Sally Sharrard

On March 19, 2023, in celebration of Women’s Herstory Month, eight Rose Villa women told their personal stories of perseverance and resilience. Their journeys carried them past barriers meant to hold them back and allowed them to fulfill their dreams of a life outside the traditional roles for women.

At anchor in the Puget Sound

Sally SharrardSally has been a boater since she was little. Throughout her life there have been rafts, rowboats, canal boats, houseboats, sailboats, and kayaks. She grew up learning about the ancestor who fell off the Mayflower in monstrous storm waves, then pulled himself aboard with a trailing line; and of a …

Sally Sharrard (North Main)

Oregon Ski Tours (Archives, 796.93), published in 1973. Sally and Doug Newman wrote this book in 1973 in the early years of cross-country skiing when there were no groomed trails or skis with plastic treads. The book was written to introduce skiers to cross-country ski trails …

July 24, 2020: This is a special episode about the history of the Rose Villa Vikings dragon boat team.