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When the war was over, Newspaperman Clarence Dirks did what most other city people just talk about doing. He settled down on a little farm to .raise cows, chickens and fruit.
He was as green at it as a stock character in a rural comedy; killing a chicken was a new and horrible experience, and at first, he ate a comb of honey a day, until he found he could sell them for 55?. The pittance Dirks got from his 76...
Things Not Seen. One day in 1949, things got too much for Clarence Dirks. The farm seemed to be a failure, he hadn't sold a story for five months, his wife had been temporarily committed to a mental hospital. He did something he had never done before: he...
In one of his columns, Dirks wrote about Camano's little frame church and two of the people who kept it going-Sunday-school Teacher Mrs. Mertie Best ("a saint in a house dress") and Pastor Walter Jerome Wheeler. "How much nicer and more convenient it would be, say...
Miracle In the Woods. Next day L woman in Seattle sent in a dollar. "Have faith," she wrote. Other dollars followed ($9,474 to date), and Clarence Dirks set to work to build Camano Chapel, as he called it. Nearby farmers, carpenters, plumbers, even visitors from the city lent a...