Blatherskite

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I am a Children’s Librarian living in the Portland, Oregon area. When I am not Children’s Librianing I like to play with cameras and film. I also like playing the ukulele, knitting, sketching, and hiking.

Tag: Cherryville Cemetery

  • Cherryville cemetery Dedication

    This past Sunday was incredible. If you have followed this blog for the past 4 years (HOW HAS IT BEEN THAT LONG) you might know about the Cherryville Cemetery saga. If are bored you can read up about it here.  Or if you want the quick gist of the story, read this blog post.  Sunday…

  • The bond I had with my Uncle Will.

    In July of 2009 I applied for a job at a library in a small town 30 miles east of Portland that I had driven through once. I came here to interview and was delighted with the place and with the people who interviewed me. Lucky for me, the feeling was mutual. When I told…

  • Cherryville Cemetary

    I wanted to show my mom the work that has been done here since the last time she visited. She was impressed!

  • Cherryville Cemetary

    A month ago this newspaper clipping mysteriously appeared attached to my locker at work. From this article I learned that the Sandy Historical Museum has taken over the care of the Cherryville Cemetery and they hosted a cleanup day last Saturday (Read this post and this post for background on this family mystery/saga. Preita has…

  • Family ghosts found

    A year and a half (how has it been that long?!?) I wrote about an old Graveyard near where I live where my cousins are buried. I wrote a little about it in that post. Before I moved here I had no idea that my uncle lived in Sandy in the sixties. We used to…