By Jeri Farrell-Shaw The year of the snow, Grandpa Dick’s Brother Bill was working with the Bunyan outfit in the Washington Cascades. Cold? That year it was so cold that when trying to speak outside, words would freeze in midair, and fall to the ground without a sound. Come the thaw in the spring, all…
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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…
Grandpa Dick’s Brother Bill, Chapter 4
Chapter four By Jim Farrell The moment that comes into the life of all Natives, came to Brother Bill also. Brother Bill, along with the other children his age, set off on the biggest adventure of their few short years had ever experienced. Given only the skins in which they were born, the children went…