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The First Road to VineMapleValley

Today we are taking a deeper dive into where the first VineMapleValley Wagon Road was located and the state of road building over 140 years ago. I think you will be surprised at what I found.In the beginning The Maple Valley Wagon Road was first mentioned in our settler’s origin story from 1879. That story was told in a letter dated May 24, 1916 from C.O. Russell to W.D. Gibbon.   Photos of…

The First Road to VineMapleValley

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Change of Plans & Chance Meeting

Change of Plans & Chance Meeting

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Where did you go Road 63?

History research has a way of going off the rails. I will start on a project and then find something that drags me down a new rabbit hole. This article is one of those found stories. The direction I was pulled to, is the story of Road 63 from Renton to Cedar Mountain. This road from 150 years ago was one of the first developed roads east out of Renton. Its route is not the conventional one along…

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LOST ROADS

by Jonathan Maberry

Broken Lands #2

(Simon BFYR, 2/25/20)

9781534406407

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Gabriella “Gusty” Gomez lost her mother, and now she’s losing her home. Gutsy and her friends, along with Benny and his crew, have just survived a massive attack on New Alamo by the Night Army—a mix of mindless shambling los muertos and sentient half-zombie ravagers. She’s also reeling from the revelation that the residents of her town were the lab rats of the biological testing facility linked to creating the most dangerous zom, the Raggedy Man, who controls all of the living dead. And the first raid was only a test. The real Night Army is coming, and this time, it’ll be a handful of survivors against seven billion zombies.

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New Arrivals: First Edition of THE BATTLEFIELD WHERE THE MOON SAYS I LOVE YOU (1977), by Frank Stanford. 

An apparently unread copy of Stanford's 15,283-line epic poem, the last of his books published prior to taking his own life in 1978. A significant portion of the original print run was destroyed in a basement flood, and it would be nearly 14 years after publication before the book would go entirely out of print. Over time the book has developed its own mystique, with copies being passed from hand-to-hand, and marathon readings taking place on college campuses. The front cover reproduces a wire photograph of corpses and grieving women, taken at Tan Son Nhut Airport in Saigon, on the last day of the Vietnam War, which was replaced for the recent reissue by Lost Roads Publisher's (2000).

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Stanford, Frank. The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You. Fayetteville: Lost Roads, 1977. 

The first edition of the greatest American epic poem. The original cover features a newswire photograph of corpses and grievers taken on the last day of the Vietnam War at the Saigon airport, an image which tied the work to the era in which it was composed and published in a striking way, and which was curiously removed from the reprint. The original design, with the titles in Century Schoolbook bold, all lower case and left-aligned in red, combined with the stark imagery of the newswire photograph and the physical heft of the book worked to sear it physically into our memory, a visual representation uniting a small but passionate readership. 

From our Catalog 21, out today. 

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