![]() ![]() ![]() They want to grow as much of their own food as possible. The goal of the new owners - Vogelzang and spouse, Katy McCoy, her sister, Melinda McCoy and husband, Peter - is less grandiose. Heskett’s dream - to become the egg czar of Puget Sound - crashed and burned along with the marriage, an experience his ex-wife turned to humorous account in a novel 20 years later. ![]() Located on a ridge between Beaver Valley and Center Road, the farm was a homestead with 40 acres when 19-year-old Betty Bard married Heskett. “We’re rank beginners,” Vogelzang said of farming. She died of cancer in Seattle in 1958 at age of 49.įlash forward 50 years to 2008 and the new owners of the homestead that inspired MacDonald to write The Egg and I. The couple moved to Vashon Island, and starting with The Egg and I, published in 1945, MacDonald wrote three other books based on her life, plus the Mrs. They divorced in 1935, and she married Donald C. In 1927, she married Robert Heskett with whom she had two children. After graduating from Roosevelt High School in Seattle, she moved with her mother to the Chimacum Valley after her father died. ![]()
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