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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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Glory Days

Posted on December 1, 2021 by David E. Metcalf / Comments Off on Glory Days

When Game Birds Were Plentiful By David E. Metcalf The colorful bird flew fast and low, directly toward me. “This will be an easy shot,” I thought. In a situation like this, sometimes I was right and sometimes
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Shotgun on the Schoolbus

Posted on December 1, 2021 by Gary Oberbillig / Comments Off on Shotgun on the Schoolbus

A Normal Thing Back Then By Gary Oberbillig When I was a high school kid in  rural Idaho in the 1950s, several times each week during the pheasant hunting season I would take up my twelve-gauge shotgun from
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Orchard Games

Posted on November 1, 2021 by David E. Metcalf / Comments Off on Orchard Games

Fun with Fruit By David E. Metcalf “Mom!” my cousin Dan shouted. The car that was leaving the driveway stopped abruptly. Dan had seen something I’d missed. I wondered what it was and, unfortunately, I soon found out.
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Star Turn

Posted on October 1, 2021 by Ed Fischer / Comments Off on Star Turn

Watch Out for the Cops By Ed Fischer Two days after a sixteen-hour marathon climb of Wyoming’s Middle Teton in the summer of 2004, my buddy Aric and I were still too whipped to do any hiking, so
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Jack of Hats

Posted on September 1, 2021 by Max Jenkins / Comments Off on Jack of Hats

In the Heart of Dixie By Max Jenkins My dad, always a character, was in a showoff mood one day in late July 1975 when he told my two children, “I know the most important man in Dixie—the
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Uncle Bunker

Posted on September 1, 2021 by Mason "Doc" McCoy / Comments Off on Uncle Bunker

Through a Kid’s Eyes By Mason “Doc” McCoy The Silver Valley is in an interesting situation nowadays. Renewable resources are on the rise and many of those products and systems require metals, including silver, which has fueled interest
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Trainspotting

Posted on August 1, 2021 by John Vivian / Comments Off on Trainspotting

Growing Up in Kellogg, Part Six By John Vivian This is part of a series of previously unpublished excerpts from the author’s reminiscences of his youth, which he assembled for friends and former classmates. For a kid who
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The Evening News

Posted on July 1, 2021 by John Vivian / Comments Off on The Evening News

Growing Up in Kellogg, Part Five By John Vivian In those days, young boys delivered newspapers door to door. You had to be twelve. I’m not sure why. At eleven, I decided I was old enough, and when
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Whatever Comes

Posted on July 1, 2021 by Karlene Bayok Edwards / Comments Off on Whatever Comes

Tales of Backwoods Survival By Karlene Bayok Edwards Photos courtesy of Karlene Bayok Edwards “Hold still now,” Dad would say as he tipped the five-inch blade of his hunting knife beneath our splinters to lift them out. It
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