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Charlie’s Garden

Posted on March 1, 2021 by Karlene Bayok Edwards / Comments Off on Charlie’s Garden

A Secret Sanctuary Story and Photos by Karlene Bayok Edwards I wish I had let Paul kiss me that night in Charlie’s Garden, with the sun dropping behind the mountains, the moon reflecting off Payette Lake, the dusky
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My First Pal

Posted on June 1, 2020 by Karlene Bayok Edwards / Comments Off on My First Pal

An Unstoppable Little Brother By Karlene Bayok Edwards Photos courtesy of the author Ronny must have been almost four when he followed our dog Pete into the woods. We lived on a hill outside McCall and much of
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Dinner Bell

Posted on November 1, 2019 by Julie Conrad / Comments Off on Dinner Bell

A Call to Yesteryear By Julie Conrad Photos courtesy of Julie Conrad Smelling the sweet scent of overripe huckleberries, I ditch my car and walk along the lane where our old cabin still stands, although our family doesn’t
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Waiting on the Angels

Posted on March 1, 2019 by Karlene Bayok Edwards / Comments Off on Waiting on the Angels

It Was Even Better Than Dishwashing By Karlene Bayok Edwards In 1966, not long after my thirteenth birthday,  I began washing dishes eight hours a day, forty hours a week, for $1.65 an hour at the now-defunct Kitchen
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White Parachute

Posted on February 1, 2019 by Karlene Bayok Edwards / Comments Off on White Parachute

A Thing Full of Potential By Karlene Bayok Edwards “Joe, if that parachute is from the dump, the kids can’t touch it until I’ve washed it,” Mother said. Dad stood at the edge of our yard in McCall,
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Their Own Steps

Posted on January 1, 2019 by Kelly Poirier / Comments Off on Their Own Steps

Wilderness Lessons Story and Photos by Kelly Poirier We headed down the trail to Goose Creek off McCall’s Brundage Mountain Road, unsure of what we would encounter. Our initial steps filled me with curiosity and enthusiasm. In the
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Shelter

Posted on February 1, 2018 by Karlene Bayok Edwards / Comments Off on Shelter

A Between-Houses Interlude By Karlene Bayok Edwards Photos Courtesy of Karlene Bayok Edwards I returned from college that summer of 1972, not to our McCall home, which had been sold, nor to our Jughandle Mountain home, which Dad
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Two Bears

Posted on January 1, 2018 by Karlene Bayok Edwards / Comments Off on Two Bears

And the Humans They Encounter By Karlene Bayok Edwards Back in 1961, as we drove home to McCall after a week of camping, a large black bear walked out into the middle of the dirt road in front
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Workshop on Wheels

Posted on November 1, 2017 by Kitty Campbell Widner / Comments Off on Workshop on Wheels

Art Changed Our Lives By Kitty Campbell Widner Photos Courtesy of Kitty Campbell Widner In the 1950s in McCall, my friends and I were quintessential housewives, but none of us was the pathetic character sometimes portrayed in the
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Flying Squirrels

Posted on June 1, 2016 by Karlene Bayok Edwards / Comments Off on Flying Squirrels

At dusk they came gliding through the branches of the Ponderosa pines, floating on skin outstretched between paws fore and aft, silent, intent on insects. Continue reading →

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