore than anything i think it came down to him evaluating his goalsrdquo said Jakersquos father Gary Hanson ldquoitrsquos everyonersquos dream to play on the PGA Tour but realistically he wants to be a golf pro and teach He loves

the gamerdquoAnd a degree in the PGM program

will provide Jake with the educational background he needs to be successful in any form of business his father added

Though his chances of making the ASU varsity team seem unlikely the PGM program provides a club golf team that participates in a series of tournaments throughout the year and gives Hanson a second playing option

And keeping your options open is optimum at this point Mundle said

ldquoi think his driving force at this time mdash and also his folks mdash is to get his education And then he can do whatever he wants if he doesnrsquot go into (the golfing business) immediately he will always have it as a backuprdquo

Sounds an awful lot like the advice Thomas Mundle offered his son back in the spring of 1952 when Al Mundle wanted to leave school after his sophomore year and test his wings on the PGA Tour And as we now know all these years later staying in school worked out pretty well for Al

Jim Buchan is a sports writer for the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin He can be reached at jimbuchanwwubcom

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Join us for a night of wonder with elizabethan-inspired food fashion and merriment to celebrate the opening of walla wallarsquos power house theatre and prepare for a four-day run of seattle shakespeare companyrsquos ldquothe merry wives of windsorrdquo

walla walla lifestyles will present a fashion show with wicked and wistful gowns twisted braided hair and smoldering makeup designs designers include red eden designs autumnlin design and others

semi-formal attire creative masks encouraged this exclusive evening will enchant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fashion

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My director Terry Edward Moore told me his only direction from the artistic director was that it be ldquoperiodrdquo that is to say authentic to the time

ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo is the only one of Shakespearersquos plays that is set in his own time so it was decided to present it as if the actors were people of the time doing what would be a contemporary (to the late 16th century) play

i started to research the clothing of the time how it was constructed and what kinds of fabrics were available at the time mdash linens homespuns woolens for the common people and silks damasks velvets and furs for the upper classes i discovered that Elizabethan society was strictly regulated in terms of social classes and upward mobility was a little-known concept Once a yeoman always a yeoman i also discovered the set of rules and regulations called ldquosumptuary lawsrdquo which specifically dictated what types of fabrics trims furs and even what colors each class was allowed to wear

Since there are three distinct classes represented in ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo mdash merchant class soldiers and servants mdash i tried to give each class its own color palette based on these laws The overall palette of the show is based on colors actually in use at the time

The availability of dyes was limited (except for the nobility) so the palette consists of many shades of yellows and browns russets black some greens and blue-grays and of course wheat-colored unbleached linen i turned to the Dutch painter Brueghel for inspiration on how the common people looked and dressed

i also researched what kinds of dyes were used and where they came from Dyes were created from all sorts of different things such as walnut shell crushed beetles and all kinds of roots i found a website that sells these authentic dyestuffs so irsquom using the real thing to dye some of the linen pieces and will coordinate the contemporary fabrics to these authentic colors

Nearly every piece will need something done to it mdash altered in some way to fit the actor re-trimmed rigged invisibly for quick changes etc mdash so there is a lot of labor involved Also hats were a hugely important part of Elizabethan fashion all the way down to the poorest serf

Certain styles of hats were often associated with certain professions mdash eg doctors scholars mdash so there are a number of hats to build as well as headpieces for the women No self-respecting woman went about with her head uncovered

Putting together a show like this is like putting together a giant jigsaw puzzle and the pieces are the costumes that irsquove borrowed and rented from other theater companies in the Seattle area such as Seattle repertory Seattle Opera and the University of Washington as well as pieces from Oregon Shakespeare Festival i design the show and then go out into the world and try to find pieces that approximate my designs and palette as closely as possible (usually with some reworking first) The pieces that i cant find and dont want to compromise on i build from scratch

deane middLeton is a theatre costume professional who works in the Seattle area She has done costumes for Issaquahrsquos Village Theater as well as several productions of the Seattle Shakespeare Company

ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo

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ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo was the only one of Shakespearersquos works set in his own time the 1600s and features Sir John Falstaff It also deals primarily with english middle-class life A hilarious bawdy comedy filled with insight into the life and times of Shakespeare ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo will delight people of all ages

About the play

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But thatrsquos exactly what longtime Walla Walla resident Larry Adams did for four years He was one of a select group of pilots for Marine One the helicopter counterpart of the presidential airplane Air Force One from 1970 to 1974

30 Walla Walla LifestyLes

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 31

Long before Adams became the Walla Walla Airport manager he was transporting heads of state foreign dignitaries famous (and now infamous) Cabinet members the executive staff and President richard M Nixon during one of the nationrsquos most turbulent times the withdrawal from vietnam and the Watergate scandal

But to Adams a native of Northern idaho all that swirled around the Nixon presidency was the least of his concerns His job was to transport the president safely to Andrews Air Force Base or Camp David or fly any short flight required Safety always at a premium End of story

Many times Adams ferried President Nixon and his staff on short flights far away from home Air Force One might fly President Nixon to a summit or a meeting with a foreign head of state but Marine One and Adams were always nearby to shuttle the chief executive on short flights or to whisk him away from sudden danger

Pretty heady stuff for a fourth-grade teacher who had never thought about flying until a Marine recruiter offered him the opportunity Although Adams had watched planes take off and land at a nearby air base as a child he had never given serious thought to flying it was more a need for a bigger paycheck than passion that brought Adams to his destiny

He liked teaching but it just wasnrsquot paying the bills So Adams turned to the military and the Gi Bill After being unimpressed by other recruiters Adams took a liking to the fellow from the Marines for as Adams recalls the recruiter took an interest in him After about an hour of talking the recruiter suggested Adams might have the potential to be a pilot

Having easily passed some preliminary tests Adams was sent to flight school in Pensacola Fla and a stellar career was ready to take off He performed well in all the aircraft he piloted but he showed a special skill for helicopters

Up until 1965 fixed-wing airplanes were the staple of all military air combat But the military had been gearing up for a big change The helicopter was to become a major part of combat The Pentagon had been developing helicopters that would do much more than transport troops to bases Now they would assist in bombing

raids ground attacks and the evacuation of the injured from the point of combat This new breed of helicopters would also possess the ability to fight back and not be lame ducks as before the new H34 would tote machine guns on each side

These cutting-edge aircraft would travel at unprecedented speeds with newly discovered agility Gifted pilots were needed not those who merely possessed superior technical skills but those who also had the composure to fly straight into

enemy fire in the dead of night picking up injured soldiers or aiding air attacks

Adams was one of those pilots and he would be one of two squadron leaders for ldquoOperation Starliterdquo mdash the first major assault using helicopters The Marines were going straight into a North vietnamese regimental stronghold No one knew what to expect

ldquoWe lost a lot that first time inrdquo says Adams ldquoTwo crew chiefs were killed

Continued on pg 32 gt

In this newspaper clipping Larry Adams poses on the steps of the helicopter dubbed Marine One which he piloted for President Richard M Nixon

32 Walla Walla LifestyLes

people ltcontinued from pg 31

four pilots were medevaced out because of their wounds i donrsquot think there was one helicopter that didnrsquot have a bunch of holes in it The one i flew in we got a lot of rounds in it Amazingly no one was hurt but when we got back the helicopter was so shot-up you couldnrsquot fly it anymore We lost 50 percent of our helicopters that dayrdquo

in the next 13 months Adams would fly many more missions often heading straight into anti-aircraft fire to pick up injured or killed soldiers He says he would see the flares signifying where the copter was supposed to land but frequently hersquod have to veer off because ground communication would say ldquoThe artillery is too hotrdquo Then there would be a window maybe two minutes maybe five when the helicopter could drop in and pick up the injured often being shot at as it waited for its passengers

Adams knew the best way to survive was to keep his focus ldquoin the daylight when you start your run in and yoursquore getting shot at Everything went to black and white for me i didnrsquot notice the green trees or the green rice paddies until we got out of there and then it would come back

to me i donrsquot know what that was i just didnrsquot see the colors irsquove talked to some other pilots and they described the same thingrdquo

in his two tours of duty in vietnam Adams would fly 880 combat missions in several types of helicopters and fixed-wing airplanes He received numerous medals including two Navy commendations for performance under combat conditions

Then the call came to fly for the president Before Adams could tote the commander in chief around in Marine One a thorough background check had to be done So thorough was the check that Adams said a friend from his hometown sent him a card that read ldquoAre you in some kind of trouble Jesus therersquos been a bunch of people around here with the dark grey suits and the skinny little ties Theyrsquore asking all these embarrassing questions about you like did you have drinking problem Did you have a gambling problem Do you know what Larryrsquos sexual preference wasrdquo

Adams chuckles ldquoit was pretty funnyrdquoAdams passed the grade and soon

he was flying President Nixon and his family to Camp David or picking up vice

President Spiro Agnew at the Pentagon or taking Secretary of State Henry kissinger or Secretary of Defense Alexander Haig to a classified meeting Although his flights varied from transporting foreign heads of state to flying members of the press the majority involved the president the vice president kissinger and Haig

The pilots did not speak to their travelers unless spoken to says Adams President Nixon usually looked in and asked them how they were kissinger never spoke Haig was good for a pat on the shoulder now and then but it was Agnew who conversed the most says Adams

Adams remembers ldquoOne time we picked him up at the Pentagon and we had taken off and had hit top altitude He usually would come up and look into the cockpit but this time he patted me on the shoulder and asked lsquoWell howrsquos it going today guysrsquordquo Adams replied ldquoNot bad sir and how about yourselfrdquo

Agnew answered ldquoMan they are really after my assrdquo He was talking about the press Adams says ldquoTwo weeks later he resignedrdquo

Adams recalls that his encounters with Agnew as defying the public perception

Adams far right gives instructions before a mission in Vietnam

Walla Walla LifestyLes 33

that Agnew was arrogant ldquoHe was always one of the nicest guys He was straightforward He looked like he had just stepped off the cover of Gentlemenrsquos Quarterly all the time He was very proper in the way he dressed but he had a sense of humor as wellrdquo

There were other humorous moments Adams recalls a certain reporter from CBS who had been a major thorn in President Nixonrsquos side was late for takeoff from the South Lawn of the White House one morning Just as Marine One was about to leave without him he came running across the lawn hollering and waving his arms The Secret Service agent supervising the flight told Adams to ldquojust gordquo The wind from the propellers whipped the reporterrsquos toupee right off his head and instead of continuing his run toward Marine One he reversed his field and tried feverishly to retrieve his toupee snagged in the hedges

ldquoEveryone got a pretty good chuckle out of thatrdquo

Of course there were somber times At one point Adams flew Cabinet members John Ehrlichman and Hr Haldeman to Camp David for a meeting with the president After only 15 minutes the two men returned and Marine One headed home Adams says it was a quiet flight He found out later the two men had been fired by President Nixon for their parts in the Watergate scandal

Whisking the president away from danger was a major part of being a pilot of Marine One Stationed across the river from the Capitol pilots awakened by an emergency alert had to be up in the air in five minutes This exercise was practiced often though never needed during Adamsrsquo tenure

One night however they thought it was The operator at the White House mistakenly hit the ldquoAlertrdquo button Marine One was in the air in five minutes

Although ground control had not spotted any enemy aircraft the operation was under way As Marine One closed in on the White House the operator at fault tried to alert everyone of his mistake but unfortunately used a poor choice of words to call off the operation

Adams chuckles as he says ldquoThe fella said lsquoThis is not an exercisersquo He was moved to another post i thinkrdquo

All levity aside the position required

the same kind of focus demanded of Adams in vietnam though it came in a different form

ldquoThere were three things the way you operated the aircraft and they were in this order safety comfort and speed Safety never gave in to comfort or speedrdquo says Adams ldquoOur job was just concentrating on doing our job it could have been anybody mdash we would do it the same way it could have been Fred Flintstone

ldquoThe difference between flying for the White House and in vietnam was we were flying a premier aircraft We had to keep it impeccably clean everything was scripted We had to have the lsquoopen-the-door timersquo down to two to four seconds in vietnam it was the stress of performing medevacs under fire or dropping troops under heavy artillery For Marine One it was the stress of doing the job rightrdquo

Also the stress of being away from onersquos family 200 days of the year wore on a Marine One pilot in 1974 after four years on the job the toll became too much and Adams stepped down

He would stay with the Marines for eight more years retiring in August 1982

By then he had received 44 Air Medals including the Joint Service Commendation and the Presidential Service Badge in his 20 years of service Adams flew seven different helicopters and five different fixed-wing planes

What makes an elite military pilot ldquoPilots who donrsquot have any misgivingsrdquo says Adams ldquoTheyrsquore totally prepared they know their aircraftrdquo

When talking about his colleagues on Marine One he adds ldquoNone were boasters They might brag about a great landing but they did not brag in spite of someone elserdquo

What did Adams love most about his flying days ldquoi enjoyed flying with the latest technology and the pristine quality of Marine One i loved the process of building my skills i could have flown another 40 years and i would still be learning thingsrdquo

is it any surprise his favorite hobby now is fly fishing

andrew hoLt writes about food people and all things Walla Walla for Walla Walla lifestyles magazine He can be reached at bruindrew86gmailcom

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it is astonishing in many ways mdash that we are presented with two weeks of top-drawer music performed by top-drawer musi-cians that there are so many ways to encounter the music (many of them free) and that a rural community has provided the incu-

bator for such a cultural undertaking to name but a fewGranted we are not your average rural community having two

colleges a university a symphony a choral society a community band and music in the schools but letrsquos face it wersquore not exactly a cosmopolitan center of culture like New york either The Cham-ber Music Festival mdash and our continued support of it through some tough times mdash puts us in a category all our own

ldquoi saw what was special about this community the first time i visited in 2007rdquo Artistic Director Timothy Christie says ldquoi have

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worked hard to start this event and to my great joy it has taken on an iden-tity of its own i hire the musicians and choose the music but the town its people and its environs make the festivalrdquo

The beauty of chamber music is its intimacy mdash smaller ensembles performing for smaller audiences it has been referred to as ldquothe music of friendsrdquo which seems so apt at this festival Free open rehearsals are held around town that provide not only a musical atmosphere in which to enjoy a latte or the ambiance of the kirkman House but which give a richer look into the machinations of a working ensemble

As one enthusiastic fan puts it ldquoi am not a musician and itrsquos fascinat-ing to watch these rehearsals to see the interactions of the musicians as they work out the snags make wry remarks and relate to each other in a whole different way than during a for-mal performance i get a glimpse into their personalities and what makes them tickrdquo

The festival supplies a generous of-fering of venues with free concerts for children and families relaxed evening programs at wineries and full concerts at the Foundry Chism Hall and Day-tonrsquos Liberty Theater

if you are lucky enough to live near the musiciansrsquo lodgings while they are in town you may also be treated to an ad hoc front-porch concert as the ensembles continue their rehearsals in more private settings The festival is about all of these ways mdash planned and accidental mdash to experience the enchantment of chamber music

it is also about historic continuity and the connection between past and present mdash relishing the existing canon while expanding the genre with con-temporary forms and voices

How is this accomplished in part by the annual commission of a new piece of music for the festival Chris-tie is committed to contributing to the broader chamber music repertoire and to providing the audience with the richest possible experience

Continued on pg 36 gt

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ldquoFor classical music to be relevant there must be a conversation between the music of our time and the music of the pastrdquo he says

By commissioning a work for the festi-val each year Christie creates such a con-versation

This year the commission was given to John David Earnest Four festival commis-sions have preceded his and he is the sec-ond ldquolocalrdquo composer to be tapped add-ing another layer of relationship between community and event (in 2009 Whitman College professor David Glenn was given the nod)

As visiting adjunct professor of music at Whitman Earnest resides here for six weeks every semester His ldquoSecond Sym-phonyrdquo was written for and performed by the Walla Walla Symphony in October 2001

The challenge for the yearly commis-sionee is to compose a piece on demand within specific constraints of time place and instrumentation while expressing hisher own voice as an artist

Earnest has created ldquoCommedia Gal-leryrdquo a set of three movements for flute

viola and harp based on stock characters from the Commedia dellrsquoArte a popu-lar theatrical form that was influential in Europe for over 300 years Commedia characters improvised dialogue around set scenarios generally involving the struggles of young lovers to overcome hindrances to their romance and each character even-tually came to have a consistent set of at-tributes in speech mannerisms and cos-tume

Earnestrsquos ldquoGalleryrdquo gives us Arlecchi-no (Harlequin) an acrobatic and devious jester Pierrot the classic sad clown and finally Scaramouche a dandy and a brag-gart who is a coward at heart

in anticipation of this yearrsquos festival i am reminded of the scene in ldquoThe Music Manrdquo in which the town awaits the ar-rival of the Wells Fargo Wagon Potentially heaped with gifts and surprises it prom-ises connection to the larger world The WWCMF brings us all ldquosomethinrsquo specialrdquo mdash an enrichment of our community and our culture

margaret Jamison is an artist and writer living in Walla Walla Contact her at artjamisongmailcom

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Smith has gardened for years at his home at 38 Mulberry Court in College Place He used to grow vegetables and flowers now he is strictly focusing on flowers mdash with fabulous results roses delphiniums and lots of irises line the fence

ldquoirises mdash irsquove always enjoyed themrdquo he says ldquoThey take a little bit of weeding and watering but not much morerdquo itrsquos the gardenerrsquos dream mdash low maintenance with a big return

A retired orthopedic surgeon Smith has in the past gardened more extensively than he does now But he has enough plants to keep him busy His new project is planting more of the reblooming iris These are still hardy but you get twice the reward they bloom in the spring then again in the fall

ldquoTheyrsquore easy to grow and spectacular for a short time iris take less care than a lot of thingsrdquo Smith says

His secret for gardening is simple and therersquos no getting around it ldquoTime and workrdquo he laughs

Hersquos getting ready to start in the garden ldquoi need to clean out the leaves and the old foliage of the irisrdquo

in addition to the basic cleaning and maintenance Smith just decides how many plants to keep Bulb flowers are hardy and they multiply on their own

ldquoAfter five years you usually have to separate the bulbs when they get too thick i donrsquot have room to add more i put in the new re-blooming onesrdquo he explains ldquoi may add more and a few other thingsrdquo

But in a garden you can always try something new or rearrange existing plants often with a spectacular outcome

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itrsquos an odd location since it can only be seen as yoursquore leaving town but it always makes me smile This valley my adopted home is indeed a great place to be

i recently finished reading the great Western writer Wallace Stegnerrsquos book ldquoThe Sound of Mountain Waterrdquo One of his essays traces his nomadic childhood which left him feeling rootless and without a place that he felt he could call home

i identify with his feeling of not belonging i was born to a single woman from Massachusetts in a New york City hospital i stayed a scant few days before being placed with an adoption agency Born in a place i had no familial connection to i was immediately deprived of my biological family Most of my childhood was spent in suburban Cleveland Ohio Moves to upstate New york New England and Pennsylvania brought me no closer to calling any place home i loved living in the western Massachusetts town of Stockbridge but the multigenerational denizens of the town left few openings for newcomers like me i lived in central Pennsylvania for several decades but felt detached from the deep roots that most people had in the area

When we came west (for my husband a homecoming to his Oregon roots for me a new experience) i noticed that even in long-established towns like Walla Walla there is ample room for newcomers who want to be

part of the community And most folks who choose to come here donrsquot seem to want to change the valley they prefer to embrace it

While the occasional newbie whines about the lack of Whole Foods or Nordstrom they soon discover our farmers markets the wide variety of local shops and boutiques and our world-class restaurants They fall in love with our charming downtowns the small-town friendliness of the people and our kid-friendly environment Then therersquos the holiday parade the fair the ever-present Blue Mountains the parks the museums the wineries mdash really whatrsquos not to like The communities of our valley represent America at its best

irsquom a newspaper junkie i love to read everything from news to sports to classifieds mdash even the obituaries The obits are a fascinating window on our valley Many of the people chronicled were born here some lived all their lives here inextricably bound to this place But a number of people came here from other places often far away and have made a mark on our area Which makes me wonder mdash is a place any less of a hometown because you choose it or is it based primarily on the happenstance of your birth it seems that therersquos room for both paths to calling this wonderful valley home

itrsquos also our strength because collectively as a community we bring both deep familial and cultural traditions as well as the fresh perspective of newcomers to our area irsquom glad mdash after decades of searching mdash that i finally found my hometown a place that feels just right

diane reed can be reached at ladybookearthlinknet Between columns and when the spirit moves her she blogs at wwwponderingsbydianereedblogspotcom from her home overlooking the pond at lions Park in College Place

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Maymay 1The annual Kennel Club Dog Show Walla Walla County Fairgrounds De-tails 509-558-3854

The Walla Walla University Drama Department pres-ents a performance of ldquoMy Fair ladyrdquo 2 pm matinee Details 509-527-2656

The Walla Walla Choral Society presents ldquoJubilate Deordquo 3 pm May 1 Walla Walla University Church College Place Details 509-386-2445

The Walla Walla Valley Farmers Market opens local produce artisans and an outdoor concert 9 am-1 pm Saturdays and Sundays through Oct 30 Crawford Park Fourth ave and Main St Details gowallawallafarmersmar-ketcom or 509-520-3647

through may 22Enjoy the annual Senior art Thesis Exhibition Sheehan Gallery Whitman College Details 509-527-5249

through JuLy 31The Tamaacutestslikt Cultural In-stitute hosts the traveling OMSI exhibit ldquoamazing Feats of agingrdquo explor-ing the mysteries of why animals and humans age Details 541-966-9748

may 4The YWCa leadership luncheon ldquoMatters that Matterrdquo is informational and inspirational with guest speakers Kristine Van Raden and Molly Da-vis Noon Marcus Whit-man Hotel Details 509-525-2570

Walla Walla Wine Works hosts music on Wednes-days downtown Details 509-522-1261

may 5First Thursday Concert at St Pauls Episcopal Church 323 Catherine Street Walla Walla 1215-1250 pm will feature the Steel Drum Band from Walla Walla Uni-versity directed by Brandon Beck Details 529-1083

The Whitman College Visit-ing Writers Reading series presents Whitman Reading 7 pm Kimball Theatre De-tails whitmanedu

may 5-7 12-14Walla Walla High School Drama Department pres-ents ldquoFiddler on the Roofrdquo musical version 7 pm and 2 pm matinee on Saturdays May 7 and 14 Walla Walla High School Performing arts audito-rium Details Tickets can be reserved by calling 509-526-8613 the Wa-Hi box office

may 5-8 19-21a performance of ldquoThe 25th a nnua l Putnam County Spelling Beerdquo 8 pm Harper Joy Theatre Whitman College Details 509-527-5180

may 6-7Music on the weekends at the Backstage Bistro De-tails 509-526-0690

Sapolil Cellars hosts music on Friday and Saturday De-tails 509-520-5258

The Wildfire hosts music every Friday and Saturday Wildhorse Resort amp Casino Pendleton Details 800-654-9453

may 6-8Walla Walla Valley Winer-ies offer an opportunity to taste their new creations during Spring Release Weekend area wineries introduce new wines and winemakers share their creative inspiration Details 509-526-3117

may 6artWalK First Fridays May through December Visit galleries and chat with art-ists 5-8 pm Downtown Walla Walla Visit artwalk-wallawallacom

may 6-8 13-14The little Theatre presents ldquoalice In Wonderlandrdquo adapted from lewis Carroll 8 pm Friday-Saturday 2 pm Sunday little Theatre of Walla Walla Details 509-529-3683

may 7The annual Junior Horse Show brings great riding action to Milton-Freewater Pioneer Posse Grounds Details 541-938-3379

Daytonrsquos annual Street Sale turns a section of Third Street into a giant yard sale benefits churches and com-munity projects Dayton Details 509-382-4825

artist reception and dem-onstration Washington art-ist Dwight Duke exhibits his painting bronze sculptures and gunpowder light pan-els 6-730 pm Reininger Winery Details 509-522-1994

may 8Every Sunday the living History actors portray in-dividuals from the arearsquos past 2 pm Fort Walla Walla Museum Details 509-525-7703

may 13-15The annual Balloon Stam-pede brings as many as 50 hot-air balloons to the Walla Walla County Fairgrounds This colorful festival re-mains a Valley tradition Ear-ly morning flights (weather permitting) arts amp crafts antique autos commercial booths live entertainment and food Balloons light up to music at the Saturday evening Nite Glow Details 509-525-0850

may 14annual adult event cele-brates the characters who populated Pendletonrsquos past Must have reservations Pendleton Underground Tours Details 800-226-6398

may 14-15 may 27-29Walla Walla Drag Strip con-tinues the weekend fun Details wwdragstripcom or 509-200-6287

may 15Walla Walla University Chamber Series featuring Robyn McCabe 730 pm MKW Fine arts auditorium Details 509-527-2571

may 18To celebrate the opening of Walla Wallarsquos Power House Theatre and a four-day run of Seattle Shakespeare Companyrsquos ldquoThe Merry Wives of WindsorrdquoWalla Walla lifestyles will pres-ent a gala event This exclusive evening will en-chant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fash-ion from 530-9 pm at the Power House Theatre Sixth amp Rose Walla Walla To purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewalla-wallacom

may 19-21During Pendletonrsquos Cattle Baron Weekend enjoy an art exhibit by a talented group of women artists ldquoIn the Company of Cowgirlsrdquo Hamleyrsquos Steakhouse Pendleton Visit inthecom-panyofcowgirlscom or call 541-676-5013

may 19-22Whitman College 50th Reunion class of 1961 Whitman College Details 509-527-5952

Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merr y Wives of Windsorrdquo Pow-erhouse Theater Details 509-742-0739

may 21The annual Ducky Derby is a day of family fun all for a good cause Watch the ducks race down Mill Creek to help fund the Exchange Clubrsquos efforts at preventing child abuse and neglect 1130 am-330 pm Race at about 2 pm Walla Walla Community College De-tails 509-527-4300

Walla Walla University Spring Choral Concert 5 pm Walla Walla Univer-sity Church Details 509-527-2571

learn to contra dance an old-fashioned coun-try dance Music by the Wednesday Night Band 7 pm teaching and practice 730 pm regular dance Unity Church of Peace 810

C St Walla Walla Details 541-938-7403

may 22The Whitman College graduating class of 2011 accepts the challenge 11 am Memorial lawn Whitman College Details 509-527-5156

may 26 27 28 29Walla Walla Community College Theatre arts De-partment presents ldquoZoot Suitrdquo by luis Valdez 7 pm each night and Sunday 2 pm matinee W WCC Performing arts Center Details 509-527-4575

may 27-30 Dayton Days has been a Memorial Weekend tradi-tion in Dayton for nearly 100 years Highlights include a Saturday-morning parade on historic Main Street rodeo tour of Dayton and Memorial Day Fun Run De-tails 509-382-4825 or visit historicdaytoncom

may 28-30The Touchet River Roundup mdash the annual Celebration of Sobriety at the fairgrounds focuses on family fun ac-tivities Waitsburg Details 509-526-3602

may 29annual Onion Man Tria-thalon 9 am Bennington lake Details wwmulti-sportscom or call 509-529-9187

may 30Waitsburgrsquos annual Memo-rial Day celebration hosted by veterans for all veterans Details 509-337-6546

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This sculptural cornucopia marks the spot where all of Walla Walla meets the producers and wersquore not talking about the Zero Mostel and Gene Wild-er musical For you GPS fans latitude 4606678 N longitude 11834197 W

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The sculpture tops the farmers market gazebo on the corner of Fourth Avenue North and West Main Street

Contestensprulesif you have the answer e-mail it to rickdoylewwubcom or send it to Where in Walla Walla 112 S 1st Ave PO Box 1358 Walla Walla WA 99362 The names of 10 people with correct answers will be randomly selected and they will receive this great-looking mug as proof of their local knowledge and good taste

Annette CarterShirley richterDebbie FullenJudy CarlsonEloise Phillips

Dan Countsvicky ScanlonJanet TurnerTam LennoxBruce Campbell

46 Walla Walla LifestyLes

1 amavi cellars3796 Peppers Bridge Road (509) 525-3541 wwwamavicellarscom

2 Basel cellars estate winery2901 Old Milton Hwy (509) 522-0200 wwwbaselcellarscom

3 Bergevin Lane vineyards 1215 W Poplar St (509) 526-4300 bergevinlanecom

4 Bunchgrass winery151 Bunchgrass lane (509) 540-8963 wwwbunchgrasswinerycom

5 canoe ridge vineyard1102 W Cherry St (509) 527-0885 wwwcanoeridgevineyardcom

6 castillo de feliciana85728 Telephone Pole Road Milton-Freewater OR (541) 558-3656 wwwcastillodefelicianacom

7 don carlo vineyardBy appointment Only (509) 540-5784 wwwdoncarlovineyardcom

8 dunham cellars150 E Boeing ave (509) 529-4685 wwwdunhamcellarscom

9 five star cellars 840 C St (509) 527-8400 wwwfivestarcellarscom

10 forgeron cellars 33 W Birch St (509) 522-9463 wwwforgeroncellarscom

21 sapolil cellars15 E Main St (509) 520-5258 wwwsapolilcellarscom

22 seven hills winery 212 N Third ave (509) 529-7198 wwwsevenhillswinerycom

23 sinclair estate vineyards 109 E Main Ste 100 (509) 876-4300 wwwsinclairestatevineyardscom

24 spring valley vineyard 18 N Second ave (509) 525-1506 wwwspringvalleyvineyardcom

25 suLei cellars355 S Second ave (503) 529-0840 www suleicellarscom

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11 foundry vineyards Corner of 13th ave and abadie St (509) 529-0736 wwwwallawallafoundrycomvineyards

12 fort walla walla cellars 127 E Main St (509) 520-1095 wwwfortwallawallacellarscom

13 glencorrie8052 Old Highway 12 (509) 525-2585 wwwglencorriecom

14 grantwood winery 2428 W Highway 12 (509) 301-0719 (509) 301-9546

15 Lrsquoecole no 41 winery41 lowden School Road and US Hwy 12 (509) 525-0940 wwwlecolecom

16 Long shadows1604 Frenchtown Road (Formerly Ireland Road) (509) 526-0905 wwwlongshadowscom By invitation only Requests accepted on a limited basis Please call to inquire

17 Lowden hills winery1401 W Pine St (509) 527-1040 wwwlowdenhillswinerycom

18 northstar winery 1736 JB George Road (509) 524-4883 wwwnorthstarmerlotcom

19 pepper Bridge winery1704 JB George Road (509) 525-6502 wwwpepperbridgecom

20 robison ranch cellars2839 Robison Ranch Road (509) 301-3480 robisonranchcellarscom

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26 syZygy 405 E Boeing ave (509) 522-0484 wwwsyzygywinescom

27 three rivers winery5641 Old Highway 12 (509) 526-9463 infoThreeRiversWinerycom

28 tertulia cellars1564 Whiteley Road (509) 525-5700 wwwtertuliacellarscom

29 trust cellars 1050 Merlot Drive (509) 529-4511 wwwtrustcellarscom

30 va piano vineyards1793 JB George Road (509) 529-0900 wwwvapianovineyardscom

31 walla walla vintnersVineyard lane off Mill Creek Road (509) 525-4724 wwwwallawallavintnerscom

32 walla walla wineworks31 E Main St (509) 522-1261 wwwwallawallawineworkscom

33 whitman cellars1015 W Pine St (509) 529-1142 wwwwhitmancellarscom

34 woodward canyon winery11920 W Hwy 12 lowden (509) 525-4129 wwwwoodwardcanyoncom

35 JLc winery425 B St (509) 301-5148

36 saviah cellars1979 JB George Rd

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lockheed ave

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Mill Creek Rd

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Stateline RdWaSHINGTON

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ilton

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ort W

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Republic ave

Ryan ave

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Stinson ave

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Boeing ave

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Join us for a night of wonder with elizabethan-inspired food fashion and merriment to celebrate the opening of walla wallarsquos power house theatre and prepare for a four-day run of seattle shakespeare companyrsquos ldquothe merry wives of windsorrdquo

walla walla lifestyles will present a fashion show with wicked and wistful gowns twisted braided hair and smoldering makeup designs designers include red eden designs autumnlin design and others

semi-formal attire creative masks encouraged this exclusive evening will enchant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fashion

to purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewallawallacom

530 - 9 pm May 18 2011

The Power H o use The at reS i x t h amp R o se Wa l l a Wa l l a

T H E A T R EPOWER HOUSE

My director Terry Edward Moore told me his only direction from the artistic director was that it be ldquoperiodrdquo that is to say authentic to the time

ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo is the only one of Shakespearersquos plays that is set in his own time so it was decided to present it as if the actors were people of the time doing what would be a contemporary (to the late 16th century) play

i started to research the clothing of the time how it was constructed and what kinds of fabrics were available at the time mdash linens homespuns woolens for the common people and silks damasks velvets and furs for the upper classes i discovered that Elizabethan society was strictly regulated in terms of social classes and upward mobility was a little-known concept Once a yeoman always a yeoman i also discovered the set of rules and regulations called ldquosumptuary lawsrdquo which specifically dictated what types of fabrics trims furs and even what colors each class was allowed to wear

Since there are three distinct classes represented in ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo mdash merchant class soldiers and servants mdash i tried to give each class its own color palette based on these laws The overall palette of the show is based on colors actually in use at the time

The availability of dyes was limited (except for the nobility) so the palette consists of many shades of yellows and browns russets black some greens and blue-grays and of course wheat-colored unbleached linen i turned to the Dutch painter Brueghel for inspiration on how the common people looked and dressed

i also researched what kinds of dyes were used and where they came from Dyes were created from all sorts of different things such as walnut shell crushed beetles and all kinds of roots i found a website that sells these authentic dyestuffs so irsquom using the real thing to dye some of the linen pieces and will coordinate the contemporary fabrics to these authentic colors

Nearly every piece will need something done to it mdash altered in some way to fit the actor re-trimmed rigged invisibly for quick changes etc mdash so there is a lot of labor involved Also hats were a hugely important part of Elizabethan fashion all the way down to the poorest serf

Certain styles of hats were often associated with certain professions mdash eg doctors scholars mdash so there are a number of hats to build as well as headpieces for the women No self-respecting woman went about with her head uncovered

Putting together a show like this is like putting together a giant jigsaw puzzle and the pieces are the costumes that irsquove borrowed and rented from other theater companies in the Seattle area such as Seattle repertory Seattle Opera and the University of Washington as well as pieces from Oregon Shakespeare Festival i design the show and then go out into the world and try to find pieces that approximate my designs and palette as closely as possible (usually with some reworking first) The pieces that i cant find and dont want to compromise on i build from scratch

deane middLeton is a theatre costume professional who works in the Seattle area She has done costumes for Issaquahrsquos Village Theater as well as several productions of the Seattle Shakespeare Company

ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 29

ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo was the only one of Shakespearersquos works set in his own time the 1600s and features Sir John Falstaff It also deals primarily with english middle-class life A hilarious bawdy comedy filled with insight into the life and times of Shakespeare ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo will delight people of all ages

About the play

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But thatrsquos exactly what longtime Walla Walla resident Larry Adams did for four years He was one of a select group of pilots for Marine One the helicopter counterpart of the presidential airplane Air Force One from 1970 to 1974

30 Walla Walla LifestyLes

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 31

Long before Adams became the Walla Walla Airport manager he was transporting heads of state foreign dignitaries famous (and now infamous) Cabinet members the executive staff and President richard M Nixon during one of the nationrsquos most turbulent times the withdrawal from vietnam and the Watergate scandal

But to Adams a native of Northern idaho all that swirled around the Nixon presidency was the least of his concerns His job was to transport the president safely to Andrews Air Force Base or Camp David or fly any short flight required Safety always at a premium End of story

Many times Adams ferried President Nixon and his staff on short flights far away from home Air Force One might fly President Nixon to a summit or a meeting with a foreign head of state but Marine One and Adams were always nearby to shuttle the chief executive on short flights or to whisk him away from sudden danger

Pretty heady stuff for a fourth-grade teacher who had never thought about flying until a Marine recruiter offered him the opportunity Although Adams had watched planes take off and land at a nearby air base as a child he had never given serious thought to flying it was more a need for a bigger paycheck than passion that brought Adams to his destiny

He liked teaching but it just wasnrsquot paying the bills So Adams turned to the military and the Gi Bill After being unimpressed by other recruiters Adams took a liking to the fellow from the Marines for as Adams recalls the recruiter took an interest in him After about an hour of talking the recruiter suggested Adams might have the potential to be a pilot

Having easily passed some preliminary tests Adams was sent to flight school in Pensacola Fla and a stellar career was ready to take off He performed well in all the aircraft he piloted but he showed a special skill for helicopters

Up until 1965 fixed-wing airplanes were the staple of all military air combat But the military had been gearing up for a big change The helicopter was to become a major part of combat The Pentagon had been developing helicopters that would do much more than transport troops to bases Now they would assist in bombing

raids ground attacks and the evacuation of the injured from the point of combat This new breed of helicopters would also possess the ability to fight back and not be lame ducks as before the new H34 would tote machine guns on each side

These cutting-edge aircraft would travel at unprecedented speeds with newly discovered agility Gifted pilots were needed not those who merely possessed superior technical skills but those who also had the composure to fly straight into

enemy fire in the dead of night picking up injured soldiers or aiding air attacks

Adams was one of those pilots and he would be one of two squadron leaders for ldquoOperation Starliterdquo mdash the first major assault using helicopters The Marines were going straight into a North vietnamese regimental stronghold No one knew what to expect

ldquoWe lost a lot that first time inrdquo says Adams ldquoTwo crew chiefs were killed

Continued on pg 32 gt

In this newspaper clipping Larry Adams poses on the steps of the helicopter dubbed Marine One which he piloted for President Richard M Nixon

32 Walla Walla LifestyLes

people ltcontinued from pg 31

four pilots were medevaced out because of their wounds i donrsquot think there was one helicopter that didnrsquot have a bunch of holes in it The one i flew in we got a lot of rounds in it Amazingly no one was hurt but when we got back the helicopter was so shot-up you couldnrsquot fly it anymore We lost 50 percent of our helicopters that dayrdquo

in the next 13 months Adams would fly many more missions often heading straight into anti-aircraft fire to pick up injured or killed soldiers He says he would see the flares signifying where the copter was supposed to land but frequently hersquod have to veer off because ground communication would say ldquoThe artillery is too hotrdquo Then there would be a window maybe two minutes maybe five when the helicopter could drop in and pick up the injured often being shot at as it waited for its passengers

Adams knew the best way to survive was to keep his focus ldquoin the daylight when you start your run in and yoursquore getting shot at Everything went to black and white for me i didnrsquot notice the green trees or the green rice paddies until we got out of there and then it would come back

to me i donrsquot know what that was i just didnrsquot see the colors irsquove talked to some other pilots and they described the same thingrdquo

in his two tours of duty in vietnam Adams would fly 880 combat missions in several types of helicopters and fixed-wing airplanes He received numerous medals including two Navy commendations for performance under combat conditions

Then the call came to fly for the president Before Adams could tote the commander in chief around in Marine One a thorough background check had to be done So thorough was the check that Adams said a friend from his hometown sent him a card that read ldquoAre you in some kind of trouble Jesus therersquos been a bunch of people around here with the dark grey suits and the skinny little ties Theyrsquore asking all these embarrassing questions about you like did you have drinking problem Did you have a gambling problem Do you know what Larryrsquos sexual preference wasrdquo

Adams chuckles ldquoit was pretty funnyrdquoAdams passed the grade and soon

he was flying President Nixon and his family to Camp David or picking up vice

President Spiro Agnew at the Pentagon or taking Secretary of State Henry kissinger or Secretary of Defense Alexander Haig to a classified meeting Although his flights varied from transporting foreign heads of state to flying members of the press the majority involved the president the vice president kissinger and Haig

The pilots did not speak to their travelers unless spoken to says Adams President Nixon usually looked in and asked them how they were kissinger never spoke Haig was good for a pat on the shoulder now and then but it was Agnew who conversed the most says Adams

Adams remembers ldquoOne time we picked him up at the Pentagon and we had taken off and had hit top altitude He usually would come up and look into the cockpit but this time he patted me on the shoulder and asked lsquoWell howrsquos it going today guysrsquordquo Adams replied ldquoNot bad sir and how about yourselfrdquo

Agnew answered ldquoMan they are really after my assrdquo He was talking about the press Adams says ldquoTwo weeks later he resignedrdquo

Adams recalls that his encounters with Agnew as defying the public perception

Adams far right gives instructions before a mission in Vietnam

Walla Walla LifestyLes 33

that Agnew was arrogant ldquoHe was always one of the nicest guys He was straightforward He looked like he had just stepped off the cover of Gentlemenrsquos Quarterly all the time He was very proper in the way he dressed but he had a sense of humor as wellrdquo

There were other humorous moments Adams recalls a certain reporter from CBS who had been a major thorn in President Nixonrsquos side was late for takeoff from the South Lawn of the White House one morning Just as Marine One was about to leave without him he came running across the lawn hollering and waving his arms The Secret Service agent supervising the flight told Adams to ldquojust gordquo The wind from the propellers whipped the reporterrsquos toupee right off his head and instead of continuing his run toward Marine One he reversed his field and tried feverishly to retrieve his toupee snagged in the hedges

ldquoEveryone got a pretty good chuckle out of thatrdquo

Of course there were somber times At one point Adams flew Cabinet members John Ehrlichman and Hr Haldeman to Camp David for a meeting with the president After only 15 minutes the two men returned and Marine One headed home Adams says it was a quiet flight He found out later the two men had been fired by President Nixon for their parts in the Watergate scandal

Whisking the president away from danger was a major part of being a pilot of Marine One Stationed across the river from the Capitol pilots awakened by an emergency alert had to be up in the air in five minutes This exercise was practiced often though never needed during Adamsrsquo tenure

One night however they thought it was The operator at the White House mistakenly hit the ldquoAlertrdquo button Marine One was in the air in five minutes

Although ground control had not spotted any enemy aircraft the operation was under way As Marine One closed in on the White House the operator at fault tried to alert everyone of his mistake but unfortunately used a poor choice of words to call off the operation

Adams chuckles as he says ldquoThe fella said lsquoThis is not an exercisersquo He was moved to another post i thinkrdquo

All levity aside the position required

the same kind of focus demanded of Adams in vietnam though it came in a different form

ldquoThere were three things the way you operated the aircraft and they were in this order safety comfort and speed Safety never gave in to comfort or speedrdquo says Adams ldquoOur job was just concentrating on doing our job it could have been anybody mdash we would do it the same way it could have been Fred Flintstone

ldquoThe difference between flying for the White House and in vietnam was we were flying a premier aircraft We had to keep it impeccably clean everything was scripted We had to have the lsquoopen-the-door timersquo down to two to four seconds in vietnam it was the stress of performing medevacs under fire or dropping troops under heavy artillery For Marine One it was the stress of doing the job rightrdquo

Also the stress of being away from onersquos family 200 days of the year wore on a Marine One pilot in 1974 after four years on the job the toll became too much and Adams stepped down

He would stay with the Marines for eight more years retiring in August 1982

By then he had received 44 Air Medals including the Joint Service Commendation and the Presidential Service Badge in his 20 years of service Adams flew seven different helicopters and five different fixed-wing planes

What makes an elite military pilot ldquoPilots who donrsquot have any misgivingsrdquo says Adams ldquoTheyrsquore totally prepared they know their aircraftrdquo

When talking about his colleagues on Marine One he adds ldquoNone were boasters They might brag about a great landing but they did not brag in spite of someone elserdquo

What did Adams love most about his flying days ldquoi enjoyed flying with the latest technology and the pristine quality of Marine One i loved the process of building my skills i could have flown another 40 years and i would still be learning thingsrdquo

is it any surprise his favorite hobby now is fly fishing

andrew hoLt writes about food people and all things Walla Walla for Walla Walla lifestyles magazine He can be reached at bruindrew86gmailcom

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it is astonishing in many ways mdash that we are presented with two weeks of top-drawer music performed by top-drawer musi-cians that there are so many ways to encounter the music (many of them free) and that a rural community has provided the incu-

bator for such a cultural undertaking to name but a fewGranted we are not your average rural community having two

colleges a university a symphony a choral society a community band and music in the schools but letrsquos face it wersquore not exactly a cosmopolitan center of culture like New york either The Cham-ber Music Festival mdash and our continued support of it through some tough times mdash puts us in a category all our own

ldquoi saw what was special about this community the first time i visited in 2007rdquo Artistic Director Timothy Christie says ldquoi have

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worked hard to start this event and to my great joy it has taken on an iden-tity of its own i hire the musicians and choose the music but the town its people and its environs make the festivalrdquo

The beauty of chamber music is its intimacy mdash smaller ensembles performing for smaller audiences it has been referred to as ldquothe music of friendsrdquo which seems so apt at this festival Free open rehearsals are held around town that provide not only a musical atmosphere in which to enjoy a latte or the ambiance of the kirkman House but which give a richer look into the machinations of a working ensemble

As one enthusiastic fan puts it ldquoi am not a musician and itrsquos fascinat-ing to watch these rehearsals to see the interactions of the musicians as they work out the snags make wry remarks and relate to each other in a whole different way than during a for-mal performance i get a glimpse into their personalities and what makes them tickrdquo

The festival supplies a generous of-fering of venues with free concerts for children and families relaxed evening programs at wineries and full concerts at the Foundry Chism Hall and Day-tonrsquos Liberty Theater

if you are lucky enough to live near the musiciansrsquo lodgings while they are in town you may also be treated to an ad hoc front-porch concert as the ensembles continue their rehearsals in more private settings The festival is about all of these ways mdash planned and accidental mdash to experience the enchantment of chamber music

it is also about historic continuity and the connection between past and present mdash relishing the existing canon while expanding the genre with con-temporary forms and voices

How is this accomplished in part by the annual commission of a new piece of music for the festival Chris-tie is committed to contributing to the broader chamber music repertoire and to providing the audience with the richest possible experience

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ldquoFor classical music to be relevant there must be a conversation between the music of our time and the music of the pastrdquo he says

By commissioning a work for the festi-val each year Christie creates such a con-versation

This year the commission was given to John David Earnest Four festival commis-sions have preceded his and he is the sec-ond ldquolocalrdquo composer to be tapped add-ing another layer of relationship between community and event (in 2009 Whitman College professor David Glenn was given the nod)

As visiting adjunct professor of music at Whitman Earnest resides here for six weeks every semester His ldquoSecond Sym-phonyrdquo was written for and performed by the Walla Walla Symphony in October 2001

The challenge for the yearly commis-sionee is to compose a piece on demand within specific constraints of time place and instrumentation while expressing hisher own voice as an artist

Earnest has created ldquoCommedia Gal-leryrdquo a set of three movements for flute

viola and harp based on stock characters from the Commedia dellrsquoArte a popu-lar theatrical form that was influential in Europe for over 300 years Commedia characters improvised dialogue around set scenarios generally involving the struggles of young lovers to overcome hindrances to their romance and each character even-tually came to have a consistent set of at-tributes in speech mannerisms and cos-tume

Earnestrsquos ldquoGalleryrdquo gives us Arlecchi-no (Harlequin) an acrobatic and devious jester Pierrot the classic sad clown and finally Scaramouche a dandy and a brag-gart who is a coward at heart

in anticipation of this yearrsquos festival i am reminded of the scene in ldquoThe Music Manrdquo in which the town awaits the ar-rival of the Wells Fargo Wagon Potentially heaped with gifts and surprises it prom-ises connection to the larger world The WWCMF brings us all ldquosomethinrsquo specialrdquo mdash an enrichment of our community and our culture

margaret Jamison is an artist and writer living in Walla Walla Contact her at artjamisongmailcom

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Smith has gardened for years at his home at 38 Mulberry Court in College Place He used to grow vegetables and flowers now he is strictly focusing on flowers mdash with fabulous results roses delphiniums and lots of irises line the fence

ldquoirises mdash irsquove always enjoyed themrdquo he says ldquoThey take a little bit of weeding and watering but not much morerdquo itrsquos the gardenerrsquos dream mdash low maintenance with a big return

A retired orthopedic surgeon Smith has in the past gardened more extensively than he does now But he has enough plants to keep him busy His new project is planting more of the reblooming iris These are still hardy but you get twice the reward they bloom in the spring then again in the fall

ldquoTheyrsquore easy to grow and spectacular for a short time iris take less care than a lot of thingsrdquo Smith says

His secret for gardening is simple and therersquos no getting around it ldquoTime and workrdquo he laughs

Hersquos getting ready to start in the garden ldquoi need to clean out the leaves and the old foliage of the irisrdquo

in addition to the basic cleaning and maintenance Smith just decides how many plants to keep Bulb flowers are hardy and they multiply on their own

ldquoAfter five years you usually have to separate the bulbs when they get too thick i donrsquot have room to add more i put in the new re-blooming onesrdquo he explains ldquoi may add more and a few other thingsrdquo

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itrsquos an odd location since it can only be seen as yoursquore leaving town but it always makes me smile This valley my adopted home is indeed a great place to be

i recently finished reading the great Western writer Wallace Stegnerrsquos book ldquoThe Sound of Mountain Waterrdquo One of his essays traces his nomadic childhood which left him feeling rootless and without a place that he felt he could call home

i identify with his feeling of not belonging i was born to a single woman from Massachusetts in a New york City hospital i stayed a scant few days before being placed with an adoption agency Born in a place i had no familial connection to i was immediately deprived of my biological family Most of my childhood was spent in suburban Cleveland Ohio Moves to upstate New york New England and Pennsylvania brought me no closer to calling any place home i loved living in the western Massachusetts town of Stockbridge but the multigenerational denizens of the town left few openings for newcomers like me i lived in central Pennsylvania for several decades but felt detached from the deep roots that most people had in the area

When we came west (for my husband a homecoming to his Oregon roots for me a new experience) i noticed that even in long-established towns like Walla Walla there is ample room for newcomers who want to be

part of the community And most folks who choose to come here donrsquot seem to want to change the valley they prefer to embrace it

While the occasional newbie whines about the lack of Whole Foods or Nordstrom they soon discover our farmers markets the wide variety of local shops and boutiques and our world-class restaurants They fall in love with our charming downtowns the small-town friendliness of the people and our kid-friendly environment Then therersquos the holiday parade the fair the ever-present Blue Mountains the parks the museums the wineries mdash really whatrsquos not to like The communities of our valley represent America at its best

irsquom a newspaper junkie i love to read everything from news to sports to classifieds mdash even the obituaries The obits are a fascinating window on our valley Many of the people chronicled were born here some lived all their lives here inextricably bound to this place But a number of people came here from other places often far away and have made a mark on our area Which makes me wonder mdash is a place any less of a hometown because you choose it or is it based primarily on the happenstance of your birth it seems that therersquos room for both paths to calling this wonderful valley home

itrsquos also our strength because collectively as a community we bring both deep familial and cultural traditions as well as the fresh perspective of newcomers to our area irsquom glad mdash after decades of searching mdash that i finally found my hometown a place that feels just right

diane reed can be reached at ladybookearthlinknet Between columns and when the spirit moves her she blogs at wwwponderingsbydianereedblogspotcom from her home overlooking the pond at lions Park in College Place

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Maymay 1The annual Kennel Club Dog Show Walla Walla County Fairgrounds De-tails 509-558-3854

The Walla Walla University Drama Department pres-ents a performance of ldquoMy Fair ladyrdquo 2 pm matinee Details 509-527-2656

The Walla Walla Choral Society presents ldquoJubilate Deordquo 3 pm May 1 Walla Walla University Church College Place Details 509-386-2445

The Walla Walla Valley Farmers Market opens local produce artisans and an outdoor concert 9 am-1 pm Saturdays and Sundays through Oct 30 Crawford Park Fourth ave and Main St Details gowallawallafarmersmar-ketcom or 509-520-3647

through may 22Enjoy the annual Senior art Thesis Exhibition Sheehan Gallery Whitman College Details 509-527-5249

through JuLy 31The Tamaacutestslikt Cultural In-stitute hosts the traveling OMSI exhibit ldquoamazing Feats of agingrdquo explor-ing the mysteries of why animals and humans age Details 541-966-9748

may 4The YWCa leadership luncheon ldquoMatters that Matterrdquo is informational and inspirational with guest speakers Kristine Van Raden and Molly Da-vis Noon Marcus Whit-man Hotel Details 509-525-2570

Walla Walla Wine Works hosts music on Wednes-days downtown Details 509-522-1261

may 5First Thursday Concert at St Pauls Episcopal Church 323 Catherine Street Walla Walla 1215-1250 pm will feature the Steel Drum Band from Walla Walla Uni-versity directed by Brandon Beck Details 529-1083

The Whitman College Visit-ing Writers Reading series presents Whitman Reading 7 pm Kimball Theatre De-tails whitmanedu

may 5-7 12-14Walla Walla High School Drama Department pres-ents ldquoFiddler on the Roofrdquo musical version 7 pm and 2 pm matinee on Saturdays May 7 and 14 Walla Walla High School Performing arts audito-rium Details Tickets can be reserved by calling 509-526-8613 the Wa-Hi box office

may 5-8 19-21a performance of ldquoThe 25th a nnua l Putnam County Spelling Beerdquo 8 pm Harper Joy Theatre Whitman College Details 509-527-5180

may 6-7Music on the weekends at the Backstage Bistro De-tails 509-526-0690

Sapolil Cellars hosts music on Friday and Saturday De-tails 509-520-5258

The Wildfire hosts music every Friday and Saturday Wildhorse Resort amp Casino Pendleton Details 800-654-9453

may 6-8Walla Walla Valley Winer-ies offer an opportunity to taste their new creations during Spring Release Weekend area wineries introduce new wines and winemakers share their creative inspiration Details 509-526-3117

may 6artWalK First Fridays May through December Visit galleries and chat with art-ists 5-8 pm Downtown Walla Walla Visit artwalk-wallawallacom

may 6-8 13-14The little Theatre presents ldquoalice In Wonderlandrdquo adapted from lewis Carroll 8 pm Friday-Saturday 2 pm Sunday little Theatre of Walla Walla Details 509-529-3683

may 7The annual Junior Horse Show brings great riding action to Milton-Freewater Pioneer Posse Grounds Details 541-938-3379

Daytonrsquos annual Street Sale turns a section of Third Street into a giant yard sale benefits churches and com-munity projects Dayton Details 509-382-4825

artist reception and dem-onstration Washington art-ist Dwight Duke exhibits his painting bronze sculptures and gunpowder light pan-els 6-730 pm Reininger Winery Details 509-522-1994

may 8Every Sunday the living History actors portray in-dividuals from the arearsquos past 2 pm Fort Walla Walla Museum Details 509-525-7703

may 13-15The annual Balloon Stam-pede brings as many as 50 hot-air balloons to the Walla Walla County Fairgrounds This colorful festival re-mains a Valley tradition Ear-ly morning flights (weather permitting) arts amp crafts antique autos commercial booths live entertainment and food Balloons light up to music at the Saturday evening Nite Glow Details 509-525-0850

may 14annual adult event cele-brates the characters who populated Pendletonrsquos past Must have reservations Pendleton Underground Tours Details 800-226-6398

may 14-15 may 27-29Walla Walla Drag Strip con-tinues the weekend fun Details wwdragstripcom or 509-200-6287

may 15Walla Walla University Chamber Series featuring Robyn McCabe 730 pm MKW Fine arts auditorium Details 509-527-2571

may 18To celebrate the opening of Walla Wallarsquos Power House Theatre and a four-day run of Seattle Shakespeare Companyrsquos ldquoThe Merry Wives of WindsorrdquoWalla Walla lifestyles will pres-ent a gala event This exclusive evening will en-chant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fash-ion from 530-9 pm at the Power House Theatre Sixth amp Rose Walla Walla To purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewalla-wallacom

may 19-21During Pendletonrsquos Cattle Baron Weekend enjoy an art exhibit by a talented group of women artists ldquoIn the Company of Cowgirlsrdquo Hamleyrsquos Steakhouse Pendleton Visit inthecom-panyofcowgirlscom or call 541-676-5013

may 19-22Whitman College 50th Reunion class of 1961 Whitman College Details 509-527-5952

Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merr y Wives of Windsorrdquo Pow-erhouse Theater Details 509-742-0739

may 21The annual Ducky Derby is a day of family fun all for a good cause Watch the ducks race down Mill Creek to help fund the Exchange Clubrsquos efforts at preventing child abuse and neglect 1130 am-330 pm Race at about 2 pm Walla Walla Community College De-tails 509-527-4300

Walla Walla University Spring Choral Concert 5 pm Walla Walla Univer-sity Church Details 509-527-2571

learn to contra dance an old-fashioned coun-try dance Music by the Wednesday Night Band 7 pm teaching and practice 730 pm regular dance Unity Church of Peace 810

C St Walla Walla Details 541-938-7403

may 22The Whitman College graduating class of 2011 accepts the challenge 11 am Memorial lawn Whitman College Details 509-527-5156

may 26 27 28 29Walla Walla Community College Theatre arts De-partment presents ldquoZoot Suitrdquo by luis Valdez 7 pm each night and Sunday 2 pm matinee W WCC Performing arts Center Details 509-527-4575

may 27-30 Dayton Days has been a Memorial Weekend tradi-tion in Dayton for nearly 100 years Highlights include a Saturday-morning parade on historic Main Street rodeo tour of Dayton and Memorial Day Fun Run De-tails 509-382-4825 or visit historicdaytoncom

may 28-30The Touchet River Roundup mdash the annual Celebration of Sobriety at the fairgrounds focuses on family fun ac-tivities Waitsburg Details 509-526-3602

may 29annual Onion Man Tria-thalon 9 am Bennington lake Details wwmulti-sportscom or call 509-529-9187

may 30Waitsburgrsquos annual Memo-rial Day celebration hosted by veterans for all veterans Details 509-337-6546

Walla Walla LifestyLes 45

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The sculpture tops the farmers market gazebo on the corner of Fourth Avenue North and West Main Street

Contestensprulesif you have the answer e-mail it to rickdoylewwubcom or send it to Where in Walla Walla 112 S 1st Ave PO Box 1358 Walla Walla WA 99362 The names of 10 people with correct answers will be randomly selected and they will receive this great-looking mug as proof of their local knowledge and good taste

Annette CarterShirley richterDebbie FullenJudy CarlsonEloise Phillips

Dan Countsvicky ScanlonJanet TurnerTam LennoxBruce Campbell

46 Walla Walla LifestyLes

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3 Bergevin Lane vineyards 1215 W Poplar St (509) 526-4300 bergevinlanecom

4 Bunchgrass winery151 Bunchgrass lane (509) 540-8963 wwwbunchgrasswinerycom

5 canoe ridge vineyard1102 W Cherry St (509) 527-0885 wwwcanoeridgevineyardcom

6 castillo de feliciana85728 Telephone Pole Road Milton-Freewater OR (541) 558-3656 wwwcastillodefelicianacom

7 don carlo vineyardBy appointment Only (509) 540-5784 wwwdoncarlovineyardcom

8 dunham cellars150 E Boeing ave (509) 529-4685 wwwdunhamcellarscom

9 five star cellars 840 C St (509) 527-8400 wwwfivestarcellarscom

10 forgeron cellars 33 W Birch St (509) 522-9463 wwwforgeroncellarscom

21 sapolil cellars15 E Main St (509) 520-5258 wwwsapolilcellarscom

22 seven hills winery 212 N Third ave (509) 529-7198 wwwsevenhillswinerycom

23 sinclair estate vineyards 109 E Main Ste 100 (509) 876-4300 wwwsinclairestatevineyardscom

24 spring valley vineyard 18 N Second ave (509) 525-1506 wwwspringvalleyvineyardcom

25 suLei cellars355 S Second ave (503) 529-0840 www suleicellarscom

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12 fort walla walla cellars 127 E Main St (509) 520-1095 wwwfortwallawallacellarscom

13 glencorrie8052 Old Highway 12 (509) 525-2585 wwwglencorriecom

14 grantwood winery 2428 W Highway 12 (509) 301-0719 (509) 301-9546

15 Lrsquoecole no 41 winery41 lowden School Road and US Hwy 12 (509) 525-0940 wwwlecolecom

16 Long shadows1604 Frenchtown Road (Formerly Ireland Road) (509) 526-0905 wwwlongshadowscom By invitation only Requests accepted on a limited basis Please call to inquire

17 Lowden hills winery1401 W Pine St (509) 527-1040 wwwlowdenhillswinerycom

18 northstar winery 1736 JB George Road (509) 524-4883 wwwnorthstarmerlotcom

19 pepper Bridge winery1704 JB George Road (509) 525-6502 wwwpepperbridgecom

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26 syZygy 405 E Boeing ave (509) 522-0484 wwwsyzygywinescom

27 three rivers winery5641 Old Highway 12 (509) 526-9463 infoThreeRiversWinerycom

28 tertulia cellars1564 Whiteley Road (509) 525-5700 wwwtertuliacellarscom

29 trust cellars 1050 Merlot Drive (509) 529-4511 wwwtrustcellarscom

30 va piano vineyards1793 JB George Road (509) 529-0900 wwwvapianovineyardscom

31 walla walla vintnersVineyard lane off Mill Creek Road (509) 525-4724 wwwwallawallavintnerscom

32 walla walla wineworks31 E Main St (509) 522-1261 wwwwallawallawineworkscom

33 whitman cellars1015 W Pine St (509) 529-1142 wwwwhitmancellarscom

34 woodward canyon winery11920 W Hwy 12 lowden (509) 525-4129 wwwwoodwardcanyoncom

35 JLc winery425 B St (509) 301-5148

36 saviah cellars1979 JB George Rd

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Join us for a night of wonder with elizabethan-inspired food fashion and merriment to celebrate the opening of walla wallarsquos power house theatre and prepare for a four-day run of seattle shakespeare companyrsquos ldquothe merry wives of windsorrdquo

walla walla lifestyles will present a fashion show with wicked and wistful gowns twisted braided hair and smoldering makeup designs designers include red eden designs autumnlin design and others

semi-formal attire creative masks encouraged this exclusive evening will enchant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fashion

to purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewallawallacom

530 - 9 pm May 18 2011

The Power H o use The at reS i x t h amp R o se Wa l l a Wa l l a

T H E A T R EPOWER HOUSE

My director Terry Edward Moore told me his only direction from the artistic director was that it be ldquoperiodrdquo that is to say authentic to the time

ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo is the only one of Shakespearersquos plays that is set in his own time so it was decided to present it as if the actors were people of the time doing what would be a contemporary (to the late 16th century) play

i started to research the clothing of the time how it was constructed and what kinds of fabrics were available at the time mdash linens homespuns woolens for the common people and silks damasks velvets and furs for the upper classes i discovered that Elizabethan society was strictly regulated in terms of social classes and upward mobility was a little-known concept Once a yeoman always a yeoman i also discovered the set of rules and regulations called ldquosumptuary lawsrdquo which specifically dictated what types of fabrics trims furs and even what colors each class was allowed to wear

Since there are three distinct classes represented in ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo mdash merchant class soldiers and servants mdash i tried to give each class its own color palette based on these laws The overall palette of the show is based on colors actually in use at the time

The availability of dyes was limited (except for the nobility) so the palette consists of many shades of yellows and browns russets black some greens and blue-grays and of course wheat-colored unbleached linen i turned to the Dutch painter Brueghel for inspiration on how the common people looked and dressed

i also researched what kinds of dyes were used and where they came from Dyes were created from all sorts of different things such as walnut shell crushed beetles and all kinds of roots i found a website that sells these authentic dyestuffs so irsquom using the real thing to dye some of the linen pieces and will coordinate the contemporary fabrics to these authentic colors

Nearly every piece will need something done to it mdash altered in some way to fit the actor re-trimmed rigged invisibly for quick changes etc mdash so there is a lot of labor involved Also hats were a hugely important part of Elizabethan fashion all the way down to the poorest serf

Certain styles of hats were often associated with certain professions mdash eg doctors scholars mdash so there are a number of hats to build as well as headpieces for the women No self-respecting woman went about with her head uncovered

Putting together a show like this is like putting together a giant jigsaw puzzle and the pieces are the costumes that irsquove borrowed and rented from other theater companies in the Seattle area such as Seattle repertory Seattle Opera and the University of Washington as well as pieces from Oregon Shakespeare Festival i design the show and then go out into the world and try to find pieces that approximate my designs and palette as closely as possible (usually with some reworking first) The pieces that i cant find and dont want to compromise on i build from scratch

deane middLeton is a theatre costume professional who works in the Seattle area She has done costumes for Issaquahrsquos Village Theater as well as several productions of the Seattle Shakespeare Company

ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 29

ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo was the only one of Shakespearersquos works set in his own time the 1600s and features Sir John Falstaff It also deals primarily with english middle-class life A hilarious bawdy comedy filled with insight into the life and times of Shakespeare ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo will delight people of all ages

About the play

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But thatrsquos exactly what longtime Walla Walla resident Larry Adams did for four years He was one of a select group of pilots for Marine One the helicopter counterpart of the presidential airplane Air Force One from 1970 to 1974

30 Walla Walla LifestyLes

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 31

Long before Adams became the Walla Walla Airport manager he was transporting heads of state foreign dignitaries famous (and now infamous) Cabinet members the executive staff and President richard M Nixon during one of the nationrsquos most turbulent times the withdrawal from vietnam and the Watergate scandal

But to Adams a native of Northern idaho all that swirled around the Nixon presidency was the least of his concerns His job was to transport the president safely to Andrews Air Force Base or Camp David or fly any short flight required Safety always at a premium End of story

Many times Adams ferried President Nixon and his staff on short flights far away from home Air Force One might fly President Nixon to a summit or a meeting with a foreign head of state but Marine One and Adams were always nearby to shuttle the chief executive on short flights or to whisk him away from sudden danger

Pretty heady stuff for a fourth-grade teacher who had never thought about flying until a Marine recruiter offered him the opportunity Although Adams had watched planes take off and land at a nearby air base as a child he had never given serious thought to flying it was more a need for a bigger paycheck than passion that brought Adams to his destiny

He liked teaching but it just wasnrsquot paying the bills So Adams turned to the military and the Gi Bill After being unimpressed by other recruiters Adams took a liking to the fellow from the Marines for as Adams recalls the recruiter took an interest in him After about an hour of talking the recruiter suggested Adams might have the potential to be a pilot

Having easily passed some preliminary tests Adams was sent to flight school in Pensacola Fla and a stellar career was ready to take off He performed well in all the aircraft he piloted but he showed a special skill for helicopters

Up until 1965 fixed-wing airplanes were the staple of all military air combat But the military had been gearing up for a big change The helicopter was to become a major part of combat The Pentagon had been developing helicopters that would do much more than transport troops to bases Now they would assist in bombing

raids ground attacks and the evacuation of the injured from the point of combat This new breed of helicopters would also possess the ability to fight back and not be lame ducks as before the new H34 would tote machine guns on each side

These cutting-edge aircraft would travel at unprecedented speeds with newly discovered agility Gifted pilots were needed not those who merely possessed superior technical skills but those who also had the composure to fly straight into

enemy fire in the dead of night picking up injured soldiers or aiding air attacks

Adams was one of those pilots and he would be one of two squadron leaders for ldquoOperation Starliterdquo mdash the first major assault using helicopters The Marines were going straight into a North vietnamese regimental stronghold No one knew what to expect

ldquoWe lost a lot that first time inrdquo says Adams ldquoTwo crew chiefs were killed

Continued on pg 32 gt

In this newspaper clipping Larry Adams poses on the steps of the helicopter dubbed Marine One which he piloted for President Richard M Nixon

32 Walla Walla LifestyLes

people ltcontinued from pg 31

four pilots were medevaced out because of their wounds i donrsquot think there was one helicopter that didnrsquot have a bunch of holes in it The one i flew in we got a lot of rounds in it Amazingly no one was hurt but when we got back the helicopter was so shot-up you couldnrsquot fly it anymore We lost 50 percent of our helicopters that dayrdquo

in the next 13 months Adams would fly many more missions often heading straight into anti-aircraft fire to pick up injured or killed soldiers He says he would see the flares signifying where the copter was supposed to land but frequently hersquod have to veer off because ground communication would say ldquoThe artillery is too hotrdquo Then there would be a window maybe two minutes maybe five when the helicopter could drop in and pick up the injured often being shot at as it waited for its passengers

Adams knew the best way to survive was to keep his focus ldquoin the daylight when you start your run in and yoursquore getting shot at Everything went to black and white for me i didnrsquot notice the green trees or the green rice paddies until we got out of there and then it would come back

to me i donrsquot know what that was i just didnrsquot see the colors irsquove talked to some other pilots and they described the same thingrdquo

in his two tours of duty in vietnam Adams would fly 880 combat missions in several types of helicopters and fixed-wing airplanes He received numerous medals including two Navy commendations for performance under combat conditions

Then the call came to fly for the president Before Adams could tote the commander in chief around in Marine One a thorough background check had to be done So thorough was the check that Adams said a friend from his hometown sent him a card that read ldquoAre you in some kind of trouble Jesus therersquos been a bunch of people around here with the dark grey suits and the skinny little ties Theyrsquore asking all these embarrassing questions about you like did you have drinking problem Did you have a gambling problem Do you know what Larryrsquos sexual preference wasrdquo

Adams chuckles ldquoit was pretty funnyrdquoAdams passed the grade and soon

he was flying President Nixon and his family to Camp David or picking up vice

President Spiro Agnew at the Pentagon or taking Secretary of State Henry kissinger or Secretary of Defense Alexander Haig to a classified meeting Although his flights varied from transporting foreign heads of state to flying members of the press the majority involved the president the vice president kissinger and Haig

The pilots did not speak to their travelers unless spoken to says Adams President Nixon usually looked in and asked them how they were kissinger never spoke Haig was good for a pat on the shoulder now and then but it was Agnew who conversed the most says Adams

Adams remembers ldquoOne time we picked him up at the Pentagon and we had taken off and had hit top altitude He usually would come up and look into the cockpit but this time he patted me on the shoulder and asked lsquoWell howrsquos it going today guysrsquordquo Adams replied ldquoNot bad sir and how about yourselfrdquo

Agnew answered ldquoMan they are really after my assrdquo He was talking about the press Adams says ldquoTwo weeks later he resignedrdquo

Adams recalls that his encounters with Agnew as defying the public perception

Adams far right gives instructions before a mission in Vietnam

Walla Walla LifestyLes 33

that Agnew was arrogant ldquoHe was always one of the nicest guys He was straightforward He looked like he had just stepped off the cover of Gentlemenrsquos Quarterly all the time He was very proper in the way he dressed but he had a sense of humor as wellrdquo

There were other humorous moments Adams recalls a certain reporter from CBS who had been a major thorn in President Nixonrsquos side was late for takeoff from the South Lawn of the White House one morning Just as Marine One was about to leave without him he came running across the lawn hollering and waving his arms The Secret Service agent supervising the flight told Adams to ldquojust gordquo The wind from the propellers whipped the reporterrsquos toupee right off his head and instead of continuing his run toward Marine One he reversed his field and tried feverishly to retrieve his toupee snagged in the hedges

ldquoEveryone got a pretty good chuckle out of thatrdquo

Of course there were somber times At one point Adams flew Cabinet members John Ehrlichman and Hr Haldeman to Camp David for a meeting with the president After only 15 minutes the two men returned and Marine One headed home Adams says it was a quiet flight He found out later the two men had been fired by President Nixon for their parts in the Watergate scandal

