September 2008 Order copies of this issue! Just $3.50 each! Hey! This Issue Needs a Sponsor! Learn how Your Business can Sponsor Online Issues September 2008 Volume 7 Number 12 FEATURES Aim Between the Eyes: The Education of a Gentleman Farmer, by Bill Gruber Can you be fond of  your pig, yet willing to turn it into pork? What does it do to the local Zeitgeist to bring down an animal weighing a sizeable fraction of a ton? Perhaps there’s more in such questions than we can hope to answer. New Meadows—Spotlight City, by Rob & Marie Strong When the railroad came in 1911 the line didn’t stop in Meadows, but in a planned town to be called New Meadows. That made a lot of Meadows residents unhappy. The train’s long gone now, but it could be that a few resentments linger. The Man Who Became a Mountain: Prospector George Blackmon's Remarkable Life, by Jim Ridenour Born into slavery, separated as a toddler from his mother and educated by a white family, George Z. Blackmon was freed and went West. For many years he prospected and mined in the White Clouds, where a mountain still bears his name. DEPARTMENTS Around the Bend: Trout in the Grass; Something Fishy Near Good Grief, by Marylyn Cork Good Neighbors: Giving It Away; Montpelier Citizens Offer Themselves Some Free Health Care, by Les Tanner Winged Things: Morley and Clyde, by Bill Ryan Idaho Writer: From the Wild West to You; Linda Sandifer's Stories Are Inspired by an Upbringing on the Range, by Bill Corbett One Spud Short: Grandpa and a Plague of Snakes, by DeLoris Henscheid Profile: Boyd and the Meter Stick; Adventures with a Mathematics Professor, by Les Tanner Retrospective: The Regional Sublime; A Tribute to William Studebaker, by Ron McFarland, and William Studebaker; Outdoorsman and Poet, by Ron McFarland Recipe Contest: Albondigas Soup, by Marcia Lundgren, French Dip Sandwiches, by Marcia Lundgren September Contributors IN THIS ISSUE! Boise, Blackfoot, Blackman Peak, Caldwell, Good Grief, Montpelier, Moscow, New Meadows, Rigby, Twin Falls