A BATTERED HELMET AND A VANISHED TOWN
My older brother, Clayton, paid his way through college by working summers in the mines of the Couer d’Alene district of northern Idaho. This would have been in the early 1950’s. I remember visiting one of these mines with a couple of older kids. In the mine office a few dented helmets were displayed on […]
DOING IT THE HARD WAY
I started writing my novel,Strychnine Creek, about six years ago, when most of us were self-isolating during the covid pandemic. The storyline had been brewing in my brain for several years, but I kept finding other things that needed doing. With the onset of covid, I was suddenly deprived of further excuses for delay. Other […]
Strychnine Creek Revisited
Forty years ago, on a visit to my home town of Moscow, Idaho, I impulsively bought a book entitled “From A to Z in Latah County, Idaho—A Place Name Dictionary” by Lalia Phipps Boone, a retired professor of English at the University of Idaho. I didn’t have to read very far in the book in […]