Whisking the president away from danger was a major part of being a pilot of Marine One Stationed across the river from the Capitol pilots awakened by an emergency alert had to be up in the air in five minutes This exercise was practiced often though never needed during Adamsrsquo tenure

One night however they thought it was The operator at the White House mistakenly hit the ldquoAlertrdquo button Marine One was in the air in five minutes

Although ground control had not spotted any enemy aircraft the operation was under way As Marine One closed in on the White House the operator at fault tried to alert everyone of his mistake but unfortunately used a poor choice of words to call off the operation

Adams chuckles as he says ldquoThe fella said lsquoThis is not an exercisersquo He was moved to another post i thinkrdquo

All levity aside the position required

the same kind of focus demanded of Adams in vietnam though it came in a different form

ldquoThere were three things the way you operated the aircraft and they were in this order safety comfort and speed Safety never gave in to comfort or speedrdquo says Adams ldquoOur job was just concentrating on doing our job it could have been anybody mdash we would do it the same way it could have been Fred Flintstone

ldquoThe difference between flying for the White House and in vietnam was we were flying a premier aircraft We had to keep it impeccably clean everything was scripted We had to have the lsquoopen-the-door timersquo down to two to four seconds in vietnam it was the stress of performing medevacs under fire or dropping troops under heavy artillery For Marine One it was the stress of doing the job rightrdquo

Also the stress of being away from onersquos family 200 days of the year wore on a Marine One pilot in 1974 after four years on the job the toll became too much and Adams stepped down

He would stay with the Marines for eight more years retiring in August 1982

By then he had received 44 Air Medals including the Joint Service Commendation and the Presidential Service Badge in his 20 years of service Adams flew seven different helicopters and five different fixed-wing planes

What makes an elite military pilot ldquoPilots who donrsquot have any misgivingsrdquo says Adams ldquoTheyrsquore totally prepared they know their aircraftrdquo

When talking about his colleagues on Marine One he adds ldquoNone were boasters They might brag about a great landing but they did not brag in spite of someone elserdquo

What did Adams love most about his flying days ldquoi enjoyed flying with the latest technology and the pristine quality of Marine One i loved the process of building my skills i could have flown another 40 years and i would still be learning thingsrdquo

is it any surprise his favorite hobby now is fly fishing

andrew hoLt writes about food people and all things Walla Walla for Walla Walla lifestyles magazine He can be reached at bruindrew86gmailcom

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it is astonishing in many ways mdash that we are presented with two weeks of top-drawer music performed by top-drawer musi-cians that there are so many ways to encounter the music (many of them free) and that a rural community has provided the incu-

bator for such a cultural undertaking to name but a fewGranted we are not your average rural community having two

colleges a university a symphony a choral society a community band and music in the schools but letrsquos face it wersquore not exactly a cosmopolitan center of culture like New york either The Cham-ber Music Festival mdash and our continued support of it through some tough times mdash puts us in a category all our own

ldquoi saw what was special about this community the first time i visited in 2007rdquo Artistic Director Timothy Christie says ldquoi have

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worked hard to start this event and to my great joy it has taken on an iden-tity of its own i hire the musicians and choose the music but the town its people and its environs make the festivalrdquo

The beauty of chamber music is its intimacy mdash smaller ensembles performing for smaller audiences it has been referred to as ldquothe music of friendsrdquo which seems so apt at this festival Free open rehearsals are held around town that provide not only a musical atmosphere in which to enjoy a latte or the ambiance of the kirkman House but which give a richer look into the machinations of a working ensemble

As one enthusiastic fan puts it ldquoi am not a musician and itrsquos fascinat-ing to watch these rehearsals to see the interactions of the musicians as they work out the snags make wry remarks and relate to each other in a whole different way than during a for-mal performance i get a glimpse into their personalities and what makes them tickrdquo

The festival supplies a generous of-fering of venues with free concerts for children and families relaxed evening programs at wineries and full concerts at the Foundry Chism Hall and Day-tonrsquos Liberty Theater

if you are lucky enough to live near the musiciansrsquo lodgings while they are in town you may also be treated to an ad hoc front-porch concert as the ensembles continue their rehearsals in more private settings The festival is about all of these ways mdash planned and accidental mdash to experience the enchantment of chamber music

it is also about historic continuity and the connection between past and present mdash relishing the existing canon while expanding the genre with con-temporary forms and voices

How is this accomplished in part by the annual commission of a new piece of music for the festival Chris-tie is committed to contributing to the broader chamber music repertoire and to providing the audience with the richest possible experience

Continued on pg 36 gt

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ldquoFor classical music to be relevant there must be a conversation between the music of our time and the music of the pastrdquo he says

By commissioning a work for the festi-val each year Christie creates such a con-versation

This year the commission was given to John David Earnest Four festival commis-sions have preceded his and he is the sec-ond ldquolocalrdquo composer to be tapped add-ing another layer of relationship between community and event (in 2009 Whitman College professor David Glenn was given the nod)

As visiting adjunct professor of music at Whitman Earnest resides here for six weeks every semester His ldquoSecond Sym-phonyrdquo was written for and performed by the Walla Walla Symphony in October 2001

The challenge for the yearly commis-sionee is to compose a piece on demand within specific constraints of time place and instrumentation while expressing hisher own voice as an artist

Earnest has created ldquoCommedia Gal-leryrdquo a set of three movements for flute

viola and harp based on stock characters from the Commedia dellrsquoArte a popu-lar theatrical form that was influential in Europe for over 300 years Commedia characters improvised dialogue around set scenarios generally involving the struggles of young lovers to overcome hindrances to their romance and each character even-tually came to have a consistent set of at-tributes in speech mannerisms and cos-tume

Earnestrsquos ldquoGalleryrdquo gives us Arlecchi-no (Harlequin) an acrobatic and devious jester Pierrot the classic sad clown and finally Scaramouche a dandy and a brag-gart who is a coward at heart

in anticipation of this yearrsquos festival i am reminded of the scene in ldquoThe Music Manrdquo in which the town awaits the ar-rival of the Wells Fargo Wagon Potentially heaped with gifts and surprises it prom-ises connection to the larger world The WWCMF brings us all ldquosomethinrsquo specialrdquo mdash an enrichment of our community and our culture

margaret Jamison is an artist and writer living in Walla Walla Contact her at artjamisongmailcom

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Smith has gardened for years at his home at 38 Mulberry Court in College Place He used to grow vegetables and flowers now he is strictly focusing on flowers mdash with fabulous results roses delphiniums and lots of irises line the fence

ldquoirises mdash irsquove always enjoyed themrdquo he says ldquoThey take a little bit of weeding and watering but not much morerdquo itrsquos the gardenerrsquos dream mdash low maintenance with a big return

A retired orthopedic surgeon Smith has in the past gardened more extensively than he does now But he has enough plants to keep him busy His new project is planting more of the reblooming iris These are still hardy but you get twice the reward they bloom in the spring then again in the fall

ldquoTheyrsquore easy to grow and spectacular for a short time iris take less care than a lot of thingsrdquo Smith says

His secret for gardening is simple and therersquos no getting around it ldquoTime and workrdquo he laughs

Hersquos getting ready to start in the garden ldquoi need to clean out the leaves and the old foliage of the irisrdquo

in addition to the basic cleaning and maintenance Smith just decides how many plants to keep Bulb flowers are hardy and they multiply on their own

ldquoAfter five years you usually have to separate the bulbs when they get too thick i donrsquot have room to add more i put in the new re-blooming onesrdquo he explains ldquoi may add more and a few other thingsrdquo

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itrsquos an odd location since it can only be seen as yoursquore leaving town but it always makes me smile This valley my adopted home is indeed a great place to be

i recently finished reading the great Western writer Wallace Stegnerrsquos book ldquoThe Sound of Mountain Waterrdquo One of his essays traces his nomadic childhood which left him feeling rootless and without a place that he felt he could call home

i identify with his feeling of not belonging i was born to a single woman from Massachusetts in a New york City hospital i stayed a scant few days before being placed with an adoption agency Born in a place i had no familial connection to i was immediately deprived of my biological family Most of my childhood was spent in suburban Cleveland Ohio Moves to upstate New york New England and Pennsylvania brought me no closer to calling any place home i loved living in the western Massachusetts town of Stockbridge but the multigenerational denizens of the town left few openings for newcomers like me i lived in central Pennsylvania for several decades but felt detached from the deep roots that most people had in the area

When we came west (for my husband a homecoming to his Oregon roots for me a new experience) i noticed that even in long-established towns like Walla Walla there is ample room for newcomers who want to be

part of the community And most folks who choose to come here donrsquot seem to want to change the valley they prefer to embrace it

While the occasional newbie whines about the lack of Whole Foods or Nordstrom they soon discover our farmers markets the wide variety of local shops and boutiques and our world-class restaurants They fall in love with our charming downtowns the small-town friendliness of the people and our kid-friendly environment Then therersquos the holiday parade the fair the ever-present Blue Mountains the parks the museums the wineries mdash really whatrsquos not to like The communities of our valley represent America at its best

irsquom a newspaper junkie i love to read everything from news to sports to classifieds mdash even the obituaries The obits are a fascinating window on our valley Many of the people chronicled were born here some lived all their lives here inextricably bound to this place But a number of people came here from other places often far away and have made a mark on our area Which makes me wonder mdash is a place any less of a hometown because you choose it or is it based primarily on the happenstance of your birth it seems that therersquos room for both paths to calling this wonderful valley home

itrsquos also our strength because collectively as a community we bring both deep familial and cultural traditions as well as the fresh perspective of newcomers to our area irsquom glad mdash after decades of searching mdash that i finally found my hometown a place that feels just right

diane reed can be reached at ladybookearthlinknet Between columns and when the spirit moves her she blogs at wwwponderingsbydianereedblogspotcom from her home overlooking the pond at lions Park in College Place

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Maymay 1The annual Kennel Club Dog Show Walla Walla County Fairgrounds De-tails 509-558-3854

The Walla Walla University Drama Department pres-ents a performance of ldquoMy Fair ladyrdquo 2 pm matinee Details 509-527-2656

The Walla Walla Choral Society presents ldquoJubilate Deordquo 3 pm May 1 Walla Walla University Church College Place Details 509-386-2445

The Walla Walla Valley Farmers Market opens local produce artisans and an outdoor concert 9 am-1 pm Saturdays and Sundays through Oct 30 Crawford Park Fourth ave and Main St Details gowallawallafarmersmar-ketcom or 509-520-3647

through may 22Enjoy the annual Senior art Thesis Exhibition Sheehan Gallery Whitman College Details 509-527-5249

through JuLy 31The Tamaacutestslikt Cultural In-stitute hosts the traveling OMSI exhibit ldquoamazing Feats of agingrdquo explor-ing the mysteries of why animals and humans age Details 541-966-9748

may 4The YWCa leadership luncheon ldquoMatters that Matterrdquo is informational and inspirational with guest speakers Kristine Van Raden and Molly Da-vis Noon Marcus Whit-man Hotel Details 509-525-2570

Walla Walla Wine Works hosts music on Wednes-days downtown Details 509-522-1261

may 5First Thursday Concert at St Pauls Episcopal Church 323 Catherine Street Walla Walla 1215-1250 pm will feature the Steel Drum Band from Walla Walla Uni-versity directed by Brandon Beck Details 529-1083

The Whitman College Visit-ing Writers Reading series presents Whitman Reading 7 pm Kimball Theatre De-tails whitmanedu

may 5-7 12-14Walla Walla High School Drama Department pres-ents ldquoFiddler on the Roofrdquo musical version 7 pm and 2 pm matinee on Saturdays May 7 and 14 Walla Walla High School Performing arts audito-rium Details Tickets can be reserved by calling 509-526-8613 the Wa-Hi box office

may 5-8 19-21a performance of ldquoThe 25th a nnua l Putnam County Spelling Beerdquo 8 pm Harper Joy Theatre Whitman College Details 509-527-5180

may 6-7Music on the weekends at the Backstage Bistro De-tails 509-526-0690

Sapolil Cellars hosts music on Friday and Saturday De-tails 509-520-5258

The Wildfire hosts music every Friday and Saturday Wildhorse Resort amp Casino Pendleton Details 800-654-9453

may 6-8Walla Walla Valley Winer-ies offer an opportunity to taste their new creations during Spring Release Weekend area wineries introduce new wines and winemakers share their creative inspiration Details 509-526-3117

may 6artWalK First Fridays May through December Visit galleries and chat with art-ists 5-8 pm Downtown Walla Walla Visit artwalk-wallawallacom

may 6-8 13-14The little Theatre presents ldquoalice In Wonderlandrdquo adapted from lewis Carroll 8 pm Friday-Saturday 2 pm Sunday little Theatre of Walla Walla Details 509-529-3683

may 7The annual Junior Horse Show brings great riding action to Milton-Freewater Pioneer Posse Grounds Details 541-938-3379

Daytonrsquos annual Street Sale turns a section of Third Street into a giant yard sale benefits churches and com-munity projects Dayton Details 509-382-4825

artist reception and dem-onstration Washington art-ist Dwight Duke exhibits his painting bronze sculptures and gunpowder light pan-els 6-730 pm Reininger Winery Details 509-522-1994

may 8Every Sunday the living History actors portray in-dividuals from the arearsquos past 2 pm Fort Walla Walla Museum Details 509-525-7703

may 13-15The annual Balloon Stam-pede brings as many as 50 hot-air balloons to the Walla Walla County Fairgrounds This colorful festival re-mains a Valley tradition Ear-ly morning flights (weather permitting) arts amp crafts antique autos commercial booths live entertainment and food Balloons light up to music at the Saturday evening Nite Glow Details 509-525-0850

may 14annual adult event cele-brates the characters who populated Pendletonrsquos past Must have reservations Pendleton Underground Tours Details 800-226-6398

may 14-15 may 27-29Walla Walla Drag Strip con-tinues the weekend fun Details wwdragstripcom or 509-200-6287

may 15Walla Walla University Chamber Series featuring Robyn McCabe 730 pm MKW Fine arts auditorium Details 509-527-2571

may 18To celebrate the opening of Walla Wallarsquos Power House Theatre and a four-day run of Seattle Shakespeare Companyrsquos ldquoThe Merry Wives of WindsorrdquoWalla Walla lifestyles will pres-ent a gala event This exclusive evening will en-chant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fash-ion from 530-9 pm at the Power House Theatre Sixth amp Rose Walla Walla To purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewalla-wallacom

may 19-21During Pendletonrsquos Cattle Baron Weekend enjoy an art exhibit by a talented group of women artists ldquoIn the Company of Cowgirlsrdquo Hamleyrsquos Steakhouse Pendleton Visit inthecom-panyofcowgirlscom or call 541-676-5013

may 19-22Whitman College 50th Reunion class of 1961 Whitman College Details 509-527-5952

Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merr y Wives of Windsorrdquo Pow-erhouse Theater Details 509-742-0739

may 21The annual Ducky Derby is a day of family fun all for a good cause Watch the ducks race down Mill Creek to help fund the Exchange Clubrsquos efforts at preventing child abuse and neglect 1130 am-330 pm Race at about 2 pm Walla Walla Community College De-tails 509-527-4300

Walla Walla University Spring Choral Concert 5 pm Walla Walla Univer-sity Church Details 509-527-2571

learn to contra dance an old-fashioned coun-try dance Music by the Wednesday Night Band 7 pm teaching and practice 730 pm regular dance Unity Church of Peace 810

C St Walla Walla Details 541-938-7403

may 22The Whitman College graduating class of 2011 accepts the challenge 11 am Memorial lawn Whitman College Details 509-527-5156

may 26 27 28 29Walla Walla Community College Theatre arts De-partment presents ldquoZoot Suitrdquo by luis Valdez 7 pm each night and Sunday 2 pm matinee W WCC Performing arts Center Details 509-527-4575

may 27-30 Dayton Days has been a Memorial Weekend tradi-tion in Dayton for nearly 100 years Highlights include a Saturday-morning parade on historic Main Street rodeo tour of Dayton and Memorial Day Fun Run De-tails 509-382-4825 or visit historicdaytoncom

may 28-30The Touchet River Roundup mdash the annual Celebration of Sobriety at the fairgrounds focuses on family fun ac-tivities Waitsburg Details 509-526-3602

may 29annual Onion Man Tria-thalon 9 am Bennington lake Details wwmulti-sportscom or call 509-529-9187

may 30Waitsburgrsquos annual Memo-rial Day celebration hosted by veterans for all veterans Details 509-337-6546

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This sculptural cornucopia marks the spot where all of Walla Walla meets the producers and wersquore not talking about the Zero Mostel and Gene Wild-er musical For you GPS fans latitude 4606678 N longitude 11834197 W

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The sculpture tops the farmers market gazebo on the corner of Fourth Avenue North and West Main Street

Contestensprulesif you have the answer e-mail it to rickdoylewwubcom or send it to Where in Walla Walla 112 S 1st Ave PO Box 1358 Walla Walla WA 99362 The names of 10 people with correct answers will be randomly selected and they will receive this great-looking mug as proof of their local knowledge and good taste

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2 Basel cellars estate winery2901 Old Milton Hwy (509) 522-0200 wwwbaselcellarscom

3 Bergevin Lane vineyards 1215 W Poplar St (509) 526-4300 bergevinlanecom

4 Bunchgrass winery151 Bunchgrass lane (509) 540-8963 wwwbunchgrasswinerycom

5 canoe ridge vineyard1102 W Cherry St (509) 527-0885 wwwcanoeridgevineyardcom

6 castillo de feliciana85728 Telephone Pole Road Milton-Freewater OR (541) 558-3656 wwwcastillodefelicianacom

7 don carlo vineyardBy appointment Only (509) 540-5784 wwwdoncarlovineyardcom

8 dunham cellars150 E Boeing ave (509) 529-4685 wwwdunhamcellarscom

9 five star cellars 840 C St (509) 527-8400 wwwfivestarcellarscom

10 forgeron cellars 33 W Birch St (509) 522-9463 wwwforgeroncellarscom

21 sapolil cellars15 E Main St (509) 520-5258 wwwsapolilcellarscom

22 seven hills winery 212 N Third ave (509) 529-7198 wwwsevenhillswinerycom

23 sinclair estate vineyards 109 E Main Ste 100 (509) 876-4300 wwwsinclairestatevineyardscom

24 spring valley vineyard 18 N Second ave (509) 525-1506 wwwspringvalleyvineyardcom

25 suLei cellars355 S Second ave (503) 529-0840 www suleicellarscom

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11 foundry vineyards Corner of 13th ave and abadie St (509) 529-0736 wwwwallawallafoundrycomvineyards

12 fort walla walla cellars 127 E Main St (509) 520-1095 wwwfortwallawallacellarscom

13 glencorrie8052 Old Highway 12 (509) 525-2585 wwwglencorriecom

14 grantwood winery 2428 W Highway 12 (509) 301-0719 (509) 301-9546

15 Lrsquoecole no 41 winery41 lowden School Road and US Hwy 12 (509) 525-0940 wwwlecolecom

16 Long shadows1604 Frenchtown Road (Formerly Ireland Road) (509) 526-0905 wwwlongshadowscom By invitation only Requests accepted on a limited basis Please call to inquire

17 Lowden hills winery1401 W Pine St (509) 527-1040 wwwlowdenhillswinerycom

18 northstar winery 1736 JB George Road (509) 524-4883 wwwnorthstarmerlotcom

19 pepper Bridge winery1704 JB George Road (509) 525-6502 wwwpepperbridgecom

20 robison ranch cellars2839 Robison Ranch Road (509) 301-3480 robisonranchcellarscom

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26 syZygy 405 E Boeing ave (509) 522-0484 wwwsyzygywinescom

27 three rivers winery5641 Old Highway 12 (509) 526-9463 infoThreeRiversWinerycom

28 tertulia cellars1564 Whiteley Road (509) 525-5700 wwwtertuliacellarscom

29 trust cellars 1050 Merlot Drive (509) 529-4511 wwwtrustcellarscom

30 va piano vineyards1793 JB George Road (509) 529-0900 wwwvapianovineyardscom

31 walla walla vintnersVineyard lane off Mill Creek Road (509) 525-4724 wwwwallawallavintnerscom

32 walla walla wineworks31 E Main St (509) 522-1261 wwwwallawallawineworkscom

33 whitman cellars1015 W Pine St (509) 529-1142 wwwwhitmancellarscom

34 woodward canyon winery11920 W Hwy 12 lowden (509) 525-4129 wwwwoodwardcanyoncom

35 JLc winery425 B St (509) 301-5148

36 saviah cellars1979 JB George Rd

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Join us for a night of wonder with elizabethan-inspired food fashion and merriment to celebrate the opening of walla wallarsquos power house theatre and prepare for a four-day run of seattle shakespeare companyrsquos ldquothe merry wives of windsorrdquo

walla walla lifestyles will present a fashion show with wicked and wistful gowns twisted braided hair and smoldering makeup designs designers include red eden designs autumnlin design and others

semi-formal attire creative masks encouraged this exclusive evening will enchant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fashion

to purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewallawallacom

530 - 9 pm May 18 2011

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T H E A T R EPOWER HOUSE

My director Terry Edward Moore told me his only direction from the artistic director was that it be ldquoperiodrdquo that is to say authentic to the time

ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo is the only one of Shakespearersquos plays that is set in his own time so it was decided to present it as if the actors were people of the time doing what would be a contemporary (to the late 16th century) play

i started to research the clothing of the time how it was constructed and what kinds of fabrics were available at the time mdash linens homespuns woolens for the common people and silks damasks velvets and furs for the upper classes i discovered that Elizabethan society was strictly regulated in terms of social classes and upward mobility was a little-known concept Once a yeoman always a yeoman i also discovered the set of rules and regulations called ldquosumptuary lawsrdquo which specifically dictated what types of fabrics trims furs and even what colors each class was allowed to wear

Since there are three distinct classes represented in ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo mdash merchant class soldiers and servants mdash i tried to give each class its own color palette based on these laws The overall palette of the show is based on colors actually in use at the time

The availability of dyes was limited (except for the nobility) so the palette consists of many shades of yellows and browns russets black some greens and blue-grays and of course wheat-colored unbleached linen i turned to the Dutch painter Brueghel for inspiration on how the common people looked and dressed

i also researched what kinds of dyes were used and where they came from Dyes were created from all sorts of different things such as walnut shell crushed beetles and all kinds of roots i found a website that sells these authentic dyestuffs so irsquom using the real thing to dye some of the linen pieces and will coordinate the contemporary fabrics to these authentic colors

Nearly every piece will need something done to it mdash altered in some way to fit the actor re-trimmed rigged invisibly for quick changes etc mdash so there is a lot of labor involved Also hats were a hugely important part of Elizabethan fashion all the way down to the poorest serf

Certain styles of hats were often associated with certain professions mdash eg doctors scholars mdash so there are a number of hats to build as well as headpieces for the women No self-respecting woman went about with her head uncovered

Putting together a show like this is like putting together a giant jigsaw puzzle and the pieces are the costumes that irsquove borrowed and rented from other theater companies in the Seattle area such as Seattle repertory Seattle Opera and the University of Washington as well as pieces from Oregon Shakespeare Festival i design the show and then go out into the world and try to find pieces that approximate my designs and palette as closely as possible (usually with some reworking first) The pieces that i cant find and dont want to compromise on i build from scratch

deane middLeton is a theatre costume professional who works in the Seattle area She has done costumes for Issaquahrsquos Village Theater as well as several productions of the Seattle Shakespeare Company

ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 29

ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo was the only one of Shakespearersquos works set in his own time the 1600s and features Sir John Falstaff It also deals primarily with english middle-class life A hilarious bawdy comedy filled with insight into the life and times of Shakespeare ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo will delight people of all ages

About the play

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But thatrsquos exactly what longtime Walla Walla resident Larry Adams did for four years He was one of a select group of pilots for Marine One the helicopter counterpart of the presidential airplane Air Force One from 1970 to 1974

30 Walla Walla LifestyLes

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 31

Long before Adams became the Walla Walla Airport manager he was transporting heads of state foreign dignitaries famous (and now infamous) Cabinet members the executive staff and President richard M Nixon during one of the nationrsquos most turbulent times the withdrawal from vietnam and the Watergate scandal

But to Adams a native of Northern idaho all that swirled around the Nixon presidency was the least of his concerns His job was to transport the president safely to Andrews Air Force Base or Camp David or fly any short flight required Safety always at a premium End of story

Many times Adams ferried President Nixon and his staff on short flights far away from home Air Force One might fly President Nixon to a summit or a meeting with a foreign head of state but Marine One and Adams were always nearby to shuttle the chief executive on short flights or to whisk him away from sudden danger

Pretty heady stuff for a fourth-grade teacher who had never thought about flying until a Marine recruiter offered him the opportunity Although Adams had watched planes take off and land at a nearby air base as a child he had never given serious thought to flying it was more a need for a bigger paycheck than passion that brought Adams to his destiny

He liked teaching but it just wasnrsquot paying the bills So Adams turned to the military and the Gi Bill After being unimpressed by other recruiters Adams took a liking to the fellow from the Marines for as Adams recalls the recruiter took an interest in him After about an hour of talking the recruiter suggested Adams might have the potential to be a pilot

Having easily passed some preliminary tests Adams was sent to flight school in Pensacola Fla and a stellar career was ready to take off He performed well in all the aircraft he piloted but he showed a special skill for helicopters

Up until 1965 fixed-wing airplanes were the staple of all military air combat But the military had been gearing up for a big change The helicopter was to become a major part of combat The Pentagon had been developing helicopters that would do much more than transport troops to bases Now they would assist in bombing

raids ground attacks and the evacuation of the injured from the point of combat This new breed of helicopters would also possess the ability to fight back and not be lame ducks as before the new H34 would tote machine guns on each side

These cutting-edge aircraft would travel at unprecedented speeds with newly discovered agility Gifted pilots were needed not those who merely possessed superior technical skills but those who also had the composure to fly straight into

enemy fire in the dead of night picking up injured soldiers or aiding air attacks

Adams was one of those pilots and he would be one of two squadron leaders for ldquoOperation Starliterdquo mdash the first major assault using helicopters The Marines were going straight into a North vietnamese regimental stronghold No one knew what to expect

ldquoWe lost a lot that first time inrdquo says Adams ldquoTwo crew chiefs were killed

Continued on pg 32 gt

In this newspaper clipping Larry Adams poses on the steps of the helicopter dubbed Marine One which he piloted for President Richard M Nixon

32 Walla Walla LifestyLes

people ltcontinued from pg 31

four pilots were medevaced out because of their wounds i donrsquot think there was one helicopter that didnrsquot have a bunch of holes in it The one i flew in we got a lot of rounds in it Amazingly no one was hurt but when we got back the helicopter was so shot-up you couldnrsquot fly it anymore We lost 50 percent of our helicopters that dayrdquo

in the next 13 months Adams would fly many more missions often heading straight into anti-aircraft fire to pick up injured or killed soldiers He says he would see the flares signifying where the copter was supposed to land but frequently hersquod have to veer off because ground communication would say ldquoThe artillery is too hotrdquo Then there would be a window maybe two minutes maybe five when the helicopter could drop in and pick up the injured often being shot at as it waited for its passengers

Adams knew the best way to survive was to keep his focus ldquoin the daylight when you start your run in and yoursquore getting shot at Everything went to black and white for me i didnrsquot notice the green trees or the green rice paddies until we got out of there and then it would come back

to me i donrsquot know what that was i just didnrsquot see the colors irsquove talked to some other pilots and they described the same thingrdquo

in his two tours of duty in vietnam Adams would fly 880 combat missions in several types of helicopters and fixed-wing airplanes He received numerous medals including two Navy commendations for performance under combat conditions

Then the call came to fly for the president Before Adams could tote the commander in chief around in Marine One a thorough background check had to be done So thorough was the check that Adams said a friend from his hometown sent him a card that read ldquoAre you in some kind of trouble Jesus therersquos been a bunch of people around here with the dark grey suits and the skinny little ties Theyrsquore asking all these embarrassing questions about you like did you have drinking problem Did you have a gambling problem Do you know what Larryrsquos sexual preference wasrdquo

Adams chuckles ldquoit was pretty funnyrdquoAdams passed the grade and soon

he was flying President Nixon and his family to Camp David or picking up vice

President Spiro Agnew at the Pentagon or taking Secretary of State Henry kissinger or Secretary of Defense Alexander Haig to a classified meeting Although his flights varied from transporting foreign heads of state to flying members of the press the majority involved the president the vice president kissinger and Haig

The pilots did not speak to their travelers unless spoken to says Adams President Nixon usually looked in and asked them how they were kissinger never spoke Haig was good for a pat on the shoulder now and then but it was Agnew who conversed the most says Adams

Adams remembers ldquoOne time we picked him up at the Pentagon and we had taken off and had hit top altitude He usually would come up and look into the cockpit but this time he patted me on the shoulder and asked lsquoWell howrsquos it going today guysrsquordquo Adams replied ldquoNot bad sir and how about yourselfrdquo

Agnew answered ldquoMan they are really after my assrdquo He was talking about the press Adams says ldquoTwo weeks later he resignedrdquo

Adams recalls that his encounters with Agnew as defying the public perception

Adams far right gives instructions before a mission in Vietnam

Walla Walla LifestyLes 33

that Agnew was arrogant ldquoHe was always one of the nicest guys He was straightforward He looked like he had just stepped off the cover of Gentlemenrsquos Quarterly all the time He was very proper in the way he dressed but he had a sense of humor as wellrdquo

There were other humorous moments Adams recalls a certain reporter from CBS who had been a major thorn in President Nixonrsquos side was late for takeoff from the South Lawn of the White House one morning Just as Marine One was about to leave without him he came running across the lawn hollering and waving his arms The Secret Service agent supervising the flight told Adams to ldquojust gordquo The wind from the propellers whipped the reporterrsquos toupee right off his head and instead of continuing his run toward Marine One he reversed his field and tried feverishly to retrieve his toupee snagged in the hedges

ldquoEveryone got a pretty good chuckle out of thatrdquo

Of course there were somber times At one point Adams flew Cabinet members John Ehrlichman and Hr Haldeman to Camp David for a meeting with the president After only 15 minutes the two men returned and Marine One headed home Adams says it was a quiet flight He found out later the two men had been fired by President Nixon for their parts in the Watergate scandal

Whisking the president away from danger was a major part of being a pilot of Marine One Stationed across the river from the Capitol pilots awakened by an emergency alert had to be up in the air in five minutes This exercise was practiced often though never needed during Adamsrsquo tenure

One night however they thought it was The operator at the White House mistakenly hit the ldquoAlertrdquo button Marine One was in the air in five minutes

Although ground control had not spotted any enemy aircraft the operation was under way As Marine One closed in on the White House the operator at fault tried to alert everyone of his mistake but unfortunately used a poor choice of words to call off the operation

Adams chuckles as he says ldquoThe fella said lsquoThis is not an exercisersquo He was moved to another post i thinkrdquo

All levity aside the position required

the same kind of focus demanded of Adams in vietnam though it came in a different form

ldquoThere were three things the way you operated the aircraft and they were in this order safety comfort and speed Safety never gave in to comfort or speedrdquo says Adams ldquoOur job was just concentrating on doing our job it could have been anybody mdash we would do it the same way it could have been Fred Flintstone

ldquoThe difference between flying for the White House and in vietnam was we were flying a premier aircraft We had to keep it impeccably clean everything was scripted We had to have the lsquoopen-the-door timersquo down to two to four seconds in vietnam it was the stress of performing medevacs under fire or dropping troops under heavy artillery For Marine One it was the stress of doing the job rightrdquo

Also the stress of being away from onersquos family 200 days of the year wore on a Marine One pilot in 1974 after four years on the job the toll became too much and Adams stepped down

He would stay with the Marines for eight more years retiring in August 1982

By then he had received 44 Air Medals including the Joint Service Commendation and the Presidential Service Badge in his 20 years of service Adams flew seven different helicopters and five different fixed-wing planes

What makes an elite military pilot ldquoPilots who donrsquot have any misgivingsrdquo says Adams ldquoTheyrsquore totally prepared they know their aircraftrdquo

When talking about his colleagues on Marine One he adds ldquoNone were boasters They might brag about a great landing but they did not brag in spite of someone elserdquo

What did Adams love most about his flying days ldquoi enjoyed flying with the latest technology and the pristine quality of Marine One i loved the process of building my skills i could have flown another 40 years and i would still be learning thingsrdquo

is it any surprise his favorite hobby now is fly fishing

andrew hoLt writes about food people and all things Walla Walla for Walla Walla lifestyles magazine He can be reached at bruindrew86gmailcom

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it is astonishing in many ways mdash that we are presented with two weeks of top-drawer music performed by top-drawer musi-cians that there are so many ways to encounter the music (many of them free) and that a rural community has provided the incu-

bator for such a cultural undertaking to name but a fewGranted we are not your average rural community having two

colleges a university a symphony a choral society a community band and music in the schools but letrsquos face it wersquore not exactly a cosmopolitan center of culture like New york either The Cham-ber Music Festival mdash and our continued support of it through some tough times mdash puts us in a category all our own

ldquoi saw what was special about this community the first time i visited in 2007rdquo Artistic Director Timothy Christie says ldquoi have

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worked hard to start this event and to my great joy it has taken on an iden-tity of its own i hire the musicians and choose the music but the town its people and its environs make the festivalrdquo

The beauty of chamber music is its intimacy mdash smaller ensembles performing for smaller audiences it has been referred to as ldquothe music of friendsrdquo which seems so apt at this festival Free open rehearsals are held around town that provide not only a musical atmosphere in which to enjoy a latte or the ambiance of the kirkman House but which give a richer look into the machinations of a working ensemble

As one enthusiastic fan puts it ldquoi am not a musician and itrsquos fascinat-ing to watch these rehearsals to see the interactions of the musicians as they work out the snags make wry remarks and relate to each other in a whole different way than during a for-mal performance i get a glimpse into their personalities and what makes them tickrdquo

The festival supplies a generous of-fering of venues with free concerts for children and families relaxed evening programs at wineries and full concerts at the Foundry Chism Hall and Day-tonrsquos Liberty Theater

if you are lucky enough to live near the musiciansrsquo lodgings while they are in town you may also be treated to an ad hoc front-porch concert as the ensembles continue their rehearsals in more private settings The festival is about all of these ways mdash planned and accidental mdash to experience the enchantment of chamber music

it is also about historic continuity and the connection between past and present mdash relishing the existing canon while expanding the genre with con-temporary forms and voices

How is this accomplished in part by the annual commission of a new piece of music for the festival Chris-tie is committed to contributing to the broader chamber music repertoire and to providing the audience with the richest possible experience

Continued on pg 36 gt

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ldquoFor classical music to be relevant there must be a conversation between the music of our time and the music of the pastrdquo he says

By commissioning a work for the festi-val each year Christie creates such a con-versation

This year the commission was given to John David Earnest Four festival commis-sions have preceded his and he is the sec-ond ldquolocalrdquo composer to be tapped add-ing another layer of relationship between community and event (in 2009 Whitman College professor David Glenn was given the nod)

As visiting adjunct professor of music at Whitman Earnest resides here for six weeks every semester His ldquoSecond Sym-phonyrdquo was written for and performed by the Walla Walla Symphony in October 2001

The challenge for the yearly commis-sionee is to compose a piece on demand within specific constraints of time place and instrumentation while expressing hisher own voice as an artist

Earnest has created ldquoCommedia Gal-leryrdquo a set of three movements for flute

viola and harp based on stock characters from the Commedia dellrsquoArte a popu-lar theatrical form that was influential in Europe for over 300 years Commedia characters improvised dialogue around set scenarios generally involving the struggles of young lovers to overcome hindrances to their romance and each character even-tually came to have a consistent set of at-tributes in speech mannerisms and cos-tume

Earnestrsquos ldquoGalleryrdquo gives us Arlecchi-no (Harlequin) an acrobatic and devious jester Pierrot the classic sad clown and finally Scaramouche a dandy and a brag-gart who is a coward at heart

in anticipation of this yearrsquos festival i am reminded of the scene in ldquoThe Music Manrdquo in which the town awaits the ar-rival of the Wells Fargo Wagon Potentially heaped with gifts and surprises it prom-ises connection to the larger world The WWCMF brings us all ldquosomethinrsquo specialrdquo mdash an enrichment of our community and our culture

margaret Jamison is an artist and writer living in Walla Walla Contact her at artjamisongmailcom

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Smith has gardened for years at his home at 38 Mulberry Court in College Place He used to grow vegetables and flowers now he is strictly focusing on flowers mdash with fabulous results roses delphiniums and lots of irises line the fence

ldquoirises mdash irsquove always enjoyed themrdquo he says ldquoThey take a little bit of weeding and watering but not much morerdquo itrsquos the gardenerrsquos dream mdash low maintenance with a big return

A retired orthopedic surgeon Smith has in the past gardened more extensively than he does now But he has enough plants to keep him busy His new project is planting more of the reblooming iris These are still hardy but you get twice the reward they bloom in the spring then again in the fall

ldquoTheyrsquore easy to grow and spectacular for a short time iris take less care than a lot of thingsrdquo Smith says

His secret for gardening is simple and therersquos no getting around it ldquoTime and workrdquo he laughs

Hersquos getting ready to start in the garden ldquoi need to clean out the leaves and the old foliage of the irisrdquo

in addition to the basic cleaning and maintenance Smith just decides how many plants to keep Bulb flowers are hardy and they multiply on their own

ldquoAfter five years you usually have to separate the bulbs when they get too thick i donrsquot have room to add more i put in the new re-blooming onesrdquo he explains ldquoi may add more and a few other thingsrdquo

But in a garden you can always try something new or rearrange existing plants often with a spectacular outcome

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itrsquos an odd location since it can only be seen as yoursquore leaving town but it always makes me smile This valley my adopted home is indeed a great place to be

i recently finished reading the great Western writer Wallace Stegnerrsquos book ldquoThe Sound of Mountain Waterrdquo One of his essays traces his nomadic childhood which left him feeling rootless and without a place that he felt he could call home

i identify with his feeling of not belonging i was born to a single woman from Massachusetts in a New york City hospital i stayed a scant few days before being placed with an adoption agency Born in a place i had no familial connection to i was immediately deprived of my biological family Most of my childhood was spent in suburban Cleveland Ohio Moves to upstate New york New England and Pennsylvania brought me no closer to calling any place home i loved living in the western Massachusetts town of Stockbridge but the multigenerational denizens of the town left few openings for newcomers like me i lived in central Pennsylvania for several decades but felt detached from the deep roots that most people had in the area

When we came west (for my husband a homecoming to his Oregon roots for me a new experience) i noticed that even in long-established towns like Walla Walla there is ample room for newcomers who want to be

part of the community And most folks who choose to come here donrsquot seem to want to change the valley they prefer to embrace it

While the occasional newbie whines about the lack of Whole Foods or Nordstrom they soon discover our farmers markets the wide variety of local shops and boutiques and our world-class restaurants They fall in love with our charming downtowns the small-town friendliness of the people and our kid-friendly environment Then therersquos the holiday parade the fair the ever-present Blue Mountains the parks the museums the wineries mdash really whatrsquos not to like The communities of our valley represent America at its best

irsquom a newspaper junkie i love to read everything from news to sports to classifieds mdash even the obituaries The obits are a fascinating window on our valley Many of the people chronicled were born here some lived all their lives here inextricably bound to this place But a number of people came here from other places often far away and have made a mark on our area Which makes me wonder mdash is a place any less of a hometown because you choose it or is it based primarily on the happenstance of your birth it seems that therersquos room for both paths to calling this wonderful valley home

itrsquos also our strength because collectively as a community we bring both deep familial and cultural traditions as well as the fresh perspective of newcomers to our area irsquom glad mdash after decades of searching mdash that i finally found my hometown a place that feels just right

diane reed can be reached at ladybookearthlinknet Between columns and when the spirit moves her she blogs at wwwponderingsbydianereedblogspotcom from her home overlooking the pond at lions Park in College Place

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44 Walla Walla LifestyLes

Maymay 1The annual Kennel Club Dog Show Walla Walla County Fairgrounds De-tails 509-558-3854

The Walla Walla University Drama Department pres-ents a performance of ldquoMy Fair ladyrdquo 2 pm matinee Details 509-527-2656

The Walla Walla Choral Society presents ldquoJubilate Deordquo 3 pm May 1 Walla Walla University Church College Place Details 509-386-2445

The Walla Walla Valley Farmers Market opens local produce artisans and an outdoor concert 9 am-1 pm Saturdays and Sundays through Oct 30 Crawford Park Fourth ave and Main St Details gowallawallafarmersmar-ketcom or 509-520-3647

through may 22Enjoy the annual Senior art Thesis Exhibition Sheehan Gallery Whitman College Details 509-527-5249

through JuLy 31The Tamaacutestslikt Cultural In-stitute hosts the traveling OMSI exhibit ldquoamazing Feats of agingrdquo explor-ing the mysteries of why animals and humans age Details 541-966-9748

may 4The YWCa leadership luncheon ldquoMatters that Matterrdquo is informational and inspirational with guest speakers Kristine Van Raden and Molly Da-vis Noon Marcus Whit-man Hotel Details 509-525-2570

Walla Walla Wine Works hosts music on Wednes-days downtown Details 509-522-1261

may 5First Thursday Concert at St Pauls Episcopal Church 323 Catherine Street Walla Walla 1215-1250 pm will feature the Steel Drum Band from Walla Walla Uni-versity directed by Brandon Beck Details 529-1083

The Whitman College Visit-ing Writers Reading series presents Whitman Reading 7 pm Kimball Theatre De-tails whitmanedu

may 5-7 12-14Walla Walla High School Drama Department pres-ents ldquoFiddler on the Roofrdquo musical version 7 pm and 2 pm matinee on Saturdays May 7 and 14 Walla Walla High School Performing arts audito-rium Details Tickets can be reserved by calling 509-526-8613 the Wa-Hi box office

may 5-8 19-21a performance of ldquoThe 25th a nnua l Putnam County Spelling Beerdquo 8 pm Harper Joy Theatre Whitman College Details 509-527-5180

may 6-7Music on the weekends at the Backstage Bistro De-tails 509-526-0690

Sapolil Cellars hosts music on Friday and Saturday De-tails 509-520-5258

The Wildfire hosts music every Friday and Saturday Wildhorse Resort amp Casino Pendleton Details 800-654-9453

may 6-8Walla Walla Valley Winer-ies offer an opportunity to taste their new creations during Spring Release Weekend area wineries introduce new wines and winemakers share their creative inspiration Details 509-526-3117

may 6artWalK First Fridays May through December Visit galleries and chat with art-ists 5-8 pm Downtown Walla Walla Visit artwalk-wallawallacom

may 6-8 13-14The little Theatre presents ldquoalice In Wonderlandrdquo adapted from lewis Carroll 8 pm Friday-Saturday 2 pm Sunday little Theatre of Walla Walla Details 509-529-3683

may 7The annual Junior Horse Show brings great riding action to Milton-Freewater Pioneer Posse Grounds Details 541-938-3379

Daytonrsquos annual Street Sale turns a section of Third Street into a giant yard sale benefits churches and com-munity projects Dayton Details 509-382-4825

artist reception and dem-onstration Washington art-ist Dwight Duke exhibits his painting bronze sculptures and gunpowder light pan-els 6-730 pm Reininger Winery Details 509-522-1994

may 8Every Sunday the living History actors portray in-dividuals from the arearsquos past 2 pm Fort Walla Walla Museum Details 509-525-7703

may 13-15The annual Balloon Stam-pede brings as many as 50 hot-air balloons to the Walla Walla County Fairgrounds This colorful festival re-mains a Valley tradition Ear-ly morning flights (weather permitting) arts amp crafts antique autos commercial booths live entertainment and food Balloons light up to music at the Saturday evening Nite Glow Details 509-525-0850

may 14annual adult event cele-brates the characters who populated Pendletonrsquos past Must have reservations Pendleton Underground Tours Details 800-226-6398

may 14-15 may 27-29Walla Walla Drag Strip con-tinues the weekend fun Details wwdragstripcom or 509-200-6287

may 15Walla Walla University Chamber Series featuring Robyn McCabe 730 pm MKW Fine arts auditorium Details 509-527-2571

may 18To celebrate the opening of Walla Wallarsquos Power House Theatre and a four-day run of Seattle Shakespeare Companyrsquos ldquoThe Merry Wives of WindsorrdquoWalla Walla lifestyles will pres-ent a gala event This exclusive evening will en-chant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fash-ion from 530-9 pm at the Power House Theatre Sixth amp Rose Walla Walla To purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewalla-wallacom

may 19-21During Pendletonrsquos Cattle Baron Weekend enjoy an art exhibit by a talented group of women artists ldquoIn the Company of Cowgirlsrdquo Hamleyrsquos Steakhouse Pendleton Visit inthecom-panyofcowgirlscom or call 541-676-5013

may 19-22Whitman College 50th Reunion class of 1961 Whitman College Details 509-527-5952

Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merr y Wives of Windsorrdquo Pow-erhouse Theater Details 509-742-0739

may 21The annual Ducky Derby is a day of family fun all for a good cause Watch the ducks race down Mill Creek to help fund the Exchange Clubrsquos efforts at preventing child abuse and neglect 1130 am-330 pm Race at about 2 pm Walla Walla Community College De-tails 509-527-4300

Walla Walla University Spring Choral Concert 5 pm Walla Walla Univer-sity Church Details 509-527-2571

learn to contra dance an old-fashioned coun-try dance Music by the Wednesday Night Band 7 pm teaching and practice 730 pm regular dance Unity Church of Peace 810

C St Walla Walla Details 541-938-7403

may 22The Whitman College graduating class of 2011 accepts the challenge 11 am Memorial lawn Whitman College Details 509-527-5156

may 26 27 28 29Walla Walla Community College Theatre arts De-partment presents ldquoZoot Suitrdquo by luis Valdez 7 pm each night and Sunday 2 pm matinee W WCC Performing arts Center Details 509-527-4575

may 27-30 Dayton Days has been a Memorial Weekend tradi-tion in Dayton for nearly 100 years Highlights include a Saturday-morning parade on historic Main Street rodeo tour of Dayton and Memorial Day Fun Run De-tails 509-382-4825 or visit historicdaytoncom

may 28-30The Touchet River Roundup mdash the annual Celebration of Sobriety at the fairgrounds focuses on family fun ac-tivities Waitsburg Details 509-526-3602

may 29annual Onion Man Tria-thalon 9 am Bennington lake Details wwmulti-sportscom or call 509-529-9187

may 30Waitsburgrsquos annual Memo-rial Day celebration hosted by veterans for all veterans Details 509-337-6546

Walla Walla LifestyLes 45

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This sculptural cornucopia marks the spot where all of Walla Walla meets the producers and wersquore not talking about the Zero Mostel and Gene Wild-er musical For you GPS fans latitude 4606678 N longitude 11834197 W

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The sculpture tops the farmers market gazebo on the corner of Fourth Avenue North and West Main Street

Contestensprulesif you have the answer e-mail it to rickdoylewwubcom or send it to Where in Walla Walla 112 S 1st Ave PO Box 1358 Walla Walla WA 99362 The names of 10 people with correct answers will be randomly selected and they will receive this great-looking mug as proof of their local knowledge and good taste

Annette CarterShirley richterDebbie FullenJudy CarlsonEloise Phillips

Dan Countsvicky ScanlonJanet TurnerTam LennoxBruce Campbell

46 Walla Walla LifestyLes

1 amavi cellars3796 Peppers Bridge Road (509) 525-3541 wwwamavicellarscom

2 Basel cellars estate winery2901 Old Milton Hwy (509) 522-0200 wwwbaselcellarscom

3 Bergevin Lane vineyards 1215 W Poplar St (509) 526-4300 bergevinlanecom

4 Bunchgrass winery151 Bunchgrass lane (509) 540-8963 wwwbunchgrasswinerycom

5 canoe ridge vineyard1102 W Cherry St (509) 527-0885 wwwcanoeridgevineyardcom

6 castillo de feliciana85728 Telephone Pole Road Milton-Freewater OR (541) 558-3656 wwwcastillodefelicianacom

7 don carlo vineyardBy appointment Only (509) 540-5784 wwwdoncarlovineyardcom

8 dunham cellars150 E Boeing ave (509) 529-4685 wwwdunhamcellarscom

9 five star cellars 840 C St (509) 527-8400 wwwfivestarcellarscom

10 forgeron cellars 33 W Birch St (509) 522-9463 wwwforgeroncellarscom

21 sapolil cellars15 E Main St (509) 520-5258 wwwsapolilcellarscom

22 seven hills winery 212 N Third ave (509) 529-7198 wwwsevenhillswinerycom

23 sinclair estate vineyards 109 E Main Ste 100 (509) 876-4300 wwwsinclairestatevineyardscom

24 spring valley vineyard 18 N Second ave (509) 525-1506 wwwspringvalleyvineyardcom

25 suLei cellars355 S Second ave (503) 529-0840 www suleicellarscom

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Rose St

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13th ave

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11 foundry vineyards Corner of 13th ave and abadie St (509) 529-0736 wwwwallawallafoundrycomvineyards

12 fort walla walla cellars 127 E Main St (509) 520-1095 wwwfortwallawallacellarscom

13 glencorrie8052 Old Highway 12 (509) 525-2585 wwwglencorriecom

14 grantwood winery 2428 W Highway 12 (509) 301-0719 (509) 301-9546

15 Lrsquoecole no 41 winery41 lowden School Road and US Hwy 12 (509) 525-0940 wwwlecolecom

16 Long shadows1604 Frenchtown Road (Formerly Ireland Road) (509) 526-0905 wwwlongshadowscom By invitation only Requests accepted on a limited basis Please call to inquire

17 Lowden hills winery1401 W Pine St (509) 527-1040 wwwlowdenhillswinerycom

18 northstar winery 1736 JB George Road (509) 524-4883 wwwnorthstarmerlotcom

19 pepper Bridge winery1704 JB George Road (509) 525-6502 wwwpepperbridgecom

20 robison ranch cellars2839 Robison Ranch Road (509) 301-3480 robisonranchcellarscom

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26 syZygy 405 E Boeing ave (509) 522-0484 wwwsyzygywinescom

27 three rivers winery5641 Old Highway 12 (509) 526-9463 infoThreeRiversWinerycom

28 tertulia cellars1564 Whiteley Road (509) 525-5700 wwwtertuliacellarscom

29 trust cellars 1050 Merlot Drive (509) 529-4511 wwwtrustcellarscom

30 va piano vineyards1793 JB George Road (509) 529-0900 wwwvapianovineyardscom

31 walla walla vintnersVineyard lane off Mill Creek Road (509) 525-4724 wwwwallawallavintnerscom

32 walla walla wineworks31 E Main St (509) 522-1261 wwwwallawallawineworkscom

33 whitman cellars1015 W Pine St (509) 529-1142 wwwwhitmancellarscom

34 woodward canyon winery11920 W Hwy 12 lowden (509) 525-4129 wwwwoodwardcanyoncom

35 JLc winery425 B St (509) 301-5148

36 saviah cellars1979 JB George Rd

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lockheed ave

Piper ave

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Mill Creek Rd

Isaacs ave

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Stateline RdWaSHINGTON

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ilton

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Douglas ave

Curtis ave

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Republic ave

Ryan ave

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Stinson ave

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Boeing ave

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DaytonLewiston

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Tumac MachineryWalla Walla

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Join us for a night of wonder with elizabethan-inspired food fashion and merriment to celebrate the opening of walla wallarsquos power house theatre and prepare for a four-day run of seattle shakespeare companyrsquos ldquothe merry wives of windsorrdquo

walla walla lifestyles will present a fashion show with wicked and wistful gowns twisted braided hair and smoldering makeup designs designers include red eden designs autumnlin design and others

semi-formal attire creative masks encouraged this exclusive evening will enchant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fashion

to purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewallawallacom

530 - 9 pm May 18 2011

The Power H o use The at reS i x t h amp R o se Wa l l a Wa l l a

T H E A T R EPOWER HOUSE

My director Terry Edward Moore told me his only direction from the artistic director was that it be ldquoperiodrdquo that is to say authentic to the time

ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo is the only one of Shakespearersquos plays that is set in his own time so it was decided to present it as if the actors were people of the time doing what would be a contemporary (to the late 16th century) play

i started to research the clothing of the time how it was constructed and what kinds of fabrics were available at the time mdash linens homespuns woolens for the common people and silks damasks velvets and furs for the upper classes i discovered that Elizabethan society was strictly regulated in terms of social classes and upward mobility was a little-known concept Once a yeoman always a yeoman i also discovered the set of rules and regulations called ldquosumptuary lawsrdquo which specifically dictated what types of fabrics trims furs and even what colors each class was allowed to wear

Since there are three distinct classes represented in ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo mdash merchant class soldiers and servants mdash i tried to give each class its own color palette based on these laws The overall palette of the show is based on colors actually in use at the time

The availability of dyes was limited (except for the nobility) so the palette consists of many shades of yellows and browns russets black some greens and blue-grays and of course wheat-colored unbleached linen i turned to the Dutch painter Brueghel for inspiration on how the common people looked and dressed

i also researched what kinds of dyes were used and where they came from Dyes were created from all sorts of different things such as walnut shell crushed beetles and all kinds of roots i found a website that sells these authentic dyestuffs so irsquom using the real thing to dye some of the linen pieces and will coordinate the contemporary fabrics to these authentic colors

Nearly every piece will need something done to it mdash altered in some way to fit the actor re-trimmed rigged invisibly for quick changes etc mdash so there is a lot of labor involved Also hats were a hugely important part of Elizabethan fashion all the way down to the poorest serf

Certain styles of hats were often associated with certain professions mdash eg doctors scholars mdash so there are a number of hats to build as well as headpieces for the women No self-respecting woman went about with her head uncovered

Putting together a show like this is like putting together a giant jigsaw puzzle and the pieces are the costumes that irsquove borrowed and rented from other theater companies in the Seattle area such as Seattle repertory Seattle Opera and the University of Washington as well as pieces from Oregon Shakespeare Festival i design the show and then go out into the world and try to find pieces that approximate my designs and palette as closely as possible (usually with some reworking first) The pieces that i cant find and dont want to compromise on i build from scratch

deane middLeton is a theatre costume professional who works in the Seattle area She has done costumes for Issaquahrsquos Village Theater as well as several productions of the Seattle Shakespeare Company

ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 29

ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo was the only one of Shakespearersquos works set in his own time the 1600s and features Sir John Falstaff It also deals primarily with english middle-class life A hilarious bawdy comedy filled with insight into the life and times of Shakespeare ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo will delight people of all ages

About the play

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But thatrsquos exactly what longtime Walla Walla resident Larry Adams did for four years He was one of a select group of pilots for Marine One the helicopter counterpart of the presidential airplane Air Force One from 1970 to 1974

30 Walla Walla LifestyLes

by andrewenspHoltensp enspphoto by ColbyenspKuschatkapeople

Walla Walla LifestyLes 31

Long before Adams became the Walla Walla Airport manager he was transporting heads of state foreign dignitaries famous (and now infamous) Cabinet members the executive staff and President richard M Nixon during one of the nationrsquos most turbulent times the withdrawal from vietnam and the Watergate scandal

But to Adams a native of Northern idaho all that swirled around the Nixon presidency was the least of his concerns His job was to transport the president safely to Andrews Air Force Base or Camp David or fly any short flight required Safety always at a premium End of story

Many times Adams ferried President Nixon and his staff on short flights far away from home Air Force One might fly President Nixon to a summit or a meeting with a foreign head of state but Marine One and Adams were always nearby to shuttle the chief executive on short flights or to whisk him away from sudden danger

Pretty heady stuff for a fourth-grade teacher who had never thought about flying until a Marine recruiter offered him the opportunity Although Adams had watched planes take off and land at a nearby air base as a child he had never given serious thought to flying it was more a need for a bigger paycheck than passion that brought Adams to his destiny

He liked teaching but it just wasnrsquot paying the bills So Adams turned to the military and the Gi Bill After being unimpressed by other recruiters Adams took a liking to the fellow from the Marines for as Adams recalls the recruiter took an interest in him After about an hour of talking the recruiter suggested Adams might have the potential to be a pilot

Having easily passed some preliminary tests Adams was sent to flight school in Pensacola Fla and a stellar career was ready to take off He performed well in all the aircraft he piloted but he showed a special skill for helicopters

Up until 1965 fixed-wing airplanes were the staple of all military air combat But the military had been gearing up for a big change The helicopter was to become a major part of combat The Pentagon had been developing helicopters that would do much more than transport troops to bases Now they would assist in bombing

raids ground attacks and the evacuation of the injured from the point of combat This new breed of helicopters would also possess the ability to fight back and not be lame ducks as before the new H34 would tote machine guns on each side

These cutting-edge aircraft would travel at unprecedented speeds with newly discovered agility Gifted pilots were needed not those who merely possessed superior technical skills but those who also had the composure to fly straight into

enemy fire in the dead of night picking up injured soldiers or aiding air attacks

Adams was one of those pilots and he would be one of two squadron leaders for ldquoOperation Starliterdquo mdash the first major assault using helicopters The Marines were going straight into a North vietnamese regimental stronghold No one knew what to expect

ldquoWe lost a lot that first time inrdquo says Adams ldquoTwo crew chiefs were killed

Continued on pg 32 gt

In this newspaper clipping Larry Adams poses on the steps of the helicopter dubbed Marine One which he piloted for President Richard M Nixon

32 Walla Walla LifestyLes

people ltcontinued from pg 31

four pilots were medevaced out because of their wounds i donrsquot think there was one helicopter that didnrsquot have a bunch of holes in it The one i flew in we got a lot of rounds in it Amazingly no one was hurt but when we got back the helicopter was so shot-up you couldnrsquot fly it anymore We lost 50 percent of our helicopters that dayrdquo

in the next 13 months Adams would fly many more missions often heading straight into anti-aircraft fire to pick up injured or killed soldiers He says he would see the flares signifying where the copter was supposed to land but frequently hersquod have to veer off because ground communication would say ldquoThe artillery is too hotrdquo Then there would be a window maybe two minutes maybe five when the helicopter could drop in and pick up the injured often being shot at as it waited for its passengers

Adams knew the best way to survive was to keep his focus ldquoin the daylight when you start your run in and yoursquore getting shot at Everything went to black and white for me i didnrsquot notice the green trees or the green rice paddies until we got out of there and then it would come back

to me i donrsquot know what that was i just didnrsquot see the colors irsquove talked to some other pilots and they described the same thingrdquo

in his two tours of duty in vietnam Adams would fly 880 combat missions in several types of helicopters and fixed-wing airplanes He received numerous medals including two Navy commendations for performance under combat conditions

Then the call came to fly for the president Before Adams could tote the commander in chief around in Marine One a thorough background check had to be done So thorough was the check that Adams said a friend from his hometown sent him a card that read ldquoAre you in some kind of trouble Jesus therersquos been a bunch of people around here with the dark grey suits and the skinny little ties Theyrsquore asking all these embarrassing questions about you like did you have drinking problem Did you have a gambling problem Do you know what Larryrsquos sexual preference wasrdquo

Adams chuckles ldquoit was pretty funnyrdquoAdams passed the grade and soon

he was flying President Nixon and his family to Camp David or picking up vice

President Spiro Agnew at the Pentagon or taking Secretary of State Henry kissinger or Secretary of Defense Alexander Haig to a classified meeting Although his flights varied from transporting foreign heads of state to flying members of the press the majority involved the president the vice president kissinger and Haig

The pilots did not speak to their travelers unless spoken to says Adams President Nixon usually looked in and asked them how they were kissinger never spoke Haig was good for a pat on the shoulder now and then but it was Agnew who conversed the most says Adams

Adams remembers ldquoOne time we picked him up at the Pentagon and we had taken off and had hit top altitude He usually would come up and look into the cockpit but this time he patted me on the shoulder and asked lsquoWell howrsquos it going today guysrsquordquo Adams replied ldquoNot bad sir and how about yourselfrdquo

Agnew answered ldquoMan they are really after my assrdquo He was talking about the press Adams says ldquoTwo weeks later he resignedrdquo

Adams recalls that his encounters with Agnew as defying the public perception

Adams far right gives instructions before a mission in Vietnam

Walla Walla LifestyLes 33

that Agnew was arrogant ldquoHe was always one of the nicest guys He was straightforward He looked like he had just stepped off the cover of Gentlemenrsquos Quarterly all the time He was very proper in the way he dressed but he had a sense of humor as wellrdquo

There were other humorous moments Adams recalls a certain reporter from CBS who had been a major thorn in President Nixonrsquos side was late for takeoff from the South Lawn of the White House one morning Just as Marine One was about to leave without him he came running across the lawn hollering and waving his arms The Secret Service agent supervising the flight told Adams to ldquojust gordquo The wind from the propellers whipped the reporterrsquos toupee right off his head and instead of continuing his run toward Marine One he reversed his field and tried feverishly to retrieve his toupee snagged in the hedges

ldquoEveryone got a pretty good chuckle out of thatrdquo

Of course there were somber times At one point Adams flew Cabinet members John Ehrlichman and Hr Haldeman to Camp David for a meeting with the president After only 15 minutes the two men returned and Marine One headed home Adams says it was a quiet flight He found out later the two men had been fired by President Nixon for their parts in the Watergate scandal

Whisking the president away from danger was a major part of being a pilot of Marine One Stationed across the river from the Capitol pilots awakened by an emergency alert had to be up in the air in five minutes This exercise was practiced often though never needed during Adamsrsquo tenure

One night however they thought it was The operator at the White House mistakenly hit the ldquoAlertrdquo button Marine One was in the air in five minutes

Although ground control had not spotted any enemy aircraft the operation was under way As Marine One closed in on the White House the operator at fault tried to alert everyone of his mistake but unfortunately used a poor choice of words to call off the operation

Adams chuckles as he says ldquoThe fella said lsquoThis is not an exercisersquo He was moved to another post i thinkrdquo

All levity aside the position required

the same kind of focus demanded of Adams in vietnam though it came in a different form

ldquoThere were three things the way you operated the aircraft and they were in this order safety comfort and speed Safety never gave in to comfort or speedrdquo says Adams ldquoOur job was just concentrating on doing our job it could have been anybody mdash we would do it the same way it could have been Fred Flintstone

ldquoThe difference between flying for the White House and in vietnam was we were flying a premier aircraft We had to keep it impeccably clean everything was scripted We had to have the lsquoopen-the-door timersquo down to two to four seconds in vietnam it was the stress of performing medevacs under fire or dropping troops under heavy artillery For Marine One it was the stress of doing the job rightrdquo

Also the stress of being away from onersquos family 200 days of the year wore on a Marine One pilot in 1974 after four years on the job the toll became too much and Adams stepped down

He would stay with the Marines for eight more years retiring in August 1982

By then he had received 44 Air Medals including the Joint Service Commendation and the Presidential Service Badge in his 20 years of service Adams flew seven different helicopters and five different fixed-wing planes

What makes an elite military pilot ldquoPilots who donrsquot have any misgivingsrdquo says Adams ldquoTheyrsquore totally prepared they know their aircraftrdquo

When talking about his colleagues on Marine One he adds ldquoNone were boasters They might brag about a great landing but they did not brag in spite of someone elserdquo

What did Adams love most about his flying days ldquoi enjoyed flying with the latest technology and the pristine quality of Marine One i loved the process of building my skills i could have flown another 40 years and i would still be learning thingsrdquo

is it any surprise his favorite hobby now is fly fishing

andrew hoLt writes about food people and all things Walla Walla for Walla Walla lifestyles magazine He can be reached at bruindrew86gmailcom

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it is astonishing in many ways mdash that we are presented with two weeks of top-drawer music performed by top-drawer musi-cians that there are so many ways to encounter the music (many of them free) and that a rural community has provided the incu-

bator for such a cultural undertaking to name but a fewGranted we are not your average rural community having two

colleges a university a symphony a choral society a community band and music in the schools but letrsquos face it wersquore not exactly a cosmopolitan center of culture like New york either The Cham-ber Music Festival mdash and our continued support of it through some tough times mdash puts us in a category all our own

ldquoi saw what was special about this community the first time i visited in 2007rdquo Artistic Director Timothy Christie says ldquoi have

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A young artistic composer pays close attention as Tim Christie uses his violin to interpret the boys piece of artwork into music on June 11 2009 Meanwhile other children work on their works of art in preparation for the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival quintets interpretations

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worked hard to start this event and to my great joy it has taken on an iden-tity of its own i hire the musicians and choose the music but the town its people and its environs make the festivalrdquo

The beauty of chamber music is its intimacy mdash smaller ensembles performing for smaller audiences it has been referred to as ldquothe music of friendsrdquo which seems so apt at this festival Free open rehearsals are held around town that provide not only a musical atmosphere in which to enjoy a latte or the ambiance of the kirkman House but which give a richer look into the machinations of a working ensemble

As one enthusiastic fan puts it ldquoi am not a musician and itrsquos fascinat-ing to watch these rehearsals to see the interactions of the musicians as they work out the snags make wry remarks and relate to each other in a whole different way than during a for-mal performance i get a glimpse into their personalities and what makes them tickrdquo

The festival supplies a generous of-fering of venues with free concerts for children and families relaxed evening programs at wineries and full concerts at the Foundry Chism Hall and Day-tonrsquos Liberty Theater

if you are lucky enough to live near the musiciansrsquo lodgings while they are in town you may also be treated to an ad hoc front-porch concert as the ensembles continue their rehearsals in more private settings The festival is about all of these ways mdash planned and accidental mdash to experience the enchantment of chamber music

it is also about historic continuity and the connection between past and present mdash relishing the existing canon while expanding the genre with con-temporary forms and voices

How is this accomplished in part by the annual commission of a new piece of music for the festival Chris-tie is committed to contributing to the broader chamber music repertoire and to providing the audience with the richest possible experience

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ldquoFor classical music to be relevant there must be a conversation between the music of our time and the music of the pastrdquo he says

By commissioning a work for the festi-val each year Christie creates such a con-versation

This year the commission was given to John David Earnest Four festival commis-sions have preceded his and he is the sec-ond ldquolocalrdquo composer to be tapped add-ing another layer of relationship between community and event (in 2009 Whitman College professor David Glenn was given the nod)

As visiting adjunct professor of music at Whitman Earnest resides here for six weeks every semester His ldquoSecond Sym-phonyrdquo was written for and performed by the Walla Walla Symphony in October 2001

The challenge for the yearly commis-sionee is to compose a piece on demand within specific constraints of time place and instrumentation while expressing hisher own voice as an artist

Earnest has created ldquoCommedia Gal-leryrdquo a set of three movements for flute

viola and harp based on stock characters from the Commedia dellrsquoArte a popu-lar theatrical form that was influential in Europe for over 300 years Commedia characters improvised dialogue around set scenarios generally involving the struggles of young lovers to overcome hindrances to their romance and each character even-tually came to have a consistent set of at-tributes in speech mannerisms and cos-tume

Earnestrsquos ldquoGalleryrdquo gives us Arlecchi-no (Harlequin) an acrobatic and devious jester Pierrot the classic sad clown and finally Scaramouche a dandy and a brag-gart who is a coward at heart

in anticipation of this yearrsquos festival i am reminded of the scene in ldquoThe Music Manrdquo in which the town awaits the ar-rival of the Wells Fargo Wagon Potentially heaped with gifts and surprises it prom-ises connection to the larger world The WWCMF brings us all ldquosomethinrsquo specialrdquo mdash an enrichment of our community and our culture

margaret Jamison is an artist and writer living in Walla Walla Contact her at artjamisongmailcom

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Smith has gardened for years at his home at 38 Mulberry Court in College Place He used to grow vegetables and flowers now he is strictly focusing on flowers mdash with fabulous results roses delphiniums and lots of irises line the fence

ldquoirises mdash irsquove always enjoyed themrdquo he says ldquoThey take a little bit of weeding and watering but not much morerdquo itrsquos the gardenerrsquos dream mdash low maintenance with a big return

A retired orthopedic surgeon Smith has in the past gardened more extensively than he does now But he has enough plants to keep him busy His new project is planting more of the reblooming iris These are still hardy but you get twice the reward they bloom in the spring then again in the fall

ldquoTheyrsquore easy to grow and spectacular for a short time iris take less care than a lot of thingsrdquo Smith says

His secret for gardening is simple and therersquos no getting around it ldquoTime and workrdquo he laughs

Hersquos getting ready to start in the garden ldquoi need to clean out the leaves and the old foliage of the irisrdquo

in addition to the basic cleaning and maintenance Smith just decides how many plants to keep Bulb flowers are hardy and they multiply on their own

ldquoAfter five years you usually have to separate the bulbs when they get too thick i donrsquot have room to add more i put in the new re-blooming onesrdquo he explains ldquoi may add more and a few other thingsrdquo

But in a garden you can always try something new or rearrange existing plants often with a spectacular outcome

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itrsquos an odd location since it can only be seen as yoursquore leaving town but it always makes me smile This valley my adopted home is indeed a great place to be

i recently finished reading the great Western writer Wallace Stegnerrsquos book ldquoThe Sound of Mountain Waterrdquo One of his essays traces his nomadic childhood which left him feeling rootless and without a place that he felt he could call home

i identify with his feeling of not belonging i was born to a single woman from Massachusetts in a New york City hospital i stayed a scant few days before being placed with an adoption agency Born in a place i had no familial connection to i was immediately deprived of my biological family Most of my childhood was spent in suburban Cleveland Ohio Moves to upstate New york New England and Pennsylvania brought me no closer to calling any place home i loved living in the western Massachusetts town of Stockbridge but the multigenerational denizens of the town left few openings for newcomers like me i lived in central Pennsylvania for several decades but felt detached from the deep roots that most people had in the area

When we came west (for my husband a homecoming to his Oregon roots for me a new experience) i noticed that even in long-established towns like Walla Walla there is ample room for newcomers who want to be

part of the community And most folks who choose to come here donrsquot seem to want to change the valley they prefer to embrace it

While the occasional newbie whines about the lack of Whole Foods or Nordstrom they soon discover our farmers markets the wide variety of local shops and boutiques and our world-class restaurants They fall in love with our charming downtowns the small-town friendliness of the people and our kid-friendly environment Then therersquos the holiday parade the fair the ever-present Blue Mountains the parks the museums the wineries mdash really whatrsquos not to like The communities of our valley represent America at its best

irsquom a newspaper junkie i love to read everything from news to sports to classifieds mdash even the obituaries The obits are a fascinating window on our valley Many of the people chronicled were born here some lived all their lives here inextricably bound to this place But a number of people came here from other places often far away and have made a mark on our area Which makes me wonder mdash is a place any less of a hometown because you choose it or is it based primarily on the happenstance of your birth it seems that therersquos room for both paths to calling this wonderful valley home

itrsquos also our strength because collectively as a community we bring both deep familial and cultural traditions as well as the fresh perspective of newcomers to our area irsquom glad mdash after decades of searching mdash that i finally found my hometown a place that feels just right

diane reed can be reached at ladybookearthlinknet Between columns and when the spirit moves her she blogs at wwwponderingsbydianereedblogspotcom from her home overlooking the pond at lions Park in College Place

