Re: [Paddlewise] Aldrich Point. Woody Island. Connections to the Past.

From: Craig Jungers <crjungers_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:46:22 -0800
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:28 AM, Dave Kruger <kdruger_at_pacifier.com> wrote:

>
>   It is all in alders and second growth,
> concealing a hundred years of history, canneries gone, fish wheels
> disappeared, an entire small village bulldozed and burnt to make way for
> a log dump.  One red-roofed set of old buildings a mile or two
> downstream still shines in the sun, where Chinese filleters, Slav gill
> netters, and Scandinavian oarsmen worked salmon runs in the early part
> of the twentieth century, a hit or miss way of life, with mortality an
> everyday reality.


Your writing has the ability to make a place come alive for me. It brings a
nostalgia for the people I missed knowing in a place I've only seen in my
mind as described by you and your words. Makes me feel like I was there back
then and knew them myself.

Thanks.


Craig Jungers
Moses Lake, WA
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