Yosemite-My Heart and Home: A Memoir of Growth and Change

In the winter of 1951, Marian Woessner came to Yosemite National Park to join her husband, Charlie, who had recently contracted to provide dental services to the Park community. Thus began a practice that lasted for decades and a home that lasted for nearly half a century. The Woessners lived in Yosemite Valley until retirement in 1987 and then moved to a house they built in Wawona, a small community in the southern end of the Park. There they lived for another eleven years. Combining personal memoir with regional history, Yosemite -- My Heart and Home is a chronicle of living in the midst of breathtaking scenery, stimulating company, and significant social change. This is also the story of a marriage and of family, of lasting friendships, and of living in the aegis of the National Park Service and in the heart of outstanding natural beauty. Book jacket.

Marian Woessner has led an active life as a homemaker, wife, mother, and grandmother. She and her husband, Charlie, were awarded the 1993 Yosemite Alumni Award for community service in 1993. After living in Yosemite National Park for forty-eight years, they now live in Carson City, Nevada