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Jane Hollister Wheelwright (1905-2004) http://tinyurl.com/JWheelwright

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Boundaries

From The Ranch Papers: A California Memoir, 1988.

Reader: Jessica Teeter

A childhood home is a sacred place. But for those who have lost that home, memories—and the influences they have had on later life—will have to do.

Before her family was forced to sell its home and property on Hollister Ranch in 1961, Jane Hollister Wheelwright returned to her childhood haunts, revisiting the places that would always be hers, if only in memory.

Wandering aimlessly, I found myself walking into the canyon that stretched in back of the old family home. An unexpectedly peaceful feeling came over me. It came from the stillness under the great oaks. The disappointment at seeing no one quickly faded. At least the land was there to greet me.

I walked instinctively to where my twin brother and I had gone as small children. It was our outermost limit of adventure when we were little. Because our parents were too busy to concern themselves with us, we could mark our own boundaries. The place had become special long ago; it was ours, we had discovered it—the waterfall that spills over the ledge of rock a mile or more into the canyon. It would be my objective that day as it had been in my childhood.

Published in 1988, Jane Hollister Wheelwright's The Ranch Papers: A California Memoir, immortalizes memories of the home her family lost after her father's death.

–Contributed by Christie Genochio.