Memories and Traditions

In the early years of the 20th Century, SL Yearout was a news writer and typesetter for the Wapato Independent. Luckily for us, he preserved much of his wit and wisdom in a scrapbook that has somehow survived being passed around from family to family and enjoyed for well over 70 years.

This is a rare recording of Speed Yearout reciting "Face on the Bar Room Floor" and other classics including "The Prohibitionist" and "The Hop Head."

At nearly every family gathering, at some point Grandpa Speed would be cajoled into reciting a few of his favorite poems without much arm twisting and much to Hazels chagrin. At the end of this tape, you will hear her exclaim, "Are you doing that again?"

Barbershop quartet singing and dancing the buck and wing were always included too. It was a good time to grow up in the Speed and Hazel Yearout Family.