Rome To Roseburg: Oma In Oregon, The Transformation of One Woman's Life

Born in Bavaria in 1938, Hilde Baughman remembers fearful nights in a bomb shelter during World War Two. As a peacetime teenager she visited cities across Europe: Brussels, Amsterdam, Geneva, Vienna, Paris, Rome. In 1961, married to an American, she found herself in San Francisco, where she became a model at evening fashion shows. When the family moved to southern Oregon in 1966 a remarkable transformation began. A lovely European woman accustomed to a prescribed and urbane life learned to love wildlife and untamed country. She fly-fished for summer steelhead; hunted Oregon's rugged country for mountain quail; backpacked, cross-country skied and mountain-biked. Because she trained for and ran marathons, she was fit enough to outrun a northern California wildfire. In recent years she's won two bouts with cancer. As John Muir aptly put it, nature became her manifestation of God.

Author: Hilde Baughman
Publisher: Sauce Publishing
Published: 01/31/2023
Pages: 226
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.52d
ISBN13: 9781736872895
ISBN10: 1736872893
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs