(SR) I was going to add that this was my first winter in and I would get cabin fever. I had never been in this situation, never saw snow. Seattle didn’t have much snow. For a long time I thought I would have to go into Medford without Douglas but finally Dave Canfield said well, Elizabeth, we’ll take a chance on you if Doug well. He said he would. He let me stay in. Before I was able to stay in, we went to Seattle and he picked up skis and a ski outfit for me and he said that you must get out everyday and you won’t mind this snow. So I thought I would go out everyday. This one lady, Mrs. Palmer, her husband was the one that ran the shop; I would go to everyday and tap on her window and see how she was. One day when we were snowed in I went out, and I didn’t know anything about this plow being broken down. She was real provoked at me. She said, “How can you be so happy. Come in here.” Then she told me that we had been snowed in for so long and there was no hope until we got this part. I came home and I said, “Why didn’t you tell me that we were snowed in?” And he said, “Well, you didn’t say that you were going anywhere.
(DR) I didn’t want to confuse the situation. She took it in stride, and we were here for seven winters together. I put in eight, she put in seven.
(SR) The thing was that after that first winter, the women that moved out of the park with the office had a big party. We went and took the payroll in once, and were snowed out of here. In the paper, it had, “Park couple snow bound.” And I said I wonder who that was, and that was us. They were having a big party that night and invited us. The superintendent came over in his cups and he shook his finger at me and said, “That woman. Every woman wants to stay in the park next year.”
(DR) The Canfields were very easy people to talk to. He was as comfortable as an old shoe. He really was. And he was a pretty good judge of men. He developed a pretty strong force of graded people up here. They all had a great deal of regard for him.
