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by ~ Linda Farmer Harris

What's your favorite pie? As a child, I was partial to lemon meringue. The higher the meringue the better. My Grandma Farmer was the master of whipping up the egg whites.

Lemon Meringue Pie

Lucy Ann Stoddard Wakefield was a master pie maker, too.

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In 1849, Dr. John and Lucy Ann Stoddard Wakefield arrived in Dry Diggins, California. He was an English-born dentist and she was eager to earn her own money. The money she inherited from her father's estate was controlled by her husband. 

One of her relatives, Ship Captain Leslie Bryson, wrote after a visit that, "wretched & miserable pride forbade her to complain of her own choice & stir the stink among her Friends, although he [Dr.

Wakefield] was in the constant habit of tentelizing [sp] and insulting her feelings with abusive epithets & jealous aspersions of all her connections."

She looked around and decided that the Argonauts, as the miners were called, needed coffee and dessert a