Time for the Wallace High School all-class reunion again. We packed all the important stuff and headed east/northeast… We stopped in Mosier in the Gorge…Louis Bunce spent a few summers in Mosier back in the 1930’s with the Givlers and others…R wanted to get a feel for it. We headed across Washington and by now […]
Tag: Wallace Idaho
224 Cedar Street
Some houses are iconic for a family. Often they are houses that aren’t grand necessarily, but are places where life has been interestingly lived. There is such a house for the Hull family. It’s in Wallace, Idaho, a place totally unlike anyplace I’ve been…a place out of the big box-internet-fast food-stream of modern life. It […]
Patination, the Chairs and Fanny Black Hull
I’m cleaning the dining room chairs in advance of the new table that is coming in December. What seemed a chore yesterday, today became a meditation on old family things, the patina of age, and my mother-in-law. The chairs have been at our house for 20 years, since Mo died. As the eldest child, R […]