Word: skagit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seven years ago, when he was 22, Legson Kayira completed a 2,500-mile trek, mostly on foot, from his native Nyasa village to the U.S. consulate at Khartoum, where he asked for and received an opportunity to study in America. Since then he has moved on from Skagit Valley Junior College in Washington State, via the University of Washington, to Cambridge, England. In his autobiography, I Will Try (TIME, April 30, 1965), he told with disarming simplicity how he got there. In this, his first novel, he tells no less appealingly where he began...
Fifteen months after leaving home, Legson appeared at the U.S. Information Service Library in Kampala, Uganda. There he came across a directory of American junior colleges, opened it at random, put his finger on the first words he saw: "Skagit Valley Junior College, Mt. Vernon, Washington." Then and there, he wrote a letter; two weeks later he had a scholarship; nine months later, thanks to the people of Mount Vernon, he had a plane ticket...
...quite a reception, but he seems to have accepted everything that came his way with a grave and innocent equanimity. In the capital, he endured the standard tourist treatment, discovered the "sweet relationship" between waffles and syrup, stood in the Lincoln Memorial and "timidly waved at the immortal face." Skagit Valley College received him with a banner and a banquet. The family that "adopted" him had redecorated the spare bedroom. Neighbors stopped in with cakes. Huntley-Brinkley televised him. Some will pin the word "naive" on Legson's wide-eyed good will and on America's cozy, corny...
After studying speech, physics, English and volleyball ("easier than physics") at Skagit, Legson went on to Washington University as a political-science major. In wide demand as a speaker, he was welcomed in Little Rock, segregated in Dallas. After four years in the U.S., he retains his love for the land of Lincoln-and for the land of his birth. After finishing his education, he intends to go home to Malawi and teach school and enter politics. "A salute to you, Malawi," he writes at the end of his book. "We have just begun...
With Tomatoes & Bacon. Today, Washington game officials plant 350,000 steelhead each year in Barnaby Slough, a well-hidden pool 50 miles up the Skagit from Puget Sound. Protected by wardens with shotguns from natural predators (mink, otter, kingfishers, mergansers), fattened on fish meal, they are released at the age of a year. The results are astonishing. This year, Washington fishermen will catch upwards of 225,000 steelheads compared...