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Wilderness Blues: In the Beginning

Hi. Thanks for joining me here. I'm really new to this, so chances are I will flub this up more than once. I've been known to wipe out entire chapters of the book I was writing because I misunderstood what the computer was asking me. When I hit the yes button, days of work disappeared , which was really kind of frustrating to put it mildly. However, several times, as I re-created my work, it came out better than the original. Anyway, we'll see how this goes. I started writing Wilderness Blues for several reasons. When I first got started I was still angry, though I had been gone from the farm at Game Creek for over ten years. So often when I would be talking to someone, the subject of how I ended up in Alaska came up. I would start talking about the farm and how we were led to believe that the end of the world was coming and money was going to be no good, and one thing would lead to another and pretty soon an hour would pass and we'd have to go our separate ways, bu