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What&apos;s Cookin'? Dorothy's loire of writing leads to 60-year hi of Sherwood Creek .... !  i::;ii!i!i:  4   ):  r   "f DOROTHY CLARK GORNICK began keeping a diary as a teenager on Nantucket Island and has faithfully en- gaged in that practice ever since. Because of her work on the election board and at the post office in Allyn, she came to know most families there and created a book documenting the area's growth. .,:,;}source when she  FiJ/ acrw ers. Wa':.Years in Sherwood Valley in F.,ut World'1989 for the Mason County His- Wa mtatd reran torical Society. The book has .  .:been reprinted with additional By MARY DUNCAN Former Allyn resident Dor- othy Clark Gornick began recording weather conditions as a girl on Nantucket Island where she was raised. Then in high school she started keeping a ....... diary, a practice which she has ...... continued tbr 73 years. That's roughly 26,645 days of writing. With the slightest hint of a Nor'easter's accent, Dorothy ex- plains, "I like writing and smnebody gave me a diary for (:hristmas. I thought that'd be fun .o I just started in and I've just k(,pt it up." She wrote throughout her col- lege days at Simmons College in Boston and during her marriage to a Navy man when she saw the w()r ld. "! ltAVE wonderful records of bc.ing in typhoons and quakes. The first three tur 1 was married we lived ': Puerto Rico and my husband was stationed with the radio station ib(>r(,,' she says. "Then we just i;ot back to the States and he got ordered out to the Orient so we were in the; Philippines and China. It was through Navy friends that she and her husband, Jerry (/.lark, discovered Mason Coun- ty. "My husband's ship came into the Bremerton Navy Yard so we were up here the summer of 1939," Dorothy recalls. band had quite a:lw service and we were ward to retirement. So shipmates, Navy said, 'Don't buy you'w: been to the ington.' "When we came up here we just fell in love with it," she en- thuses. "We were looking for a place in September. The real es- tate man brought us to Shelton and we thought it was a nice little town, and that's what we wanted tube near, Then he said, 'I have one more place to show you on the ay back to Bremerton.' We stopl)td in Allyn and went up Sherwood Creek Road and the salmon were coming up. "You could almost walk on them, they were so thick in Shear- "SO I HAVE voted here 60 years," she adds with pride. Dor- othy attended the celebration this June to honor those who had voted for 50 years or more. "It was a wonderful idea. I thought it was great and I got my certificate and all." Dorothy continued to diligent- ly detail people and events when Jerry retired and the couple came back to established their home on Sherwood Creek. "We just loved it," she affirms. The information which she hu recorded during her 60 years in Mason County became a re- pictures and a 1999 finale. Dorothy lived in Allyn 54 years. "I worked on the election board every year and then I also worked in the Allyn Post Office from 1950 to 1960," she notes. "I knew so many people there." Then she and her second hus- band Tony Gornick moved to Shelton six years ago. "YOU WONDER why I wrote the book. We were the fourth family to live up in the valley. The others had homesteaded. So I knew everybody. I thought it would be fun to write it for the historical society, which I did," she explains. In addition to her love of writ- ing, Dorothy has had a lifelong love of history because, she says, her ancestors go back to Eng- land. "And then I like people and I like places," she adds. Dorothy describes her ap- proach to writing the 50-year his- tory of the valley. "I worked six months on it. I spent a lot of time at the courthouse delving into deeds and things like that, so there are maps and everything in the book. Then I followed each place up Sherwood Creek, right up through the 50 years, all the different people that owned it. So it's really a wonderful reference book." What she could not find in ex- amining old records, Dorothy could supplement from her own chronicles. "Well, there again my diaries came in handy. You see, I had written so much down in my diaries: so-and-so moved in and who was in the family, so that was one of my resources." DOROTHY RELATES infor- mation on the other three fami- lies who lived on Sherwood Creek six decades ago. "Wesserlings were the home- steaders, Henry and Sophie, and then there was Mrs. Wesserl- ing's brother, Charlie and Ma- mie Clark. They were no rela- tion to us. Then there was an old couple, Millie and Ed