Following the Rules By Gary Oberbillig I have never experienced a greater sense of redemption than on a day when I was six years old, lost in fantasy, creeping along a shady trail near McCall. I carried a
And a Produce War By John M. Larsen In 1952, when polka music was popular, four of us Marsing High School Band members started the Achtung German Band, which consisted of Bud Shields on clarinet, Cecil Horrace on
On the Road to Burley By Wayne Fuller On a dark night in September 1950, I was driving on U. S. Highway 30 about three miles from Burley when a pair of headlights suddenly appeared in my lane,
They Make You Think By John M. Larsen My first car, a 1930 Ford Cabriolet Convertible, started life as a two-door sedan. I acquired it in 1951 because of a coal bill. At our house in Marsing, when
Memories of World War II By Juanita Bray This story and “A Tyke in Wartime,” by John M. Larsen, also in this issue, are reminiscences of Idaho during World War II when these two authors, who married in
What’s This in Our Town? By John M. Larsen “John Morris, get in here!” Just then, I was leaning over and reaching out toward zinnias still in bloom in our garden. If my memory of this moment is
My Turn to Drive By Mark Ready In 1976, as the United States celebrated its Bicentennial, I was a fourteen-year-old in Lewiston, sitting behind the wheel of a brand-new Chevy Camaro. My driver’s education instructor was Richard Hager,
What It Took to Homestead By Rob Moore William E. “Billy” Kauder was 105 and Idaho’s oldest man when he gave the following interview to Rob Moore in 1974. Born in 1868 in Illinois, at age twenty-one he
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
From a Time of Wonder By Connie J. Thompson With our picnic in tow, my husband Kurt and I climb out of the truck to search out the old campground. As we walk to the bank of the
