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By Alice Stroud Williamson
Where The Yellow Roses Bloom
Mayville, Oregon And The Widow From Jasper County Iowa
By: Alice Stroud Williamson
Stinchfield Log Cabin 1910
Stinchfield Log Cabin 2007
Stinchfield Log Cabin restored 2009
Stinchfield House Built 1900
Stinchfield House 1951 when I lived there
Stinchfield House 2009
Mayville, Oregon
The music is Wildwood Flower
by The Carter Family 1928
Oh, I’ll twine with my mingles and waving black hair
With the roses so red and the lilies so fair
And the myrtles so bright with the emerald dew
The pale and the leader and eyes look like blue
I will dance, I will sing and my laugh shall be gay
I will charm every heart in each crown I will sway
When I woke from my dreaming my idols were clay
All portions of love had all flown away
Oh, he taught me to love him and promised to love
And to cherish me over all others above
How my heart is now wondering no misery can tell
He’s left me no warning no words of farewell
Oh, he taught me to love him and call me his flower
That was blooming to cheer him through life’s dreary hour
How I long to see him and regret the dark hour
He’s gone and neglected his pale wild wood flower
1947,logging in Western Oregon
1949, Logging Grant County Oregon
Link to more logging pictures in Oregon 1945/1950
The history of Mayville is lost or hidden away in a secret place.
Nevertheless,
I am sure I will find it in a
old box full of dusty diaries tucked away somewhere,
or in an old book of records,
so I start searching. I gather stories and old pictures here and there,
and I can't let go.
It captures me and holds me prisoner.
I long to search nooks and crannies
in old buildings around town
and byond.
Searching everywhere to find that missing link that will set me free
