Were there archaeologists on site?
Well, there’d been archeological work done there earlier. Because I was the naturalist there, I had an opportunity to spend time with people from, I believe it’s UCLA, and elsewhere, and regional archaeologists in the park. It was still so unexplored at that time. My eyes were opened through having been out in the field with them, seeing what they saw. So any time I could spare three hours away from the office, I could always find a new archeological site. So that was great. But it was in February of 1959 that we moved to Crater Lake. We moved into Sleepy Hollow. The house had a kitchen which was too small for table, and a small living room with a oil stove in it.
Barbara: And you had to put the table in the living room because there wasn’t room in the kitchen.
It also had a small bedroom. Upstairs you had a 35 foot long attic. One end of it had been made into a small room where we put our oldest girl, and then we put another girl into the next space which was unfinished, and we wrapped our boy around a hot water tank and chimney!
Where in Sleepy Hollow?
The last houses on your right (1).
Barbara: You know the house with the washing machines and stuff? Well, you start around the circle from there, it was right on the outside curve as you turn on that.
Right. It’s the last house on the right and there’s a little stream going by. That was it. And then we found out why the sloped roofs aren’t all that great, either. Because the snow falls so heavy that snow slides off there’s no other place for it to go, so it just keeps building up. Well, they took care of this by bringing a bull dozer in and pushing the snow away so it slide. Tom Williams was superintendent. He had been living in Medford. Then, because of the new housing, they pulled the superintendent up to the park (2).
He kept the Medford house, though (3). For some reason, they decided that the superintendent should move back down to Medford. I think it was in June that Tom J. Williams moved up to the superintendent’s summer quarters(4) making his quarters available, so we were fortunate enough to get in there, which seemed like paradise, and it was a wonderful place to live. We stayed there, of course, for the remainder of the four years we were in the park.
