52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks – Week 13: Homestead: A Cabin in Boulder Creek--MSF
I am working on this year-long prompt, hosted by Amy Johnson Crow . I will write each week in one of my two blogs, either Mam-ma’s Southern Family or at My Trails Into the Past . I’m looking forward to writing about my children’s ancestors in new and exciting ways. Boulder Creek is a small community in Santa Cruz County, California. The creek served as a flume in the logging days. In the 1950s, my grandparents had a cabin in Boulder Creek. I don’t know if they owned the property or rented it. There was a very nice painting of the cabin but at the moment, the location of the painting is unknown. The last time I saw the painting was before my grandmother passed away in 2013. However, I do have a photograph. I don’t know how long they used the cabin, but later they had a cabin (really a trailer) in Nice at Clear Lake. The Clear Lake cabin I had visited. One week us four older children spent some time with Mam-ma at this cabin. I remember the big ants (...