Opal Fern Nielson

I visited Grandma Nielson last when my husband was training in Texas. I brought my three kids at the time to her house for lunch. I realized that Grandma was really aging. She was in her apartment in Camas, but I knew it wouldn't be too long before she was in a nursing home. I wanted to capture a little of her and her history, so I pressed her to tell us a story about her past. She told me she grew up in Idaho and that in her valley there was a current bush, the only current bush in the...