



“According to real estate standards, Mother’s eight-room brown-shingled house in the University district was just a modest dwelling in a respectable neighborhood, near good schools and adequate for an ordinary family. Piggle-Wiggle, and who described the house with such affection? Was it the house I fell for first? Or was it Betty Bard MacDonald, who wrote The Egg and I and Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle” and becomes lost in Betty’s world-a place where humor overcomes tragedy, and a story deeply rooted in the Pacific Northwest. A historian seeks to uncover more about the author of “The Egg and I” and “Mrs.
