![]() ![]() ![]() Her popularity stemmed from her avoidance of the dryness of science she was more of a charismatic mystic. The press called her a genius she called herself the Sunshine Fairy. From the age of twelve, she’d been travelling all over the state giving well-attended lectures about the natural world, a subject on which she was largely self-taught. ![]() Despite her penchant for unfashionable clothing and odd behavior, she was something of a celebrity in Oregon, where she’d grown up in a small town called Cottage Grove. She was eighteen, but she stood under five feet, with olive skin and long, dark braids. From the time when Opal arrived at the University of Oregon’s campus, in Eugene, in 1916, she was often seen chasing butterflies around and perched in trees, reading. Her life had the flavor of the apocryphal from the start. ![]()
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