Dear Mad'm

Introducing, Tim "Benji" Jensen joined us for Dear Mad'm this year at the Siskiyou County Museum! With Benji is Huddleston Oates, the brother of "Milly", the young girl in the story that studied Emily Post who visited Stella, aka "Dear Mad'm" in the story of her move to the wilds of the Klamath River mining claim in the mid-forties. With Benji and Huddleston is Roberta Everett whose research help with finding lost people and characters in the story has been a great help in learning more about Stella's time on the Klamath River cabin!!

Quentin went with the Boy Scouts up to the site where Fred (DearSir) and the 3 Ladies (Vivian, Joan and Marie) built cabins on the gold mining claim that DearSir and Upn'Up worked in the story Stella Patterson tells in her book, Dear Mad'm! Some non-native plantings show the planting that was done. We celebrate Dear mad;m and her friends at the Siskiyou County Museum on Main Street in Yreka October 20th at 1 pm to 3 o'clock Saturday.

Saturday October 20th will be a very fun HISTORICAL day at the Siskiyou County Museum on Main Street in Yreka. We will be sharing about Stella W. Patterson's Dear Mad'm but in the Outdoor Museum there will be so many things to see and do. Watch pinning wool projects, make butter, ride a pony and shop in the Denny Store!! While there you can see the NEW Logging sculptre by Ralph Starritt with oxen pulling a cedar log!! We hope to see all you, Dear Mad'm friends there, and are so looking forward to meeting Benji, the baby in the story!! Tim Jensen, son of Up'nUp in the book will be joining us. It was so neat to meet Huddleston, brother to Milly or Millicent in the book last year, and learn more about life on the mining claim on the Klamath River around 1946!!

Life along the beautiful wild Klamath River in a little cabin makes perfect sense to some ladies!

Rather disappointed to see that they didn't include Stella Patterson's "Dear Mad'm" which I believe outshines these stories of women who just think Life goes on for women after 70. Stella celebrated life on the beautiful wild Klamath River mining claim and recorded her story at eighty and made it to her ninetieth year!!