More Reminiscences

"I enjoyed two Summer vacations at Lake Chautauqua very much when I heard Julia Ward Howe, Susan B. Anthony, Frances Willard, and Edward Everett Hale.  I saw Alonzo Stagg play ball there, and in the Ben Hur tableaux there he was, Ben Hur.  They lasted three evenings.  I talked so much about Lake Chautauqua when I lived with Gwinns, Will said, 'Carrie wants to go to Lake Chautauqua when she dies.'

"While at Chautauqua, I was in three classes:  photography, del sarte system, and Cumnock's elocution, a reading class.

"I was the pioneer of the Dunkle family.  My sister and husband came West when Harvey was a baby, stayed with us until they took up a timber claim in Idaho.  Percy, Clarence, Geneva and Merle came later and stayed with us for a short time.  I think Peter was next, then Valentine and Grace.  Valentine, Grace, and Merle's family were the only ones to continue on to California.)  Alfred and family, when they came West in 1909, stayed with the younger members of our family, while Cling and I, with Marshall and Cyrus, took in the Yukon Exposition in Seattle that year.  Then they went to Osborn, Idaho, to live.  Grace and Olive attended Lewiston Normal School together for one year.  Grace taught our Mud Flat school the next year and kept house while Cling and I went East.  The next year, she and Valentine went to Idaho, where she taught school until they moved on to California.  She has always seemed like one of my family, and her children like my grandchildren.  

"Geneva stayed with us when she first came to Washington and taught our school one year.  Cling was always a pioneer in his family.  His mother and his brother, George, followed him to Washington."