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Gideon Bible:
The truth of it is, I stole the bible. That a woman gave it to me, means nothing...
Old Earth:
Once upon a time the earth was young, the sea new and water fresh. It rained upon...
Proportion/Perspective:
Cut this, my mother said when I was small, teaching me both proportion and perspective...
Reader Wonderland:
The first book I ever owned was Anderson's Fairy Tales...
Different Experience:
As relatives and neighbors book themselves onto cruise ships we forget...
Steerage Regulations:
The Navigation Laws of the United States did not apply to the Titanic...
Jury Duty:
It wasn't until we children had all left home that my father was called for jury duty...
Canadian Mountie:
We had a foreign visitor speak to our elementary school class. A tall, spare man...
The Old Baron:
John Langenbach was a judge for many years. My father intimidated him...
Long Lost Uncle
We knew mother's siblings and tried to keep in touch with survivors of father's...
Tidal Power:
Bonneville Dam, first of BPA on the Columbia, was selling electricity in early 1939...
Universe Music:
Small fleas have smaller fleas/upon their backs to bite 'em/large fleas, still larger...
Adulterations:
The Home Comfort cookbook with mother's stove, had a baking powder biscuit recipe...
Radio and TV:
Uncle John bought used radios early during the Depression and repaired them for sale...
Revolutions:
The guardia nacional bought themselves a country last night, he said, calling from work.
Inserts:
When I went to Seattle in 1947, Uncle John and Aunt Edna subscribed to three daily newspapers...
Fighting Back:
Nowhere has anyone anything good to say about our present mail deteriorated service.
Belonging:
Most of us belonged to one or more parent-sanctioned gangs as children...
Grandfather Richter
No one buried at Fern Hill Cemetery was more formally attired than my grandfather...
Local Purchasing:
When they married, each of my parents owned a Model T Ford, and kept one of them...
Menlo Origins:
Menlo's beginning is traced to a burial on a knoll about a mile from the county fairgrounds.
Painless Dentist:
Lester H. Owens, a veteran of World War I and a dentist, had his office upstairs on Duryea.
Severe Winter:
The severe winter of 1946/47, rare in the Pacific Northwest, changed my life.
Mr & Mrs Brigham:
The old fashioned chain grocery, a Red & White store, has been in Menlo all my life...
Libraries:
Kenneth Bullard, our first male teacher, taught Fifth Grade at Sylvandale...
Pollution:
Newcomers to Western Washington don't remember sawmills with smoking wigwam burners.
Water District:
With establishment of the water district, my parents filled the well...
Historic Courthouse:
For generations we've visited the Pacific County courthouse with interior glass dome.
Independence Day:
The 4th of July was celebrated in Raymond until 1942 with fireworks, carnival, parade.
Reading Magic:
Skidmore Slough, at the Raymond/South Bend shared boundary, was named after a pioneer.
Swimming Hole:
There wasn't a public pool, so we went to the swimming hole in the river...
Unnecessary Surgery:
Our parents paid in money; we childen bled upon the sacrificial table.
Amateur Radio:
A cereal premium signal light let my little brother and me practice Morse Code.
Eleanor Committed:
Born in 1884, and in 1936 already over the age of 50, she began writing a column, My Day...
Old Blizzard:
It was Blizzard's own doing, that he wound up in the stew pot...
Claustrophobia:
Northwest of Menlo is Willie Keil's grave, Southeast a bridge crosses the Willapa River...
Sir Names:
A surname should be spelled sir name, as no woman has one, I said.
Benign Wilderness:
We cousins earned money going into the wilds to harvest leaves, bark and berries.
Earthquakes:
A teenager, I awoke to my little brother's yell from his bedroom, Mama, earthquake!
Ring of Fire:
The most beautiful, distant view of Mt. Rainier was from Uncle Otto's home atop Richter hill.
My Aunt Marie:
Ann Margaret Elizabeth Grimm was born in 1905, sixth of seven children, and adopted.
Soda Counter:
Davis Drug was open on Water Street in South Bend--now Robert Bush Drive--in late 1946.
Penny Dreadfuls:
My parents' among other books had a few Penny Dreadfuls --Rauber Pistole in German...
Stump Ranch:
My Uncle Oswin had a stump ranch out on Rue Creek, a half mile over a hill from Menlo.
Safety Attainable:
Complacent Democrats might any election year have rued their appetite for crab...
Power Outages:
My father helped build the Bonneville Substation on Highway 101 near Raymond.
Spiral Lightning:
Along the property line a gravel road climbed steeply west, and north was a large fir tree.
Alien Mother:
My mother was an alien. No, not an extra-terrestrial the way people joke now.
Tree Churches:
My logger father found God in forest cathedrals of the Pacific Northwest.
Career Military 1:
During my high school years, classmates and relatives were enlisting...
Career Military 2:
In October 1979 Panama Canal Treaties were signed, and our lives changed.
Understanding Taxes:
Preparing tax forms is more angering, when taxing evolvement is best understood...
National Passage:
The current 300,000 Grange members, have always been mostly Republicans...
Big Waste:
We waste fossil fuels by getting lost because of bad signage on world highways...
Ramage Press:
Seattle, the largest city in the smallest of the eleven western states...
Moving Experience:
We've moved a lot. That has its disadvantages...but many more advantages too.
Offensive Name:
In unicorporated Skamokawa, in tiny Wahkiakum County, stands a public building...
First-hand:
We were there the first five years during the Panama Canal Treaties transition...
Press Freedom:
There is a little more press freedom in the world now, after determination in Costa Rica.
NOAA Radio:
All it takes is one person with a good idea, and an organization for backup...
Right as Wrong:
He died at 20, needlessly in peacetime, in a foreign land as might have happened here.
Ubiquitous:
Everywhere on highways of The Americas 20 years ago, I met unrecognized Germans...
Flight of Fancy:
Come fly with me in fancy if you please, to build strange castles in the air...
Plant Quarantine:
Signs along state highways proclaim an apple maggot quarantine and fruit is confiscated.
Horror Stories:
The school horror stories in my own family encompass now, five generations...
Name Trade:
Consider the complications if brothers traded given names. My mother and her sister did.
Highway Robbery:
We came upon a band of highway robbers, near Veracruz, Mexico and kept going.
Threatened:
Make this public before I retire, he told me, and I'll kneecap you.
Not Kidding:
You can't get there from here, was true in many places in Mid-winter 1996.
Internet:
The Internet is more of a map of the world, not just a highway...
A little extra Free sample column, trying to laugh through the tears and anger of domestic violence...

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