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Joseph High School is actually where all public school classes for this area meet, ages Kindergarten through 12th grade. Everyone’s in the high school building because class sizes keep shrinking [...]

Think about it: You’re a few million gazillion years old and glaciers have been sawing at your body for a long ass time. You’re no stranger to the forces of frozen water. You’ve been plucked, [...]

Settling in is always one of my favorite things to do when I arrive at a new place. What are the local stories? Where are the local hot spots? What lies undiscovered? What begs for [...]

It’s possible to drive right up to Old Chief Joseph’s grave at the north end of Wallowa Lake, but I wanted to approach it through the woods so I opted for the Iwetemlaykin State Historical Site [...]

It’s so simple: the way snowflakes confetti into the water, one moment frozen and flying, the next moment swallowed by the blue-green lake. I could watch this magic trick for hours, each flake a [...]

Readers of this blog know that the first thing I do when I arrive at a new location is study my copy of Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape, edited by Oregon’s own Barry Lopez. It’s [...]

Last night, winds howled down the slopes of Chief Joseph Mountain and sent rippling waves across the surface of Wallowa Lake. I woke to patches of clear sky, occasional fits of rain, and gusts [...]

Whew. We made it. Here are some photos from the journey…and I’m officially back on the blog, writing from Joseph, Oregon on the snowy shores of Wallowa Lake. Day 1: Celo, NC We only [...]

Well folks, we hit the road Saturday morning. Bummer is, I woke up with a head cold today and we got six inches of snow (and counting). It could be a rough start, but Steph grew up in New Jersey [...]

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