Category Archives: Memoirs

Memoirs written by residents

Kit Bowen Chapter Three

Posted on May 28, 2024 by gardenhomehistoryproject

[This third installment by Kit Bowen was submitted to us via gardenhomehistory@gmail.com on April 28th, 2024. Thanks for this new chapter, Kit! You can read Kit’s first chapter Kit Bowen and his second chapter Wobbling Into My Past by Kit Bowen.] The Portland Golf … Continue reading →

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Ernest and Melba Cook, one of the earliest families in Garden Home

Posted on April 30, 2024 by gardenhomehistoryproject

Submitted by Louise (Cook) Jones, April 2024 Our parents Melba and Ernest Cook, with daughter Patti who was born in 1939, moved to Garden Home in 1941. Their house was second from the corner off Garden Home Road, at 8107 … Continue reading →

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Wobbling Into My Past by Kit Bowen

Posted on February 20, 2024 by gardenhomehistoryproject

[Wobbling Into My Past by Kit Bowen was submitted to us via gardenhomehistory@gmail.com on February 1st, 2024. Thanks for this new chapter, Kit! You can read Kit’s first chapter Kit Bowen.] Obviously Thomas Wolfe had never been to Garden Home … Continue reading →

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Kit Bowen

Posted on June 12, 2023 by gardenhomehistoryproject

We met Kit Bowen at the June 3, 2023 outdoor 40 Year Anniversary, sponsored by the Garden Home Community Library and the Garden Home Recreation Center. Kit was remembering his early life as a first and second grader at Garden … Continue reading →

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Portland Golf Club by Joanne DeHaan

Posted on August 5, 2020 by gardenhomehistoryproject

Portland Golf Club members developed and maintained the first nine holes of their golf course. But, local men, from the Garden Home area, developed the other nine holes – half of the golf course. In 1920, the golf club hired … Continue reading →

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