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Someone’s Gift

Posted on March 1, 2022 by Holly Montgomery / Comments Off on Someone’s Gift

A Small Beaded Purse By Holly Montgomery In winter the landscape outside my windows in Clearwater sparkled in white like a painting on a china plate from a past era. In spring, my home’s interior spoke a different
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The Middle of Nowhere

Posted on March 1, 2022 by Tom Lopez / Comments Off on The Middle of Nowhere

Sounds Good to Me By Tom Lopez As a child, I received many Christmas cards from Idaho at our home in Michigan. The first one I can date with any certainty, which arrived when I was eight years
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Her Gnarled Hands

Posted on February 1, 2022 by Lynne Larson / Comments Off on Her Gnarled Hands

Life and Death in Downey By Lynne Larson “So you’re from Idaho.” The old gentleman next to me struck up the conversation as we waited for a church meeting to begin in the large western city where I
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Over the Trail and Down the River

Posted on February 1, 2022 by Gary Oberbillig / Comments Off on Over the Trail and Down the River

The Mystery of an Old Canoe By Gary Oberbillig My stepfather, Austin Case, liked to assure any dogs he encountered that they were “a nuisance, an abomination, and a detriment to mankind.” He would say this in the
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Take the High Ground

Posted on January 1, 2022 by Max Jenkins / Comments Off on Take the High Ground

Two Strategic Lessons By Max Jenkins When our family moved to Grangeville in December 1946, we became part of the Idaho’s largest county by area. Idaho County is bigger than New Jersey and only slightly smaller than Massachusetts.
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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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