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Wednesday, September 25, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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Stories from Camp Sherman
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Camp Sherman History
By Rope Chew & Lily Henderson
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Duney the Deer
By Emily Bourdage
The Black Butte School students
interviewed Sylvia and Leon Foster.
They were really nice and answered
our questions with a lot of details.
We documented what they said in
class and took careful notes.
They had a lot of life stories to
share with us, and have been in this
area for many decades. They have
grown to love the community and
talked about all the friendly neigh-
bors around. Hearing about their
many memories was really exciting.
Sylvia Foster talked about inter-
acting with a lot of animals. One of
the animals she remembers very well
is a pretty young doe named Duney
that would often visit their home and
loved people. She belonged to the
community.
“Duney was shot when she was a
fawn, and was put back together, so
she thought people were her best
friend,” Sylvia Foster explained. The
deer was so friendly that she would
walk into their home and sit by the
fire.
Sylvia talked about setting a blan-
ket down in the kitchen and letting
the deer sit and watch the children
around the house. Duney really
loved the Fosters’ kids.
When Duney was an adult deer,
she would come back every spring
with a new set of twins. She would
teach her babies that humans were
safe and to not be afraid of them.
They followed in her tracks.
Sylvia brought in a picture of
Duney for the class to see. It was a
very old and faded picture of the
young deer lying down on the floor.
We all loved it.
Duney was a very smart and trusting
wild deer who left Sylvia and Leon
with a really good story to tell.
In 1912 ranchers from Sherman County came here to build
summer homes on the majestic Metolius River.
In the late 1960s, when the Fosters moved here, Metolius
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Meadows was not a peaceful neighborhood; it was a field
of mint. Also there were only the church, school, store, post
office, the resorts and trailer park, and a few cabins along the
place.
When Leon and Sylvia moved here this town was about
half the size it is now. In 2010 Camp Sherman had about 233
people, so in 1968 there were about 116 people.
The Fosters bought Cold Springs Resort and lived there,
after their home, the Hoodoo Lodge, burned down. They built
a footbridge in 1968, to get across the river.
Black Butte School has been around for about 100 years.
There have been three Black Butte schools. The current
school building was made in 1950 and was a two-room
schoolhouse. Currently the school has three rooms, a solar-
ium, a wood structure, and merry-go-round. [Editor’s note: A
new playground is in the works.]
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