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Maymay 1The annual Kennel Club Dog Show Walla Walla County Fairgrounds De-tails 509-558-3854

The Walla Walla University Drama Department pres-ents a performance of ldquoMy Fair ladyrdquo 2 pm matinee Details 509-527-2656

The Walla Walla Choral Society presents ldquoJubilate Deordquo 3 pm May 1 Walla Walla University Church College Place Details 509-386-2445

The Walla Walla Valley Farmers Market opens local produce artisans and an outdoor concert 9 am-1 pm Saturdays and Sundays through Oct 30 Crawford Park Fourth ave and Main St Details gowallawallafarmersmar-ketcom or 509-520-3647

through may 22Enjoy the annual Senior art Thesis Exhibition Sheehan Gallery Whitman College Details 509-527-5249

through JuLy 31The Tamaacutestslikt Cultural In-stitute hosts the traveling OMSI exhibit ldquoamazing Feats of agingrdquo explor-ing the mysteries of why animals and humans age Details 541-966-9748

may 4The YWCa leadership luncheon ldquoMatters that Matterrdquo is informational and inspirational with guest speakers Kristine Van Raden and Molly Da-vis Noon Marcus Whit-man Hotel Details 509-525-2570

Walla Walla Wine Works hosts music on Wednes-days downtown Details 509-522-1261

may 5First Thursday Concert at St Pauls Episcopal Church 323 Catherine Street Walla Walla 1215-1250 pm will feature the Steel Drum Band from Walla Walla Uni-versity directed by Brandon Beck Details 529-1083

The Whitman College Visit-ing Writers Reading series presents Whitman Reading 7 pm Kimball Theatre De-tails whitmanedu

may 5-7 12-14Walla Walla High School Drama Department pres-ents ldquoFiddler on the Roofrdquo musical version 7 pm and 2 pm matinee on Saturdays May 7 and 14 Walla Walla High School Performing arts audito-rium Details Tickets can be reserved by calling 509-526-8613 the Wa-Hi box office

may 5-8 19-21a performance of ldquoThe 25th a nnua l Putnam County Spelling Beerdquo 8 pm Harper Joy Theatre Whitman College Details 509-527-5180

may 6-7Music on the weekends at the Backstage Bistro De-tails 509-526-0690

Sapolil Cellars hosts music on Friday and Saturday De-tails 509-520-5258

The Wildfire hosts music every Friday and Saturday Wildhorse Resort amp Casino Pendleton Details 800-654-9453

may 6-8Walla Walla Valley Winer-ies offer an opportunity to taste their new creations during Spring Release Weekend area wineries introduce new wines and winemakers share their creative inspiration Details 509-526-3117

may 6artWalK First Fridays May through December Visit galleries and chat with art-ists 5-8 pm Downtown Walla Walla Visit artwalk-wallawallacom

may 6-8 13-14The little Theatre presents ldquoalice In Wonderlandrdquo adapted from lewis Carroll 8 pm Friday-Saturday 2 pm Sunday little Theatre of Walla Walla Details 509-529-3683

may 7The annual Junior Horse Show brings great riding action to Milton-Freewater Pioneer Posse Grounds Details 541-938-3379

Daytonrsquos annual Street Sale turns a section of Third Street into a giant yard sale benefits churches and com-munity projects Dayton Details 509-382-4825

artist reception and dem-onstration Washington art-ist Dwight Duke exhibits his painting bronze sculptures and gunpowder light pan-els 6-730 pm Reininger Winery Details 509-522-1994

may 8Every Sunday the living History actors portray in-dividuals from the arearsquos past 2 pm Fort Walla Walla Museum Details 509-525-7703

may 13-15The annual Balloon Stam-pede brings as many as 50 hot-air balloons to the Walla Walla County Fairgrounds This colorful festival re-mains a Valley tradition Ear-ly morning flights (weather permitting) arts amp crafts antique autos commercial booths live entertainment and food Balloons light up to music at the Saturday evening Nite Glow Details 509-525-0850

may 14annual adult event cele-brates the characters who populated Pendletonrsquos past Must have reservations Pendleton Underground Tours Details 800-226-6398

may 14-15 may 27-29Walla Walla Drag Strip con-tinues the weekend fun Details wwdragstripcom or 509-200-6287

may 15Walla Walla University Chamber Series featuring Robyn McCabe 730 pm MKW Fine arts auditorium Details 509-527-2571

may 18To celebrate the opening of Walla Wallarsquos Power House Theatre and a four-day run of Seattle Shakespeare Companyrsquos ldquoThe Merry Wives of WindsorrdquoWalla Walla lifestyles will pres-ent a gala event This exclusive evening will en-chant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fash-ion from 530-9 pm at the Power House Theatre Sixth amp Rose Walla Walla To purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewalla-wallacom

may 19-21During Pendletonrsquos Cattle Baron Weekend enjoy an art exhibit by a talented group of women artists ldquoIn the Company of Cowgirlsrdquo Hamleyrsquos Steakhouse Pendleton Visit inthecom-panyofcowgirlscom or call 541-676-5013

may 19-22Whitman College 50th Reunion class of 1961 Whitman College Details 509-527-5952

Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merr y Wives of Windsorrdquo Pow-erhouse Theater Details 509-742-0739

may 21The annual Ducky Derby is a day of family fun all for a good cause Watch the ducks race down Mill Creek to help fund the Exchange Clubrsquos efforts at preventing child abuse and neglect 1130 am-330 pm Race at about 2 pm Walla Walla Community College De-tails 509-527-4300

Walla Walla University Spring Choral Concert 5 pm Walla Walla Univer-sity Church Details 509-527-2571

learn to contra dance an old-fashioned coun-try dance Music by the Wednesday Night Band 7 pm teaching and practice 730 pm regular dance Unity Church of Peace 810

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may 22The Whitman College graduating class of 2011 accepts the challenge 11 am Memorial lawn Whitman College Details 509-527-5156

may 26 27 28 29Walla Walla Community College Theatre arts De-partment presents ldquoZoot Suitrdquo by luis Valdez 7 pm each night and Sunday 2 pm matinee W WCC Performing arts Center Details 509-527-4575

may 27-30 Dayton Days has been a Memorial Weekend tradi-tion in Dayton for nearly 100 years Highlights include a Saturday-morning parade on historic Main Street rodeo tour of Dayton and Memorial Day Fun Run De-tails 509-382-4825 or visit historicdaytoncom

may 28-30The Touchet River Roundup mdash the annual Celebration of Sobriety at the fairgrounds focuses on family fun ac-tivities Waitsburg Details 509-526-3602

may 29annual Onion Man Tria-thalon 9 am Bennington lake Details wwmulti-sportscom or call 509-529-9187

may 30Waitsburgrsquos annual Memo-rial Day celebration hosted by veterans for all veterans Details 509-337-6546

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The sculpture tops the farmers market gazebo on the corner of Fourth Avenue North and West Main Street

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22 seven hills winery 212 N Third ave (509) 529-7198 wwwsevenhillswinerycom

23 sinclair estate vineyards 109 E Main Ste 100 (509) 876-4300 wwwsinclairestatevineyardscom

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Join us for a night of wonder with elizabethan-inspired food fashion and merriment to celebrate the opening of walla wallarsquos power house theatre and prepare for a four-day run of seattle shakespeare companyrsquos ldquothe merry wives of windsorrdquo

walla walla lifestyles will present a fashion show with wicked and wistful gowns twisted braided hair and smoldering makeup designs designers include red eden designs autumnlin design and others

semi-formal attire creative masks encouraged this exclusive evening will enchant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fashion

to purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewallawallacom

530 - 9 pm May 18 2011

The Power H o use The at reS i x t h amp R o se Wa l l a Wa l l a

T H E A T R EPOWER HOUSE

My director Terry Edward Moore told me his only direction from the artistic director was that it be ldquoperiodrdquo that is to say authentic to the time

ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo is the only one of Shakespearersquos plays that is set in his own time so it was decided to present it as if the actors were people of the time doing what would be a contemporary (to the late 16th century) play

i started to research the clothing of the time how it was constructed and what kinds of fabrics were available at the time mdash linens homespuns woolens for the common people and silks damasks velvets and furs for the upper classes i discovered that Elizabethan society was strictly regulated in terms of social classes and upward mobility was a little-known concept Once a yeoman always a yeoman i also discovered the set of rules and regulations called ldquosumptuary lawsrdquo which specifically dictated what types of fabrics trims furs and even what colors each class was allowed to wear

Since there are three distinct classes represented in ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo mdash merchant class soldiers and servants mdash i tried to give each class its own color palette based on these laws The overall palette of the show is based on colors actually in use at the time

The availability of dyes was limited (except for the nobility) so the palette consists of many shades of yellows and browns russets black some greens and blue-grays and of course wheat-colored unbleached linen i turned to the Dutch painter Brueghel for inspiration on how the common people looked and dressed

i also researched what kinds of dyes were used and where they came from Dyes were created from all sorts of different things such as walnut shell crushed beetles and all kinds of roots i found a website that sells these authentic dyestuffs so irsquom using the real thing to dye some of the linen pieces and will coordinate the contemporary fabrics to these authentic colors

Nearly every piece will need something done to it mdash altered in some way to fit the actor re-trimmed rigged invisibly for quick changes etc mdash so there is a lot of labor involved Also hats were a hugely important part of Elizabethan fashion all the way down to the poorest serf

Certain styles of hats were often associated with certain professions mdash eg doctors scholars mdash so there are a number of hats to build as well as headpieces for the women No self-respecting woman went about with her head uncovered

Putting together a show like this is like putting together a giant jigsaw puzzle and the pieces are the costumes that irsquove borrowed and rented from other theater companies in the Seattle area such as Seattle repertory Seattle Opera and the University of Washington as well as pieces from Oregon Shakespeare Festival i design the show and then go out into the world and try to find pieces that approximate my designs and palette as closely as possible (usually with some reworking first) The pieces that i cant find and dont want to compromise on i build from scratch

deane middLeton is a theatre costume professional who works in the Seattle area She has done costumes for Issaquahrsquos Village Theater as well as several productions of the Seattle Shakespeare Company

ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 29

ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo was the only one of Shakespearersquos works set in his own time the 1600s and features Sir John Falstaff It also deals primarily with english middle-class life A hilarious bawdy comedy filled with insight into the life and times of Shakespeare ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo will delight people of all ages

About the play

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But thatrsquos exactly what longtime Walla Walla resident Larry Adams did for four years He was one of a select group of pilots for Marine One the helicopter counterpart of the presidential airplane Air Force One from 1970 to 1974

30 Walla Walla LifestyLes

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 31

Long before Adams became the Walla Walla Airport manager he was transporting heads of state foreign dignitaries famous (and now infamous) Cabinet members the executive staff and President richard M Nixon during one of the nationrsquos most turbulent times the withdrawal from vietnam and the Watergate scandal

But to Adams a native of Northern idaho all that swirled around the Nixon presidency was the least of his concerns His job was to transport the president safely to Andrews Air Force Base or Camp David or fly any short flight required Safety always at a premium End of story

Many times Adams ferried President Nixon and his staff on short flights far away from home Air Force One might fly President Nixon to a summit or a meeting with a foreign head of state but Marine One and Adams were always nearby to shuttle the chief executive on short flights or to whisk him away from sudden danger

Pretty heady stuff for a fourth-grade teacher who had never thought about flying until a Marine recruiter offered him the opportunity Although Adams had watched planes take off and land at a nearby air base as a child he had never given serious thought to flying it was more a need for a bigger paycheck than passion that brought Adams to his destiny

He liked teaching but it just wasnrsquot paying the bills So Adams turned to the military and the Gi Bill After being unimpressed by other recruiters Adams took a liking to the fellow from the Marines for as Adams recalls the recruiter took an interest in him After about an hour of talking the recruiter suggested Adams might have the potential to be a pilot

Having easily passed some preliminary tests Adams was sent to flight school in Pensacola Fla and a stellar career was ready to take off He performed well in all the aircraft he piloted but he showed a special skill for helicopters

Up until 1965 fixed-wing airplanes were the staple of all military air combat But the military had been gearing up for a big change The helicopter was to become a major part of combat The Pentagon had been developing helicopters that would do much more than transport troops to bases Now they would assist in bombing

raids ground attacks and the evacuation of the injured from the point of combat This new breed of helicopters would also possess the ability to fight back and not be lame ducks as before the new H34 would tote machine guns on each side

These cutting-edge aircraft would travel at unprecedented speeds with newly discovered agility Gifted pilots were needed not those who merely possessed superior technical skills but those who also had the composure to fly straight into

enemy fire in the dead of night picking up injured soldiers or aiding air attacks

Adams was one of those pilots and he would be one of two squadron leaders for ldquoOperation Starliterdquo mdash the first major assault using helicopters The Marines were going straight into a North vietnamese regimental stronghold No one knew what to expect

ldquoWe lost a lot that first time inrdquo says Adams ldquoTwo crew chiefs were killed

Continued on pg 32 gt

In this newspaper clipping Larry Adams poses on the steps of the helicopter dubbed Marine One which he piloted for President Richard M Nixon

32 Walla Walla LifestyLes

people ltcontinued from pg 31

four pilots were medevaced out because of their wounds i donrsquot think there was one helicopter that didnrsquot have a bunch of holes in it The one i flew in we got a lot of rounds in it Amazingly no one was hurt but when we got back the helicopter was so shot-up you couldnrsquot fly it anymore We lost 50 percent of our helicopters that dayrdquo

in the next 13 months Adams would fly many more missions often heading straight into anti-aircraft fire to pick up injured or killed soldiers He says he would see the flares signifying where the copter was supposed to land but frequently hersquod have to veer off because ground communication would say ldquoThe artillery is too hotrdquo Then there would be a window maybe two minutes maybe five when the helicopter could drop in and pick up the injured often being shot at as it waited for its passengers

Adams knew the best way to survive was to keep his focus ldquoin the daylight when you start your run in and yoursquore getting shot at Everything went to black and white for me i didnrsquot notice the green trees or the green rice paddies until we got out of there and then it would come back

to me i donrsquot know what that was i just didnrsquot see the colors irsquove talked to some other pilots and they described the same thingrdquo

in his two tours of duty in vietnam Adams would fly 880 combat missions in several types of helicopters and fixed-wing airplanes He received numerous medals including two Navy commendations for performance under combat conditions

Then the call came to fly for the president Before Adams could tote the commander in chief around in Marine One a thorough background check had to be done So thorough was the check that Adams said a friend from his hometown sent him a card that read ldquoAre you in some kind of trouble Jesus therersquos been a bunch of people around here with the dark grey suits and the skinny little ties Theyrsquore asking all these embarrassing questions about you like did you have drinking problem Did you have a gambling problem Do you know what Larryrsquos sexual preference wasrdquo

Adams chuckles ldquoit was pretty funnyrdquoAdams passed the grade and soon

he was flying President Nixon and his family to Camp David or picking up vice

President Spiro Agnew at the Pentagon or taking Secretary of State Henry kissinger or Secretary of Defense Alexander Haig to a classified meeting Although his flights varied from transporting foreign heads of state to flying members of the press the majority involved the president the vice president kissinger and Haig

The pilots did not speak to their travelers unless spoken to says Adams President Nixon usually looked in and asked them how they were kissinger never spoke Haig was good for a pat on the shoulder now and then but it was Agnew who conversed the most says Adams

Adams remembers ldquoOne time we picked him up at the Pentagon and we had taken off and had hit top altitude He usually would come up and look into the cockpit but this time he patted me on the shoulder and asked lsquoWell howrsquos it going today guysrsquordquo Adams replied ldquoNot bad sir and how about yourselfrdquo

Agnew answered ldquoMan they are really after my assrdquo He was talking about the press Adams says ldquoTwo weeks later he resignedrdquo

Adams recalls that his encounters with Agnew as defying the public perception

Adams far right gives instructions before a mission in Vietnam

Walla Walla LifestyLes 33

that Agnew was arrogant ldquoHe was always one of the nicest guys He was straightforward He looked like he had just stepped off the cover of Gentlemenrsquos Quarterly all the time He was very proper in the way he dressed but he had a sense of humor as wellrdquo

There were other humorous moments Adams recalls a certain reporter from CBS who had been a major thorn in President Nixonrsquos side was late for takeoff from the South Lawn of the White House one morning Just as Marine One was about to leave without him he came running across the lawn hollering and waving his arms The Secret Service agent supervising the flight told Adams to ldquojust gordquo The wind from the propellers whipped the reporterrsquos toupee right off his head and instead of continuing his run toward Marine One he reversed his field and tried feverishly to retrieve his toupee snagged in the hedges

ldquoEveryone got a pretty good chuckle out of thatrdquo

Of course there were somber times At one point Adams flew Cabinet members John Ehrlichman and Hr Haldeman to Camp David for a meeting with the president After only 15 minutes the two men returned and Marine One headed home Adams says it was a quiet flight He found out later the two men had been fired by President Nixon for their parts in the Watergate scandal

Whisking the president away from danger was a major part of being a pilot of Marine One Stationed across the river from the Capitol pilots awakened by an emergency alert had to be up in the air in five minutes This exercise was practiced often though never needed during Adamsrsquo tenure

One night however they thought it was The operator at the White House mistakenly hit the ldquoAlertrdquo button Marine One was in the air in five minutes

Although ground control had not spotted any enemy aircraft the operation was under way As Marine One closed in on the White House the operator at fault tried to alert everyone of his mistake but unfortunately used a poor choice of words to call off the operation

Adams chuckles as he says ldquoThe fella said lsquoThis is not an exercisersquo He was moved to another post i thinkrdquo

All levity aside the position required

the same kind of focus demanded of Adams in vietnam though it came in a different form

ldquoThere were three things the way you operated the aircraft and they were in this order safety comfort and speed Safety never gave in to comfort or speedrdquo says Adams ldquoOur job was just concentrating on doing our job it could have been anybody mdash we would do it the same way it could have been Fred Flintstone

ldquoThe difference between flying for the White House and in vietnam was we were flying a premier aircraft We had to keep it impeccably clean everything was scripted We had to have the lsquoopen-the-door timersquo down to two to four seconds in vietnam it was the stress of performing medevacs under fire or dropping troops under heavy artillery For Marine One it was the stress of doing the job rightrdquo

Also the stress of being away from onersquos family 200 days of the year wore on a Marine One pilot in 1974 after four years on the job the toll became too much and Adams stepped down

He would stay with the Marines for eight more years retiring in August 1982

By then he had received 44 Air Medals including the Joint Service Commendation and the Presidential Service Badge in his 20 years of service Adams flew seven different helicopters and five different fixed-wing planes

What makes an elite military pilot ldquoPilots who donrsquot have any misgivingsrdquo says Adams ldquoTheyrsquore totally prepared they know their aircraftrdquo

When talking about his colleagues on Marine One he adds ldquoNone were boasters They might brag about a great landing but they did not brag in spite of someone elserdquo

What did Adams love most about his flying days ldquoi enjoyed flying with the latest technology and the pristine quality of Marine One i loved the process of building my skills i could have flown another 40 years and i would still be learning thingsrdquo

is it any surprise his favorite hobby now is fly fishing

andrew hoLt writes about food people and all things Walla Walla for Walla Walla lifestyles magazine He can be reached at bruindrew86gmailcom

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it is astonishing in many ways mdash that we are presented with two weeks of top-drawer music performed by top-drawer musi-cians that there are so many ways to encounter the music (many of them free) and that a rural community has provided the incu-

bator for such a cultural undertaking to name but a fewGranted we are not your average rural community having two

colleges a university a symphony a choral society a community band and music in the schools but letrsquos face it wersquore not exactly a cosmopolitan center of culture like New york either The Cham-ber Music Festival mdash and our continued support of it through some tough times mdash puts us in a category all our own

ldquoi saw what was special about this community the first time i visited in 2007rdquo Artistic Director Timothy Christie says ldquoi have

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A young artistic composer pays close attention as Tim Christie uses his violin to interpret the boys piece of artwork into music on June 11 2009 Meanwhile other children work on their works of art in preparation for the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival quintets interpretations

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worked hard to start this event and to my great joy it has taken on an iden-tity of its own i hire the musicians and choose the music but the town its people and its environs make the festivalrdquo

The beauty of chamber music is its intimacy mdash smaller ensembles performing for smaller audiences it has been referred to as ldquothe music of friendsrdquo which seems so apt at this festival Free open rehearsals are held around town that provide not only a musical atmosphere in which to enjoy a latte or the ambiance of the kirkman House but which give a richer look into the machinations of a working ensemble

As one enthusiastic fan puts it ldquoi am not a musician and itrsquos fascinat-ing to watch these rehearsals to see the interactions of the musicians as they work out the snags make wry remarks and relate to each other in a whole different way than during a for-mal performance i get a glimpse into their personalities and what makes them tickrdquo

The festival supplies a generous of-fering of venues with free concerts for children and families relaxed evening programs at wineries and full concerts at the Foundry Chism Hall and Day-tonrsquos Liberty Theater

if you are lucky enough to live near the musiciansrsquo lodgings while they are in town you may also be treated to an ad hoc front-porch concert as the ensembles continue their rehearsals in more private settings The festival is about all of these ways mdash planned and accidental mdash to experience the enchantment of chamber music

it is also about historic continuity and the connection between past and present mdash relishing the existing canon while expanding the genre with con-temporary forms and voices

How is this accomplished in part by the annual commission of a new piece of music for the festival Chris-tie is committed to contributing to the broader chamber music repertoire and to providing the audience with the richest possible experience

Continued on pg 36 gt

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ldquoFor classical music to be relevant there must be a conversation between the music of our time and the music of the pastrdquo he says

By commissioning a work for the festi-val each year Christie creates such a con-versation

This year the commission was given to John David Earnest Four festival commis-sions have preceded his and he is the sec-ond ldquolocalrdquo composer to be tapped add-ing another layer of relationship between community and event (in 2009 Whitman College professor David Glenn was given the nod)

As visiting adjunct professor of music at Whitman Earnest resides here for six weeks every semester His ldquoSecond Sym-phonyrdquo was written for and performed by the Walla Walla Symphony in October 2001

The challenge for the yearly commis-sionee is to compose a piece on demand within specific constraints of time place and instrumentation while expressing hisher own voice as an artist

Earnest has created ldquoCommedia Gal-leryrdquo a set of three movements for flute

viola and harp based on stock characters from the Commedia dellrsquoArte a popu-lar theatrical form that was influential in Europe for over 300 years Commedia characters improvised dialogue around set scenarios generally involving the struggles of young lovers to overcome hindrances to their romance and each character even-tually came to have a consistent set of at-tributes in speech mannerisms and cos-tume

Earnestrsquos ldquoGalleryrdquo gives us Arlecchi-no (Harlequin) an acrobatic and devious jester Pierrot the classic sad clown and finally Scaramouche a dandy and a brag-gart who is a coward at heart

in anticipation of this yearrsquos festival i am reminded of the scene in ldquoThe Music Manrdquo in which the town awaits the ar-rival of the Wells Fargo Wagon Potentially heaped with gifts and surprises it prom-ises connection to the larger world The WWCMF brings us all ldquosomethinrsquo specialrdquo mdash an enrichment of our community and our culture

margaret Jamison is an artist and writer living in Walla Walla Contact her at artjamisongmailcom

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Smith has gardened for years at his home at 38 Mulberry Court in College Place He used to grow vegetables and flowers now he is strictly focusing on flowers mdash with fabulous results roses delphiniums and lots of irises line the fence

ldquoirises mdash irsquove always enjoyed themrdquo he says ldquoThey take a little bit of weeding and watering but not much morerdquo itrsquos the gardenerrsquos dream mdash low maintenance with a big return

A retired orthopedic surgeon Smith has in the past gardened more extensively than he does now But he has enough plants to keep him busy His new project is planting more of the reblooming iris These are still hardy but you get twice the reward they bloom in the spring then again in the fall

ldquoTheyrsquore easy to grow and spectacular for a short time iris take less care than a lot of thingsrdquo Smith says

His secret for gardening is simple and therersquos no getting around it ldquoTime and workrdquo he laughs

Hersquos getting ready to start in the garden ldquoi need to clean out the leaves and the old foliage of the irisrdquo

in addition to the basic cleaning and maintenance Smith just decides how many plants to keep Bulb flowers are hardy and they multiply on their own

ldquoAfter five years you usually have to separate the bulbs when they get too thick i donrsquot have room to add more i put in the new re-blooming onesrdquo he explains ldquoi may add more and a few other thingsrdquo

But in a garden you can always try something new or rearrange existing plants often with a spectacular outcome

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itrsquos an odd location since it can only be seen as yoursquore leaving town but it always makes me smile This valley my adopted home is indeed a great place to be

i recently finished reading the great Western writer Wallace Stegnerrsquos book ldquoThe Sound of Mountain Waterrdquo One of his essays traces his nomadic childhood which left him feeling rootless and without a place that he felt he could call home

i identify with his feeling of not belonging i was born to a single woman from Massachusetts in a New york City hospital i stayed a scant few days before being placed with an adoption agency Born in a place i had no familial connection to i was immediately deprived of my biological family Most of my childhood was spent in suburban Cleveland Ohio Moves to upstate New york New England and Pennsylvania brought me no closer to calling any place home i loved living in the western Massachusetts town of Stockbridge but the multigenerational denizens of the town left few openings for newcomers like me i lived in central Pennsylvania for several decades but felt detached from the deep roots that most people had in the area

When we came west (for my husband a homecoming to his Oregon roots for me a new experience) i noticed that even in long-established towns like Walla Walla there is ample room for newcomers who want to be

part of the community And most folks who choose to come here donrsquot seem to want to change the valley they prefer to embrace it

While the occasional newbie whines about the lack of Whole Foods or Nordstrom they soon discover our farmers markets the wide variety of local shops and boutiques and our world-class restaurants They fall in love with our charming downtowns the small-town friendliness of the people and our kid-friendly environment Then therersquos the holiday parade the fair the ever-present Blue Mountains the parks the museums the wineries mdash really whatrsquos not to like The communities of our valley represent America at its best

irsquom a newspaper junkie i love to read everything from news to sports to classifieds mdash even the obituaries The obits are a fascinating window on our valley Many of the people chronicled were born here some lived all their lives here inextricably bound to this place But a number of people came here from other places often far away and have made a mark on our area Which makes me wonder mdash is a place any less of a hometown because you choose it or is it based primarily on the happenstance of your birth it seems that therersquos room for both paths to calling this wonderful valley home

itrsquos also our strength because collectively as a community we bring both deep familial and cultural traditions as well as the fresh perspective of newcomers to our area irsquom glad mdash after decades of searching mdash that i finally found my hometown a place that feels just right

diane reed can be reached at ladybookearthlinknet Between columns and when the spirit moves her she blogs at wwwponderingsbydianereedblogspotcom from her home overlooking the pond at lions Park in College Place

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Maymay 1The annual Kennel Club Dog Show Walla Walla County Fairgrounds De-tails 509-558-3854

The Walla Walla University Drama Department pres-ents a performance of ldquoMy Fair ladyrdquo 2 pm matinee Details 509-527-2656

The Walla Walla Choral Society presents ldquoJubilate Deordquo 3 pm May 1 Walla Walla University Church College Place Details 509-386-2445

The Walla Walla Valley Farmers Market opens local produce artisans and an outdoor concert 9 am-1 pm Saturdays and Sundays through Oct 30 Crawford Park Fourth ave and Main St Details gowallawallafarmersmar-ketcom or 509-520-3647

through may 22Enjoy the annual Senior art Thesis Exhibition Sheehan Gallery Whitman College Details 509-527-5249

through JuLy 31The Tamaacutestslikt Cultural In-stitute hosts the traveling OMSI exhibit ldquoamazing Feats of agingrdquo explor-ing the mysteries of why animals and humans age Details 541-966-9748

may 4The YWCa leadership luncheon ldquoMatters that Matterrdquo is informational and inspirational with guest speakers Kristine Van Raden and Molly Da-vis Noon Marcus Whit-man Hotel Details 509-525-2570

Walla Walla Wine Works hosts music on Wednes-days downtown Details 509-522-1261

may 5First Thursday Concert at St Pauls Episcopal Church 323 Catherine Street Walla Walla 1215-1250 pm will feature the Steel Drum Band from Walla Walla Uni-versity directed by Brandon Beck Details 529-1083

The Whitman College Visit-ing Writers Reading series presents Whitman Reading 7 pm Kimball Theatre De-tails whitmanedu

may 5-7 12-14Walla Walla High School Drama Department pres-ents ldquoFiddler on the Roofrdquo musical version 7 pm and 2 pm matinee on Saturdays May 7 and 14 Walla Walla High School Performing arts audito-rium Details Tickets can be reserved by calling 509-526-8613 the Wa-Hi box office

may 5-8 19-21a performance of ldquoThe 25th a nnua l Putnam County Spelling Beerdquo 8 pm Harper Joy Theatre Whitman College Details 509-527-5180

may 6-7Music on the weekends at the Backstage Bistro De-tails 509-526-0690

Sapolil Cellars hosts music on Friday and Saturday De-tails 509-520-5258

The Wildfire hosts music every Friday and Saturday Wildhorse Resort amp Casino Pendleton Details 800-654-9453

may 6-8Walla Walla Valley Winer-ies offer an opportunity to taste their new creations during Spring Release Weekend area wineries introduce new wines and winemakers share their creative inspiration Details 509-526-3117

may 6artWalK First Fridays May through December Visit galleries and chat with art-ists 5-8 pm Downtown Walla Walla Visit artwalk-wallawallacom

may 6-8 13-14The little Theatre presents ldquoalice In Wonderlandrdquo adapted from lewis Carroll 8 pm Friday-Saturday 2 pm Sunday little Theatre of Walla Walla Details 509-529-3683

may 7The annual Junior Horse Show brings great riding action to Milton-Freewater Pioneer Posse Grounds Details 541-938-3379

Daytonrsquos annual Street Sale turns a section of Third Street into a giant yard sale benefits churches and com-munity projects Dayton Details 509-382-4825

artist reception and dem-onstration Washington art-ist Dwight Duke exhibits his painting bronze sculptures and gunpowder light pan-els 6-730 pm Reininger Winery Details 509-522-1994

may 8Every Sunday the living History actors portray in-dividuals from the arearsquos past 2 pm Fort Walla Walla Museum Details 509-525-7703

may 13-15The annual Balloon Stam-pede brings as many as 50 hot-air balloons to the Walla Walla County Fairgrounds This colorful festival re-mains a Valley tradition Ear-ly morning flights (weather permitting) arts amp crafts antique autos commercial booths live entertainment and food Balloons light up to music at the Saturday evening Nite Glow Details 509-525-0850

may 14annual adult event cele-brates the characters who populated Pendletonrsquos past Must have reservations Pendleton Underground Tours Details 800-226-6398

may 14-15 may 27-29Walla Walla Drag Strip con-tinues the weekend fun Details wwdragstripcom or 509-200-6287

may 15Walla Walla University Chamber Series featuring Robyn McCabe 730 pm MKW Fine arts auditorium Details 509-527-2571

may 18To celebrate the opening of Walla Wallarsquos Power House Theatre and a four-day run of Seattle Shakespeare Companyrsquos ldquoThe Merry Wives of WindsorrdquoWalla Walla lifestyles will pres-ent a gala event This exclusive evening will en-chant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fash-ion from 530-9 pm at the Power House Theatre Sixth amp Rose Walla Walla To purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewalla-wallacom

may 19-21During Pendletonrsquos Cattle Baron Weekend enjoy an art exhibit by a talented group of women artists ldquoIn the Company of Cowgirlsrdquo Hamleyrsquos Steakhouse Pendleton Visit inthecom-panyofcowgirlscom or call 541-676-5013

may 19-22Whitman College 50th Reunion class of 1961 Whitman College Details 509-527-5952

Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merr y Wives of Windsorrdquo Pow-erhouse Theater Details 509-742-0739

may 21The annual Ducky Derby is a day of family fun all for a good cause Watch the ducks race down Mill Creek to help fund the Exchange Clubrsquos efforts at preventing child abuse and neglect 1130 am-330 pm Race at about 2 pm Walla Walla Community College De-tails 509-527-4300

Walla Walla University Spring Choral Concert 5 pm Walla Walla Univer-sity Church Details 509-527-2571

learn to contra dance an old-fashioned coun-try dance Music by the Wednesday Night Band 7 pm teaching and practice 730 pm regular dance Unity Church of Peace 810

C St Walla Walla Details 541-938-7403

may 22The Whitman College graduating class of 2011 accepts the challenge 11 am Memorial lawn Whitman College Details 509-527-5156

may 26 27 28 29Walla Walla Community College Theatre arts De-partment presents ldquoZoot Suitrdquo by luis Valdez 7 pm each night and Sunday 2 pm matinee W WCC Performing arts Center Details 509-527-4575

may 27-30 Dayton Days has been a Memorial Weekend tradi-tion in Dayton for nearly 100 years Highlights include a Saturday-morning parade on historic Main Street rodeo tour of Dayton and Memorial Day Fun Run De-tails 509-382-4825 or visit historicdaytoncom

may 28-30The Touchet River Roundup mdash the annual Celebration of Sobriety at the fairgrounds focuses on family fun ac-tivities Waitsburg Details 509-526-3602

may 29annual Onion Man Tria-thalon 9 am Bennington lake Details wwmulti-sportscom or call 509-529-9187

may 30Waitsburgrsquos annual Memo-rial Day celebration hosted by veterans for all veterans Details 509-337-6546

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Lastenspmonthrsquosenspclueensp

This sculptural cornucopia marks the spot where all of Walla Walla meets the producers and wersquore not talking about the Zero Mostel and Gene Wild-er musical For you GPS fans latitude 4606678 N longitude 11834197 W

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The sculpture tops the farmers market gazebo on the corner of Fourth Avenue North and West Main Street

Contestensprulesif you have the answer e-mail it to rickdoylewwubcom or send it to Where in Walla Walla 112 S 1st Ave PO Box 1358 Walla Walla WA 99362 The names of 10 people with correct answers will be randomly selected and they will receive this great-looking mug as proof of their local knowledge and good taste

Annette CarterShirley richterDebbie FullenJudy CarlsonEloise Phillips

Dan Countsvicky ScanlonJanet TurnerTam LennoxBruce Campbell

46 Walla Walla LifestyLes

1 amavi cellars3796 Peppers Bridge Road (509) 525-3541 wwwamavicellarscom

2 Basel cellars estate winery2901 Old Milton Hwy (509) 522-0200 wwwbaselcellarscom

3 Bergevin Lane vineyards 1215 W Poplar St (509) 526-4300 bergevinlanecom

4 Bunchgrass winery151 Bunchgrass lane (509) 540-8963 wwwbunchgrasswinerycom

5 canoe ridge vineyard1102 W Cherry St (509) 527-0885 wwwcanoeridgevineyardcom

6 castillo de feliciana85728 Telephone Pole Road Milton-Freewater OR (541) 558-3656 wwwcastillodefelicianacom

7 don carlo vineyardBy appointment Only (509) 540-5784 wwwdoncarlovineyardcom

8 dunham cellars150 E Boeing ave (509) 529-4685 wwwdunhamcellarscom

9 five star cellars 840 C St (509) 527-8400 wwwfivestarcellarscom

10 forgeron cellars 33 W Birch St (509) 522-9463 wwwforgeroncellarscom

21 sapolil cellars15 E Main St (509) 520-5258 wwwsapolilcellarscom

22 seven hills winery 212 N Third ave (509) 529-7198 wwwsevenhillswinerycom

23 sinclair estate vineyards 109 E Main Ste 100 (509) 876-4300 wwwsinclairestatevineyardscom

24 spring valley vineyard 18 N Second ave (509) 525-1506 wwwspringvalleyvineyardcom

25 suLei cellars355 S Second ave (503) 529-0840 www suleicellarscom

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11 foundry vineyards Corner of 13th ave and abadie St (509) 529-0736 wwwwallawallafoundrycomvineyards

12 fort walla walla cellars 127 E Main St (509) 520-1095 wwwfortwallawallacellarscom

13 glencorrie8052 Old Highway 12 (509) 525-2585 wwwglencorriecom

14 grantwood winery 2428 W Highway 12 (509) 301-0719 (509) 301-9546

15 Lrsquoecole no 41 winery41 lowden School Road and US Hwy 12 (509) 525-0940 wwwlecolecom

16 Long shadows1604 Frenchtown Road (Formerly Ireland Road) (509) 526-0905 wwwlongshadowscom By invitation only Requests accepted on a limited basis Please call to inquire

17 Lowden hills winery1401 W Pine St (509) 527-1040 wwwlowdenhillswinerycom

18 northstar winery 1736 JB George Road (509) 524-4883 wwwnorthstarmerlotcom

19 pepper Bridge winery1704 JB George Road (509) 525-6502 wwwpepperbridgecom

20 robison ranch cellars2839 Robison Ranch Road (509) 301-3480 robisonranchcellarscom

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26 syZygy 405 E Boeing ave (509) 522-0484 wwwsyzygywinescom

27 three rivers winery5641 Old Highway 12 (509) 526-9463 infoThreeRiversWinerycom

28 tertulia cellars1564 Whiteley Road (509) 525-5700 wwwtertuliacellarscom

29 trust cellars 1050 Merlot Drive (509) 529-4511 wwwtrustcellarscom

30 va piano vineyards1793 JB George Road (509) 529-0900 wwwvapianovineyardscom

31 walla walla vintnersVineyard lane off Mill Creek Road (509) 525-4724 wwwwallawallavintnerscom

32 walla walla wineworks31 E Main St (509) 522-1261 wwwwallawallawineworkscom

33 whitman cellars1015 W Pine St (509) 529-1142 wwwwhitmancellarscom

34 woodward canyon winery11920 W Hwy 12 lowden (509) 525-4129 wwwwoodwardcanyoncom

35 JLc winery425 B St (509) 301-5148

36 saviah cellars1979 JB George Rd

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E St

Beech ave

lockheed ave

Piper ave

G St

Mill Creek Rd

Isaacs ave

AirportTerminal

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d

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Old Milton Hwy

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JB George Rd

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Stateline RdWaSHINGTON

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d

Frog HollowM

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ardena Rd

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To Touchet Detour R

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ilton

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Ryan ave

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Boeing ave

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Join us for a night of wonder with elizabethan-inspired food fashion and merriment to celebrate the opening of walla wallarsquos power house theatre and prepare for a four-day run of seattle shakespeare companyrsquos ldquothe merry wives of windsorrdquo

walla walla lifestyles will present a fashion show with wicked and wistful gowns twisted braided hair and smoldering makeup designs designers include red eden designs autumnlin design and others

semi-formal attire creative masks encouraged this exclusive evening will enchant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fashion

to purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewallawallacom

530 - 9 pm May 18 2011

The Power H o use The at reS i x t h amp R o se Wa l l a Wa l l a

T H E A T R EPOWER HOUSE

My director Terry Edward Moore told me his only direction from the artistic director was that it be ldquoperiodrdquo that is to say authentic to the time

ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo is the only one of Shakespearersquos plays that is set in his own time so it was decided to present it as if the actors were people of the time doing what would be a contemporary (to the late 16th century) play

i started to research the clothing of the time how it was constructed and what kinds of fabrics were available at the time mdash linens homespuns woolens for the common people and silks damasks velvets and furs for the upper classes i discovered that Elizabethan society was strictly regulated in terms of social classes and upward mobility was a little-known concept Once a yeoman always a yeoman i also discovered the set of rules and regulations called ldquosumptuary lawsrdquo which specifically dictated what types of fabrics trims furs and even what colors each class was allowed to wear

Since there are three distinct classes represented in ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo mdash merchant class soldiers and servants mdash i tried to give each class its own color palette based on these laws The overall palette of the show is based on colors actually in use at the time

The availability of dyes was limited (except for the nobility) so the palette consists of many shades of yellows and browns russets black some greens and blue-grays and of course wheat-colored unbleached linen i turned to the Dutch painter Brueghel for inspiration on how the common people looked and dressed

i also researched what kinds of dyes were used and where they came from Dyes were created from all sorts of different things such as walnut shell crushed beetles and all kinds of roots i found a website that sells these authentic dyestuffs so irsquom using the real thing to dye some of the linen pieces and will coordinate the contemporary fabrics to these authentic colors

Nearly every piece will need something done to it mdash altered in some way to fit the actor re-trimmed rigged invisibly for quick changes etc mdash so there is a lot of labor involved Also hats were a hugely important part of Elizabethan fashion all the way down to the poorest serf

Certain styles of hats were often associated with certain professions mdash eg doctors scholars mdash so there are a number of hats to build as well as headpieces for the women No self-respecting woman went about with her head uncovered

Putting together a show like this is like putting together a giant jigsaw puzzle and the pieces are the costumes that irsquove borrowed and rented from other theater companies in the Seattle area such as Seattle repertory Seattle Opera and the University of Washington as well as pieces from Oregon Shakespeare Festival i design the show and then go out into the world and try to find pieces that approximate my designs and palette as closely as possible (usually with some reworking first) The pieces that i cant find and dont want to compromise on i build from scratch

deane middLeton is a theatre costume professional who works in the Seattle area She has done costumes for Issaquahrsquos Village Theater as well as several productions of the Seattle Shakespeare Company

ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 29

ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo was the only one of Shakespearersquos works set in his own time the 1600s and features Sir John Falstaff It also deals primarily with english middle-class life A hilarious bawdy comedy filled with insight into the life and times of Shakespeare ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo will delight people of all ages

About the play

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But thatrsquos exactly what longtime Walla Walla resident Larry Adams did for four years He was one of a select group of pilots for Marine One the helicopter counterpart of the presidential airplane Air Force One from 1970 to 1974

30 Walla Walla LifestyLes

by andrewenspHoltensp enspphoto by ColbyenspKuschatkapeople

Walla Walla LifestyLes 31

Long before Adams became the Walla Walla Airport manager he was transporting heads of state foreign dignitaries famous (and now infamous) Cabinet members the executive staff and President richard M Nixon during one of the nationrsquos most turbulent times the withdrawal from vietnam and the Watergate scandal

But to Adams a native of Northern idaho all that swirled around the Nixon presidency was the least of his concerns His job was to transport the president safely to Andrews Air Force Base or Camp David or fly any short flight required Safety always at a premium End of story

Many times Adams ferried President Nixon and his staff on short flights far away from home Air Force One might fly President Nixon to a summit or a meeting with a foreign head of state but Marine One and Adams were always nearby to shuttle the chief executive on short flights or to whisk him away from sudden danger

Pretty heady stuff for a fourth-grade teacher who had never thought about flying until a Marine recruiter offered him the opportunity Although Adams had watched planes take off and land at a nearby air base as a child he had never given serious thought to flying it was more a need for a bigger paycheck than passion that brought Adams to his destiny

He liked teaching but it just wasnrsquot paying the bills So Adams turned to the military and the Gi Bill After being unimpressed by other recruiters Adams took a liking to the fellow from the Marines for as Adams recalls the recruiter took an interest in him After about an hour of talking the recruiter suggested Adams might have the potential to be a pilot

Having easily passed some preliminary tests Adams was sent to flight school in Pensacola Fla and a stellar career was ready to take off He performed well in all the aircraft he piloted but he showed a special skill for helicopters

Up until 1965 fixed-wing airplanes were the staple of all military air combat But the military had been gearing up for a big change The helicopter was to become a major part of combat The Pentagon had been developing helicopters that would do much more than transport troops to bases Now they would assist in bombing

raids ground attacks and the evacuation of the injured from the point of combat This new breed of helicopters would also possess the ability to fight back and not be lame ducks as before the new H34 would tote machine guns on each side

These cutting-edge aircraft would travel at unprecedented speeds with newly discovered agility Gifted pilots were needed not those who merely possessed superior technical skills but those who also had the composure to fly straight into

enemy fire in the dead of night picking up injured soldiers or aiding air attacks

Adams was one of those pilots and he would be one of two squadron leaders for ldquoOperation Starliterdquo mdash the first major assault using helicopters The Marines were going straight into a North vietnamese regimental stronghold No one knew what to expect

ldquoWe lost a lot that first time inrdquo says Adams ldquoTwo crew chiefs were killed

Continued on pg 32 gt

In this newspaper clipping Larry Adams poses on the steps of the helicopter dubbed Marine One which he piloted for President Richard M Nixon

32 Walla Walla LifestyLes

people ltcontinued from pg 31

four pilots were medevaced out because of their wounds i donrsquot think there was one helicopter that didnrsquot have a bunch of holes in it The one i flew in we got a lot of rounds in it Amazingly no one was hurt but when we got back the helicopter was so shot-up you couldnrsquot fly it anymore We lost 50 percent of our helicopters that dayrdquo

in the next 13 months Adams would fly many more missions often heading straight into anti-aircraft fire to pick up injured or killed soldiers He says he would see the flares signifying where the copter was supposed to land but frequently hersquod have to veer off because ground communication would say ldquoThe artillery is too hotrdquo Then there would be a window maybe two minutes maybe five when the helicopter could drop in and pick up the injured often being shot at as it waited for its passengers

Adams knew the best way to survive was to keep his focus ldquoin the daylight when you start your run in and yoursquore getting shot at Everything went to black and white for me i didnrsquot notice the green trees or the green rice paddies until we got out of there and then it would come back

to me i donrsquot know what that was i just didnrsquot see the colors irsquove talked to some other pilots and they described the same thingrdquo

in his two tours of duty in vietnam Adams would fly 880 combat missions in several types of helicopters and fixed-wing airplanes He received numerous medals including two Navy commendations for performance under combat conditions

Then the call came to fly for the president Before Adams could tote the commander in chief around in Marine One a thorough background check had to be done So thorough was the check that Adams said a friend from his hometown sent him a card that read ldquoAre you in some kind of trouble Jesus therersquos been a bunch of people around here with the dark grey suits and the skinny little ties Theyrsquore asking all these embarrassing questions about you like did you have drinking problem Did you have a gambling problem Do you know what Larryrsquos sexual preference wasrdquo

Adams chuckles ldquoit was pretty funnyrdquoAdams passed the grade and soon

he was flying President Nixon and his family to Camp David or picking up vice

President Spiro Agnew at the Pentagon or taking Secretary of State Henry kissinger or Secretary of Defense Alexander Haig to a classified meeting Although his flights varied from transporting foreign heads of state to flying members of the press the majority involved the president the vice president kissinger and Haig

The pilots did not speak to their travelers unless spoken to says Adams President Nixon usually looked in and asked them how they were kissinger never spoke Haig was good for a pat on the shoulder now and then but it was Agnew who conversed the most says Adams

Adams remembers ldquoOne time we picked him up at the Pentagon and we had taken off and had hit top altitude He usually would come up and look into the cockpit but this time he patted me on the shoulder and asked lsquoWell howrsquos it going today guysrsquordquo Adams replied ldquoNot bad sir and how about yourselfrdquo

Agnew answered ldquoMan they are really after my assrdquo He was talking about the press Adams says ldquoTwo weeks later he resignedrdquo

Adams recalls that his encounters with Agnew as defying the public perception

Adams far right gives instructions before a mission in Vietnam

Walla Walla LifestyLes 33

that Agnew was arrogant ldquoHe was always one of the nicest guys He was straightforward He looked like he had just stepped off the cover of Gentlemenrsquos Quarterly all the time He was very proper in the way he dressed but he had a sense of humor as wellrdquo

There were other humorous moments Adams recalls a certain reporter from CBS who had been a major thorn in President Nixonrsquos side was late for takeoff from the South Lawn of the White House one morning Just as Marine One was about to leave without him he came running across the lawn hollering and waving his arms The Secret Service agent supervising the flight told Adams to ldquojust gordquo The wind from the propellers whipped the reporterrsquos toupee right off his head and instead of continuing his run toward Marine One he reversed his field and tried feverishly to retrieve his toupee snagged in the hedges

ldquoEveryone got a pretty good chuckle out of thatrdquo

Of course there were somber times At one point Adams flew Cabinet members John Ehrlichman and Hr Haldeman to Camp David for a meeting with the president After only 15 minutes the two men returned and Marine One headed home Adams says it was a quiet flight He found out later the two men had been fired by President Nixon for their parts in the Watergate scandal

Whisking the president away from danger was a major part of being a pilot of Marine One Stationed across the river from the Capitol pilots awakened by an emergency alert had to be up in the air in five minutes This exercise was practiced often though never needed during Adamsrsquo tenure

One night however they thought it was The operator at the White House mistakenly hit the ldquoAlertrdquo button Marine One was in the air in five minutes

Although ground control had not spotted any enemy aircraft the operation was under way As Marine One closed in on the White House the operator at fault tried to alert everyone of his mistake but unfortunately used a poor choice of words to call off the operation

Adams chuckles as he says ldquoThe fella said lsquoThis is not an exercisersquo He was moved to another post i thinkrdquo

All levity aside the position required

the same kind of focus demanded of Adams in vietnam though it came in a different form

ldquoThere were three things the way you operated the aircraft and they were in this order safety comfort and speed Safety never gave in to comfort or speedrdquo says Adams ldquoOur job was just concentrating on doing our job it could have been anybody mdash we would do it the same way it could have been Fred Flintstone

ldquoThe difference between flying for the White House and in vietnam was we were flying a premier aircraft We had to keep it impeccably clean everything was scripted We had to have the lsquoopen-the-door timersquo down to two to four seconds in vietnam it was the stress of performing medevacs under fire or dropping troops under heavy artillery For Marine One it was the stress of doing the job rightrdquo

Also the stress of being away from onersquos family 200 days of the year wore on a Marine One pilot in 1974 after four years on the job the toll became too much and Adams stepped down

He would stay with the Marines for eight more years retiring in August 1982

By then he had received 44 Air Medals including the Joint Service Commendation and the Presidential Service Badge in his 20 years of service Adams flew seven different helicopters and five different fixed-wing planes

What makes an elite military pilot ldquoPilots who donrsquot have any misgivingsrdquo says Adams ldquoTheyrsquore totally prepared they know their aircraftrdquo

When talking about his colleagues on Marine One he adds ldquoNone were boasters They might brag about a great landing but they did not brag in spite of someone elserdquo

What did Adams love most about his flying days ldquoi enjoyed flying with the latest technology and the pristine quality of Marine One i loved the process of building my skills i could have flown another 40 years and i would still be learning thingsrdquo

is it any surprise his favorite hobby now is fly fishing

andrew hoLt writes about food people and all things Walla Walla for Walla Walla lifestyles magazine He can be reached at bruindrew86gmailcom

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it is astonishing in many ways mdash that we are presented with two weeks of top-drawer music performed by top-drawer musi-cians that there are so many ways to encounter the music (many of them free) and that a rural community has provided the incu-

bator for such a cultural undertaking to name but a fewGranted we are not your average rural community having two

colleges a university a symphony a choral society a community band and music in the schools but letrsquos face it wersquore not exactly a cosmopolitan center of culture like New york either The Cham-ber Music Festival mdash and our continued support of it through some tough times mdash puts us in a category all our own

ldquoi saw what was special about this community the first time i visited in 2007rdquo Artistic Director Timothy Christie says ldquoi have

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A young artistic composer pays close attention as Tim Christie uses his violin to interpret the boys piece of artwork into music on June 11 2009 Meanwhile other children work on their works of art in preparation for the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival quintets interpretations

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worked hard to start this event and to my great joy it has taken on an iden-tity of its own i hire the musicians and choose the music but the town its people and its environs make the festivalrdquo

The beauty of chamber music is its intimacy mdash smaller ensembles performing for smaller audiences it has been referred to as ldquothe music of friendsrdquo which seems so apt at this festival Free open rehearsals are held around town that provide not only a musical atmosphere in which to enjoy a latte or the ambiance of the kirkman House but which give a richer look into the machinations of a working ensemble

As one enthusiastic fan puts it ldquoi am not a musician and itrsquos fascinat-ing to watch these rehearsals to see the interactions of the musicians as they work out the snags make wry remarks and relate to each other in a whole different way than during a for-mal performance i get a glimpse into their personalities and what makes them tickrdquo

The festival supplies a generous of-fering of venues with free concerts for children and families relaxed evening programs at wineries and full concerts at the Foundry Chism Hall and Day-tonrsquos Liberty Theater

if you are lucky enough to live near the musiciansrsquo lodgings while they are in town you may also be treated to an ad hoc front-porch concert as the ensembles continue their rehearsals in more private settings The festival is about all of these ways mdash planned and accidental mdash to experience the enchantment of chamber music

it is also about historic continuity and the connection between past and present mdash relishing the existing canon while expanding the genre with con-temporary forms and voices

How is this accomplished in part by the annual commission of a new piece of music for the festival Chris-tie is committed to contributing to the broader chamber music repertoire and to providing the audience with the richest possible experience

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ldquoFor classical music to be relevant there must be a conversation between the music of our time and the music of the pastrdquo he says

By commissioning a work for the festi-val each year Christie creates such a con-versation

This year the commission was given to John David Earnest Four festival commis-sions have preceded his and he is the sec-ond ldquolocalrdquo composer to be tapped add-ing another layer of relationship between community and event (in 2009 Whitman College professor David Glenn was given the nod)

As visiting adjunct professor of music at Whitman Earnest resides here for six weeks every semester His ldquoSecond Sym-phonyrdquo was written for and performed by the Walla Walla Symphony in October 2001

The challenge for the yearly commis-sionee is to compose a piece on demand within specific constraints of time place and instrumentation while expressing hisher own voice as an artist

Earnest has created ldquoCommedia Gal-leryrdquo a set of three movements for flute

viola and harp based on stock characters from the Commedia dellrsquoArte a popu-lar theatrical form that was influential in Europe for over 300 years Commedia characters improvised dialogue around set scenarios generally involving the struggles of young lovers to overcome hindrances to their romance and each character even-tually came to have a consistent set of at-tributes in speech mannerisms and cos-tume

Earnestrsquos ldquoGalleryrdquo gives us Arlecchi-no (Harlequin) an acrobatic and devious jester Pierrot the classic sad clown and finally Scaramouche a dandy and a brag-gart who is a coward at heart

in anticipation of this yearrsquos festival i am reminded of the scene in ldquoThe Music Manrdquo in which the town awaits the ar-rival of the Wells Fargo Wagon Potentially heaped with gifts and surprises it prom-ises connection to the larger world The WWCMF brings us all ldquosomethinrsquo specialrdquo mdash an enrichment of our community and our culture

margaret Jamison is an artist and writer living in Walla Walla Contact her at artjamisongmailcom

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Smith has gardened for years at his home at 38 Mulberry Court in College Place He used to grow vegetables and flowers now he is strictly focusing on flowers mdash with fabulous results roses delphiniums and lots of irises line the fence

ldquoirises mdash irsquove always enjoyed themrdquo he says ldquoThey take a little bit of weeding and watering but not much morerdquo itrsquos the gardenerrsquos dream mdash low maintenance with a big return

A retired orthopedic surgeon Smith has in the past gardened more extensively than he does now But he has enough plants to keep him busy His new project is planting more of the reblooming iris These are still hardy but you get twice the reward they bloom in the spring then again in the fall

ldquoTheyrsquore easy to grow and spectacular for a short time iris take less care than a lot of thingsrdquo Smith says

His secret for gardening is simple and therersquos no getting around it ldquoTime and workrdquo he laughs

Hersquos getting ready to start in the garden ldquoi need to clean out the leaves and the old foliage of the irisrdquo

in addition to the basic cleaning and maintenance Smith just decides how many plants to keep Bulb flowers are hardy and they multiply on their own

ldquoAfter five years you usually have to separate the bulbs when they get too thick i donrsquot have room to add more i put in the new re-blooming onesrdquo he explains ldquoi may add more and a few other thingsrdquo

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itrsquos an odd location since it can only be seen as yoursquore leaving town but it always makes me smile This valley my adopted home is indeed a great place to be

i recently finished reading the great Western writer Wallace Stegnerrsquos book ldquoThe Sound of Mountain Waterrdquo One of his essays traces his nomadic childhood which left him feeling rootless and without a place that he felt he could call home

i identify with his feeling of not belonging i was born to a single woman from Massachusetts in a New york City hospital i stayed a scant few days before being placed with an adoption agency Born in a place i had no familial connection to i was immediately deprived of my biological family Most of my childhood was spent in suburban Cleveland Ohio Moves to upstate New york New England and Pennsylvania brought me no closer to calling any place home i loved living in the western Massachusetts town of Stockbridge but the multigenerational denizens of the town left few openings for newcomers like me i lived in central Pennsylvania for several decades but felt detached from the deep roots that most people had in the area

When we came west (for my husband a homecoming to his Oregon roots for me a new experience) i noticed that even in long-established towns like Walla Walla there is ample room for newcomers who want to be

part of the community And most folks who choose to come here donrsquot seem to want to change the valley they prefer to embrace it

While the occasional newbie whines about the lack of Whole Foods or Nordstrom they soon discover our farmers markets the wide variety of local shops and boutiques and our world-class restaurants They fall in love with our charming downtowns the small-town friendliness of the people and our kid-friendly environment Then therersquos the holiday parade the fair the ever-present Blue Mountains the parks the museums the wineries mdash really whatrsquos not to like The communities of our valley represent America at its best

irsquom a newspaper junkie i love to read everything from news to sports to classifieds mdash even the obituaries The obits are a fascinating window on our valley Many of the people chronicled were born here some lived all their lives here inextricably bound to this place But a number of people came here from other places often far away and have made a mark on our area Which makes me wonder mdash is a place any less of a hometown because you choose it or is it based primarily on the happenstance of your birth it seems that therersquos room for both paths to calling this wonderful valley home

itrsquos also our strength because collectively as a community we bring both deep familial and cultural traditions as well as the fresh perspective of newcomers to our area irsquom glad mdash after decades of searching mdash that i finally found my hometown a place that feels just right

diane reed can be reached at ladybookearthlinknet Between columns and when the spirit moves her she blogs at wwwponderingsbydianereedblogspotcom from her home overlooking the pond at lions Park in College Place

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Maymay 1The annual Kennel Club Dog Show Walla Walla County Fairgrounds De-tails 509-558-3854

The Walla Walla University Drama Department pres-ents a performance of ldquoMy Fair ladyrdquo 2 pm matinee Details 509-527-2656

The Walla Walla Choral Society presents ldquoJubilate Deordquo 3 pm May 1 Walla Walla University Church College Place Details 509-386-2445

The Walla Walla Valley Farmers Market opens local produce artisans and an outdoor concert 9 am-1 pm Saturdays and Sundays through Oct 30 Crawford Park Fourth ave and Main St Details gowallawallafarmersmar-ketcom or 509-520-3647

through may 22Enjoy the annual Senior art Thesis Exhibition Sheehan Gallery Whitman College Details 509-527-5249

through JuLy 31The Tamaacutestslikt Cultural In-stitute hosts the traveling OMSI exhibit ldquoamazing Feats of agingrdquo explor-ing the mysteries of why animals and humans age Details 541-966-9748

may 4The YWCa leadership luncheon ldquoMatters that Matterrdquo is informational and inspirational with guest speakers Kristine Van Raden and Molly Da-vis Noon Marcus Whit-man Hotel Details 509-525-2570

Walla Walla Wine Works hosts music on Wednes-days downtown Details 509-522-1261

may 5First Thursday Concert at St Pauls Episcopal Church 323 Catherine Street Walla Walla 1215-1250 pm will feature the Steel Drum Band from Walla Walla Uni-versity directed by Brandon Beck Details 529-1083

The Whitman College Visit-ing Writers Reading series presents Whitman Reading 7 pm Kimball Theatre De-tails whitmanedu

may 5-7 12-14Walla Walla High School Drama Department pres-ents ldquoFiddler on the Roofrdquo musical version 7 pm and 2 pm matinee on Saturdays May 7 and 14 Walla Walla High School Performing arts audito-rium Details Tickets can be reserved by calling 509-526-8613 the Wa-Hi box office

may 5-8 19-21a performance of ldquoThe 25th a nnua l Putnam County Spelling Beerdquo 8 pm Harper Joy Theatre Whitman College Details 509-527-5180

may 6-7Music on the weekends at the Backstage Bistro De-tails 509-526-0690

Sapolil Cellars hosts music on Friday and Saturday De-tails 509-520-5258

The Wildfire hosts music every Friday and Saturday Wildhorse Resort amp Casino Pendleton Details 800-654-9453

may 6-8Walla Walla Valley Winer-ies offer an opportunity to taste their new creations during Spring Release Weekend area wineries introduce new wines and winemakers share their creative inspiration Details 509-526-3117

may 6artWalK First Fridays May through December Visit galleries and chat with art-ists 5-8 pm Downtown Walla Walla Visit artwalk-wallawallacom

may 6-8 13-14The little Theatre presents ldquoalice In Wonderlandrdquo adapted from lewis Carroll 8 pm Friday-Saturday 2 pm Sunday little Theatre of Walla Walla Details 509-529-3683

may 7The annual Junior Horse Show brings great riding action to Milton-Freewater Pioneer Posse Grounds Details 541-938-3379

Daytonrsquos annual Street Sale turns a section of Third Street into a giant yard sale benefits churches and com-munity projects Dayton Details 509-382-4825

artist reception and dem-onstration Washington art-ist Dwight Duke exhibits his painting bronze sculptures and gunpowder light pan-els 6-730 pm Reininger Winery Details 509-522-1994

may 8Every Sunday the living History actors portray in-dividuals from the arearsquos past 2 pm Fort Walla Walla Museum Details 509-525-7703

may 13-15The annual Balloon Stam-pede brings as many as 50 hot-air balloons to the Walla Walla County Fairgrounds This colorful festival re-mains a Valley tradition Ear-ly morning flights (weather permitting) arts amp crafts antique autos commercial booths live entertainment and food Balloons light up to music at the Saturday evening Nite Glow Details 509-525-0850

may 14annual adult event cele-brates the characters who populated Pendletonrsquos past Must have reservations Pendleton Underground Tours Details 800-226-6398

may 14-15 may 27-29Walla Walla Drag Strip con-tinues the weekend fun Details wwdragstripcom or 509-200-6287

may 15Walla Walla University Chamber Series featuring Robyn McCabe 730 pm MKW Fine arts auditorium Details 509-527-2571

may 18To celebrate the opening of Walla Wallarsquos Power House Theatre and a four-day run of Seattle Shakespeare Companyrsquos ldquoThe Merry Wives of WindsorrdquoWalla Walla lifestyles will pres-ent a gala event This exclusive evening will en-chant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fash-ion from 530-9 pm at the Power House Theatre Sixth amp Rose Walla Walla To purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewalla-wallacom

may 19-21During Pendletonrsquos Cattle Baron Weekend enjoy an art exhibit by a talented group of women artists ldquoIn the Company of Cowgirlsrdquo Hamleyrsquos Steakhouse Pendleton Visit inthecom-panyofcowgirlscom or call 541-676-5013

may 19-22Whitman College 50th Reunion class of 1961 Whitman College Details 509-527-5952

Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merr y Wives of Windsorrdquo Pow-erhouse Theater Details 509-742-0739

may 21The annual Ducky Derby is a day of family fun all for a good cause Watch the ducks race down Mill Creek to help fund the Exchange Clubrsquos efforts at preventing child abuse and neglect 1130 am-330 pm Race at about 2 pm Walla Walla Community College De-tails 509-527-4300

Walla Walla University Spring Choral Concert 5 pm Walla Walla Univer-sity Church Details 509-527-2571

learn to contra dance an old-fashioned coun-try dance Music by the Wednesday Night Band 7 pm teaching and practice 730 pm regular dance Unity Church of Peace 810

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may 22The Whitman College graduating class of 2011 accepts the challenge 11 am Memorial lawn Whitman College Details 509-527-5156

may 26 27 28 29Walla Walla Community College Theatre arts De-partment presents ldquoZoot Suitrdquo by luis Valdez 7 pm each night and Sunday 2 pm matinee W WCC Performing arts Center Details 509-527-4575

may 27-30 Dayton Days has been a Memorial Weekend tradi-tion in Dayton for nearly 100 years Highlights include a Saturday-morning parade on historic Main Street rodeo tour of Dayton and Memorial Day Fun Run De-tails 509-382-4825 or visit historicdaytoncom

may 28-30The Touchet River Roundup mdash the annual Celebration of Sobriety at the fairgrounds focuses on family fun ac-tivities Waitsburg Details 509-526-3602

may 29annual Onion Man Tria-thalon 9 am Bennington lake Details wwmulti-sportscom or call 509-529-9187

may 30Waitsburgrsquos annual Memo-rial Day celebration hosted by veterans for all veterans Details 509-337-6546

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This sculptural cornucopia marks the spot where all of Walla Walla meets the producers and wersquore not talking about the Zero Mostel and Gene Wild-er musical For you GPS fans latitude 4606678 N longitude 11834197 W

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The sculpture tops the farmers market gazebo on the corner of Fourth Avenue North and West Main Street

Contestensprulesif you have the answer e-mail it to rickdoylewwubcom or send it to Where in Walla Walla 112 S 1st Ave PO Box 1358 Walla Walla WA 99362 The names of 10 people with correct answers will be randomly selected and they will receive this great-looking mug as proof of their local knowledge and good taste

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3 Bergevin Lane vineyards 1215 W Poplar St (509) 526-4300 bergevinlanecom

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8 dunham cellars150 E Boeing ave (509) 529-4685 wwwdunhamcellarscom

9 five star cellars 840 C St (509) 527-8400 wwwfivestarcellarscom

10 forgeron cellars 33 W Birch St (509) 522-9463 wwwforgeroncellarscom

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22 seven hills winery 212 N Third ave (509) 529-7198 wwwsevenhillswinerycom

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11 foundry vineyards Corner of 13th ave and abadie St (509) 529-0736 wwwwallawallafoundrycomvineyards

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13 glencorrie8052 Old Highway 12 (509) 525-2585 wwwglencorriecom

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17 Lowden hills winery1401 W Pine St (509) 527-1040 wwwlowdenhillswinerycom

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27 three rivers winery5641 Old Highway 12 (509) 526-9463 infoThreeRiversWinerycom

28 tertulia cellars1564 Whiteley Road (509) 525-5700 wwwtertuliacellarscom

29 trust cellars 1050 Merlot Drive (509) 529-4511 wwwtrustcellarscom

30 va piano vineyards1793 JB George Road (509) 529-0900 wwwvapianovineyardscom

31 walla walla vintnersVineyard lane off Mill Creek Road (509) 525-4724 wwwwallawallavintnerscom

32 walla walla wineworks31 E Main St (509) 522-1261 wwwwallawallawineworkscom

33 whitman cellars1015 W Pine St (509) 529-1142 wwwwhitmancellarscom

34 woodward canyon winery11920 W Hwy 12 lowden (509) 525-4129 wwwwoodwardcanyoncom

35 JLc winery425 B St (509) 301-5148

36 saviah cellars1979 JB George Rd

highway 12

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Beech ave

lockheed ave

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Mill Creek Rd

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Join us for a night of wonder with elizabethan-inspired food fashion and merriment to celebrate the opening of walla wallarsquos power house theatre and prepare for a four-day run of seattle shakespeare companyrsquos ldquothe merry wives of windsorrdquo

walla walla lifestyles will present a fashion show with wicked and wistful gowns twisted braided hair and smoldering makeup designs designers include red eden designs autumnlin design and others

semi-formal attire creative masks encouraged this exclusive evening will enchant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fashion

to purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewallawallacom

530 - 9 pm May 18 2011

The Power H o use The at reS i x t h amp R o se Wa l l a Wa l l a

T H E A T R EPOWER HOUSE

My director Terry Edward Moore told me his only direction from the artistic director was that it be ldquoperiodrdquo that is to say authentic to the time

ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo is the only one of Shakespearersquos plays that is set in his own time so it was decided to present it as if the actors were people of the time doing what would be a contemporary (to the late 16th century) play

i started to research the clothing of the time how it was constructed and what kinds of fabrics were available at the time mdash linens homespuns woolens for the common people and silks damasks velvets and furs for the upper classes i discovered that Elizabethan society was strictly regulated in terms of social classes and upward mobility was a little-known concept Once a yeoman always a yeoman i also discovered the set of rules and regulations called ldquosumptuary lawsrdquo which specifically dictated what types of fabrics trims furs and even what colors each class was allowed to wear

Since there are three distinct classes represented in ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo mdash merchant class soldiers and servants mdash i tried to give each class its own color palette based on these laws The overall palette of the show is based on colors actually in use at the time

The availability of dyes was limited (except for the nobility) so the palette consists of many shades of yellows and browns russets black some greens and blue-grays and of course wheat-colored unbleached linen i turned to the Dutch painter Brueghel for inspiration on how the common people looked and dressed

i also researched what kinds of dyes were used and where they came from Dyes were created from all sorts of different things such as walnut shell crushed beetles and all kinds of roots i found a website that sells these authentic dyestuffs so irsquom using the real thing to dye some of the linen pieces and will coordinate the contemporary fabrics to these authentic colors

Nearly every piece will need something done to it mdash altered in some way to fit the actor re-trimmed rigged invisibly for quick changes etc mdash so there is a lot of labor involved Also hats were a hugely important part of Elizabethan fashion all the way down to the poorest serf

Certain styles of hats were often associated with certain professions mdash eg doctors scholars mdash so there are a number of hats to build as well as headpieces for the women No self-respecting woman went about with her head uncovered

Putting together a show like this is like putting together a giant jigsaw puzzle and the pieces are the costumes that irsquove borrowed and rented from other theater companies in the Seattle area such as Seattle repertory Seattle Opera and the University of Washington as well as pieces from Oregon Shakespeare Festival i design the show and then go out into the world and try to find pieces that approximate my designs and palette as closely as possible (usually with some reworking first) The pieces that i cant find and dont want to compromise on i build from scratch

deane middLeton is a theatre costume professional who works in the Seattle area She has done costumes for Issaquahrsquos Village Theater as well as several productions of the Seattle Shakespeare Company

ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 29

ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo was the only one of Shakespearersquos works set in his own time the 1600s and features Sir John Falstaff It also deals primarily with english middle-class life A hilarious bawdy comedy filled with insight into the life and times of Shakespeare ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo will delight people of all ages

About the play

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But thatrsquos exactly what longtime Walla Walla resident Larry Adams did for four years He was one of a select group of pilots for Marine One the helicopter counterpart of the presidential airplane Air Force One from 1970 to 1974

30 Walla Walla LifestyLes

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 31

Long before Adams became the Walla Walla Airport manager he was transporting heads of state foreign dignitaries famous (and now infamous) Cabinet members the executive staff and President richard M Nixon during one of the nationrsquos most turbulent times the withdrawal from vietnam and the Watergate scandal

But to Adams a native of Northern idaho all that swirled around the Nixon presidency was the least of his concerns His job was to transport the president safely to Andrews Air Force Base or Camp David or fly any short flight required Safety always at a premium End of story

