Sisters, Not the Suffragists, in 1912

Mention “sisters” in Oregon, and you could be referring to three volcanic mountains or a town near Bend. At the time of that famous suffrage vote a hundred years ago, Sisters the town was well established. That’s what I found out last week when I stopped there after Blue Thread and I finished another leg of the Crazy Eights Author Tour. You couldn’t miss this sign.

It turns out that the building (now a restaurant and bar) was once Hotel Sisters. John Dennis (a veteran of the Spanish American W...