My heart is not heavy tonight. It’s still dark outside here at Owl Farm on Wednesday, February 15, but the sun is about to come up. The cover (with a picture of our peacock on the back) is being printed in Basalt and the borrowed Risograph machine is warming up the next room, ready to […]
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DISPATCHES FROM A NATIVE SON
BY J. WINSLOW BASTIAN AN ODE TO WOODY CREEK It is 2 a.m. on any given night and all of a sudden I jolt out of bed to hear a sound that is all too familiar to a Woody Creeker. You know what I am talking about: the subtle, refined, and elegant noise created only […]
A WOODY CREEK CHILDHOOD
BY MOLLY STRANAHAN The oldest of George Stranahan’s six children, the author is writing a memoir of her childhood in Woody Creek as a gift to her father for his upcoming 75th birthday. Inspired by the first issue of The Woody Creeker, she shares with us, beginning with this installment. the memories of a dozen […]
THE GREAT MYTH
A TWO-HEADED SNAKE BY GAYLORD GUENIN For the record, Lenado does not sit within the physical boundaries of the unincorporated community of Woody Creek. Of more import, perhaps, is the fact that Lenado shares a spiritual bond and philosophy with neighbors. But Lenado and Woody Creek are nit just tiny dots on various maps; both […]
LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT…SORT OF
BY DANIEL A. SHAW It seems only fitting in this inaugural issue to document my inaugural visit to Woody Creek. It didn’t start well. My then girlfriend lived in New York City but owned a little cabin in Woody Creek. When she asked me to join her out there for a week in March of […]