Many times Adams ferried President Nixon and his staff on short flights far away from home Air Force One might fly President Nixon to a summit or a meeting with a foreign head of state but Marine One and Adams were always nearby to shuttle the chief executive on short flights or to whisk him away from sudden danger

Pretty heady stuff for a fourth-grade teacher who had never thought about flying until a Marine recruiter offered him the opportunity Although Adams had watched planes take off and land at a nearby air base as a child he had never given serious thought to flying it was more a need for a bigger paycheck than passion that brought Adams to his destiny

He liked teaching but it just wasnrsquot paying the bills So Adams turned to the military and the Gi Bill After being unimpressed by other recruiters Adams took a liking to the fellow from the Marines for as Adams recalls the recruiter took an interest in him After about an hour of talking the recruiter suggested Adams might have the potential to be a pilot

Having easily passed some preliminary tests Adams was sent to flight school in Pensacola Fla and a stellar career was ready to take off He performed well in all the aircraft he piloted but he showed a special skill for helicopters

Up until 1965 fixed-wing airplanes were the staple of all military air combat But the military had been gearing up for a big change The helicopter was to become a major part of combat The Pentagon had been developing helicopters that would do much more than transport troops to bases Now they would assist in bombing

raids ground attacks and the evacuation of the injured from the point of combat This new breed of helicopters would also possess the ability to fight back and not be lame ducks as before the new H34 would tote machine guns on each side

These cutting-edge aircraft would travel at unprecedented speeds with newly discovered agility Gifted pilots were needed not those who merely possessed superior technical skills but those who also had the composure to fly straight into

enemy fire in the dead of night picking up injured soldiers or aiding air attacks

Adams was one of those pilots and he would be one of two squadron leaders for ldquoOperation Starliterdquo mdash the first major assault using helicopters The Marines were going straight into a North vietnamese regimental stronghold No one knew what to expect

ldquoWe lost a lot that first time inrdquo says Adams ldquoTwo crew chiefs were killed

Continued on pg 32 gt

In this newspaper clipping Larry Adams poses on the steps of the helicopter dubbed Marine One which he piloted for President Richard M Nixon

32 Walla Walla LifestyLes

people ltcontinued from pg 31

four pilots were medevaced out because of their wounds i donrsquot think there was one helicopter that didnrsquot have a bunch of holes in it The one i flew in we got a lot of rounds in it Amazingly no one was hurt but when we got back the helicopter was so shot-up you couldnrsquot fly it anymore We lost 50 percent of our helicopters that dayrdquo

in the next 13 months Adams would fly many more missions often heading straight into anti-aircraft fire to pick up injured or killed soldiers He says he would see the flares signifying where the copter was supposed to land but frequently hersquod have to veer off because ground communication would say ldquoThe artillery is too hotrdquo Then there would be a window maybe two minutes maybe five when the helicopter could drop in and pick up the injured often being shot at as it waited for its passengers

Adams knew the best way to survive was to keep his focus ldquoin the daylight when you start your run in and yoursquore getting shot at Everything went to black and white for me i didnrsquot notice the green trees or the green rice paddies until we got out of there and then it would come back

to me i donrsquot know what that was i just didnrsquot see the colors irsquove talked to some other pilots and they described the same thingrdquo

in his two tours of duty in vietnam Adams would fly 880 combat missions in several types of helicopters and fixed-wing airplanes He received numerous medals including two Navy commendations for performance under combat conditions

Then the call came to fly for the president Before Adams could tote the commander in chief around in Marine One a thorough background check had to be done So thorough was the check that Adams said a friend from his hometown sent him a card that read ldquoAre you in some kind of trouble Jesus therersquos been a bunch of people around here with the dark grey suits and the skinny little ties Theyrsquore asking all these embarrassing questions about you like did you have drinking problem Did you have a gambling problem Do you know what Larryrsquos sexual preference wasrdquo

Adams chuckles ldquoit was pretty funnyrdquoAdams passed the grade and soon

he was flying President Nixon and his family to Camp David or picking up vice

President Spiro Agnew at the Pentagon or taking Secretary of State Henry kissinger or Secretary of Defense Alexander Haig to a classified meeting Although his flights varied from transporting foreign heads of state to flying members of the press the majority involved the president the vice president kissinger and Haig

The pilots did not speak to their travelers unless spoken to says Adams President Nixon usually looked in and asked them how they were kissinger never spoke Haig was good for a pat on the shoulder now and then but it was Agnew who conversed the most says Adams

Adams remembers ldquoOne time we picked him up at the Pentagon and we had taken off and had hit top altitude He usually would come up and look into the cockpit but this time he patted me on the shoulder and asked lsquoWell howrsquos it going today guysrsquordquo Adams replied ldquoNot bad sir and how about yourselfrdquo

Agnew answered ldquoMan they are really after my assrdquo He was talking about the press Adams says ldquoTwo weeks later he resignedrdquo

Adams recalls that his encounters with Agnew as defying the public perception

Adams far right gives instructions before a mission in Vietnam

Walla Walla LifestyLes 33

that Agnew was arrogant ldquoHe was always one of the nicest guys He was straightforward He looked like he had just stepped off the cover of Gentlemenrsquos Quarterly all the time He was very proper in the way he dressed but he had a sense of humor as wellrdquo

There were other humorous moments Adams recalls a certain reporter from CBS who had been a major thorn in President Nixonrsquos side was late for takeoff from the South Lawn of the White House one morning Just as Marine One was about to leave without him he came running across the lawn hollering and waving his arms The Secret Service agent supervising the flight told Adams to ldquojust gordquo The wind from the propellers whipped the reporterrsquos toupee right off his head and instead of continuing his run toward Marine One he reversed his field and tried feverishly to retrieve his toupee snagged in the hedges

ldquoEveryone got a pretty good chuckle out of thatrdquo

Of course there were somber times At one point Adams flew Cabinet members John Ehrlichman and Hr Haldeman to Camp David for a meeting with the president After only 15 minutes the two men returned and Marine One headed home Adams says it was a quiet flight He found out later the two men had been fired by President Nixon for their parts in the Watergate scandal

Whisking the president away from danger was a major part of being a pilot of Marine One Stationed across the river from the Capitol pilots awakened by an emergency alert had to be up in the air in five minutes This exercise was practiced often though never needed during Adamsrsquo tenure

One night however they thought it was The operator at the White House mistakenly hit the ldquoAlertrdquo button Marine One was in the air in five minutes

Although ground control had not spotted any enemy aircraft the operation was under way As Marine One closed in on the White House the operator at fault tried to alert everyone of his mistake but unfortunately used a poor choice of words to call off the operation

Adams chuckles as he says ldquoThe fella said lsquoThis is not an exercisersquo He was moved to another post i thinkrdquo

All levity aside the position required

the same kind of focus demanded of Adams in vietnam though it came in a different form

ldquoThere were three things the way you operated the aircraft and they were in this order safety comfort and speed Safety never gave in to comfort or speedrdquo says Adams ldquoOur job was just concentrating on doing our job it could have been anybody mdash we would do it the same way it could have been Fred Flintstone

ldquoThe difference between flying for the White House and in vietnam was we were flying a premier aircraft We had to keep it impeccably clean everything was scripted We had to have the lsquoopen-the-door timersquo down to two to four seconds in vietnam it was the stress of performing medevacs under fire or dropping troops under heavy artillery For Marine One it was the stress of doing the job rightrdquo

Also the stress of being away from onersquos family 200 days of the year wore on a Marine One pilot in 1974 after four years on the job the toll became too much and Adams stepped down

He would stay with the Marines for eight more years retiring in August 1982

By then he had received 44 Air Medals including the Joint Service Commendation and the Presidential Service Badge in his 20 years of service Adams flew seven different helicopters and five different fixed-wing planes

What makes an elite military pilot ldquoPilots who donrsquot have any misgivingsrdquo says Adams ldquoTheyrsquore totally prepared they know their aircraftrdquo

When talking about his colleagues on Marine One he adds ldquoNone were boasters They might brag about a great landing but they did not brag in spite of someone elserdquo

What did Adams love most about his flying days ldquoi enjoyed flying with the latest technology and the pristine quality of Marine One i loved the process of building my skills i could have flown another 40 years and i would still be learning thingsrdquo

is it any surprise his favorite hobby now is fly fishing

andrew hoLt writes about food people and all things Walla Walla for Walla Walla lifestyles magazine He can be reached at bruindrew86gmailcom

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it is astonishing in many ways mdash that we are presented with two weeks of top-drawer music performed by top-drawer musi-cians that there are so many ways to encounter the music (many of them free) and that a rural community has provided the incu-

bator for such a cultural undertaking to name but a fewGranted we are not your average rural community having two

colleges a university a symphony a choral society a community band and music in the schools but letrsquos face it wersquore not exactly a cosmopolitan center of culture like New york either The Cham-ber Music Festival mdash and our continued support of it through some tough times mdash puts us in a category all our own

ldquoi saw what was special about this community the first time i visited in 2007rdquo Artistic Director Timothy Christie says ldquoi have

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worked hard to start this event and to my great joy it has taken on an iden-tity of its own i hire the musicians and choose the music but the town its people and its environs make the festivalrdquo

The beauty of chamber music is its intimacy mdash smaller ensembles performing for smaller audiences it has been referred to as ldquothe music of friendsrdquo which seems so apt at this festival Free open rehearsals are held around town that provide not only a musical atmosphere in which to enjoy a latte or the ambiance of the kirkman House but which give a richer look into the machinations of a working ensemble

As one enthusiastic fan puts it ldquoi am not a musician and itrsquos fascinat-ing to watch these rehearsals to see the interactions of the musicians as they work out the snags make wry remarks and relate to each other in a whole different way than during a for-mal performance i get a glimpse into their personalities and what makes them tickrdquo

The festival supplies a generous of-fering of venues with free concerts for children and families relaxed evening programs at wineries and full concerts at the Foundry Chism Hall and Day-tonrsquos Liberty Theater

if you are lucky enough to live near the musiciansrsquo lodgings while they are in town you may also be treated to an ad hoc front-porch concert as the ensembles continue their rehearsals in more private settings The festival is about all of these ways mdash planned and accidental mdash to experience the enchantment of chamber music

it is also about historic continuity and the connection between past and present mdash relishing the existing canon while expanding the genre with con-temporary forms and voices

How is this accomplished in part by the annual commission of a new piece of music for the festival Chris-tie is committed to contributing to the broader chamber music repertoire and to providing the audience with the richest possible experience

Continued on pg 36 gt

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ldquoFor classical music to be relevant there must be a conversation between the music of our time and the music of the pastrdquo he says

By commissioning a work for the festi-val each year Christie creates such a con-versation

This year the commission was given to John David Earnest Four festival commis-sions have preceded his and he is the sec-ond ldquolocalrdquo composer to be tapped add-ing another layer of relationship between community and event (in 2009 Whitman College professor David Glenn was given the nod)

As visiting adjunct professor of music at Whitman Earnest resides here for six weeks every semester His ldquoSecond Sym-phonyrdquo was written for and performed by the Walla Walla Symphony in October 2001

The challenge for the yearly commis-sionee is to compose a piece on demand within specific constraints of time place and instrumentation while expressing hisher own voice as an artist

Earnest has created ldquoCommedia Gal-leryrdquo a set of three movements for flute

viola and harp based on stock characters from the Commedia dellrsquoArte a popu-lar theatrical form that was influential in Europe for over 300 years Commedia characters improvised dialogue around set scenarios generally involving the struggles of young lovers to overcome hindrances to their romance and each character even-tually came to have a consistent set of at-tributes in speech mannerisms and cos-tume

Earnestrsquos ldquoGalleryrdquo gives us Arlecchi-no (Harlequin) an acrobatic and devious jester Pierrot the classic sad clown and finally Scaramouche a dandy and a brag-gart who is a coward at heart

in anticipation of this yearrsquos festival i am reminded of the scene in ldquoThe Music Manrdquo in which the town awaits the ar-rival of the Wells Fargo Wagon Potentially heaped with gifts and surprises it prom-ises connection to the larger world The WWCMF brings us all ldquosomethinrsquo specialrdquo mdash an enrichment of our community and our culture

margaret Jamison is an artist and writer living in Walla Walla Contact her at artjamisongmailcom

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Smith has gardened for years at his home at 38 Mulberry Court in College Place He used to grow vegetables and flowers now he is strictly focusing on flowers mdash with fabulous results roses delphiniums and lots of irises line the fence

ldquoirises mdash irsquove always enjoyed themrdquo he says ldquoThey take a little bit of weeding and watering but not much morerdquo itrsquos the gardenerrsquos dream mdash low maintenance with a big return

A retired orthopedic surgeon Smith has in the past gardened more extensively than he does now But he has enough plants to keep him busy His new project is planting more of the reblooming iris These are still hardy but you get twice the reward they bloom in the spring then again in the fall

ldquoTheyrsquore easy to grow and spectacular for a short time iris take less care than a lot of thingsrdquo Smith says

His secret for gardening is simple and therersquos no getting around it ldquoTime and workrdquo he laughs

Hersquos getting ready to start in the garden ldquoi need to clean out the leaves and the old foliage of the irisrdquo

in addition to the basic cleaning and maintenance Smith just decides how many plants to keep Bulb flowers are hardy and they multiply on their own

ldquoAfter five years you usually have to separate the bulbs when they get too thick i donrsquot have room to add more i put in the new re-blooming onesrdquo he explains ldquoi may add more and a few other thingsrdquo

But in a garden you can always try something new or rearrange existing plants often with a spectacular outcome

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itrsquos an odd location since it can only be seen as yoursquore leaving town but it always makes me smile This valley my adopted home is indeed a great place to be

i recently finished reading the great Western writer Wallace Stegnerrsquos book ldquoThe Sound of Mountain Waterrdquo One of his essays traces his nomadic childhood which left him feeling rootless and without a place that he felt he could call home

i identify with his feeling of not belonging i was born to a single woman from Massachusetts in a New york City hospital i stayed a scant few days before being placed with an adoption agency Born in a place i had no familial connection to i was immediately deprived of my biological family Most of my childhood was spent in suburban Cleveland Ohio Moves to upstate New york New England and Pennsylvania brought me no closer to calling any place home i loved living in the western Massachusetts town of Stockbridge but the multigenerational denizens of the town left few openings for newcomers like me i lived in central Pennsylvania for several decades but felt detached from the deep roots that most people had in the area

When we came west (for my husband a homecoming to his Oregon roots for me a new experience) i noticed that even in long-established towns like Walla Walla there is ample room for newcomers who want to be

part of the community And most folks who choose to come here donrsquot seem to want to change the valley they prefer to embrace it

While the occasional newbie whines about the lack of Whole Foods or Nordstrom they soon discover our farmers markets the wide variety of local shops and boutiques and our world-class restaurants They fall in love with our charming downtowns the small-town friendliness of the people and our kid-friendly environment Then therersquos the holiday parade the fair the ever-present Blue Mountains the parks the museums the wineries mdash really whatrsquos not to like The communities of our valley represent America at its best

irsquom a newspaper junkie i love to read everything from news to sports to classifieds mdash even the obituaries The obits are a fascinating window on our valley Many of the people chronicled were born here some lived all their lives here inextricably bound to this place But a number of people came here from other places often far away and have made a mark on our area Which makes me wonder mdash is a place any less of a hometown because you choose it or is it based primarily on the happenstance of your birth it seems that therersquos room for both paths to calling this wonderful valley home

itrsquos also our strength because collectively as a community we bring both deep familial and cultural traditions as well as the fresh perspective of newcomers to our area irsquom glad mdash after decades of searching mdash that i finally found my hometown a place that feels just right

diane reed can be reached at ladybookearthlinknet Between columns and when the spirit moves her she blogs at wwwponderingsbydianereedblogspotcom from her home overlooking the pond at lions Park in College Place

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Maymay 1The annual Kennel Club Dog Show Walla Walla County Fairgrounds De-tails 509-558-3854

The Walla Walla University Drama Department pres-ents a performance of ldquoMy Fair ladyrdquo 2 pm matinee Details 509-527-2656

The Walla Walla Choral Society presents ldquoJubilate Deordquo 3 pm May 1 Walla Walla University Church College Place Details 509-386-2445

The Walla Walla Valley Farmers Market opens local produce artisans and an outdoor concert 9 am-1 pm Saturdays and Sundays through Oct 30 Crawford Park Fourth ave and Main St Details gowallawallafarmersmar-ketcom or 509-520-3647

through may 22Enjoy the annual Senior art Thesis Exhibition Sheehan Gallery Whitman College Details 509-527-5249

through JuLy 31The Tamaacutestslikt Cultural In-stitute hosts the traveling OMSI exhibit ldquoamazing Feats of agingrdquo explor-ing the mysteries of why animals and humans age Details 541-966-9748

may 4The YWCa leadership luncheon ldquoMatters that Matterrdquo is informational and inspirational with guest speakers Kristine Van Raden and Molly Da-vis Noon Marcus Whit-man Hotel Details 509-525-2570

Walla Walla Wine Works hosts music on Wednes-days downtown Details 509-522-1261

may 5First Thursday Concert at St Pauls Episcopal Church 323 Catherine Street Walla Walla 1215-1250 pm will feature the Steel Drum Band from Walla Walla Uni-versity directed by Brandon Beck Details 529-1083

The Whitman College Visit-ing Writers Reading series presents Whitman Reading 7 pm Kimball Theatre De-tails whitmanedu

may 5-7 12-14Walla Walla High School Drama Department pres-ents ldquoFiddler on the Roofrdquo musical version 7 pm and 2 pm matinee on Saturdays May 7 and 14 Walla Walla High School Performing arts audito-rium Details Tickets can be reserved by calling 509-526-8613 the Wa-Hi box office

may 5-8 19-21a performance of ldquoThe 25th a nnua l Putnam County Spelling Beerdquo 8 pm Harper Joy Theatre Whitman College Details 509-527-5180

may 6-7Music on the weekends at the Backstage Bistro De-tails 509-526-0690

Sapolil Cellars hosts music on Friday and Saturday De-tails 509-520-5258

The Wildfire hosts music every Friday and Saturday Wildhorse Resort amp Casino Pendleton Details 800-654-9453

may 6-8Walla Walla Valley Winer-ies offer an opportunity to taste their new creations during Spring Release Weekend area wineries introduce new wines and winemakers share their creative inspiration Details 509-526-3117

may 6artWalK First Fridays May through December Visit galleries and chat with art-ists 5-8 pm Downtown Walla Walla Visit artwalk-wallawallacom

may 6-8 13-14The little Theatre presents ldquoalice In Wonderlandrdquo adapted from lewis Carroll 8 pm Friday-Saturday 2 pm Sunday little Theatre of Walla Walla Details 509-529-3683

may 7The annual Junior Horse Show brings great riding action to Milton-Freewater Pioneer Posse Grounds Details 541-938-3379

Daytonrsquos annual Street Sale turns a section of Third Street into a giant yard sale benefits churches and com-munity projects Dayton Details 509-382-4825

artist reception and dem-onstration Washington art-ist Dwight Duke exhibits his painting bronze sculptures and gunpowder light pan-els 6-730 pm Reininger Winery Details 509-522-1994

may 8Every Sunday the living History actors portray in-dividuals from the arearsquos past 2 pm Fort Walla Walla Museum Details 509-525-7703

may 13-15The annual Balloon Stam-pede brings as many as 50 hot-air balloons to the Walla Walla County Fairgrounds This colorful festival re-mains a Valley tradition Ear-ly morning flights (weather permitting) arts amp crafts antique autos commercial booths live entertainment and food Balloons light up to music at the Saturday evening Nite Glow Details 509-525-0850

may 14annual adult event cele-brates the characters who populated Pendletonrsquos past Must have reservations Pendleton Underground Tours Details 800-226-6398

may 14-15 may 27-29Walla Walla Drag Strip con-tinues the weekend fun Details wwdragstripcom or 509-200-6287

may 15Walla Walla University Chamber Series featuring Robyn McCabe 730 pm MKW Fine arts auditorium Details 509-527-2571

may 18To celebrate the opening of Walla Wallarsquos Power House Theatre and a four-day run of Seattle Shakespeare Companyrsquos ldquoThe Merry Wives of WindsorrdquoWalla Walla lifestyles will pres-ent a gala event This exclusive evening will en-chant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fash-ion from 530-9 pm at the Power House Theatre Sixth amp Rose Walla Walla To purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewalla-wallacom

may 19-21During Pendletonrsquos Cattle Baron Weekend enjoy an art exhibit by a talented group of women artists ldquoIn the Company of Cowgirlsrdquo Hamleyrsquos Steakhouse Pendleton Visit inthecom-panyofcowgirlscom or call 541-676-5013

may 19-22Whitman College 50th Reunion class of 1961 Whitman College Details 509-527-5952

Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merr y Wives of Windsorrdquo Pow-erhouse Theater Details 509-742-0739

may 21The annual Ducky Derby is a day of family fun all for a good cause Watch the ducks race down Mill Creek to help fund the Exchange Clubrsquos efforts at preventing child abuse and neglect 1130 am-330 pm Race at about 2 pm Walla Walla Community College De-tails 509-527-4300

Walla Walla University Spring Choral Concert 5 pm Walla Walla Univer-sity Church Details 509-527-2571

learn to contra dance an old-fashioned coun-try dance Music by the Wednesday Night Band 7 pm teaching and practice 730 pm regular dance Unity Church of Peace 810

C St Walla Walla Details 541-938-7403

may 22The Whitman College graduating class of 2011 accepts the challenge 11 am Memorial lawn Whitman College Details 509-527-5156

may 26 27 28 29Walla Walla Community College Theatre arts De-partment presents ldquoZoot Suitrdquo by luis Valdez 7 pm each night and Sunday 2 pm matinee W WCC Performing arts Center Details 509-527-4575

may 27-30 Dayton Days has been a Memorial Weekend tradi-tion in Dayton for nearly 100 years Highlights include a Saturday-morning parade on historic Main Street rodeo tour of Dayton and Memorial Day Fun Run De-tails 509-382-4825 or visit historicdaytoncom

may 28-30The Touchet River Roundup mdash the annual Celebration of Sobriety at the fairgrounds focuses on family fun ac-tivities Waitsburg Details 509-526-3602

may 29annual Onion Man Tria-thalon 9 am Bennington lake Details wwmulti-sportscom or call 509-529-9187

may 30Waitsburgrsquos annual Memo-rial Day celebration hosted by veterans for all veterans Details 509-337-6546

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This sculptural cornucopia marks the spot where all of Walla Walla meets the producers and wersquore not talking about the Zero Mostel and Gene Wild-er musical For you GPS fans latitude 4606678 N longitude 11834197 W

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The sculpture tops the farmers market gazebo on the corner of Fourth Avenue North and West Main Street

Contestensprulesif you have the answer e-mail it to rickdoylewwubcom or send it to Where in Walla Walla 112 S 1st Ave PO Box 1358 Walla Walla WA 99362 The names of 10 people with correct answers will be randomly selected and they will receive this great-looking mug as proof of their local knowledge and good taste

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46 Walla Walla LifestyLes

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2 Basel cellars estate winery2901 Old Milton Hwy (509) 522-0200 wwwbaselcellarscom

3 Bergevin Lane vineyards 1215 W Poplar St (509) 526-4300 bergevinlanecom

4 Bunchgrass winery151 Bunchgrass lane (509) 540-8963 wwwbunchgrasswinerycom

5 canoe ridge vineyard1102 W Cherry St (509) 527-0885 wwwcanoeridgevineyardcom

6 castillo de feliciana85728 Telephone Pole Road Milton-Freewater OR (541) 558-3656 wwwcastillodefelicianacom

7 don carlo vineyardBy appointment Only (509) 540-5784 wwwdoncarlovineyardcom

8 dunham cellars150 E Boeing ave (509) 529-4685 wwwdunhamcellarscom

9 five star cellars 840 C St (509) 527-8400 wwwfivestarcellarscom

10 forgeron cellars 33 W Birch St (509) 522-9463 wwwforgeroncellarscom

21 sapolil cellars15 E Main St (509) 520-5258 wwwsapolilcellarscom

22 seven hills winery 212 N Third ave (509) 529-7198 wwwsevenhillswinerycom

23 sinclair estate vineyards 109 E Main Ste 100 (509) 876-4300 wwwsinclairestatevineyardscom

24 spring valley vineyard 18 N Second ave (509) 525-1506 wwwspringvalleyvineyardcom

25 suLei cellars355 S Second ave (503) 529-0840 www suleicellarscom

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11 foundry vineyards Corner of 13th ave and abadie St (509) 529-0736 wwwwallawallafoundrycomvineyards

12 fort walla walla cellars 127 E Main St (509) 520-1095 wwwfortwallawallacellarscom

13 glencorrie8052 Old Highway 12 (509) 525-2585 wwwglencorriecom

14 grantwood winery 2428 W Highway 12 (509) 301-0719 (509) 301-9546

15 Lrsquoecole no 41 winery41 lowden School Road and US Hwy 12 (509) 525-0940 wwwlecolecom

16 Long shadows1604 Frenchtown Road (Formerly Ireland Road) (509) 526-0905 wwwlongshadowscom By invitation only Requests accepted on a limited basis Please call to inquire

17 Lowden hills winery1401 W Pine St (509) 527-1040 wwwlowdenhillswinerycom

18 northstar winery 1736 JB George Road (509) 524-4883 wwwnorthstarmerlotcom

19 pepper Bridge winery1704 JB George Road (509) 525-6502 wwwpepperbridgecom

20 robison ranch cellars2839 Robison Ranch Road (509) 301-3480 robisonranchcellarscom

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26 syZygy 405 E Boeing ave (509) 522-0484 wwwsyzygywinescom

27 three rivers winery5641 Old Highway 12 (509) 526-9463 infoThreeRiversWinerycom

28 tertulia cellars1564 Whiteley Road (509) 525-5700 wwwtertuliacellarscom

29 trust cellars 1050 Merlot Drive (509) 529-4511 wwwtrustcellarscom

30 va piano vineyards1793 JB George Road (509) 529-0900 wwwvapianovineyardscom

31 walla walla vintnersVineyard lane off Mill Creek Road (509) 525-4724 wwwwallawallavintnerscom

32 walla walla wineworks31 E Main St (509) 522-1261 wwwwallawallawineworkscom

33 whitman cellars1015 W Pine St (509) 529-1142 wwwwhitmancellarscom

34 woodward canyon winery11920 W Hwy 12 lowden (509) 525-4129 wwwwoodwardcanyoncom

35 JLc winery425 B St (509) 301-5148

36 saviah cellars1979 JB George Rd

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My director Terry Edward Moore told me his only direction from the artistic director was that it be ldquoperiodrdquo that is to say authentic to the time

ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo is the only one of Shakespearersquos plays that is set in his own time so it was decided to present it as if the actors were people of the time doing what would be a contemporary (to the late 16th century) play

i started to research the clothing of the time how it was constructed and what kinds of fabrics were available at the time mdash linens homespuns woolens for the common people and silks damasks velvets and furs for the upper classes i discovered that Elizabethan society was strictly regulated in terms of social classes and upward mobility was a little-known concept Once a yeoman always a yeoman i also discovered the set of rules and regulations called ldquosumptuary lawsrdquo which specifically dictated what types of fabrics trims furs and even what colors each class was allowed to wear

Since there are three distinct classes represented in ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo mdash merchant class soldiers and servants mdash i tried to give each class its own color palette based on these laws The overall palette of the show is based on colors actually in use at the time

The availability of dyes was limited (except for the nobility) so the palette consists of many shades of yellows and browns russets black some greens and blue-grays and of course wheat-colored unbleached linen i turned to the Dutch painter Brueghel for inspiration on how the common people looked and dressed

i also researched what kinds of dyes were used and where they came from Dyes were created from all sorts of different things such as walnut shell crushed beetles and all kinds of roots i found a website that sells these authentic dyestuffs so irsquom using the real thing to dye some of the linen pieces and will coordinate the contemporary fabrics to these authentic colors

Nearly every piece will need something done to it mdash altered in some way to fit the actor re-trimmed rigged invisibly for quick changes etc mdash so there is a lot of labor involved Also hats were a hugely important part of Elizabethan fashion all the way down to the poorest serf

Certain styles of hats were often associated with certain professions mdash eg doctors scholars mdash so there are a number of hats to build as well as headpieces for the women No self-respecting woman went about with her head uncovered

Putting together a show like this is like putting together a giant jigsaw puzzle and the pieces are the costumes that irsquove borrowed and rented from other theater companies in the Seattle area such as Seattle repertory Seattle Opera and the University of Washington as well as pieces from Oregon Shakespeare Festival i design the show and then go out into the world and try to find pieces that approximate my designs and palette as closely as possible (usually with some reworking first) The pieces that i cant find and dont want to compromise on i build from scratch

deane middLeton is a theatre costume professional who works in the Seattle area She has done costumes for Issaquahrsquos Village Theater as well as several productions of the Seattle Shakespeare Company

ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 29

ldquoThe Merry Wives of Windsorrdquo was the only one of Shakespearersquos works set in his own time the 1600s and features Sir John Falstaff It also deals primarily with english middle-class life A hilarious bawdy comedy filled with insight into the life and times of Shakespeare ldquoMerry Wivesrdquo will delight people of all ages

About the play

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But thatrsquos exactly what longtime Walla Walla resident Larry Adams did for four years He was one of a select group of pilots for Marine One the helicopter counterpart of the presidential airplane Air Force One from 1970 to 1974

30 Walla Walla LifestyLes

by andrewenspHoltensp enspphoto by ColbyenspKuschatkapeople

Walla Walla LifestyLes 31

Long before Adams became the Walla Walla Airport manager he was transporting heads of state foreign dignitaries famous (and now infamous) Cabinet members the executive staff and President richard M Nixon during one of the nationrsquos most turbulent times the withdrawal from vietnam and the Watergate scandal

But to Adams a native of Northern idaho all that swirled around the Nixon presidency was the least of his concerns His job was to transport the president safely to Andrews Air Force Base or Camp David or fly any short flight required Safety always at a premium End of story

Many times Adams ferried President Nixon and his staff on short flights far away from home Air Force One might fly President Nixon to a summit or a meeting with a foreign head of state but Marine One and Adams were always nearby to shuttle the chief executive on short flights or to whisk him away from sudden danger

Pretty heady stuff for a fourth-grade teacher who had never thought about flying until a Marine recruiter offered him the opportunity Although Adams had watched planes take off and land at a nearby air base as a child he had never given serious thought to flying it was more a need for a bigger paycheck than passion that brought Adams to his destiny

He liked teaching but it just wasnrsquot paying the bills So Adams turned to the military and the Gi Bill After being unimpressed by other recruiters Adams took a liking to the fellow from the Marines for as Adams recalls the recruiter took an interest in him After about an hour of talking the recruiter suggested Adams might have the potential to be a pilot

Having easily passed some preliminary tests Adams was sent to flight school in Pensacola Fla and a stellar career was ready to take off He performed well in all the aircraft he piloted but he showed a special skill for helicopters

Up until 1965 fixed-wing airplanes were the staple of all military air combat But the military had been gearing up for a big change The helicopter was to become a major part of combat The Pentagon had been developing helicopters that would do much more than transport troops to bases Now they would assist in bombing

raids ground attacks and the evacuation of the injured from the point of combat This new breed of helicopters would also possess the ability to fight back and not be lame ducks as before the new H34 would tote machine guns on each side

These cutting-edge aircraft would travel at unprecedented speeds with newly discovered agility Gifted pilots were needed not those who merely possessed superior technical skills but those who also had the composure to fly straight into

enemy fire in the dead of night picking up injured soldiers or aiding air attacks

Adams was one of those pilots and he would be one of two squadron leaders for ldquoOperation Starliterdquo mdash the first major assault using helicopters The Marines were going straight into a North vietnamese regimental stronghold No one knew what to expect

ldquoWe lost a lot that first time inrdquo says Adams ldquoTwo crew chiefs were killed

Continued on pg 32 gt

In this newspaper clipping Larry Adams poses on the steps of the helicopter dubbed Marine One which he piloted for President Richard M Nixon

32 Walla Walla LifestyLes

people ltcontinued from pg 31

four pilots were medevaced out because of their wounds i donrsquot think there was one helicopter that didnrsquot have a bunch of holes in it The one i flew in we got a lot of rounds in it Amazingly no one was hurt but when we got back the helicopter was so shot-up you couldnrsquot fly it anymore We lost 50 percent of our helicopters that dayrdquo

in the next 13 months Adams would fly many more missions often heading straight into anti-aircraft fire to pick up injured or killed soldiers He says he would see the flares signifying where the copter was supposed to land but frequently hersquod have to veer off because ground communication would say ldquoThe artillery is too hotrdquo Then there would be a window maybe two minutes maybe five when the helicopter could drop in and pick up the injured often being shot at as it waited for its passengers

Adams knew the best way to survive was to keep his focus ldquoin the daylight when you start your run in and yoursquore getting shot at Everything went to black and white for me i didnrsquot notice the green trees or the green rice paddies until we got out of there and then it would come back

to me i donrsquot know what that was i just didnrsquot see the colors irsquove talked to some other pilots and they described the same thingrdquo

in his two tours of duty in vietnam Adams would fly 880 combat missions in several types of helicopters and fixed-wing airplanes He received numerous medals including two Navy commendations for performance under combat conditions

Then the call came to fly for the president Before Adams could tote the commander in chief around in Marine One a thorough background check had to be done So thorough was the check that Adams said a friend from his hometown sent him a card that read ldquoAre you in some kind of trouble Jesus therersquos been a bunch of people around here with the dark grey suits and the skinny little ties Theyrsquore asking all these embarrassing questions about you like did you have drinking problem Did you have a gambling problem Do you know what Larryrsquos sexual preference wasrdquo

Adams chuckles ldquoit was pretty funnyrdquoAdams passed the grade and soon

he was flying President Nixon and his family to Camp David or picking up vice

President Spiro Agnew at the Pentagon or taking Secretary of State Henry kissinger or Secretary of Defense Alexander Haig to a classified meeting Although his flights varied from transporting foreign heads of state to flying members of the press the majority involved the president the vice president kissinger and Haig

The pilots did not speak to their travelers unless spoken to says Adams President Nixon usually looked in and asked them how they were kissinger never spoke Haig was good for a pat on the shoulder now and then but it was Agnew who conversed the most says Adams

Adams remembers ldquoOne time we picked him up at the Pentagon and we had taken off and had hit top altitude He usually would come up and look into the cockpit but this time he patted me on the shoulder and asked lsquoWell howrsquos it going today guysrsquordquo Adams replied ldquoNot bad sir and how about yourselfrdquo

Agnew answered ldquoMan they are really after my assrdquo He was talking about the press Adams says ldquoTwo weeks later he resignedrdquo

Adams recalls that his encounters with Agnew as defying the public perception

Adams far right gives instructions before a mission in Vietnam

Walla Walla LifestyLes 33

that Agnew was arrogant ldquoHe was always one of the nicest guys He was straightforward He looked like he had just stepped off the cover of Gentlemenrsquos Quarterly all the time He was very proper in the way he dressed but he had a sense of humor as wellrdquo

There were other humorous moments Adams recalls a certain reporter from CBS who had been a major thorn in President Nixonrsquos side was late for takeoff from the South Lawn of the White House one morning Just as Marine One was about to leave without him he came running across the lawn hollering and waving his arms The Secret Service agent supervising the flight told Adams to ldquojust gordquo The wind from the propellers whipped the reporterrsquos toupee right off his head and instead of continuing his run toward Marine One he reversed his field and tried feverishly to retrieve his toupee snagged in the hedges

ldquoEveryone got a pretty good chuckle out of thatrdquo

Of course there were somber times At one point Adams flew Cabinet members John Ehrlichman and Hr Haldeman to Camp David for a meeting with the president After only 15 minutes the two men returned and Marine One headed home Adams says it was a quiet flight He found out later the two men had been fired by President Nixon for their parts in the Watergate scandal

Whisking the president away from danger was a major part of being a pilot of Marine One Stationed across the river from the Capitol pilots awakened by an emergency alert had to be up in the air in five minutes This exercise was practiced often though never needed during Adamsrsquo tenure

One night however they thought it was The operator at the White House mistakenly hit the ldquoAlertrdquo button Marine One was in the air in five minutes

Although ground control had not spotted any enemy aircraft the operation was under way As Marine One closed in on the White House the operator at fault tried to alert everyone of his mistake but unfortunately used a poor choice of words to call off the operation

Adams chuckles as he says ldquoThe fella said lsquoThis is not an exercisersquo He was moved to another post i thinkrdquo

All levity aside the position required

the same kind of focus demanded of Adams in vietnam though it came in a different form

ldquoThere were three things the way you operated the aircraft and they were in this order safety comfort and speed Safety never gave in to comfort or speedrdquo says Adams ldquoOur job was just concentrating on doing our job it could have been anybody mdash we would do it the same way it could have been Fred Flintstone

ldquoThe difference between flying for the White House and in vietnam was we were flying a premier aircraft We had to keep it impeccably clean everything was scripted We had to have the lsquoopen-the-door timersquo down to two to four seconds in vietnam it was the stress of performing medevacs under fire or dropping troops under heavy artillery For Marine One it was the stress of doing the job rightrdquo

Also the stress of being away from onersquos family 200 days of the year wore on a Marine One pilot in 1974 after four years on the job the toll became too much and Adams stepped down

He would stay with the Marines for eight more years retiring in August 1982

By then he had received 44 Air Medals including the Joint Service Commendation and the Presidential Service Badge in his 20 years of service Adams flew seven different helicopters and five different fixed-wing planes

What makes an elite military pilot ldquoPilots who donrsquot have any misgivingsrdquo says Adams ldquoTheyrsquore totally prepared they know their aircraftrdquo

When talking about his colleagues on Marine One he adds ldquoNone were boasters They might brag about a great landing but they did not brag in spite of someone elserdquo

What did Adams love most about his flying days ldquoi enjoyed flying with the latest technology and the pristine quality of Marine One i loved the process of building my skills i could have flown another 40 years and i would still be learning thingsrdquo

is it any surprise his favorite hobby now is fly fishing

andrew hoLt writes about food people and all things Walla Walla for Walla Walla lifestyles magazine He can be reached at bruindrew86gmailcom

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it is astonishing in many ways mdash that we are presented with two weeks of top-drawer music performed by top-drawer musi-cians that there are so many ways to encounter the music (many of them free) and that a rural community has provided the incu-

bator for such a cultural undertaking to name but a fewGranted we are not your average rural community having two

colleges a university a symphony a choral society a community band and music in the schools but letrsquos face it wersquore not exactly a cosmopolitan center of culture like New york either The Cham-ber Music Festival mdash and our continued support of it through some tough times mdash puts us in a category all our own

ldquoi saw what was special about this community the first time i visited in 2007rdquo Artistic Director Timothy Christie says ldquoi have

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worked hard to start this event and to my great joy it has taken on an iden-tity of its own i hire the musicians and choose the music but the town its people and its environs make the festivalrdquo

The beauty of chamber music is its intimacy mdash smaller ensembles performing for smaller audiences it has been referred to as ldquothe music of friendsrdquo which seems so apt at this festival Free open rehearsals are held around town that provide not only a musical atmosphere in which to enjoy a latte or the ambiance of the kirkman House but which give a richer look into the machinations of a working ensemble

As one enthusiastic fan puts it ldquoi am not a musician and itrsquos fascinat-ing to watch these rehearsals to see the interactions of the musicians as they work out the snags make wry remarks and relate to each other in a whole different way than during a for-mal performance i get a glimpse into their personalities and what makes them tickrdquo

The festival supplies a generous of-fering of venues with free concerts for children and families relaxed evening programs at wineries and full concerts at the Foundry Chism Hall and Day-tonrsquos Liberty Theater

if you are lucky enough to live near the musiciansrsquo lodgings while they are in town you may also be treated to an ad hoc front-porch concert as the ensembles continue their rehearsals in more private settings The festival is about all of these ways mdash planned and accidental mdash to experience the enchantment of chamber music

it is also about historic continuity and the connection between past and present mdash relishing the existing canon while expanding the genre with con-temporary forms and voices

How is this accomplished in part by the annual commission of a new piece of music for the festival Chris-tie is committed to contributing to the broader chamber music repertoire and to providing the audience with the richest possible experience

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ldquoFor classical music to be relevant there must be a conversation between the music of our time and the music of the pastrdquo he says

By commissioning a work for the festi-val each year Christie creates such a con-versation

This year the commission was given to John David Earnest Four festival commis-sions have preceded his and he is the sec-ond ldquolocalrdquo composer to be tapped add-ing another layer of relationship between community and event (in 2009 Whitman College professor David Glenn was given the nod)

As visiting adjunct professor of music at Whitman Earnest resides here for six weeks every semester His ldquoSecond Sym-phonyrdquo was written for and performed by the Walla Walla Symphony in October 2001

The challenge for the yearly commis-sionee is to compose a piece on demand within specific constraints of time place and instrumentation while expressing hisher own voice as an artist

Earnest has created ldquoCommedia Gal-leryrdquo a set of three movements for flute

viola and harp based on stock characters from the Commedia dellrsquoArte a popu-lar theatrical form that was influential in Europe for over 300 years Commedia characters improvised dialogue around set scenarios generally involving the struggles of young lovers to overcome hindrances to their romance and each character even-tually came to have a consistent set of at-tributes in speech mannerisms and cos-tume

Earnestrsquos ldquoGalleryrdquo gives us Arlecchi-no (Harlequin) an acrobatic and devious jester Pierrot the classic sad clown and finally Scaramouche a dandy and a brag-gart who is a coward at heart

in anticipation of this yearrsquos festival i am reminded of the scene in ldquoThe Music Manrdquo in which the town awaits the ar-rival of the Wells Fargo Wagon Potentially heaped with gifts and surprises it prom-ises connection to the larger world The WWCMF brings us all ldquosomethinrsquo specialrdquo mdash an enrichment of our community and our culture

margaret Jamison is an artist and writer living in Walla Walla Contact her at artjamisongmailcom

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Smith has gardened for years at his home at 38 Mulberry Court in College Place He used to grow vegetables and flowers now he is strictly focusing on flowers mdash with fabulous results roses delphiniums and lots of irises line the fence

ldquoirises mdash irsquove always enjoyed themrdquo he says ldquoThey take a little bit of weeding and watering but not much morerdquo itrsquos the gardenerrsquos dream mdash low maintenance with a big return

A retired orthopedic surgeon Smith has in the past gardened more extensively than he does now But he has enough plants to keep him busy His new project is planting more of the reblooming iris These are still hardy but you get twice the reward they bloom in the spring then again in the fall

ldquoTheyrsquore easy to grow and spectacular for a short time iris take less care than a lot of thingsrdquo Smith says

His secret for gardening is simple and therersquos no getting around it ldquoTime and workrdquo he laughs

Hersquos getting ready to start in the garden ldquoi need to clean out the leaves and the old foliage of the irisrdquo

in addition to the basic cleaning and maintenance Smith just decides how many plants to keep Bulb flowers are hardy and they multiply on their own

ldquoAfter five years you usually have to separate the bulbs when they get too thick i donrsquot have room to add more i put in the new re-blooming onesrdquo he explains ldquoi may add more and a few other thingsrdquo

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itrsquos an odd location since it can only be seen as yoursquore leaving town but it always makes me smile This valley my adopted home is indeed a great place to be

i recently finished reading the great Western writer Wallace Stegnerrsquos book ldquoThe Sound of Mountain Waterrdquo One of his essays traces his nomadic childhood which left him feeling rootless and without a place that he felt he could call home

i identify with his feeling of not belonging i was born to a single woman from Massachusetts in a New york City hospital i stayed a scant few days before being placed with an adoption agency Born in a place i had no familial connection to i was immediately deprived of my biological family Most of my childhood was spent in suburban Cleveland Ohio Moves to upstate New york New England and Pennsylvania brought me no closer to calling any place home i loved living in the western Massachusetts town of Stockbridge but the multigenerational denizens of the town left few openings for newcomers like me i lived in central Pennsylvania for several decades but felt detached from the deep roots that most people had in the area

When we came west (for my husband a homecoming to his Oregon roots for me a new experience) i noticed that even in long-established towns like Walla Walla there is ample room for newcomers who want to be

part of the community And most folks who choose to come here donrsquot seem to want to change the valley they prefer to embrace it

While the occasional newbie whines about the lack of Whole Foods or Nordstrom they soon discover our farmers markets the wide variety of local shops and boutiques and our world-class restaurants They fall in love with our charming downtowns the small-town friendliness of the people and our kid-friendly environment Then therersquos the holiday parade the fair the ever-present Blue Mountains the parks the museums the wineries mdash really whatrsquos not to like The communities of our valley represent America at its best

irsquom a newspaper junkie i love to read everything from news to sports to classifieds mdash even the obituaries The obits are a fascinating window on our valley Many of the people chronicled were born here some lived all their lives here inextricably bound to this place But a number of people came here from other places often far away and have made a mark on our area Which makes me wonder mdash is a place any less of a hometown because you choose it or is it based primarily on the happenstance of your birth it seems that therersquos room for both paths to calling this wonderful valley home

itrsquos also our strength because collectively as a community we bring both deep familial and cultural traditions as well as the fresh perspective of newcomers to our area irsquom glad mdash after decades of searching mdash that i finally found my hometown a place that feels just right

diane reed can be reached at ladybookearthlinknet Between columns and when the spirit moves her she blogs at wwwponderingsbydianereedblogspotcom from her home overlooking the pond at lions Park in College Place

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Maymay 1The annual Kennel Club Dog Show Walla Walla County Fairgrounds De-tails 509-558-3854

The Walla Walla University Drama Department pres-ents a performance of ldquoMy Fair ladyrdquo 2 pm matinee Details 509-527-2656

The Walla Walla Choral Society presents ldquoJubilate Deordquo 3 pm May 1 Walla Walla University Church College Place Details 509-386-2445

The Walla Walla Valley Farmers Market opens local produce artisans and an outdoor concert 9 am-1 pm Saturdays and Sundays through Oct 30 Crawford Park Fourth ave and Main St Details gowallawallafarmersmar-ketcom or 509-520-3647

through may 22Enjoy the annual Senior art Thesis Exhibition Sheehan Gallery Whitman College Details 509-527-5249

through JuLy 31The Tamaacutestslikt Cultural In-stitute hosts the traveling OMSI exhibit ldquoamazing Feats of agingrdquo explor-ing the mysteries of why animals and humans age Details 541-966-9748

may 4The YWCa leadership luncheon ldquoMatters that Matterrdquo is informational and inspirational with guest speakers Kristine Van Raden and Molly Da-vis Noon Marcus Whit-man Hotel Details 509-525-2570

Walla Walla Wine Works hosts music on Wednes-days downtown Details 509-522-1261

may 5First Thursday Concert at St Pauls Episcopal Church 323 Catherine Street Walla Walla 1215-1250 pm will feature the Steel Drum Band from Walla Walla Uni-versity directed by Brandon Beck Details 529-1083

The Whitman College Visit-ing Writers Reading series presents Whitman Reading 7 pm Kimball Theatre De-tails whitmanedu

may 5-7 12-14Walla Walla High School Drama Department pres-ents ldquoFiddler on the Roofrdquo musical version 7 pm and 2 pm matinee on Saturdays May 7 and 14 Walla Walla High School Performing arts audito-rium Details Tickets can be reserved by calling 509-526-8613 the Wa-Hi box office

may 5-8 19-21a performance of ldquoThe 25th a nnua l Putnam County Spelling Beerdquo 8 pm Harper Joy Theatre Whitman College Details 509-527-5180

may 6-7Music on the weekends at the Backstage Bistro De-tails 509-526-0690

Sapolil Cellars hosts music on Friday and Saturday De-tails 509-520-5258

The Wildfire hosts music every Friday and Saturday Wildhorse Resort amp Casino Pendleton Details 800-654-9453

may 6-8Walla Walla Valley Winer-ies offer an opportunity to taste their new creations during Spring Release Weekend area wineries introduce new wines and winemakers share their creative inspiration Details 509-526-3117

may 6artWalK First Fridays May through December Visit galleries and chat with art-ists 5-8 pm Downtown Walla Walla Visit artwalk-wallawallacom

may 6-8 13-14The little Theatre presents ldquoalice In Wonderlandrdquo adapted from lewis Carroll 8 pm Friday-Saturday 2 pm Sunday little Theatre of Walla Walla Details 509-529-3683

may 7The annual Junior Horse Show brings great riding action to Milton-Freewater Pioneer Posse Grounds Details 541-938-3379

Daytonrsquos annual Street Sale turns a section of Third Street into a giant yard sale benefits churches and com-munity projects Dayton Details 509-382-4825

artist reception and dem-onstration Washington art-ist Dwight Duke exhibits his painting bronze sculptures and gunpowder light pan-els 6-730 pm Reininger Winery Details 509-522-1994

may 8Every Sunday the living History actors portray in-dividuals from the arearsquos past 2 pm Fort Walla Walla Museum Details 509-525-7703

may 13-15The annual Balloon Stam-pede brings as many as 50 hot-air balloons to the Walla Walla County Fairgrounds This colorful festival re-mains a Valley tradition Ear-ly morning flights (weather permitting) arts amp crafts antique autos commercial booths live entertainment and food Balloons light up to music at the Saturday evening Nite Glow Details 509-525-0850

may 14annual adult event cele-brates the characters who populated Pendletonrsquos past Must have reservations Pendleton Underground Tours Details 800-226-6398

may 14-15 may 27-29Walla Walla Drag Strip con-tinues the weekend fun Details wwdragstripcom or 509-200-6287

may 15Walla Walla University Chamber Series featuring Robyn McCabe 730 pm MKW Fine arts auditorium Details 509-527-2571

may 18To celebrate the opening of Walla Wallarsquos Power House Theatre and a four-day run of Seattle Shakespeare Companyrsquos ldquoThe Merry Wives of WindsorrdquoWalla Walla lifestyles will pres-ent a gala event This exclusive evening will en-chant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fash-ion from 530-9 pm at the Power House Theatre Sixth amp Rose Walla Walla To purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewalla-wallacom

may 19-21During Pendletonrsquos Cattle Baron Weekend enjoy an art exhibit by a talented group of women artists ldquoIn the Company of Cowgirlsrdquo Hamleyrsquos Steakhouse Pendleton Visit inthecom-panyofcowgirlscom or call 541-676-5013

may 19-22Whitman College 50th Reunion class of 1961 Whitman College Details 509-527-5952

Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merr y Wives of Windsorrdquo Pow-erhouse Theater Details 509-742-0739

may 21The annual Ducky Derby is a day of family fun all for a good cause Watch the ducks race down Mill Creek to help fund the Exchange Clubrsquos efforts at preventing child abuse and neglect 1130 am-330 pm Race at about 2 pm Walla Walla Community College De-tails 509-527-4300

Walla Walla University Spring Choral Concert 5 pm Walla Walla Univer-sity Church Details 509-527-2571

learn to contra dance an old-fashioned coun-try dance Music by the Wednesday Night Band 7 pm teaching and practice 730 pm regular dance Unity Church of Peace 810

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may 22The Whitman College graduating class of 2011 accepts the challenge 11 am Memorial lawn Whitman College Details 509-527-5156

may 26 27 28 29Walla Walla Community College Theatre arts De-partment presents ldquoZoot Suitrdquo by luis Valdez 7 pm each night and Sunday 2 pm matinee W WCC Performing arts Center Details 509-527-4575

may 27-30 Dayton Days has been a Memorial Weekend tradi-tion in Dayton for nearly 100 years Highlights include a Saturday-morning parade on historic Main Street rodeo tour of Dayton and Memorial Day Fun Run De-tails 509-382-4825 or visit historicdaytoncom

may 28-30The Touchet River Roundup mdash the annual Celebration of Sobriety at the fairgrounds focuses on family fun ac-tivities Waitsburg Details 509-526-3602

may 29annual Onion Man Tria-thalon 9 am Bennington lake Details wwmulti-sportscom or call 509-529-9187

may 30Waitsburgrsquos annual Memo-rial Day celebration hosted by veterans for all veterans Details 509-337-6546

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The sculpture tops the farmers market gazebo on the corner of Fourth Avenue North and West Main Street

Contestensprulesif you have the answer e-mail it to rickdoylewwubcom or send it to Where in Walla Walla 112 S 1st Ave PO Box 1358 Walla Walla WA 99362 The names of 10 people with correct answers will be randomly selected and they will receive this great-looking mug as proof of their local knowledge and good taste

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But thatrsquos exactly what longtime Walla Walla resident Larry Adams did for four years He was one of a select group of pilots for Marine One the helicopter counterpart of the presidential airplane Air Force One from 1970 to 1974

30 Walla Walla LifestyLes

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 31

Long before Adams became the Walla Walla Airport manager he was transporting heads of state foreign dignitaries famous (and now infamous) Cabinet members the executive staff and President richard M Nixon during one of the nationrsquos most turbulent times the withdrawal from vietnam and the Watergate scandal

But to Adams a native of Northern idaho all that swirled around the Nixon presidency was the least of his concerns His job was to transport the president safely to Andrews Air Force Base or Camp David or fly any short flight required Safety always at a premium End of story

Many times Adams ferried President Nixon and his staff on short flights far away from home Air Force One might fly President Nixon to a summit or a meeting with a foreign head of state but Marine One and Adams were always nearby to shuttle the chief executive on short flights or to whisk him away from sudden danger

Pretty heady stuff for a fourth-grade teacher who had never thought about flying until a Marine recruiter offered him the opportunity Although Adams had watched planes take off and land at a nearby air base as a child he had never given serious thought to flying it was more a need for a bigger paycheck than passion that brought Adams to his destiny

He liked teaching but it just wasnrsquot paying the bills So Adams turned to the military and the Gi Bill After being unimpressed by other recruiters Adams took a liking to the fellow from the Marines for as Adams recalls the recruiter took an interest in him After about an hour of talking the recruiter suggested Adams might have the potential to be a pilot

Having easily passed some preliminary tests Adams was sent to flight school in Pensacola Fla and a stellar career was ready to take off He performed well in all the aircraft he piloted but he showed a special skill for helicopters

Up until 1965 fixed-wing airplanes were the staple of all military air combat But the military had been gearing up for a big change The helicopter was to become a major part of combat The Pentagon had been developing helicopters that would do much more than transport troops to bases Now they would assist in bombing

raids ground attacks and the evacuation of the injured from the point of combat This new breed of helicopters would also possess the ability to fight back and not be lame ducks as before the new H34 would tote machine guns on each side

These cutting-edge aircraft would travel at unprecedented speeds with newly discovered agility Gifted pilots were needed not those who merely possessed superior technical skills but those who also had the composure to fly straight into

enemy fire in the dead of night picking up injured soldiers or aiding air attacks

Adams was one of those pilots and he would be one of two squadron leaders for ldquoOperation Starliterdquo mdash the first major assault using helicopters The Marines were going straight into a North vietnamese regimental stronghold No one knew what to expect

ldquoWe lost a lot that first time inrdquo says Adams ldquoTwo crew chiefs were killed

Continued on pg 32 gt

In this newspaper clipping Larry Adams poses on the steps of the helicopter dubbed Marine One which he piloted for President Richard M Nixon

32 Walla Walla LifestyLes

people ltcontinued from pg 31

four pilots were medevaced out because of their wounds i donrsquot think there was one helicopter that didnrsquot have a bunch of holes in it The one i flew in we got a lot of rounds in it Amazingly no one was hurt but when we got back the helicopter was so shot-up you couldnrsquot fly it anymore We lost 50 percent of our helicopters that dayrdquo

in the next 13 months Adams would fly many more missions often heading straight into anti-aircraft fire to pick up injured or killed soldiers He says he would see the flares signifying where the copter was supposed to land but frequently hersquod have to veer off because ground communication would say ldquoThe artillery is too hotrdquo Then there would be a window maybe two minutes maybe five when the helicopter could drop in and pick up the injured often being shot at as it waited for its passengers

Adams knew the best way to survive was to keep his focus ldquoin the daylight when you start your run in and yoursquore getting shot at Everything went to black and white for me i didnrsquot notice the green trees or the green rice paddies until we got out of there and then it would come back

to me i donrsquot know what that was i just didnrsquot see the colors irsquove talked to some other pilots and they described the same thingrdquo

in his two tours of duty in vietnam Adams would fly 880 combat missions in several types of helicopters and fixed-wing airplanes He received numerous medals including two Navy commendations for performance under combat conditions

Then the call came to fly for the president Before Adams could tote the commander in chief around in Marine One a thorough background check had to be done So thorough was the check that Adams said a friend from his hometown sent him a card that read ldquoAre you in some kind of trouble Jesus therersquos been a bunch of people around here with the dark grey suits and the skinny little ties Theyrsquore asking all these embarrassing questions about you like did you have drinking problem Did you have a gambling problem Do you know what Larryrsquos sexual preference wasrdquo

Adams chuckles ldquoit was pretty funnyrdquoAdams passed the grade and soon

he was flying President Nixon and his family to Camp David or picking up vice

President Spiro Agnew at the Pentagon or taking Secretary of State Henry kissinger or Secretary of Defense Alexander Haig to a classified meeting Although his flights varied from transporting foreign heads of state to flying members of the press the majority involved the president the vice president kissinger and Haig

The pilots did not speak to their travelers unless spoken to says Adams President Nixon usually looked in and asked them how they were kissinger never spoke Haig was good for a pat on the shoulder now and then but it was Agnew who conversed the most says Adams

Adams remembers ldquoOne time we picked him up at the Pentagon and we had taken off and had hit top altitude He usually would come up and look into the cockpit but this time he patted me on the shoulder and asked lsquoWell howrsquos it going today guysrsquordquo Adams replied ldquoNot bad sir and how about yourselfrdquo

Agnew answered ldquoMan they are really after my assrdquo He was talking about the press Adams says ldquoTwo weeks later he resignedrdquo

Adams recalls that his encounters with Agnew as defying the public perception

Adams far right gives instructions before a mission in Vietnam

Walla Walla LifestyLes 33

that Agnew was arrogant ldquoHe was always one of the nicest guys He was straightforward He looked like he had just stepped off the cover of Gentlemenrsquos Quarterly all the time He was very proper in the way he dressed but he had a sense of humor as wellrdquo

There were other humorous moments Adams recalls a certain reporter from CBS who had been a major thorn in President Nixonrsquos side was late for takeoff from the South Lawn of the White House one morning Just as Marine One was about to leave without him he came running across the lawn hollering and waving his arms The Secret Service agent supervising the flight told Adams to ldquojust gordquo The wind from the propellers whipped the reporterrsquos toupee right off his head and instead of continuing his run toward Marine One he reversed his field and tried feverishly to retrieve his toupee snagged in the hedges

ldquoEveryone got a pretty good chuckle out of thatrdquo

Of course there were somber times At one point Adams flew Cabinet members John Ehrlichman and Hr Haldeman to Camp David for a meeting with the president After only 15 minutes the two men returned and Marine One headed home Adams says it was a quiet flight He found out later the two men had been fired by President Nixon for their parts in the Watergate scandal

Whisking the president away from danger was a major part of being a pilot of Marine One Stationed across the river from the Capitol pilots awakened by an emergency alert had to be up in the air in five minutes This exercise was practiced often though never needed during Adamsrsquo tenure

One night however they thought it was The operator at the White House mistakenly hit the ldquoAlertrdquo button Marine One was in the air in five minutes

Although ground control had not spotted any enemy aircraft the operation was under way As Marine One closed in on the White House the operator at fault tried to alert everyone of his mistake but unfortunately used a poor choice of words to call off the operation

Adams chuckles as he says ldquoThe fella said lsquoThis is not an exercisersquo He was moved to another post i thinkrdquo

All levity aside the position required

the same kind of focus demanded of Adams in vietnam though it came in a different form

ldquoThere were three things the way you operated the aircraft and they were in this order safety comfort and speed Safety never gave in to comfort or speedrdquo says Adams ldquoOur job was just concentrating on doing our job it could have been anybody mdash we would do it the same way it could have been Fred Flintstone

ldquoThe difference between flying for the White House and in vietnam was we were flying a premier aircraft We had to keep it impeccably clean everything was scripted We had to have the lsquoopen-the-door timersquo down to two to four seconds in vietnam it was the stress of performing medevacs under fire or dropping troops under heavy artillery For Marine One it was the stress of doing the job rightrdquo

Also the stress of being away from onersquos family 200 days of the year wore on a Marine One pilot in 1974 after four years on the job the toll became too much and Adams stepped down

He would stay with the Marines for eight more years retiring in August 1982

By then he had received 44 Air Medals including the Joint Service Commendation and the Presidential Service Badge in his 20 years of service Adams flew seven different helicopters and five different fixed-wing planes

What makes an elite military pilot ldquoPilots who donrsquot have any misgivingsrdquo says Adams ldquoTheyrsquore totally prepared they know their aircraftrdquo

When talking about his colleagues on Marine One he adds ldquoNone were boasters They might brag about a great landing but they did not brag in spite of someone elserdquo

What did Adams love most about his flying days ldquoi enjoyed flying with the latest technology and the pristine quality of Marine One i loved the process of building my skills i could have flown another 40 years and i would still be learning thingsrdquo

is it any surprise his favorite hobby now is fly fishing

andrew hoLt writes about food people and all things Walla Walla for Walla Walla lifestyles magazine He can be reached at bruindrew86gmailcom

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it is astonishing in many ways mdash that we are presented with two weeks of top-drawer music performed by top-drawer musi-cians that there are so many ways to encounter the music (many of them free) and that a rural community has provided the incu-

bator for such a cultural undertaking to name but a fewGranted we are not your average rural community having two

colleges a university a symphony a choral society a community band and music in the schools but letrsquos face it wersquore not exactly a cosmopolitan center of culture like New york either The Cham-ber Music Festival mdash and our continued support of it through some tough times mdash puts us in a category all our own

ldquoi saw what was special about this community the first time i visited in 2007rdquo Artistic Director Timothy Christie says ldquoi have

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A young artistic composer pays close attention as Tim Christie uses his violin to interpret the boys piece of artwork into music on June 11 2009 Meanwhile other children work on their works of art in preparation for the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival quintets interpretations

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worked hard to start this event and to my great joy it has taken on an iden-tity of its own i hire the musicians and choose the music but the town its people and its environs make the festivalrdquo

The beauty of chamber music is its intimacy mdash smaller ensembles performing for smaller audiences it has been referred to as ldquothe music of friendsrdquo which seems so apt at this festival Free open rehearsals are held around town that provide not only a musical atmosphere in which to enjoy a latte or the ambiance of the kirkman House but which give a richer look into the machinations of a working ensemble

As one enthusiastic fan puts it ldquoi am not a musician and itrsquos fascinat-ing to watch these rehearsals to see the interactions of the musicians as they work out the snags make wry remarks and relate to each other in a whole different way than during a for-mal performance i get a glimpse into their personalities and what makes them tickrdquo

The festival supplies a generous of-fering of venues with free concerts for children and families relaxed evening programs at wineries and full concerts at the Foundry Chism Hall and Day-tonrsquos Liberty Theater

if you are lucky enough to live near the musiciansrsquo lodgings while they are in town you may also be treated to an ad hoc front-porch concert as the ensembles continue their rehearsals in more private settings The festival is about all of these ways mdash planned and accidental mdash to experience the enchantment of chamber music

it is also about historic continuity and the connection between past and present mdash relishing the existing canon while expanding the genre with con-temporary forms and voices

How is this accomplished in part by the annual commission of a new piece of music for the festival Chris-tie is committed to contributing to the broader chamber music repertoire and to providing the audience with the richest possible experience

Continued on pg 36 gt

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ldquoFor classical music to be relevant there must be a conversation between the music of our time and the music of the pastrdquo he says

By commissioning a work for the festi-val each year Christie creates such a con-versation

This year the commission was given to John David Earnest Four festival commis-sions have preceded his and he is the sec-ond ldquolocalrdquo composer to be tapped add-ing another layer of relationship between community and event (in 2009 Whitman College professor David Glenn was given the nod)

As visiting adjunct professor of music at Whitman Earnest resides here for six weeks every semester His ldquoSecond Sym-phonyrdquo was written for and performed by the Walla Walla Symphony in October 2001

The challenge for the yearly commis-sionee is to compose a piece on demand within specific constraints of time place and instrumentation while expressing hisher own voice as an artist

Earnest has created ldquoCommedia Gal-leryrdquo a set of three movements for flute

viola and harp based on stock characters from the Commedia dellrsquoArte a popu-lar theatrical form that was influential in Europe for over 300 years Commedia characters improvised dialogue around set scenarios generally involving the struggles of young lovers to overcome hindrances to their romance and each character even-tually came to have a consistent set of at-tributes in speech mannerisms and cos-tume

Earnestrsquos ldquoGalleryrdquo gives us Arlecchi-no (Harlequin) an acrobatic and devious jester Pierrot the classic sad clown and finally Scaramouche a dandy and a brag-gart who is a coward at heart

in anticipation of this yearrsquos festival i am reminded of the scene in ldquoThe Music Manrdquo in which the town awaits the ar-rival of the Wells Fargo Wagon Potentially heaped with gifts and surprises it prom-ises connection to the larger world The WWCMF brings us all ldquosomethinrsquo specialrdquo mdash an enrichment of our community and our culture

margaret Jamison is an artist and writer living in Walla Walla Contact her at artjamisongmailcom

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Smith has gardened for years at his home at 38 Mulberry Court in College Place He used to grow vegetables and flowers now he is strictly focusing on flowers mdash with fabulous results roses delphiniums and lots of irises line the fence

ldquoirises mdash irsquove always enjoyed themrdquo he says ldquoThey take a little bit of weeding and watering but not much morerdquo itrsquos the gardenerrsquos dream mdash low maintenance with a big return

A retired orthopedic surgeon Smith has in the past gardened more extensively than he does now But he has enough plants to keep him busy His new project is planting more of the reblooming iris These are still hardy but you get twice the reward they bloom in the spring then again in the fall

ldquoTheyrsquore easy to grow and spectacular for a short time iris take less care than a lot of thingsrdquo Smith says

His secret for gardening is simple and therersquos no getting around it ldquoTime and workrdquo he laughs

Hersquos getting ready to start in the garden ldquoi need to clean out the leaves and the old foliage of the irisrdquo

in addition to the basic cleaning and maintenance Smith just decides how many plants to keep Bulb flowers are hardy and they multiply on their own

ldquoAfter five years you usually have to separate the bulbs when they get too thick i donrsquot have room to add more i put in the new re-blooming onesrdquo he explains ldquoi may add more and a few other thingsrdquo

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itrsquos an odd location since it can only be seen as yoursquore leaving town but it always makes me smile This valley my adopted home is indeed a great place to be

i recently finished reading the great Western writer Wallace Stegnerrsquos book ldquoThe Sound of Mountain Waterrdquo One of his essays traces his nomadic childhood which left him feeling rootless and without a place that he felt he could call home

i identify with his feeling of not belonging i was born to a single woman from Massachusetts in a New york City hospital i stayed a scant few days before being placed with an adoption agency Born in a place i had no familial connection to i was immediately deprived of my biological family Most of my childhood was spent in suburban Cleveland Ohio Moves to upstate New york New England and Pennsylvania brought me no closer to calling any place home i loved living in the western Massachusetts town of Stockbridge but the multigenerational denizens of the town left few openings for newcomers like me i lived in central Pennsylvania for several decades but felt detached from the deep roots that most people had in the area

When we came west (for my husband a homecoming to his Oregon roots for me a new experience) i noticed that even in long-established towns like Walla Walla there is ample room for newcomers who want to be

part of the community And most folks who choose to come here donrsquot seem to want to change the valley they prefer to embrace it

While the occasional newbie whines about the lack of Whole Foods or Nordstrom they soon discover our farmers markets the wide variety of local shops and boutiques and our world-class restaurants They fall in love with our charming downtowns the small-town friendliness of the people and our kid-friendly environment Then therersquos the holiday parade the fair the ever-present Blue Mountains the parks the museums the wineries mdash really whatrsquos not to like The communities of our valley represent America at its best

irsquom a newspaper junkie i love to read everything from news to sports to classifieds mdash even the obituaries The obits are a fascinating window on our valley Many of the people chronicled were born here some lived all their lives here inextricably bound to this place But a number of people came here from other places often far away and have made a mark on our area Which makes me wonder mdash is a place any less of a hometown because you choose it or is it based primarily on the happenstance of your birth it seems that therersquos room for both paths to calling this wonderful valley home

itrsquos also our strength because collectively as a community we bring both deep familial and cultural traditions as well as the fresh perspective of newcomers to our area irsquom glad mdash after decades of searching mdash that i finally found my hometown a place that feels just right

diane reed can be reached at ladybookearthlinknet Between columns and when the spirit moves her she blogs at wwwponderingsbydianereedblogspotcom from her home overlooking the pond at lions Park in College Place

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Maymay 1The annual Kennel Club Dog Show Walla Walla County Fairgrounds De-tails 509-558-3854

The Walla Walla University Drama Department pres-ents a performance of ldquoMy Fair ladyrdquo 2 pm matinee Details 509-527-2656

The Walla Walla Choral Society presents ldquoJubilate Deordquo 3 pm May 1 Walla Walla University Church College Place Details 509-386-2445

The Walla Walla Valley Farmers Market opens local produce artisans and an outdoor concert 9 am-1 pm Saturdays and Sundays through Oct 30 Crawford Park Fourth ave and Main St Details gowallawallafarmersmar-ketcom or 509-520-3647

through may 22Enjoy the annual Senior art Thesis Exhibition Sheehan Gallery Whitman College Details 509-527-5249

through JuLy 31The Tamaacutestslikt Cultural In-stitute hosts the traveling OMSI exhibit ldquoamazing Feats of agingrdquo explor-ing the mysteries of why animals and humans age Details 541-966-9748

may 4The YWCa leadership luncheon ldquoMatters that Matterrdquo is informational and inspirational with guest speakers Kristine Van Raden and Molly Da-vis Noon Marcus Whit-man Hotel Details 509-525-2570

Walla Walla Wine Works hosts music on Wednes-days downtown Details 509-522-1261

may 5First Thursday Concert at St Pauls Episcopal Church 323 Catherine Street Walla Walla 1215-1250 pm will feature the Steel Drum Band from Walla Walla Uni-versity directed by Brandon Beck Details 529-1083

The Whitman College Visit-ing Writers Reading series presents Whitman Reading 7 pm Kimball Theatre De-tails whitmanedu

may 5-7 12-14Walla Walla High School Drama Department pres-ents ldquoFiddler on the Roofrdquo musical version 7 pm and 2 pm matinee on Saturdays May 7 and 14 Walla Walla High School Performing arts audito-rium Details Tickets can be reserved by calling 509-526-8613 the Wa-Hi box office

may 5-8 19-21a performance of ldquoThe 25th a nnua l Putnam County Spelling Beerdquo 8 pm Harper Joy Theatre Whitman College Details 509-527-5180

may 6-7Music on the weekends at the Backstage Bistro De-tails 509-526-0690

Sapolil Cellars hosts music on Friday and Saturday De-tails 509-520-5258

The Wildfire hosts music every Friday and Saturday Wildhorse Resort amp Casino Pendleton Details 800-654-9453

may 6-8Walla Walla Valley Winer-ies offer an opportunity to taste their new creations during Spring Release Weekend area wineries introduce new wines and winemakers share their creative inspiration Details 509-526-3117

may 6artWalK First Fridays May through December Visit galleries and chat with art-ists 5-8 pm Downtown Walla Walla Visit artwalk-wallawallacom

may 6-8 13-14The little Theatre presents ldquoalice In Wonderlandrdquo adapted from lewis Carroll 8 pm Friday-Saturday 2 pm Sunday little Theatre of Walla Walla Details 509-529-3683

may 7The annual Junior Horse Show brings great riding action to Milton-Freewater Pioneer Posse Grounds Details 541-938-3379

