Jim Krosschell — The Monarch Review

THE MOUNTAIN – Jim Krosschell

Tuesday, January 15, 2013 11:07 — 0 Comments

Downtown Hamilton was slightly off-limits for the teenagers who lived on the Mountain. Our parents never told us outright to avoid the girls and the bars and the roughnecks coming out of second shift at the giant Stelco plant on the shores of the lake. It was just assumed we would. Where I had come from just before this sojourn in Canada – a tiny town called Prinsburg on the plains of Minnesota – the parents would have declaimed in school board meetings and the Ladies Aid against the sin festering in a big city such as this, as if […]