Articles written by Patrick Faughanan

Patrick Faughanan|Updated Jan 26, 1998

Doctor Leonard Vincent practiced medicine in Sisters in the early 1920s and chronicled his experiences, thoughts and opinions in a 600-page typed manuscript. The diary gives a clear picture of life in early Sisters. The journal was left at the Sisters library in the mid 1980s by a visiting Californian who thought that the historical document should reside in the community where it was written. Not much is known about how the diary traveled to California or where and how it was found. The fragile book lived in the library for... Full story