There was this huge, glass-enclosed refrigerator with big chunks of meat hanging on hooks.

When I got to Ruby, I needed to know more.

We really loved that town.

The ore started giving out. That’s when we left.

We sat on long benches at long tables.

They were 25 feet wide, 30 feet long, with wooden floors and wood going up the sides about 3 feet.

It blew every day at noon and again at 4, when the kids got out of school.

I feel so fortunate to have lived there.