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Archive Home > 2009 > August > 01 > An ad still set in Stone

An ad still set in Stone

Pioneering Puett family fed Bend one loaf at a time, and descendants found the bakery sign to prove it

By David Jasper / The Bulletin
August 1, 2009

I think that I shall never see

A billboard lovely as a tree.

Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,

I'll never see a tree at all.

" Ogden Nash

When American poet Nash wrote those lines, he wasn't thinking about a sign painted on a rock in Central Oregon.

Today, the old sign for the American....

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