![]() ![]() The house that Betty lived in is long gone, but “Egg and I” fans continued to knock on the door of Jess and Pat Bondurant, the farm’s former owners who lived there 32 years. “Certainly eggs and chickens will be in the mix,” Vogelzang said. ![]() They’re thinking vegetable gardens, fruit trees, maybe even a cow. ![]() They want to grow as much of their own food as possible. The goal of the new owners - Vogelzang and his wife, Katy McCoy her sister, Melinda McCoy and Melinda’s husband, Peter Walchenbach - 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.” 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 Chimacum Valley on the Olympic Peninsula after her father died. ![]()
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