1946-1951

The Deerwood years. Beverly taught piano and voice in nearby towns to help with meagre earnings from writing. I wrote in leanto storage shed attached to garage, also summers in small poplar-log cabin (which was later moved to Alexandria, Lake Andrew). GOPHER TAILS FOR PAPA first published as a serial in a Baptist Sunday School story paper, 1948. During those years I served as Deerwood Township clerk, assessor, census enumerator, school clerk, and member of the Crow Wing County School Reorganization Committee.