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<body class='hmmessage'>Women - and kids - worked in the woods early on. I have pictures from, I think, the 1880s of my great grandmother as a girl with her parents and siblings at a logging site somewhere between Lynx Hollow and Silk Creek.<BR>
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> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:20:59 -0700<BR>> From: dharguess@coastline.edu<BR>> To: or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us<BR>> Subject: Re: [or-roots] Hyster safety<BR>> <BR>> Now you got my attention. Although my grandmother could not be<BR>> described as a "Macho" woman, she did work in a Lumber camp and that is<BR>> where we think she met my grandfather. She was a cook and so was he. I<BR>> have tried in vain to find where the camp was but I do have a photo of<BR>> it along with the men standing outside and a few really big trees that<BR>> had been felled and were ready to be moved. If I could find the right<BR>> camp then I might be able to find their marriage record. This would<BR>> have been about 1918.<BR>> Dale<BR>> <BR>> -----Original Message-----<BR>> From: or-roots-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us<BR>> [mailto:or-roots-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us] On Behalf Of Leslie<BR>> Chapman<BR>> Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 12:04 PM<BR>> To: or-roots mail list<BR>> Subject: Re: [or-roots] Hyster safety<BR>> <BR>> Well, I was thinking more in modern terms for "Macho" women (now there's<BR>> and<BR>> oxymoron for you) but in fact I think you will probably find a few<BR>> people of<BR>> the female persuasion in the mills as far back as the '20's; remember<BR>> the<BR>> "War Effort"! I guest my best experience with that is my Aunt who was a<BR>> "burner" in the shipyards in WW2 and her foreman came to her one day and<BR>> said; "Nell, they're going to send me a 'WOMAN' to work for me, WHAT AM<BR>> I<BR>> GOING TO DO???" Auntie had a good sense of humor and didn't even try to<BR>> point out to him how ridiculous that whole conversation sounded. I know<BR>> that<BR>> women were and still are few and far between in the woods industry, in<BR>> no<BR>> small part do to people with that same attitude, and of course it is an<BR>> industry that doesn't exactly appeal to a lot of women. Some kind of<BR>> predjudice against dirt and noise I guess, but I am sure there have<BR>> always<BR>> been a few around at least since the last "Great War".<BR>> <BR>> Les<BR>> <BR>> -----Original Message-----<BR>> From: or-roots-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us<BR>> [mailto:or-roots-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us]On Behalf Of<BR>> Kith-n-Kin<BR>> Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 8:26 AM<BR>> To: 'or-roots mail list'<BR>> Subject: Re: [or-roots] Hyster safety<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> "Women mill workers"? Oh, my, and I thought that was something invented<BR>> in<BR>> the 1970's. <G><BR>> <BR>> Tell us more!<BR>> <BR>> Pat (in Tucson)<BR>> <BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> or-roots mailing list<BR>> or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us<BR>> http://listsmart.osl.state.or.us/mailman/listinfo/or-roots<BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> or-roots mailing list<BR>> or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us<BR>> http://listsmart.osl.state.or.us/mailman/listinfo/or-roots<BR><BR></body>
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