She’s known as “Red” — that horse-crazy redhead with bright blue eyes: Debbie “Deb” Schrock. As a little girl growing up in Colville with three younger sisters, she mustered the nerve to ask a neighbor if she could ride their horse, Cindy. They said, “Yes!” When you are a little girl who loves horses, that […]
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It’s been said that any two people on Earth are six or fewer acquaintance links apart. A parlor game was even created where players arbitrarily choose an actor and then connect that actor to another actor via a film that they both appeared in and then repeating the process to try to find the shortest […]
Valley Life: Mazama
“Lost River Bessie” served up chicken dinners, her husband’s moonshine, her own home brew, and offered favors to the Slate Creek miners who passed by her roadhouse on HES (Homestead Entry Survey) No. 96, according to Doug Devin’s “Mazama, The Past 125 Years.” (RIP, Mr. Devin. Thank you for leaving us a record of so […]
Valley Life: Mazama
Mary Garber-Williams didn’t know what her future held when she decided to trek the Trail — Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), that is, in 2019. She had sent her daughter off alone on the John Muir Trail in the Northern Sierra Nevada in 2015. It was a heart-stopping moment for her as a mother, but when […]
Valley Life: Mazama
Residents of the Methow Valley are well aware that we have taken up our residence in a land that was once inhabited only by indigenous people and wildlife. The early inhabitants lived with the hazards of a wilderness area, in part, by being proactive with such threats as wildfire. According to the National Park Service, […]
Valley Life: Mazama
So, it finally happened. We came upon a late-season rattlesnake enjoying the warm, sunny fall weather on our Cub Creek Trail ride last week. Orion, the lead horse, is a pro. He’s been around the block a time or two and heard the telltale rattle, warning the rest of us by stopping and […]
Valley Life: Mazama
The first signs of fall colors are appearing with promise of another glorious Methow Valley autumn. We all know how quickly the seasons change as evidenced by the shorter days and crisper temperatures. Winter sports enthusiasts have already begun preparing for the winter season before the first snowflakes fall. I wonder how many […]
Valley Life: Mazama
“Do you want to be Queen for a Day?” For over 20 years in the 1950s and ’60s, host Jack Bailey asked this question of early TV viewers. As a little girl watching “Queen for a Day” on our black-and-white TV, the hope of being a queen for even a day was a Cinderella […]
Valley Life: Mazama
The lyrics “What a Difference a Day Makes” became an earworm song in my brain on Friday (Sept. 9). What prompted the stuck tune syndrome was the bright blue sky just “24 little hours” after the worst air quality of the year for the Methow Valley, Mazama especially. Our little HEPA air purifier — […]
Valley Life: Mazama
Mazama is a little community with a plan. Forward-thinking Mazama stakeholders began discussing the need for a vision for the layout of Mazama’s four-way intersection commercial core in 2008. It’s a good thing because without a plan, random, helter-skelter things can happen. The flavor of a small community based on the love of the […]
