Category: history
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The Grande Finale of the Jamie McEwan Trilogy: Denied- Linville Gorge, 1973
It was one of those early spring days that seemed no season at all, rather a pause in seasons, as if nature had come to a stop while trying to remember what should come next. We had seen signs of spring on the drive down: crocuses and daffodils pushing up beside lonely houses, a purple…
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Jamie McEwan II: Years Later, I Added the Frame- Chattooga River, 1971
“Look at the moon,” I said, pointing. “And that star, and the little cloud.” “Yeah.” “And the ridge, and those other clouds. What a picture. What do you think–do you include the ridge and the clouds, or zoom in on just the little cloud and the moon and the star?” A hypothetical question–we had no…
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The first of the Jamie McEwan Trilogy: Iron Ring 1970
“What a crowd,” my brother commented as we ate a hasty breakfast at the parking lot that, by common consent, had become the paddlers’ campground. There must have been six or eight other cars there, at least a dozen paddlers, just beginning to stir. That was a crowd in those days. How little we could…