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Love Letters from Big Creek

Posted on December 1, 2021 by Karlene Bayok Edwards / Comments Off on Love Letters from Big Creek

1935-1939 By Karlene Bayok Edwards Photos from the Joe and Marcella Bayok Collection ’ve often wondered how my parents got together. They were so different. Mother was tiny, fine-boned, and quick. Dad was tall, big-shouldered, and steadfast. She
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Axe Music

Posted on October 1, 2019 by Karlene Bayok Edwards / Comments Off on Axe Music

In Big Creek Country By Karlene Bayok Edwards It stormed the last night of our ten-day backpack trip. Although we didn’t get wet, we watched black thunderheads pouring out rain and lightning flashing above the mountains, the same
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Big Creek–Spotlight

Posted on July 1, 2017 by Kitty Campbell Widner / Comments Off on Big Creek–Spotlight

A Family Recalls Years at the Lodge By Kitty Widner When I arrived in Idaho as a World War II bride in 1945, my husband was eager to show me the beauties of his home state. One of
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Gone Primitive

Posted on January 1, 2016 by Marco Horsewood / Comments Off on Gone Primitive

One evening in Los Angeles, Walter Weymouth took my mother for a walk and asked her, “If you could lie on your back in the grass and look at the stars in the heavens and make a wish that could fulfill a dream you had dreamed more than once, what would it be?” Continue reading →

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You’ll Be Glad

Posted on December 1, 2015 by Karlene Bayok Edwards / Comments Off on You’ll Be Glad

When I was about five, I tripped and fell down eight rough cement porch steps. I started crying, and my father knelt down and put his arms around me. He said, “Don’t cry, kid. When it stops hurting, you’ll feel so good you’ll be glad you did it.” Continue reading →

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