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from my perspective . . . On my August 18th post, I showed Mel's photos of an abandoned and long forgotten Etna 'rest stop' Park that once sat on a small piece of Siskiyou County property, wedged between the Siskiyou County road maintenance yard and Hwy 3, south of Etna. Yesterday I got a email from Mary Roehrich saying the little park was dedicated originally to her grandmother, May L. Denny who was the wife of Karl V. Denny (son of A.H. Denny). Mary stated that her grandmother was a very avid Garden Club member and also a much loved school teacher in Etna and at the original McConaughy Gulch School. 'Synchronicity' always likes to have Her way with me . . . so I had to smile when Barbara Coatney showed up at lunch today with photos of the same park (thanks to Jerry Facey) and this plaque. Barbara thought I would be interested in putting these on this website before she dropped them off at their new resting place in the Etna Museum . . . and of course I was!
There was a handwritten note in the little baggie with the photos . . .
so I googled 'Top of the State Garden Club' and nothing came up. I scanned the photos taken in 1973, which showed the 'before' of what Mel's August photos had shown this many years later.
After seeing these photos, I emailed Mel and asked if he had seen the big white rock or any kind of plaque with dedication to May Denny. He hadn't seen it there. It appears that the wooden plaque is hanging near the crossbeam of the picnic table shelter in photo on the right. This is Mel's photo in August . . .
It looks like the original shrubs may have grown up over the white rock. Maybe if someone is out that way they could check that out for all of us??? It would seem highly unlikely that the big white rock was moved!
I just got back to this project tonight and when I inserted the wooden plaque photo on this page I actually read it . . . and that is when I discovered the name of the club was the 'Scott Valley Garden Club' and not 'Top of the State Garden Club' shown on the note! Sooooooooooo back to google and I was amazed to find a webpage with all kinds of photos from 1980's-1990's!!!! There was even a photo of Barbara, so I called her up and emailed the link and the two of us had quite a fun time talking on the phone as we both looked at the photos. Of course, Barbara knew a lot more of the people in the photos than I did. The Gallery photos are large, but when you click along the top toolbar for the Scrapbook photos, they are smaller. Just click on any of them and they will enlarge and if you click again they will get even bigger. Nordine was amazing to have done all this. I didn't even own a computer until about 1999! I wondered if there was anything about the rest area and Voilà! . . . under 'Scrapbook B', I recognized the photo of the picnic table shelter with the green roof . . . and there was a clipping of newspaper article about the award . . .
Under 'Scrapbook A', the name Denny caught my eye. So I clicked on the article and this came up . . .
Barbara and I were curious about the 'Officers' section and when we clicked on it and scrolled down, we were amazed to see this at the bottom:
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