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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Gary Lewis / The Bulletin
November 23, 2006
According to family lore, one of our ancestors (a man named Clark, on my mother's side) signed the Mayflower Compact, a document that set forth a system of laws by which the pilgrims agreed to be ruled.
Things didn't work out so well for the newcomers to the New World.
Their first laws provided....