THE DESERTED MANSION NOTE: The owners of the location referenced in this story do NOT want visitors to approach the lodge mentioned here. Please respect their wishes and their privacy. Thank you. From The Egg & I: The main house, a Victorian grande dame, was prickly with cupolas, little balconies, and chimneys. The sagging porches […]
In an article by via the Rachel Belle, Chimacum recently got its own Space Needle: “Chimacum, Washington. Population 1,657. Blink and you may miss it. The teeny town is an unincorporated agricultural hub in Jefferson County, on the eastern Olympic Peninsula. If you’ve driven through on your way to Port Townsend or Port Angeles, perhaps […]
The Egg and I is based on life in the Chimacum Valley, much of which remains nearly as pristine as it was during Betty MacDonald’s time there. Several of the original farmhouses, barns, outbuildings and even broken down tractors from 60 years back or more are visible, and it doesn’t take much imagination to envision […]
Readers have tried to identify precisely the places Betty MacDonald wrote about. Because most are probably composites, it’s very hard to correlate fiction with actual places. The maps on this page show the location of Chimacum, WA, relative to Puget Sound and nearby cities. The red star in each shows the location of Chimacum. The […]
Newsreel: Betty signs her 1 millionth copy of The Egg and I for Washington State Governor Wallgren (Sept. 12, 1946)
Betty Bard and Robert Eugene “Bob” Heskett were married in July of 1927, and started a chicken business less than a mile away from the farm that had been rented by Betty’s mother and siblings in 1926. Both farms were on Swansonville Road near Chimacum, on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. The Bard farm failed in 1930 […]
Please enjoy The Egg & I movie trailer below.* *A special “Thank you!” to Cathy Bredlau for preparing this trailer for use on this fan site. Trailer for the re-release of The Egg and I in 1954. A long clip from the short-lived Egg and I tv show (1952).
Enjoy this short clip from the Ma and Pa Kettle movie – 1949
Synopsis: In Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town, the Kettle’s are awarded an all-expenses-paid trip to New York City after Pa wins yet another radio jingle contest for the horrid-tasting Bubble-O beverage. With no one to look after their new home in Cape Flattery, Washington, and their wild brood of fifteen children, the two […]
Synopsis: In Mother Didn’t Tell Me, Jane Morgan, a young radio jingle writer for a leading Los Angeles advertising agency, has a terrible cough and goes to consult a doctor, William Wright, who turns out to be young, handsome and available. Jane takes a fancy to Bill and, later that same evening, phones him to […]
Opening clip for Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair!
Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation (1953) Video Trailer.