A Child’s Silver Valley By Jessica E. Johnson In her new book, Mettlework: A Mining Daughter on Making Home, the author recounts the challenges of being raised in mining towns around the West, including those of Idaho’s Silver
Two Pioneering Lives By Barbara Scott When I was a child, my brother, sisters, and I woke early every Memorial Day to gather blossoms off the lilac tree and flowers from the garden, which we took to the
It Ate Ornaments for Lunch Story and Photos by John O’Bryan Kelly and I have been married for close to thirty-five years and in that time we have had our fair share of disagreements, although I’d hesitate to
Grazing the Sheep By Richard W. Etulain The following excerpt, used with permission from the author’s new book, Boyhood among the Woolies, describes summers when the Etulains left their eastern Washington ranch to graze their sheep in the
What Became of Them? By Marcia McGreevy Lewis Little things made us feel the shadowy presence of our predecessors at the cabin. They left behind chipped dishware, knife handles made from deer horns, and mustache cups as drinking
After a Torturous Wait By Dean Worbois The grownups had no sense at all come Christmas Eve. Or was it they just loved to torture little kids? The torture didn’t begin until after a huge dinner was held
Talk about Romance By Angela Ruth Strong Photos Courtesy of Angela Ruth Strong Twelve years ago, I thought my then-boyfriend Jim and I were going to a movie to set up a couple of our friends on a
By Janice Pollard Photos courtesy of Janice Pollard In 1959, two women who had separately helped to design their all-brick, ranch-style homes moved into them across the street from each other in what was then a brand-new subdivision
Books in Times of Change By Aisha Marie My love affair with books began a very long time ago. I was just a little girl in Rose Lake when I used to watch my sister, Sandi, and my
