Dear Mad'm

11/14/2020

Do you know how roses, (the Roses that Stella, heroine of Dear Mad'm brought here fron her college) might be moved before the "clean up" of the yard where they were burned...there appears to be new growth.
Anyone interested in registering for a Dear Mad'm picnic, outdoors like we've had 2011, and like subsequent get togethers April 17÷18 in Happy Camp, (Covid permitting)
RSVP Happy Camp Chamber P.O. Box 1188,, Hsppy Csmp, CA 96039

05/02/2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLM5rWG56Vs

In this writing video I share what I know about Stella Walthall Patterson, author of a memoir, Dear Mad'm. After that, I read one of my short stories, show a...

10/30/2018

Introducing, Tim "Benji" Jensen joined us for Dear Mad'm this year at the Siskiyou County Museum!
With Benji is Huddleston Oates, the
brother of "Milly", the young girl in the story that studied Emily Post who visited Stella, aka "Dear Mad'm" in the story of her move to the wilds of the Klamath River mining claim in the mid-forties.
With Benji and Huddleston is Roberta Everett whose research help with finding lost people and characters in the story has been a great help in learning more about Stella's time on the Klamath River cabin!!

09/20/2018

Saturday October 20th will be a very fun HISTORICAL day at the Siskiyou County Museum on Main Street in Yreka. We will be sharing about Stella W. Patterson's Dear Mad'm but in the Outdoor Museum there will be so many things to see and do. Watch pinning wool projects, make butter, ride a pony and shop in the Denny Store!!
While there you can see the NEW Logging sculptre by Ralph Starritt with oxen pulling a cedar log!!
We hope to see all you, Dear Mad'm friends there, and are so looking forward to meeting Benji, the baby in the story!! Tim Jensen, son of Up'nUp in the book will be joining us. It was so neat to meet Huddleston, brother to Milly or Millicent in the book last year, and learn more about life on the mining claim on the Klamath River around 1946!!

Have you read Stella W. Patterson's best seller from the 1950's, Dear Mad'm?? Did it inspire you that it isn't too much for an 80 year old to set out to live along the Klamath River to enjoy gardening, and write about her friends and neighbors she met. A wonderful peek into the past, not much different than life on the Klamath River today!!

02/17/2018

Life along the beautiful wild Klamath River in a little cabin makes perfect sense to some ladies!

02/08/2018

Rather disappointed to see that they didn't include Stella Patterson's "Dear Mad'm" which I believe outshines these stories of women who just think Life goes on for women after 70. Stella celebrated life on the beautiful wild Klamath River mining claim and recorded her story at eighty and made it to her ninetieth year!!

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10/28/2017

Thank you to the Siskiyou County Museum for hosting the 7th Annual Dear mad'm Symposium and 151st Birthday Party for Stella W. Patterson, the author of Dear Mad'm!!

10/17/2017

Your story might not be a bestseller, like Stella W. Patterson's but your loved one's would love to know more about your story....write your memoir!!!

Share your story in a memorable and meaningful way.
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08/09/2017

Saturday, October 14th will be out big Birthday celebration for Stella W. Patterson's birthday! Join us at the Siskiyou County Museum in Yreka Conference Room in Yreka for this event!!
We are especially looking forward to meeting Bengi, son of Upn'Up from the story. He is planning to come from Washington. Gather with other fans to celebrate a special birthday!!
We hope to see YOU there!!! More details later......