Woman studies American Indian tradition to create totem poles

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“They had the right to put a line through our property and were supposed to go underneath the trees, but they didn’t,” said Nona Meinen, 71, who formerly sold real estate. “We were pretty upset.”

But in a classic case of making lemonade from lemons, the couple made something good out of something bad.

Nona Meinen, who began reading about totem poles and experimenting with creating them six years ago, decided to transform one fallen tree.

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