Kennedy. He was a Spanish War veteran." Another early family to occu- py the valley were Benjamin "Harry" Dove and his wife Jen- nie. Their dmlg!tter, Margie ' Beeson Mervey, nust have been about 6," she says, when her father came to work in the Navy yards. "They owned the acreage across the road from us." She continues, "Then Navy friends of ours, the ones who had told us not to buy until we came to Washington - because she was a Washington girl - they came and bought the acreage next to us and built a log house." Marion "Corny" Cornelius and his wife Maurine visited Dorothy and Jerry in 1942, built their home two years later and sold their property to their daughter and son-in-law, Hazel and Roger Scott, in 1949. "Then from there it just ex- panded," she says of the early property owners. "It went from no school buses, no telephones and one line of electricity up there, in the 50 years, when I wrote the book 10 years ago, to five school buses and electricity, telephone and TV cables all un- Share your good news: weddings, engagements and anniversaries The Journal is happy to share news of your engagement, wed- ding or anniversary. Forms are available in the office at Third and Cota. Black-and-white prints, or good color prints, are satisfactory for pictures. Pictures are available at the office for pickup as soon as the article is printed. If you wish pic- tures returned by mail, please stamped envelope. Deadline is 2 p.m. Monday. However, news of engagements, weddings and anniversaries is always printed on a space-avail- able, first-come-first-served ba- sis. Occasionally, space con- straints or an overabundance of coming events will force us to hold one of these stories a week, or during peak seasons, two. derground and I don't know how many families up there now." Dorothy guesses there are over 50 families in Sherwood Valley now. OVER THE years, Dorothy left the valley only once for an extended period of time. "My husband Jerry died in '55 and then I was still working at the post office. In '59 I met my second husband. He was from Monta- na." The couple lived near Yel- lowstone National Park where he owned a trailer court and she worked for a park concession- aire. They returned to Allyn and Sherwood Creek after he retired m the late '60s. Although she and Tony moved to Shelton six years ago, Dorothy still has regular contact with her Allyn friends and another his- torical link - the birthday club in Allyn. "It started in 1926, I think. We meet on the third Wednesday of each month. It's just been wonderful and it's gone on all these years. And now I've been a member the longest and the oldest," she smiles and laughs softly. "Franny Peterson is third generation," Dorothy adds, speaking of the group. "Her grandmother was one of the original ones. There were four women that started it and they decided that they'd like to get to- gether so they took their kids with them. They had to walk, you know, quite a distance." Dorothy also has fond memo- ries of another Allyn resident. "Emma Dahl lived in the north end of Allyn. She and I used to work on the election board and so I got to know her very well. I told her one time, 'Emma, you must know everybody in Allyn,' and she said, 'No, I don't. You reach a point when you are old and so many are gone.' That's what I've reached now too," she comments. YET HER indomitable spirit and love of writing and history led to the reissuance of her book this summer. "It was fun," she declares, "and everyone seems quite enthused about it, especial- ly people that knew the people." The recipe Dorothy shares is one which she says she has had for many years. She often takes it to potlucks. Beet Perfection 1 envelope unflavored gelatin 1 3-oz. pkg. lemon-flavored ge- latin dessert powder 1/2 C. sugar ]/ tsp. salt 1 16 oz. can julienne-style beets 2 C. cold water /2 C. vinegar 2 tsp.cream-style horseradish 2 C. finely chopped cabbage In a saucepan combine gelat- ins, sugar and salt. Drain beets. If there is not one full cup of beet liquid, add water to make it one cup. Add liquid to saucepan in- gredients and stir over moderate heat until dissolved. Add cold water, vinegar and horseradish. Stir well. Chill until syrupy and then fold in beets and chopped cab- bage. Pour into an 8"x12" pan: )f Έ;?:4• Olson, Ellis to exchange voWS Hannah Mary Olson and Tracy Steven Ellis, of Shelton, will be united in marriage on s s day, October 9, at Shelton Civic Center. Hann,. the daughter of Larry and Janice Olson of She,:tl owerS '- She works at Ferguson and Gardner FI _ ..:oe Gifts in Shelton. Tracy's parents