Ronald Geigle

In spring, 1937, of course, families still rode the rails because of the Depression, which everyone said was already in the history books as the worst ever. The jobs still couldn__ be found, at least for most people. Everett itself__he smaller, poorer, little brother lying north of Seattle__ched with the unemployed and the hopeless. The labor union tensions in the woods still festered and got bloody at times. But Skybillings__nd the railroad logging shows of the Cascade Mountains__elt like they were, inch-by-inch, rebuilding America.