Tillamook Rock, affectionately (?!) known as "Terrible Tilly" is a deactivated lighthouse that sits 1.2 miles offshore from Tillamook Head off the Oregon coast. It covers an area less than an acre and is one inhospitable pile of basalt rock.  The lighthouse was commissioned in 1878 and finished in January 1881.  It took 500 days to finish; the workers labored under the most hazardous and perilous of conditions. It would be the most expensive lighthouse...

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When I and most other folks think of Pendleton, my guess is that we first think of gray boiled wool flannel suits.  When I was 18 and heading off to college, my father gave me one of those suits - skirt and jacket - for Christmas.  It almost seemed to signify for him as "a rite of passage" for his little girl.  He was so pleased with himself.  It was a Size 4, bullet proof,...

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