"I remember when at Priest Lake "..... Living at the now gone Priest Lake Cafe and being snowed in in the winter and walking the 200 yards to Ward and Millie's and there not being another person there but the 3 of us. Millie in her house coat and Ward with that smelly old cigar. He would invite me to the back where they lived, and we would watch "The Untouchables" TV series in black and white. He had a store full of information as to what really happened "for real" and would explain to me what was right and what wasn't concerning what we were watching. Many is the time as a teenager I would carry brown paper bags full of groceries to struggling families that had found their way from Priest River to Priest Lake in the back of Ward's station wagon. No one was to know where the food came from but they all were aware of who was 'Santa'. I remember when at Priest Lake the dance hall for teenagers that we built on the side of the Priest Lake Cafe. During the summer it was difficult to find space to dance to the 45's that everyone would bring. What a wonderful life altering space and time was my stay at Priest.
D. Burns
posted in 2009
D. Burns
posted in 2009
