Dear Editor:

I received a copy of the Creswell 2026-7 Visitors Guide. It is a nice publication. But the Creswell’s Rich History page is troubling.

The Kalapuya have been in what is now Creswell for thousands of years (much longer than the Euro-American settlers the article names) and nurtured the fertile land from which Creswell grew, as the title of the article states. Yet the Kalapuya are totally ignored, as if the area’s history only started when the settlers showed up.

According to the Visitors Guide history, white men did everything. What about including a wife’s name on a land donation, as the article described? I bet the wives and other women contributed to the businesses and farm mentioned, and for sure were involved in the opening of churches and schools.

Charlotte Behm
Springfield