Daytonrsquos annual Street Sale turns a section of Third Street into a giant yard sale benefits churches and com-munity projects Dayton Details 509-382-4825

artist reception and dem-onstration Washington art-ist Dwight Duke exhibits his painting bronze sculptures and gunpowder light pan-els 6-730 pm Reininger Winery Details 509-522-1994

may 8Every Sunday the living History actors portray in-dividuals from the arearsquos past 2 pm Fort Walla Walla Museum Details 509-525-7703

may 13-15The annual Balloon Stam-pede brings as many as 50 hot-air balloons to the Walla Walla County Fairgrounds This colorful festival re-mains a Valley tradition Ear-ly morning flights (weather permitting) arts amp crafts antique autos commercial booths live entertainment and food Balloons light up to music at the Saturday evening Nite Glow Details 509-525-0850

may 14annual adult event cele-brates the characters who populated Pendletonrsquos past Must have reservations Pendleton Underground Tours Details 800-226-6398

may 14-15 may 27-29Walla Walla Drag Strip con-tinues the weekend fun Details wwdragstripcom or 509-200-6287

may 15Walla Walla University Chamber Series featuring Robyn McCabe 730 pm MKW Fine arts auditorium Details 509-527-2571

may 18To celebrate the opening of Walla Wallarsquos Power House Theatre and a four-day run of Seattle Shakespeare Companyrsquos ldquoThe Merry Wives of WindsorrdquoWalla Walla lifestyles will pres-ent a gala event This exclusive evening will en-chant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fash-ion from 530-9 pm at the Power House Theatre Sixth amp Rose Walla Walla To purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewalla-wallacom

may 19-21During Pendletonrsquos Cattle Baron Weekend enjoy an art exhibit by a talented group of women artists ldquoIn the Company of Cowgirlsrdquo Hamleyrsquos Steakhouse Pendleton Visit inthecom-panyofcowgirlscom or call 541-676-5013

may 19-22Whitman College 50th Reunion class of 1961 Whitman College Details 509-527-5952

Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merr y Wives of Windsorrdquo Pow-erhouse Theater Details 509-742-0739

may 21The annual Ducky Derby is a day of family fun all for a good cause Watch the ducks race down Mill Creek to help fund the Exchange Clubrsquos efforts at preventing child abuse and neglect 1130 am-330 pm Race at about 2 pm Walla Walla Community College De-tails 509-527-4300

Walla Walla University Spring Choral Concert 5 pm Walla Walla Univer-sity Church Details 509-527-2571

learn to contra dance an old-fashioned coun-try dance Music by the Wednesday Night Band 7 pm teaching and practice 730 pm regular dance Unity Church of Peace 810

C St Walla Walla Details 541-938-7403

may 22The Whitman College graduating class of 2011 accepts the challenge 11 am Memorial lawn Whitman College Details 509-527-5156

may 26 27 28 29Walla Walla Community College Theatre arts De-partment presents ldquoZoot Suitrdquo by luis Valdez 7 pm each night and Sunday 2 pm matinee W WCC Performing arts Center Details 509-527-4575

may 27-30 Dayton Days has been a Memorial Weekend tradi-tion in Dayton for nearly 100 years Highlights include a Saturday-morning parade on historic Main Street rodeo tour of Dayton and Memorial Day Fun Run De-tails 509-382-4825 or visit historicdaytoncom

may 28-30The Touchet River Roundup mdash the annual Celebration of Sobriety at the fairgrounds focuses on family fun ac-tivities Waitsburg Details 509-526-3602

may 29annual Onion Man Tria-thalon 9 am Bennington lake Details wwmulti-sportscom or call 509-529-9187

may 30Waitsburgrsquos annual Memo-rial Day celebration hosted by veterans for all veterans Details 509-337-6546

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This sculptural cornucopia marks the spot where all of Walla Walla meets the producers and wersquore not talking about the Zero Mostel and Gene Wild-er musical For you GPS fans latitude 4606678 N longitude 11834197 W

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The sculpture tops the farmers market gazebo on the corner of Fourth Avenue North and West Main Street

Contestensprulesif you have the answer e-mail it to rickdoylewwubcom or send it to Where in Walla Walla 112 S 1st Ave PO Box 1358 Walla Walla WA 99362 The names of 10 people with correct answers will be randomly selected and they will receive this great-looking mug as proof of their local knowledge and good taste

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2 Basel cellars estate winery2901 Old Milton Hwy (509) 522-0200 wwwbaselcellarscom

3 Bergevin Lane vineyards 1215 W Poplar St (509) 526-4300 bergevinlanecom

4 Bunchgrass winery151 Bunchgrass lane (509) 540-8963 wwwbunchgrasswinerycom

5 canoe ridge vineyard1102 W Cherry St (509) 527-0885 wwwcanoeridgevineyardcom

6 castillo de feliciana85728 Telephone Pole Road Milton-Freewater OR (541) 558-3656 wwwcastillodefelicianacom

7 don carlo vineyardBy appointment Only (509) 540-5784 wwwdoncarlovineyardcom

8 dunham cellars150 E Boeing ave (509) 529-4685 wwwdunhamcellarscom

9 five star cellars 840 C St (509) 527-8400 wwwfivestarcellarscom

10 forgeron cellars 33 W Birch St (509) 522-9463 wwwforgeroncellarscom

21 sapolil cellars15 E Main St (509) 520-5258 wwwsapolilcellarscom

22 seven hills winery 212 N Third ave (509) 529-7198 wwwsevenhillswinerycom

23 sinclair estate vineyards 109 E Main Ste 100 (509) 876-4300 wwwsinclairestatevineyardscom

24 spring valley vineyard 18 N Second ave (509) 525-1506 wwwspringvalleyvineyardcom

25 suLei cellars355 S Second ave (503) 529-0840 www suleicellarscom

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11 foundry vineyards Corner of 13th ave and abadie St (509) 529-0736 wwwwallawallafoundrycomvineyards

12 fort walla walla cellars 127 E Main St (509) 520-1095 wwwfortwallawallacellarscom

13 glencorrie8052 Old Highway 12 (509) 525-2585 wwwglencorriecom

14 grantwood winery 2428 W Highway 12 (509) 301-0719 (509) 301-9546

15 Lrsquoecole no 41 winery41 lowden School Road and US Hwy 12 (509) 525-0940 wwwlecolecom

16 Long shadows1604 Frenchtown Road (Formerly Ireland Road) (509) 526-0905 wwwlongshadowscom By invitation only Requests accepted on a limited basis Please call to inquire

17 Lowden hills winery1401 W Pine St (509) 527-1040 wwwlowdenhillswinerycom

18 northstar winery 1736 JB George Road (509) 524-4883 wwwnorthstarmerlotcom

19 pepper Bridge winery1704 JB George Road (509) 525-6502 wwwpepperbridgecom

20 robison ranch cellars2839 Robison Ranch Road (509) 301-3480 robisonranchcellarscom

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26 syZygy 405 E Boeing ave (509) 522-0484 wwwsyzygywinescom

27 three rivers winery5641 Old Highway 12 (509) 526-9463 infoThreeRiversWinerycom

28 tertulia cellars1564 Whiteley Road (509) 525-5700 wwwtertuliacellarscom

29 trust cellars 1050 Merlot Drive (509) 529-4511 wwwtrustcellarscom

30 va piano vineyards1793 JB George Road (509) 529-0900 wwwvapianovineyardscom

31 walla walla vintnersVineyard lane off Mill Creek Road (509) 525-4724 wwwwallawallavintnerscom

32 walla walla wineworks31 E Main St (509) 522-1261 wwwwallawallawineworkscom

33 whitman cellars1015 W Pine St (509) 529-1142 wwwwhitmancellarscom

34 woodward canyon winery11920 W Hwy 12 lowden (509) 525-4129 wwwwoodwardcanyoncom

35 JLc winery425 B St (509) 301-5148

36 saviah cellars1979 JB George Rd

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Long before Adams became the Walla Walla Airport manager he was transporting heads of state foreign dignitaries famous (and now infamous) Cabinet members the executive staff and President richard M Nixon during one of the nationrsquos most turbulent times the withdrawal from vietnam and the Watergate scandal

But to Adams a native of Northern idaho all that swirled around the Nixon presidency was the least of his concerns His job was to transport the president safely to Andrews Air Force Base or Camp David or fly any short flight required Safety always at a premium End of story

Many times Adams ferried President Nixon and his staff on short flights far away from home Air Force One might fly President Nixon to a summit or a meeting with a foreign head of state but Marine One and Adams were always nearby to shuttle the chief executive on short flights or to whisk him away from sudden danger

Pretty heady stuff for a fourth-grade teacher who had never thought about flying until a Marine recruiter offered him the opportunity Although Adams had watched planes take off and land at a nearby air base as a child he had never given serious thought to flying it was more a need for a bigger paycheck than passion that brought Adams to his destiny

He liked teaching but it just wasnrsquot paying the bills So Adams turned to the military and the Gi Bill After being unimpressed by other recruiters Adams took a liking to the fellow from the Marines for as Adams recalls the recruiter took an interest in him After about an hour of talking the recruiter suggested Adams might have the potential to be a pilot

Having easily passed some preliminary tests Adams was sent to flight school in Pensacola Fla and a stellar career was ready to take off He performed well in all the aircraft he piloted but he showed a special skill for helicopters

Up until 1965 fixed-wing airplanes were the staple of all military air combat But the military had been gearing up for a big change The helicopter was to become a major part of combat The Pentagon had been developing helicopters that would do much more than transport troops to bases Now they would assist in bombing

raids ground attacks and the evacuation of the injured from the point of combat This new breed of helicopters would also possess the ability to fight back and not be lame ducks as before the new H34 would tote machine guns on each side

These cutting-edge aircraft would travel at unprecedented speeds with newly discovered agility Gifted pilots were needed not those who merely possessed superior technical skills but those who also had the composure to fly straight into

enemy fire in the dead of night picking up injured soldiers or aiding air attacks

Adams was one of those pilots and he would be one of two squadron leaders for ldquoOperation Starliterdquo mdash the first major assault using helicopters The Marines were going straight into a North vietnamese regimental stronghold No one knew what to expect

ldquoWe lost a lot that first time inrdquo says Adams ldquoTwo crew chiefs were killed

Continued on pg 32 gt

In this newspaper clipping Larry Adams poses on the steps of the helicopter dubbed Marine One which he piloted for President Richard M Nixon

32 Walla Walla LifestyLes

people ltcontinued from pg 31

four pilots were medevaced out because of their wounds i donrsquot think there was one helicopter that didnrsquot have a bunch of holes in it The one i flew in we got a lot of rounds in it Amazingly no one was hurt but when we got back the helicopter was so shot-up you couldnrsquot fly it anymore We lost 50 percent of our helicopters that dayrdquo

in the next 13 months Adams would fly many more missions often heading straight into anti-aircraft fire to pick up injured or killed soldiers He says he would see the flares signifying where the copter was supposed to land but frequently hersquod have to veer off because ground communication would say ldquoThe artillery is too hotrdquo Then there would be a window maybe two minutes maybe five when the helicopter could drop in and pick up the injured often being shot at as it waited for its passengers

Adams knew the best way to survive was to keep his focus ldquoin the daylight when you start your run in and yoursquore getting shot at Everything went to black and white for me i didnrsquot notice the green trees or the green rice paddies until we got out of there and then it would come back

to me i donrsquot know what that was i just didnrsquot see the colors irsquove talked to some other pilots and they described the same thingrdquo

in his two tours of duty in vietnam Adams would fly 880 combat missions in several types of helicopters and fixed-wing airplanes He received numerous medals including two Navy commendations for performance under combat conditions

Then the call came to fly for the president Before Adams could tote the commander in chief around in Marine One a thorough background check had to be done So thorough was the check that Adams said a friend from his hometown sent him a card that read ldquoAre you in some kind of trouble Jesus therersquos been a bunch of people around here with the dark grey suits and the skinny little ties Theyrsquore asking all these embarrassing questions about you like did you have drinking problem Did you have a gambling problem Do you know what Larryrsquos sexual preference wasrdquo

Adams chuckles ldquoit was pretty funnyrdquoAdams passed the grade and soon

he was flying President Nixon and his family to Camp David or picking up vice

President Spiro Agnew at the Pentagon or taking Secretary of State Henry kissinger or Secretary of Defense Alexander Haig to a classified meeting Although his flights varied from transporting foreign heads of state to flying members of the press the majority involved the president the vice president kissinger and Haig

The pilots did not speak to their travelers unless spoken to says Adams President Nixon usually looked in and asked them how they were kissinger never spoke Haig was good for a pat on the shoulder now and then but it was Agnew who conversed the most says Adams

Adams remembers ldquoOne time we picked him up at the Pentagon and we had taken off and had hit top altitude He usually would come up and look into the cockpit but this time he patted me on the shoulder and asked lsquoWell howrsquos it going today guysrsquordquo Adams replied ldquoNot bad sir and how about yourselfrdquo

Agnew answered ldquoMan they are really after my assrdquo He was talking about the press Adams says ldquoTwo weeks later he resignedrdquo

Adams recalls that his encounters with Agnew as defying the public perception

Adams far right gives instructions before a mission in Vietnam

Walla Walla LifestyLes 33

that Agnew was arrogant ldquoHe was always one of the nicest guys He was straightforward He looked like he had just stepped off the cover of Gentlemenrsquos Quarterly all the time He was very proper in the way he dressed but he had a sense of humor as wellrdquo

There were other humorous moments Adams recalls a certain reporter from CBS who had been a major thorn in President Nixonrsquos side was late for takeoff from the South Lawn of the White House one morning Just as Marine One was about to leave without him he came running across the lawn hollering and waving his arms The Secret Service agent supervising the flight told Adams to ldquojust gordquo The wind from the propellers whipped the reporterrsquos toupee right off his head and instead of continuing his run toward Marine One he reversed his field and tried feverishly to retrieve his toupee snagged in the hedges

ldquoEveryone got a pretty good chuckle out of thatrdquo

Of course there were somber times At one point Adams flew Cabinet members John Ehrlichman and Hr Haldeman to Camp David for a meeting with the president After only 15 minutes the two men returned and Marine One headed home Adams says it was a quiet flight He found out later the two men had been fired by President Nixon for their parts in the Watergate scandal

Whisking the president away from danger was a major part of being a pilot of Marine One Stationed across the river from the Capitol pilots awakened by an emergency alert had to be up in the air in five minutes This exercise was practiced often though never needed during Adamsrsquo tenure

One night however they thought it was The operator at the White House mistakenly hit the ldquoAlertrdquo button Marine One was in the air in five minutes

Although ground control had not spotted any enemy aircraft the operation was under way As Marine One closed in on the White House the operator at fault tried to alert everyone of his mistake but unfortunately used a poor choice of words to call off the operation

Adams chuckles as he says ldquoThe fella said lsquoThis is not an exercisersquo He was moved to another post i thinkrdquo

All levity aside the position required

the same kind of focus demanded of Adams in vietnam though it came in a different form

ldquoThere were three things the way you operated the aircraft and they were in this order safety comfort and speed Safety never gave in to comfort or speedrdquo says Adams ldquoOur job was just concentrating on doing our job it could have been anybody mdash we would do it the same way it could have been Fred Flintstone

ldquoThe difference between flying for the White House and in vietnam was we were flying a premier aircraft We had to keep it impeccably clean everything was scripted We had to have the lsquoopen-the-door timersquo down to two to four seconds in vietnam it was the stress of performing medevacs under fire or dropping troops under heavy artillery For Marine One it was the stress of doing the job rightrdquo

Also the stress of being away from onersquos family 200 days of the year wore on a Marine One pilot in 1974 after four years on the job the toll became too much and Adams stepped down

He would stay with the Marines for eight more years retiring in August 1982

By then he had received 44 Air Medals including the Joint Service Commendation and the Presidential Service Badge in his 20 years of service Adams flew seven different helicopters and five different fixed-wing planes

What makes an elite military pilot ldquoPilots who donrsquot have any misgivingsrdquo says Adams ldquoTheyrsquore totally prepared they know their aircraftrdquo

When talking about his colleagues on Marine One he adds ldquoNone were boasters They might brag about a great landing but they did not brag in spite of someone elserdquo

What did Adams love most about his flying days ldquoi enjoyed flying with the latest technology and the pristine quality of Marine One i loved the process of building my skills i could have flown another 40 years and i would still be learning thingsrdquo

is it any surprise his favorite hobby now is fly fishing

andrew hoLt writes about food people and all things Walla Walla for Walla Walla lifestyles magazine He can be reached at bruindrew86gmailcom

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it is astonishing in many ways mdash that we are presented with two weeks of top-drawer music performed by top-drawer musi-cians that there are so many ways to encounter the music (many of them free) and that a rural community has provided the incu-

bator for such a cultural undertaking to name but a fewGranted we are not your average rural community having two

colleges a university a symphony a choral society a community band and music in the schools but letrsquos face it wersquore not exactly a cosmopolitan center of culture like New york either The Cham-ber Music Festival mdash and our continued support of it through some tough times mdash puts us in a category all our own

ldquoi saw what was special about this community the first time i visited in 2007rdquo Artistic Director Timothy Christie says ldquoi have

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A young artistic composer pays close attention as Tim Christie uses his violin to interpret the boys piece of artwork into music on June 11 2009 Meanwhile other children work on their works of art in preparation for the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival quintets interpretations

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worked hard to start this event and to my great joy it has taken on an iden-tity of its own i hire the musicians and choose the music but the town its people and its environs make the festivalrdquo

The beauty of chamber music is its intimacy mdash smaller ensembles performing for smaller audiences it has been referred to as ldquothe music of friendsrdquo which seems so apt at this festival Free open rehearsals are held around town that provide not only a musical atmosphere in which to enjoy a latte or the ambiance of the kirkman House but which give a richer look into the machinations of a working ensemble

As one enthusiastic fan puts it ldquoi am not a musician and itrsquos fascinat-ing to watch these rehearsals to see the interactions of the musicians as they work out the snags make wry remarks and relate to each other in a whole different way than during a for-mal performance i get a glimpse into their personalities and what makes them tickrdquo

The festival supplies a generous of-fering of venues with free concerts for children and families relaxed evening programs at wineries and full concerts at the Foundry Chism Hall and Day-tonrsquos Liberty Theater

if you are lucky enough to live near the musiciansrsquo lodgings while they are in town you may also be treated to an ad hoc front-porch concert as the ensembles continue their rehearsals in more private settings The festival is about all of these ways mdash planned and accidental mdash to experience the enchantment of chamber music

it is also about historic continuity and the connection between past and present mdash relishing the existing canon while expanding the genre with con-temporary forms and voices

How is this accomplished in part by the annual commission of a new piece of music for the festival Chris-tie is committed to contributing to the broader chamber music repertoire and to providing the audience with the richest possible experience

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ldquoFor classical music to be relevant there must be a conversation between the music of our time and the music of the pastrdquo he says

By commissioning a work for the festi-val each year Christie creates such a con-versation

This year the commission was given to John David Earnest Four festival commis-sions have preceded his and he is the sec-ond ldquolocalrdquo composer to be tapped add-ing another layer of relationship between community and event (in 2009 Whitman College professor David Glenn was given the nod)

As visiting adjunct professor of music at Whitman Earnest resides here for six weeks every semester His ldquoSecond Sym-phonyrdquo was written for and performed by the Walla Walla Symphony in October 2001

The challenge for the yearly commis-sionee is to compose a piece on demand within specific constraints of time place and instrumentation while expressing hisher own voice as an artist

Earnest has created ldquoCommedia Gal-leryrdquo a set of three movements for flute

viola and harp based on stock characters from the Commedia dellrsquoArte a popu-lar theatrical form that was influential in Europe for over 300 years Commedia characters improvised dialogue around set scenarios generally involving the struggles of young lovers to overcome hindrances to their romance and each character even-tually came to have a consistent set of at-tributes in speech mannerisms and cos-tume

Earnestrsquos ldquoGalleryrdquo gives us Arlecchi-no (Harlequin) an acrobatic and devious jester Pierrot the classic sad clown and finally Scaramouche a dandy and a brag-gart who is a coward at heart

in anticipation of this yearrsquos festival i am reminded of the scene in ldquoThe Music Manrdquo in which the town awaits the ar-rival of the Wells Fargo Wagon Potentially heaped with gifts and surprises it prom-ises connection to the larger world The WWCMF brings us all ldquosomethinrsquo specialrdquo mdash an enrichment of our community and our culture

margaret Jamison is an artist and writer living in Walla Walla Contact her at artjamisongmailcom

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Smith has gardened for years at his home at 38 Mulberry Court in College Place He used to grow vegetables and flowers now he is strictly focusing on flowers mdash with fabulous results roses delphiniums and lots of irises line the fence

ldquoirises mdash irsquove always enjoyed themrdquo he says ldquoThey take a little bit of weeding and watering but not much morerdquo itrsquos the gardenerrsquos dream mdash low maintenance with a big return

A retired orthopedic surgeon Smith has in the past gardened more extensively than he does now But he has enough plants to keep him busy His new project is planting more of the reblooming iris These are still hardy but you get twice the reward they bloom in the spring then again in the fall

ldquoTheyrsquore easy to grow and spectacular for a short time iris take less care than a lot of thingsrdquo Smith says

His secret for gardening is simple and therersquos no getting around it ldquoTime and workrdquo he laughs

Hersquos getting ready to start in the garden ldquoi need to clean out the leaves and the old foliage of the irisrdquo

in addition to the basic cleaning and maintenance Smith just decides how many plants to keep Bulb flowers are hardy and they multiply on their own

ldquoAfter five years you usually have to separate the bulbs when they get too thick i donrsquot have room to add more i put in the new re-blooming onesrdquo he explains ldquoi may add more and a few other thingsrdquo

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itrsquos an odd location since it can only be seen as yoursquore leaving town but it always makes me smile This valley my adopted home is indeed a great place to be

i recently finished reading the great Western writer Wallace Stegnerrsquos book ldquoThe Sound of Mountain Waterrdquo One of his essays traces his nomadic childhood which left him feeling rootless and without a place that he felt he could call home

i identify with his feeling of not belonging i was born to a single woman from Massachusetts in a New york City hospital i stayed a scant few days before being placed with an adoption agency Born in a place i had no familial connection to i was immediately deprived of my biological family Most of my childhood was spent in suburban Cleveland Ohio Moves to upstate New york New England and Pennsylvania brought me no closer to calling any place home i loved living in the western Massachusetts town of Stockbridge but the multigenerational denizens of the town left few openings for newcomers like me i lived in central Pennsylvania for several decades but felt detached from the deep roots that most people had in the area

When we came west (for my husband a homecoming to his Oregon roots for me a new experience) i noticed that even in long-established towns like Walla Walla there is ample room for newcomers who want to be

part of the community And most folks who choose to come here donrsquot seem to want to change the valley they prefer to embrace it

While the occasional newbie whines about the lack of Whole Foods or Nordstrom they soon discover our farmers markets the wide variety of local shops and boutiques and our world-class restaurants They fall in love with our charming downtowns the small-town friendliness of the people and our kid-friendly environment Then therersquos the holiday parade the fair the ever-present Blue Mountains the parks the museums the wineries mdash really whatrsquos not to like The communities of our valley represent America at its best

irsquom a newspaper junkie i love to read everything from news to sports to classifieds mdash even the obituaries The obits are a fascinating window on our valley Many of the people chronicled were born here some lived all their lives here inextricably bound to this place But a number of people came here from other places often far away and have made a mark on our area Which makes me wonder mdash is a place any less of a hometown because you choose it or is it based primarily on the happenstance of your birth it seems that therersquos room for both paths to calling this wonderful valley home

itrsquos also our strength because collectively as a community we bring both deep familial and cultural traditions as well as the fresh perspective of newcomers to our area irsquom glad mdash after decades of searching mdash that i finally found my hometown a place that feels just right

diane reed can be reached at ladybookearthlinknet Between columns and when the spirit moves her she blogs at wwwponderingsbydianereedblogspotcom from her home overlooking the pond at lions Park in College Place

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Maymay 1The annual Kennel Club Dog Show Walla Walla County Fairgrounds De-tails 509-558-3854

The Walla Walla University Drama Department pres-ents a performance of ldquoMy Fair ladyrdquo 2 pm matinee Details 509-527-2656

The Walla Walla Choral Society presents ldquoJubilate Deordquo 3 pm May 1 Walla Walla University Church College Place Details 509-386-2445

The Walla Walla Valley Farmers Market opens local produce artisans and an outdoor concert 9 am-1 pm Saturdays and Sundays through Oct 30 Crawford Park Fourth ave and Main St Details gowallawallafarmersmar-ketcom or 509-520-3647

through may 22Enjoy the annual Senior art Thesis Exhibition Sheehan Gallery Whitman College Details 509-527-5249

through JuLy 31The Tamaacutestslikt Cultural In-stitute hosts the traveling OMSI exhibit ldquoamazing Feats of agingrdquo explor-ing the mysteries of why animals and humans age Details 541-966-9748

may 4The YWCa leadership luncheon ldquoMatters that Matterrdquo is informational and inspirational with guest speakers Kristine Van Raden and Molly Da-vis Noon Marcus Whit-man Hotel Details 509-525-2570

Walla Walla Wine Works hosts music on Wednes-days downtown Details 509-522-1261

may 5First Thursday Concert at St Pauls Episcopal Church 323 Catherine Street Walla Walla 1215-1250 pm will feature the Steel Drum Band from Walla Walla Uni-versity directed by Brandon Beck Details 529-1083

The Whitman College Visit-ing Writers Reading series presents Whitman Reading 7 pm Kimball Theatre De-tails whitmanedu

may 5-7 12-14Walla Walla High School Drama Department pres-ents ldquoFiddler on the Roofrdquo musical version 7 pm and 2 pm matinee on Saturdays May 7 and 14 Walla Walla High School Performing arts audito-rium Details Tickets can be reserved by calling 509-526-8613 the Wa-Hi box office

may 5-8 19-21a performance of ldquoThe 25th a nnua l Putnam County Spelling Beerdquo 8 pm Harper Joy Theatre Whitman College Details 509-527-5180

may 6-7Music on the weekends at the Backstage Bistro De-tails 509-526-0690

Sapolil Cellars hosts music on Friday and Saturday De-tails 509-520-5258

The Wildfire hosts music every Friday and Saturday Wildhorse Resort amp Casino Pendleton Details 800-654-9453

may 6-8Walla Walla Valley Winer-ies offer an opportunity to taste their new creations during Spring Release Weekend area wineries introduce new wines and winemakers share their creative inspiration Details 509-526-3117

may 6artWalK First Fridays May through December Visit galleries and chat with art-ists 5-8 pm Downtown Walla Walla Visit artwalk-wallawallacom

may 6-8 13-14The little Theatre presents ldquoalice In Wonderlandrdquo adapted from lewis Carroll 8 pm Friday-Saturday 2 pm Sunday little Theatre of Walla Walla Details 509-529-3683

may 7The annual Junior Horse Show brings great riding action to Milton-Freewater Pioneer Posse Grounds Details 541-938-3379

Daytonrsquos annual Street Sale turns a section of Third Street into a giant yard sale benefits churches and com-munity projects Dayton Details 509-382-4825

artist reception and dem-onstration Washington art-ist Dwight Duke exhibits his painting bronze sculptures and gunpowder light pan-els 6-730 pm Reininger Winery Details 509-522-1994

may 8Every Sunday the living History actors portray in-dividuals from the arearsquos past 2 pm Fort Walla Walla Museum Details 509-525-7703

may 13-15The annual Balloon Stam-pede brings as many as 50 hot-air balloons to the Walla Walla County Fairgrounds This colorful festival re-mains a Valley tradition Ear-ly morning flights (weather permitting) arts amp crafts antique autos commercial booths live entertainment and food Balloons light up to music at the Saturday evening Nite Glow Details 509-525-0850

may 14annual adult event cele-brates the characters who populated Pendletonrsquos past Must have reservations Pendleton Underground Tours Details 800-226-6398

may 14-15 may 27-29Walla Walla Drag Strip con-tinues the weekend fun Details wwdragstripcom or 509-200-6287

may 15Walla Walla University Chamber Series featuring Robyn McCabe 730 pm MKW Fine arts auditorium Details 509-527-2571

may 18To celebrate the opening of Walla Wallarsquos Power House Theatre and a four-day run of Seattle Shakespeare Companyrsquos ldquoThe Merry Wives of WindsorrdquoWalla Walla lifestyles will pres-ent a gala event This exclusive evening will en-chant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fash-ion from 530-9 pm at the Power House Theatre Sixth amp Rose Walla Walla To purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewalla-wallacom

may 19-21During Pendletonrsquos Cattle Baron Weekend enjoy an art exhibit by a talented group of women artists ldquoIn the Company of Cowgirlsrdquo Hamleyrsquos Steakhouse Pendleton Visit inthecom-panyofcowgirlscom or call 541-676-5013

may 19-22Whitman College 50th Reunion class of 1961 Whitman College Details 509-527-5952

Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merr y Wives of Windsorrdquo Pow-erhouse Theater Details 509-742-0739

may 21The annual Ducky Derby is a day of family fun all for a good cause Watch the ducks race down Mill Creek to help fund the Exchange Clubrsquos efforts at preventing child abuse and neglect 1130 am-330 pm Race at about 2 pm Walla Walla Community College De-tails 509-527-4300

Walla Walla University Spring Choral Concert 5 pm Walla Walla Univer-sity Church Details 509-527-2571

learn to contra dance an old-fashioned coun-try dance Music by the Wednesday Night Band 7 pm teaching and practice 730 pm regular dance Unity Church of Peace 810

C St Walla Walla Details 541-938-7403

may 22The Whitman College graduating class of 2011 accepts the challenge 11 am Memorial lawn Whitman College Details 509-527-5156

may 26 27 28 29Walla Walla Community College Theatre arts De-partment presents ldquoZoot Suitrdquo by luis Valdez 7 pm each night and Sunday 2 pm matinee W WCC Performing arts Center Details 509-527-4575

may 27-30 Dayton Days has been a Memorial Weekend tradi-tion in Dayton for nearly 100 years Highlights include a Saturday-morning parade on historic Main Street rodeo tour of Dayton and Memorial Day Fun Run De-tails 509-382-4825 or visit historicdaytoncom

may 28-30The Touchet River Roundup mdash the annual Celebration of Sobriety at the fairgrounds focuses on family fun ac-tivities Waitsburg Details 509-526-3602

may 29annual Onion Man Tria-thalon 9 am Bennington lake Details wwmulti-sportscom or call 509-529-9187

may 30Waitsburgrsquos annual Memo-rial Day celebration hosted by veterans for all veterans Details 509-337-6546

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This sculptural cornucopia marks the spot where all of Walla Walla meets the producers and wersquore not talking about the Zero Mostel and Gene Wild-er musical For you GPS fans latitude 4606678 N longitude 11834197 W

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The sculpture tops the farmers market gazebo on the corner of Fourth Avenue North and West Main Street

Contestensprulesif you have the answer e-mail it to rickdoylewwubcom or send it to Where in Walla Walla 112 S 1st Ave PO Box 1358 Walla Walla WA 99362 The names of 10 people with correct answers will be randomly selected and they will receive this great-looking mug as proof of their local knowledge and good taste

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2 Basel cellars estate winery2901 Old Milton Hwy (509) 522-0200 wwwbaselcellarscom

3 Bergevin Lane vineyards 1215 W Poplar St (509) 526-4300 bergevinlanecom

4 Bunchgrass winery151 Bunchgrass lane (509) 540-8963 wwwbunchgrasswinerycom

5 canoe ridge vineyard1102 W Cherry St (509) 527-0885 wwwcanoeridgevineyardcom

6 castillo de feliciana85728 Telephone Pole Road Milton-Freewater OR (541) 558-3656 wwwcastillodefelicianacom

7 don carlo vineyardBy appointment Only (509) 540-5784 wwwdoncarlovineyardcom

8 dunham cellars150 E Boeing ave (509) 529-4685 wwwdunhamcellarscom

9 five star cellars 840 C St (509) 527-8400 wwwfivestarcellarscom

10 forgeron cellars 33 W Birch St (509) 522-9463 wwwforgeroncellarscom

21 sapolil cellars15 E Main St (509) 520-5258 wwwsapolilcellarscom

22 seven hills winery 212 N Third ave (509) 529-7198 wwwsevenhillswinerycom

23 sinclair estate vineyards 109 E Main Ste 100 (509) 876-4300 wwwsinclairestatevineyardscom

24 spring valley vineyard 18 N Second ave (509) 525-1506 wwwspringvalleyvineyardcom

25 suLei cellars355 S Second ave (503) 529-0840 www suleicellarscom

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12 fort walla walla cellars 127 E Main St (509) 520-1095 wwwfortwallawallacellarscom

13 glencorrie8052 Old Highway 12 (509) 525-2585 wwwglencorriecom

14 grantwood winery 2428 W Highway 12 (509) 301-0719 (509) 301-9546

15 Lrsquoecole no 41 winery41 lowden School Road and US Hwy 12 (509) 525-0940 wwwlecolecom

16 Long shadows1604 Frenchtown Road (Formerly Ireland Road) (509) 526-0905 wwwlongshadowscom By invitation only Requests accepted on a limited basis Please call to inquire

17 Lowden hills winery1401 W Pine St (509) 527-1040 wwwlowdenhillswinerycom

18 northstar winery 1736 JB George Road (509) 524-4883 wwwnorthstarmerlotcom

19 pepper Bridge winery1704 JB George Road (509) 525-6502 wwwpepperbridgecom

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26 syZygy 405 E Boeing ave (509) 522-0484 wwwsyzygywinescom

27 three rivers winery5641 Old Highway 12 (509) 526-9463 infoThreeRiversWinerycom

28 tertulia cellars1564 Whiteley Road (509) 525-5700 wwwtertuliacellarscom

29 trust cellars 1050 Merlot Drive (509) 529-4511 wwwtrustcellarscom

30 va piano vineyards1793 JB George Road (509) 529-0900 wwwvapianovineyardscom

31 walla walla vintnersVineyard lane off Mill Creek Road (509) 525-4724 wwwwallawallavintnerscom

32 walla walla wineworks31 E Main St (509) 522-1261 wwwwallawallawineworkscom

33 whitman cellars1015 W Pine St (509) 529-1142 wwwwhitmancellarscom

34 woodward canyon winery11920 W Hwy 12 lowden (509) 525-4129 wwwwoodwardcanyoncom

35 JLc winery425 B St (509) 301-5148

36 saviah cellars1979 JB George Rd

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people ltcontinued from pg 31

four pilots were medevaced out because of their wounds i donrsquot think there was one helicopter that didnrsquot have a bunch of holes in it The one i flew in we got a lot of rounds in it Amazingly no one was hurt but when we got back the helicopter was so shot-up you couldnrsquot fly it anymore We lost 50 percent of our helicopters that dayrdquo

in the next 13 months Adams would fly many more missions often heading straight into anti-aircraft fire to pick up injured or killed soldiers He says he would see the flares signifying where the copter was supposed to land but frequently hersquod have to veer off because ground communication would say ldquoThe artillery is too hotrdquo Then there would be a window maybe two minutes maybe five when the helicopter could drop in and pick up the injured often being shot at as it waited for its passengers

Adams knew the best way to survive was to keep his focus ldquoin the daylight when you start your run in and yoursquore getting shot at Everything went to black and white for me i didnrsquot notice the green trees or the green rice paddies until we got out of there and then it would come back

to me i donrsquot know what that was i just didnrsquot see the colors irsquove talked to some other pilots and they described the same thingrdquo

in his two tours of duty in vietnam Adams would fly 880 combat missions in several types of helicopters and fixed-wing airplanes He received numerous medals including two Navy commendations for performance under combat conditions

Then the call came to fly for the president Before Adams could tote the commander in chief around in Marine One a thorough background check had to be done So thorough was the check that Adams said a friend from his hometown sent him a card that read ldquoAre you in some kind of trouble Jesus therersquos been a bunch of people around here with the dark grey suits and the skinny little ties Theyrsquore asking all these embarrassing questions about you like did you have drinking problem Did you have a gambling problem Do you know what Larryrsquos sexual preference wasrdquo

Adams chuckles ldquoit was pretty funnyrdquoAdams passed the grade and soon

he was flying President Nixon and his family to Camp David or picking up vice

President Spiro Agnew at the Pentagon or taking Secretary of State Henry kissinger or Secretary of Defense Alexander Haig to a classified meeting Although his flights varied from transporting foreign heads of state to flying members of the press the majority involved the president the vice president kissinger and Haig

The pilots did not speak to their travelers unless spoken to says Adams President Nixon usually looked in and asked them how they were kissinger never spoke Haig was good for a pat on the shoulder now and then but it was Agnew who conversed the most says Adams

Adams remembers ldquoOne time we picked him up at the Pentagon and we had taken off and had hit top altitude He usually would come up and look into the cockpit but this time he patted me on the shoulder and asked lsquoWell howrsquos it going today guysrsquordquo Adams replied ldquoNot bad sir and how about yourselfrdquo

Agnew answered ldquoMan they are really after my assrdquo He was talking about the press Adams says ldquoTwo weeks later he resignedrdquo

Adams recalls that his encounters with Agnew as defying the public perception

Adams far right gives instructions before a mission in Vietnam

Walla Walla LifestyLes 33

that Agnew was arrogant ldquoHe was always one of the nicest guys He was straightforward He looked like he had just stepped off the cover of Gentlemenrsquos Quarterly all the time He was very proper in the way he dressed but he had a sense of humor as wellrdquo

There were other humorous moments Adams recalls a certain reporter from CBS who had been a major thorn in President Nixonrsquos side was late for takeoff from the South Lawn of the White House one morning Just as Marine One was about to leave without him he came running across the lawn hollering and waving his arms The Secret Service agent supervising the flight told Adams to ldquojust gordquo The wind from the propellers whipped the reporterrsquos toupee right off his head and instead of continuing his run toward Marine One he reversed his field and tried feverishly to retrieve his toupee snagged in the hedges

ldquoEveryone got a pretty good chuckle out of thatrdquo

Of course there were somber times At one point Adams flew Cabinet members John Ehrlichman and Hr Haldeman to Camp David for a meeting with the president After only 15 minutes the two men returned and Marine One headed home Adams says it was a quiet flight He found out later the two men had been fired by President Nixon for their parts in the Watergate scandal

Whisking the president away from danger was a major part of being a pilot of Marine One Stationed across the river from the Capitol pilots awakened by an emergency alert had to be up in the air in five minutes This exercise was practiced often though never needed during Adamsrsquo tenure

One night however they thought it was The operator at the White House mistakenly hit the ldquoAlertrdquo button Marine One was in the air in five minutes

Although ground control had not spotted any enemy aircraft the operation was under way As Marine One closed in on the White House the operator at fault tried to alert everyone of his mistake but unfortunately used a poor choice of words to call off the operation

Adams chuckles as he says ldquoThe fella said lsquoThis is not an exercisersquo He was moved to another post i thinkrdquo

All levity aside the position required

the same kind of focus demanded of Adams in vietnam though it came in a different form

ldquoThere were three things the way you operated the aircraft and they were in this order safety comfort and speed Safety never gave in to comfort or speedrdquo says Adams ldquoOur job was just concentrating on doing our job it could have been anybody mdash we would do it the same way it could have been Fred Flintstone

ldquoThe difference between flying for the White House and in vietnam was we were flying a premier aircraft We had to keep it impeccably clean everything was scripted We had to have the lsquoopen-the-door timersquo down to two to four seconds in vietnam it was the stress of performing medevacs under fire or dropping troops under heavy artillery For Marine One it was the stress of doing the job rightrdquo

Also the stress of being away from onersquos family 200 days of the year wore on a Marine One pilot in 1974 after four years on the job the toll became too much and Adams stepped down

He would stay with the Marines for eight more years retiring in August 1982

By then he had received 44 Air Medals including the Joint Service Commendation and the Presidential Service Badge in his 20 years of service Adams flew seven different helicopters and five different fixed-wing planes

What makes an elite military pilot ldquoPilots who donrsquot have any misgivingsrdquo says Adams ldquoTheyrsquore totally prepared they know their aircraftrdquo

When talking about his colleagues on Marine One he adds ldquoNone were boasters They might brag about a great landing but they did not brag in spite of someone elserdquo

What did Adams love most about his flying days ldquoi enjoyed flying with the latest technology and the pristine quality of Marine One i loved the process of building my skills i could have flown another 40 years and i would still be learning thingsrdquo

is it any surprise his favorite hobby now is fly fishing

andrew hoLt writes about food people and all things Walla Walla for Walla Walla lifestyles magazine He can be reached at bruindrew86gmailcom

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it is astonishing in many ways mdash that we are presented with two weeks of top-drawer music performed by top-drawer musi-cians that there are so many ways to encounter the music (many of them free) and that a rural community has provided the incu-

bator for such a cultural undertaking to name but a fewGranted we are not your average rural community having two

colleges a university a symphony a choral society a community band and music in the schools but letrsquos face it wersquore not exactly a cosmopolitan center of culture like New york either The Cham-ber Music Festival mdash and our continued support of it through some tough times mdash puts us in a category all our own

ldquoi saw what was special about this community the first time i visited in 2007rdquo Artistic Director Timothy Christie says ldquoi have

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worked hard to start this event and to my great joy it has taken on an iden-tity of its own i hire the musicians and choose the music but the town its people and its environs make the festivalrdquo

The beauty of chamber music is its intimacy mdash smaller ensembles performing for smaller audiences it has been referred to as ldquothe music of friendsrdquo which seems so apt at this festival Free open rehearsals are held around town that provide not only a musical atmosphere in which to enjoy a latte or the ambiance of the kirkman House but which give a richer look into the machinations of a working ensemble

As one enthusiastic fan puts it ldquoi am not a musician and itrsquos fascinat-ing to watch these rehearsals to see the interactions of the musicians as they work out the snags make wry remarks and relate to each other in a whole different way than during a for-mal performance i get a glimpse into their personalities and what makes them tickrdquo

The festival supplies a generous of-fering of venues with free concerts for children and families relaxed evening programs at wineries and full concerts at the Foundry Chism Hall and Day-tonrsquos Liberty Theater

if you are lucky enough to live near the musiciansrsquo lodgings while they are in town you may also be treated to an ad hoc front-porch concert as the ensembles continue their rehearsals in more private settings The festival is about all of these ways mdash planned and accidental mdash to experience the enchantment of chamber music

it is also about historic continuity and the connection between past and present mdash relishing the existing canon while expanding the genre with con-temporary forms and voices

How is this accomplished in part by the annual commission of a new piece of music for the festival Chris-tie is committed to contributing to the broader chamber music repertoire and to providing the audience with the richest possible experience

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ldquoFor classical music to be relevant there must be a conversation between the music of our time and the music of the pastrdquo he says

By commissioning a work for the festi-val each year Christie creates such a con-versation

This year the commission was given to John David Earnest Four festival commis-sions have preceded his and he is the sec-ond ldquolocalrdquo composer to be tapped add-ing another layer of relationship between community and event (in 2009 Whitman College professor David Glenn was given the nod)

As visiting adjunct professor of music at Whitman Earnest resides here for six weeks every semester His ldquoSecond Sym-phonyrdquo was written for and performed by the Walla Walla Symphony in October 2001

The challenge for the yearly commis-sionee is to compose a piece on demand within specific constraints of time place and instrumentation while expressing hisher own voice as an artist

Earnest has created ldquoCommedia Gal-leryrdquo a set of three movements for flute

viola and harp based on stock characters from the Commedia dellrsquoArte a popu-lar theatrical form that was influential in Europe for over 300 years Commedia characters improvised dialogue around set scenarios generally involving the struggles of young lovers to overcome hindrances to their romance and each character even-tually came to have a consistent set of at-tributes in speech mannerisms and cos-tume

Earnestrsquos ldquoGalleryrdquo gives us Arlecchi-no (Harlequin) an acrobatic and devious jester Pierrot the classic sad clown and finally Scaramouche a dandy and a brag-gart who is a coward at heart

in anticipation of this yearrsquos festival i am reminded of the scene in ldquoThe Music Manrdquo in which the town awaits the ar-rival of the Wells Fargo Wagon Potentially heaped with gifts and surprises it prom-ises connection to the larger world The WWCMF brings us all ldquosomethinrsquo specialrdquo mdash an enrichment of our community and our culture

margaret Jamison is an artist and writer living in Walla Walla Contact her at artjamisongmailcom

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Smith has gardened for years at his home at 38 Mulberry Court in College Place He used to grow vegetables and flowers now he is strictly focusing on flowers mdash with fabulous results roses delphiniums and lots of irises line the fence

ldquoirises mdash irsquove always enjoyed themrdquo he says ldquoThey take a little bit of weeding and watering but not much morerdquo itrsquos the gardenerrsquos dream mdash low maintenance with a big return

A retired orthopedic surgeon Smith has in the past gardened more extensively than he does now But he has enough plants to keep him busy His new project is planting more of the reblooming iris These are still hardy but you get twice the reward they bloom in the spring then again in the fall

ldquoTheyrsquore easy to grow and spectacular for a short time iris take less care than a lot of thingsrdquo Smith says

His secret for gardening is simple and therersquos no getting around it ldquoTime and workrdquo he laughs

Hersquos getting ready to start in the garden ldquoi need to clean out the leaves and the old foliage of the irisrdquo

in addition to the basic cleaning and maintenance Smith just decides how many plants to keep Bulb flowers are hardy and they multiply on their own

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itrsquos an odd location since it can only be seen as yoursquore leaving town but it always makes me smile This valley my adopted home is indeed a great place to be

i recently finished reading the great Western writer Wallace Stegnerrsquos book ldquoThe Sound of Mountain Waterrdquo One of his essays traces his nomadic childhood which left him feeling rootless and without a place that he felt he could call home

i identify with his feeling of not belonging i was born to a single woman from Massachusetts in a New york City hospital i stayed a scant few days before being placed with an adoption agency Born in a place i had no familial connection to i was immediately deprived of my biological family Most of my childhood was spent in suburban Cleveland Ohio Moves to upstate New york New England and Pennsylvania brought me no closer to calling any place home i loved living in the western Massachusetts town of Stockbridge but the multigenerational denizens of the town left few openings for newcomers like me i lived in central Pennsylvania for several decades but felt detached from the deep roots that most people had in the area

When we came west (for my husband a homecoming to his Oregon roots for me a new experience) i noticed that even in long-established towns like Walla Walla there is ample room for newcomers who want to be

part of the community And most folks who choose to come here donrsquot seem to want to change the valley they prefer to embrace it

While the occasional newbie whines about the lack of Whole Foods or Nordstrom they soon discover our farmers markets the wide variety of local shops and boutiques and our world-class restaurants They fall in love with our charming downtowns the small-town friendliness of the people and our kid-friendly environment Then therersquos the holiday parade the fair the ever-present Blue Mountains the parks the museums the wineries mdash really whatrsquos not to like The communities of our valley represent America at its best

irsquom a newspaper junkie i love to read everything from news to sports to classifieds mdash even the obituaries The obits are a fascinating window on our valley Many of the people chronicled were born here some lived all their lives here inextricably bound to this place But a number of people came here from other places often far away and have made a mark on our area Which makes me wonder mdash is a place any less of a hometown because you choose it or is it based primarily on the happenstance of your birth it seems that therersquos room for both paths to calling this wonderful valley home

itrsquos also our strength because collectively as a community we bring both deep familial and cultural traditions as well as the fresh perspective of newcomers to our area irsquom glad mdash after decades of searching mdash that i finally found my hometown a place that feels just right

diane reed can be reached at ladybookearthlinknet Between columns and when the spirit moves her she blogs at wwwponderingsbydianereedblogspotcom from her home overlooking the pond at lions Park in College Place

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Maymay 1The annual Kennel Club Dog Show Walla Walla County Fairgrounds De-tails 509-558-3854

The Walla Walla University Drama Department pres-ents a performance of ldquoMy Fair ladyrdquo 2 pm matinee Details 509-527-2656

The Walla Walla Choral Society presents ldquoJubilate Deordquo 3 pm May 1 Walla Walla University Church College Place Details 509-386-2445

The Walla Walla Valley Farmers Market opens local produce artisans and an outdoor concert 9 am-1 pm Saturdays and Sundays through Oct 30 Crawford Park Fourth ave and Main St Details gowallawallafarmersmar-ketcom or 509-520-3647

through may 22Enjoy the annual Senior art Thesis Exhibition Sheehan Gallery Whitman College Details 509-527-5249

through JuLy 31The Tamaacutestslikt Cultural In-stitute hosts the traveling OMSI exhibit ldquoamazing Feats of agingrdquo explor-ing the mysteries of why animals and humans age Details 541-966-9748

may 4The YWCa leadership luncheon ldquoMatters that Matterrdquo is informational and inspirational with guest speakers Kristine Van Raden and Molly Da-vis Noon Marcus Whit-man Hotel Details 509-525-2570

Walla Walla Wine Works hosts music on Wednes-days downtown Details 509-522-1261

may 5First Thursday Concert at St Pauls Episcopal Church 323 Catherine Street Walla Walla 1215-1250 pm will feature the Steel Drum Band from Walla Walla Uni-versity directed by Brandon Beck Details 529-1083

The Whitman College Visit-ing Writers Reading series presents Whitman Reading 7 pm Kimball Theatre De-tails whitmanedu

may 5-7 12-14Walla Walla High School Drama Department pres-ents ldquoFiddler on the Roofrdquo musical version 7 pm and 2 pm matinee on Saturdays May 7 and 14 Walla Walla High School Performing arts audito-rium Details Tickets can be reserved by calling 509-526-8613 the Wa-Hi box office

may 5-8 19-21a performance of ldquoThe 25th a nnua l Putnam County Spelling Beerdquo 8 pm Harper Joy Theatre Whitman College Details 509-527-5180

may 6-7Music on the weekends at the Backstage Bistro De-tails 509-526-0690

Sapolil Cellars hosts music on Friday and Saturday De-tails 509-520-5258

The Wildfire hosts music every Friday and Saturday Wildhorse Resort amp Casino Pendleton Details 800-654-9453

may 6-8Walla Walla Valley Winer-ies offer an opportunity to taste their new creations during Spring Release Weekend area wineries introduce new wines and winemakers share their creative inspiration Details 509-526-3117

may 6artWalK First Fridays May through December Visit galleries and chat with art-ists 5-8 pm Downtown Walla Walla Visit artwalk-wallawallacom

may 6-8 13-14The little Theatre presents ldquoalice In Wonderlandrdquo adapted from lewis Carroll 8 pm Friday-Saturday 2 pm Sunday little Theatre of Walla Walla Details 509-529-3683

may 7The annual Junior Horse Show brings great riding action to Milton-Freewater Pioneer Posse Grounds Details 541-938-3379

Daytonrsquos annual Street Sale turns a section of Third Street into a giant yard sale benefits churches and com-munity projects Dayton Details 509-382-4825

artist reception and dem-onstration Washington art-ist Dwight Duke exhibits his painting bronze sculptures and gunpowder light pan-els 6-730 pm Reininger Winery Details 509-522-1994

may 8Every Sunday the living History actors portray in-dividuals from the arearsquos past 2 pm Fort Walla Walla Museum Details 509-525-7703

may 13-15The annual Balloon Stam-pede brings as many as 50 hot-air balloons to the Walla Walla County Fairgrounds This colorful festival re-mains a Valley tradition Ear-ly morning flights (weather permitting) arts amp crafts antique autos commercial booths live entertainment and food Balloons light up to music at the Saturday evening Nite Glow Details 509-525-0850

may 14annual adult event cele-brates the characters who populated Pendletonrsquos past Must have reservations Pendleton Underground Tours Details 800-226-6398

may 14-15 may 27-29Walla Walla Drag Strip con-tinues the weekend fun Details wwdragstripcom or 509-200-6287

may 15Walla Walla University Chamber Series featuring Robyn McCabe 730 pm MKW Fine arts auditorium Details 509-527-2571

may 18To celebrate the opening of Walla Wallarsquos Power House Theatre and a four-day run of Seattle Shakespeare Companyrsquos ldquoThe Merry Wives of WindsorrdquoWalla Walla lifestyles will pres-ent a gala event This exclusive evening will en-chant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fash-ion from 530-9 pm at the Power House Theatre Sixth amp Rose Walla Walla To purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewalla-wallacom

may 19-21During Pendletonrsquos Cattle Baron Weekend enjoy an art exhibit by a talented group of women artists ldquoIn the Company of Cowgirlsrdquo Hamleyrsquos Steakhouse Pendleton Visit inthecom-panyofcowgirlscom or call 541-676-5013

may 19-22Whitman College 50th Reunion class of 1961 Whitman College Details 509-527-5952

Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merr y Wives of Windsorrdquo Pow-erhouse Theater Details 509-742-0739

may 21The annual Ducky Derby is a day of family fun all for a good cause Watch the ducks race down Mill Creek to help fund the Exchange Clubrsquos efforts at preventing child abuse and neglect 1130 am-330 pm Race at about 2 pm Walla Walla Community College De-tails 509-527-4300

Walla Walla University Spring Choral Concert 5 pm Walla Walla Univer-sity Church Details 509-527-2571

learn to contra dance an old-fashioned coun-try dance Music by the Wednesday Night Band 7 pm teaching and practice 730 pm regular dance Unity Church of Peace 810

C St Walla Walla Details 541-938-7403

may 22The Whitman College graduating class of 2011 accepts the challenge 11 am Memorial lawn Whitman College Details 509-527-5156

may 26 27 28 29Walla Walla Community College Theatre arts De-partment presents ldquoZoot Suitrdquo by luis Valdez 7 pm each night and Sunday 2 pm matinee W WCC Performing arts Center Details 509-527-4575

may 27-30 Dayton Days has been a Memorial Weekend tradi-tion in Dayton for nearly 100 years Highlights include a Saturday-morning parade on historic Main Street rodeo tour of Dayton and Memorial Day Fun Run De-tails 509-382-4825 or visit historicdaytoncom

may 28-30The Touchet River Roundup mdash the annual Celebration of Sobriety at the fairgrounds focuses on family fun ac-tivities Waitsburg Details 509-526-3602

may 29annual Onion Man Tria-thalon 9 am Bennington lake Details wwmulti-sportscom or call 509-529-9187

may 30Waitsburgrsquos annual Memo-rial Day celebration hosted by veterans for all veterans Details 509-337-6546

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The sculpture tops the farmers market gazebo on the corner of Fourth Avenue North and West Main Street

Contestensprulesif you have the answer e-mail it to rickdoylewwubcom or send it to Where in Walla Walla 112 S 1st Ave PO Box 1358 Walla Walla WA 99362 The names of 10 people with correct answers will be randomly selected and they will receive this great-looking mug as proof of their local knowledge and good taste

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Dan Countsvicky ScanlonJanet TurnerTam LennoxBruce Campbell

46 Walla Walla LifestyLes

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3 Bergevin Lane vineyards 1215 W Poplar St (509) 526-4300 bergevinlanecom

4 Bunchgrass winery151 Bunchgrass lane (509) 540-8963 wwwbunchgrasswinerycom

5 canoe ridge vineyard1102 W Cherry St (509) 527-0885 wwwcanoeridgevineyardcom

6 castillo de feliciana85728 Telephone Pole Road Milton-Freewater OR (541) 558-3656 wwwcastillodefelicianacom

7 don carlo vineyardBy appointment Only (509) 540-5784 wwwdoncarlovineyardcom

8 dunham cellars150 E Boeing ave (509) 529-4685 wwwdunhamcellarscom

9 five star cellars 840 C St (509) 527-8400 wwwfivestarcellarscom

10 forgeron cellars 33 W Birch St (509) 522-9463 wwwforgeroncellarscom

21 sapolil cellars15 E Main St (509) 520-5258 wwwsapolilcellarscom

22 seven hills winery 212 N Third ave (509) 529-7198 wwwsevenhillswinerycom

23 sinclair estate vineyards 109 E Main Ste 100 (509) 876-4300 wwwsinclairestatevineyardscom

24 spring valley vineyard 18 N Second ave (509) 525-1506 wwwspringvalleyvineyardcom

25 suLei cellars355 S Second ave (503) 529-0840 www suleicellarscom

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12 fort walla walla cellars 127 E Main St (509) 520-1095 wwwfortwallawallacellarscom

13 glencorrie8052 Old Highway 12 (509) 525-2585 wwwglencorriecom

14 grantwood winery 2428 W Highway 12 (509) 301-0719 (509) 301-9546

15 Lrsquoecole no 41 winery41 lowden School Road and US Hwy 12 (509) 525-0940 wwwlecolecom

16 Long shadows1604 Frenchtown Road (Formerly Ireland Road) (509) 526-0905 wwwlongshadowscom By invitation only Requests accepted on a limited basis Please call to inquire

17 Lowden hills winery1401 W Pine St (509) 527-1040 wwwlowdenhillswinerycom

18 northstar winery 1736 JB George Road (509) 524-4883 wwwnorthstarmerlotcom

19 pepper Bridge winery1704 JB George Road (509) 525-6502 wwwpepperbridgecom

20 robison ranch cellars2839 Robison Ranch Road (509) 301-3480 robisonranchcellarscom

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26 syZygy 405 E Boeing ave (509) 522-0484 wwwsyzygywinescom

27 three rivers winery5641 Old Highway 12 (509) 526-9463 infoThreeRiversWinerycom

28 tertulia cellars1564 Whiteley Road (509) 525-5700 wwwtertuliacellarscom

29 trust cellars 1050 Merlot Drive (509) 529-4511 wwwtrustcellarscom

30 va piano vineyards1793 JB George Road (509) 529-0900 wwwvapianovineyardscom

31 walla walla vintnersVineyard lane off Mill Creek Road (509) 525-4724 wwwwallawallavintnerscom

32 walla walla wineworks31 E Main St (509) 522-1261 wwwwallawallawineworkscom

33 whitman cellars1015 W Pine St (509) 529-1142 wwwwhitmancellarscom

34 woodward canyon winery11920 W Hwy 12 lowden (509) 525-4129 wwwwoodwardcanyoncom

35 JLc winery425 B St (509) 301-5148

36 saviah cellars1979 JB George Rd

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that Agnew was arrogant ldquoHe was always one of the nicest guys He was straightforward He looked like he had just stepped off the cover of Gentlemenrsquos Quarterly all the time He was very proper in the way he dressed but he had a sense of humor as wellrdquo

There were other humorous moments Adams recalls a certain reporter from CBS who had been a major thorn in President Nixonrsquos side was late for takeoff from the South Lawn of the White House one morning Just as Marine One was about to leave without him he came running across the lawn hollering and waving his arms The Secret Service agent supervising the flight told Adams to ldquojust gordquo The wind from the propellers whipped the reporterrsquos toupee right off his head and instead of continuing his run toward Marine One he reversed his field and tried feverishly to retrieve his toupee snagged in the hedges

ldquoEveryone got a pretty good chuckle out of thatrdquo

Of course there were somber times At one point Adams flew Cabinet members John Ehrlichman and Hr Haldeman to Camp David for a meeting with the president After only 15 minutes the two men returned and Marine One headed home Adams says it was a quiet flight He found out later the two men had been fired by President Nixon for their parts in the Watergate scandal

Whisking the president away from danger was a major part of being a pilot of Marine One Stationed across the river from the Capitol pilots awakened by an emergency alert had to be up in the air in five minutes This exercise was practiced often though never needed during Adamsrsquo tenure

One night however they thought it was The operator at the White House mistakenly hit the ldquoAlertrdquo button Marine One was in the air in five minutes

Although ground control had not spotted any enemy aircraft the operation was under way As Marine One closed in on the White House the operator at fault tried to alert everyone of his mistake but unfortunately used a poor choice of words to call off the operation

Adams chuckles as he says ldquoThe fella said lsquoThis is not an exercisersquo He was moved to another post i thinkrdquo

All levity aside the position required

the same kind of focus demanded of Adams in vietnam though it came in a different form

ldquoThere were three things the way you operated the aircraft and they were in this order safety comfort and speed Safety never gave in to comfort or speedrdquo says Adams ldquoOur job was just concentrating on doing our job it could have been anybody mdash we would do it the same way it could have been Fred Flintstone

ldquoThe difference between flying for the White House and in vietnam was we were flying a premier aircraft We had to keep it impeccably clean everything was scripted We had to have the lsquoopen-the-door timersquo down to two to four seconds in vietnam it was the stress of performing medevacs under fire or dropping troops under heavy artillery For Marine One it was the stress of doing the job rightrdquo

Also the stress of being away from onersquos family 200 days of the year wore on a Marine One pilot in 1974 after four years on the job the toll became too much and Adams stepped down

He would stay with the Marines for eight more years retiring in August 1982

By then he had received 44 Air Medals including the Joint Service Commendation and the Presidential Service Badge in his 20 years of service Adams flew seven different helicopters and five different fixed-wing planes

What makes an elite military pilot ldquoPilots who donrsquot have any misgivingsrdquo says Adams ldquoTheyrsquore totally prepared they know their aircraftrdquo

When talking about his colleagues on Marine One he adds ldquoNone were boasters They might brag about a great landing but they did not brag in spite of someone elserdquo

What did Adams love most about his flying days ldquoi enjoyed flying with the latest technology and the pristine quality of Marine One i loved the process of building my skills i could have flown another 40 years and i would still be learning thingsrdquo

is it any surprise his favorite hobby now is fly fishing

andrew hoLt writes about food people and all things Walla Walla for Walla Walla lifestyles magazine He can be reached at bruindrew86gmailcom

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it is astonishing in many ways mdash that we are presented with two weeks of top-drawer music performed by top-drawer musi-cians that there are so many ways to encounter the music (many of them free) and that a rural community has provided the incu-

bator for such a cultural undertaking to name but a fewGranted we are not your average rural community having two

colleges a university a symphony a choral society a community band and music in the schools but letrsquos face it wersquore not exactly a cosmopolitan center of culture like New york either The Cham-ber Music Festival mdash and our continued support of it through some tough times mdash puts us in a category all our own

ldquoi saw what was special about this community the first time i visited in 2007rdquo Artistic Director Timothy Christie says ldquoi have

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A young artistic composer pays close attention as Tim Christie uses his violin to interpret the boys piece of artwork into music on June 11 2009 Meanwhile other children work on their works of art in preparation for the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival quintets interpretations

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worked hard to start this event and to my great joy it has taken on an iden-tity of its own i hire the musicians and choose the music but the town its people and its environs make the festivalrdquo

The beauty of chamber music is its intimacy mdash smaller ensembles performing for smaller audiences it has been referred to as ldquothe music of friendsrdquo which seems so apt at this festival Free open rehearsals are held around town that provide not only a musical atmosphere in which to enjoy a latte or the ambiance of the kirkman House but which give a richer look into the machinations of a working ensemble

As one enthusiastic fan puts it ldquoi am not a musician and itrsquos fascinat-ing to watch these rehearsals to see the interactions of the musicians as they work out the snags make wry remarks and relate to each other in a whole different way than during a for-mal performance i get a glimpse into their personalities and what makes them tickrdquo

The festival supplies a generous of-fering of venues with free concerts for children and families relaxed evening programs at wineries and full concerts at the Foundry Chism Hall and Day-tonrsquos Liberty Theater

if you are lucky enough to live near the musiciansrsquo lodgings while they are in town you may also be treated to an ad hoc front-porch concert as the ensembles continue their rehearsals in more private settings The festival is about all of these ways mdash planned and accidental mdash to experience the enchantment of chamber music

it is also about historic continuity and the connection between past and present mdash relishing the existing canon while expanding the genre with con-temporary forms and voices

How is this accomplished in part by the annual commission of a new piece of music for the festival Chris-tie is committed to contributing to the broader chamber music repertoire and to providing the audience with the richest possible experience

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ldquoFor classical music to be relevant there must be a conversation between the music of our time and the music of the pastrdquo he says

By commissioning a work for the festi-val each year Christie creates such a con-versation

This year the commission was given to John David Earnest Four festival commis-sions have preceded his and he is the sec-ond ldquolocalrdquo composer to be tapped add-ing another layer of relationship between community and event (in 2009 Whitman College professor David Glenn was given the nod)

As visiting adjunct professor of music at Whitman Earnest resides here for six weeks every semester His ldquoSecond Sym-phonyrdquo was written for and performed by the Walla Walla Symphony in October 2001

The challenge for the yearly commis-sionee is to compose a piece on demand within specific constraints of time place and instrumentation while expressing hisher own voice as an artist

Earnest has created ldquoCommedia Gal-leryrdquo a set of three movements for flute

viola and harp based on stock characters from the Commedia dellrsquoArte a popu-lar theatrical form that was influential in Europe for over 300 years Commedia characters improvised dialogue around set scenarios generally involving the struggles of young lovers to overcome hindrances to their romance and each character even-tually came to have a consistent set of at-tributes in speech mannerisms and cos-tume

Earnestrsquos ldquoGalleryrdquo gives us Arlecchi-no (Harlequin) an acrobatic and devious jester Pierrot the classic sad clown and finally Scaramouche a dandy and a brag-gart who is a coward at heart

in anticipation of this yearrsquos festival i am reminded of the scene in ldquoThe Music Manrdquo in which the town awaits the ar-rival of the Wells Fargo Wagon Potentially heaped with gifts and surprises it prom-ises connection to the larger world The WWCMF brings us all ldquosomethinrsquo specialrdquo mdash an enrichment of our community and our culture

margaret Jamison is an artist and writer living in Walla Walla Contact her at artjamisongmailcom

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Smith has gardened for years at his home at 38 Mulberry Court in College Place He used to grow vegetables and flowers now he is strictly focusing on flowers mdash with fabulous results roses delphiniums and lots of irises line the fence

ldquoirises mdash irsquove always enjoyed themrdquo he says ldquoThey take a little bit of weeding and watering but not much morerdquo itrsquos the gardenerrsquos dream mdash low maintenance with a big return

A retired orthopedic surgeon Smith has in the past gardened more extensively than he does now But he has enough plants to keep him busy His new project is planting more of the reblooming iris These are still hardy but you get twice the reward they bloom in the spring then again in the fall

ldquoTheyrsquore easy to grow and spectacular for a short time iris take less care than a lot of thingsrdquo Smith says

His secret for gardening is simple and therersquos no getting around it ldquoTime and workrdquo he laughs

Hersquos getting ready to start in the garden ldquoi need to clean out the leaves and the old foliage of the irisrdquo

in addition to the basic cleaning and maintenance Smith just decides how many plants to keep Bulb flowers are hardy and they multiply on their own

ldquoAfter five years you usually have to separate the bulbs when they get too thick i donrsquot have room to add more i put in the new re-blooming onesrdquo he explains ldquoi may add more and a few other thingsrdquo

But in a garden you can always try something new or rearrange existing plants often with a spectacular outcome

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itrsquos an odd location since it can only be seen as yoursquore leaving town but it always makes me smile This valley my adopted home is indeed a great place to be

i recently finished reading the great Western writer Wallace Stegnerrsquos book ldquoThe Sound of Mountain Waterrdquo One of his essays traces his nomadic childhood which left him feeling rootless and without a place that he felt he could call home

i identify with his feeling of not belonging i was born to a single woman from Massachusetts in a New york City hospital i stayed a scant few days before being placed with an adoption agency Born in a place i had no familial connection to i was immediately deprived of my biological family Most of my childhood was spent in suburban Cleveland Ohio Moves to upstate New york New England and Pennsylvania brought me no closer to calling any place home i loved living in the western Massachusetts town of Stockbridge but the multigenerational denizens of the town left few openings for newcomers like me i lived in central Pennsylvania for several decades but felt detached from the deep roots that most people had in the area

When we came west (for my husband a homecoming to his Oregon roots for me a new experience) i noticed that even in long-established towns like Walla Walla there is ample room for newcomers who want to be

part of the community And most folks who choose to come here donrsquot seem to want to change the valley they prefer to embrace it

While the occasional newbie whines about the lack of Whole Foods or Nordstrom they soon discover our farmers markets the wide variety of local shops and boutiques and our world-class restaurants They fall in love with our charming downtowns the small-town friendliness of the people and our kid-friendly environment Then therersquos the holiday parade the fair the ever-present Blue Mountains the parks the museums the wineries mdash really whatrsquos not to like The communities of our valley represent America at its best

irsquom a newspaper junkie i love to read everything from news to sports to classifieds mdash even the obituaries The obits are a fascinating window on our valley Many of the people chronicled were born here some lived all their lives here inextricably bound to this place But a number of people came here from other places often far away and have made a mark on our area Which makes me wonder mdash is a place any less of a hometown because you choose it or is it based primarily on the happenstance of your birth it seems that therersquos room for both paths to calling this wonderful valley home

itrsquos also our strength because collectively as a community we bring both deep familial and cultural traditions as well as the fresh perspective of newcomers to our area irsquom glad mdash after decades of searching mdash that i finally found my hometown a place that feels just right

diane reed can be reached at ladybookearthlinknet Between columns and when the spirit moves her she blogs at wwwponderingsbydianereedblogspotcom from her home overlooking the pond at lions Park in College Place

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Maymay 1The annual Kennel Club Dog Show Walla Walla County Fairgrounds De-tails 509-558-3854

The Walla Walla University Drama Department pres-ents a performance of ldquoMy Fair ladyrdquo 2 pm matinee Details 509-527-2656

The Walla Walla Choral Society presents ldquoJubilate Deordquo 3 pm May 1 Walla Walla University Church College Place Details 509-386-2445

The Walla Walla Valley Farmers Market opens local produce artisans and an outdoor concert 9 am-1 pm Saturdays and Sundays through Oct 30 Crawford Park Fourth ave and Main St Details gowallawallafarmersmar-ketcom or 509-520-3647

through may 22Enjoy the annual Senior art Thesis Exhibition Sheehan Gallery Whitman College Details 509-527-5249

through JuLy 31The Tamaacutestslikt Cultural In-stitute hosts the traveling OMSI exhibit ldquoamazing Feats of agingrdquo explor-ing the mysteries of why animals and humans age Details 541-966-9748

may 4The YWCa leadership luncheon ldquoMatters that Matterrdquo is informational and inspirational with guest speakers Kristine Van Raden and Molly Da-vis Noon Marcus Whit-man Hotel Details 509-525-2570

Walla Walla Wine Works hosts music on Wednes-days downtown Details 509-522-1261

may 5First Thursday Concert at St Pauls Episcopal Church 323 Catherine Street Walla Walla 1215-1250 pm will feature the Steel Drum Band from Walla Walla Uni-versity directed by Brandon Beck Details 529-1083

