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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,
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Serious Accidents

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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
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Oneness

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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
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A Tyke in Wartime

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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
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The Spiral Highway

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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,
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Blamed Hard Work

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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
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Magic Moment

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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
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The Matriarchs of Cindy Drive

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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
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The Settling Pond

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Disaster Barely Avoided By Wayne Fuller When I was a young child, I wandered away from home frequently. I was the eighth of nine children, and my mother often delegated one of my six older sisters to try
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