Rome To Roseburg

<p class=ql-align-justify>Born in Bavaria in 1938 Hilde Baughman remembers fearful nights in a bomb shelter during World War Two. As a peacetime teenager she visited cities across Europe: Brussels Amsterdam Geneva Vienna Paris Rome. In 1961 married to an American she found herself in San Francisco where she became a model at evening fashion shows. When the family moved to southern Oregon in 1966 a remarkable transformation began. A lovely European woman accustomed to a prescribed and urbane life learned to love wildlife and untamed country. She fly-fished for summer steelhead; hunted Oregon's rugged country for mountain quail; backpacked cross-country skied and mountain-biked. Because she trained for and ran marathons she was fit enough to outrun a northern California wildfire. In recent years she's won two bouts with cancer. As John Muir aptly put it nature became her manifestation of God.</p><p><br></p>