I like reading short stories. These have a PNW connection.

Whatcom Scenes: A Miscellany of Prose and Verse by Residents of the Fourth Corner, with Illustrations by Local Artists and Photographers. Dorothy Koert did a wonderful job gathering and editing this collection filled with stories by a grand variety of local yokels! Happy, sad, nostalgic, factual, fanciful ... there's something here for just about any reader.

Whatcom Scenes was so well received, the Fourth Corner Registry followed it with Whatcom Images: an Illustrated Collection of Prose and Verse, edited by Dorothy Koert and James W. Scott. I found it fun to look for the names I knew best and read those first.

The only way to 'meet' Dirty Dan Harris these days is with the sculpture of him sitting on one of the benches off the Fairhaven Green (rather one sided, yes, but it makes for a fun photo), but his stories live on The Fairhaven Folktales of Dirty Dan Harris, by Michael Sean Sullivan with illustrations by Kent Shoemaker. Dan Harris was a man with a dream ... a town named Fairhaven. He was also a grand story teller and fortunately, these have been saved and collected into this book. My favorite tale is the one about Fairhaven truffles. And pigs.

Reading Hermit With Dog