Such a common tool, you say: A simple little clawed or not-clawed club, Perhaps ball-peened or bladed on an end To shave a shingle or to lop a branch. The primary tool to build a car, An airport or a condominium, The striker on a gun for war or peace, The mallet used by dentists…
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 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…
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…