Kelso – Daveno Historica

Wilma Hughes: A World at War

For me, the War Years were the most exciting time. Sure, sacrifices had to be made on the home front, but people pulled together.

Wilma Hughes: Boys, Scouts and a World on Edge

I joined the Girl Scouts when I was nine years old. My troop leader was a Cowlitz Indian woman named Maude Waunassay Snyder. She was a short, round lady and lived in a river house at the Cowlitz River in West Kelso.

Wilma Hughes: Vacations and the Great Depression

Sometimes on Saturdays we would put on a variety act; she would dance and I would sing, and we would charge the neighborhood kids two cents admission. Carol and I would divide up the money and buy penny candy at the little store up the street.

Wilma Hughes: Seaside and a Hobo Visit

My next memory was of us living in a tiny house with a dirt floor… with kerosene lamps, and baths in a washtub placed near the wood-fueled cookstove.

Wilma Hughes: Starting life near our hunting lodge

“My earliest childhood memory was when I must have been two or three years of age. It was when my family lived in Colorado.”