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Article: SHE'S A Keeper/ Black Forest fixture holds keys to her neighbors' hearts
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- The Gazette
- Article date:
- September 6, 2003
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One way or another, for nearly 50 years, Dorothie Munson Ingram
has been rescuing her Black Forest neighbors in need.
"Right after we moved in, the call went out that a child was lost
in the forest," recalls Ingram, 87. She and then-husband Paul Munson
joined the search.
The child was found, and the Munsons found themselves very
welcome, and soon fixtures, in "the forest," as many residents call
it.
A half-century later, she still lives next door to the log house
they bought when they moved to Colorado from an Indiana farm in 1955.
In August, she was named Keeper of the Keys at the annual Black
Forest Festival. She was given the traditional set of seven oversized
keys, which were cut from ...