are ta" e Smith of Onalaska and Ronald Ellis of Sheltom graduated from Shelton High School in 1989 m received a certificate in radio broadcast.ng_o’S Clover Park Technical College. Tracy is the u' director at KMAS Radio in Shelton. Rummage iter00S needed for sale at youth center Cross Roads Youth Center, lo- cated at Second and Cota streets in Shelton, is accepting rum- mage sale items from 3 to 5 p.m. today and tomorrow. The center's fund-raiser sale is set for 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Satur- day at the center. It will offer household items, tools, equipment including dio items, computers, fishing and boating gear. For more ] the sale, those intere 432-0461. Sund?y breakfast set a 40 et 8 clt00 gravy for $2.50. Proceeds help fund 8's charitable scholarships. Those attendin back (alley) door building, the second s the 100 block of West one with a question maY 5060. The public is invited to the 40 et 8 Charity Breakfast in Shelton from 9 a.m. to noon this Sunday, September 26. The menu will include hash- browns, toast or biscuit, choice of ham, bacon or sausage, and eggs to order (including omelets) for $3.50. The veterans' organization will also serve just biscuits and "Nothing could be finer" than to come to a JOE'S DINER POTLUCK RE Joe and Lois Simpson Saturday, october 1 802 Terrace Blvd. 4 p.m. - • Kids and Kids' Kids Welcome/ Sharon -- 426-2516 * Patty -- 427-2921 * Lois include a self-addressed, Thanks for your patience. Chill overnight. " ' ANNUAL SEE US BEFORE YOU BUY " 180 DAYS SAME AS CASH • 85% Efficient • Realistic Burn & Unique Logs • 40,000 BTU's • Lifetime Warranty • Mobile Home Approved POWERFUL GAS STOVES DV4OSTEP TOP #:< [ i:, i i ii | Fifty Years in Sherwood Valley, first published In 1989, has been updated by author Dorothy Clark Gornick and reprinted, with new photographs, by the Mason County Historical Society. Copies are available at the society's museum, Fifth and Railroad in Shelton, and at the Coffee Readery on State Route 3 in Kllyn. o,c_.,N’_ • World's Beat Built Spa • 5 Year Warranty • Maximum Therapy • Financing Available • Come in... See the Best STARTING AT EFFICIENT WOOD STOVES • WORLD'S • BURNS 18 • CLOSE wALL • IDEAL FOR HOME • Lifetime Sakes alive She's 65 .Bir$hday Page 8 Shelton.Mason County Journal. Thursday, eptember 23, 1999 What's Cookin'? Dorothy's loire of writing leads to 60-year hi of Sherwood Creek .... !  i::;ii!i!i:  4   ):  r   "f DOROTHY CLARK GORNICK began keeping a diary as a teenager on Nantucket Island and has faithfully en- gaged in that practice ever since. Because of her work on the election board and at the post office in Allyn, she came to know most families there and created a book documenting the area's growth. .,:,;}source when she  FiJ/ acrw ers. Wa':.Years in Sherwood Valley in F.,ut World'1989 for the Mason County His- Wa mtatd reran torical Society. The book has .  .:been reprinted with additional By MARY DUNCAN Former Allyn resident Dor- othy Clark Gornick began recording weather conditions as a girl on Nantucket Island where she was raised. Then in high school she started keeping a ....... diary, a practice which she has ...... continued tbr 73 years. That's roughly 26,645 days of writing. With the slightest hint of a Nor'easter's accent, Dorothy ex- plains, "I like writing and smnebody gave me a diary for (:hristmas. I thought that'd be fun .o I just started in and I've just k(,pt it up." She wrote throughout her col- lege days at Simmons College in Boston and during her marriage to a Navy man when she saw the w()r ld. "! ltAVE wonderful records of bc.ing in typhoons and quakes. The first three tur 1 was married we lived ': Puerto Rico and my husband was stationed with the radio station ib(>r(,,' she says. "Then we just i;ot back to the States and he got ordered out to the Orient so we were in the; Philippines and China. It was through Navy friends that she and her husband, Jerry (/.lark, discovered Mason Coun- ty. "My husband's ship came into the Bremerton Navy Yard so we were up here the summer of 1939," Dorothy recalls. band had quite a:lw service and we were ward to retirement. So shipmates, Navy said, 'Don't buy you'w: been to the ington.' "When we came up here we just fell in love with it," she en- thuses. "We were looking for a place in September. The real es- tate man brought us to Shelton and we thought it was a nice little town, and that's what we wanted tube near, Then he said, 'I have one more place to show you on the ay back to Bremerton.' We stopl)td in Allyn and went up Sherwood Creek Road and the salmon were