The Way It Used To Be
The Way It Used To Be
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Diane Solie Smith was a writer and artist who published stories about life in Atlin, B.C., the remote northern town she called home. From animal stories like the porcupine who stalked a dog and a Malamute who drove the family car, to heartwarming tales about what made her town unique, her stories are as beautiful as her art.
In the 1970s, Atlin lacked many amenities, but the inconvenience of outhouses and water-storage barrels is offset by an easygoing air. Time was available to exchange a yarn over a cup of tea or to listen to the tinkle of the ice along the lakeshore. Time was also available to skin a moose or to help a neighbor start a frozen truck.
Time was, very likely, part of the small northern town’s newly found wealth, discovered and highly prized by the new pioneers who harbored vivid memories of the mad-hatter pace of other places
This collection of stories, originally published in the 1970s in the Atlin News Miner in Atlin, British Columbia, was compiled by her son, Bradford Davis Smith, along with some of Diane’s beautiful watercolor paintings.
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