Scott Swanson
“Rising in a land of snow,
Down my rushing waters go;
Gathering force along my trail,
Brawling streams from hill and vale.
Nothing o’er me can prevail.”
– “Song of the Santiam”
by William Mealey
George Mealey says he always held his grandfather, William Ralph “Bill” Mealey, in high esteem as a youngster growing up in Sweet Home in the mid-1900s.
He remembers trips to Lebanon for ice cream sodas, fishing together, learning…