Career

She is also the co-editor of Talking on Paper: Oregon Letters and Diaries, sixth edition (1993). In 2007, she was named one of the eight recipients to be given the Governor"s Arts Awards for 2006-2007 by Government. Ted Kulongoski. Her father was Colonel Rex Applegate, the author of acclaimed military and police training manuals.

Their home is the "oldest house in the State of Oregon still occupied by its original family".

Her daughter, Jessica Applegate Brown, owns and manages Applegate House Vineyards at the Charles Applegate Home, often referred to as Applegate House.