This kind of beautiful writing can make a paddler wistful, gliding over ten miles of river and hundreds of years of history molded over by countless Pacific rain storms and concealed by the inexorable march of nature. Time blurs all things, and the tides go on and on. And Dave saw it as it is. BRC Quoting Craig Jungers <crjungers_at_gmail.com>: > 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 *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Feb 26 2008 - 10:50:26 PST
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