The Year We Were Famous Author:Carole Estby Dagg In 1896, the Mica Creek community was scandalized when my Great Aunt Clara and her mother, Helga Estby, proposed to walk, unescorted, from their farm near Spokane to New York City to win money to save the family farm. The Estbys were greeted with the news that two of Clara’s siblings had died of diphtheria while they were gone. Clara ... more »and Helga were so despondent that they vowed never to write or talk about their walk again.
Despite that vow, whispers about their trek filtered down through the generations during the next one hundred years. Times changed. What had been considered scandalous and irresponsible behavior in 1896 was considered heroic and forward-thinking by the 1990’s.« less