Ecological succession: I mourn the loss of my favorite uncle, Ted Brown, who died Friday evening in eastern Oregon, Realizing an Oregon dream and vision

I mourn the loss of my favorite uncle, Ted Brown, who died Friday evening in eastern Oregon. It's particularly the wood craft as well as his and his family's realizing of the amazingly beautiful Wisdom Creek Ranch sustainable tree farm since 1959, as an Oregon dream and vision, that I appreciate and love him for.

I first visited them in the mid 1970s (1974?) in eastern Oregon at their ranch, and I remember going backpacking with him (and my brother and mother I think), along Catherine Creek, probably for a mile or two.

From 1979-1987, when I was a student at Reed College, and living in Portland, Oregon, after this, I visited them possibly 15-25 times, hitchhiking many times across the state along Interstate Highway 84. It was Mary's home making and warm hospitality, her gardening, canning, and knowledge of the natural world of the ranch that also touched me. They had both met and married at the Quaker Earlham College in the 1950s (where my mother went for a year), that informed their vision of sustainable homesteading in many ways, an old American vision. They realized this amazingly and beautifully raising 3 children, some of whom have grandchildren now.

Ted and Mary worked so hard to realize this dream - physical 12 hour day labor. At the same time, my uncle first taught high school, then college and university, at Eastern Oregon College, which became Eastern Oregon University in later years.

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Hi M,

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Here are some blog posts about them, which I've written over the years:

American frontier: ongoing vision of realizing the Oregon trail, Reed College

Pinus ponderosa: Realized visions ... The realized dream of Oregon trail at Wisdom Creek Ranch, Harbin Hot Springs' New Planned Landscape as a vision, * How might both Wisdom Creek Ranch as tree farm and Harbin Hot Springs as hippie hot springs' retreat center emerge as part of a virtual earth such as in Google Street View with time slider?, All of this would be part of a virtual classroom in a virtual earth with time slider and planned in all languages at WUaS, and also for STEM ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy, and sustainable tree farm planning, for example, in the case of Wisdom Creek Ranch, Virtual Worlds wiki subject at WUaS for for idea sharing about this ...

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/06/pinus-ponderosa-realized-visions.html

Water resources: Brown family genealogy conversation, A few questions about my Aunt Mary Chadbourne Brown for me? 1. Do you know if her son is still living? 2. Do you know if he might have any photos he would be willing to share of her as a young woman?