By Jim Farrell Kq-a~-la~-o`k, meaning “a good place to land”, in the Salishan language the Quinault natives used, and then corrupted by European’s to Kalaloch, when they arrived. The beach was part of the coastal highway the Quinault, Quilcute, Hoh, Makah and other Pacific Northwest natives’ tribes used for trade, all up and down the…
Author: Jim Farrell
Hullabaloo
By Russ Farrell My wife is afraid of the deadly brown snake, Afraid of the garden one, too. Just seeing, she shudders, when shivers, she shakes, She kicks up a hullabaloo. Our two oldest daughters, they learned from their ma Her fear of the temper of Eve” They’d shiver and shudder and scream if they…
Grandpa Dick’s Brother Bill Chapter 1
By Jim Farrell Grandpa Dick told these stories to all who would listen, and Jim retold them to his kids in the 1970s, and now to his Grandkids. More chapters are coming. Chapter One Early in the day, Mom and Dad had left for Port Angeles to do the monthly shopping and visit some…
Grandpa Dick’s Brother Bill Chapter 2
Chapter two By Jim Farrell Brother Bill dreamed the night we were separated of him walking out to the barn to check on the three-legged cow, unfortunately while dreaming, he had stood up on the barn door we were laying on, and in his sleep had sleep-walked right off that door. When he finally awoke,…
Grampa Dick’s Brother Bill, Chapter 3
By Jim Farrell Chapter Three Much to Brother Bill’s relief, he found that he was indeed adopted by Grinning Tall Man and his wife, She-Who-Hits-Head-On-Branches. He found out later that the couple had just lost their newborn son in a cougar attack, and had been firmly convinced that the Great Spirit in the sky had…