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Photo--black and white: Group photo of the 1950s Pythian Sisters taken at the Sebastopol Grange on Sebastopol Road. The two rows of adult ladies are dressed in floor-length formals and holding bouquets of flowers. The front row consists of six children, three boys and three girls. The only two people identified are the two ladies on the left in the first (middle) row of adults: Beverly Shown, with dark ribbon around her neck and next to her Susie Knott. Handwritten on back of photo: "Ladies in formals are Sebastopol's 1950s Pythian Sisters (Pythian Sisters used to meet at the Hood Mansion and the road was named Pythian Road that led to Hood Mansion, after the Pythian Sisters. Pythian road leads into the County Youth facilities & Casa and Hood Mansion at base of Hood Mountain, Santa Rosa and goes into Oakmont at the last entrance."
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