Month: March 2021
We live in a region of unique geological features, and Stevens County is an area where a portion of the prehistoric new continent was forced up against the older lands in Pend Oreille county.
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Many years ago, twenty of them to be exact, I spent a most unusual night in my barn. I had a mare that was showing signs that the foul she had been carrying for eleven months was about to get born.
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Bridges to the Past is a non-profit organization headquartered in Valley, WA, dedicated to education in ancestral skills.
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The search for gold has been one of the most important activities that has shaped the modern world. It was the
gold rushes of the 1800’s that opened vast western territories of the United States for future settlement.
It was Huckleberry Heaven in the mountains above Trail BC in 1939, a year and a half after my mom and sisters arrived from Italy.
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Trail’s beloved stonemason Guglielmo “Bill” Di Domenico has died. We are mourning his loss.
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Driving north from Spokane along Highway 231 you’ll pass through the small town of Valley, Washington. If you stop here, you might feel like you’ve stepped back in time.
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It seems like a lifetime ago I was a single mom with WIC checks and food stamps. It’s a time I don’t often share with people, let alone with our whole readership.
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While visiting my youngest sister in the town of my youth, I answered a late night video call from my other sister who our mother is visiting across the country, and there’s a solemn request for the two of us to enter a super secret cone of silence for this conversation.
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