Whole page of photos & article by Evelyn McCormick, on Dwight Felt, Sr. & his memories. Dwight at 85, is the grandson of Dr. Theodore Dwight Felt who settled in Hydesville in 1850. Born in 1878, his family moved to Gunther's Island in 1883. His father worked for Gonther as a former & his wife Jennie kept house. He recalled that sailing vessels unloaded their sand or rock ballast on the east and south sides of the island in the 1880's. The rock was used to build levees on the island. He recalled meeting May Burton, an Indian girl who survived the massacre of Feb 1860 on the island. She was found clasped tightly in her dead mother's arms by a man named Burton, who took her home and raised her. Two or three years later the family moved back to Rohnerville. At 14 yrs old he began working for PL. The Scotia mill burned down on July 6, 1895. So he went looking for work & found the ridge route ( Harris road) under construction. This job as water boy lasted 3 days. He walked down to Garberville, visited his aunt Augustus Schumacher , walked north to what is now Weott, & noted there was only a homesteader's cabin owned by Jimmy Crothers. At Dyerville he was helped by Mrs. Truman Lucas. The Lucas ran a store there. He next walked to Bryan's Rest near Holmes, then on to Camp Grant. At Camp Grant he was hired to drive the mail stage to Olson on the South Fork Eel east of Miranda from Cummings ( 45 miles). He left Cummings at 4am each day & drove to Bell Springs for breakfast. A man named Groth lived there. Then he went on to Harris where lunch was obtained, and on to the Olson place where he had dinner. The Olson place is now owned by Jack Albee. In 1897 he went back to work for PL.