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Julie Whitesel Weston still left her hometown of Kellogg, Idaho, but eventually it pulled her again. Kellogg in the later 1940s and 50s was an average American small town filled with high school sports and basketball teams, marching music group, and anti-Communist night clubs; yet its pubs, gambling dens, and brothels were entrenched holdovers from a rowdier frontier former. The Bunker Hill Mining Company, the greatest workplace, paid miners good income for difficult, dangerous work, while the quest for lead, magic, and zinc denuded the mountainsides and laced the soil and normal water with contaminants. A lot of this memoir of place established during the Freezing Warfare and post-McCarthyism is informed through their voices. But Weston also considers how certain people made a difference in her life, especially her music group director, her ski mentor, and an legal professional she proved helpful for during a major affect. She also explores her incurred marriage with her daddy, a hardworking doctor revered in the community for his dedication but feared at home for his drinking and rages. The Good Times Are All Vanished Now commences your day the smokestacks emerged down, and it gets to far back to collective and personal ram to understand a means of life now removed.
