Article: SHE'S A Keeper/ Black Forest fixture holds keys to her neighbors' hearts

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 ...

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