Sunday, April 21, 2003 - 12:00 a.m. Pacific
Home-front Journal
Columnist Ron C. Judd and photographer Harley Soltes are traveling Washington state to explore life — and life interrupted — in uncertain times.
War a world away reveals the differences next door
It's not easy to play a sad song on the banjo, especially when the sky is clearing, the weekend is coming, and — oh, yeah — the war is as much as over. It says so on... [April 20, 2003]
At a lonely crossroads sits Bagdad Junction
The road home, they kept saying on talk radio, leads through Baghdad. Well, this as close as we could come. In spelling terms, it's only an "h" off. In every other respect... [April 16, 2003]
Terrorist threat doesn't hold water for many close to dam
For two people who should be quaking with fear, Fred and Barbara Meyer smile an awful lot. Their house on the Columbia River is as close as you can get, without a lot of government... [April 13, 2003]
Small town, smaller pocket of resistance
By the time that Saddam statue did a face plant in Baghdad, the hearts-and-minds battle was all but over on the edge of Washington wheat country, most of which lined up in war-support... [April 11, 2003]
A spring ritual utterly untouched by war
Halfway up the mountain, the Pepperoni Cowboy parks his Dodge truck, opens a barbed-wire gate, squints into the icy wind and sweeps his big hand in an arc over a slice of heaven... [April 9, 2003]
As war occupies a nation, a small town quietly dies
As her government rained multi-million-dollar munitions on Baghdad, Michelle Dix was perched on the front stoop of a small rental house, counting one-dollar bills... [April 6, 2003]
Winlock's grand old egg flies high
The darn thing is made of fiberglass. Battered by winds over the years, it leans a bit to the south. A really close look reveals cracks in the shell. None of which will stop local folks from getting a bit misty-eyed when... [April 4, 2003]
Freeway billboard barbs a sign of what free speech really means
Just as they've been for more than three decades, the letters on the billboard are neat, square and perfectly spaced... [April 2, 2003]
Isolation of 'Point Bob' can still border on bliss
Boundaries. In the Middle East, people are spilling blood to defend them. Here, they're weeding one... [March 30, 2003]
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