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New book tells of past times in rural Klamath County


Klamath Falls Herald and News

October 28, 2006


    Tales about different and often difficult times are recounted in “Stories Along the Sprague,” a new book that tells the stories of 22 elders from eastern Klamath County communities. 

    Curt Stanton, for example, talks about hunting and fishing. 

    “I’d track a deer for miles to feed my kids. Now. I don’t want kill any. I haven’t killed a deer for years. Ever hear one of them deer cry? Isn’t that sad? They sound like a sheep. I only done that once, that’s enough for me.”
    “When I was your age,” Buddy Parazoo told high school interviewers, “up at the old Sprague River Dam, we literally had to kick the eagles in the ass to get down to the river ... Below the dam, the water would overflow the banks, so there would be a few inches of water full of fish, right up on the banks. So the eagles were there, concentrated at the dam, hundreds and hundreds of them. But in those days the government used to pay us to shoot ‘em — five dollars apiece ... Nowadays, they’ll throw you in prison. Isn’t that funny?” 

    Among Albert Lawvor’s tales are those about cooking groundhogs, as taught by his elders. 

    “You don’t have to skin him, you gut him with wet grass, you dig your pit, you pit barbecue him for about three hours, you dig him up, he’s fall off the thing just like pork. If it was sitting on the platter and you didn’t see it, you’d swear up and down it was pork.” 

    Glen and Bonnie Kircher remember times when Chiloquin was more laid back. 

    “Chiloquin was always a partyin’ kind of town and people were real close. Families interchanged quite a bit more than they do now ... Things weren’t as they are now. I think it’s more frantic since I retired than it was then. We didn’t have as many things to worry about.”


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