After her education at Palo Alto High School, Evelyn Snell-Troedson attended college for two years before becoming a teacher. Her family moved to Los Altos in 1927. She kept herself busy by interacting with the community of her children’s schools.
She talks about her father planting apricots and her experiences cutting apricots in the summer. She describes the orchard man who lived on the property and his duties as well as the seasonal workers who helped with the harvest. During WWII, the family had 2,000 chickens and earned income from the eggs. She and her husband ended up living on the property and raised their family of 5 children there. Mrs. Troedson essentially spent her entire life on this property. Snell-Troedson spent her entire life on the same property, as she and her husband moved onto the land after growing up there as a child.