The Whitman College Visit-ing Writers Reading series presents Whitman Reading 7 pm Kimball Theatre De-tails whitmanedu

may 5-7 12-14Walla Walla High School Drama Department pres-ents ldquoFiddler on the Roofrdquo musical version 7 pm and 2 pm matinee on Saturdays May 7 and 14 Walla Walla High School Performing arts audito-rium Details Tickets can be reserved by calling 509-526-8613 the Wa-Hi box office

may 5-8 19-21a performance of ldquoThe 25th a nnua l Putnam County Spelling Beerdquo 8 pm Harper Joy Theatre Whitman College Details 509-527-5180

may 6-7Music on the weekends at the Backstage Bistro De-tails 509-526-0690

Sapolil Cellars hosts music on Friday and Saturday De-tails 509-520-5258

The Wildfire hosts music every Friday and Saturday Wildhorse Resort amp Casino Pendleton Details 800-654-9453

may 6-8Walla Walla Valley Winer-ies offer an opportunity to taste their new creations during Spring Release Weekend area wineries introduce new wines and winemakers share their creative inspiration Details 509-526-3117

may 6artWalK First Fridays May through December Visit galleries and chat with art-ists 5-8 pm Downtown Walla Walla Visit artwalk-wallawallacom

may 6-8 13-14The little Theatre presents ldquoalice In Wonderlandrdquo adapted from lewis Carroll 8 pm Friday-Saturday 2 pm Sunday little Theatre of Walla Walla Details 509-529-3683

may 7The annual Junior Horse Show brings great riding action to Milton-Freewater Pioneer Posse Grounds Details 541-938-3379

Daytonrsquos annual Street Sale turns a section of Third Street into a giant yard sale benefits churches and com-munity projects Dayton Details 509-382-4825

artist reception and dem-onstration Washington art-ist Dwight Duke exhibits his painting bronze sculptures and gunpowder light pan-els 6-730 pm Reininger Winery Details 509-522-1994

may 8Every Sunday the living History actors portray in-dividuals from the arearsquos past 2 pm Fort Walla Walla Museum Details 509-525-7703

may 13-15The annual Balloon Stam-pede brings as many as 50 hot-air balloons to the Walla Walla County Fairgrounds This colorful festival re-mains a Valley tradition Ear-ly morning flights (weather permitting) arts amp crafts antique autos commercial booths live entertainment and food Balloons light up to music at the Saturday evening Nite Glow Details 509-525-0850

may 14annual adult event cele-brates the characters who populated Pendletonrsquos past Must have reservations Pendleton Underground Tours Details 800-226-6398

may 14-15 may 27-29Walla Walla Drag Strip con-tinues the weekend fun Details wwdragstripcom or 509-200-6287

may 15Walla Walla University Chamber Series featuring Robyn McCabe 730 pm MKW Fine arts auditorium Details 509-527-2571

may 18To celebrate the opening of Walla Wallarsquos Power House Theatre and a four-day run of Seattle Shakespeare Companyrsquos ldquoThe Merry Wives of WindsorrdquoWalla Walla lifestyles will pres-ent a gala event This exclusive evening will en-chant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fash-ion from 530-9 pm at the Power House Theatre Sixth amp Rose Walla Walla To purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewalla-wallacom

may 19-21During Pendletonrsquos Cattle Baron Weekend enjoy an art exhibit by a talented group of women artists ldquoIn the Company of Cowgirlsrdquo Hamleyrsquos Steakhouse Pendleton Visit inthecom-panyofcowgirlscom or call 541-676-5013

may 19-22Whitman College 50th Reunion class of 1961 Whitman College Details 509-527-5952

Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merr y Wives of Windsorrdquo Pow-erhouse Theater Details 509-742-0739

may 21The annual Ducky Derby is a day of family fun all for a good cause Watch the ducks race down Mill Creek to help fund the Exchange Clubrsquos efforts at preventing child abuse and neglect 1130 am-330 pm Race at about 2 pm Walla Walla Community College De-tails 509-527-4300

Walla Walla University Spring Choral Concert 5 pm Walla Walla Univer-sity Church Details 509-527-2571

learn to contra dance an old-fashioned coun-try dance Music by the Wednesday Night Band 7 pm teaching and practice 730 pm regular dance Unity Church of Peace 810

C St Walla Walla Details 541-938-7403

may 22The Whitman College graduating class of 2011 accepts the challenge 11 am Memorial lawn Whitman College Details 509-527-5156

may 26 27 28 29Walla Walla Community College Theatre arts De-partment presents ldquoZoot Suitrdquo by luis Valdez 7 pm each night and Sunday 2 pm matinee W WCC Performing arts Center Details 509-527-4575

may 27-30 Dayton Days has been a Memorial Weekend tradi-tion in Dayton for nearly 100 years Highlights include a Saturday-morning parade on historic Main Street rodeo tour of Dayton and Memorial Day Fun Run De-tails 509-382-4825 or visit historicdaytoncom

may 28-30The Touchet River Roundup mdash the annual Celebration of Sobriety at the fairgrounds focuses on family fun ac-tivities Waitsburg Details 509-526-3602

may 29annual Onion Man Tria-thalon 9 am Bennington lake Details wwmulti-sportscom or call 509-529-9187

may 30Waitsburgrsquos annual Memo-rial Day celebration hosted by veterans for all veterans Details 509-337-6546

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The sculpture tops the farmers market gazebo on the corner of Fourth Avenue North and West Main Street

Contestensprulesif you have the answer e-mail it to rickdoylewwubcom or send it to Where in Walla Walla 112 S 1st Ave PO Box 1358 Walla Walla WA 99362 The names of 10 people with correct answers will be randomly selected and they will receive this great-looking mug as proof of their local knowledge and good taste

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3 Bergevin Lane vineyards 1215 W Poplar St (509) 526-4300 bergevinlanecom

4 Bunchgrass winery151 Bunchgrass lane (509) 540-8963 wwwbunchgrasswinerycom

5 canoe ridge vineyard1102 W Cherry St (509) 527-0885 wwwcanoeridgevineyardcom

6 castillo de feliciana85728 Telephone Pole Road Milton-Freewater OR (541) 558-3656 wwwcastillodefelicianacom

7 don carlo vineyardBy appointment Only (509) 540-5784 wwwdoncarlovineyardcom

8 dunham cellars150 E Boeing ave (509) 529-4685 wwwdunhamcellarscom

9 five star cellars 840 C St (509) 527-8400 wwwfivestarcellarscom

10 forgeron cellars 33 W Birch St (509) 522-9463 wwwforgeroncellarscom

21 sapolil cellars15 E Main St (509) 520-5258 wwwsapolilcellarscom

22 seven hills winery 212 N Third ave (509) 529-7198 wwwsevenhillswinerycom

23 sinclair estate vineyards 109 E Main Ste 100 (509) 876-4300 wwwsinclairestatevineyardscom

24 spring valley vineyard 18 N Second ave (509) 525-1506 wwwspringvalleyvineyardcom

25 suLei cellars355 S Second ave (503) 529-0840 www suleicellarscom

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11 foundry vineyards Corner of 13th ave and abadie St (509) 529-0736 wwwwallawallafoundrycomvineyards

12 fort walla walla cellars 127 E Main St (509) 520-1095 wwwfortwallawallacellarscom

13 glencorrie8052 Old Highway 12 (509) 525-2585 wwwglencorriecom

14 grantwood winery 2428 W Highway 12 (509) 301-0719 (509) 301-9546

15 Lrsquoecole no 41 winery41 lowden School Road and US Hwy 12 (509) 525-0940 wwwlecolecom

16 Long shadows1604 Frenchtown Road (Formerly Ireland Road) (509) 526-0905 wwwlongshadowscom By invitation only Requests accepted on a limited basis Please call to inquire

17 Lowden hills winery1401 W Pine St (509) 527-1040 wwwlowdenhillswinerycom

18 northstar winery 1736 JB George Road (509) 524-4883 wwwnorthstarmerlotcom

19 pepper Bridge winery1704 JB George Road (509) 525-6502 wwwpepperbridgecom

20 robison ranch cellars2839 Robison Ranch Road (509) 301-3480 robisonranchcellarscom

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26 syZygy 405 E Boeing ave (509) 522-0484 wwwsyzygywinescom

27 three rivers winery5641 Old Highway 12 (509) 526-9463 infoThreeRiversWinerycom

28 tertulia cellars1564 Whiteley Road (509) 525-5700 wwwtertuliacellarscom

29 trust cellars 1050 Merlot Drive (509) 529-4511 wwwtrustcellarscom

30 va piano vineyards1793 JB George Road (509) 529-0900 wwwvapianovineyardscom

31 walla walla vintnersVineyard lane off Mill Creek Road (509) 525-4724 wwwwallawallavintnerscom

32 walla walla wineworks31 E Main St (509) 522-1261 wwwwallawallawineworkscom

33 whitman cellars1015 W Pine St (509) 529-1142 wwwwhitmancellarscom

34 woodward canyon winery11920 W Hwy 12 lowden (509) 525-4129 wwwwoodwardcanyoncom

35 JLc winery425 B St (509) 301-5148

36 saviah cellars1979 JB George Rd

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it is astonishing in many ways mdash that we are presented with two weeks of top-drawer music performed by top-drawer musi-cians that there are so many ways to encounter the music (many of them free) and that a rural community has provided the incu-

bator for such a cultural undertaking to name but a fewGranted we are not your average rural community having two

colleges a university a symphony a choral society a community band and music in the schools but letrsquos face it wersquore not exactly a cosmopolitan center of culture like New york either The Cham-ber Music Festival mdash and our continued support of it through some tough times mdash puts us in a category all our own

ldquoi saw what was special about this community the first time i visited in 2007rdquo Artistic Director Timothy Christie says ldquoi have

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A young artistic composer pays close attention as Tim Christie uses his violin to interpret the boys piece of artwork into music on June 11 2009 Meanwhile other children work on their works of art in preparation for the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival quintets interpretations

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worked hard to start this event and to my great joy it has taken on an iden-tity of its own i hire the musicians and choose the music but the town its people and its environs make the festivalrdquo

The beauty of chamber music is its intimacy mdash smaller ensembles performing for smaller audiences it has been referred to as ldquothe music of friendsrdquo which seems so apt at this festival Free open rehearsals are held around town that provide not only a musical atmosphere in which to enjoy a latte or the ambiance of the kirkman House but which give a richer look into the machinations of a working ensemble

As one enthusiastic fan puts it ldquoi am not a musician and itrsquos fascinat-ing to watch these rehearsals to see the interactions of the musicians as they work out the snags make wry remarks and relate to each other in a whole different way than during a for-mal performance i get a glimpse into their personalities and what makes them tickrdquo

The festival supplies a generous of-fering of venues with free concerts for children and families relaxed evening programs at wineries and full concerts at the Foundry Chism Hall and Day-tonrsquos Liberty Theater

if you are lucky enough to live near the musiciansrsquo lodgings while they are in town you may also be treated to an ad hoc front-porch concert as the ensembles continue their rehearsals in more private settings The festival is about all of these ways mdash planned and accidental mdash to experience the enchantment of chamber music

it is also about historic continuity and the connection between past and present mdash relishing the existing canon while expanding the genre with con-temporary forms and voices

How is this accomplished in part by the annual commission of a new piece of music for the festival Chris-tie is committed to contributing to the broader chamber music repertoire and to providing the audience with the richest possible experience

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ldquoFor classical music to be relevant there must be a conversation between the music of our time and the music of the pastrdquo he says

By commissioning a work for the festi-val each year Christie creates such a con-versation

This year the commission was given to John David Earnest Four festival commis-sions have preceded his and he is the sec-ond ldquolocalrdquo composer to be tapped add-ing another layer of relationship between community and event (in 2009 Whitman College professor David Glenn was given the nod)

As visiting adjunct professor of music at Whitman Earnest resides here for six weeks every semester His ldquoSecond Sym-phonyrdquo was written for and performed by the Walla Walla Symphony in October 2001

The challenge for the yearly commis-sionee is to compose a piece on demand within specific constraints of time place and instrumentation while expressing hisher own voice as an artist

Earnest has created ldquoCommedia Gal-leryrdquo a set of three movements for flute

viola and harp based on stock characters from the Commedia dellrsquoArte a popu-lar theatrical form that was influential in Europe for over 300 years Commedia characters improvised dialogue around set scenarios generally involving the struggles of young lovers to overcome hindrances to their romance and each character even-tually came to have a consistent set of at-tributes in speech mannerisms and cos-tume

Earnestrsquos ldquoGalleryrdquo gives us Arlecchi-no (Harlequin) an acrobatic and devious jester Pierrot the classic sad clown and finally Scaramouche a dandy and a brag-gart who is a coward at heart

in anticipation of this yearrsquos festival i am reminded of the scene in ldquoThe Music Manrdquo in which the town awaits the ar-rival of the Wells Fargo Wagon Potentially heaped with gifts and surprises it prom-ises connection to the larger world The WWCMF brings us all ldquosomethinrsquo specialrdquo mdash an enrichment of our community and our culture

margaret Jamison is an artist and writer living in Walla Walla Contact her at artjamisongmailcom

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Smith has gardened for years at his home at 38 Mulberry Court in College Place He used to grow vegetables and flowers now he is strictly focusing on flowers mdash with fabulous results roses delphiniums and lots of irises line the fence

ldquoirises mdash irsquove always enjoyed themrdquo he says ldquoThey take a little bit of weeding and watering but not much morerdquo itrsquos the gardenerrsquos dream mdash low maintenance with a big return

A retired orthopedic surgeon Smith has in the past gardened more extensively than he does now But he has enough plants to keep him busy His new project is planting more of the reblooming iris These are still hardy but you get twice the reward they bloom in the spring then again in the fall

ldquoTheyrsquore easy to grow and spectacular for a short time iris take less care than a lot of thingsrdquo Smith says

His secret for gardening is simple and therersquos no getting around it ldquoTime and workrdquo he laughs

Hersquos getting ready to start in the garden ldquoi need to clean out the leaves and the old foliage of the irisrdquo

in addition to the basic cleaning and maintenance Smith just decides how many plants to keep Bulb flowers are hardy and they multiply on their own

ldquoAfter five years you usually have to separate the bulbs when they get too thick i donrsquot have room to add more i put in the new re-blooming onesrdquo he explains ldquoi may add more and a few other thingsrdquo

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itrsquos an odd location since it can only be seen as yoursquore leaving town but it always makes me smile This valley my adopted home is indeed a great place to be

i recently finished reading the great Western writer Wallace Stegnerrsquos book ldquoThe Sound of Mountain Waterrdquo One of his essays traces his nomadic childhood which left him feeling rootless and without a place that he felt he could call home

i identify with his feeling of not belonging i was born to a single woman from Massachusetts in a New york City hospital i stayed a scant few days before being placed with an adoption agency Born in a place i had no familial connection to i was immediately deprived of my biological family Most of my childhood was spent in suburban Cleveland Ohio Moves to upstate New york New England and Pennsylvania brought me no closer to calling any place home i loved living in the western Massachusetts town of Stockbridge but the multigenerational denizens of the town left few openings for newcomers like me i lived in central Pennsylvania for several decades but felt detached from the deep roots that most people had in the area

When we came west (for my husband a homecoming to his Oregon roots for me a new experience) i noticed that even in long-established towns like Walla Walla there is ample room for newcomers who want to be

part of the community And most folks who choose to come here donrsquot seem to want to change the valley they prefer to embrace it

While the occasional newbie whines about the lack of Whole Foods or Nordstrom they soon discover our farmers markets the wide variety of local shops and boutiques and our world-class restaurants They fall in love with our charming downtowns the small-town friendliness of the people and our kid-friendly environment Then therersquos the holiday parade the fair the ever-present Blue Mountains the parks the museums the wineries mdash really whatrsquos not to like The communities of our valley represent America at its best

irsquom a newspaper junkie i love to read everything from news to sports to classifieds mdash even the obituaries The obits are a fascinating window on our valley Many of the people chronicled were born here some lived all their lives here inextricably bound to this place But a number of people came here from other places often far away and have made a mark on our area Which makes me wonder mdash is a place any less of a hometown because you choose it or is it based primarily on the happenstance of your birth it seems that therersquos room for both paths to calling this wonderful valley home

itrsquos also our strength because collectively as a community we bring both deep familial and cultural traditions as well as the fresh perspective of newcomers to our area irsquom glad mdash after decades of searching mdash that i finally found my hometown a place that feels just right

diane reed can be reached at ladybookearthlinknet Between columns and when the spirit moves her she blogs at wwwponderingsbydianereedblogspotcom from her home overlooking the pond at lions Park in College Place

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Maymay 1The annual Kennel Club Dog Show Walla Walla County Fairgrounds De-tails 509-558-3854

The Walla Walla University Drama Department pres-ents a performance of ldquoMy Fair ladyrdquo 2 pm matinee Details 509-527-2656

The Walla Walla Choral Society presents ldquoJubilate Deordquo 3 pm May 1 Walla Walla University Church College Place Details 509-386-2445

The Walla Walla Valley Farmers Market opens local produce artisans and an outdoor concert 9 am-1 pm Saturdays and Sundays through Oct 30 Crawford Park Fourth ave and Main St Details gowallawallafarmersmar-ketcom or 509-520-3647

through may 22Enjoy the annual Senior art Thesis Exhibition Sheehan Gallery Whitman College Details 509-527-5249

through JuLy 31The Tamaacutestslikt Cultural In-stitute hosts the traveling OMSI exhibit ldquoamazing Feats of agingrdquo explor-ing the mysteries of why animals and humans age Details 541-966-9748

may 4The YWCa leadership luncheon ldquoMatters that Matterrdquo is informational and inspirational with guest speakers Kristine Van Raden and Molly Da-vis Noon Marcus Whit-man Hotel Details 509-525-2570

Walla Walla Wine Works hosts music on Wednes-days downtown Details 509-522-1261

may 5First Thursday Concert at St Pauls Episcopal Church 323 Catherine Street Walla Walla 1215-1250 pm will feature the Steel Drum Band from Walla Walla Uni-versity directed by Brandon Beck Details 529-1083

The Whitman College Visit-ing Writers Reading series presents Whitman Reading 7 pm Kimball Theatre De-tails whitmanedu

may 5-7 12-14Walla Walla High School Drama Department pres-ents ldquoFiddler on the Roofrdquo musical version 7 pm and 2 pm matinee on Saturdays May 7 and 14 Walla Walla High School Performing arts audito-rium Details Tickets can be reserved by calling 509-526-8613 the Wa-Hi box office

may 5-8 19-21a performance of ldquoThe 25th a nnua l Putnam County Spelling Beerdquo 8 pm Harper Joy Theatre Whitman College Details 509-527-5180

may 6-7Music on the weekends at the Backstage Bistro De-tails 509-526-0690

Sapolil Cellars hosts music on Friday and Saturday De-tails 509-520-5258

The Wildfire hosts music every Friday and Saturday Wildhorse Resort amp Casino Pendleton Details 800-654-9453

may 6-8Walla Walla Valley Winer-ies offer an opportunity to taste their new creations during Spring Release Weekend area wineries introduce new wines and winemakers share their creative inspiration Details 509-526-3117

may 6artWalK First Fridays May through December Visit galleries and chat with art-ists 5-8 pm Downtown Walla Walla Visit artwalk-wallawallacom

may 6-8 13-14The little Theatre presents ldquoalice In Wonderlandrdquo adapted from lewis Carroll 8 pm Friday-Saturday 2 pm Sunday little Theatre of Walla Walla Details 509-529-3683

may 7The annual Junior Horse Show brings great riding action to Milton-Freewater Pioneer Posse Grounds Details 541-938-3379

Daytonrsquos annual Street Sale turns a section of Third Street into a giant yard sale benefits churches and com-munity projects Dayton Details 509-382-4825

artist reception and dem-onstration Washington art-ist Dwight Duke exhibits his painting bronze sculptures and gunpowder light pan-els 6-730 pm Reininger Winery Details 509-522-1994

may 8Every Sunday the living History actors portray in-dividuals from the arearsquos past 2 pm Fort Walla Walla Museum Details 509-525-7703

may 13-15The annual Balloon Stam-pede brings as many as 50 hot-air balloons to the Walla Walla County Fairgrounds This colorful festival re-mains a Valley tradition Ear-ly morning flights (weather permitting) arts amp crafts antique autos commercial booths live entertainment and food Balloons light up to music at the Saturday evening Nite Glow Details 509-525-0850

may 14annual adult event cele-brates the characters who populated Pendletonrsquos past Must have reservations Pendleton Underground Tours Details 800-226-6398

may 14-15 may 27-29Walla Walla Drag Strip con-tinues the weekend fun Details wwdragstripcom or 509-200-6287

may 15Walla Walla University Chamber Series featuring Robyn McCabe 730 pm MKW Fine arts auditorium Details 509-527-2571

may 18To celebrate the opening of Walla Wallarsquos Power House Theatre and a four-day run of Seattle Shakespeare Companyrsquos ldquoThe Merry Wives of WindsorrdquoWalla Walla lifestyles will pres-ent a gala event This exclusive evening will en-chant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fash-ion from 530-9 pm at the Power House Theatre Sixth amp Rose Walla Walla To purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewalla-wallacom

may 19-21During Pendletonrsquos Cattle Baron Weekend enjoy an art exhibit by a talented group of women artists ldquoIn the Company of Cowgirlsrdquo Hamleyrsquos Steakhouse Pendleton Visit inthecom-panyofcowgirlscom or call 541-676-5013

may 19-22Whitman College 50th Reunion class of 1961 Whitman College Details 509-527-5952

Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merr y Wives of Windsorrdquo Pow-erhouse Theater Details 509-742-0739

may 21The annual Ducky Derby is a day of family fun all for a good cause Watch the ducks race down Mill Creek to help fund the Exchange Clubrsquos efforts at preventing child abuse and neglect 1130 am-330 pm Race at about 2 pm Walla Walla Community College De-tails 509-527-4300

Walla Walla University Spring Choral Concert 5 pm Walla Walla Univer-sity Church Details 509-527-2571

learn to contra dance an old-fashioned coun-try dance Music by the Wednesday Night Band 7 pm teaching and practice 730 pm regular dance Unity Church of Peace 810

C St Walla Walla Details 541-938-7403

may 22The Whitman College graduating class of 2011 accepts the challenge 11 am Memorial lawn Whitman College Details 509-527-5156

may 26 27 28 29Walla Walla Community College Theatre arts De-partment presents ldquoZoot Suitrdquo by luis Valdez 7 pm each night and Sunday 2 pm matinee W WCC Performing arts Center Details 509-527-4575

may 27-30 Dayton Days has been a Memorial Weekend tradi-tion in Dayton for nearly 100 years Highlights include a Saturday-morning parade on historic Main Street rodeo tour of Dayton and Memorial Day Fun Run De-tails 509-382-4825 or visit historicdaytoncom

may 28-30The Touchet River Roundup mdash the annual Celebration of Sobriety at the fairgrounds focuses on family fun ac-tivities Waitsburg Details 509-526-3602

may 29annual Onion Man Tria-thalon 9 am Bennington lake Details wwmulti-sportscom or call 509-529-9187

may 30Waitsburgrsquos annual Memo-rial Day celebration hosted by veterans for all veterans Details 509-337-6546

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The sculpture tops the farmers market gazebo on the corner of Fourth Avenue North and West Main Street

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2 Basel cellars estate winery2901 Old Milton Hwy (509) 522-0200 wwwbaselcellarscom

3 Bergevin Lane vineyards 1215 W Poplar St (509) 526-4300 bergevinlanecom

4 Bunchgrass winery151 Bunchgrass lane (509) 540-8963 wwwbunchgrasswinerycom

5 canoe ridge vineyard1102 W Cherry St (509) 527-0885 wwwcanoeridgevineyardcom

6 castillo de feliciana85728 Telephone Pole Road Milton-Freewater OR (541) 558-3656 wwwcastillodefelicianacom

7 don carlo vineyardBy appointment Only (509) 540-5784 wwwdoncarlovineyardcom

8 dunham cellars150 E Boeing ave (509) 529-4685 wwwdunhamcellarscom

9 five star cellars 840 C St (509) 527-8400 wwwfivestarcellarscom

10 forgeron cellars 33 W Birch St (509) 522-9463 wwwforgeroncellarscom

21 sapolil cellars15 E Main St (509) 520-5258 wwwsapolilcellarscom

22 seven hills winery 212 N Third ave (509) 529-7198 wwwsevenhillswinerycom

23 sinclair estate vineyards 109 E Main Ste 100 (509) 876-4300 wwwsinclairestatevineyardscom

24 spring valley vineyard 18 N Second ave (509) 525-1506 wwwspringvalleyvineyardcom

25 suLei cellars355 S Second ave (503) 529-0840 www suleicellarscom

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12 fort walla walla cellars 127 E Main St (509) 520-1095 wwwfortwallawallacellarscom

13 glencorrie8052 Old Highway 12 (509) 525-2585 wwwglencorriecom

14 grantwood winery 2428 W Highway 12 (509) 301-0719 (509) 301-9546

15 Lrsquoecole no 41 winery41 lowden School Road and US Hwy 12 (509) 525-0940 wwwlecolecom

16 Long shadows1604 Frenchtown Road (Formerly Ireland Road) (509) 526-0905 wwwlongshadowscom By invitation only Requests accepted on a limited basis Please call to inquire

17 Lowden hills winery1401 W Pine St (509) 527-1040 wwwlowdenhillswinerycom

18 northstar winery 1736 JB George Road (509) 524-4883 wwwnorthstarmerlotcom

19 pepper Bridge winery1704 JB George Road (509) 525-6502 wwwpepperbridgecom

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26 syZygy 405 E Boeing ave (509) 522-0484 wwwsyzygywinescom

27 three rivers winery5641 Old Highway 12 (509) 526-9463 infoThreeRiversWinerycom

28 tertulia cellars1564 Whiteley Road (509) 525-5700 wwwtertuliacellarscom

29 trust cellars 1050 Merlot Drive (509) 529-4511 wwwtrustcellarscom

30 va piano vineyards1793 JB George Road (509) 529-0900 wwwvapianovineyardscom

31 walla walla vintnersVineyard lane off Mill Creek Road (509) 525-4724 wwwwallawallavintnerscom

32 walla walla wineworks31 E Main St (509) 522-1261 wwwwallawallawineworkscom

33 whitman cellars1015 W Pine St (509) 529-1142 wwwwhitmancellarscom

34 woodward canyon winery11920 W Hwy 12 lowden (509) 525-4129 wwwwoodwardcanyoncom

35 JLc winery425 B St (509) 301-5148

36 saviah cellars1979 JB George Rd

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worked hard to start this event and to my great joy it has taken on an iden-tity of its own i hire the musicians and choose the music but the town its people and its environs make the festivalrdquo

The beauty of chamber music is its intimacy mdash smaller ensembles performing for smaller audiences it has been referred to as ldquothe music of friendsrdquo which seems so apt at this festival Free open rehearsals are held around town that provide not only a musical atmosphere in which to enjoy a latte or the ambiance of the kirkman House but which give a richer look into the machinations of a working ensemble

As one enthusiastic fan puts it ldquoi am not a musician and itrsquos fascinat-ing to watch these rehearsals to see the interactions of the musicians as they work out the snags make wry remarks and relate to each other in a whole different way than during a for-mal performance i get a glimpse into their personalities and what makes them tickrdquo

The festival supplies a generous of-fering of venues with free concerts for children and families relaxed evening programs at wineries and full concerts at the Foundry Chism Hall and Day-tonrsquos Liberty Theater

if you are lucky enough to live near the musiciansrsquo lodgings while they are in town you may also be treated to an ad hoc front-porch concert as the ensembles continue their rehearsals in more private settings The festival is about all of these ways mdash planned and accidental mdash to experience the enchantment of chamber music

it is also about historic continuity and the connection between past and present mdash relishing the existing canon while expanding the genre with con-temporary forms and voices

How is this accomplished in part by the annual commission of a new piece of music for the festival Chris-tie is committed to contributing to the broader chamber music repertoire and to providing the audience with the richest possible experience

Continued on pg 36 gt

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ldquoFor classical music to be relevant there must be a conversation between the music of our time and the music of the pastrdquo he says

By commissioning a work for the festi-val each year Christie creates such a con-versation

This year the commission was given to John David Earnest Four festival commis-sions have preceded his and he is the sec-ond ldquolocalrdquo composer to be tapped add-ing another layer of relationship between community and event (in 2009 Whitman College professor David Glenn was given the nod)

As visiting adjunct professor of music at Whitman Earnest resides here for six weeks every semester His ldquoSecond Sym-phonyrdquo was written for and performed by the Walla Walla Symphony in October 2001

The challenge for the yearly commis-sionee is to compose a piece on demand within specific constraints of time place and instrumentation while expressing hisher own voice as an artist

Earnest has created ldquoCommedia Gal-leryrdquo a set of three movements for flute

viola and harp based on stock characters from the Commedia dellrsquoArte a popu-lar theatrical form that was influential in Europe for over 300 years Commedia characters improvised dialogue around set scenarios generally involving the struggles of young lovers to overcome hindrances to their romance and each character even-tually came to have a consistent set of at-tributes in speech mannerisms and cos-tume

Earnestrsquos ldquoGalleryrdquo gives us Arlecchi-no (Harlequin) an acrobatic and devious jester Pierrot the classic sad clown and finally Scaramouche a dandy and a brag-gart who is a coward at heart

in anticipation of this yearrsquos festival i am reminded of the scene in ldquoThe Music Manrdquo in which the town awaits the ar-rival of the Wells Fargo Wagon Potentially heaped with gifts and surprises it prom-ises connection to the larger world The WWCMF brings us all ldquosomethinrsquo specialrdquo mdash an enrichment of our community and our culture

margaret Jamison is an artist and writer living in Walla Walla Contact her at artjamisongmailcom

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Smith has gardened for years at his home at 38 Mulberry Court in College Place He used to grow vegetables and flowers now he is strictly focusing on flowers mdash with fabulous results roses delphiniums and lots of irises line the fence

ldquoirises mdash irsquove always enjoyed themrdquo he says ldquoThey take a little bit of weeding and watering but not much morerdquo itrsquos the gardenerrsquos dream mdash low maintenance with a big return

A retired orthopedic surgeon Smith has in the past gardened more extensively than he does now But he has enough plants to keep him busy His new project is planting more of the reblooming iris These are still hardy but you get twice the reward they bloom in the spring then again in the fall

ldquoTheyrsquore easy to grow and spectacular for a short time iris take less care than a lot of thingsrdquo Smith says

His secret for gardening is simple and therersquos no getting around it ldquoTime and workrdquo he laughs

Hersquos getting ready to start in the garden ldquoi need to clean out the leaves and the old foliage of the irisrdquo

in addition to the basic cleaning and maintenance Smith just decides how many plants to keep Bulb flowers are hardy and they multiply on their own

ldquoAfter five years you usually have to separate the bulbs when they get too thick i donrsquot have room to add more i put in the new re-blooming onesrdquo he explains ldquoi may add more and a few other thingsrdquo

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itrsquos an odd location since it can only be seen as yoursquore leaving town but it always makes me smile This valley my adopted home is indeed a great place to be

i recently finished reading the great Western writer Wallace Stegnerrsquos book ldquoThe Sound of Mountain Waterrdquo One of his essays traces his nomadic childhood which left him feeling rootless and without a place that he felt he could call home

i identify with his feeling of not belonging i was born to a single woman from Massachusetts in a New york City hospital i stayed a scant few days before being placed with an adoption agency Born in a place i had no familial connection to i was immediately deprived of my biological family Most of my childhood was spent in suburban Cleveland Ohio Moves to upstate New york New England and Pennsylvania brought me no closer to calling any place home i loved living in the western Massachusetts town of Stockbridge but the multigenerational denizens of the town left few openings for newcomers like me i lived in central Pennsylvania for several decades but felt detached from the deep roots that most people had in the area

When we came west (for my husband a homecoming to his Oregon roots for me a new experience) i noticed that even in long-established towns like Walla Walla there is ample room for newcomers who want to be

part of the community And most folks who choose to come here donrsquot seem to want to change the valley they prefer to embrace it

While the occasional newbie whines about the lack of Whole Foods or Nordstrom they soon discover our farmers markets the wide variety of local shops and boutiques and our world-class restaurants They fall in love with our charming downtowns the small-town friendliness of the people and our kid-friendly environment Then therersquos the holiday parade the fair the ever-present Blue Mountains the parks the museums the wineries mdash really whatrsquos not to like The communities of our valley represent America at its best

irsquom a newspaper junkie i love to read everything from news to sports to classifieds mdash even the obituaries The obits are a fascinating window on our valley Many of the people chronicled were born here some lived all their lives here inextricably bound to this place But a number of people came here from other places often far away and have made a mark on our area Which makes me wonder mdash is a place any less of a hometown because you choose it or is it based primarily on the happenstance of your birth it seems that therersquos room for both paths to calling this wonderful valley home

itrsquos also our strength because collectively as a community we bring both deep familial and cultural traditions as well as the fresh perspective of newcomers to our area irsquom glad mdash after decades of searching mdash that i finally found my hometown a place that feels just right

diane reed can be reached at ladybookearthlinknet Between columns and when the spirit moves her she blogs at wwwponderingsbydianereedblogspotcom from her home overlooking the pond at lions Park in College Place

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Maymay 1The annual Kennel Club Dog Show Walla Walla County Fairgrounds De-tails 509-558-3854

The Walla Walla University Drama Department pres-ents a performance of ldquoMy Fair ladyrdquo 2 pm matinee Details 509-527-2656

The Walla Walla Choral Society presents ldquoJubilate Deordquo 3 pm May 1 Walla Walla University Church College Place Details 509-386-2445

The Walla Walla Valley Farmers Market opens local produce artisans and an outdoor concert 9 am-1 pm Saturdays and Sundays through Oct 30 Crawford Park Fourth ave and Main St Details gowallawallafarmersmar-ketcom or 509-520-3647

through may 22Enjoy the annual Senior art Thesis Exhibition Sheehan Gallery Whitman College Details 509-527-5249

through JuLy 31The Tamaacutestslikt Cultural In-stitute hosts the traveling OMSI exhibit ldquoamazing Feats of agingrdquo explor-ing the mysteries of why animals and humans age Details 541-966-9748

may 4The YWCa leadership luncheon ldquoMatters that Matterrdquo is informational and inspirational with guest speakers Kristine Van Raden and Molly Da-vis Noon Marcus Whit-man Hotel Details 509-525-2570

Walla Walla Wine Works hosts music on Wednes-days downtown Details 509-522-1261

may 5First Thursday Concert at St Pauls Episcopal Church 323 Catherine Street Walla Walla 1215-1250 pm will feature the Steel Drum Band from Walla Walla Uni-versity directed by Brandon Beck Details 529-1083

The Whitman College Visit-ing Writers Reading series presents Whitman Reading 7 pm Kimball Theatre De-tails whitmanedu

may 5-7 12-14Walla Walla High School Drama Department pres-ents ldquoFiddler on the Roofrdquo musical version 7 pm and 2 pm matinee on Saturdays May 7 and 14 Walla Walla High School Performing arts audito-rium Details Tickets can be reserved by calling 509-526-8613 the Wa-Hi box office

may 5-8 19-21a performance of ldquoThe 25th a nnua l Putnam County Spelling Beerdquo 8 pm Harper Joy Theatre Whitman College Details 509-527-5180

may 6-7Music on the weekends at the Backstage Bistro De-tails 509-526-0690

Sapolil Cellars hosts music on Friday and Saturday De-tails 509-520-5258

The Wildfire hosts music every Friday and Saturday Wildhorse Resort amp Casino Pendleton Details 800-654-9453

may 6-8Walla Walla Valley Winer-ies offer an opportunity to taste their new creations during Spring Release Weekend area wineries introduce new wines and winemakers share their creative inspiration Details 509-526-3117

may 6artWalK First Fridays May through December Visit galleries and chat with art-ists 5-8 pm Downtown Walla Walla Visit artwalk-wallawallacom

may 6-8 13-14The little Theatre presents ldquoalice In Wonderlandrdquo adapted from lewis Carroll 8 pm Friday-Saturday 2 pm Sunday little Theatre of Walla Walla Details 509-529-3683

may 7The annual Junior Horse Show brings great riding action to Milton-Freewater Pioneer Posse Grounds Details 541-938-3379

Daytonrsquos annual Street Sale turns a section of Third Street into a giant yard sale benefits churches and com-munity projects Dayton Details 509-382-4825

artist reception and dem-onstration Washington art-ist Dwight Duke exhibits his painting bronze sculptures and gunpowder light pan-els 6-730 pm Reininger Winery Details 509-522-1994

may 8Every Sunday the living History actors portray in-dividuals from the arearsquos past 2 pm Fort Walla Walla Museum Details 509-525-7703

may 13-15The annual Balloon Stam-pede brings as many as 50 hot-air balloons to the Walla Walla County Fairgrounds This colorful festival re-mains a Valley tradition Ear-ly morning flights (weather permitting) arts amp crafts antique autos commercial booths live entertainment and food Balloons light up to music at the Saturday evening Nite Glow Details 509-525-0850

may 14annual adult event cele-brates the characters who populated Pendletonrsquos past Must have reservations Pendleton Underground Tours Details 800-226-6398

may 14-15 may 27-29Walla Walla Drag Strip con-tinues the weekend fun Details wwdragstripcom or 509-200-6287

may 15Walla Walla University Chamber Series featuring Robyn McCabe 730 pm MKW Fine arts auditorium Details 509-527-2571

may 18To celebrate the opening of Walla Wallarsquos Power House Theatre and a four-day run of Seattle Shakespeare Companyrsquos ldquoThe Merry Wives of WindsorrdquoWalla Walla lifestyles will pres-ent a gala event This exclusive evening will en-chant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fash-ion from 530-9 pm at the Power House Theatre Sixth amp Rose Walla Walla To purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewalla-wallacom

may 19-21During Pendletonrsquos Cattle Baron Weekend enjoy an art exhibit by a talented group of women artists ldquoIn the Company of Cowgirlsrdquo Hamleyrsquos Steakhouse Pendleton Visit inthecom-panyofcowgirlscom or call 541-676-5013

may 19-22Whitman College 50th Reunion class of 1961 Whitman College Details 509-527-5952

Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merr y Wives of Windsorrdquo Pow-erhouse Theater Details 509-742-0739

may 21The annual Ducky Derby is a day of family fun all for a good cause Watch the ducks race down Mill Creek to help fund the Exchange Clubrsquos efforts at preventing child abuse and neglect 1130 am-330 pm Race at about 2 pm Walla Walla Community College De-tails 509-527-4300

Walla Walla University Spring Choral Concert 5 pm Walla Walla Univer-sity Church Details 509-527-2571

learn to contra dance an old-fashioned coun-try dance Music by the Wednesday Night Band 7 pm teaching and practice 730 pm regular dance Unity Church of Peace 810

C St Walla Walla Details 541-938-7403

may 22The Whitman College graduating class of 2011 accepts the challenge 11 am Memorial lawn Whitman College Details 509-527-5156

may 26 27 28 29Walla Walla Community College Theatre arts De-partment presents ldquoZoot Suitrdquo by luis Valdez 7 pm each night and Sunday 2 pm matinee W WCC Performing arts Center Details 509-527-4575

may 27-30 Dayton Days has been a Memorial Weekend tradi-tion in Dayton for nearly 100 years Highlights include a Saturday-morning parade on historic Main Street rodeo tour of Dayton and Memorial Day Fun Run De-tails 509-382-4825 or visit historicdaytoncom

may 28-30The Touchet River Roundup mdash the annual Celebration of Sobriety at the fairgrounds focuses on family fun ac-tivities Waitsburg Details 509-526-3602

may 29annual Onion Man Tria-thalon 9 am Bennington lake Details wwmulti-sportscom or call 509-529-9187

may 30Waitsburgrsquos annual Memo-rial Day celebration hosted by veterans for all veterans Details 509-337-6546

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The sculpture tops the farmers market gazebo on the corner of Fourth Avenue North and West Main Street

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1 amavi cellars3796 Peppers Bridge Road (509) 525-3541 wwwamavicellarscom

2 Basel cellars estate winery2901 Old Milton Hwy (509) 522-0200 wwwbaselcellarscom

3 Bergevin Lane vineyards 1215 W Poplar St (509) 526-4300 bergevinlanecom

4 Bunchgrass winery151 Bunchgrass lane (509) 540-8963 wwwbunchgrasswinerycom

5 canoe ridge vineyard1102 W Cherry St (509) 527-0885 wwwcanoeridgevineyardcom

6 castillo de feliciana85728 Telephone Pole Road Milton-Freewater OR (541) 558-3656 wwwcastillodefelicianacom

7 don carlo vineyardBy appointment Only (509) 540-5784 wwwdoncarlovineyardcom

8 dunham cellars150 E Boeing ave (509) 529-4685 wwwdunhamcellarscom

9 five star cellars 840 C St (509) 527-8400 wwwfivestarcellarscom

10 forgeron cellars 33 W Birch St (509) 522-9463 wwwforgeroncellarscom

21 sapolil cellars15 E Main St (509) 520-5258 wwwsapolilcellarscom

22 seven hills winery 212 N Third ave (509) 529-7198 wwwsevenhillswinerycom

23 sinclair estate vineyards 109 E Main Ste 100 (509) 876-4300 wwwsinclairestatevineyardscom

24 spring valley vineyard 18 N Second ave (509) 525-1506 wwwspringvalleyvineyardcom

25 suLei cellars355 S Second ave (503) 529-0840 www suleicellarscom

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11 foundry vineyards Corner of 13th ave and abadie St (509) 529-0736 wwwwallawallafoundrycomvineyards

12 fort walla walla cellars 127 E Main St (509) 520-1095 wwwfortwallawallacellarscom

13 glencorrie8052 Old Highway 12 (509) 525-2585 wwwglencorriecom

14 grantwood winery 2428 W Highway 12 (509) 301-0719 (509) 301-9546

15 Lrsquoecole no 41 winery41 lowden School Road and US Hwy 12 (509) 525-0940 wwwlecolecom

16 Long shadows1604 Frenchtown Road (Formerly Ireland Road) (509) 526-0905 wwwlongshadowscom By invitation only Requests accepted on a limited basis Please call to inquire

17 Lowden hills winery1401 W Pine St (509) 527-1040 wwwlowdenhillswinerycom

18 northstar winery 1736 JB George Road (509) 524-4883 wwwnorthstarmerlotcom

19 pepper Bridge winery1704 JB George Road (509) 525-6502 wwwpepperbridgecom

20 robison ranch cellars2839 Robison Ranch Road (509) 301-3480 robisonranchcellarscom

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26 syZygy 405 E Boeing ave (509) 522-0484 wwwsyzygywinescom

27 three rivers winery5641 Old Highway 12 (509) 526-9463 infoThreeRiversWinerycom

28 tertulia cellars1564 Whiteley Road (509) 525-5700 wwwtertuliacellarscom

29 trust cellars 1050 Merlot Drive (509) 529-4511 wwwtrustcellarscom

30 va piano vineyards1793 JB George Road (509) 529-0900 wwwvapianovineyardscom

31 walla walla vintnersVineyard lane off Mill Creek Road (509) 525-4724 wwwwallawallavintnerscom

32 walla walla wineworks31 E Main St (509) 522-1261 wwwwallawallawineworkscom

33 whitman cellars1015 W Pine St (509) 529-1142 wwwwhitmancellarscom

34 woodward canyon winery11920 W Hwy 12 lowden (509) 525-4129 wwwwoodwardcanyoncom

35 JLc winery425 B St (509) 301-5148

36 saviah cellars1979 JB George Rd

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ldquoFor classical music to be relevant there must be a conversation between the music of our time and the music of the pastrdquo he says

By commissioning a work for the festi-val each year Christie creates such a con-versation

This year the commission was given to John David Earnest Four festival commis-sions have preceded his and he is the sec-ond ldquolocalrdquo composer to be tapped add-ing another layer of relationship between community and event (in 2009 Whitman College professor David Glenn was given the nod)

As visiting adjunct professor of music at Whitman Earnest resides here for six weeks every semester His ldquoSecond Sym-phonyrdquo was written for and performed by the Walla Walla Symphony in October 2001

The challenge for the yearly commis-sionee is to compose a piece on demand within specific constraints of time place and instrumentation while expressing hisher own voice as an artist

Earnest has created ldquoCommedia Gal-leryrdquo a set of three movements for flute

viola and harp based on stock characters from the Commedia dellrsquoArte a popu-lar theatrical form that was influential in Europe for over 300 years Commedia characters improvised dialogue around set scenarios generally involving the struggles of young lovers to overcome hindrances to their romance and each character even-tually came to have a consistent set of at-tributes in speech mannerisms and cos-tume

Earnestrsquos ldquoGalleryrdquo gives us Arlecchi-no (Harlequin) an acrobatic and devious jester Pierrot the classic sad clown and finally Scaramouche a dandy and a brag-gart who is a coward at heart

in anticipation of this yearrsquos festival i am reminded of the scene in ldquoThe Music Manrdquo in which the town awaits the ar-rival of the Wells Fargo Wagon Potentially heaped with gifts and surprises it prom-ises connection to the larger world The WWCMF brings us all ldquosomethinrsquo specialrdquo mdash an enrichment of our community and our culture

margaret Jamison is an artist and writer living in Walla Walla Contact her at artjamisongmailcom

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Smith has gardened for years at his home at 38 Mulberry Court in College Place He used to grow vegetables and flowers now he is strictly focusing on flowers mdash with fabulous results roses delphiniums and lots of irises line the fence

ldquoirises mdash irsquove always enjoyed themrdquo he says ldquoThey take a little bit of weeding and watering but not much morerdquo itrsquos the gardenerrsquos dream mdash low maintenance with a big return

A retired orthopedic surgeon Smith has in the past gardened more extensively than he does now But he has enough plants to keep him busy His new project is planting more of the reblooming iris These are still hardy but you get twice the reward they bloom in the spring then again in the fall

ldquoTheyrsquore easy to grow and spectacular for a short time iris take less care than a lot of thingsrdquo Smith says

His secret for gardening is simple and therersquos no getting around it ldquoTime and workrdquo he laughs

Hersquos getting ready to start in the garden ldquoi need to clean out the leaves and the old foliage of the irisrdquo

in addition to the basic cleaning and maintenance Smith just decides how many plants to keep Bulb flowers are hardy and they multiply on their own

ldquoAfter five years you usually have to separate the bulbs when they get too thick i donrsquot have room to add more i put in the new re-blooming onesrdquo he explains ldquoi may add more and a few other thingsrdquo

But in a garden you can always try something new or rearrange existing plants often with a spectacular outcome

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itrsquos an odd location since it can only be seen as yoursquore leaving town but it always makes me smile This valley my adopted home is indeed a great place to be

i recently finished reading the great Western writer Wallace Stegnerrsquos book ldquoThe Sound of Mountain Waterrdquo One of his essays traces his nomadic childhood which left him feeling rootless and without a place that he felt he could call home

i identify with his feeling of not belonging i was born to a single woman from Massachusetts in a New york City hospital i stayed a scant few days before being placed with an adoption agency Born in a place i had no familial connection to i was immediately deprived of my biological family Most of my childhood was spent in suburban Cleveland Ohio Moves to upstate New york New England and Pennsylvania brought me no closer to calling any place home i loved living in the western Massachusetts town of Stockbridge but the multigenerational denizens of the town left few openings for newcomers like me i lived in central Pennsylvania for several decades but felt detached from the deep roots that most people had in the area

When we came west (for my husband a homecoming to his Oregon roots for me a new experience) i noticed that even in long-established towns like Walla Walla there is ample room for newcomers who want to be

part of the community And most folks who choose to come here donrsquot seem to want to change the valley they prefer to embrace it

While the occasional newbie whines about the lack of Whole Foods or Nordstrom they soon discover our farmers markets the wide variety of local shops and boutiques and our world-class restaurants They fall in love with our charming downtowns the small-town friendliness of the people and our kid-friendly environment Then therersquos the holiday parade the fair the ever-present Blue Mountains the parks the museums the wineries mdash really whatrsquos not to like The communities of our valley represent America at its best

irsquom a newspaper junkie i love to read everything from news to sports to classifieds mdash even the obituaries The obits are a fascinating window on our valley Many of the people chronicled were born here some lived all their lives here inextricably bound to this place But a number of people came here from other places often far away and have made a mark on our area Which makes me wonder mdash is a place any less of a hometown because you choose it or is it based primarily on the happenstance of your birth it seems that therersquos room for both paths to calling this wonderful valley home

itrsquos also our strength because collectively as a community we bring both deep familial and cultural traditions as well as the fresh perspective of newcomers to our area irsquom glad mdash after decades of searching mdash that i finally found my hometown a place that feels just right

diane reed can be reached at ladybookearthlinknet Between columns and when the spirit moves her she blogs at wwwponderingsbydianereedblogspotcom from her home overlooking the pond at lions Park in College Place

by DianeenspReedensp enspphoto by DianeenspReedponderings

theenspmeaningenspofensphome(town)Paella Dinner Flamenco Guitarist

Friday May 6

WALLA WALLA VALLEY

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(541) 558-3656 or (509) 220-2514 castillodefelicianacom

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Sueno hecho en realidad ldquoA dream made into realityrdquo

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Milton-Freewater OR 97862

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contains sulfites

is Brut sparkling was created for those who prefer a semi-dry cuveacutee Made according to the traditional Meacutethode Champenoise technique the wine is fermented inside the same bottle from which it is served is time-honored process takes one year to complete

Serve chilled --- Refresh your palate ---- EnjoySam amp Deb

BRILLAacuteNTEMeacutethode Champenoise

2008COLUMBIA VALLEY

Alc 113 by Vol 750mL

front 35rdquox2625rdquo back 2ldquox2rdquo

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Weekend May 7 amp 8 2011

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A local lender

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840 C StreetWalla Walla Regional Airport

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Open Saturday 10-4or by appointment

wwwfivestarcellarscom 40100

103192

2428 Heritage Road (Old Highway 12)

Open Friday amp Saturday 1200 - 430

509-301-9546 509-529-5872

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Maymay 1The annual Kennel Club Dog Show Walla Walla County Fairgrounds De-tails 509-558-3854

The Walla Walla University Drama Department pres-ents a performance of ldquoMy Fair ladyrdquo 2 pm matinee Details 509-527-2656

The Walla Walla Choral Society presents ldquoJubilate Deordquo 3 pm May 1 Walla Walla University Church College Place Details 509-386-2445

The Walla Walla Valley Farmers Market opens local produce artisans and an outdoor concert 9 am-1 pm Saturdays and Sundays through Oct 30 Crawford Park Fourth ave and Main St Details gowallawallafarmersmar-ketcom or 509-520-3647

through may 22Enjoy the annual Senior art Thesis Exhibition Sheehan Gallery Whitman College Details 509-527-5249

through JuLy 31The Tamaacutestslikt Cultural In-stitute hosts the traveling OMSI exhibit ldquoamazing Feats of agingrdquo explor-ing the mysteries of why animals and humans age Details 541-966-9748

may 4The YWCa leadership luncheon ldquoMatters that Matterrdquo is informational and inspirational with guest speakers Kristine Van Raden and Molly Da-vis Noon Marcus Whit-man Hotel Details 509-525-2570

Walla Walla Wine Works hosts music on Wednes-days downtown Details 509-522-1261

may 5First Thursday Concert at St Pauls Episcopal Church 323 Catherine Street Walla Walla 1215-1250 pm will feature the Steel Drum Band from Walla Walla Uni-versity directed by Brandon Beck Details 529-1083

The Whitman College Visit-ing Writers Reading series presents Whitman Reading 7 pm Kimball Theatre De-tails whitmanedu

may 5-7 12-14Walla Walla High School Drama Department pres-ents ldquoFiddler on the Roofrdquo musical version 7 pm and 2 pm matinee on Saturdays May 7 and 14 Walla Walla High School Performing arts audito-rium Details Tickets can be reserved by calling 509-526-8613 the Wa-Hi box office

may 5-8 19-21a performance of ldquoThe 25th a nnua l Putnam County Spelling Beerdquo 8 pm Harper Joy Theatre Whitman College Details 509-527-5180

may 6-7Music on the weekends at the Backstage Bistro De-tails 509-526-0690

Sapolil Cellars hosts music on Friday and Saturday De-tails 509-520-5258

The Wildfire hosts music every Friday and Saturday Wildhorse Resort amp Casino Pendleton Details 800-654-9453

may 6-8Walla Walla Valley Winer-ies offer an opportunity to taste their new creations during Spring Release Weekend area wineries introduce new wines and winemakers share their creative inspiration Details 509-526-3117

may 6artWalK First Fridays May through December Visit galleries and chat with art-ists 5-8 pm Downtown Walla Walla Visit artwalk-wallawallacom

may 6-8 13-14The little Theatre presents ldquoalice In Wonderlandrdquo adapted from lewis Carroll 8 pm Friday-Saturday 2 pm Sunday little Theatre of Walla Walla Details 509-529-3683

may 7The annual Junior Horse Show brings great riding action to Milton-Freewater Pioneer Posse Grounds Details 541-938-3379

Daytonrsquos annual Street Sale turns a section of Third Street into a giant yard sale benefits churches and com-munity projects Dayton Details 509-382-4825

artist reception and dem-onstration Washington art-ist Dwight Duke exhibits his painting bronze sculptures and gunpowder light pan-els 6-730 pm Reininger Winery Details 509-522-1994

may 8Every Sunday the living History actors portray in-dividuals from the arearsquos past 2 pm Fort Walla Walla Museum Details 509-525-7703

may 13-15The annual Balloon Stam-pede brings as many as 50 hot-air balloons to the Walla Walla County Fairgrounds This colorful festival re-mains a Valley tradition Ear-ly morning flights (weather permitting) arts amp crafts antique autos commercial booths live entertainment and food Balloons light up to music at the Saturday evening Nite Glow Details 509-525-0850

may 14annual adult event cele-brates the characters who populated Pendletonrsquos past Must have reservations Pendleton Underground Tours Details 800-226-6398

may 14-15 may 27-29Walla Walla Drag Strip con-tinues the weekend fun Details wwdragstripcom or 509-200-6287

may 15Walla Walla University Chamber Series featuring Robyn McCabe 730 pm MKW Fine arts auditorium Details 509-527-2571

may 18To celebrate the opening of Walla Wallarsquos Power House Theatre and a four-day run of Seattle Shakespeare Companyrsquos ldquoThe Merry Wives of WindsorrdquoWalla Walla lifestyles will pres-ent a gala event This exclusive evening will en-chant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fash-ion from 530-9 pm at the Power House Theatre Sixth amp Rose Walla Walla To purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewalla-wallacom

may 19-21During Pendletonrsquos Cattle Baron Weekend enjoy an art exhibit by a talented group of women artists ldquoIn the Company of Cowgirlsrdquo Hamleyrsquos Steakhouse Pendleton Visit inthecom-panyofcowgirlscom or call 541-676-5013

may 19-22Whitman College 50th Reunion class of 1961 Whitman College Details 509-527-5952

Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merr y Wives of Windsorrdquo Pow-erhouse Theater Details 509-742-0739

may 21The annual Ducky Derby is a day of family fun all for a good cause Watch the ducks race down Mill Creek to help fund the Exchange Clubrsquos efforts at preventing child abuse and neglect 1130 am-330 pm Race at about 2 pm Walla Walla Community College De-tails 509-527-4300

Walla Walla University Spring Choral Concert 5 pm Walla Walla Univer-sity Church Details 509-527-2571

learn to contra dance an old-fashioned coun-try dance Music by the Wednesday Night Band 7 pm teaching and practice 730 pm regular dance Unity Church of Peace 810

C St Walla Walla Details 541-938-7403

may 22The Whitman College graduating class of 2011 accepts the challenge 11 am Memorial lawn Whitman College Details 509-527-5156

may 26 27 28 29Walla Walla Community College Theatre arts De-partment presents ldquoZoot Suitrdquo by luis Valdez 7 pm each night and Sunday 2 pm matinee W WCC Performing arts Center Details 509-527-4575

may 27-30 Dayton Days has been a Memorial Weekend tradi-tion in Dayton for nearly 100 years Highlights include a Saturday-morning parade on historic Main Street rodeo tour of Dayton and Memorial Day Fun Run De-tails 509-382-4825 or visit historicdaytoncom

may 28-30The Touchet River Roundup mdash the annual Celebration of Sobriety at the fairgrounds focuses on family fun ac-tivities Waitsburg Details 509-526-3602

may 29annual Onion Man Tria-thalon 9 am Bennington lake Details wwmulti-sportscom or call 509-529-9187

may 30Waitsburgrsquos annual Memo-rial Day celebration hosted by veterans for all veterans Details 509-337-6546

Walla Walla LifestyLes 45

photo by DarrenenspElliswhereenspinenspwallaenspwallaensp

Lastenspmonthrsquosenspclueensp

This sculptural cornucopia marks the spot where all of Walla Walla meets the producers and wersquore not talking about the Zero Mostel and Gene Wild-er musical For you GPS fans latitude 4606678 N longitude 11834197 W

Clueensp

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The sculpture tops the farmers market gazebo on the corner of Fourth Avenue North and West Main Street

Contestensprulesif you have the answer e-mail it to rickdoylewwubcom or send it to Where in Walla Walla 112 S 1st Ave PO Box 1358 Walla Walla WA 99362 The names of 10 people with correct answers will be randomly selected and they will receive this great-looking mug as proof of their local knowledge and good taste

Annette CarterShirley richterDebbie FullenJudy CarlsonEloise Phillips

Dan Countsvicky ScanlonJanet TurnerTam LennoxBruce Campbell

46 Walla Walla LifestyLes

1 amavi cellars3796 Peppers Bridge Road (509) 525-3541 wwwamavicellarscom

2 Basel cellars estate winery2901 Old Milton Hwy (509) 522-0200 wwwbaselcellarscom

3 Bergevin Lane vineyards 1215 W Poplar St (509) 526-4300 bergevinlanecom

4 Bunchgrass winery151 Bunchgrass lane (509) 540-8963 wwwbunchgrasswinerycom

5 canoe ridge vineyard1102 W Cherry St (509) 527-0885 wwwcanoeridgevineyardcom

6 castillo de feliciana85728 Telephone Pole Road Milton-Freewater OR (541) 558-3656 wwwcastillodefelicianacom

7 don carlo vineyardBy appointment Only (509) 540-5784 wwwdoncarlovineyardcom

8 dunham cellars150 E Boeing ave (509) 529-4685 wwwdunhamcellarscom

9 five star cellars 840 C St (509) 527-8400 wwwfivestarcellarscom

10 forgeron cellars 33 W Birch St (509) 522-9463 wwwforgeroncellarscom

21 sapolil cellars15 E Main St (509) 520-5258 wwwsapolilcellarscom

22 seven hills winery 212 N Third ave (509) 529-7198 wwwsevenhillswinerycom

23 sinclair estate vineyards 109 E Main Ste 100 (509) 876-4300 wwwsinclairestatevineyardscom

24 spring valley vineyard 18 N Second ave (509) 525-1506 wwwspringvalleyvineyardcom

25 suLei cellars355 S Second ave (503) 529-0840 www suleicellarscom

highway

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2nd ave

1st ave

125

3rd ave

Mai

n St

Rose

St

Sum

ach

St

alder St

Park St

WHITMANCOLLEGE

Palouse St

Colville St

4th ave

Main St

Pine St

Poplar St

Birch St

Spokane St Boyer ave

Rose St

Poplar St9th St

13th ave

Cherry St

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10

25

22

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11 foundry vineyards Corner of 13th ave and abadie St (509) 529-0736 wwwwallawallafoundrycomvineyards

12 fort walla walla cellars 127 E Main St (509) 520-1095 wwwfortwallawallacellarscom

13 glencorrie8052 Old Highway 12 (509) 525-2585 wwwglencorriecom

14 grantwood winery 2428 W Highway 12 (509) 301-0719 (509) 301-9546

15 Lrsquoecole no 41 winery41 lowden School Road and US Hwy 12 (509) 525-0940 wwwlecolecom

16 Long shadows1604 Frenchtown Road (Formerly Ireland Road) (509) 526-0905 wwwlongshadowscom By invitation only Requests accepted on a limited basis Please call to inquire

17 Lowden hills winery1401 W Pine St (509) 527-1040 wwwlowdenhillswinerycom

18 northstar winery 1736 JB George Road (509) 524-4883 wwwnorthstarmerlotcom

19 pepper Bridge winery1704 JB George Road (509) 525-6502 wwwpepperbridgecom

20 robison ranch cellars2839 Robison Ranch Road (509) 301-3480 robisonranchcellarscom

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26 syZygy 405 E Boeing ave (509) 522-0484 wwwsyzygywinescom

27 three rivers winery5641 Old Highway 12 (509) 526-9463 infoThreeRiversWinerycom

28 tertulia cellars1564 Whiteley Road (509) 525-5700 wwwtertuliacellarscom

29 trust cellars 1050 Merlot Drive (509) 529-4511 wwwtrustcellarscom

30 va piano vineyards1793 JB George Road (509) 529-0900 wwwvapianovineyardscom

31 walla walla vintnersVineyard lane off Mill Creek Road (509) 525-4724 wwwwallawallavintnerscom

32 walla walla wineworks31 E Main St (509) 522-1261 wwwwallawallawineworkscom

33 whitman cellars1015 W Pine St (509) 529-1142 wwwwhitmancellarscom

34 woodward canyon winery11920 W Hwy 12 lowden (509) 525-4129 wwwwoodwardcanyoncom

35 JLc winery425 B St (509) 301-5148

36 saviah cellars1979 JB George Rd

highway 12

E St

Beech ave

lockheed ave

Piper ave

G St

Mill Creek Rd

Isaacs ave

AirportTerminal

Peppers B

ridge Rd

Pranger R

d

Old M

ilton Hw

y

Old Milton Hwy

Braden R

d

JB George Rd

Whiteley Rd

Stateline RdWaSHINGTON

OREGON

larson

highway 12 last Chance R

d

Frog HollowM

cDonald R

d

lowden - G

ardena Rd

LOWDEN

Detour Rd

Mojonnier Rd

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To Touchet Detour R

dFrenchtow

n Rd

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S G

ose StCollege a

ve

To Walla Walla

To M

ilton

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ewat

er

To Walla Walla City Center

airp

ort W

ay

Grumman ave

Fairchild ave

Cessna ave

aeronca ave F St

lear ave

Douglas ave

Curtis ave

C St

Republic ave

Ryan ave

F St

Stinson ave

B St

Boeing ave

F St

D St

a St

ToWaitsburg

DaytonLewiston

To Milton-Freew

ater

To W

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26

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Smith has gardened for years at his home at 38 Mulberry Court in College Place He used to grow vegetables and flowers now he is strictly focusing on flowers mdash with fabulous results roses delphiniums and lots of irises line the fence

ldquoirises mdash irsquove always enjoyed themrdquo he says ldquoThey take a little bit of weeding and watering but not much morerdquo itrsquos the gardenerrsquos dream mdash low maintenance with a big return

A retired orthopedic surgeon Smith has in the past gardened more extensively than he does now But he has enough plants to keep him busy His new project is planting more of the reblooming iris These are still hardy but you get twice the reward they bloom in the spring then again in the fall

ldquoTheyrsquore easy to grow and spectacular for a short time iris take less care than a lot of thingsrdquo Smith says

His secret for gardening is simple and therersquos no getting around it ldquoTime and workrdquo he laughs

Hersquos getting ready to start in the garden ldquoi need to clean out the leaves and the old foliage of the irisrdquo

in addition to the basic cleaning and maintenance Smith just decides how many plants to keep Bulb flowers are hardy and they multiply on their own

ldquoAfter five years you usually have to separate the bulbs when they get too thick i donrsquot have room to add more i put in the new re-blooming onesrdquo he explains ldquoi may add more and a few other thingsrdquo

But in a garden you can always try something new or rearrange existing plants often with a spectacular outcome

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40 Walla Walla LifestyLes

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42 Walla Walla LifestyLes

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itrsquos an odd location since it can only be seen as yoursquore leaving town but it always makes me smile This valley my adopted home is indeed a great place to be

i recently finished reading the great Western writer Wallace Stegnerrsquos book ldquoThe Sound of Mountain Waterrdquo One of his essays traces his nomadic childhood which left him feeling rootless and without a place that he felt he could call home

i identify with his feeling of not belonging i was born to a single woman from Massachusetts in a New york City hospital i stayed a scant few days before being placed with an adoption agency Born in a place i had no familial connection to i was immediately deprived of my biological family Most of my childhood was spent in suburban Cleveland Ohio Moves to upstate New york New England and Pennsylvania brought me no closer to calling any place home i loved living in the western Massachusetts town of Stockbridge but the multigenerational denizens of the town left few openings for newcomers like me i lived in central Pennsylvania for several decades but felt detached from the deep roots that most people had in the area

When we came west (for my husband a homecoming to his Oregon roots for me a new experience) i noticed that even in long-established towns like Walla Walla there is ample room for newcomers who want to be

part of the community And most folks who choose to come here donrsquot seem to want to change the valley they prefer to embrace it

While the occasional newbie whines about the lack of Whole Foods or Nordstrom they soon discover our farmers markets the wide variety of local shops and boutiques and our world-class restaurants They fall in love with our charming downtowns the small-town friendliness of the people and our kid-friendly environment Then therersquos the holiday parade the fair the ever-present Blue Mountains the parks the museums the wineries mdash really whatrsquos not to like The communities of our valley represent America at its best

irsquom a newspaper junkie i love to read everything from news to sports to classifieds mdash even the obituaries The obits are a fascinating window on our valley Many of the people chronicled were born here some lived all their lives here inextricably bound to this place But a number of people came here from other places often far away and have made a mark on our area Which makes me wonder mdash is a place any less of a hometown because you choose it or is it based primarily on the happenstance of your birth it seems that therersquos room for both paths to calling this wonderful valley home

itrsquos also our strength because collectively as a community we bring both deep familial and cultural traditions as well as the fresh perspective of newcomers to our area irsquom glad mdash after decades of searching mdash that i finally found my hometown a place that feels just right

diane reed can be reached at ladybookearthlinknet Between columns and when the spirit moves her she blogs at wwwponderingsbydianereedblogspotcom from her home overlooking the pond at lions Park in College Place

by DianeenspReedensp enspphoto by DianeenspReedponderings

theenspmeaningenspofensphome(town)Paella Dinner Flamenco Guitarist

Friday May 6

WALLA WALLA VALLEY

85728 Telephone Pole Road Milton-Freewater OR 97862

(541) 558-3656 or (509) 220-2514 castillodefelicianacom

1027

70 S

L

Sueno hecho en realidad ldquoA dream made into realityrdquo

BRILLAacuteNTEBrut Sparkling WineMeacutethode Champenoise

Produced And Bottled ByCastillo de Feliciana Vineyard amp Winery

Milton-Freewater OR 97862

GOVERNMENT WARNING (1) ACCORDING TO THE SURGEON GENERAL WOMEN SHOULD NOT DRINK ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES DURING PREGNANCY BECAUSE OF THE RISK OF BIRTH DEFECTS (2) CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES IMPAIRS YOUR ABILITY TO DRIVE A CAR OR OPERATE MACHINERY AND MAY CAUSE HEALTH PROBLEMS

contains sulfites

is Brut sparkling was created for those who prefer a semi-dry cuveacutee Made according to the traditional Meacutethode Champenoise technique the wine is fermented inside the same bottle from which it is served is time-honored process takes one year to complete

Serve chilled --- Refresh your palate ---- EnjoySam amp Deb

BRILLAacuteNTEMeacutethode Champenoise

2008COLUMBIA VALLEY

Alc 113 by Vol 750mL

front 35rdquox2625rdquo back 2ldquox2rdquo

Visit Us Spring Release

Weekend May 7 amp 8 2011

Complementary Wine Tasting with this Ad

We invite you to sample our hand crafted Spanish

wines enjoy our patio and sit by our fire pit

Tasting Room Open Friday thru Sunday

11am to 5pm or by appointment

AVAilAble in liMiTeD qUAnTieS

our brut Sparkling Wine Meacutethode Champenose

Walla Walla LifestyLes 43

A local lendercommitted

to your future

111 W Main St WW bull 509-524-0863

SERVICES INCLUDEbull Affordable Mortgage Lendingbull Conventional Loansbull Government Lendingbull Home Equity Lines of Creditbull Investment Property Lendingbull Non-Conventional ldquoJumbordquo Lending

9515

6 Contact Tera Davisand Her Team Today

A local lender

Higher Standards

Tera Davis

ww

wfoundryvineyardscom

13th amp Abadie St 5095290736

102766509-527-8400

840 C StreetWalla Walla Regional Airport

Walla Walla WA 99362

Open Saturday 10-4or by appointment

wwwfivestarcellarscom 40100

103192

2428 Heritage Road (Old Highway 12)

Open Friday amp Saturday 1200 - 430

509-301-9546 509-529-5872

grantwoodcharternet

Closed January amp February

Appointments Welcome

1029

67 s

l1 1 B o y e r A v e 5 0 9 8 7 6 2 4 9 3

We are totally dedicated to each photographerrsquos personal vision

bull p r i n t i n g

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44 Walla Walla LifestyLes

Maymay 1The annual Kennel Club Dog Show Walla Walla County Fairgrounds De-tails 509-558-3854

The Walla Walla University Drama Department pres-ents a performance of ldquoMy Fair ladyrdquo 2 pm matinee Details 509-527-2656

The Walla Walla Choral Society presents ldquoJubilate Deordquo 3 pm May 1 Walla Walla University Church College Place Details 509-386-2445

The Walla Walla Valley Farmers Market opens local produce artisans and an outdoor concert 9 am-1 pm Saturdays and Sundays through Oct 30 Crawford Park Fourth ave and Main St Details gowallawallafarmersmar-ketcom or 509-520-3647

through may 22Enjoy the annual Senior art Thesis Exhibition Sheehan Gallery Whitman College Details 509-527-5249

through JuLy 31The Tamaacutestslikt Cultural In-stitute hosts the traveling OMSI exhibit ldquoamazing Feats of agingrdquo explor-ing the mysteries of why animals and humans age Details 541-966-9748

may 4The YWCa leadership luncheon ldquoMatters that Matterrdquo is informational and inspirational with guest speakers Kristine Van Raden and Molly Da-vis Noon Marcus Whit-man Hotel Details 509-525-2570

Walla Walla Wine Works hosts music on Wednes-days downtown Details 509-522-1261

may 5First Thursday Concert at St Pauls Episcopal Church 323 Catherine Street Walla Walla 1215-1250 pm will feature the Steel Drum Band from Walla Walla Uni-versity directed by Brandon Beck Details 529-1083

