Walla Walla, Chief Timothy Park and Hells Canyon The stop in Walla Walla was to see our good friends Bonnie and Les Griffith. Bonnie is an accomplished artist who works in pastels and mostly does beautiful landscapes. (You can check out her work on her website at www.bonniegriffith.com/). Besides good food, laughter and catching up, Bonnie took us to the Whitman National Historic Monument, where the early missionaries, the doctor Marcus and his wife Narcissa Whitman, had lived, taught, farmed, proseletyzed and medically cared for both Native Americans and Oregon Trail immigrants for many years. I was intrigued by thoughts of Narcissa, daughter of a judge in a small midwest town, who “offered herself” at 28 years of age, to go west with Marcus Whitman and help him with his missionary work. She's said to have
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