Blanket Stories: Talking Stick, Works Progress, Steward

A site-specific installation commissioned by Curator Faith Brower and the High Desert Museum in Bend, Oregon

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Jody Ward
Bend, OR
Tags
Outdoors, Travel

This came from a cabin on the Metolius. Lucille Denning and Don Denning owned the cabin. Her father was a doctor in Sherman County. The doctor said to his rancher patients to take vacations on the Metolius – that’s how Camp Sherman got its name. Lucille remembers digging the lake at Lake Creek Lodge with a draft horse. The cabin was built after WWII.

Jody and Jan Ward bought it – it’s the last one in Tract 0. They bought it 20 years ago.

These blankets were on the floor when they bought it. She believes they’re Indian blankets.