By Russ Farrell Editor’s note: In the 1950s, a “stump farm” of eighty-eight on the Olympic Peninsula, had many coyotes who would kill the chickens, duck, geese or even baby pigs or calves. The families, who lived on old logged off farms, were for the most part self-sufficient, raising most of the food that fed…
By Jim Farrell Editor: And now the first of the story. The Columbia River Bar is reputed to be the most dangerous bar crossing in the world. After crossing, it more times than I care to count, I definitely agree. Even with the now well-marked channel, GPS, and a Coast Guard station right there, it…
By Jim Farrell Editor note: Now for the rest of the story… Just up the west coast of Vancouver Island, from Barkley Sound and just off the coast of Tofino lies Strawberry Island and what’s reputed in 2003 to be the anchor of Astor’s ship Tonquin. It was reported by the New York Times in…
By Russ Farrell (From Yesterday is Hardly Gone) Our barn caught fire; the sparks lit up the harvest night. All forage gone; we’d saved the house all right. And that was yesterday, and I was six. To you of ten or twenty ‘twas an age or so, Years and years and years in long ago….
As our country struggles with ‘critical race theory’ (CRT) and a portion of our country wants to forget teaching our history, in our schools, maybe, just maybe, those who want to forget our history, should look into their own family’s past and remind themselves of their own hu-man-i-ty and welcome others who are different from…