The Whitman College Visit-ing Writers Reading series presents Whitman Reading 7 pm Kimball Theatre De-tails whitmanedu

may 5-7 12-14Walla Walla High School Drama Department pres-ents ldquoFiddler on the Roofrdquo musical version 7 pm and 2 pm matinee on Saturdays May 7 and 14 Walla Walla High School Performing arts audito-rium Details Tickets can be reserved by calling 509-526-8613 the Wa-Hi box office

may 5-8 19-21a performance of ldquoThe 25th a nnua l Putnam County Spelling Beerdquo 8 pm Harper Joy Theatre Whitman College Details 509-527-5180

may 6-7Music on the weekends at the Backstage Bistro De-tails 509-526-0690

Sapolil Cellars hosts music on Friday and Saturday De-tails 509-520-5258

The Wildfire hosts music every Friday and Saturday Wildhorse Resort amp Casino Pendleton Details 800-654-9453

may 6-8Walla Walla Valley Winer-ies offer an opportunity to taste their new creations during Spring Release Weekend area wineries introduce new wines and winemakers share their creative inspiration Details 509-526-3117

may 6artWalK First Fridays May through December Visit galleries and chat with art-ists 5-8 pm Downtown Walla Walla Visit artwalk-wallawallacom

may 6-8 13-14The little Theatre presents ldquoalice In Wonderlandrdquo adapted from lewis Carroll 8 pm Friday-Saturday 2 pm Sunday little Theatre of Walla Walla Details 509-529-3683

may 7The annual Junior Horse Show brings great riding action to Milton-Freewater Pioneer Posse Grounds Details 541-938-3379

Daytonrsquos annual Street Sale turns a section of Third Street into a giant yard sale benefits churches and com-munity projects Dayton Details 509-382-4825

artist reception and dem-onstration Washington art-ist Dwight Duke exhibits his painting bronze sculptures and gunpowder light pan-els 6-730 pm Reininger Winery Details 509-522-1994

may 8Every Sunday the living History actors portray in-dividuals from the arearsquos past 2 pm Fort Walla Walla Museum Details 509-525-7703

may 13-15The annual Balloon Stam-pede brings as many as 50 hot-air balloons to the Walla Walla County Fairgrounds This colorful festival re-mains a Valley tradition Ear-ly morning flights (weather permitting) arts amp crafts antique autos commercial booths live entertainment and food Balloons light up to music at the Saturday evening Nite Glow Details 509-525-0850

may 14annual adult event cele-brates the characters who populated Pendletonrsquos past Must have reservations Pendleton Underground Tours Details 800-226-6398

may 14-15 may 27-29Walla Walla Drag Strip con-tinues the weekend fun Details wwdragstripcom or 509-200-6287

may 15Walla Walla University Chamber Series featuring Robyn McCabe 730 pm MKW Fine arts auditorium Details 509-527-2571

may 18To celebrate the opening of Walla Wallarsquos Power House Theatre and a four-day run of Seattle Shakespeare Companyrsquos ldquoThe Merry Wives of WindsorrdquoWalla Walla lifestyles will pres-ent a gala event This exclusive evening will en-chant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fash-ion from 530-9 pm at the Power House Theatre Sixth amp Rose Walla Walla To purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewalla-wallacom

may 19-21During Pendletonrsquos Cattle Baron Weekend enjoy an art exhibit by a talented group of women artists ldquoIn the Company of Cowgirlsrdquo Hamleyrsquos Steakhouse Pendleton Visit inthecom-panyofcowgirlscom or call 541-676-5013

may 19-22Whitman College 50th Reunion class of 1961 Whitman College Details 509-527-5952

Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merr y Wives of Windsorrdquo Pow-erhouse Theater Details 509-742-0739

may 21The annual Ducky Derby is a day of family fun all for a good cause Watch the ducks race down Mill Creek to help fund the Exchange Clubrsquos efforts at preventing child abuse and neglect 1130 am-330 pm Race at about 2 pm Walla Walla Community College De-tails 509-527-4300

Walla Walla University Spring Choral Concert 5 pm Walla Walla Univer-sity Church Details 509-527-2571

learn to contra dance an old-fashioned coun-try dance Music by the Wednesday Night Band 7 pm teaching and practice 730 pm regular dance Unity Church of Peace 810

C St Walla Walla Details 541-938-7403

may 22The Whitman College graduating class of 2011 accepts the challenge 11 am Memorial lawn Whitman College Details 509-527-5156

may 26 27 28 29Walla Walla Community College Theatre arts De-partment presents ldquoZoot Suitrdquo by luis Valdez 7 pm each night and Sunday 2 pm matinee W WCC Performing arts Center Details 509-527-4575

may 27-30 Dayton Days has been a Memorial Weekend tradi-tion in Dayton for nearly 100 years Highlights include a Saturday-morning parade on historic Main Street rodeo tour of Dayton and Memorial Day Fun Run De-tails 509-382-4825 or visit historicdaytoncom

may 28-30The Touchet River Roundup mdash the annual Celebration of Sobriety at the fairgrounds focuses on family fun ac-tivities Waitsburg Details 509-526-3602

may 29annual Onion Man Tria-thalon 9 am Bennington lake Details wwmulti-sportscom or call 509-529-9187

may 30Waitsburgrsquos annual Memo-rial Day celebration hosted by veterans for all veterans Details 509-337-6546

Walla Walla LifestyLes 45

photo by DarrenenspElliswhereenspinenspwallaenspwallaensp

Lastenspmonthrsquosenspclueensp

This sculptural cornucopia marks the spot where all of Walla Walla meets the producers and wersquore not talking about the Zero Mostel and Gene Wild-er musical For you GPS fans latitude 4606678 N longitude 11834197 W

Clueensp

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Lastenspmonthrsquosenspwinnersensp

answerensp

The sculpture tops the farmers market gazebo on the corner of Fourth Avenue North and West Main Street

Contestensprulesif you have the answer e-mail it to rickdoylewwubcom or send it to Where in Walla Walla 112 S 1st Ave PO Box 1358 Walla Walla WA 99362 The names of 10 people with correct answers will be randomly selected and they will receive this great-looking mug as proof of their local knowledge and good taste

Annette CarterShirley richterDebbie FullenJudy CarlsonEloise Phillips

Dan Countsvicky ScanlonJanet TurnerTam LennoxBruce Campbell

46 Walla Walla LifestyLes

1 amavi cellars3796 Peppers Bridge Road (509) 525-3541 wwwamavicellarscom

2 Basel cellars estate winery2901 Old Milton Hwy (509) 522-0200 wwwbaselcellarscom

3 Bergevin Lane vineyards 1215 W Poplar St (509) 526-4300 bergevinlanecom

4 Bunchgrass winery151 Bunchgrass lane (509) 540-8963 wwwbunchgrasswinerycom

5 canoe ridge vineyard1102 W Cherry St (509) 527-0885 wwwcanoeridgevineyardcom

6 castillo de feliciana85728 Telephone Pole Road Milton-Freewater OR (541) 558-3656 wwwcastillodefelicianacom

7 don carlo vineyardBy appointment Only (509) 540-5784 wwwdoncarlovineyardcom

8 dunham cellars150 E Boeing ave (509) 529-4685 wwwdunhamcellarscom

9 five star cellars 840 C St (509) 527-8400 wwwfivestarcellarscom

10 forgeron cellars 33 W Birch St (509) 522-9463 wwwforgeroncellarscom

21 sapolil cellars15 E Main St (509) 520-5258 wwwsapolilcellarscom

22 seven hills winery 212 N Third ave (509) 529-7198 wwwsevenhillswinerycom

23 sinclair estate vineyards 109 E Main Ste 100 (509) 876-4300 wwwsinclairestatevineyardscom

24 spring valley vineyard 18 N Second ave (509) 525-1506 wwwspringvalleyvineyardcom

25 suLei cellars355 S Second ave (503) 529-0840 www suleicellarscom

highway

12

2nd ave

1st ave

125

3rd ave

Mai

n St

Rose

St

Sum

ach

St

alder St

Park St

WHITMANCOLLEGE

Palouse St

Colville St

4th ave

Main St

Pine St

Poplar St

Birch St

Spokane St Boyer ave

Rose St

Poplar St9th St

13th ave

Cherry St

3

10

25

22

24

2132

23

12

P

PP

11 foundry vineyards Corner of 13th ave and abadie St (509) 529-0736 wwwwallawallafoundrycomvineyards

12 fort walla walla cellars 127 E Main St (509) 520-1095 wwwfortwallawallacellarscom

13 glencorrie8052 Old Highway 12 (509) 525-2585 wwwglencorriecom

14 grantwood winery 2428 W Highway 12 (509) 301-0719 (509) 301-9546

15 Lrsquoecole no 41 winery41 lowden School Road and US Hwy 12 (509) 525-0940 wwwlecolecom

16 Long shadows1604 Frenchtown Road (Formerly Ireland Road) (509) 526-0905 wwwlongshadowscom By invitation only Requests accepted on a limited basis Please call to inquire

17 Lowden hills winery1401 W Pine St (509) 527-1040 wwwlowdenhillswinerycom

18 northstar winery 1736 JB George Road (509) 524-4883 wwwnorthstarmerlotcom

19 pepper Bridge winery1704 JB George Road (509) 525-6502 wwwpepperbridgecom

20 robison ranch cellars2839 Robison Ranch Road (509) 301-3480 robisonranchcellarscom

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14 1513

5

17 33

11

20

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26 syZygy 405 E Boeing ave (509) 522-0484 wwwsyzygywinescom

27 three rivers winery5641 Old Highway 12 (509) 526-9463 infoThreeRiversWinerycom

28 tertulia cellars1564 Whiteley Road (509) 525-5700 wwwtertuliacellarscom

29 trust cellars 1050 Merlot Drive (509) 529-4511 wwwtrustcellarscom

30 va piano vineyards1793 JB George Road (509) 529-0900 wwwvapianovineyardscom

31 walla walla vintnersVineyard lane off Mill Creek Road (509) 525-4724 wwwwallawallavintnerscom

32 walla walla wineworks31 E Main St (509) 522-1261 wwwwallawallawineworkscom

33 whitman cellars1015 W Pine St (509) 529-1142 wwwwhitmancellarscom

34 woodward canyon winery11920 W Hwy 12 lowden (509) 525-4129 wwwwoodwardcanyoncom

35 JLc winery425 B St (509) 301-5148

36 saviah cellars1979 JB George Rd

highway 12

E St

Beech ave

lockheed ave

Piper ave

G St

Mill Creek Rd

Isaacs ave

AirportTerminal

Peppers B

ridge Rd

Pranger R

d

Old M

ilton Hw

y

Old Milton Hwy

Braden R

d

JB George Rd

Whiteley Rd

Stateline RdWaSHINGTON

OREGON

larson

highway 12 last Chance R

d

Frog HollowM

cDonald R

d

lowden - G

ardena Rd

LOWDEN

Detour Rd

Mojonnier Rd

Sw

eagle Rd

To Touchet Detour R

dFrenchtow

n Rd

Hoon R

dShort Rd

S G

ose StCollege a

ve

To Walla Walla

To M

ilton

-Fre

ewat

er

To Walla Walla City Center

airp

ort W

ay

Grumman ave

Fairchild ave

Cessna ave

aeronca ave F St

lear ave

Douglas ave

Curtis ave

C St

Republic ave

Ryan ave

F St

Stinson ave

B St

Boeing ave

F St

D St

a St

ToWaitsburg

DaytonLewiston

To Milton-Freew

ater

To W

alla W

alla

125

8

26

31

6

30

36

1

2

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29

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by KarleneenspPontisecretenspgardens

38 Walla Walla LifestyLes

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 39

Smith has gardened for years at his home at 38 Mulberry Court in College Place He used to grow vegetables and flowers now he is strictly focusing on flowers mdash with fabulous results roses delphiniums and lots of irises line the fence

ldquoirises mdash irsquove always enjoyed themrdquo he says ldquoThey take a little bit of weeding and watering but not much morerdquo itrsquos the gardenerrsquos dream mdash low maintenance with a big return

A retired orthopedic surgeon Smith has in the past gardened more extensively than he does now But he has enough plants to keep him busy His new project is planting more of the reblooming iris These are still hardy but you get twice the reward they bloom in the spring then again in the fall

ldquoTheyrsquore easy to grow and spectacular for a short time iris take less care than a lot of thingsrdquo Smith says

His secret for gardening is simple and therersquos no getting around it ldquoTime and workrdquo he laughs

Hersquos getting ready to start in the garden ldquoi need to clean out the leaves and the old foliage of the irisrdquo

in addition to the basic cleaning and maintenance Smith just decides how many plants to keep Bulb flowers are hardy and they multiply on their own

ldquoAfter five years you usually have to separate the bulbs when they get too thick i donrsquot have room to add more i put in the new re-blooming onesrdquo he explains ldquoi may add more and a few other thingsrdquo

But in a garden you can always try something new or rearrange existing plants often with a spectacular outcome

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40 Walla Walla LifestyLes

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 41

42 Walla Walla LifestyLes

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itrsquos an odd location since it can only be seen as yoursquore leaving town but it always makes me smile This valley my adopted home is indeed a great place to be

i recently finished reading the great Western writer Wallace Stegnerrsquos book ldquoThe Sound of Mountain Waterrdquo One of his essays traces his nomadic childhood which left him feeling rootless and without a place that he felt he could call home

i identify with his feeling of not belonging i was born to a single woman from Massachusetts in a New york City hospital i stayed a scant few days before being placed with an adoption agency Born in a place i had no familial connection to i was immediately deprived of my biological family Most of my childhood was spent in suburban Cleveland Ohio Moves to upstate New york New England and Pennsylvania brought me no closer to calling any place home i loved living in the western Massachusetts town of Stockbridge but the multigenerational denizens of the town left few openings for newcomers like me i lived in central Pennsylvania for several decades but felt detached from the deep roots that most people had in the area

When we came west (for my husband a homecoming to his Oregon roots for me a new experience) i noticed that even in long-established towns like Walla Walla there is ample room for newcomers who want to be

part of the community And most folks who choose to come here donrsquot seem to want to change the valley they prefer to embrace it

While the occasional newbie whines about the lack of Whole Foods or Nordstrom they soon discover our farmers markets the wide variety of local shops and boutiques and our world-class restaurants They fall in love with our charming downtowns the small-town friendliness of the people and our kid-friendly environment Then therersquos the holiday parade the fair the ever-present Blue Mountains the parks the museums the wineries mdash really whatrsquos not to like The communities of our valley represent America at its best

irsquom a newspaper junkie i love to read everything from news to sports to classifieds mdash even the obituaries The obits are a fascinating window on our valley Many of the people chronicled were born here some lived all their lives here inextricably bound to this place But a number of people came here from other places often far away and have made a mark on our area Which makes me wonder mdash is a place any less of a hometown because you choose it or is it based primarily on the happenstance of your birth it seems that therersquos room for both paths to calling this wonderful valley home

itrsquos also our strength because collectively as a community we bring both deep familial and cultural traditions as well as the fresh perspective of newcomers to our area irsquom glad mdash after decades of searching mdash that i finally found my hometown a place that feels just right

diane reed can be reached at ladybookearthlinknet Between columns and when the spirit moves her she blogs at wwwponderingsbydianereedblogspotcom from her home overlooking the pond at lions Park in College Place

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44 Walla Walla LifestyLes

Maymay 1The annual Kennel Club Dog Show Walla Walla County Fairgrounds De-tails 509-558-3854

The Walla Walla University Drama Department pres-ents a performance of ldquoMy Fair ladyrdquo 2 pm matinee Details 509-527-2656

The Walla Walla Choral Society presents ldquoJubilate Deordquo 3 pm May 1 Walla Walla University Church College Place Details 509-386-2445

The Walla Walla Valley Farmers Market opens local produce artisans and an outdoor concert 9 am-1 pm Saturdays and Sundays through Oct 30 Crawford Park Fourth ave and Main St Details gowallawallafarmersmar-ketcom or 509-520-3647

through may 22Enjoy the annual Senior art Thesis Exhibition Sheehan Gallery Whitman College Details 509-527-5249

through JuLy 31The Tamaacutestslikt Cultural In-stitute hosts the traveling OMSI exhibit ldquoamazing Feats of agingrdquo explor-ing the mysteries of why animals and humans age Details 541-966-9748

may 4The YWCa leadership luncheon ldquoMatters that Matterrdquo is informational and inspirational with guest speakers Kristine Van Raden and Molly Da-vis Noon Marcus Whit-man Hotel Details 509-525-2570

Walla Walla Wine Works hosts music on Wednes-days downtown Details 509-522-1261

may 5First Thursday Concert at St Pauls Episcopal Church 323 Catherine Street Walla Walla 1215-1250 pm will feature the Steel Drum Band from Walla Walla Uni-versity directed by Brandon Beck Details 529-1083

The Whitman College Visit-ing Writers Reading series presents Whitman Reading 7 pm Kimball Theatre De-tails whitmanedu

may 5-7 12-14Walla Walla High School Drama Department pres-ents ldquoFiddler on the Roofrdquo musical version 7 pm and 2 pm matinee on Saturdays May 7 and 14 Walla Walla High School Performing arts audito-rium Details Tickets can be reserved by calling 509-526-8613 the Wa-Hi box office

may 5-8 19-21a performance of ldquoThe 25th a nnua l Putnam County Spelling Beerdquo 8 pm Harper Joy Theatre Whitman College Details 509-527-5180

may 6-7Music on the weekends at the Backstage Bistro De-tails 509-526-0690

Sapolil Cellars hosts music on Friday and Saturday De-tails 509-520-5258

The Wildfire hosts music every Friday and Saturday Wildhorse Resort amp Casino Pendleton Details 800-654-9453

may 6-8Walla Walla Valley Winer-ies offer an opportunity to taste their new creations during Spring Release Weekend area wineries introduce new wines and winemakers share their creative inspiration Details 509-526-3117

may 6artWalK First Fridays May through December Visit galleries and chat with art-ists 5-8 pm Downtown Walla Walla Visit artwalk-wallawallacom

may 6-8 13-14The little Theatre presents ldquoalice In Wonderlandrdquo adapted from lewis Carroll 8 pm Friday-Saturday 2 pm Sunday little Theatre of Walla Walla Details 509-529-3683

may 7The annual Junior Horse Show brings great riding action to Milton-Freewater Pioneer Posse Grounds Details 541-938-3379

Daytonrsquos annual Street Sale turns a section of Third Street into a giant yard sale benefits churches and com-munity projects Dayton Details 509-382-4825

artist reception and dem-onstration Washington art-ist Dwight Duke exhibits his painting bronze sculptures and gunpowder light pan-els 6-730 pm Reininger Winery Details 509-522-1994

may 8Every Sunday the living History actors portray in-dividuals from the arearsquos past 2 pm Fort Walla Walla Museum Details 509-525-7703

may 13-15The annual Balloon Stam-pede brings as many as 50 hot-air balloons to the Walla Walla County Fairgrounds This colorful festival re-mains a Valley tradition Ear-ly morning flights (weather permitting) arts amp crafts antique autos commercial booths live entertainment and food Balloons light up to music at the Saturday evening Nite Glow Details 509-525-0850

may 14annual adult event cele-brates the characters who populated Pendletonrsquos past Must have reservations Pendleton Underground Tours Details 800-226-6398

may 14-15 may 27-29Walla Walla Drag Strip con-tinues the weekend fun Details wwdragstripcom or 509-200-6287

may 15Walla Walla University Chamber Series featuring Robyn McCabe 730 pm MKW Fine arts auditorium Details 509-527-2571

may 18To celebrate the opening of Walla Wallarsquos Power House Theatre and a four-day run of Seattle Shakespeare Companyrsquos ldquoThe Merry Wives of WindsorrdquoWalla Walla lifestyles will pres-ent a gala event This exclusive evening will en-chant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fash-ion from 530-9 pm at the Power House Theatre Sixth amp Rose Walla Walla To purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewalla-wallacom

may 19-21During Pendletonrsquos Cattle Baron Weekend enjoy an art exhibit by a talented group of women artists ldquoIn the Company of Cowgirlsrdquo Hamleyrsquos Steakhouse Pendleton Visit inthecom-panyofcowgirlscom or call 541-676-5013

may 19-22Whitman College 50th Reunion class of 1961 Whitman College Details 509-527-5952

Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merr y Wives of Windsorrdquo Pow-erhouse Theater Details 509-742-0739

may 21The annual Ducky Derby is a day of family fun all for a good cause Watch the ducks race down Mill Creek to help fund the Exchange Clubrsquos efforts at preventing child abuse and neglect 1130 am-330 pm Race at about 2 pm Walla Walla Community College De-tails 509-527-4300

Walla Walla University Spring Choral Concert 5 pm Walla Walla Univer-sity Church Details 509-527-2571

learn to contra dance an old-fashioned coun-try dance Music by the Wednesday Night Band 7 pm teaching and practice 730 pm regular dance Unity Church of Peace 810

C St Walla Walla Details 541-938-7403

may 22The Whitman College graduating class of 2011 accepts the challenge 11 am Memorial lawn Whitman College Details 509-527-5156

may 26 27 28 29Walla Walla Community College Theatre arts De-partment presents ldquoZoot Suitrdquo by luis Valdez 7 pm each night and Sunday 2 pm matinee W WCC Performing arts Center Details 509-527-4575

may 27-30 Dayton Days has been a Memorial Weekend tradi-tion in Dayton for nearly 100 years Highlights include a Saturday-morning parade on historic Main Street rodeo tour of Dayton and Memorial Day Fun Run De-tails 509-382-4825 or visit historicdaytoncom

may 28-30The Touchet River Roundup mdash the annual Celebration of Sobriety at the fairgrounds focuses on family fun ac-tivities Waitsburg Details 509-526-3602

may 29annual Onion Man Tria-thalon 9 am Bennington lake Details wwmulti-sportscom or call 509-529-9187

may 30Waitsburgrsquos annual Memo-rial Day celebration hosted by veterans for all veterans Details 509-337-6546

Walla Walla LifestyLes 45

photo by DarrenenspElliswhereenspinenspwallaenspwallaensp

Lastenspmonthrsquosenspclueensp

This sculptural cornucopia marks the spot where all of Walla Walla meets the producers and wersquore not talking about the Zero Mostel and Gene Wild-er musical For you GPS fans latitude 4606678 N longitude 11834197 W

Clueensp

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The sculpture tops the farmers market gazebo on the corner of Fourth Avenue North and West Main Street

Contestensprulesif you have the answer e-mail it to rickdoylewwubcom or send it to Where in Walla Walla 112 S 1st Ave PO Box 1358 Walla Walla WA 99362 The names of 10 people with correct answers will be randomly selected and they will receive this great-looking mug as proof of their local knowledge and good taste

Annette CarterShirley richterDebbie FullenJudy CarlsonEloise Phillips

Dan Countsvicky ScanlonJanet TurnerTam LennoxBruce Campbell

46 Walla Walla LifestyLes

1 amavi cellars3796 Peppers Bridge Road (509) 525-3541 wwwamavicellarscom

2 Basel cellars estate winery2901 Old Milton Hwy (509) 522-0200 wwwbaselcellarscom

3 Bergevin Lane vineyards 1215 W Poplar St (509) 526-4300 bergevinlanecom

4 Bunchgrass winery151 Bunchgrass lane (509) 540-8963 wwwbunchgrasswinerycom

5 canoe ridge vineyard1102 W Cherry St (509) 527-0885 wwwcanoeridgevineyardcom

6 castillo de feliciana85728 Telephone Pole Road Milton-Freewater OR (541) 558-3656 wwwcastillodefelicianacom

7 don carlo vineyardBy appointment Only (509) 540-5784 wwwdoncarlovineyardcom

8 dunham cellars150 E Boeing ave (509) 529-4685 wwwdunhamcellarscom

9 five star cellars 840 C St (509) 527-8400 wwwfivestarcellarscom

10 forgeron cellars 33 W Birch St (509) 522-9463 wwwforgeroncellarscom

21 sapolil cellars15 E Main St (509) 520-5258 wwwsapolilcellarscom

22 seven hills winery 212 N Third ave (509) 529-7198 wwwsevenhillswinerycom

23 sinclair estate vineyards 109 E Main Ste 100 (509) 876-4300 wwwsinclairestatevineyardscom

24 spring valley vineyard 18 N Second ave (509) 525-1506 wwwspringvalleyvineyardcom

25 suLei cellars355 S Second ave (503) 529-0840 www suleicellarscom

highway

12

2nd ave

1st ave

125

3rd ave

Mai

n St

Rose

St

Sum

ach

St

alder St

Park St

WHITMANCOLLEGE

Palouse St

Colville St

4th ave

Main St

Pine St

Poplar St

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Spokane St Boyer ave

Rose St

Poplar St9th St

13th ave

Cherry St

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11 foundry vineyards Corner of 13th ave and abadie St (509) 529-0736 wwwwallawallafoundrycomvineyards

12 fort walla walla cellars 127 E Main St (509) 520-1095 wwwfortwallawallacellarscom

13 glencorrie8052 Old Highway 12 (509) 525-2585 wwwglencorriecom

14 grantwood winery 2428 W Highway 12 (509) 301-0719 (509) 301-9546

15 Lrsquoecole no 41 winery41 lowden School Road and US Hwy 12 (509) 525-0940 wwwlecolecom

16 Long shadows1604 Frenchtown Road (Formerly Ireland Road) (509) 526-0905 wwwlongshadowscom By invitation only Requests accepted on a limited basis Please call to inquire

17 Lowden hills winery1401 W Pine St (509) 527-1040 wwwlowdenhillswinerycom

18 northstar winery 1736 JB George Road (509) 524-4883 wwwnorthstarmerlotcom

19 pepper Bridge winery1704 JB George Road (509) 525-6502 wwwpepperbridgecom

20 robison ranch cellars2839 Robison Ranch Road (509) 301-3480 robisonranchcellarscom

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20

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26 syZygy 405 E Boeing ave (509) 522-0484 wwwsyzygywinescom

27 three rivers winery5641 Old Highway 12 (509) 526-9463 infoThreeRiversWinerycom

28 tertulia cellars1564 Whiteley Road (509) 525-5700 wwwtertuliacellarscom

29 trust cellars 1050 Merlot Drive (509) 529-4511 wwwtrustcellarscom

30 va piano vineyards1793 JB George Road (509) 529-0900 wwwvapianovineyardscom

31 walla walla vintnersVineyard lane off Mill Creek Road (509) 525-4724 wwwwallawallavintnerscom

32 walla walla wineworks31 E Main St (509) 522-1261 wwwwallawallawineworkscom

33 whitman cellars1015 W Pine St (509) 529-1142 wwwwhitmancellarscom

34 woodward canyon winery11920 W Hwy 12 lowden (509) 525-4129 wwwwoodwardcanyoncom

35 JLc winery425 B St (509) 301-5148

36 saviah cellars1979 JB George Rd

highway 12

E St

Beech ave

lockheed ave

Piper ave

G St

Mill Creek Rd

Isaacs ave

AirportTerminal

Peppers B

ridge Rd

Pranger R

d

Old M

ilton Hw

y

Old Milton Hwy

Braden R

d

JB George Rd

Whiteley Rd

Stateline RdWaSHINGTON

OREGON

larson

highway 12 last Chance R

d

Frog HollowM

cDonald R

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lowden - G

ardena Rd

LOWDEN

Detour Rd

Mojonnier Rd

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To Touchet Detour R

dFrenchtow

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Hoon R

dShort Rd

S G

ose StCollege a

ve

To Walla Walla

To M

ilton

-Fre

ewat

er

To Walla Walla City Center

airp

ort W

ay

Grumman ave

Fairchild ave

Cessna ave

aeronca ave F St

lear ave

Douglas ave

Curtis ave

C St

Republic ave

Ryan ave

F St

Stinson ave

B St

Boeing ave

F St

D St

a St

ToWaitsburg

DaytonLewiston

To Milton-Freew

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Smith has gardened for years at his home at 38 Mulberry Court in College Place He used to grow vegetables and flowers now he is strictly focusing on flowers mdash with fabulous results roses delphiniums and lots of irises line the fence

ldquoirises mdash irsquove always enjoyed themrdquo he says ldquoThey take a little bit of weeding and watering but not much morerdquo itrsquos the gardenerrsquos dream mdash low maintenance with a big return

A retired orthopedic surgeon Smith has in the past gardened more extensively than he does now But he has enough plants to keep him busy His new project is planting more of the reblooming iris These are still hardy but you get twice the reward they bloom in the spring then again in the fall

ldquoTheyrsquore easy to grow and spectacular for a short time iris take less care than a lot of thingsrdquo Smith says

His secret for gardening is simple and therersquos no getting around it ldquoTime and workrdquo he laughs

Hersquos getting ready to start in the garden ldquoi need to clean out the leaves and the old foliage of the irisrdquo

in addition to the basic cleaning and maintenance Smith just decides how many plants to keep Bulb flowers are hardy and they multiply on their own

ldquoAfter five years you usually have to separate the bulbs when they get too thick i donrsquot have room to add more i put in the new re-blooming onesrdquo he explains ldquoi may add more and a few other thingsrdquo

But in a garden you can always try something new or rearrange existing plants often with a spectacular outcome

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itrsquos an odd location since it can only be seen as yoursquore leaving town but it always makes me smile This valley my adopted home is indeed a great place to be

i recently finished reading the great Western writer Wallace Stegnerrsquos book ldquoThe Sound of Mountain Waterrdquo One of his essays traces his nomadic childhood which left him feeling rootless and without a place that he felt he could call home

i identify with his feeling of not belonging i was born to a single woman from Massachusetts in a New york City hospital i stayed a scant few days before being placed with an adoption agency Born in a place i had no familial connection to i was immediately deprived of my biological family Most of my childhood was spent in suburban Cleveland Ohio Moves to upstate New york New England and Pennsylvania brought me no closer to calling any place home i loved living in the western Massachusetts town of Stockbridge but the multigenerational denizens of the town left few openings for newcomers like me i lived in central Pennsylvania for several decades but felt detached from the deep roots that most people had in the area

When we came west (for my husband a homecoming to his Oregon roots for me a new experience) i noticed that even in long-established towns like Walla Walla there is ample room for newcomers who want to be

part of the community And most folks who choose to come here donrsquot seem to want to change the valley they prefer to embrace it

While the occasional newbie whines about the lack of Whole Foods or Nordstrom they soon discover our farmers markets the wide variety of local shops and boutiques and our world-class restaurants They fall in love with our charming downtowns the small-town friendliness of the people and our kid-friendly environment Then therersquos the holiday parade the fair the ever-present Blue Mountains the parks the museums the wineries mdash really whatrsquos not to like The communities of our valley represent America at its best

irsquom a newspaper junkie i love to read everything from news to sports to classifieds mdash even the obituaries The obits are a fascinating window on our valley Many of the people chronicled were born here some lived all their lives here inextricably bound to this place But a number of people came here from other places often far away and have made a mark on our area Which makes me wonder mdash is a place any less of a hometown because you choose it or is it based primarily on the happenstance of your birth it seems that therersquos room for both paths to calling this wonderful valley home

itrsquos also our strength because collectively as a community we bring both deep familial and cultural traditions as well as the fresh perspective of newcomers to our area irsquom glad mdash after decades of searching mdash that i finally found my hometown a place that feels just right

diane reed can be reached at ladybookearthlinknet Between columns and when the spirit moves her she blogs at wwwponderingsbydianereedblogspotcom from her home overlooking the pond at lions Park in College Place

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44 Walla Walla LifestyLes

Maymay 1The annual Kennel Club Dog Show Walla Walla County Fairgrounds De-tails 509-558-3854

The Walla Walla University Drama Department pres-ents a performance of ldquoMy Fair ladyrdquo 2 pm matinee Details 509-527-2656

The Walla Walla Choral Society presents ldquoJubilate Deordquo 3 pm May 1 Walla Walla University Church College Place Details 509-386-2445

The Walla Walla Valley Farmers Market opens local produce artisans and an outdoor concert 9 am-1 pm Saturdays and Sundays through Oct 30 Crawford Park Fourth ave and Main St Details gowallawallafarmersmar-ketcom or 509-520-3647

through may 22Enjoy the annual Senior art Thesis Exhibition Sheehan Gallery Whitman College Details 509-527-5249

through JuLy 31The Tamaacutestslikt Cultural In-stitute hosts the traveling OMSI exhibit ldquoamazing Feats of agingrdquo explor-ing the mysteries of why animals and humans age Details 541-966-9748

may 4The YWCa leadership luncheon ldquoMatters that Matterrdquo is informational and inspirational with guest speakers Kristine Van Raden and Molly Da-vis Noon Marcus Whit-man Hotel Details 509-525-2570

Walla Walla Wine Works hosts music on Wednes-days downtown Details 509-522-1261

may 5First Thursday Concert at St Pauls Episcopal Church 323 Catherine Street Walla Walla 1215-1250 pm will feature the Steel Drum Band from Walla Walla Uni-versity directed by Brandon Beck Details 529-1083

The Whitman College Visit-ing Writers Reading series presents Whitman Reading 7 pm Kimball Theatre De-tails whitmanedu

may 5-7 12-14Walla Walla High School Drama Department pres-ents ldquoFiddler on the Roofrdquo musical version 7 pm and 2 pm matinee on Saturdays May 7 and 14 Walla Walla High School Performing arts audito-rium Details Tickets can be reserved by calling 509-526-8613 the Wa-Hi box office

may 5-8 19-21a performance of ldquoThe 25th a nnua l Putnam County Spelling Beerdquo 8 pm Harper Joy Theatre Whitman College Details 509-527-5180

may 6-7Music on the weekends at the Backstage Bistro De-tails 509-526-0690

Sapolil Cellars hosts music on Friday and Saturday De-tails 509-520-5258

The Wildfire hosts music every Friday and Saturday Wildhorse Resort amp Casino Pendleton Details 800-654-9453

may 6-8Walla Walla Valley Winer-ies offer an opportunity to taste their new creations during Spring Release Weekend area wineries introduce new wines and winemakers share their creative inspiration Details 509-526-3117

may 6artWalK First Fridays May through December Visit galleries and chat with art-ists 5-8 pm Downtown Walla Walla Visit artwalk-wallawallacom

may 6-8 13-14The little Theatre presents ldquoalice In Wonderlandrdquo adapted from lewis Carroll 8 pm Friday-Saturday 2 pm Sunday little Theatre of Walla Walla Details 509-529-3683

may 7The annual Junior Horse Show brings great riding action to Milton-Freewater Pioneer Posse Grounds Details 541-938-3379

Daytonrsquos annual Street Sale turns a section of Third Street into a giant yard sale benefits churches and com-munity projects Dayton Details 509-382-4825

artist reception and dem-onstration Washington art-ist Dwight Duke exhibits his painting bronze sculptures and gunpowder light pan-els 6-730 pm Reininger Winery Details 509-522-1994

may 8Every Sunday the living History actors portray in-dividuals from the arearsquos past 2 pm Fort Walla Walla Museum Details 509-525-7703

may 13-15The annual Balloon Stam-pede brings as many as 50 hot-air balloons to the Walla Walla County Fairgrounds This colorful festival re-mains a Valley tradition Ear-ly morning flights (weather permitting) arts amp crafts antique autos commercial booths live entertainment and food Balloons light up to music at the Saturday evening Nite Glow Details 509-525-0850

may 14annual adult event cele-brates the characters who populated Pendletonrsquos past Must have reservations Pendleton Underground Tours Details 800-226-6398

may 14-15 may 27-29Walla Walla Drag Strip con-tinues the weekend fun Details wwdragstripcom or 509-200-6287

may 15Walla Walla University Chamber Series featuring Robyn McCabe 730 pm MKW Fine arts auditorium Details 509-527-2571

may 18To celebrate the opening of Walla Wallarsquos Power House Theatre and a four-day run of Seattle Shakespeare Companyrsquos ldquoThe Merry Wives of WindsorrdquoWalla Walla lifestyles will pres-ent a gala event This exclusive evening will en-chant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fash-ion from 530-9 pm at the Power House Theatre Sixth amp Rose Walla Walla To purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewalla-wallacom

may 19-21During Pendletonrsquos Cattle Baron Weekend enjoy an art exhibit by a talented group of women artists ldquoIn the Company of Cowgirlsrdquo Hamleyrsquos Steakhouse Pendleton Visit inthecom-panyofcowgirlscom or call 541-676-5013

may 19-22Whitman College 50th Reunion class of 1961 Whitman College Details 509-527-5952

Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merr y Wives of Windsorrdquo Pow-erhouse Theater Details 509-742-0739

may 21The annual Ducky Derby is a day of family fun all for a good cause Watch the ducks race down Mill Creek to help fund the Exchange Clubrsquos efforts at preventing child abuse and neglect 1130 am-330 pm Race at about 2 pm Walla Walla Community College De-tails 509-527-4300

Walla Walla University Spring Choral Concert 5 pm Walla Walla Univer-sity Church Details 509-527-2571

learn to contra dance an old-fashioned coun-try dance Music by the Wednesday Night Band 7 pm teaching and practice 730 pm regular dance Unity Church of Peace 810

C St Walla Walla Details 541-938-7403

may 22The Whitman College graduating class of 2011 accepts the challenge 11 am Memorial lawn Whitman College Details 509-527-5156

may 26 27 28 29Walla Walla Community College Theatre arts De-partment presents ldquoZoot Suitrdquo by luis Valdez 7 pm each night and Sunday 2 pm matinee W WCC Performing arts Center Details 509-527-4575

may 27-30 Dayton Days has been a Memorial Weekend tradi-tion in Dayton for nearly 100 years Highlights include a Saturday-morning parade on historic Main Street rodeo tour of Dayton and Memorial Day Fun Run De-tails 509-382-4825 or visit historicdaytoncom

may 28-30The Touchet River Roundup mdash the annual Celebration of Sobriety at the fairgrounds focuses on family fun ac-tivities Waitsburg Details 509-526-3602

may 29annual Onion Man Tria-thalon 9 am Bennington lake Details wwmulti-sportscom or call 509-529-9187

may 30Waitsburgrsquos annual Memo-rial Day celebration hosted by veterans for all veterans Details 509-337-6546

Walla Walla LifestyLes 45

photo by DarrenenspElliswhereenspinenspwallaenspwallaensp

Lastenspmonthrsquosenspclueensp

This sculptural cornucopia marks the spot where all of Walla Walla meets the producers and wersquore not talking about the Zero Mostel and Gene Wild-er musical For you GPS fans latitude 4606678 N longitude 11834197 W

Clueensp

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Lastenspmonthrsquosenspwinnersensp

answerensp

The sculpture tops the farmers market gazebo on the corner of Fourth Avenue North and West Main Street

Contestensprulesif you have the answer e-mail it to rickdoylewwubcom or send it to Where in Walla Walla 112 S 1st Ave PO Box 1358 Walla Walla WA 99362 The names of 10 people with correct answers will be randomly selected and they will receive this great-looking mug as proof of their local knowledge and good taste

Annette CarterShirley richterDebbie FullenJudy CarlsonEloise Phillips

Dan Countsvicky ScanlonJanet TurnerTam LennoxBruce Campbell

46 Walla Walla LifestyLes

1 amavi cellars3796 Peppers Bridge Road (509) 525-3541 wwwamavicellarscom

2 Basel cellars estate winery2901 Old Milton Hwy (509) 522-0200 wwwbaselcellarscom

3 Bergevin Lane vineyards 1215 W Poplar St (509) 526-4300 bergevinlanecom

4 Bunchgrass winery151 Bunchgrass lane (509) 540-8963 wwwbunchgrasswinerycom

5 canoe ridge vineyard1102 W Cherry St (509) 527-0885 wwwcanoeridgevineyardcom

6 castillo de feliciana85728 Telephone Pole Road Milton-Freewater OR (541) 558-3656 wwwcastillodefelicianacom

7 don carlo vineyardBy appointment Only (509) 540-5784 wwwdoncarlovineyardcom

8 dunham cellars150 E Boeing ave (509) 529-4685 wwwdunhamcellarscom

9 five star cellars 840 C St (509) 527-8400 wwwfivestarcellarscom

10 forgeron cellars 33 W Birch St (509) 522-9463 wwwforgeroncellarscom

21 sapolil cellars15 E Main St (509) 520-5258 wwwsapolilcellarscom

22 seven hills winery 212 N Third ave (509) 529-7198 wwwsevenhillswinerycom

23 sinclair estate vineyards 109 E Main Ste 100 (509) 876-4300 wwwsinclairestatevineyardscom

24 spring valley vineyard 18 N Second ave (509) 525-1506 wwwspringvalleyvineyardcom

25 suLei cellars355 S Second ave (503) 529-0840 www suleicellarscom

highway

12

2nd ave

1st ave

125

3rd ave

Mai

n St

Rose

St

Sum

ach

St

alder St

Park St

WHITMANCOLLEGE

Palouse St

Colville St

4th ave

Main St

Pine St

Poplar St

Birch St

Spokane St Boyer ave

Rose St

Poplar St9th St

13th ave

Cherry St

3

10

25

22

24

2132

23

12

P

PP

11 foundry vineyards Corner of 13th ave and abadie St (509) 529-0736 wwwwallawallafoundrycomvineyards

12 fort walla walla cellars 127 E Main St (509) 520-1095 wwwfortwallawallacellarscom

13 glencorrie8052 Old Highway 12 (509) 525-2585 wwwglencorriecom

14 grantwood winery 2428 W Highway 12 (509) 301-0719 (509) 301-9546

15 Lrsquoecole no 41 winery41 lowden School Road and US Hwy 12 (509) 525-0940 wwwlecolecom

16 Long shadows1604 Frenchtown Road (Formerly Ireland Road) (509) 526-0905 wwwlongshadowscom By invitation only Requests accepted on a limited basis Please call to inquire

17 Lowden hills winery1401 W Pine St (509) 527-1040 wwwlowdenhillswinerycom

18 northstar winery 1736 JB George Road (509) 524-4883 wwwnorthstarmerlotcom

19 pepper Bridge winery1704 JB George Road (509) 525-6502 wwwpepperbridgecom

20 robison ranch cellars2839 Robison Ranch Road (509) 301-3480 robisonranchcellarscom

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14 1513

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17 33

11

20

Walla Walla LifestyLes 47

26 syZygy 405 E Boeing ave (509) 522-0484 wwwsyzygywinescom

27 three rivers winery5641 Old Highway 12 (509) 526-9463 infoThreeRiversWinerycom

28 tertulia cellars1564 Whiteley Road (509) 525-5700 wwwtertuliacellarscom

29 trust cellars 1050 Merlot Drive (509) 529-4511 wwwtrustcellarscom

30 va piano vineyards1793 JB George Road (509) 529-0900 wwwvapianovineyardscom

31 walla walla vintnersVineyard lane off Mill Creek Road (509) 525-4724 wwwwallawallavintnerscom

32 walla walla wineworks31 E Main St (509) 522-1261 wwwwallawallawineworkscom

33 whitman cellars1015 W Pine St (509) 529-1142 wwwwhitmancellarscom

34 woodward canyon winery11920 W Hwy 12 lowden (509) 525-4129 wwwwoodwardcanyoncom

35 JLc winery425 B St (509) 301-5148

36 saviah cellars1979 JB George Rd

highway 12

E St

Beech ave

lockheed ave

Piper ave

G St

Mill Creek Rd

Isaacs ave

AirportTerminal

Peppers B

ridge Rd

Pranger R

d

Old M

ilton Hw

y

Old Milton Hwy

Braden R

d

JB George Rd

Whiteley Rd

Stateline RdWaSHINGTON

OREGON

larson

highway 12 last Chance R

d

Frog HollowM

cDonald R

d

lowden - G

ardena Rd

LOWDEN

Detour Rd

Mojonnier Rd

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eagle Rd

To Touchet Detour R

dFrenchtow

n Rd

Hoon R

dShort Rd

S G

ose StCollege a

ve

To Walla Walla

To M

ilton

-Fre

ewat

er

To Walla Walla City Center

airp

ort W

ay

Grumman ave

Fairchild ave

Cessna ave

aeronca ave F St

lear ave

Douglas ave

Curtis ave

C St

Republic ave

Ryan ave

F St

Stinson ave

B St

Boeing ave

F St

D St

a St

ToWaitsburg

DaytonLewiston

To Milton-Freew

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Tumac MachineryWalla Walla

(509) 525 - 2010wwwTumacMachinerycom

UNION-BULLETIN

UNION-BULLETINWALLA WALLA

$300 off new X500 series Select Series tractors Offer is valid 3111 to 8111 $250 off new Z445 EZtrak mowers Offer is valid 3111 to 53111 Some restriction apply other special rates and terms may be availableso see your dealer for details and other financing options Available at participating dealers Prices and model availability may vary by dealer sup1Offer valid from 3111 to 8111 Interest will be charged to your accountfrom the purchase data at 179 APR if the purchase balance is not paid in full within 12 months or if your account is otherwise in default Subject to approved credit on John Deere Financial Revolving Plan a serviceof FPC Financial fsb For consumer use only Some restrictions apply Other special rates and terms may be available including installment financing and financing for commercial use Available at participating dealers in the United States Prices and savings in US dollars Taxes freight setup and delivery not included Prices subject to change without notice ^The engine horsepower information is provided by the engine manufacturer to be used for comparison purposes only Actual operating horsepower will be less Hour limitation apply and vary by model See the LIMITED WARRANTY FOR NEW JOHN DEERE COMMERCIAL ANDCONSUMER EQUIPMENT at johndeerecom for details John Deerersquos green and yellow symbol and JOHN DEERE are trademarks of Deere amp CompanyAD3KKCU1Aı487-00346843

v

103184

Page 40: May 2011 Lifestyles

40 Walla Walla LifestyLes

secretenspgardens

Walla Walla LifestyLes 41

42 Walla Walla LifestyLes

therersquosenspaenspsignenspatensptheenspcornerenspofenspDallesenspMilitaryenspRoadenspandenspRouteensp125enspthatenspsaysenspldquoWallaenspWallaenspaenspgreatenspplaceensptoenspberdquoensp

itrsquos an odd location since it can only be seen as yoursquore leaving town but it always makes me smile This valley my adopted home is indeed a great place to be

i recently finished reading the great Western writer Wallace Stegnerrsquos book ldquoThe Sound of Mountain Waterrdquo One of his essays traces his nomadic childhood which left him feeling rootless and without a place that he felt he could call home

i identify with his feeling of not belonging i was born to a single woman from Massachusetts in a New york City hospital i stayed a scant few days before being placed with an adoption agency Born in a place i had no familial connection to i was immediately deprived of my biological family Most of my childhood was spent in suburban Cleveland Ohio Moves to upstate New york New England and Pennsylvania brought me no closer to calling any place home i loved living in the western Massachusetts town of Stockbridge but the multigenerational denizens of the town left few openings for newcomers like me i lived in central Pennsylvania for several decades but felt detached from the deep roots that most people had in the area

When we came west (for my husband a homecoming to his Oregon roots for me a new experience) i noticed that even in long-established towns like Walla Walla there is ample room for newcomers who want to be

part of the community And most folks who choose to come here donrsquot seem to want to change the valley they prefer to embrace it

While the occasional newbie whines about the lack of Whole Foods or Nordstrom they soon discover our farmers markets the wide variety of local shops and boutiques and our world-class restaurants They fall in love with our charming downtowns the small-town friendliness of the people and our kid-friendly environment Then therersquos the holiday parade the fair the ever-present Blue Mountains the parks the museums the wineries mdash really whatrsquos not to like The communities of our valley represent America at its best

irsquom a newspaper junkie i love to read everything from news to sports to classifieds mdash even the obituaries The obits are a fascinating window on our valley Many of the people chronicled were born here some lived all their lives here inextricably bound to this place But a number of people came here from other places often far away and have made a mark on our area Which makes me wonder mdash is a place any less of a hometown because you choose it or is it based primarily on the happenstance of your birth it seems that therersquos room for both paths to calling this wonderful valley home

itrsquos also our strength because collectively as a community we bring both deep familial and cultural traditions as well as the fresh perspective of newcomers to our area irsquom glad mdash after decades of searching mdash that i finally found my hometown a place that feels just right

diane reed can be reached at ladybookearthlinknet Between columns and when the spirit moves her she blogs at wwwponderingsbydianereedblogspotcom from her home overlooking the pond at lions Park in College Place

by DianeenspReedensp enspphoto by DianeenspReedponderings

theenspmeaningenspofensphome(town)Paella Dinner Flamenco Guitarist

Friday May 6

WALLA WALLA VALLEY

85728 Telephone Pole Road Milton-Freewater OR 97862

(541) 558-3656 or (509) 220-2514 castillodefelicianacom

1027

70 S

L

Sueno hecho en realidad ldquoA dream made into realityrdquo

BRILLAacuteNTEBrut Sparkling WineMeacutethode Champenoise

Produced And Bottled ByCastillo de Feliciana Vineyard amp Winery

Milton-Freewater OR 97862

GOVERNMENT WARNING (1) ACCORDING TO THE SURGEON GENERAL WOMEN SHOULD NOT DRINK ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES DURING PREGNANCY BECAUSE OF THE RISK OF BIRTH DEFECTS (2) CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES IMPAIRS YOUR ABILITY TO DRIVE A CAR OR OPERATE MACHINERY AND MAY CAUSE HEALTH PROBLEMS

contains sulfites

is Brut sparkling was created for those who prefer a semi-dry cuveacutee Made according to the traditional Meacutethode Champenoise technique the wine is fermented inside the same bottle from which it is served is time-honored process takes one year to complete

Serve chilled --- Refresh your palate ---- EnjoySam amp Deb

BRILLAacuteNTEMeacutethode Champenoise

2008COLUMBIA VALLEY

Alc 113 by Vol 750mL

front 35rdquox2625rdquo back 2ldquox2rdquo

Visit Us Spring Release

Weekend May 7 amp 8 2011

Complementary Wine Tasting with this Ad

We invite you to sample our hand crafted Spanish

wines enjoy our patio and sit by our fire pit

Tasting Room Open Friday thru Sunday

11am to 5pm or by appointment

AVAilAble in liMiTeD qUAnTieS

our brut Sparkling Wine Meacutethode Champenose

Walla Walla LifestyLes 43

A local lendercommitted

to your future

111 W Main St WW bull 509-524-0863

SERVICES INCLUDEbull Affordable Mortgage Lendingbull Conventional Loansbull Government Lendingbull Home Equity Lines of Creditbull Investment Property Lendingbull Non-Conventional ldquoJumbordquo Lending

9515

6 Contact Tera Davisand Her Team Today

A local lender

Higher Standards

Tera Davis

ww

wfoundryvineyardscom

13th amp Abadie St 5095290736

102766509-527-8400

840 C StreetWalla Walla Regional Airport

Walla Walla WA 99362

Open Saturday 10-4or by appointment

wwwfivestarcellarscom 40100

103192

2428 Heritage Road (Old Highway 12)

Open Friday amp Saturday 1200 - 430

509-301-9546 509-529-5872

grantwoodcharternet

Closed January amp February

Appointments Welcome

1029

67 s

l1 1 B o y e r A v e 5 0 9 8 7 6 2 4 9 3

We are totally dedicated to each photographerrsquos personal vision

bull p r i n t i n g

bull s c a n n i n g

bull e d i t i n g

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44 Walla Walla LifestyLes

Maymay 1The annual Kennel Club Dog Show Walla Walla County Fairgrounds De-tails 509-558-3854

The Walla Walla University Drama Department pres-ents a performance of ldquoMy Fair ladyrdquo 2 pm matinee Details 509-527-2656

The Walla Walla Choral Society presents ldquoJubilate Deordquo 3 pm May 1 Walla Walla University Church College Place Details 509-386-2445

The Walla Walla Valley Farmers Market opens local produce artisans and an outdoor concert 9 am-1 pm Saturdays and Sundays through Oct 30 Crawford Park Fourth ave and Main St Details gowallawallafarmersmar-ketcom or 509-520-3647

through may 22Enjoy the annual Senior art Thesis Exhibition Sheehan Gallery Whitman College Details 509-527-5249

through JuLy 31The Tamaacutestslikt Cultural In-stitute hosts the traveling OMSI exhibit ldquoamazing Feats of agingrdquo explor-ing the mysteries of why animals and humans age Details 541-966-9748

may 4The YWCa leadership luncheon ldquoMatters that Matterrdquo is informational and inspirational with guest speakers Kristine Van Raden and Molly Da-vis Noon Marcus Whit-man Hotel Details 509-525-2570

Walla Walla Wine Works hosts music on Wednes-days downtown Details 509-522-1261

may 5First Thursday Concert at St Pauls Episcopal Church 323 Catherine Street Walla Walla 1215-1250 pm will feature the Steel Drum Band from Walla Walla Uni-versity directed by Brandon Beck Details 529-1083

The Whitman College Visit-ing Writers Reading series presents Whitman Reading 7 pm Kimball Theatre De-tails whitmanedu

may 5-7 12-14Walla Walla High School Drama Department pres-ents ldquoFiddler on the Roofrdquo musical version 7 pm and 2 pm matinee on Saturdays May 7 and 14 Walla Walla High School Performing arts audito-rium Details Tickets can be reserved by calling 509-526-8613 the Wa-Hi box office

may 5-8 19-21a performance of ldquoThe 25th a nnua l Putnam County Spelling Beerdquo 8 pm Harper Joy Theatre Whitman College Details 509-527-5180

may 6-7Music on the weekends at the Backstage Bistro De-tails 509-526-0690

Sapolil Cellars hosts music on Friday and Saturday De-tails 509-520-5258

The Wildfire hosts music every Friday and Saturday Wildhorse Resort amp Casino Pendleton Details 800-654-9453

may 6-8Walla Walla Valley Winer-ies offer an opportunity to taste their new creations during Spring Release Weekend area wineries introduce new wines and winemakers share their creative inspiration Details 509-526-3117

may 6artWalK First Fridays May through December Visit galleries and chat with art-ists 5-8 pm Downtown Walla Walla Visit artwalk-wallawallacom

may 6-8 13-14The little Theatre presents ldquoalice In Wonderlandrdquo adapted from lewis Carroll 8 pm Friday-Saturday 2 pm Sunday little Theatre of Walla Walla Details 509-529-3683

may 7The annual Junior Horse Show brings great riding action to Milton-Freewater Pioneer Posse Grounds Details 541-938-3379

Daytonrsquos annual Street Sale turns a section of Third Street into a giant yard sale benefits churches and com-munity projects Dayton Details 509-382-4825

artist reception and dem-onstration Washington art-ist Dwight Duke exhibits his painting bronze sculptures and gunpowder light pan-els 6-730 pm Reininger Winery Details 509-522-1994

may 8Every Sunday the living History actors portray in-dividuals from the arearsquos past 2 pm Fort Walla Walla Museum Details 509-525-7703

may 13-15The annual Balloon Stam-pede brings as many as 50 hot-air balloons to the Walla Walla County Fairgrounds This colorful festival re-mains a Valley tradition Ear-ly morning flights (weather permitting) arts amp crafts antique autos commercial booths live entertainment and food Balloons light up to music at the Saturday evening Nite Glow Details 509-525-0850

may 14annual adult event cele-brates the characters who populated Pendletonrsquos past Must have reservations Pendleton Underground Tours Details 800-226-6398

may 14-15 may 27-29Walla Walla Drag Strip con-tinues the weekend fun Details wwdragstripcom or 509-200-6287

may 15Walla Walla University Chamber Series featuring Robyn McCabe 730 pm MKW Fine arts auditorium Details 509-527-2571

may 18To celebrate the opening of Walla Wallarsquos Power House Theatre and a four-day run of Seattle Shakespeare Companyrsquos ldquoThe Merry Wives of WindsorrdquoWalla Walla lifestyles will pres-ent a gala event This exclusive evening will en-chant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fash-ion from 530-9 pm at the Power House Theatre Sixth amp Rose Walla Walla To purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewalla-wallacom

may 19-21During Pendletonrsquos Cattle Baron Weekend enjoy an art exhibit by a talented group of women artists ldquoIn the Company of Cowgirlsrdquo Hamleyrsquos Steakhouse Pendleton Visit inthecom-panyofcowgirlscom or call 541-676-5013

may 19-22Whitman College 50th Reunion class of 1961 Whitman College Details 509-527-5952

Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merr y Wives of Windsorrdquo Pow-erhouse Theater Details 509-742-0739

may 21The annual Ducky Derby is a day of family fun all for a good cause Watch the ducks race down Mill Creek to help fund the Exchange Clubrsquos efforts at preventing child abuse and neglect 1130 am-330 pm Race at about 2 pm Walla Walla Community College De-tails 509-527-4300

Walla Walla University Spring Choral Concert 5 pm Walla Walla Univer-sity Church Details 509-527-2571

learn to contra dance an old-fashioned coun-try dance Music by the Wednesday Night Band 7 pm teaching and practice 730 pm regular dance Unity Church of Peace 810

C St Walla Walla Details 541-938-7403

may 22The Whitman College graduating class of 2011 accepts the challenge 11 am Memorial lawn Whitman College Details 509-527-5156

may 26 27 28 29Walla Walla Community College Theatre arts De-partment presents ldquoZoot Suitrdquo by luis Valdez 7 pm each night and Sunday 2 pm matinee W WCC Performing arts Center Details 509-527-4575

may 27-30 Dayton Days has been a Memorial Weekend tradi-tion in Dayton for nearly 100 years Highlights include a Saturday-morning parade on historic Main Street rodeo tour of Dayton and Memorial Day Fun Run De-tails 509-382-4825 or visit historicdaytoncom

may 28-30The Touchet River Roundup mdash the annual Celebration of Sobriety at the fairgrounds focuses on family fun ac-tivities Waitsburg Details 509-526-3602

may 29annual Onion Man Tria-thalon 9 am Bennington lake Details wwmulti-sportscom or call 509-529-9187

may 30Waitsburgrsquos annual Memo-rial Day celebration hosted by veterans for all veterans Details 509-337-6546

Walla Walla LifestyLes 45

photo by DarrenenspElliswhereenspinenspwallaenspwallaensp

Lastenspmonthrsquosenspclueensp

This sculptural cornucopia marks the spot where all of Walla Walla meets the producers and wersquore not talking about the Zero Mostel and Gene Wild-er musical For you GPS fans latitude 4606678 N longitude 11834197 W

Clueensp

thisenspplaceenspisensphereenspforenspgoodenspmdashenspinenspeveryenspsenseenspofensptheenspwordenspWallaenspWallasenspvillageenspgreenenspwelcomesensppeopleenspofenspallenspagesenspandenspencouragesenspthemensptoenspputenspmoreenspplayenspinensptheirenspdays

Lastenspmonthrsquosenspwinnersensp

answerensp

The sculpture tops the farmers market gazebo on the corner of Fourth Avenue North and West Main Street

Contestensprulesif you have the answer e-mail it to rickdoylewwubcom or send it to Where in Walla Walla 112 S 1st Ave PO Box 1358 Walla Walla WA 99362 The names of 10 people with correct answers will be randomly selected and they will receive this great-looking mug as proof of their local knowledge and good taste

Annette CarterShirley richterDebbie FullenJudy CarlsonEloise Phillips

Dan Countsvicky ScanlonJanet TurnerTam LennoxBruce Campbell

46 Walla Walla LifestyLes

1 amavi cellars3796 Peppers Bridge Road (509) 525-3541 wwwamavicellarscom

2 Basel cellars estate winery2901 Old Milton Hwy (509) 522-0200 wwwbaselcellarscom

3 Bergevin Lane vineyards 1215 W Poplar St (509) 526-4300 bergevinlanecom

4 Bunchgrass winery151 Bunchgrass lane (509) 540-8963 wwwbunchgrasswinerycom

5 canoe ridge vineyard1102 W Cherry St (509) 527-0885 wwwcanoeridgevineyardcom

6 castillo de feliciana85728 Telephone Pole Road Milton-Freewater OR (541) 558-3656 wwwcastillodefelicianacom

7 don carlo vineyardBy appointment Only (509) 540-5784 wwwdoncarlovineyardcom

8 dunham cellars150 E Boeing ave (509) 529-4685 wwwdunhamcellarscom

9 five star cellars 840 C St (509) 527-8400 wwwfivestarcellarscom

10 forgeron cellars 33 W Birch St (509) 522-9463 wwwforgeroncellarscom

21 sapolil cellars15 E Main St (509) 520-5258 wwwsapolilcellarscom

22 seven hills winery 212 N Third ave (509) 529-7198 wwwsevenhillswinerycom

23 sinclair estate vineyards 109 E Main Ste 100 (509) 876-4300 wwwsinclairestatevineyardscom

24 spring valley vineyard 18 N Second ave (509) 525-1506 wwwspringvalleyvineyardcom

25 suLei cellars355 S Second ave (503) 529-0840 www suleicellarscom

highway

12

2nd ave

1st ave

125

3rd ave

Mai

n St

Rose

St

Sum

ach

St

alder St

Park St

WHITMANCOLLEGE

Palouse St

Colville St

4th ave

Main St

Pine St

Poplar St

Birch St

Spokane St Boyer ave

Rose St

Poplar St9th St

13th ave

Cherry St

3

10

25

22

24

2132

23

12

P

PP

11 foundry vineyards Corner of 13th ave and abadie St (509) 529-0736 wwwwallawallafoundrycomvineyards

12 fort walla walla cellars 127 E Main St (509) 520-1095 wwwfortwallawallacellarscom

13 glencorrie8052 Old Highway 12 (509) 525-2585 wwwglencorriecom

14 grantwood winery 2428 W Highway 12 (509) 301-0719 (509) 301-9546

15 Lrsquoecole no 41 winery41 lowden School Road and US Hwy 12 (509) 525-0940 wwwlecolecom

16 Long shadows1604 Frenchtown Road (Formerly Ireland Road) (509) 526-0905 wwwlongshadowscom By invitation only Requests accepted on a limited basis Please call to inquire

17 Lowden hills winery1401 W Pine St (509) 527-1040 wwwlowdenhillswinerycom

18 northstar winery 1736 JB George Road (509) 524-4883 wwwnorthstarmerlotcom

19 pepper Bridge winery1704 JB George Road (509) 525-6502 wwwpepperbridgecom

20 robison ranch cellars2839 Robison Ranch Road (509) 301-3480 robisonranchcellarscom

Ogravew

i n e m a pOcircOgrave

d o w n t o w nOcirc

14 1513

5

17 33

11

20

Walla Walla LifestyLes 47

26 syZygy 405 E Boeing ave (509) 522-0484 wwwsyzygywinescom

27 three rivers winery5641 Old Highway 12 (509) 526-9463 infoThreeRiversWinerycom

28 tertulia cellars1564 Whiteley Road (509) 525-5700 wwwtertuliacellarscom

29 trust cellars 1050 Merlot Drive (509) 529-4511 wwwtrustcellarscom

30 va piano vineyards1793 JB George Road (509) 529-0900 wwwvapianovineyardscom

31 walla walla vintnersVineyard lane off Mill Creek Road (509) 525-4724 wwwwallawallavintnerscom

32 walla walla wineworks31 E Main St (509) 522-1261 wwwwallawallawineworkscom

33 whitman cellars1015 W Pine St (509) 529-1142 wwwwhitmancellarscom

34 woodward canyon winery11920 W Hwy 12 lowden (509) 525-4129 wwwwoodwardcanyoncom

35 JLc winery425 B St (509) 301-5148

36 saviah cellars1979 JB George Rd

highway 12

E St

Beech ave

lockheed ave

Piper ave

G St

Mill Creek Rd

Isaacs ave

AirportTerminal

Peppers B

ridge Rd

Pranger R

d

Old M

ilton Hw

y

Old Milton Hwy

Braden R

d

JB George Rd

Whiteley Rd

Stateline RdWaSHINGTON

OREGON

larson

highway 12 last Chance R

d

Frog HollowM

cDonald R

d

lowden - G

ardena Rd

LOWDEN

Detour Rd

Mojonnier Rd

Sw

eagle Rd

To Touchet Detour R

dFrenchtow

n Rd

Hoon R

dShort Rd

S G

ose StCollege a

ve

To Walla Walla

To M

ilton

-Fre

ewat

er

To Walla Walla City Center

airp

ort W

ay

Grumman ave

Fairchild ave

Cessna ave

aeronca ave F St

lear ave

Douglas ave

Curtis ave

C St

Republic ave

Ryan ave

F St

Stinson ave

B St

Boeing ave

F St

D St

a St

ToWaitsburg

DaytonLewiston

To Milton-Freew

ater

To W

alla W

alla

125

8

26

31

6

30

36

1

2

18 19

P

P

P

P

P

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9

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16

27

14

4

28

29

Tumac MachineryWalla Walla

(509) 525 - 2010wwwTumacMachinerycom

UNION-BULLETIN

UNION-BULLETINWALLA WALLA

$300 off new X500 series Select Series tractors Offer is valid 3111 to 8111 $250 off new Z445 EZtrak mowers Offer is valid 3111 to 53111 Some restriction apply other special rates and terms may be availableso see your dealer for details and other financing options Available at participating dealers Prices and model availability may vary by dealer sup1Offer valid from 3111 to 8111 Interest will be charged to your accountfrom the purchase data at 179 APR if the purchase balance is not paid in full within 12 months or if your account is otherwise in default Subject to approved credit on John Deere Financial Revolving Plan a serviceof FPC Financial fsb For consumer use only Some restrictions apply Other special rates and terms may be available including installment financing and financing for commercial use Available at participating dealers in the United States Prices and savings in US dollars Taxes freight setup and delivery not included Prices subject to change without notice ^The engine horsepower information is provided by the engine manufacturer to be used for comparison purposes only Actual operating horsepower will be less Hour limitation apply and vary by model See the LIMITED WARRANTY FOR NEW JOHN DEERE COMMERCIAL ANDCONSUMER EQUIPMENT at johndeerecom for details John Deerersquos green and yellow symbol and JOHN DEERE are trademarks of Deere amp CompanyAD3KKCU1Aı487-00346843

v

103184

Page 41: May 2011 Lifestyles

Walla Walla LifestyLes 41

42 Walla Walla LifestyLes

therersquosenspaenspsignenspatensptheenspcornerenspofenspDallesenspMilitaryenspRoadenspandenspRouteensp125enspthatenspsaysenspldquoWallaenspWallaenspaenspgreatenspplaceensptoenspberdquoensp

itrsquos an odd location since it can only be seen as yoursquore leaving town but it always makes me smile This valley my adopted home is indeed a great place to be

i recently finished reading the great Western writer Wallace Stegnerrsquos book ldquoThe Sound of Mountain Waterrdquo One of his essays traces his nomadic childhood which left him feeling rootless and without a place that he felt he could call home

i identify with his feeling of not belonging i was born to a single woman from Massachusetts in a New york City hospital i stayed a scant few days before being placed with an adoption agency Born in a place i had no familial connection to i was immediately deprived of my biological family Most of my childhood was spent in suburban Cleveland Ohio Moves to upstate New york New England and Pennsylvania brought me no closer to calling any place home i loved living in the western Massachusetts town of Stockbridge but the multigenerational denizens of the town left few openings for newcomers like me i lived in central Pennsylvania for several decades but felt detached from the deep roots that most people had in the area

When we came west (for my husband a homecoming to his Oregon roots for me a new experience) i noticed that even in long-established towns like Walla Walla there is ample room for newcomers who want to be

part of the community And most folks who choose to come here donrsquot seem to want to change the valley they prefer to embrace it

While the occasional newbie whines about the lack of Whole Foods or Nordstrom they soon discover our farmers markets the wide variety of local shops and boutiques and our world-class restaurants They fall in love with our charming downtowns the small-town friendliness of the people and our kid-friendly environment Then therersquos the holiday parade the fair the ever-present Blue Mountains the parks the museums the wineries mdash really whatrsquos not to like The communities of our valley represent America at its best

irsquom a newspaper junkie i love to read everything from news to sports to classifieds mdash even the obituaries The obits are a fascinating window on our valley Many of the people chronicled were born here some lived all their lives here inextricably bound to this place But a number of people came here from other places often far away and have made a mark on our area Which makes me wonder mdash is a place any less of a hometown because you choose it or is it based primarily on the happenstance of your birth it seems that therersquos room for both paths to calling this wonderful valley home

itrsquos also our strength because collectively as a community we bring both deep familial and cultural traditions as well as the fresh perspective of newcomers to our area irsquom glad mdash after decades of searching mdash that i finally found my hometown a place that feels just right

diane reed can be reached at ladybookearthlinknet Between columns and when the spirit moves her she blogs at wwwponderingsbydianereedblogspotcom from her home overlooking the pond at lions Park in College Place

by DianeenspReedensp enspphoto by DianeenspReedponderings

theenspmeaningenspofensphome(town)Paella Dinner Flamenco Guitarist

Friday May 6

WALLA WALLA VALLEY

85728 Telephone Pole Road Milton-Freewater OR 97862

(541) 558-3656 or (509) 220-2514 castillodefelicianacom

1027

70 S

L

Sueno hecho en realidad ldquoA dream made into realityrdquo

BRILLAacuteNTEBrut Sparkling WineMeacutethode Champenoise

Produced And Bottled ByCastillo de Feliciana Vineyard amp Winery

Milton-Freewater OR 97862

GOVERNMENT WARNING (1) ACCORDING TO THE SURGEON GENERAL WOMEN SHOULD NOT DRINK ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES DURING PREGNANCY BECAUSE OF THE RISK OF BIRTH DEFECTS (2) CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES IMPAIRS YOUR ABILITY TO DRIVE A CAR OR OPERATE MACHINERY AND MAY CAUSE HEALTH PROBLEMS

contains sulfites

is Brut sparkling was created for those who prefer a semi-dry cuveacutee Made according to the traditional Meacutethode Champenoise technique the wine is fermented inside the same bottle from which it is served is time-honored process takes one year to complete

Serve chilled --- Refresh your palate ---- EnjoySam amp Deb

BRILLAacuteNTEMeacutethode Champenoise

2008COLUMBIA VALLEY

Alc 113 by Vol 750mL

front 35rdquox2625rdquo back 2ldquox2rdquo

Visit Us Spring Release

Weekend May 7 amp 8 2011

Complementary Wine Tasting with this Ad

We invite you to sample our hand crafted Spanish

wines enjoy our patio and sit by our fire pit

Tasting Room Open Friday thru Sunday

11am to 5pm or by appointment

AVAilAble in liMiTeD qUAnTieS

our brut Sparkling Wine Meacutethode Champenose

Walla Walla LifestyLes 43

A local lendercommitted

to your future

111 W Main St WW bull 509-524-0863

SERVICES INCLUDEbull Affordable Mortgage Lendingbull Conventional Loansbull Government Lendingbull Home Equity Lines of Creditbull Investment Property Lendingbull Non-Conventional ldquoJumbordquo Lending

9515

6 Contact Tera Davisand Her Team Today

A local lender

Higher Standards

Tera Davis

ww

wfoundryvineyardscom

13th amp Abadie St 5095290736

102766509-527-8400

840 C StreetWalla Walla Regional Airport

Walla Walla WA 99362

Open Saturday 10-4or by appointment

wwwfivestarcellarscom 40100

103192

2428 Heritage Road (Old Highway 12)

Open Friday amp Saturday 1200 - 430

509-301-9546 509-529-5872

grantwoodcharternet

Closed January amp February

Appointments Welcome

1029

67 s

l1 1 B o y e r A v e 5 0 9 8 7 6 2 4 9 3

We are totally dedicated to each photographerrsquos personal vision

bull p r i n t i n g

bull s c a n n i n g

bull e d i t i n g

bull r e s t o r i n g

1026

15 sl

44 Walla Walla LifestyLes

Maymay 1The annual Kennel Club Dog Show Walla Walla County Fairgrounds De-tails 509-558-3854