coming up. "You could almost walk on them, they were so thick in Shear- "SO I HAVE voted here 60 years," she adds with pride. Dor- othy attended the celebration this June to honor those who had voted for 50 years or more. "It was a wonderful idea. I thought it was great and I got my certificate and all." Dorothy continued to diligent- ly detail people and events when Jerry retired and the couple came back to established their home on Sherwood Creek. "We just loved it," she affirms. The information which she hu recorded during her 60 years in Mason County became a re- pictures and a 1999 finale. Dorothy lived in Allyn 54 years. "I worked on the election board every year and then I also worked in the Allyn Post Office from 1950 to 1960," she notes. "I knew so many people there." Then she and her second hus- band Tony Gornick moved to Shelton six years ago. "YOU WONDER why I wrote the book. We were the fourth family to live up in the valley. The others had homesteaded. So I knew everybody. I thought it would be fun to write it for the historical society, which I did," she explains. In addition to her love of writ- ing, Dorothy has had a lifelong love of history because, she says, her ancestors go back to Eng- land. "And then I like people and I like places," she adds. Dorothy describes her ap- proach to writing the 50-year his- tory of the valley. "I worked six months on it. I spent a lot of time at the courthouse delving into deeds and things like that, so there are maps and everything in the book. Then I followed each place up Sherwood Creek, right up through the 50 years, all the different people that owned it. So it's really a wonderful reference book." What she could not find in ex- amining old records, Dorothy could supplement from her own chronicles. "Well, there again my diaries came in handy. You see, I had written so much down in my diaries: so-and-so moved in and who was in the family, so that was one of my resources." DOROTHY RELATES infor- mation on the other three fami- lies who lived on Sherwood Creek six decades ago. "Wesserlings were the home- steaders, Henry and Sophie, and then there was Mrs. Wesserl- ing's brother, Charlie and Ma- mie Clark. They were no rela- tion to us. Then there was an old couple, Millie and Ed Kennedy. He was a Spanish War veteran." Another early family to occu- py the valley were Benjamin "Harry" Dove and his wife Jen- nie. Their dmlg!tter, Margie ' Beeson Mervey, nust have been about 6," she says, when her father came to work in the Navy yards. "They owned the acreage across the road from us." She continues, "Then Navy friends of ours, the ones who had told us not to buy until we came to Washington - because she was a Washington girl - they came and bought the acreage next to us and built a log house." Marion "Corny" Cornelius and his wife Maurine visited Dorothy and Jerry in 1942, built their home two years later and sold their property to their daughter and son-in-law, Hazel and Roger Scott, in 1949. "Then from there it just ex- panded," she says of the early property owners. "It went from no school buses, no telephones and one line of electricity up there, in the 50 years, when I wrote the book 10 years ago, to five school buses and electricity, telephone and TV cables all un- Share your good news: weddings, engagements and anniversaries The Journal is happy to share news of your engagement, wed- ding or anniversary. Forms are available in the office at Third and Cota. Black-and-white prints, or good color prints, are satisfactory for pictures. Pictures are available at the office for pickup as soon as the article is printed. If you wish pic- tures returned by mail, please stamped envelope. Deadline is 2 p.m. Monday. However, news of engagements, weddings and anniversaries is always printed on a space-avail- able, first-come-first-served ba- sis. Occasionally, space con- straints or an overabundance of coming events will force us to hold one of these stories a week, or during peak seasons, two. derground and I don't know how many families up there now." Dorothy guesses there are over 50 families in Sherwood Valley now. OVER THE years, Dorothy left the valley only once for an extended period of time. "My husband Jerry died in '55 and then I was still working at the post office. In '59 I met my second husband. He was from Monta- na." The couple lived near Yel- lowstone National Park where he owned a trailer court and she worked for a park concession- aire. They returned to Allyn and Sherwood Creek after he retired m the late '60s. Although she and Tony moved to Shelton six years