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You Can’t Die Here

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A Grave Problem Story and Photos by Clell G. Ballard Camas County has a problem with dying. You see, even though the county is as large as Rhode Island, and even though our thousand residents live in a
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Testing the Code

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In the sparsely populated areas of rural Idaho, people go by a code of honor: “Don’t mess with things that don’t belong to you.” As strange as it may seem to city dwellers, something can be left in the same spot for a surprisingly long time without being touched by anyone.

For example, a late-1920s Model A Ford sat off the side of a regularly used county road near Fairfield for several decades. To be more accurate, only part of the vehicle remained visible for at least a dozen years—until the ravages of time accounted for its final state of almost total decay, when scrap collectors hauled it away—but you get my point. Continue reading

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