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Drifting

from My Northwest Home by Wes Weddell

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I find it interesting to note that people are often quicker to tell you who to get stories from than to share their own, which usually turn out to be just as fascinating. After referring me to several individuals, a Jamestown S’Klallam tribal member that I met in Port Angeles told me a little about her grandfather. A ‘White Russian’ fleeing the revolution, his family landed in Canada, but the contemptible behavior of his crimelord father compelled him to escape once more, this time into the Coast Guard. In Port Angeles, he met a Jamestown woman who convinced him to stay, and they were married. The interracial marriage, however, resulted in his eviction from the town. The fondness with which his granddaughter remembered him moved me, as did the thoughts that individuals—such as Native Americans—that this society often considers to be specific ‘other’ races often come from backgrounds just as varied and wonderful as the rest of the population.

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from My Northwest Home, released December 8, 2001

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Wes Weddell Seattle, Washington

For the past twenty years, Wes Weddell has worked multiple shifts in the engine room of Seattle’s roots music scene as frontman, sideman, writer, teacher, and community-builder. "Always heartfelt and well-constructed" ("Seattle Weekly"), listeners have come to expect Weddell's songs to "speak for themselves" ("No Depression"). ... more

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