The Walla Walla University Drama Department pres-ents a performance of ldquoMy Fair ladyrdquo 2 pm matinee Details 509-527-2656

The Walla Walla Choral Society presents ldquoJubilate Deordquo 3 pm May 1 Walla Walla University Church College Place Details 509-386-2445

The Walla Walla Valley Farmers Market opens local produce artisans and an outdoor concert 9 am-1 pm Saturdays and Sundays through Oct 30 Crawford Park Fourth ave and Main St Details gowallawallafarmersmar-ketcom or 509-520-3647

through may 22Enjoy the annual Senior art Thesis Exhibition Sheehan Gallery Whitman College Details 509-527-5249

through JuLy 31The Tamaacutestslikt Cultural In-stitute hosts the traveling OMSI exhibit ldquoamazing Feats of agingrdquo explor-ing the mysteries of why animals and humans age Details 541-966-9748

may 4The YWCa leadership luncheon ldquoMatters that Matterrdquo is informational and inspirational with guest speakers Kristine Van Raden and Molly Da-vis Noon Marcus Whit-man Hotel Details 509-525-2570

Walla Walla Wine Works hosts music on Wednes-days downtown Details 509-522-1261

may 5First Thursday Concert at St Pauls Episcopal Church 323 Catherine Street Walla Walla 1215-1250 pm will feature the Steel Drum Band from Walla Walla Uni-versity directed by Brandon Beck Details 529-1083

The Whitman College Visit-ing Writers Reading series presents Whitman Reading 7 pm Kimball Theatre De-tails whitmanedu

may 5-7 12-14Walla Walla High School Drama Department pres-ents ldquoFiddler on the Roofrdquo musical version 7 pm and 2 pm matinee on Saturdays May 7 and 14 Walla Walla High School Performing arts audito-rium Details Tickets can be reserved by calling 509-526-8613 the Wa-Hi box office

may 5-8 19-21a performance of ldquoThe 25th a nnua l Putnam County Spelling Beerdquo 8 pm Harper Joy Theatre Whitman College Details 509-527-5180

may 6-7Music on the weekends at the Backstage Bistro De-tails 509-526-0690

Sapolil Cellars hosts music on Friday and Saturday De-tails 509-520-5258

The Wildfire hosts music every Friday and Saturday Wildhorse Resort amp Casino Pendleton Details 800-654-9453

may 6-8Walla Walla Valley Winer-ies offer an opportunity to taste their new creations during Spring Release Weekend area wineries introduce new wines and winemakers share their creative inspiration Details 509-526-3117

may 6artWalK First Fridays May through December Visit galleries and chat with art-ists 5-8 pm Downtown Walla Walla Visit artwalk-wallawallacom

may 6-8 13-14The little Theatre presents ldquoalice In Wonderlandrdquo adapted from lewis Carroll 8 pm Friday-Saturday 2 pm Sunday little Theatre of Walla Walla Details 509-529-3683

may 7The annual Junior Horse Show brings great riding action to Milton-Freewater Pioneer Posse Grounds Details 541-938-3379

Daytonrsquos annual Street Sale turns a section of Third Street into a giant yard sale benefits churches and com-munity projects Dayton Details 509-382-4825

artist reception and dem-onstration Washington art-ist Dwight Duke exhibits his painting bronze sculptures and gunpowder light pan-els 6-730 pm Reininger Winery Details 509-522-1994

may 8Every Sunday the living History actors portray in-dividuals from the arearsquos past 2 pm Fort Walla Walla Museum Details 509-525-7703

may 13-15The annual Balloon Stam-pede brings as many as 50 hot-air balloons to the Walla Walla County Fairgrounds This colorful festival re-mains a Valley tradition Ear-ly morning flights (weather permitting) arts amp crafts antique autos commercial booths live entertainment and food Balloons light up to music at the Saturday evening Nite Glow Details 509-525-0850

may 14annual adult event cele-brates the characters who populated Pendletonrsquos past Must have reservations Pendleton Underground Tours Details 800-226-6398

may 14-15 may 27-29Walla Walla Drag Strip con-tinues the weekend fun Details wwdragstripcom or 509-200-6287

may 15Walla Walla University Chamber Series featuring Robyn McCabe 730 pm MKW Fine arts auditorium Details 509-527-2571

may 18To celebrate the opening of Walla Wallarsquos Power House Theatre and a four-day run of Seattle Shakespeare Companyrsquos ldquoThe Merry Wives of WindsorrdquoWalla Walla lifestyles will pres-ent a gala event This exclusive evening will en-chant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fash-ion from 530-9 pm at the Power House Theatre Sixth amp Rose Walla Walla To purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewalla-wallacom

may 19-21During Pendletonrsquos Cattle Baron Weekend enjoy an art exhibit by a talented group of women artists ldquoIn the Company of Cowgirlsrdquo Hamleyrsquos Steakhouse Pendleton Visit inthecom-panyofcowgirlscom or call 541-676-5013

may 19-22Whitman College 50th Reunion class of 1961 Whitman College Details 509-527-5952

Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merr y Wives of Windsorrdquo Pow-erhouse Theater Details 509-742-0739

may 21The annual Ducky Derby is a day of family fun all for a good cause Watch the ducks race down Mill Creek to help fund the Exchange Clubrsquos efforts at preventing child abuse and neglect 1130 am-330 pm Race at about 2 pm Walla Walla Community College De-tails 509-527-4300

Walla Walla University Spring Choral Concert 5 pm Walla Walla Univer-sity Church Details 509-527-2571

learn to contra dance an old-fashioned coun-try dance Music by the Wednesday Night Band 7 pm teaching and practice 730 pm regular dance Unity Church of Peace 810

C St Walla Walla Details 541-938-7403

may 22The Whitman College graduating class of 2011 accepts the challenge 11 am Memorial lawn Whitman College Details 509-527-5156

may 26 27 28 29Walla Walla Community College Theatre arts De-partment presents ldquoZoot Suitrdquo by luis Valdez 7 pm each night and Sunday 2 pm matinee W WCC Performing arts Center Details 509-527-4575

may 27-30 Dayton Days has been a Memorial Weekend tradi-tion in Dayton for nearly 100 years Highlights include a Saturday-morning parade on historic Main Street rodeo tour of Dayton and Memorial Day Fun Run De-tails 509-382-4825 or visit historicdaytoncom

may 28-30The Touchet River Roundup mdash the annual Celebration of Sobriety at the fairgrounds focuses on family fun ac-tivities Waitsburg Details 509-526-3602

may 29annual Onion Man Tria-thalon 9 am Bennington lake Details wwmulti-sportscom or call 509-529-9187

may 30Waitsburgrsquos annual Memo-rial Day celebration hosted by veterans for all veterans Details 509-337-6546

Walla Walla LifestyLes 45

photo by DarrenenspElliswhereenspinenspwallaenspwallaensp

Lastenspmonthrsquosenspclueensp

This sculptural cornucopia marks the spot where all of Walla Walla meets the producers and wersquore not talking about the Zero Mostel and Gene Wild-er musical For you GPS fans latitude 4606678 N longitude 11834197 W

Clueensp

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Lastenspmonthrsquosenspwinnersensp

answerensp

The sculpture tops the farmers market gazebo on the corner of Fourth Avenue North and West Main Street

Contestensprulesif you have the answer e-mail it to rickdoylewwubcom or send it to Where in Walla Walla 112 S 1st Ave PO Box 1358 Walla Walla WA 99362 The names of 10 people with correct answers will be randomly selected and they will receive this great-looking mug as proof of their local knowledge and good taste

Annette CarterShirley richterDebbie FullenJudy CarlsonEloise Phillips

Dan Countsvicky ScanlonJanet TurnerTam LennoxBruce Campbell

46 Walla Walla LifestyLes

1 amavi cellars3796 Peppers Bridge Road (509) 525-3541 wwwamavicellarscom

2 Basel cellars estate winery2901 Old Milton Hwy (509) 522-0200 wwwbaselcellarscom

3 Bergevin Lane vineyards 1215 W Poplar St (509) 526-4300 bergevinlanecom

4 Bunchgrass winery151 Bunchgrass lane (509) 540-8963 wwwbunchgrasswinerycom

5 canoe ridge vineyard1102 W Cherry St (509) 527-0885 wwwcanoeridgevineyardcom

6 castillo de feliciana85728 Telephone Pole Road Milton-Freewater OR (541) 558-3656 wwwcastillodefelicianacom

7 don carlo vineyardBy appointment Only (509) 540-5784 wwwdoncarlovineyardcom

8 dunham cellars150 E Boeing ave (509) 529-4685 wwwdunhamcellarscom

9 five star cellars 840 C St (509) 527-8400 wwwfivestarcellarscom

10 forgeron cellars 33 W Birch St (509) 522-9463 wwwforgeroncellarscom

21 sapolil cellars15 E Main St (509) 520-5258 wwwsapolilcellarscom

22 seven hills winery 212 N Third ave (509) 529-7198 wwwsevenhillswinerycom

23 sinclair estate vineyards 109 E Main Ste 100 (509) 876-4300 wwwsinclairestatevineyardscom

24 spring valley vineyard 18 N Second ave (509) 525-1506 wwwspringvalleyvineyardcom

25 suLei cellars355 S Second ave (503) 529-0840 www suleicellarscom

highway

12

2nd ave

1st ave

125

3rd ave

Mai

n St

Rose

St

Sum

ach

St

alder St

Park St

WHITMANCOLLEGE

Palouse St

Colville St

4th ave

Main St

Pine St

Poplar St

Birch St

Spokane St Boyer ave

Rose St

Poplar St9th St

13th ave

Cherry St

3

10

25

22

24

2132

23

12

P

PP

11 foundry vineyards Corner of 13th ave and abadie St (509) 529-0736 wwwwallawallafoundrycomvineyards

12 fort walla walla cellars 127 E Main St (509) 520-1095 wwwfortwallawallacellarscom

13 glencorrie8052 Old Highway 12 (509) 525-2585 wwwglencorriecom

14 grantwood winery 2428 W Highway 12 (509) 301-0719 (509) 301-9546

15 Lrsquoecole no 41 winery41 lowden School Road and US Hwy 12 (509) 525-0940 wwwlecolecom

16 Long shadows1604 Frenchtown Road (Formerly Ireland Road) (509) 526-0905 wwwlongshadowscom By invitation only Requests accepted on a limited basis Please call to inquire

17 Lowden hills winery1401 W Pine St (509) 527-1040 wwwlowdenhillswinerycom

18 northstar winery 1736 JB George Road (509) 524-4883 wwwnorthstarmerlotcom

19 pepper Bridge winery1704 JB George Road (509) 525-6502 wwwpepperbridgecom

20 robison ranch cellars2839 Robison Ranch Road (509) 301-3480 robisonranchcellarscom

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5

17 33

11

20

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26 syZygy 405 E Boeing ave (509) 522-0484 wwwsyzygywinescom

27 three rivers winery5641 Old Highway 12 (509) 526-9463 infoThreeRiversWinerycom

28 tertulia cellars1564 Whiteley Road (509) 525-5700 wwwtertuliacellarscom

29 trust cellars 1050 Merlot Drive (509) 529-4511 wwwtrustcellarscom

30 va piano vineyards1793 JB George Road (509) 529-0900 wwwvapianovineyardscom

31 walla walla vintnersVineyard lane off Mill Creek Road (509) 525-4724 wwwwallawallavintnerscom

32 walla walla wineworks31 E Main St (509) 522-1261 wwwwallawallawineworkscom

33 whitman cellars1015 W Pine St (509) 529-1142 wwwwhitmancellarscom

34 woodward canyon winery11920 W Hwy 12 lowden (509) 525-4129 wwwwoodwardcanyoncom

35 JLc winery425 B St (509) 301-5148

36 saviah cellars1979 JB George Rd

highway 12

E St

Beech ave

lockheed ave

Piper ave

G St

Mill Creek Rd

Isaacs ave

AirportTerminal

Peppers B

ridge Rd

Pranger R

d

Old M

ilton Hw

y

Old Milton Hwy

Braden R

d

JB George Rd

Whiteley Rd

Stateline RdWaSHINGTON

OREGON

larson

highway 12 last Chance R

d

Frog HollowM

cDonald R

d

lowden - G

ardena Rd

LOWDEN

Detour Rd

Mojonnier Rd

Sw

eagle Rd

To Touchet Detour R

dFrenchtow

n Rd

Hoon R

dShort Rd

S G

ose StCollege a

ve

To Walla Walla

To M

ilton

-Fre

ewat

er

To Walla Walla City Center

airp

ort W

ay

Grumman ave

Fairchild ave

Cessna ave

aeronca ave F St

lear ave

Douglas ave

Curtis ave

C St

Republic ave

Ryan ave

F St

Stinson ave

B St

Boeing ave

F St

D St

a St

ToWaitsburg

DaytonLewiston

To Milton-Freew

ater

To W

alla W

alla

125

8

26

31

6

30

36

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2

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29

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(509) 525 - 2010wwwTumacMachinerycom

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42 Walla Walla LifestyLes

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itrsquos an odd location since it can only be seen as yoursquore leaving town but it always makes me smile This valley my adopted home is indeed a great place to be

i recently finished reading the great Western writer Wallace Stegnerrsquos book ldquoThe Sound of Mountain Waterrdquo One of his essays traces his nomadic childhood which left him feeling rootless and without a place that he felt he could call home

i identify with his feeling of not belonging i was born to a single woman from Massachusetts in a New york City hospital i stayed a scant few days before being placed with an adoption agency Born in a place i had no familial connection to i was immediately deprived of my biological family Most of my childhood was spent in suburban Cleveland Ohio Moves to upstate New york New England and Pennsylvania brought me no closer to calling any place home i loved living in the western Massachusetts town of Stockbridge but the multigenerational denizens of the town left few openings for newcomers like me i lived in central Pennsylvania for several decades but felt detached from the deep roots that most people had in the area

When we came west (for my husband a homecoming to his Oregon roots for me a new experience) i noticed that even in long-established towns like Walla Walla there is ample room for newcomers who want to be

part of the community And most folks who choose to come here donrsquot seem to want to change the valley they prefer to embrace it

While the occasional newbie whines about the lack of Whole Foods or Nordstrom they soon discover our farmers markets the wide variety of local shops and boutiques and our world-class restaurants They fall in love with our charming downtowns the small-town friendliness of the people and our kid-friendly environment Then therersquos the holiday parade the fair the ever-present Blue Mountains the parks the museums the wineries mdash really whatrsquos not to like The communities of our valley represent America at its best

irsquom a newspaper junkie i love to read everything from news to sports to classifieds mdash even the obituaries The obits are a fascinating window on our valley Many of the people chronicled were born here some lived all their lives here inextricably bound to this place But a number of people came here from other places often far away and have made a mark on our area Which makes me wonder mdash is a place any less of a hometown because you choose it or is it based primarily on the happenstance of your birth it seems that therersquos room for both paths to calling this wonderful valley home

itrsquos also our strength because collectively as a community we bring both deep familial and cultural traditions as well as the fresh perspective of newcomers to our area irsquom glad mdash after decades of searching mdash that i finally found my hometown a place that feels just right

diane reed can be reached at ladybookearthlinknet Between columns and when the spirit moves her she blogs at wwwponderingsbydianereedblogspotcom from her home overlooking the pond at lions Park in College Place

by DianeenspReedensp enspphoto by DianeenspReedponderings

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Friday May 6

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44 Walla Walla LifestyLes

Maymay 1The annual Kennel Club Dog Show Walla Walla County Fairgrounds De-tails 509-558-3854

The Walla Walla University Drama Department pres-ents a performance of ldquoMy Fair ladyrdquo 2 pm matinee Details 509-527-2656

The Walla Walla Choral Society presents ldquoJubilate Deordquo 3 pm May 1 Walla Walla University Church College Place Details 509-386-2445

The Walla Walla Valley Farmers Market opens local produce artisans and an outdoor concert 9 am-1 pm Saturdays and Sundays through Oct 30 Crawford Park Fourth ave and Main St Details gowallawallafarmersmar-ketcom or 509-520-3647

through may 22Enjoy the annual Senior art Thesis Exhibition Sheehan Gallery Whitman College Details 509-527-5249

through JuLy 31The Tamaacutestslikt Cultural In-stitute hosts the traveling OMSI exhibit ldquoamazing Feats of agingrdquo explor-ing the mysteries of why animals and humans age Details 541-966-9748

may 4The YWCa leadership luncheon ldquoMatters that Matterrdquo is informational and inspirational with guest speakers Kristine Van Raden and Molly Da-vis Noon Marcus Whit-man Hotel Details 509-525-2570

Walla Walla Wine Works hosts music on Wednes-days downtown Details 509-522-1261

may 5First Thursday Concert at St Pauls Episcopal Church 323 Catherine Street Walla Walla 1215-1250 pm will feature the Steel Drum Band from Walla Walla Uni-versity directed by Brandon Beck Details 529-1083

The Whitman College Visit-ing Writers Reading series presents Whitman Reading 7 pm Kimball Theatre De-tails whitmanedu

may 5-7 12-14Walla Walla High School Drama Department pres-ents ldquoFiddler on the Roofrdquo musical version 7 pm and 2 pm matinee on Saturdays May 7 and 14 Walla Walla High School Performing arts audito-rium Details Tickets can be reserved by calling 509-526-8613 the Wa-Hi box office

may 5-8 19-21a performance of ldquoThe 25th a nnua l Putnam County Spelling Beerdquo 8 pm Harper Joy Theatre Whitman College Details 509-527-5180

may 6-7Music on the weekends at the Backstage Bistro De-tails 509-526-0690

Sapolil Cellars hosts music on Friday and Saturday De-tails 509-520-5258

The Wildfire hosts music every Friday and Saturday Wildhorse Resort amp Casino Pendleton Details 800-654-9453

may 6-8Walla Walla Valley Winer-ies offer an opportunity to taste their new creations during Spring Release Weekend area wineries introduce new wines and winemakers share their creative inspiration Details 509-526-3117

may 6artWalK First Fridays May through December Visit galleries and chat with art-ists 5-8 pm Downtown Walla Walla Visit artwalk-wallawallacom

may 6-8 13-14The little Theatre presents ldquoalice In Wonderlandrdquo adapted from lewis Carroll 8 pm Friday-Saturday 2 pm Sunday little Theatre of Walla Walla Details 509-529-3683

may 7The annual Junior Horse Show brings great riding action to Milton-Freewater Pioneer Posse Grounds Details 541-938-3379

Daytonrsquos annual Street Sale turns a section of Third Street into a giant yard sale benefits churches and com-munity projects Dayton Details 509-382-4825

artist reception and dem-onstration Washington art-ist Dwight Duke exhibits his painting bronze sculptures and gunpowder light pan-els 6-730 pm Reininger Winery Details 509-522-1994

may 8Every Sunday the living History actors portray in-dividuals from the arearsquos past 2 pm Fort Walla Walla Museum Details 509-525-7703

may 13-15The annual Balloon Stam-pede brings as many as 50 hot-air balloons to the Walla Walla County Fairgrounds This colorful festival re-mains a Valley tradition Ear-ly morning flights (weather permitting) arts amp crafts antique autos commercial booths live entertainment and food Balloons light up to music at the Saturday evening Nite Glow Details 509-525-0850

may 14annual adult event cele-brates the characters who populated Pendletonrsquos past Must have reservations Pendleton Underground Tours Details 800-226-6398

may 14-15 may 27-29Walla Walla Drag Strip con-tinues the weekend fun Details wwdragstripcom or 509-200-6287

may 15Walla Walla University Chamber Series featuring Robyn McCabe 730 pm MKW Fine arts auditorium Details 509-527-2571

may 18To celebrate the opening of Walla Wallarsquos Power House Theatre and a four-day run of Seattle Shakespeare Companyrsquos ldquoThe Merry Wives of WindsorrdquoWalla Walla lifestyles will pres-ent a gala event This exclusive evening will en-chant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fash-ion from 530-9 pm at the Power House Theatre Sixth amp Rose Walla Walla To purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewalla-wallacom

may 19-21During Pendletonrsquos Cattle Baron Weekend enjoy an art exhibit by a talented group of women artists ldquoIn the Company of Cowgirlsrdquo Hamleyrsquos Steakhouse Pendleton Visit inthecom-panyofcowgirlscom or call 541-676-5013

may 19-22Whitman College 50th Reunion class of 1961 Whitman College Details 509-527-5952

Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merr y Wives of Windsorrdquo Pow-erhouse Theater Details 509-742-0739

may 21The annual Ducky Derby is a day of family fun all for a good cause Watch the ducks race down Mill Creek to help fund the Exchange Clubrsquos efforts at preventing child abuse and neglect 1130 am-330 pm Race at about 2 pm Walla Walla Community College De-tails 509-527-4300

Walla Walla University Spring Choral Concert 5 pm Walla Walla Univer-sity Church Details 509-527-2571

learn to contra dance an old-fashioned coun-try dance Music by the Wednesday Night Band 7 pm teaching and practice 730 pm regular dance Unity Church of Peace 810

C St Walla Walla Details 541-938-7403

may 22The Whitman College graduating class of 2011 accepts the challenge 11 am Memorial lawn Whitman College Details 509-527-5156

may 26 27 28 29Walla Walla Community College Theatre arts De-partment presents ldquoZoot Suitrdquo by luis Valdez 7 pm each night and Sunday 2 pm matinee W WCC Performing arts Center Details 509-527-4575

may 27-30 Dayton Days has been a Memorial Weekend tradi-tion in Dayton for nearly 100 years Highlights include a Saturday-morning parade on historic Main Street rodeo tour of Dayton and Memorial Day Fun Run De-tails 509-382-4825 or visit historicdaytoncom

may 28-30The Touchet River Roundup mdash the annual Celebration of Sobriety at the fairgrounds focuses on family fun ac-tivities Waitsburg Details 509-526-3602

may 29annual Onion Man Tria-thalon 9 am Bennington lake Details wwmulti-sportscom or call 509-529-9187

may 30Waitsburgrsquos annual Memo-rial Day celebration hosted by veterans for all veterans Details 509-337-6546

Walla Walla LifestyLes 45

photo by DarrenenspElliswhereenspinenspwallaenspwallaensp

Lastenspmonthrsquosenspclueensp

This sculptural cornucopia marks the spot where all of Walla Walla meets the producers and wersquore not talking about the Zero Mostel and Gene Wild-er musical For you GPS fans latitude 4606678 N longitude 11834197 W

Clueensp

thisenspplaceenspisensphereenspforenspgoodenspmdashenspinenspeveryenspsenseenspofensptheenspwordenspWallaenspWallasenspvillageenspgreenenspwelcomesensppeopleenspofenspallenspagesenspandenspencouragesenspthemensptoenspputenspmoreenspplayenspinensptheirenspdays

Lastenspmonthrsquosenspwinnersensp

answerensp

The sculpture tops the farmers market gazebo on the corner of Fourth Avenue North and West Main Street

Contestensprulesif you have the answer e-mail it to rickdoylewwubcom or send it to Where in Walla Walla 112 S 1st Ave PO Box 1358 Walla Walla WA 99362 The names of 10 people with correct answers will be randomly selected and they will receive this great-looking mug as proof of their local knowledge and good taste

Annette CarterShirley richterDebbie FullenJudy CarlsonEloise Phillips

Dan Countsvicky ScanlonJanet TurnerTam LennoxBruce Campbell

46 Walla Walla LifestyLes

1 amavi cellars3796 Peppers Bridge Road (509) 525-3541 wwwamavicellarscom

2 Basel cellars estate winery2901 Old Milton Hwy (509) 522-0200 wwwbaselcellarscom

3 Bergevin Lane vineyards 1215 W Poplar St (509) 526-4300 bergevinlanecom

4 Bunchgrass winery151 Bunchgrass lane (509) 540-8963 wwwbunchgrasswinerycom

5 canoe ridge vineyard1102 W Cherry St (509) 527-0885 wwwcanoeridgevineyardcom

6 castillo de feliciana85728 Telephone Pole Road Milton-Freewater OR (541) 558-3656 wwwcastillodefelicianacom

7 don carlo vineyardBy appointment Only (509) 540-5784 wwwdoncarlovineyardcom

8 dunham cellars150 E Boeing ave (509) 529-4685 wwwdunhamcellarscom

9 five star cellars 840 C St (509) 527-8400 wwwfivestarcellarscom

10 forgeron cellars 33 W Birch St (509) 522-9463 wwwforgeroncellarscom

21 sapolil cellars15 E Main St (509) 520-5258 wwwsapolilcellarscom

22 seven hills winery 212 N Third ave (509) 529-7198 wwwsevenhillswinerycom

23 sinclair estate vineyards 109 E Main Ste 100 (509) 876-4300 wwwsinclairestatevineyardscom

24 spring valley vineyard 18 N Second ave (509) 525-1506 wwwspringvalleyvineyardcom

25 suLei cellars355 S Second ave (503) 529-0840 www suleicellarscom

highway

12

2nd ave

1st ave

125

3rd ave

Mai

n St

Rose

St

Sum

ach

St

alder St

Park St

WHITMANCOLLEGE

Palouse St

Colville St

4th ave

Main St

Pine St

Poplar St

Birch St

Spokane St Boyer ave

Rose St

Poplar St9th St

13th ave

Cherry St

3

10

25

22

24

2132

23

12

P

PP

11 foundry vineyards Corner of 13th ave and abadie St (509) 529-0736 wwwwallawallafoundrycomvineyards

12 fort walla walla cellars 127 E Main St (509) 520-1095 wwwfortwallawallacellarscom

13 glencorrie8052 Old Highway 12 (509) 525-2585 wwwglencorriecom

14 grantwood winery 2428 W Highway 12 (509) 301-0719 (509) 301-9546

15 Lrsquoecole no 41 winery41 lowden School Road and US Hwy 12 (509) 525-0940 wwwlecolecom

16 Long shadows1604 Frenchtown Road (Formerly Ireland Road) (509) 526-0905 wwwlongshadowscom By invitation only Requests accepted on a limited basis Please call to inquire

17 Lowden hills winery1401 W Pine St (509) 527-1040 wwwlowdenhillswinerycom

18 northstar winery 1736 JB George Road (509) 524-4883 wwwnorthstarmerlotcom

19 pepper Bridge winery1704 JB George Road (509) 525-6502 wwwpepperbridgecom

20 robison ranch cellars2839 Robison Ranch Road (509) 301-3480 robisonranchcellarscom

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14 1513

5

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20

Walla Walla LifestyLes 47

26 syZygy 405 E Boeing ave (509) 522-0484 wwwsyzygywinescom

27 three rivers winery5641 Old Highway 12 (509) 526-9463 infoThreeRiversWinerycom

28 tertulia cellars1564 Whiteley Road (509) 525-5700 wwwtertuliacellarscom

29 trust cellars 1050 Merlot Drive (509) 529-4511 wwwtrustcellarscom

30 va piano vineyards1793 JB George Road (509) 529-0900 wwwvapianovineyardscom

31 walla walla vintnersVineyard lane off Mill Creek Road (509) 525-4724 wwwwallawallavintnerscom

32 walla walla wineworks31 E Main St (509) 522-1261 wwwwallawallawineworkscom

33 whitman cellars1015 W Pine St (509) 529-1142 wwwwhitmancellarscom

34 woodward canyon winery11920 W Hwy 12 lowden (509) 525-4129 wwwwoodwardcanyoncom

35 JLc winery425 B St (509) 301-5148

36 saviah cellars1979 JB George Rd

highway 12

E St

Beech ave

lockheed ave

Piper ave

G St

Mill Creek Rd

Isaacs ave

AirportTerminal

Peppers B

ridge Rd

Pranger R

d

Old M

ilton Hw

y

Old Milton Hwy

Braden R

d

JB George Rd

Whiteley Rd

Stateline RdWaSHINGTON

OREGON

larson

highway 12 last Chance R

d

Frog HollowM

cDonald R

d

lowden - G

ardena Rd

LOWDEN

Detour Rd

Mojonnier Rd

Sw

eagle Rd

To Touchet Detour R

dFrenchtow

n Rd

Hoon R

dShort Rd

S G

ose StCollege a

ve

To Walla Walla

To M

ilton

-Fre

ewat

er

To Walla Walla City Center

airp

ort W

ay

Grumman ave

Fairchild ave

Cessna ave

aeronca ave F St

lear ave

Douglas ave

Curtis ave

C St

Republic ave

Ryan ave

F St

Stinson ave

B St

Boeing ave

F St

D St

a St

ToWaitsburg

DaytonLewiston

To Milton-Freew

ater

To W

alla W

alla

125

8

26

31

6

30

36

1

2

18 19

P

P

P

P

P

P

PP

125

P

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16

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29

Tumac MachineryWalla Walla

(509) 525 - 2010wwwTumacMachinerycom

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UNION-BULLETINWALLA WALLA

$300 off new X500 series Select Series tractors Offer is valid 3111 to 8111 $250 off new Z445 EZtrak mowers Offer is valid 3111 to 53111 Some restriction apply other special rates and terms may be availableso see your dealer for details and other financing options Available at participating dealers Prices and model availability may vary by dealer sup1Offer valid from 3111 to 8111 Interest will be charged to your accountfrom the purchase data at 179 APR if the purchase balance is not paid in full within 12 months or if your account is otherwise in default Subject to approved credit on John Deere Financial Revolving Plan a serviceof FPC Financial fsb For consumer use only Some restrictions apply Other special rates and terms may be available including installment financing and financing for commercial use Available at participating dealers in the United States Prices and savings in US dollars Taxes freight setup and delivery not included Prices subject to change without notice ^The engine horsepower information is provided by the engine manufacturer to be used for comparison purposes only Actual operating horsepower will be less Hour limitation apply and vary by model See the LIMITED WARRANTY FOR NEW JOHN DEERE COMMERCIAL ANDCONSUMER EQUIPMENT at johndeerecom for details John Deerersquos green and yellow symbol and JOHN DEERE are trademarks of Deere amp CompanyAD3KKCU1Aı487-00346843

v

103184

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Walla Walla LifestyLes 43

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44 Walla Walla LifestyLes

Maymay 1The annual Kennel Club Dog Show Walla Walla County Fairgrounds De-tails 509-558-3854

The Walla Walla University Drama Department pres-ents a performance of ldquoMy Fair ladyrdquo 2 pm matinee Details 509-527-2656

The Walla Walla Choral Society presents ldquoJubilate Deordquo 3 pm May 1 Walla Walla University Church College Place Details 509-386-2445

The Walla Walla Valley Farmers Market opens local produce artisans and an outdoor concert 9 am-1 pm Saturdays and Sundays through Oct 30 Crawford Park Fourth ave and Main St Details gowallawallafarmersmar-ketcom or 509-520-3647

through may 22Enjoy the annual Senior art Thesis Exhibition Sheehan Gallery Whitman College Details 509-527-5249

through JuLy 31The Tamaacutestslikt Cultural In-stitute hosts the traveling OMSI exhibit ldquoamazing Feats of agingrdquo explor-ing the mysteries of why animals and humans age Details 541-966-9748

may 4The YWCa leadership luncheon ldquoMatters that Matterrdquo is informational and inspirational with guest speakers Kristine Van Raden and Molly Da-vis Noon Marcus Whit-man Hotel Details 509-525-2570

Walla Walla Wine Works hosts music on Wednes-days downtown Details 509-522-1261

may 5First Thursday Concert at St Pauls Episcopal Church 323 Catherine Street Walla Walla 1215-1250 pm will feature the Steel Drum Band from Walla Walla Uni-versity directed by Brandon Beck Details 529-1083

The Whitman College Visit-ing Writers Reading series presents Whitman Reading 7 pm Kimball Theatre De-tails whitmanedu

may 5-7 12-14Walla Walla High School Drama Department pres-ents ldquoFiddler on the Roofrdquo musical version 7 pm and 2 pm matinee on Saturdays May 7 and 14 Walla Walla High School Performing arts audito-rium Details Tickets can be reserved by calling 509-526-8613 the Wa-Hi box office

may 5-8 19-21a performance of ldquoThe 25th a nnua l Putnam County Spelling Beerdquo 8 pm Harper Joy Theatre Whitman College Details 509-527-5180

may 6-7Music on the weekends at the Backstage Bistro De-tails 509-526-0690

Sapolil Cellars hosts music on Friday and Saturday De-tails 509-520-5258

The Wildfire hosts music every Friday and Saturday Wildhorse Resort amp Casino Pendleton Details 800-654-9453

may 6-8Walla Walla Valley Winer-ies offer an opportunity to taste their new creations during Spring Release Weekend area wineries introduce new wines and winemakers share their creative inspiration Details 509-526-3117

may 6artWalK First Fridays May through December Visit galleries and chat with art-ists 5-8 pm Downtown Walla Walla Visit artwalk-wallawallacom

may 6-8 13-14The little Theatre presents ldquoalice In Wonderlandrdquo adapted from lewis Carroll 8 pm Friday-Saturday 2 pm Sunday little Theatre of Walla Walla Details 509-529-3683

may 7The annual Junior Horse Show brings great riding action to Milton-Freewater Pioneer Posse Grounds Details 541-938-3379

Daytonrsquos annual Street Sale turns a section of Third Street into a giant yard sale benefits churches and com-munity projects Dayton Details 509-382-4825

artist reception and dem-onstration Washington art-ist Dwight Duke exhibits his painting bronze sculptures and gunpowder light pan-els 6-730 pm Reininger Winery Details 509-522-1994

may 8Every Sunday the living History actors portray in-dividuals from the arearsquos past 2 pm Fort Walla Walla Museum Details 509-525-7703

may 13-15The annual Balloon Stam-pede brings as many as 50 hot-air balloons to the Walla Walla County Fairgrounds This colorful festival re-mains a Valley tradition Ear-ly morning flights (weather permitting) arts amp crafts antique autos commercial booths live entertainment and food Balloons light up to music at the Saturday evening Nite Glow Details 509-525-0850

may 14annual adult event cele-brates the characters who populated Pendletonrsquos past Must have reservations Pendleton Underground Tours Details 800-226-6398

may 14-15 may 27-29Walla Walla Drag Strip con-tinues the weekend fun Details wwdragstripcom or 509-200-6287

may 15Walla Walla University Chamber Series featuring Robyn McCabe 730 pm MKW Fine arts auditorium Details 509-527-2571

may 18To celebrate the opening of Walla Wallarsquos Power House Theatre and a four-day run of Seattle Shakespeare Companyrsquos ldquoThe Merry Wives of WindsorrdquoWalla Walla lifestyles will pres-ent a gala event This exclusive evening will en-chant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fash-ion from 530-9 pm at the Power House Theatre Sixth amp Rose Walla Walla To purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewalla-wallacom

may 19-21During Pendletonrsquos Cattle Baron Weekend enjoy an art exhibit by a talented group of women artists ldquoIn the Company of Cowgirlsrdquo Hamleyrsquos Steakhouse Pendleton Visit inthecom-panyofcowgirlscom or call 541-676-5013

may 19-22Whitman College 50th Reunion class of 1961 Whitman College Details 509-527-5952

Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merr y Wives of Windsorrdquo Pow-erhouse Theater Details 509-742-0739

may 21The annual Ducky Derby is a day of family fun all for a good cause Watch the ducks race down Mill Creek to help fund the Exchange Clubrsquos efforts at preventing child abuse and neglect 1130 am-330 pm Race at about 2 pm Walla Walla Community College De-tails 509-527-4300

Walla Walla University Spring Choral Concert 5 pm Walla Walla Univer-sity Church Details 509-527-2571

learn to contra dance an old-fashioned coun-try dance Music by the Wednesday Night Band 7 pm teaching and practice 730 pm regular dance Unity Church of Peace 810

C St Walla Walla Details 541-938-7403

may 22The Whitman College graduating class of 2011 accepts the challenge 11 am Memorial lawn Whitman College Details 509-527-5156

may 26 27 28 29Walla Walla Community College Theatre arts De-partment presents ldquoZoot Suitrdquo by luis Valdez 7 pm each night and Sunday 2 pm matinee W WCC Performing arts Center Details 509-527-4575

may 27-30 Dayton Days has been a Memorial Weekend tradi-tion in Dayton for nearly 100 years Highlights include a Saturday-morning parade on historic Main Street rodeo tour of Dayton and Memorial Day Fun Run De-tails 509-382-4825 or visit historicdaytoncom

may 28-30The Touchet River Roundup mdash the annual Celebration of Sobriety at the fairgrounds focuses on family fun ac-tivities Waitsburg Details 509-526-3602

may 29annual Onion Man Tria-thalon 9 am Bennington lake Details wwmulti-sportscom or call 509-529-9187

may 30Waitsburgrsquos annual Memo-rial Day celebration hosted by veterans for all veterans Details 509-337-6546

Walla Walla LifestyLes 45

photo by DarrenenspElliswhereenspinenspwallaenspwallaensp

Lastenspmonthrsquosenspclueensp

This sculptural cornucopia marks the spot where all of Walla Walla meets the producers and wersquore not talking about the Zero Mostel and Gene Wild-er musical For you GPS fans latitude 4606678 N longitude 11834197 W

Clueensp

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Lastenspmonthrsquosenspwinnersensp

answerensp

The sculpture tops the farmers market gazebo on the corner of Fourth Avenue North and West Main Street

Contestensprulesif you have the answer e-mail it to rickdoylewwubcom or send it to Where in Walla Walla 112 S 1st Ave PO Box 1358 Walla Walla WA 99362 The names of 10 people with correct answers will be randomly selected and they will receive this great-looking mug as proof of their local knowledge and good taste

Annette CarterShirley richterDebbie FullenJudy CarlsonEloise Phillips

Dan Countsvicky ScanlonJanet TurnerTam LennoxBruce Campbell

46 Walla Walla LifestyLes

1 amavi cellars3796 Peppers Bridge Road (509) 525-3541 wwwamavicellarscom

2 Basel cellars estate winery2901 Old Milton Hwy (509) 522-0200 wwwbaselcellarscom

3 Bergevin Lane vineyards 1215 W Poplar St (509) 526-4300 bergevinlanecom

4 Bunchgrass winery151 Bunchgrass lane (509) 540-8963 wwwbunchgrasswinerycom

5 canoe ridge vineyard1102 W Cherry St (509) 527-0885 wwwcanoeridgevineyardcom

6 castillo de feliciana85728 Telephone Pole Road Milton-Freewater OR (541) 558-3656 wwwcastillodefelicianacom

7 don carlo vineyardBy appointment Only (509) 540-5784 wwwdoncarlovineyardcom

8 dunham cellars150 E Boeing ave (509) 529-4685 wwwdunhamcellarscom

9 five star cellars 840 C St (509) 527-8400 wwwfivestarcellarscom

10 forgeron cellars 33 W Birch St (509) 522-9463 wwwforgeroncellarscom

21 sapolil cellars15 E Main St (509) 520-5258 wwwsapolilcellarscom

22 seven hills winery 212 N Third ave (509) 529-7198 wwwsevenhillswinerycom

23 sinclair estate vineyards 109 E Main Ste 100 (509) 876-4300 wwwsinclairestatevineyardscom

24 spring valley vineyard 18 N Second ave (509) 525-1506 wwwspringvalleyvineyardcom

25 suLei cellars355 S Second ave (503) 529-0840 www suleicellarscom

highway

12

2nd ave

1st ave

125

3rd ave

Mai

n St

Rose

St

Sum

ach

St

alder St

Park St

WHITMANCOLLEGE

Palouse St

Colville St

4th ave

Main St

Pine St

Poplar St

Birch St

Spokane St Boyer ave

Rose St

Poplar St9th St

13th ave

Cherry St

3

10

25

22

24

2132

23

12

P

PP

11 foundry vineyards Corner of 13th ave and abadie St (509) 529-0736 wwwwallawallafoundrycomvineyards

12 fort walla walla cellars 127 E Main St (509) 520-1095 wwwfortwallawallacellarscom

13 glencorrie8052 Old Highway 12 (509) 525-2585 wwwglencorriecom

14 grantwood winery 2428 W Highway 12 (509) 301-0719 (509) 301-9546

15 Lrsquoecole no 41 winery41 lowden School Road and US Hwy 12 (509) 525-0940 wwwlecolecom

16 Long shadows1604 Frenchtown Road (Formerly Ireland Road) (509) 526-0905 wwwlongshadowscom By invitation only Requests accepted on a limited basis Please call to inquire

17 Lowden hills winery1401 W Pine St (509) 527-1040 wwwlowdenhillswinerycom

18 northstar winery 1736 JB George Road (509) 524-4883 wwwnorthstarmerlotcom

19 pepper Bridge winery1704 JB George Road (509) 525-6502 wwwpepperbridgecom

20 robison ranch cellars2839 Robison Ranch Road (509) 301-3480 robisonranchcellarscom

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i n e m a pOcircOgrave

d o w n t o w nOcirc

14 1513

5

17 33

11

20

Walla Walla LifestyLes 47

26 syZygy 405 E Boeing ave (509) 522-0484 wwwsyzygywinescom

27 three rivers winery5641 Old Highway 12 (509) 526-9463 infoThreeRiversWinerycom

28 tertulia cellars1564 Whiteley Road (509) 525-5700 wwwtertuliacellarscom

29 trust cellars 1050 Merlot Drive (509) 529-4511 wwwtrustcellarscom

30 va piano vineyards1793 JB George Road (509) 529-0900 wwwvapianovineyardscom

31 walla walla vintnersVineyard lane off Mill Creek Road (509) 525-4724 wwwwallawallavintnerscom

32 walla walla wineworks31 E Main St (509) 522-1261 wwwwallawallawineworkscom

33 whitman cellars1015 W Pine St (509) 529-1142 wwwwhitmancellarscom

34 woodward canyon winery11920 W Hwy 12 lowden (509) 525-4129 wwwwoodwardcanyoncom

35 JLc winery425 B St (509) 301-5148

36 saviah cellars1979 JB George Rd

highway 12

E St

Beech ave

lockheed ave

Piper ave

G St

Mill Creek Rd

Isaacs ave

AirportTerminal

Peppers B

ridge Rd

Pranger R

d

Old M

ilton Hw

y

Old Milton Hwy

Braden R

d

JB George Rd

Whiteley Rd

Stateline RdWaSHINGTON

OREGON

larson

highway 12 last Chance R

d

Frog HollowM

cDonald R

d

lowden - G

ardena Rd

LOWDEN

Detour Rd

Mojonnier Rd

Sw

eagle Rd

To Touchet Detour R

dFrenchtow

n Rd

Hoon R

dShort Rd

S G

ose StCollege a

ve

To Walla Walla

To M

ilton

-Fre

ewat

er

To Walla Walla City Center

airp

ort W

ay

Grumman ave

Fairchild ave

Cessna ave

aeronca ave F St

lear ave

Douglas ave

Curtis ave

C St

Republic ave

Ryan ave

F St

Stinson ave

B St

Boeing ave

F St

D St

a St

ToWaitsburg

DaytonLewiston

To Milton-Freew

ater

To W

alla W

alla

125

8

26

31

6

30

36

1

2

18 19

P

P

P

P

P

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29

Tumac MachineryWalla Walla

(509) 525 - 2010wwwTumacMachinerycom

UNION-BULLETIN

UNION-BULLETINWALLA WALLA

$300 off new X500 series Select Series tractors Offer is valid 3111 to 8111 $250 off new Z445 EZtrak mowers Offer is valid 3111 to 53111 Some restriction apply other special rates and terms may be availableso see your dealer for details and other financing options Available at participating dealers Prices and model availability may vary by dealer sup1Offer valid from 3111 to 8111 Interest will be charged to your accountfrom the purchase data at 179 APR if the purchase balance is not paid in full within 12 months or if your account is otherwise in default Subject to approved credit on John Deere Financial Revolving Plan a serviceof FPC Financial fsb For consumer use only Some restrictions apply Other special rates and terms may be available including installment financing and financing for commercial use Available at participating dealers in the United States Prices and savings in US dollars Taxes freight setup and delivery not included Prices subject to change without notice ^The engine horsepower information is provided by the engine manufacturer to be used for comparison purposes only Actual operating horsepower will be less Hour limitation apply and vary by model See the LIMITED WARRANTY FOR NEW JOHN DEERE COMMERCIAL ANDCONSUMER EQUIPMENT at johndeerecom for details John Deerersquos green and yellow symbol and JOHN DEERE are trademarks of Deere amp CompanyAD3KKCU1Aı487-00346843

v

103184

Page 44: May 2011 Lifestyles

44 Walla Walla LifestyLes

Maymay 1The annual Kennel Club Dog Show Walla Walla County Fairgrounds De-tails 509-558-3854

The Walla Walla University Drama Department pres-ents a performance of ldquoMy Fair ladyrdquo 2 pm matinee Details 509-527-2656

The Walla Walla Choral Society presents ldquoJubilate Deordquo 3 pm May 1 Walla Walla University Church College Place Details 509-386-2445

The Walla Walla Valley Farmers Market opens local produce artisans and an outdoor concert 9 am-1 pm Saturdays and Sundays through Oct 30 Crawford Park Fourth ave and Main St Details gowallawallafarmersmar-ketcom or 509-520-3647

through may 22Enjoy the annual Senior art Thesis Exhibition Sheehan Gallery Whitman College Details 509-527-5249

through JuLy 31The Tamaacutestslikt Cultural In-stitute hosts the traveling OMSI exhibit ldquoamazing Feats of agingrdquo explor-ing the mysteries of why animals and humans age Details 541-966-9748

may 4The YWCa leadership luncheon ldquoMatters that Matterrdquo is informational and inspirational with guest speakers Kristine Van Raden and Molly Da-vis Noon Marcus Whit-man Hotel Details 509-525-2570

Walla Walla Wine Works hosts music on Wednes-days downtown Details 509-522-1261

may 5First Thursday Concert at St Pauls Episcopal Church 323 Catherine Street Walla Walla 1215-1250 pm will feature the Steel Drum Band from Walla Walla Uni-versity directed by Brandon Beck Details 529-1083

The Whitman College Visit-ing Writers Reading series presents Whitman Reading 7 pm Kimball Theatre De-tails whitmanedu

may 5-7 12-14Walla Walla High School Drama Department pres-ents ldquoFiddler on the Roofrdquo musical version 7 pm and 2 pm matinee on Saturdays May 7 and 14 Walla Walla High School Performing arts audito-rium Details Tickets can be reserved by calling 509-526-8613 the Wa-Hi box office

may 5-8 19-21a performance of ldquoThe 25th a nnua l Putnam County Spelling Beerdquo 8 pm Harper Joy Theatre Whitman College Details 509-527-5180

may 6-7Music on the weekends at the Backstage Bistro De-tails 509-526-0690

Sapolil Cellars hosts music on Friday and Saturday De-tails 509-520-5258

The Wildfire hosts music every Friday and Saturday Wildhorse Resort amp Casino Pendleton Details 800-654-9453

may 6-8Walla Walla Valley Winer-ies offer an opportunity to taste their new creations during Spring Release Weekend area wineries introduce new wines and winemakers share their creative inspiration Details 509-526-3117

may 6artWalK First Fridays May through December Visit galleries and chat with art-ists 5-8 pm Downtown Walla Walla Visit artwalk-wallawallacom

may 6-8 13-14The little Theatre presents ldquoalice In Wonderlandrdquo adapted from lewis Carroll 8 pm Friday-Saturday 2 pm Sunday little Theatre of Walla Walla Details 509-529-3683

may 7The annual Junior Horse Show brings great riding action to Milton-Freewater Pioneer Posse Grounds Details 541-938-3379

Daytonrsquos annual Street Sale turns a section of Third Street into a giant yard sale benefits churches and com-munity projects Dayton Details 509-382-4825

artist reception and dem-onstration Washington art-ist Dwight Duke exhibits his painting bronze sculptures and gunpowder light pan-els 6-730 pm Reininger Winery Details 509-522-1994

may 8Every Sunday the living History actors portray in-dividuals from the arearsquos past 2 pm Fort Walla Walla Museum Details 509-525-7703

may 13-15The annual Balloon Stam-pede brings as many as 50 hot-air balloons to the Walla Walla County Fairgrounds This colorful festival re-mains a Valley tradition Ear-ly morning flights (weather permitting) arts amp crafts antique autos commercial booths live entertainment and food Balloons light up to music at the Saturday evening Nite Glow Details 509-525-0850

may 14annual adult event cele-brates the characters who populated Pendletonrsquos past Must have reservations Pendleton Underground Tours Details 800-226-6398

may 14-15 may 27-29Walla Walla Drag Strip con-tinues the weekend fun Details wwdragstripcom or 509-200-6287

may 15Walla Walla University Chamber Series featuring Robyn McCabe 730 pm MKW Fine arts auditorium Details 509-527-2571

may 18To celebrate the opening of Walla Wallarsquos Power House Theatre and a four-day run of Seattle Shakespeare Companyrsquos ldquoThe Merry Wives of WindsorrdquoWalla Walla lifestyles will pres-ent a gala event This exclusive evening will en-chant guests as they enter a world of art exquisite cuisine and fanciful fash-ion from 530-9 pm at the Power House Theatre Sixth amp Rose Walla Walla To purchase tickets and for more information please visit shakespearewalla-wallacom

may 19-21During Pendletonrsquos Cattle Baron Weekend enjoy an art exhibit by a talented group of women artists ldquoIn the Company of Cowgirlsrdquo Hamleyrsquos Steakhouse Pendleton Visit inthecom-panyofcowgirlscom or call 541-676-5013

may 19-22Whitman College 50th Reunion class of 1961 Whitman College Details 509-527-5952

Shakespeare Walla Walla presents ldquoThe Merr y Wives of Windsorrdquo Pow-erhouse Theater Details 509-742-0739

may 21The annual Ducky Derby is a day of family fun all for a good cause Watch the ducks race down Mill Creek to help fund the Exchange Clubrsquos efforts at preventing child abuse and neglect 1130 am-330 pm Race at about 2 pm Walla Walla Community College De-tails 509-527-4300

Walla Walla University Spring Choral Concert 5 pm Walla Walla Univer-sity Church Details 509-527-2571

learn to contra dance an old-fashioned coun-try dance Music by the Wednesday Night Band 7 pm teaching and practice 730 pm regular dance Unity Church of Peace 810

C St Walla Walla Details 541-938-7403

may 22The Whitman College graduating class of 2011 accepts the challenge 11 am Memorial lawn Whitman College Details 509-527-5156

may 26 27 28 29Walla Walla Community College Theatre arts De-partment presents ldquoZoot Suitrdquo by luis Valdez 7 pm each night and Sunday 2 pm matinee W WCC Performing arts Center Details 509-527-4575

may 27-30 Dayton Days has been a Memorial Weekend tradi-tion in Dayton for nearly 100 years Highlights include a Saturday-morning parade on historic Main Street rodeo tour of Dayton and Memorial Day Fun Run De-tails 509-382-4825 or visit historicdaytoncom

may 28-30The Touchet River Roundup mdash the annual Celebration of Sobriety at the fairgrounds focuses on family fun ac-tivities Waitsburg Details 509-526-3602

may 29annual Onion Man Tria-thalon 9 am Bennington lake Details wwmulti-sportscom or call 509-529-9187

may 30Waitsburgrsquos annual Memo-rial Day celebration hosted by veterans for all veterans Details 509-337-6546

Walla Walla LifestyLes 45

photo by DarrenenspElliswhereenspinenspwallaenspwallaensp

Lastenspmonthrsquosenspclueensp

This sculptural cornucopia marks the spot where all of Walla Walla meets the producers and wersquore not talking about the Zero Mostel and Gene Wild-er musical For you GPS fans latitude 4606678 N longitude 11834197 W

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The sculpture tops the farmers market gazebo on the corner of Fourth Avenue North and West Main Street

Contestensprulesif you have the answer e-mail it to rickdoylewwubcom or send it to Where in Walla Walla 112 S 1st Ave PO Box 1358 Walla Walla WA 99362 The names of 10 people with correct answers will be randomly selected and they will receive this great-looking mug as proof of their local knowledge and good taste

Annette CarterShirley richterDebbie FullenJudy CarlsonEloise Phillips

Dan Countsvicky ScanlonJanet TurnerTam LennoxBruce Campbell

46 Walla Walla LifestyLes

1 amavi cellars3796 Peppers Bridge Road (509) 525-3541 wwwamavicellarscom

2 Basel cellars estate winery2901 Old Milton Hwy (509) 522-0200 wwwbaselcellarscom

3 Bergevin Lane vineyards 1215 W Poplar St (509) 526-4300 bergevinlanecom

4 Bunchgrass winery151 Bunchgrass lane (509) 540-8963 wwwbunchgrasswinerycom

5 canoe ridge vineyard1102 W Cherry St (509) 527-0885 wwwcanoeridgevineyardcom

6 castillo de feliciana85728 Telephone Pole Road Milton-Freewater OR (541) 558-3656 wwwcastillodefelicianacom

7 don carlo vineyardBy appointment Only (509) 540-5784 wwwdoncarlovineyardcom

8 dunham cellars150 E Boeing ave (509) 529-4685 wwwdunhamcellarscom

9 five star cellars 840 C St (509) 527-8400 wwwfivestarcellarscom

10 forgeron cellars 33 W Birch St (509) 522-9463 wwwforgeroncellarscom

21 sapolil cellars15 E Main St (509) 520-5258 wwwsapolilcellarscom

22 seven hills winery 212 N Third ave (509) 529-7198 wwwsevenhillswinerycom

23 sinclair estate vineyards 109 E Main Ste 100 (509) 876-4300 wwwsinclairestatevineyardscom

24 spring valley vineyard 18 N Second ave (509) 525-1506 wwwspringvalleyvineyardcom

25 suLei cellars355 S Second ave (503) 529-0840 www suleicellarscom

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12 fort walla walla cellars 127 E Main St (509) 520-1095 wwwfortwallawallacellarscom

13 glencorrie8052 Old Highway 12 (509) 525-2585 wwwglencorriecom

14 grantwood winery 2428 W Highway 12 (509) 301-0719 (509) 301-9546

15 Lrsquoecole no 41 winery41 lowden School Road and US Hwy 12 (509) 525-0940 wwwlecolecom

16 Long shadows1604 Frenchtown Road (Formerly Ireland Road) (509) 526-0905 wwwlongshadowscom By invitation only Requests accepted on a limited basis Please call to inquire

17 Lowden hills winery1401 W Pine St (509) 527-1040 wwwlowdenhillswinerycom

18 northstar winery 1736 JB George Road (509) 524-4883 wwwnorthstarmerlotcom

19 pepper Bridge winery1704 JB George Road (509) 525-6502 wwwpepperbridgecom

20 robison ranch cellars2839 Robison Ranch Road (509) 301-3480 robisonranchcellarscom

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26 syZygy 405 E Boeing ave (509) 522-0484 wwwsyzygywinescom

27 three rivers winery5641 Old Highway 12 (509) 526-9463 infoThreeRiversWinerycom

28 tertulia cellars1564 Whiteley Road (509) 525-5700 wwwtertuliacellarscom

29 trust cellars 1050 Merlot Drive (509) 529-4511 wwwtrustcellarscom

30 va piano vineyards1793 JB George Road (509) 529-0900 wwwvapianovineyardscom

31 walla walla vintnersVineyard lane off Mill Creek Road (509) 525-4724 wwwwallawallavintnerscom

32 walla walla wineworks31 E Main St (509) 522-1261 wwwwallawallawineworkscom

33 whitman cellars1015 W Pine St (509) 529-1142 wwwwhitmancellarscom

34 woodward canyon winery11920 W Hwy 12 lowden (509) 525-4129 wwwwoodwardcanyoncom

35 JLc winery425 B St (509) 301-5148

36 saviah cellars1979 JB George Rd

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$300 off new X500 series Select Series tractors Offer is valid 3111 to 8111 $250 off new Z445 EZtrak mowers Offer is valid 3111 to 53111 Some restriction apply other special rates and terms may be availableso see your dealer for details and other financing options Available at participating dealers Prices and model availability may vary by dealer sup1Offer valid from 3111 to 8111 Interest will be charged to your accountfrom the purchase data at 179 APR if the purchase balance is not paid in full within 12 months or if your account is otherwise in default Subject to approved credit on John Deere Financial Revolving Plan a serviceof FPC Financial fsb For consumer use only Some restrictions apply Other special rates and terms may be available including installment financing and financing for commercial use Available at participating dealers in the United States Prices and savings in US dollars Taxes freight setup and delivery not included Prices subject to change without notice ^The engine horsepower information is provided by the engine manufacturer to be used for comparison purposes only Actual operating horsepower will be less Hour limitation apply and vary by model See the LIMITED WARRANTY FOR NEW JOHN DEERE COMMERCIAL ANDCONSUMER EQUIPMENT at johndeerecom for details John Deerersquos green and yellow symbol and JOHN DEERE are trademarks of Deere amp CompanyAD3KKCU1Aı487-00346843

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The sculpture tops the farmers market gazebo on the corner of Fourth Avenue North and West Main Street

Contestensprulesif you have the answer e-mail it to rickdoylewwubcom or send it to Where in Walla Walla 112 S 1st Ave PO Box 1358 Walla Walla WA 99362 The names of 10 people with correct answers will be randomly selected and they will receive this great-looking mug as proof of their local knowledge and good taste

Annette CarterShirley richterDebbie FullenJudy CarlsonEloise Phillips

Dan Countsvicky ScanlonJanet TurnerTam LennoxBruce Campbell

46 Walla Walla LifestyLes

1 amavi cellars3796 Peppers Bridge Road (509) 525-3541 wwwamavicellarscom

2 Basel cellars estate winery2901 Old Milton Hwy (509) 522-0200 wwwbaselcellarscom

3 Bergevin Lane vineyards 1215 W Poplar St (509) 526-4300 bergevinlanecom

4 Bunchgrass winery151 Bunchgrass lane (509) 540-8963 wwwbunchgrasswinerycom

5 canoe ridge vineyard1102 W Cherry St (509) 527-0885 wwwcanoeridgevineyardcom

6 castillo de feliciana85728 Telephone Pole Road Milton-Freewater OR (541) 558-3656 wwwcastillodefelicianacom

7 don carlo vineyardBy appointment Only (509) 540-5784 wwwdoncarlovineyardcom

8 dunham cellars150 E Boeing ave (509) 529-4685 wwwdunhamcellarscom

9 five star cellars 840 C St (509) 527-8400 wwwfivestarcellarscom

10 forgeron cellars 33 W Birch St (509) 522-9463 wwwforgeroncellarscom

21 sapolil cellars15 E Main St (509) 520-5258 wwwsapolilcellarscom

22 seven hills winery 212 N Third ave (509) 529-7198 wwwsevenhillswinerycom

23 sinclair estate vineyards 109 E Main Ste 100 (509) 876-4300 wwwsinclairestatevineyardscom

24 spring valley vineyard 18 N Second ave (509) 525-1506 wwwspringvalleyvineyardcom

25 suLei cellars355 S Second ave (503) 529-0840 www suleicellarscom

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11 foundry vineyards Corner of 13th ave and abadie St (509) 529-0736 wwwwallawallafoundrycomvineyards

12 fort walla walla cellars 127 E Main St (509) 520-1095 wwwfortwallawallacellarscom

13 glencorrie8052 Old Highway 12 (509) 525-2585 wwwglencorriecom

14 grantwood winery 2428 W Highway 12 (509) 301-0719 (509) 301-9546

15 Lrsquoecole no 41 winery41 lowden School Road and US Hwy 12 (509) 525-0940 wwwlecolecom

16 Long shadows1604 Frenchtown Road (Formerly Ireland Road) (509) 526-0905 wwwlongshadowscom By invitation only Requests accepted on a limited basis Please call to inquire

17 Lowden hills winery1401 W Pine St (509) 527-1040 wwwlowdenhillswinerycom

18 northstar winery 1736 JB George Road (509) 524-4883 wwwnorthstarmerlotcom

19 pepper Bridge winery1704 JB George Road (509) 525-6502 wwwpepperbridgecom

20 robison ranch cellars2839 Robison Ranch Road (509) 301-3480 robisonranchcellarscom

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26 syZygy 405 E Boeing ave (509) 522-0484 wwwsyzygywinescom

27 three rivers winery5641 Old Highway 12 (509) 526-9463 infoThreeRiversWinerycom

28 tertulia cellars1564 Whiteley Road (509) 525-5700 wwwtertuliacellarscom

29 trust cellars 1050 Merlot Drive (509) 529-4511 wwwtrustcellarscom

30 va piano vineyards1793 JB George Road (509) 529-0900 wwwvapianovineyardscom

31 walla walla vintnersVineyard lane off Mill Creek Road (509) 525-4724 wwwwallawallavintnerscom

32 walla walla wineworks31 E Main St (509) 522-1261 wwwwallawallawineworkscom

33 whitman cellars1015 W Pine St (509) 529-1142 wwwwhitmancellarscom

34 woodward canyon winery11920 W Hwy 12 lowden (509) 525-4129 wwwwoodwardcanyoncom

35 JLc winery425 B St (509) 301-5148

36 saviah cellars1979 JB George Rd

highway 12

E St

Beech ave

lockheed ave

Piper ave

G St

Mill Creek Rd

Isaacs ave

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UNION-BULLETIN

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$300 off new X500 series Select Series tractors Offer is valid 3111 to 8111 $250 off new Z445 EZtrak mowers Offer is valid 3111 to 53111 Some restriction apply other special rates and terms may be availableso see your dealer for details and other financing options Available at participating dealers Prices and model availability may vary by dealer sup1Offer valid from 3111 to 8111 Interest will be charged to your accountfrom the purchase data at 179 APR if the purchase balance is not paid in full within 12 months or if your account is otherwise in default Subject to approved credit on John Deere Financial Revolving Plan a serviceof FPC Financial fsb For consumer use only Some restrictions apply Other special rates and terms may be available including installment financing and financing for commercial use Available at participating dealers in the United States Prices and savings in US dollars Taxes freight setup and delivery not included Prices subject to change without notice ^The engine horsepower information is provided by the engine manufacturer to be used for comparison purposes only Actual operating horsepower will be less Hour limitation apply and vary by model See the LIMITED WARRANTY FOR NEW JOHN DEERE COMMERCIAL ANDCONSUMER EQUIPMENT at johndeerecom for details John Deerersquos green and yellow symbol and JOHN DEERE are trademarks of Deere amp CompanyAD3KKCU1Aı487-00346843

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46 Walla Walla LifestyLes

1 amavi cellars3796 Peppers Bridge Road (509) 525-3541 wwwamavicellarscom

2 Basel cellars estate winery2901 Old Milton Hwy (509) 522-0200 wwwbaselcellarscom

3 Bergevin Lane vineyards 1215 W Poplar St (509) 526-4300 bergevinlanecom

4 Bunchgrass winery151 Bunchgrass lane (509) 540-8963 wwwbunchgrasswinerycom

5 canoe ridge vineyard1102 W Cherry St (509) 527-0885 wwwcanoeridgevineyardcom

6 castillo de feliciana85728 Telephone Pole Road Milton-Freewater OR (541) 558-3656 wwwcastillodefelicianacom

7 don carlo vineyardBy appointment Only (509) 540-5784 wwwdoncarlovineyardcom

8 dunham cellars150 E Boeing ave (509) 529-4685 wwwdunhamcellarscom

9 five star cellars 840 C St (509) 527-8400 wwwfivestarcellarscom

10 forgeron cellars 33 W Birch St (509) 522-9463 wwwforgeroncellarscom

21 sapolil cellars15 E Main St (509) 520-5258 wwwsapolilcellarscom

22 seven hills winery 212 N Third ave (509) 529-7198 wwwsevenhillswinerycom

23 sinclair estate vineyards 109 E Main Ste 100 (509) 876-4300 wwwsinclairestatevineyardscom

24 spring valley vineyard 18 N Second ave (509) 525-1506 wwwspringvalleyvineyardcom

25 suLei cellars355 S Second ave (503) 529-0840 www suleicellarscom

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12 fort walla walla cellars 127 E Main St (509) 520-1095 wwwfortwallawallacellarscom

13 glencorrie8052 Old Highway 12 (509) 525-2585 wwwglencorriecom

14 grantwood winery 2428 W Highway 12 (509) 301-0719 (509) 301-9546

15 Lrsquoecole no 41 winery41 lowden School Road and US Hwy 12 (509) 525-0940 wwwlecolecom

16 Long shadows1604 Frenchtown Road (Formerly Ireland Road) (509) 526-0905 wwwlongshadowscom By invitation only Requests accepted on a limited basis Please call to inquire

17 Lowden hills winery1401 W Pine St (509) 527-1040 wwwlowdenhillswinerycom

18 northstar winery 1736 JB George Road (509) 524-4883 wwwnorthstarmerlotcom

19 pepper Bridge winery1704 JB George Road (509) 525-6502 wwwpepperbridgecom

20 robison ranch cellars2839 Robison Ranch Road (509) 301-3480 robisonranchcellarscom

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26 syZygy 405 E Boeing ave (509) 522-0484 wwwsyzygywinescom

27 three rivers winery5641 Old Highway 12 (509) 526-9463 infoThreeRiversWinerycom

28 tertulia cellars1564 Whiteley Road (509) 525-5700 wwwtertuliacellarscom

29 trust cellars 1050 Merlot Drive (509) 529-4511 wwwtrustcellarscom

30 va piano vineyards1793 JB George Road (509) 529-0900 wwwvapianovineyardscom

31 walla walla vintnersVineyard lane off Mill Creek Road (509) 525-4724 wwwwallawallavintnerscom

32 walla walla wineworks31 E Main St (509) 522-1261 wwwwallawallawineworkscom

33 whitman cellars1015 W Pine St (509) 529-1142 wwwwhitmancellarscom

34 woodward canyon winery11920 W Hwy 12 lowden (509) 525-4129 wwwwoodwardcanyoncom

35 JLc winery425 B St (509) 301-5148

36 saviah cellars1979 JB George Rd

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lockheed ave

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(509) 525 - 2010wwwTumacMachinerycom

UNION-BULLETIN

UNION-BULLETINWALLA WALLA

$300 off new X500 series Select Series tractors Offer is valid 3111 to 8111 $250 off new Z445 EZtrak mowers Offer is valid 3111 to 53111 Some restriction apply other special rates and terms may be availableso see your dealer for details and other financing options Available at participating dealers Prices and model availability may vary by dealer sup1Offer valid from 3111 to 8111 Interest will be charged to your accountfrom the purchase data at 179 APR if the purchase balance is not paid in full within 12 months or if your account is otherwise in default Subject to approved credit on John Deere Financial Revolving Plan a serviceof FPC Financial fsb For consumer use only Some restrictions apply Other special rates and terms may be available including installment financing and financing for commercial use Available at participating dealers in the United States Prices and savings in US dollars Taxes freight setup and delivery not included Prices subject to change without notice ^The engine horsepower information is provided by the engine manufacturer to be used for comparison purposes only Actual operating horsepower will be less Hour limitation apply and vary by model See the LIMITED WARRANTY FOR NEW JOHN DEERE COMMERCIAL ANDCONSUMER EQUIPMENT at johndeerecom for details John Deerersquos green and yellow symbol and JOHN DEERE are trademarks of Deere amp CompanyAD3KKCU1Aı487-00346843

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26 syZygy 405 E Boeing ave (509) 522-0484 wwwsyzygywinescom

27 three rivers winery5641 Old Highway 12 (509) 526-9463 infoThreeRiversWinerycom

28 tertulia cellars1564 Whiteley Road (509) 525-5700 wwwtertuliacellarscom

29 trust cellars 1050 Merlot Drive (509) 529-4511 wwwtrustcellarscom

30 va piano vineyards1793 JB George Road (509) 529-0900 wwwvapianovineyardscom

31 walla walla vintnersVineyard lane off Mill Creek Road (509) 525-4724 wwwwallawallavintnerscom

32 walla walla wineworks31 E Main St (509) 522-1261 wwwwallawallawineworkscom

33 whitman cellars1015 W Pine St (509) 529-1142 wwwwhitmancellarscom

34 woodward canyon winery11920 W Hwy 12 lowden (509) 525-4129 wwwwoodwardcanyoncom

35 JLc winery425 B St (509) 301-5148

36 saviah cellars1979 JB George Rd

highway 12

E St

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lockheed ave

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G St

Mill Creek Rd

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(509) 525 - 2010wwwTumacMachinerycom

UNION-BULLETIN

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$300 off new X500 series Select Series tractors Offer is valid 3111 to 8111 $250 off new Z445 EZtrak mowers Offer is valid 3111 to 53111 Some restriction apply other special rates and terms may be availableso see your dealer for details and other financing options Available at participating dealers Prices and model availability may vary by dealer sup1Offer valid from 3111 to 8111 Interest will be charged to your accountfrom the purchase data at 179 APR if the purchase balance is not paid in full within 12 months or if your account is otherwise in default Subject to approved credit on John Deere Financial Revolving Plan a serviceof FPC Financial fsb For consumer use only Some restrictions apply Other special rates and terms may be available including installment financing and financing for commercial use Available at participating dealers in the United States Prices and savings in US dollars Taxes freight setup and delivery not included Prices subject to change without notice ^The engine horsepower information is provided by the engine manufacturer to be used for comparison purposes only Actual operating horsepower will be less Hour limitation apply and vary by model See the LIMITED WARRANTY FOR NEW JOHN DEERE COMMERCIAL ANDCONSUMER EQUIPMENT at johndeerecom for details John Deerersquos green and yellow symbol and JOHN DEERE are trademarks of Deere amp CompanyAD3KKCU1Aı487-00346843

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(509) 525 - 2010wwwTumacMachinerycom

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$300 off new X500 series Select Series tractors Offer is valid 3111 to 8111 $250 off new Z445 EZtrak mowers Offer is valid 3111 to 53111 Some restriction apply other special rates and terms may be availableso see your dealer for details and other financing options Available at participating dealers Prices and model availability may vary by dealer sup1Offer valid from 3111 to 8111 Interest will be charged to your accountfrom the purchase data at 179 APR if the purchase balance is not paid in full within 12 months or if your account is otherwise in default Subject to approved credit on John Deere Financial Revolving Plan a serviceof FPC Financial fsb For consumer use only Some restrictions apply Other special rates and terms may be available including installment financing and financing for commercial use Available at participating dealers in the United States Prices and savings in US dollars Taxes freight setup and delivery not included Prices subject to change without notice ^The engine horsepower information is provided by the engine manufacturer to be used for comparison purposes only Actual operating horsepower will be less Hour limitation apply and vary by model See the LIMITED WARRANTY FOR NEW JOHN DEERE COMMERCIAL ANDCONSUMER EQUIPMENT at johndeerecom for details John Deerersquos green and yellow symbol and JOHN DEERE are trademarks of Deere amp CompanyAD3KKCU1Aı487-00346843

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