![]() She is a serious genealogist and came all the way to Oysterville from her home in Melbourne to meet Michael and me and to see where Briscoe and his family hung out beginning in the 1860s. The Judge was one of Rosemary’s ancestors. We actually “met” on the internet through some blogs I had written about Judge Briscoe and Michael Lemeshko’s subsequent Briscoe research. I think of her as a blog/community historian connection. Yesterday I received a note from my Australian friend Rosemary Peeler. Posted in Books and Reading | No Comments » I can scarcely believe that the original book has been right on our bookshelves all this time! ![]() ![]() Those corrections were published in the Spring 1981 issue of the Sou’wester magazine. It is a treasure trove and, even more interestingly, was updated and corrected by Virginia, herself, ten years after it was published. Yay! But you can bet that the fabulous facts, figures, and statistics about all manner of North County history contained in this tidy little book, edited by Virginia “Ginny” Olsen (1913-1981) will show up in future articles. I was relieved, however, to find (after a quick perusal) that the information I did come up with was accurate and representational. In this compact little book is fantastic historic information about the medical communities in the Raymond Valley, Tokeland, and Brooklyn areas - places for which even minimal information was hard to come by. I could have used it bigtime when researching the article I turned in to the Observer just a few days ago - the second one in my “Doctoring in Early Pacific County” series. I’m so happy to make its acquaintence, though, despite the timing. Yet it was published by the Raymond Herald & Advertiser, Raymond, Wa in 1965! Has it been in this house all those years? Why did it just hop out at me now? As in, I didn’t know I was looking for The Willapa Country: History Report until I ran cross it this very morning on a shelf in our East Room. Even from his wheelchair, he can manage far better than I.īut just happening upon a book is another matter. When I’m looking for a specific title or author, I call on Nyel. Three thousand? Four thousand? More? Of the 12 (or 14, depending upon how you count) rooms in the house, 6 contain serious book shelves and 3 others have books tucked in the nooks and crannies. I don’t even have an idea of how many there are. For one thing, we don’t have a card catalog or inventory of the books in this house. In our personal, four-generational library, the story is the same. No matter how careful folks are, there is plenty of room for a mis-shelved book and you know the old library expression - a misplaced book is a lost book. Reading the shelves is a skill necessary to library and bookstore workers - especially when there are “open stacks” where patrons and customers can browse at will. It probably hearkens back to the years that he worked in the library at the University of Washington - in the sixties when he was working on his undergraduate degree. I SO wish readers who are better informed than I would weigh in. But Hilltop! OMG! Educators and students are there by mandate I think. Somehow, the Rod Run didn’t surprise me - it seemed an “accident” waiting to happen, and while Nyel and I enjoyed sitting out in front of the house Sunday afternoon watching the cars parade by, we weren’t one bit tempted to go to Wilson’s Field to get up-close-and-personal this year. “Rod Run, Hilltop cases fuel peninsula Covid concerns” said the headline. ![]() So I’m unsure whether or not there are “choices” - as in can a teacher opt out of the classroom and into a virtual learning situation this school year in OBSD? I am pretty much out of the school loop - most of my teaching colleagues have now retired and I don’t have any close connections who are teaching or being taught. As I read the front page news this morning, I was selfishly SO glad that I am long retired and not having to work during these treacherous times.
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