Kellogg, Idaho
Just outside Kellogg on the road to Smelterville. I-90 is in the background.
My parents grew up in Kellogg. Mom was born in 1897 up the Wardner gorge when silver was discovered.
That's Mom in the middle.
When they were growing up, they said you could smell lead in the air, tailings ran in the Coeur d'Alene River, and smoke from the smelter killed all the trees.
Many members of our family worked at the Bunker Hill mine, including Dad. He's the guy on the bottom left. Uncle Denny is working the lever.
When I was a kid, Dad used to take my best friend Holly and I to this bridge on the north fork of the Coeur d'Alene so we could jump off it. We called it The Black Bridge even though it was red at the time. Doesn't seem as high now.
98 Years Old: Grandma Penny