ago, Dorothy still has regular contact with her Allyn friends and another his- torical link - the birthday club in Allyn. "It started in 1926, I think. We meet on the third Wednesday of each month. It's just been wonderful and it's gone on all these years. And now I've been a member the longest and the oldest," she smiles and laughs softly. "Franny Peterson is third generation," Dorothy adds, speaking of the group. "Her grandmother was one of the original ones. There were four women that started it and they decided that they'd like to get to- gether so they took their kids with them. They had to walk, you know, quite a distance." Dorothy also has fond memo- ries of another Allyn resident. "Emma Dahl lived in the north end of Allyn. She and I used to work on the election board and so I got to know her very well. I told her one time, 'Emma, you must know everybody in Allyn,' and she said, 'No, I don't. You reach a point when you are old and so many are gone.' That's what I've reached now too," she comments. YET HER indomitable spirit and love of writing and history led to the reissuance of her book this summer. "It was fun," she declares, "and everyone seems quite enthused about it, especial- ly people that knew the people." The recipe Dorothy shares is one which she says she has had for many years. She often takes it to potlucks. Beet Perfection 1 envelope unflavored gelatin 1 3-oz. pkg. lemon-flavored ge- latin dessert powder 1/2 C. sugar ]/ tsp. salt 1 16 oz. can julienne-style beets 2 C. cold water /2 C. vinegar 2 tsp.cream-style horseradish 2 C. finely chopped cabbage In a saucepan combine gelat- ins, sugar and salt. Drain beets. If there is not one full cup of beet liquid, add water to make it one cup. Add liquid to saucepan in- gredients and stir over moderate heat until dissolved. Add cold water, vinegar and horseradish. Stir well. Chill until syrupy and then fold in beets and chopped cab- bage. Pour into an 8"x12" pan: )f Έ;?:4• Olson, Ellis to exchange voWS Hannah Mary Olson and Tracy Steven Ellis, of Shelton, will be united in marriage on s s day, October 9, at Shelton Civic Center. Hann,. the daughter of Larry and Janice Olson of She,:tl owerS '- She works at Ferguson and Gardner FI _ ..:oe Gifts in Shelton. Tracy's parents are ta" e Smith of Onalaska and Ronald Ellis of Sheltom graduated from Shelton High School in 1989 m received a certificate in radio broadcast.ng_o’S Clover Park Technical College. Tracy is the u' director at KMAS Radio in Shelton. Rummage iter00S needed for sale at youth center Cross Roads Youth Center, lo- cated at Second and Cota streets in Shelton, is accepting rum- mage sale items from 3 to 5 p.m. today and tomorrow. The center's fund-raiser sale is set for 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Satur- day at the center. It will offer household items, tools, equipment including dio items, computers, fishing and boating gear. For more ] the sale, those intere 432-0461. Sund?y breakfast set a 40 et 8 clt00 gravy for $2.50. Proceeds help fund 8's charitable scholarships. Those attendin back (alley) door building, the second s the 100 block of West one with a question maY 5060. The public is invited to the 40 et 8 Charity Breakfast in Shelton from 9 a.m. to noon this Sunday, September 26. The menu will include hash- browns, toast or biscuit, choice of ham, bacon or sausage, and eggs to order (including omelets) for $3.50. The veterans' organization will also serve just biscuits and "Nothing could be finer" than to come to a JOE'S DINER POTLUCK RE Joe and Lois Simpson Saturday, october 1 802 Terrace Blvd. 4 p.m. - • Kids and Kids' Kids Welcome/ Sharon -- 426-2516 * Patty -- 427-2921 * Lois include a self-addressed, Thanks for your patience. Chill overnight. " ' ANNUAL SEE US BEFORE YOU BUY " 180 DAYS SAME AS CASH • 85% Efficient • Realistic Burn & Unique Logs • 40,000 BTU's • Lifetime Warranty • Mobile Home Approved POWERFUL GAS STOVES DV4OSTEP TOP #:< [ i:, i i ii | Fifty Years in Sherwood Valley, first published In 1989, has been updated by author Dorothy Clark Gornick and reprinted, with new photographs, by the Mason County Historical Society. Copies are available at the society's museum, Fifth and Railroad in Shelton, and at the Coffee Readery on State Route 3 in Kllyn. o,c_.,N’_ • World's Beat Built Spa • 5 Year Warranty • Maximum Therapy • Financing Available • Come in... See the Best STARTING AT EFFICIENT WOOD STOVES • WORLD'S • BURNS 18 • CLOSE wALL • IDEAL FOR HOME • Lifetime Sakes alive She's 65 .Bir$hday Page 8 Shelton.Mason County Journal. Thursday, eptember 23, 1999