Dedicated to the citizens of Mason County, Washington since 1886
Presenting Mary's memoirs required many hands
I was helped by Billie Howard, who was head of the Shelton Mason County Historical Museum at the time. The original diary is there with the typed version that was done by Irene Davis in the 1990s.
Irene's little typewriter is at the library too. Mary wrote in her diary for nearly 20 years and then Irene typed up a transcript of all 20 years in the 1990s, and then I came along and digitized it, and the Shelton-Mason County Journal printed it. I'm sure if Mary was alive, she would not have imagined that 70-plus years later her diary would be shared with other people and printed in a local weekly...
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