By Russ Farrell (Editor’s note: In the 1950s, The International Woodworkers Union [IWA} was trying to organize logger’s on the Olympic Peninsula and improve worker’s safety in the woods where many loggers lost their lives, and the company’s would try to blame the workers for their own deaths instead of the conditions they had to…
Or What the H… Have I Gotten Myself Into? By Jim Farrell So far, the sailing trip north through the inside passage to Glacier Bay had been far and above any and all expectations either my best mate Becky or I had envisioned. The weather had been prefect. The wild life, eagles, humpback, orca, and…
By Jim Farrell Days on the Multnomah Channel during the dog days of summer can be lazy, relaxing, boring, exciting, or just plain retaliatory. That is, you can take a perfect day, a clear sky and all the intentions of good fellowship on a summer afternoon on the river, then at the drop of a…
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…
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…